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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 07/01/2009 : 16:15:15
For me it can only be vinyl album covers, since nothing beats holding that big, beautiful jacket in your hands while listening to a long anticipated release by your favorite artist!! 
I gave us a hard one....a new favorite will come up every time I visit my record shelf!!
1) Neil Young's first LP
2) CSN (their first).....wonderfully provocative with Dallas T in the window)
3) Morrison Hotel/Hard Rock Cafe
4) Gene Clark, White Light ( if you don't know this one, it's wonderful......solid black cover with just a small but beautiful orange-yellow setting sun....a seated (on a rock?) Gene is silhouetted against the sun that is just on the "horizon". Striking.)
I'll be adding to this new subject a lot, but I gotta quit NOW. I have about a hundred more popping into my head!!  Guys?
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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 19/02/2009 : 18:08:53
I think "Buffalo Springfield Again" was mentioned at Byrds/Buffalo as a fave. Me too!!!
I can remember when that came out in '68. I just listened to it over and over while taking in the beautiful cover, and reading all the back cover liner notes and song credits. Was that the longest Thanks & Dedication list ever?? It turned me on to a lot of artists I hadn't known before. A beautiful and entertaining cover. Get a vinyl copy for the cover alone...even if the vinyl is beat!! no better way to appreciate it.....
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| jstark |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 20:04:39
roxy music always had great covers, especially the first two ablums, stranded, and country life. |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 10/02/2009 : 18:09:55
A few new ones.....
-Mott the Hoople's first LP..that great M.Escher drawing.
-Neil Young & Crazy Horse...Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 14/01/2009 : 23:54:04
Freak Out!, Absolutely Free and We're Only In It For The Money....three of my all time favorite covers AND albums!!
I did exactly THAT when I first saw the cover of Freak Out! What was this Psychedelic thing??
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| Bobinbed |
Posted - 14/01/2009 : 00:27:49
The cover of Spaceritual (Hawkwind) is beautiful.
- "What do you mean it's a literary high?"
- "It's a Kafka high. It makes you feel like a bug." |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 13/01/2009 : 02:19:14
The first Led Zeppelin album ....... one of the all time great covers and still my favorite Zep LP.
First released forty years ago today...... on January 12. 1969
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| John9 |
Posted - 11/01/2009 : 11:48:10
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Originally posted by ed the bear
"Younger than Yesterday." After I realized that it was the cover art, not me.
John, I just got out "BGS" the other day and played "Every Little Thing" a dozen times or so. That is a two-minute jewel, in which every part is perfect.
Hi Ed - yes Every Little Thing is an all time classic - and a superb example of the musical sophistication that The Beatles had already achieved by 1964. It was thought hip enough by Yes to be covered, in an elaborate and extended form, on their 1969 debut album - along with the etherial McGuinn/Crosby composition, I See You. Those were the days! |
| bob f. |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 23:28:08
notice the same gritty photo style of Byrds' "Younger Than Yesterday", and "Love. Four Sail" cover art.
the Blind Faith original cover , was censored in the U.S. and replaced with the band members photo.
then, much later, art won out, and the original nude girl cover was recognised as the correct cover art we now see on most cds. i think.
same deal for Moby Grape's "finger" cover!!!!!!
i remember that episode. the finger was cut off! f*** that!
now the proper cover with the finger is recognized as standard cd cover art, after years of prudish and stupid censoreship.
the finger is universal language. pure rock commuication. Johnny Cash's famous finger photo always cracks me up! DAMN! that's a jem!!!
the finger has its place, and belongs on raw rock albums to be naked if it wants to. it would not look right on an Enya cd. or on the cover of a Mozart cd. but that M.G. Finger cover is right.
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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 23:17:01
quote:
Originally posted by ed the bear
"Younger than Yesterday." After I realized that it was the cover art, not me.
John, I just got out "BGS" the other day and played "Every Little Thing" a dozen times or so. That is a two-minute jewel, in which every part is perfect.
We must have been on the same "thing". ed. 
I love the Turtles album cover for Turtle Soup. The Turtles had many wonderful POP hits but their albums, especially Turtle Soup & Battle Of The Bands, show what great talents "Flo & Eddie" were!!! I love Turtle Soup!! Stands up to anything from the 60's....psych,pop, frenetic wildly beautiful, great music. By the way, Turtle Soup is the only album that Ray Davies produced for any band other than the Kinks. ( The Turtles were inspired by the revered Village Green Preservation Society, and enlisted Ray.) Obviously respected by Zappa also....such talents.
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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 23:03:01
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Originally posted by Lizzyb
but the cd of blind faith is the original artwork. how?
or have i been misled?
Keep on shining
The censors have become lax, lizzy....
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| Lizzyb |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 20:40:45
but the cd of blind faith is the original artwork. how?
or have i been misled?
Keep on shining |
| ed the bear |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 20:28:41
"Younger than Yesterday." After I realized that it was the cover art, not me.
John, I just got out "BGS" the other day and played "Every Little Thing" a dozen times or so. That is a two-minute jewel, in which every part is perfect. |
| John9 |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 16:15:31
Bob - I share the liking you have for the Beatles For Sale cover...an additional point about it is that it is a very early example of a gatefold. It is interesting that Capitol selected the rear shot from the album for their 'Early Beatles' release a couple of months later.
I played BFS again just before Christmas - although it is usually excluded from 'best album' discussions, I think that the original material points the way to the more mature songwriting we would see on Help and Rubber Soul. And of course in common with With The Beatles, Sgt Pepper and the White Album, no singles were spawned from it - although the Americans got Eight Days A Week. It's funny how on just about every Beatles album, there is a 'single that never was'. |
| bob f. |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 00:38:52
i think Bowie's "Diamond Dogs" jacket was later censored because of the genitals, and is now a valuable collector's item. Blind Faith's cover was changed, too. what a bunch of b.s. againnst art!
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| Lizzyb |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 00:30:43
pin ups - bowie or
these foolish things - bryan ferry
Oh that was my favourite covers albums
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