most creative album covers
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LP covers were great. The art aspect of covers was really lost with CDs, which have less than 20% of the space of LPs to work with. The art and originality of the covers was often as important as the music, sometimes more so. Even covers that were "just" photographs, needed great photographs when they were blown up to 12" by 12" size. I have a Best of Mississippi John Hurt gatefold album that has two great photographs inside of Hurt smiling while playing, and gives you a wonderful perspective of his wizened, Buddha-like face and the sheer likability of the man. Something that cannot be achieved with the postage stamp sized photos in CD booklets. Not just sound quality has diminished with CDs, but the whole magic aura surrounding albums from the 60's and 70's. This was a time when music was more than just music, but entered and influenced your life. Album covers were a big part of this. Would the Beatles, and others, have had as big an impact on the world if their music had first been released on CDs rather than LPs (how many would spend time examining the Sgt. Pepper cover if its size was 5" by 5"—get out the magnifying glass)?
bjarmson
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:yes: My previous post is indicative of my mindset during the era being discussed. I'll try again. This topic is great, the suggestions are endless. Here are a few of mine. Blood Sweat and Tears--Child Is Father To the Man. I still have scary dreams if I look at that cover before I go to sleep. Vinegar Joe--w/the group in claymation on a platter of fish and chips. Climax Blues Band--Rich Man. ART DECO deluxe. Meat Loaf--Bat Out Of Hell. I like it, well, just cuz I'm a chpprpilot. Here's one not so much for creativity, but the story behind it: Moby Grape--Just your average group sitting type photo, looks like in front of an antiques shop on Main St. USA. Don Stevenson has his right hand propped on an old scrub-board with his middle finger extended. I bought the album for the music but the cover was definitely something to talk about in school the next few days. My buddies and I went back to the store the next wknd to buy more albums, only to find the same Moby Grape cover showing NO middle finger, just clenched fist. ('the times they are a changin')
:yes: My previous post is indicative of my mindset during the era being discussed. I'll try again. This topic is great, the suggestions are endless. Here are a few of mine. Blood Sweat and Tears--Child Is Father To the Man. I still have scary dreams if I look at that cover before I go to sleep. Vinegar Joe--w/the group in claymation on a platter of fish and chips. Climax Blues Band--Rich Man. ART DECO deluxe. Meat Loaf--Bat Out Of Hell. I like it, well, just cuz I'm a chpprpilot. Here's one not so much for creativity, but the story behind it: Moby Grape--Just your average group sitting type photo, looks like in front of an antiques shop on Main St. USA. Don Stevenson has his right hand propped on an old scrub-board with his middle finger extended. I bought the album for the music but the cover was definitely something to talk about in school the next few days. My buddies and I went back to the store the next wknd to buy more albums, only to find the same Moby Grape cover showing NO middle finger, just clenched fist. ('the times they are a changin')
etherspook
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King Crimson...
Who could forget the screaming face on "Court of the Crimson King??? When things start getting psychotic on the international scene, it's still a favorite thing of mine to turn on the news, turn off the psychobabble of the anchorpeople, and play "Twentyfirst Century Schizoid Man" at volume. It seems to make a lot more sense than the C..N.N. "experts" analysis. (LOL)
Who could forget the screaming face on "Court of the Crimson King??? When things start getting psychotic on the international scene, it's still a favorite thing of mine to turn on the news, turn off the psychobabble of the anchorpeople, and play "Twentyfirst Century Schizoid Man" at volume. It seems to make a lot more sense than the C..N.N. "experts" analysis. (LOL)
etherspook
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if anyone...
has a copy of that cover to post, I would be grateful
has a copy of that cover to post, I would be grateful
For "Most Creative Album Covers" I always thought the cover of Long John Silver by Jefferson Airplane was pretty creative. Folds into a cigar/stash box. I'm fortunate to have an unfolded copy with the insert.
I think the artwork title has to go to Roger Dean. I collect his covers and am up to around fifty or so.
Best
John
I think the artwork title has to go to Roger Dean. I collect his covers and am up to around fifty or so.
Best
John
