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Favorite Album Covers
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:56 am
by wayang
So, anyway...the thread on rediscovering vinyl and Jeff Rath's comment about the covers got me remembering some of my favorites:
Close To The Edge (Yes)
Bitches' Brew (Miles Davis)
Overnight Sensation (F. Zappa)
Acquiring The Taste (Gentle Giant)
plus...that 'Playin' and singin' fer you the following...' cover R. Crumb did for Big Brother and Janis
..and many more. A few of your favorites?
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 7:21 am
by eatswodo
Love those Roger Dean Yes covers.... a couple of other favourites are Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick (the full newspaper version), and Man's Be Good To Yourself, which has a big foldout illustrated family tree of the band.
Also, the picture on Maria Muldaur's Waitress In A Donut Shop still makes me go weak at the knees....
I'm dating myself, aren't I
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 7:30 am
by loendmaestro
Trapeze - Medusa
Deep Purple - Stormbringer
Rainbow - Rising
UFO - (any between 74-78...gotta love Hipgnosis!)
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 9:20 am
by leftyguitars
David, I got into trouble for dating myself. My mum said I would go blind! hahaha!!! Now where did I put my specks???
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 9:44 am
by Scastles
Grateful Dead..Aoxomoxoa
Big Brother and the Holding Co....Cheap Thrills
Little Feat...Down on the Farm
Blind Faith...(the original cover)....everyone needs a little perversion.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 12:08 pm
by incubus2432
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 12:28 pm
by rob
Brian,
That's one of my favorites, too!!!
Budgie...Squawk
The Beatles...The White Album
Metallica...The Black Album
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:22 pm
by expomick
Clash - London Calling
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Generation X - 1st album
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
K-Tel compilation - Out-A-Sight (late 1974)
any Johnny Cash album from the 60's
Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 5:46 am
by expomick
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 8:39 am
by janglebox
I still think the Byrds 5D is a classic.
Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 8:57 am
by rictified
Herb Alpert: Whipped cream and other Delights, haha! Loved that cover.
Mothers on Invention: Freak Out
Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 11:34 am
by harley
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Yes - Relayer
UFO - Force It & Obsession
Badfinger - ***
Wings - Band On The Run
Rod Stewart - Sing It Again, Rod (the original shaped like a whiskey glass)
Beatles - Abbey Road
Stones - Through The Past Darkly
And one I saw back in the 70s that I never bought, but I still remember it. It was called "Do They Hurt?" by a band named Brand X. As I recall, it had an alligator looking at a guy wearing alligator shoes. To my teenage male mind, that was hilarious!
Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 11:58 am
by rob
Brand X. Wasn't that the band that Phil Collins was doing before Genesis? I know someone who has an album or two from them. Probably the same one you saw, Harley.
Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 12:10 pm
by ozover50
Sure was, Robert.
They are sort of still going. It's very hard stuff to get over here - import only. They did a live album called 'Livestock' and I loved it. Some b****rd pinched it when I had a party a few years ago.
I'm pretty sure if you google it you'll find an official site (or at least a fan one).
Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 3:17 pm
by eatswodo
Phil Collins was in Brand X *during* Genesis, not before or after. Their first album, Unorthodox Behaviour, is a fusion masterpiece that no-one knows about - Percy Jones, a Welsh Wizard on a fretless Wal is a standout, and it demonstrates what a truly superb drummer Collins is.
