Album Covers featuring Yawnsomely Literal Cover Art in regards to said album's title.

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http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000ADKY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Saturday, 31 January 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

and the winner is...
http://www.soundchaser.com.br/reviews/M/Mike%20Oldfield%20%20-%20Tubular%20Bells.gif

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.imagewiz.net/images/sataylor/2262.jpg

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago) link

My teacher has that one.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 1 February 2004 01:22 (twenty years ago) link

Quibble with the Frampton. The yawnsomely literal title for this picture would be something like "Frampton Stares" or "Mouth Agape, With Guitar." It doesn't show him "coming alive," not literally.

― no opinion, Sunday, 1 February 2004 06:15 (twenty years ago) link

heh

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000024JV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Well, maybe if the album was called Crouching manfully next to a Panther maybe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

There's probably 100 better examples of this one, but this was all I could find

yeah, on same theme I picked up a second hand copy of Big Jim Sullivan's LP "Big Jim's Back" yesterday. Guess what the cover pic is of?

― zebedee (zebedee), Sunday, 1 February 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

Repurposed from the metal sales figures thread:

http://www.mothermetal.com/images/firehouse.jpg

Props to these guys for pulling this off on a self-titled album!

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 1 February 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

I am tempted to start an "album covers featuring animals wearing dookie rope gold chains" thread

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002II0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Wall? check. Fly? check.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000008COG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002JSZ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IPZ0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

Frampton looks like he's cumming to me!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

not that I don't love this album, though it would have been more apropos (and more hilarious!) if it had been named Super Gaye.
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d835/d83514d3a2j.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f781/f78173l2x0r.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf400/f492/f49240eq0c9.jpg

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NZH9.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

Quibble with Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" - he is patently OUTSIDE the house. Has there ever been a proverbial - as opposed to legal - prohibition specifying that "people shouldn't throw stones AT glass houses"? I think not.

― Neil Willett (Neil Willett), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.stonerrock.com/store/images/covers/ath-606.jpg

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

http://spinaltapfan.com/images/brainh1.jpg

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ihhtp://spinaltapfan.com/images/sharksandw2.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

Herbie Mann: Stone Flute. Great album. Everyone sounds stoned.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

http://spinaltapfan.com/images/brainh.jpg
http://spinaltapfan.com/images/intrav2.jpg
http://spinaltapfan.com/images/sharksandw2.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

http://spinaltapfan.com/images/brainh.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

Aw, fuck it.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000DQWC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link

You can be sure this isn't a photo of the first time Coltrane was going to play live at the village vanguard. Alice and Rashied look like some tourist couple who've stumbled into some sidewalk wax museum.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 1 February 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago) link

(in case you can't read it, the album is named She's Strange)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f550/f55077feyik.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 February 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

Hmmmm....the only thing left about the Village Vanguard is that sign. Otherwise, it's a Duane Reade drug store today.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 1 February 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

I was gonna ask whether it finally closed down.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 February 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

thanks to Dr Annabel for finally getting that Thomas Leer and Robert Rental LP cover onto an ILM album covers thread, which i'd been trying to do for ages ;)

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 2 February 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000035E7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 February 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002GYG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 February 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~denisg/music/aqua/heroes.jpg

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 February 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000001FRX.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

Hahaha. Surpised no one thought of that one sooner.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.ondarock.it/pietremiliari/inrock.jpg
Can't believe that no-one has etc.

― Myonga Von Bontee, Monday, 2 February 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

Right ...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d108/d10892b99cw.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

Reminder from a terrible pedant: it is possible to be trite and unimaginative without being literal.

"Bleach" features no bleach, "Cartoon Heroes" features no cartoon heroes (at least none I recognize),

Also, the "Water Babies" cover is actually an ironic twist on the Victorian concept; "Danse Macabre" is similar, a hipster reinvention of the graphic tradition. "Moving Pictures" is not "yawnsomely literal" because it employs a pun. Ditto "Rocks"--ok, it might not be Shakespeare, but it is sure trying harder than "The Raven."

Looks like AC/DC are the champions here!

― no opinion, Monday, 2 February 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

Flick of the switch may be the winner because it looks like some high school kid drew it in study hall.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

Bleach" features no bleach
Well, the photo is reversed, or, in a sense, bleached. Good enough for ya?

"Cartoon Heroes" features no cartoon heroes (at least none I recognize)
If you are saying that Aqua aren't cartoon heroes, you haven't watched music videos for the past eight years.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000054OWH.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link

Uh-oh, I'm forced to turn the pedantry up a notch!

"Bleach" features no bleach
Well, the photo is reversed, or, in a sense, bleached. Good enough for ya?

Note "in a sense"--i.e. not literal. Figurative. I would say that it doesn't even work very well, since the usual figurative sense of "bleach" is to whiten/make pale/washed out. But this image is simply a negative, with blacks as well as whites.

"Cartoon Heroes" features no cartoon heroes (at least none I recognize)
If you are saying that Aqua aren't cartoon heroes, you haven't watched music videos for the past eight years.

Evidently not enough of them, since I have no idea what you're talking about (and have never heard of Aqua till this thread). But I'm guessing they're actually a band. Either you're joking (i.e. it's not literal) or they are only cartoon heroes in a certain sense, or to a certain viewership, in which case "yawnsomely literal" is not going to cover it.

I also heartily object to the Betty Davis above--where is the literalness there...

― no opinion, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 07:35 (twenty years ago) link

Evidently not enough of them, since I have no idea what you're talking about (and have never heard of Aqua till this thread).

Well, that explains a lot. How old are you? Are you telling me that you don't remember 'Barbie Girl'? Or 'Dr. Jones'??? Or The lawsuit against them from Mattel Inc.? The girl sings in a squeaky voice and the guy growls along. Cartoon Heroes if there ever were any.

Re. the 'Bleach' thing: The photo is clearly a tiresome and obvious pun on the title. That's yawningly literal enough for me.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 08:49 (twenty years ago) link

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