Albums that get reissued in godawful alternative sleeves..

Just saw this, earlier on, begat a thread idea..

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-150-455370-1410435230-1505.jpeg -> http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-150-2998463-1311042082.jpeg

The Small Faces - Autumn Stone

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/wipersyouth624.jpg?wmode=transparent
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/832/MI0001832230.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Wipers - Youth of America

sorry that first one is so huge

That second Small Faces cover is better!

Granted, the first one isn't great.

But the album is not Bob Seger does Kiss...

Skylarking
(best not to look it up)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/00/TheMoonAntarctica.jpg/220px-TheMoonAntarctica.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/34/MMMoonandAntarcticaRe.jpg/220px-MMMoonandAntarcticaRe.jpg

http://img.front.anghami.com/320/5099945684456_T-1364_Image.jpg
http://www.vinylmusic.co.uk/image/cache/data/Folk/LP/178-500x500.jpeg

With Moon & Antarctica it's like cheesy but lovable Hipgnosis-core vs. bland rorschach photoshoppery.

Skylarking

iirc that reissue cover is the image they originally wanted to use in 1986, but the record company said no way.

I prefer the second al stewart cover

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/Non_Stop_Album_Cover_Art.jpg/220px-Non_Stop_Album_Cover_Art.jpg http://i43.tower.com/images/mm105899031/non-stop-b-t-express-cd-cover-art.jpg

Air by Air (Pete Namlook & Dr. Atmo) is a classic case, I think... Here's the original cover, when it was released by FAX:
http://www.2350.org/pk54/artwork.jpg

And here's what it looked like when reissued by Rising High:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/24_frames/Tangerine%20Dream%204/AIR.jpg

Dreamfish, another Namlook project on FAX didn't get much better treatment when reissued by Rising High...

The original cover:
http://www.2350.org/pw02/artwork.jpg

The Rising High cover:
http://image.rakuten.co.jp/jimu/cabinet/03672410/img61809614.jpg

Though a later reissue on Ambient World (FAX's reissue sublabel) actually had a pretty cool cover:
http://www.2350.org/aw012/artwork.jpg

That BT Express one: They were still switching cover art to something "less black", in 1974 (or whenever) ?

Had to check the dates - the second one is a CD reissue from 2004!

I prefer the second al stewart cover

― akm, Tuesday, November 18, 2014 9:38 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's closer to the original

A lot of budget fly-by-night label reissues barely have access to master tapes, much less original art, so they hack some shit out in Photoshop like that B.T. Express cover.

Funny, I was just thinking about starting a thread about reissues where the reissuing label fucks up the original cover with some kind of reissue frame/logo dealy, but didn't think it was worth its own thread.

For example, I was always a little annoyed by those Columbia/CBS Jazz Masterpieces CD covers:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_O0wk-qJQm6U/S_rbhbSA5-I/AAAAAAAABYo/saakKKk75Ho/s320/miles+davis.jpg
http://d2heru13qkbk4q.cloudfront.net/media/869931/scaled/ma_front.jpg
http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/ed6f50d5aeb0d58d89cc9c26575202f8/2412380.jpg
http://jazzbluesclub.com/uploads/posts/thumbs/1182585926_cover__gerry_mulligan_what.jpg

Could be worse, but needlessly gunks up the design. Especially that generic clip-art looking JAZZ INSTRUMENTS logo that looks like it should be on the door of a tourist trap designed to be overflow from Preservation Hall

This one also has an alternate image/design, which is inexplicable and inexcusable

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/KindofBlue_JM.jpg

Yeah, I've always disliked the Columbia Jazz Masterpieces framing too, and sometimes they also managed to screw the colours of the original cover:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/R-654119-1345055053-8411_zpsff03b3d5.jpeg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/R-57535-1246220769_zpscce8d1a1.jpeg

I first encountered a lot of Miles albums in their CBS Jazz Masterpieces iterations, so I have a weird nostalgic fondness for those covers even though they're objectively shitty.

Yeahh...

But then agaim, they are basically reiterating: This is not the album, this is a CD copy of the album.

there are some vinyl reissues of miles albums that have the same shitty border

"This is not the album, this is not a CD copy of the album. This is an LP made from the CD remaster, if you are lucky"

the album cover they used for the miles ahead reisssue wasn't the original one anyway. this was:

http://www.coverdude.com/covers/miles-davis-miles-ahead-1957-inside-cover-21501.jpg

miles wasn't too keen on that though iirc

oh yeah forgot about that. I actually like the reissue cover better, other than the framing

lol I can kind of imagine Miles going off on that cover

In case anyone says "White Light/ White Heat", I've always liked the alternate cover.

"that is some sad motherfuckin shit" xp

bahahaha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Ahead#Album_cover

Album cover

Miles reportedly was unhappy about the album's original cover, which featured a photograph of a young white woman and child aboard a sailboat. He made his displeasure known to Columbia executive George Avakian, asking, "Why'd you put that white bitch on there?"[10] Avakian later stated that the question was made in jest. For later releases of the record, however, the original cover-photo has been substituted by a photograph of Miles Davis.

I hope they at least kept the white kid and the sailboat lol

that'd be something to see

Also with Mingus, the photobomb reissue of The Clown

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Charles_Mingus-The_Clown_Album_Cover.jpg
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/553/MI0001553008.jpg

it's behind you!

The Hendrix remasters from 1993:

http://eil.com/Gallery/430960b.jpg

maybe doesn't count as a reissue but the us version of unhalfbricking is kind of meh

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NAcitkN4sKs/UAwjnhDLA-I/AAAAAAAAAvk/7nPwsTHLSCc/s320/unhalfbricking2.jpg

also had no idea that the band's moondog matinee cover i've known all these years wasn't the original version

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Moondog_Matinee%2C_The_Band%2C_original_cover.jpg

^the original

I can beat that BT Express one! Chooooo choooooo....

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QddBt9C-vsY/TbqCxOxzbjI/AAAAAAAAAbA/RXB6l8icGyg/s1600/al.jpg

http://ecover.to/Download/996215/Al_Green-Back_Up_Train-Inside.JPG

Impulse seriously fucked up the cover art on their first run of CDs (ca. 1987, iirc):
http://www.beejazzy.net/images/Spaceman_john-coltrane-a-love-supreme.jpghttp://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/f476312d9b9b5a3d64e059da85086768/4516881.jpg

"also had no idea that the band's moondog matinee cover i've known all these years wasn't the original version"

the one you know and love is original. this poster sleeve wrapped around the album. thus, first pressings had two covers.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20140830/121424189762.jpg

ah, learn something new everyday!

they were very easy to misplace. which is why you don't see them much. i've had dozens of early pressing copies of that record in my store and only once or twice did i get one with that sleeve.

yeah that is a perennial dollar bin record, never saw that poster sleeve

the reissue of endless summer is almost the reverse of this phenomenon

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Fendlessr.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/95/Fennesz_Endless_Summer_Cover_Art.jpg/220px-Fennesz_Endless_Summer_Cover_Art.jpg

the slightly garish cover reflects its origins as a turn of the century glitch album, the touch reissue turns it into something more sombre and dull

i bought this copy of underwater moonlight last year just because i'd never seen it and really liked the cover. 1986 reissue. turns out it sounds amazing! as good as i've ever heard it.

http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/TheSoftBoys_UnderwaterMoonlight.jpg

who the hell is Al Greene

he changed it to Green.

I have always preferred the black and white Ziggy one anyway. Did not know about the cartoon cover! Would be cool if the rest of the world had cartoon covers for all of the albums. Would like to see Low.

Yeah the Christine Perfect encapsulates the major label approach to repackaging something- Christine in the Hippy/Huey Newton Poster chair is passe, but if we posterize the photo with blobs of color, we can make it look like a Wharhol commission... very now! And while we're at it, lets rub some Letraset on the thing, but I'm running short on "C" so I'll take some from another sheet. Ready for 1982, to be put on display near to the Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks solo records.

The Hendrix ones are really weird, because it's not like his reputation has slipped, and the Axis and Ladyland covers were iconic.

From Huey Newton to

http://i.imgur.com/eWGRjqI.jpg

Those Hendrix reissues were panned at the time. I think they messed with the track sequence too

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, November 18, 2014 8:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They didn't mess with the sequence on Axis or Ladyland, but I think AYE might've been futzed with to reflect the UK running order. It also had a slew of bonus tracks.

almost of of the Felt CD reissues had their cover altered in some way

when all their albums were first properly reissued on cd in the 90s lawrence decided they should all have "generic" covers:
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/257/MI0000257067.jpg

What was the actual story re: the puppets on "Band of Gypsies"?

A lot of "oh, John Peel / friends of Brian objected" but nobody seems to know.

the original 1986 version of Let the Snakes Crinkle Their Heads to Death by Felt looked like this. the picture was cropped for the 2003 CD reissue

the image had been cropped much earlier than than on every reissue of the album. only the first vinyl pressing had the original cover. it seems lawrence regretted the photo almost instantly.

What was the actual story re: the puppets on "Band of Gypsies"?

The reminds me of a real fucking head-scratcher:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QHpzAqam3RQ/UZVcXiDv-DI/AAAAAAAAAOU/t8caBg_w_zc/s1600/albert-ayler-in-greenwich-vill-459355.jpghttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y42KD5AFL.jpg

Somehow, the latter issue (1998) looks more embarrassingly dated than the original (1968) issue.

It's so easy to spot late 90s design style.

mentioned this one on the dub reggae thread a while back
http://inwallspeakers1.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/king-tubby-meets-rockers-uptown.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61aDsmCPhML.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pPTXuUr%2BL._SY300_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JT5SDVTNL.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61PleQeqDZL._SY300_.jpg

i was pretty excited when rvng announced they would reissue Harald Grosskopf's Synthesist.
For some reason they took one of the best covers ever and made it boring.
https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4h6shLhoN1qz6g9ko1_cover.png
http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0558333555_2.jpg

Possibly not "godawful", but..

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-2823685-1386148619-5088.jpeg

Yes, he's called David Bowie, but what is he?

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-2476469-1352155565-5683.jpeg

Oh, he's a man of words, and a man of music...

I always liked the Augustus Pablo cover, the way he's so intently playing the melodica and that woman is like "what is that beguiling instrument?"

oh god dude i had to turn the cover inside out i hated it so much. there is this photo of a SUPER stoned pablo sitting at the keyboards or mixing desk or something that is now the cover of that album for me. i'm trying to find it on the web but i can't, maybe i'll scan it

http://www.fromthearchives.com/ll/LL_Queen_ZE_f.jpg
http://www.dejkamusic.com/images/album/large/lydia_lunch/queen_of_siam.jpg
http://www.fromthearchives.com/ll/LL_Queen_UFO_f.jpg
http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/2b7de9189ab8b03251a6f0a8af2a3293/2496205.jpg

i don't know the chronology here but...

http://strawberrybricks.com/system/files/imagecache/cover_medium/covers/the_faust_tapes.jpg http://www.faust-pages.com/images/covers/tapes.gif http://www.faust-pages.com/images/covers/tapes3.jpg

that last one is the same cover that my copy of munich & elsewhere has (but without the added text) so it always looks like a very lazy re-do to me.

also there is this one: http://www.soundfinder.jp/img/products/102080/1301670000/4d971248-c878-4895-91b2-2a42cbb7dc63/535598.jpg

Basically, when the first version was issued, the Brigit Riley sleeve was a cheap option.

By the time the album was reissued, the 'option' had lased and Brigit Riley was now an expensive artist and they couldn't afford it anymore.

ah, that would make sense

Sleeves don't get any more alternative

http://www.awesomeinternetsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Theo.jpg

http://www.beefheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/mirrorman_edsel_front.jpg

the one thing in its favour: hell of a lot easier to get the vinyl out compared to the original die cut version.

http://www.thirdav.com/hd_discog/img/ldop.jpg http://www.littlelighthouse.net/blog/imgs/novamob.jpg

In the recent Complete Mono Recordings box, the "white woman out sailing" cover art was put back on Miles Ahead.

how could they possibly miss the trick of putting Miles' head on an album called Miles Ahead

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-2187814-1268825578.jpeg
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-4549575-1368078829-8136.jpeg
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-6027744-1409220579-6268.jpeg

The original Miles Ahead yacht sleeve would have totally worked if you opened out the gatefold and Miles was racing off into the distance on a jet ski

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G0egtZjppOs/UBdr4aMooXI/AAAAAAAABkM/d5yeGUvriS4/s1600/len+bright+combo.recto.jpg
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XpKEhl9ohw0/0.jpg
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/674/MI0003674390.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Which one of those is the godawful one? They all look pretty ugly to me.

The original Miles Ahead yacht sleeve would have totally worked if you opened out the gatefold and Miles was racing off into the distance on a jet ski

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 23:16 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That would be "Miles Off"

Not sure which is earlier, or if it's a different countries thing, but I had the white one and never saw the space one until many years later.

http://i.imgur.com/QddZude.jpg

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_O0wk-qJQm6U/TLNg6IIrV0I/AAAAAAAAC7Y/wZ7yV0cUfFg/king_crimson-islands-front-8x6.jpg?imgmax=800

there are a few different shots for Wish You Were Here also, with the burning guy in different positions.

I prefer the white cover of Islands, which is not the original nor a version I ever owned.

We should make lol white people covers for other classic Miles records. Like you could do "Cookin'" with a very pompous, cartoonish french chef on the cover

In A Silent Way with a shushing librarian

Get Up With It is like a farmer rise-and-shining next to a rooster

Jack Johnson with Jack Johnson

No, Hurting, I'm sorry, I can't do this.

http://i.imgur.com/TrxcTLC.jpg

band of gypsys cover with puppets of john peel and robert wyatt:

http://s2.photobucket.com/user/mckendrick/media/BandOfGypsysFront.jpg.html

my favourite miles' record, the broth of the collie

I love those puppets but Billy Cox and Buddy Miles are not even two white people, let alone three

I remember liking the Blood and Fire reissue art at the time, but now it seems so pointless.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Congos.jpg http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/055/MI0002055222.jpg

http://bobmarleyconcerts.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/279.jpg http://www.ebreggae.com/reggae-images/front/Vinyl/132744/USED-ITEM-Keith-Hudson-Pick-A-Dub-ORIGINAL-PRESS.jpg

wk hits the nail.

i love the b&f reissues ..

but hey, just put the proper cover art on them ..

(never seen the original pick a dub original before, ta !)

that pick a dub reissue cover is another example of "more dated than the original" imo

I kind of like the Heart of the Congos cover though, honestly never knew it wasn't the original or gave it much thought, and the original is kind of a crappy photo.

..and the original is kind of a crappy photo.

which epitomises the whole albums groove perfectly as opposed to a revised 90s art house re-jig.

Yeah I mean, those B&F covers are pretty great! They looked good at the time and still hold up pretty well, but in the long run they're going to end up looking really dated to a particular place and time that has nothing to do with the actual music. They probably helped sell a lot of CDs though.

I'm not sure if the red and green pick a dub cover is original. The little inset version on the b&f cover is the black and white version, so maybe that came first?

This isn't godawful and it's technically not even a reissue (it's just the Spanish version of the cover released at the same time as the rest of the world got the zipper cover). But anyone who hasn't seen it before should.

http://i.imgur.com/x2OQDhg.jpg

i was pretty excited when rvng announced they would reissue Harald Grosskopf's Synthesist. For some reason they took one of the best covers ever and made it boring.

mizzell, Wednesday, November 19, 2014

This got reissued again a couple of months ago with the original artwork. I picked it up straight away.