Help me identify the cover artwork on this wall I found in a photo of a bedroom on a property website.

I have so many questions, this is kinda baffling to me, I was browsing a property website and came across this a shot of a bedroom.

Are these paintings or actual twelves? What is going on with the selection? Los Lobos, Crises by Mike Oldfield and the single artwork for Happy Birthday by Altered Images?

I don't even recognise half of them, save my sanity.

http://i63.tinypic.com/2uium4j.png

Tinypic is garbage. Use something else (imgur?).

http://i68.tinypic.com/2940uh5.png

http://imgur.com/

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Ugh, I'm a clown

http://imgur.com/a/H6PUd

http://i.imgur.com/cgsyNG9.png

Ha! What a weird array.

Kate Bush, Cat Stevens, Alan Parsons Project all in there.

Dave Brubeck, Badly Drawn Boy,

Beautiful South's Choke under that 10CC album

Barclay James Harvest to the right of Choke.

The one on the left side of the Genesis LP is Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds musical album:

https://www.discogs.com/master/view/71524

To the right of Genesis, ELO's 'Out Of The Blue'

And the one to the right from Genesis is ELO's Out of the Blue:

https://www.discogs.com/Electric-Light-Orchestra-Out-Of-The-Blue/master/21680

xpost

Below ELO is Paul Simon's Graceland.

To the left of Cat Stevens is 'The Very Best of Nina Simone', a compilation album from 2006.

Above Genesis: Los Lobos "How Will the Wolf Survive"

I had to resort to Discogs for the Fleetwood Mac to the right of ELO--it's a 12" single for "Oh Diane"

Red cover behind the bookcase: ELO "Balance of Power"

Next to Los Lobos, Mark Knopfler's 'Shangri La'.

Ventures' Telstar?

Nice collection of Potters on the bookshelf, and is that a run of Twilights on the top shelf?

What a weird set. Anyhow here's a list:

01. ?
02. ?
03. BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM
04. ?
05. ?
06. THE TORNADOS - TELSTAR
07. DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - TIME OUT
08. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - AMMONIA AVENUE
09. ?
10. ?
11. 10CC - THE VERY BEST OF
12. BEAUTIFUL SOUTH - CHOKE
13. BADLY DRAWN BOY - ONCE AROUND THE BLOCK
14. ?
15. ?
16. BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST - ONCE AGAIN
17. JEFF WAYNE - THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
18. ?
19. NINA SIMONE - THE VERY BEST
20. LOS LOBOS - HOW WILL THE WOLF SURVIVE
21. GENESIS - WE CANT DANCE
22. ?
23. CAT STEVENS - THE VERY BEST
24. ?
25. ELO - OUT OF THE BLUE
26. PAUL SIMON - GRACELAND
27. ?
28. ?
29. MARK KNOPFLER - SHANGRI LA
30. FLEETWOOD MAC - OH DIANE
31. KATE BUSH - THE KICK INSIDE
32. GONZALEZ - SOLO PIANO II
33. JEAN MICHELLE JARRE - EQUINOXE

Maybe the one below Graceland is a Fear and Loathing Soundtrack? I can see the words -EAR and -NG and I think I see bats in there.

5 Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
and 2 looks like it says "Londonbeat" in the logo

24. Mike Oldfield - Crises

(below Cat Stevens)

It's bothering me what the one in the top left is and whether they cut it to go round the ceiling coving (argh!)

(a) I think these are all hand painted facsimiles, and
(b) the sleeve above Barclay James Harvest is Dire Straits' "So Far Away" single, and why do I care?

Oh, good spot (a and b). It actually was puzzling me that the ratios didn't look quite right on the Oldfield but I thought it was either a different issue with tweaked artwork or something to do with estate agents' magical camera lenses distorting to make horizontal space look much bigger than it really is

I might have been thinking about this too much and should go to bed

though apparently I wasn't thinking about it enough to notice that both Crises and the one in the top-left were listed in MaresNest's opening post: 1. is "the single artwork for Happy Birthday by Altered Images"

If they are painted facsimiles, that would explain why the Paul Simon album looks so weird... In all the versions of the cover I've seen, the image of the horseback rider is much smaller and in the middle of a large white area, but there's no white here.

Is 18 Urban Hymns?

Is 5 Soon over Babaluma?

No 5 is Boys Don't Cry.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71HaTSu4GQL._SX355_.jpg

We should know 4 and 9 right?

#2 (between the White Album and The Cure) is ELO Balance Of Power

oops - HL got it already.

So
01. ALTERED IMAGES - HAPPY BIRTHDAY
02. ?
03. BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM
04. ELO - BALANCE OF POWER
05. THE CURE - BOYS DON'T CRY
06. THE TORNADOS - TELSTAR
07. DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - TIME OUT
08. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - AMMONIA AVENUE
09. ?
10. ?
11. 10CC - THE VERY BEST OF
12. BEAUTIFUL SOUTH - CHOKE
13. BADLY DRAWN BOY - ONCE AROUND THE BLOCK
14. ?
15. DIRE STRAITS - SO FAR AWAY
16. BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST - ONCE AGAIN
17. JEFF WAYNE - THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
18. ?
19. NINA SIMONE - THE VERY BEST
20. LOS LOBOS - HOW WILL THE WOLF SURVIVE
21. GENESIS - WE CANT DANCE
22. ?
23. CAT STEVENS - THE VERY BEST
24. ?
25. ELO - OUT OF THE BLUE
26. PAUL SIMON - GRACELAND
27. ?
28. ?
29. MARK KNOPFLER - SHANGRI LA
30. FLEETWOOD MAC - OH DIANE
31. KATE BUSH - THE KICK INSIDE
32. GONZALEZ - SOLO PIANO II
33. JEAN MICHELLE JARRE - EQUINOXE

Can you tell I am a week over a blown writing deadline?

22 is Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock album from 1955:

http://images.45cat.com/bill-haley-and-his-comets-were-gonna-rock-around-the-clock-brunswick-2.jpg

I think these covers were chosen because they all have colourful painted/drawn visuals, and no photos, not because they represent someone's musical taste. Makes sense to pick covers like these if they are indeed handmade facsimiles.

28 is the single "Mathematics" by Cherry Ghost.

https://artwork-cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/693/0000069341_200.jpg

a passing spacecadet got 24 as well

Exciting!

01. ALTERED IMAGES - HAPPY BIRTHDAY
02. ?
03. BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM
04. ELO - BALANCE OF POWER
05. THE CURE - BOYS DON'T CRY
06. THE TORNADOS - TELSTAR
07. DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - TIME OUT
08. ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - AMMONIA AVENUE
09. ?
10. ?
11. 10CC - THE VERY BEST OF
12. BEAUTIFUL SOUTH - CHOKE
13. BADLY DRAWN BOY - ONCE AROUND THE BLOCK
14. ?
15. DIRE STRAITS - SO FAR AWAY
16. BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST - ONCE AGAIN
17. JEFF WAYNE - THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
18. ?
19. NINA SIMONE - THE VERY BEST
20. LOS LOBOS - HOW WILL THE WOLF SURVIVE
21. GENESIS - WE CANT DANCE
22. BILL HALEY - ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK
23. CAT STEVENS - THE VERY BEST
24. MIKE OLDFIELD - CRISES
25. ELO - OUT OF THE BLUE
26. PAUL SIMON - GRACELAND
27. ?
28. CHERRY GHOST - MATHEMATICS
29. MARK KNOPFLER - SHANGRI LA
30. FLEETWOOD MAC - OH DIANE
31. KATE BUSH - THE KICK INSIDE
32. GONZALEZ - SOLO PIANO II
33. JEAN MICHELLE JARRE - EQUINOXE

So, we're saying 18 isn't Urban Hymns The Verve, then?

The trees don't work

Man I've been trying reverse image search on these but it doesn't work at all.

yeah, they're just different enough

I've Got My Own Interior Decorating To Do

Pretty sure that is Urban Hymns, Mark.

02. is the 12" single for Make A Change by Buckwheat Zydeco!

http://images.eil.com/large_image/XXX-503005.jpg

Did whoever painted these run out of patience and just say "Fuck it... White Album"?

god I love that Rock Around The Clock cover

Could easily be yes, or a studio engineer

In the bedroom in this house there is a flight simulator

https://media.rightmove.co.uk/203k/202772/131984537/202772_1499976-1_IMG_13_0000.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/dgZ6nTt.jpeg

ok which ilxor is this

lol I literally just saw that on bsky and thought of this thread, kudos

lotta crazy out of focus stuff happening there but I see two Broadcast CDs and a Bjork

possibly The Moon And The Melodies two to the right of the Bjork

laughing stock by talk talk #showstheEarthsglobe #onethread

ocean rain by echo and the bunnymen

Charli XCX and Kraftwerk

Nénette and Boni soundtrack (Tindersticks?) above The Moon & The Melodies

discreet music by brian eno (?)

I feel like I recognize the redish one on the left (to the left of the Broadcast pendulum EP), but I can't place my finger on it.

British Sea Power next to Bjork

xp broadcast - work and non work

btw something that's kinda weird about the original pic in this thread - that copy of Equinoxe by Jarre is not the original cover, in fact it's not any cover, that's the cover to the Equinoxe 5 single. however that cover only appeared as a 7" single, none of the 12s had a cover at all, also the font on it looks a little wacky, leading me to believe that maybe it's actually a print out? despite the album itself being incredibly available?

the albums in that photo look too big to be actual albums.

I was wondering if that was the case, it kind of scales with the bookcase but the bed and dresser would have to be unusually small I guess

that makes it a bit stranger though since so many of the albums up there are bargain bin picks, although I've never seen We Can't Dance on vinyl, even if the three before are plenty ubiquitous

so its almost like they just printed off random album covers to decorate the wall

noted upthread

(a) I think these are all hand painted facsimiles, and [...]

― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, February 12, 2017

tuomas may be otm

I think these covers were chosen because they all have colourful painted/drawn visuals, and no photos, not because they represent someone's musical taste. Makes sense to pick covers like these if they are indeed handmade facsimiles.

― Tuomas, Monday, February 13, 2017

The proportions also get funkier as you move to the images on the far right, they are wider than they are tall.

i think that may be realtor photography at work (the chest looks kind of stretched too).

Soul Jazz dubstep comp Box of Dub there in yellow and orange

that's radio-activity by kraftwerk

Rolling cover connection! I still think of the Kraftwerk with the black and white art.

it's a background lol.

pitchfork6.3s.jpg

:O

i thought Box Of Dub too, if only because everything else around it starts with a B

but BoD has much more obvious text on the cover

it's a background lol.

pitchfork6.3s.jpg

Another view:
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:46jdgs6buazhenot7wnzjbx6/bafkreicusxruq6l6txm6wvrwutmp3kpbukygf6k6hzzh3ymj3jyawj25pi@jpeg

And I see he has been mentioned on ILM before:

Matter at the Blue Room ended a couple of months ago. In its place there's a rotating cast of weekly Sunday nights. I'm listing them with some of the other less club oriented regular DJ events around town:
SALT (listed first, because it's my night, dammit)
synthfunk, indiepop, dancehall, grime, electropunk, hip hop, industrial, hits
DJ's Sad and Lonely
1st Wednesday monthly
Cafe Saint-Ex

<>
indiedisco and beyond
DJ Will Eastman
generally 3rd Saturday monthly
the Black Cat

Confusion
disco, new wave, funk, postpunk, hiphop
DJ's Serpico, William Alberque, Cullen Stalin, Sad
generally 4th Saturday monthly
the Black Cat

Yellow Fever
reggae, groove, soul, hip-hop, dub
DJ's Yellow Fever
Tuesdays biweekly
Cafe Saint-Ex

Spilt Milk
rock, disco, funk, mod, punk, soul
Tuesdays biweekly
Red

Blowoff
indie house?
DJ's Bob Mould and Richard Morel
Saturdays
9:30 Club

Taking the Piss
jingle-jangle indie pop & psychedelic
occasional Fridays
Marx Cafe

We Fought the Big One
UK post punk, shoegaze, guitar pop, indie dance
DJ's Brandon Grover and Rick Taylor
1st Friday monthly
Marx Cafe

The Wag
60's garage soul & trash
DJ Mark Zimin
1st Saturday monthly
the Black Cat

The Mousetrap
brit pop, indie
DJ Mark Zimin
generally 2nd Saturday monthly
the Black Cat

Cold
coldwave, darkwave
2nd Sunday monthly
the Blue Room

Atmosphere
post punk, UK indie, dream pop
3rd Sunday monthly
the Blue Room

The Melting Pot
everything, 1964-1980
DJ Neville Chamberlain
Thursday biweekly
Cafe Saint-Ex

UH-HUH!
rock and roll
DJ Johnny
Sundays
Cafe Saint-Ex

Groove
soul, mod, garage
DJ Beat Neat-O
Thursdays biweekly
Cafe Saint-Ex

I'll work on a whole separate list of the club/hip hop/EDM events...

― Brian Miller, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

lol at DJ Neville Chamberlain. I wonder if he ever discussed measures to prevent nuclear war with Mr Alberque in between playing Felix da Housecat and Delta 5.

ok which ilxor is this

New Order Substance in latest photo!

Also:

-Horsegirl, Phonetics On and On
-Dirty Three, Ocean Songs

Hi, I'm Stewart and I'd like ilx to identify the hippest records in my collection

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FaTOT2VlrlXUdM0vKfyYrfhtPv9EGcfTTHRY_l5BA674.png%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D1f5ffd2aa87d26d354dd5225130e376ce86c30c7

oh ffs

url is here, thought a reddit link may be troublesome: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FaTOT2VlrlXUdM0vKfyYrfhtPv9EGcfTTHRY_l5BA674.png%3Fwidth%3D640%26crop%3Dsmart%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D1f5ffd2aa87d26d354dd5225130e376ce86c30c7

beabadoobee - coffee

Kraftwerk 1 & 2

bio:

Proud analyst for the Pacific Forum. I can identify warhead types and rare b-sides with alacrity and alarming accuracy.

Laughing Stock by Talk Talk, and what might be Cluster & Eno next to Kraftwerk. I see Closer, Unknown Pleasures, and The Moon & Melodies

re: the reddit link. hard to tell what most of them are without zooming in, but one of them is can's monster movie

trout mask replica is also on there (more than once, maybe?)

I see Zeit by Tangerine Dream close to Can

Music for Airports and Billie Eilish top left. Metal Box peeking out lower left.

This is a still from the Netflix show The Four Seasons. It's clearly a mock-up as no Joy Division LP, official or unofficial, ever had a cover like this. My question is why would they go to the trouble of making a mock-up? Why not show an actual cover?

https://i.imgur.com/hPloqPR.jpeg

New Order Substance in latest photo!

Andy Bell's Pinball Wanderer below that

xpost all the album covers for that show are probably mockups (copyright reasons?) - the Modest Mouse fans have the exact same question on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModestMouse/s/Asoz3s5kSe

I get that but I don't get why showing a real LP cover on a TV show would be a copyright violation?

I mean Stewart Lee isn't rushing to cover up his Kraftwerk covers for fear of being sued for copyright

if you show a real LP cover on TV you need to pay for the image. Cheaper to use some AI-gen mockup.