― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)
Nu-jack ILX stylee is that you just type a lower case i before the web addy....
ala...
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002J58LK.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)
No, it's all those other bands that I hate.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)
― no homo (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025L7.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005BJ9W.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NOSV.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)
― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)
― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)
The Over Kill one was just the first time I saw something that was so non-subtlely "Fuck you" on an album ever, which I never thought any would dare do..(keep in mind, Tipper Gore was America Saviour #1 at the time).. The Supercollider and New Order jackets influenced me as far as how abtract you could be in album design. The Swans, just because I loved the consistency of the dollar sign on all their releases.. it stood out. Negativland, for the essay, and and the disorientation, and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown one was just "wow, they could make things so gawdy and FREAKY in the 60s, man?"
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)
http://www.elrockshop.com/images/products/prpp-0006thes.gif
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006TK1.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003C4L.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NHO3.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)
http://www.rockobrobje.com/blue_p1.jpg
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)
― tipustiger, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)
Oh, I see. Well good lord who knows? I'm sure there were several different versions of it, in fact this website confirms it. http://staff.niagara.edu/rpk2/New_Order/singles/bm.html
Mine would have been the Italian one, as I recall my first New Order records being Italian imports.
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)
― famantha sox, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drg300/g338/g33888utdmf.jpg
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)
― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)
i really wish i could find the original 12" of this, depeche mode's "everything counts" live single from Depeche Mode 101. anton corbijn completely demystified the whole business of music for me with this and the cover shot from the album/movie -- band as commodity embodied in its merchandise table and fan purchases (with sodas and fries, no less). beat that sonic youth cover by seven years.
― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006L5PQ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001HU9.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002MIV.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
(this one I loved so much for so long I sought out the photographer and bought one of the last of 13 prints he made of the image)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)
― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)
― Ben Dot (1977), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)
im sure i fucked that up
maybe...
ihttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0000019KE/ref=dp_product-image-only_0/102-2901325-1360962?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=5174
eh, don't get the whole "i" thing.
anyway heres the link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B0000019KE/ref=dp_product-image-only_0/102-2901325-1360962?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=5174
― rockaction (rockaction), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)
i also would like to know how most of these album covers changed each individual lives rather than they were just "whoa! that's cool"
i personally had my life changed by looking at Vaughn Oliver 4ad covers. i never really got into the bands on the label besides the pixies, but i loved the idea of doing graphic design. i had always been into art, but these covers showed me you could make a living doing it and i changed professions from record store employee to fancy pants web designer now. and after all these years doing it, i realized designing cds sleeves is probably the least lucrative way to make money in design
― Tito JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)
Is there something in the ILXOR FAQ as to the exact reasons why certain images get displayed and ones don't? I'm referring specifically to dimensions and/or file size.
― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)
good thread. it's kind of cool to separate the covers from the music...and challenging too...
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)
― kik nershaw, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)
Perhaps you're being too literal?
Picture yourself lying on your bedroom floor, poring over an album sleeve, kicking your legs in the air. Now: what's the album you're looking at?
Geddit?
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)
hope that worked...
― rockaction (rockaction), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)
― rockaction (rockaction), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)
― rockaction (rockaction), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)
― rockaction (rockaction), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003RHB.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
I'm such a serious lad.
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000026GME.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H3Z.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005RY7R.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005J6SZ.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― David Merryweather (DavidM), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)
― davidsim (davidsim), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)
Likewise Clones of Dr.Funkenstein. My sister had brought home Mothership Connection (George C. in a funky flying saucer) which I loved for its sci-fi connections as a wee lad. For her birthday, she's told Mom that she'd wanted Clones of Dr.Funkenstein, and I remember going to a record store with her and picking it out. They looked so fuckin' freaky, sort've like a black version of Kiss!
My friend Duer (yeah, that was his name) had been given a record by someone that he just didn't like. I was over at his house, and he said something to the affect of, "Here, Alex, you like stupid angry music, you'll probably like this!" and handed me a copy of Killers by Iron Maiden, which made Kiss album covers seem as scary as the Partridge Family.
My Dad had been living in London as a foreign correspondent for the magazine he was working for at the time and befriended a guy who worked at CBS records, who very nicely slapped together a box of vinyl and sent it to my sister and myself. Inside was stuff like Evelyn Champagne King and Peter Frampton and REO Speedwagon's live album and all sortsa crap. When my sister pulled out the Clash's first album, her first reaction was, "uhh....Alex can have this one." Three rough lookin' customers in an alley with a "what'cha gonna do about it!" vibe. Classic. I'll take it.
etc.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)
― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)
Damaged by constrast was such a straight-ahead, absolutely no-bullshit mission statement. My friend Brad had turned me onto them. A summer before he listened to stuff like Generation X and the New York Dolls. When I met up with him the following summer, talking about the bands I'd gone onto to discover, he basically told me to shut the fuck up about 999 and Adam & the Ants and LISTEN TO THIS! One glance at the cover -- however juvenile in retrospect -- and I immediately felt: "Shit, these guys REALLY MEAN IT!"
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)
― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)
http://www.ccsi.com/~romy/IMAGES/thewall.GIF
While listening to the album in CONSTANT ROTATIONS, I'd literally spent hours pouring over Gerald Scarfe's bizarre images...trying to discern whatever meanings they might have (I remember a ripple of frenzied activity in my 7th grade class when Richard Peterson discovered that if you hold the picture of the Mother figure upside down, there was another face to be seen....arguably).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00007KMZS.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
and although it's not nearly as good, i still think the cover for "Hysteria" is cool. I just like the way that the last few letters of each word is on the front cover.
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000070ZE.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― Neil FC (Neil FC), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)
― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)
http://www.mainstreetmusic.com/msmusic/images/items/38386.gif http://www.cannedheatmusic.com/images/cdwoodst.jpg http://products.priceclash.co.uk/images/nodrop/180/B00004SZWD/music/songs-in-the-key-of-life-339.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002J09.01._PE28_PI_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://musicmedia.ign.com/music/image/yesalbum150_040704_1081382841.jpg http://media.bestprices.com/content/music/10/454118.jpg http://www.alovesuprememusic.com/PontyZappaOverniteSensation.jpg http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drc300/c392/c39241px5jq.jpg http://img.kelkoo.com/pdb/22301/cds/img02645.jpg
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)
― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)
I'd say 90% of my musical tastes can be traced back to these ten, in one way or another. (Like you care)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer: HE WHOM DUELS THE DRAFGON IN ENDLESS DANCE (latebloomer), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)
What eventually became the cover of "Party Music" is much better than the infamous deleted WTC cover, which looks sorta cheap. It's a pity I couldn't find a larger image of the "Niun Niggung" cover, it's really cool.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/coup~~~~~~~_partymusi_101b.jpg
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00007KMZV.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
and
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00007KMZT.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
also:
http://www.neiltaylor.co.uk/omdrate/images/omd-first-album.jpg
which is maybe my all-time favourite. by ben kelly, i think.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)
http://www.blindyouth.co.uk/
absolutely stunning website, that. essential reading for anyone with even a passing interest in the league.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)
http://www2.tba.t-com.ne.jp/mahya/images/cheap_thrills_01.jpg http://www.staxy-overdrive.mobilixnet.dk/Resources/Blondie%20-%20Parallel%20Lines.jpg
*Of course, this was a dry-run for the last several years, wherein I cohabit with MY records.
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)
A STUNNER!
― Crumpy, Thursday, 17 February 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)
These two did something to me, not sure what...http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Film/2234/chpics3/albumsab.jpghttp://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002GA9.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
I think this one made me gay. I thought Mitch Ryder was so hot when I was 11.http://www.cucamonga.be/afbeeldingen/MitchRyderDetroitMemphis.jpg
― Guitarthur and the Ecstasy Defecators (Arthur), Thursday, 17 February 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)
― Guitarthur and the Ecstasy Defecators (Arthur), Thursday, 17 February 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00001OH7X.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006DI9.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000OPH.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000679N96.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― telephonething, Friday, 25 February 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)
― lateadopter, Friday, 25 February 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)
― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)
― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)
pink floyd - the dark side of the moon:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002U82.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
mike oldfield, tubular bells:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000WG4.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
rolling stones, let it bleed:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00006AW2G.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
led zepellin, iv
http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/ae/89/8ebe024128a01ca8beec2010.L.jpg
led zepellin; houses of the holy
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002J0B.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
david bowie - ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000AZAUM.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
other covers that blew me away, but the music never really did
jethro tull -- aqualung
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000GAIW.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
mcartney, ram (OK i don't have this one in my CD collection ;) I can't recall what it sounds like but the cover sticks in the mind alright, and it was a heavy blotter style card impregnated with the ink.. mmm like candy or crayon
ihttp://www.orthogonal.com.au/music/covers2/Paul%20McCartney%20-%20Ram%20(LP%20Front).jpg
concert for bangladesh (this was my fave for a long time, ravi shankrah citar, yeah baby!) lovely recycled-paper-style unbleached paper sleeves .. never saw the box cover before today
http://eil.com/newGallery/George-Harrison-The-Concert-For-B-137643.jpg
pink floyd - atom heart mother .. still rocks
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002U9W.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
some the family owned
Bob Marley - Survival
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001FXT.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
sky
http://plum.cream.org/sky/pics/sky1.jpg
in fact comp tapes were the rage with the kids in the neighbourhood, 1982 with a bullet was the best evar (oh man yes i just clicked and bought on that one! does this mean i'm getting old?)
http://i4.ebayimg.com/05/i/06/cb/33/38_1_b.JPG
and oh man some i never owned, but the cover art and the music pwned me ..
meatloaf - bat out of hell (dunno why noone posted yet!)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025BL.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
queen - greatest hits (dunno why)
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000024A70.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
beatles - yellow submarine
ihttp://www.orthogonal.com.au/music/covers2/Beatles%20-%20Yellow%20Submarine%20(LP%20Front).jpg
divinyls - desperate
ihttp://www.orthogonal.com.au/music/covers2/Divinyls%20-%20Desperate%20(LP%20Front).jpg
sorry for the biggies .. but!
pretenders
ihttp://www.orthogonal.com.au/music/covers2/Pretenders%20-%20Pretenders%20I%20(LP%20Front).jpg
pink floyd - animalsyou need to see the zooms .. this building is real, and dominates a part of central london, they turned it into the turner art gallery
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-images/B000024D4R/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_2/102-2900943-2739303?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=music&index=2#gallery
pink floyd - wish you were here
http://www.djangomusic.com/images/cover200/DRC800/C840/C84033AM816.jpg
thank god that one gets boring eventually, or i'd be a dripping wet sod .. and the wall more so!
ac/dc - back in black
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000089RV6.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
skipping a decade or so, megadeth - peace sells (because it does, you know)
http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/71/83/2627b2c008a01d05de386010.L.jpg
and such good retro from mother earth, the people tree
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000OHI.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
OK enough! i could go all night and i'm sure i must be boring. hopefully this has sated the original poster's perverse curio.
― yetanotherone, Friday, 12 May 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)