Oh yes. Nice. There's a lot of good stuff there in those flickr sets. Bookmarked! posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:53 PM on June 9, 2007
I swear I had this one in my collection when I was in high school. As I recall, it included a down-tempo cover of Foghat's "I Just Wanna Make Love to You." posted by ZenMasterThis at 6:57 PM on June 9, 2007
These are pretty funny, but I will also love and cherish Liars' It Fit When I Was A Kid EP for how awful the cover is, and of course in combination with the title... whew.
This is a great record and the cover is perfectly appropriate for the music. Seriously, buy it for your kid if you see it. posted by escabeche at 7:29 PM on June 9, 2007
I can't believe there was no album cover featuring the chap-wearing, homoerotic music abortion that is ManOwar. posted by munchingzombie at 8:34 PM on June 9, 2007
Milhouse?!
Clearly, the "Can I borrow a feelin'?" is 'shopped. posted by Burhanistan at 8:38 PM on June 9, 2007
"how do you do?" ... (this was actually a pop hit in the early 70s and na-na-na-na-na-na ... it's quite awful) posted by pyramid termite at 8:38 PM on June 9, 2007
looked it up in billboard top 40 - #8 - released june 72
or, more to the point, "holy shit, many of the albums in my house as I was growing up (in the 70s and early 80s) were just like these, and I am torn between feeling a bizarre sense of nostalgia and sheer terror/ morbid fascination at what passed for album art-- racist and sexist stereotypes, terrible photography, and twisted psychedelic weirdnesses." posted by exlotuseater at 9:04 PM on June 9, 2007
For the record, nobody on the blue says WTF quietly. posted by davejay at 9:31 PM on June 9, 2007
Oh, and that Big Black album was great. posted by davejay at 9:33 PM on June 9, 2007
(I kinda like "How Do You Do?")
Mouth died in 2004 of heart failure. posted by Oriole Adams at 10:18 PM on June 9, 2007
The "I Eat Kids" looks fun. But I have a couple in my collection that they seem to have misssd, unless I didn't look long enough. Maybe I didn't, as I find this bunch of old albums from people I never heard of, rather boring.
Where's The Circle Jerks "Golden Shower of Hits"? I bought it purely for the name and cover (It was cheap, I worked at Capital Records at the time. Probably the last time I bought LPs). Another one I found in a used record shop, feathers what I suppose is a pumpernikel bagel sitting on a keyboard (looks like a turd) and is titled "Smells Like...".
This collection seems lame in comparison. posted by Goofyy at 1:15 AM on June 10, 2007
ack, feathers = features. posted by Goofyy at 1:16 AM on June 10, 2007
This is why we have MP3. Soon there will be no need for cover art at all. posted by humblepigeon at 1:32 AM on June 10, 2007
This is a great record and the cover is perfectly appropriate for the music. Seriously, buy it for your kid if you see it.
I loved Barry Louis Polisar when I was a tyke. He's still kickin around out there. My girlfriend just bought one of his albums for her nephew. She ordered it online and after it arrived, we were supposed to send a check (which we did).
The whole "children's artist with a trust based sales system" is so charming it almost causes me pain. posted by 1-2punch at 4:11 AM on June 10, 2007
The brazen god of the Philistines went and got all lounge on us. posted by gimonca at 8:47 AM on June 10, 2007
Still the worst [NSFW!!!! actually, NSFAnywhere, I'm pretty sure looking at this picture is a felony.] posted by tehloki at 3:47 PM on June 10, 2007
I believe the difficulty in transferring the idea of an album into a visual form has proven that too many commercial artists are too lazy for creativity's own good. posted by a_s_m at 12:11 AM on June 11, 2007
I believe the difficulty in transferring the idea of an album into a visual form
Well, cover art is a commercial art form, so will always be inherently limited. It has a definite purpose in life, which is to inspire people to buy the record and also built the public image of the artist. So it could never be a complete visual art form. It's essentially graphic design. posted by humblepigeon at 12:49 AM on June 11, 2007
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