band/music posters: C/D?

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Yeah, I hero worship. He deserves it.

So, who's on your wall? How do you feel about it?

― matthew m., Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a framed photo of Marc Bolan, and a Frank Kozic signed Iggy Pop insert-sized poster. As a kid my walls were covered with stuff... I wish I still had that David Bowie "Glamour" poster, made to promote "Scary Monsters".

― Sean, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just have a poster of the Osmonds from '70 which I've been meaning to put up for a long time, but never've gotten around to it. I don't like band posters for being band advertisements, really... if I have any, it's usually for nonmusical reasons (ie, I like the artwork, I have a crush on the Osmonds, etc.).

― matthew m., Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a picture of myself with Sir Ozzy of Osbourne, there's also a 60's music paper on the wall with Scott Walker on the cover. Could be worse I suppose.

As a child I had posters of Hulk Hogan, Madonna, and Michael Jackson proudly displayed.

― vantasma, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The only music-oriented "things" adorning my wall are:

Go-Betweens - The Lost Album promo poster
John Cale - Walking on Locusts promo poster

I also have miscellaneous prints from "The Ghost & Mr. Chicken" - Vic Mizzy, an overlooked classic.

― Dave225, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We just bought a house (our first, "aww", and so forth), and I have been given permission to regress back to my high school years by having my own room with my own stuff. Therefore, the Beatles, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, Brian Wilson, M.C. Escher and Woody Allen get wall love.

Actually, I guess I can start buying posters again, but someone told me that the difference between kids and adults is posters and prints, respectively. Hard to find Boredoms prints.

― dleone, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Velvets, from the "we wear all black" period. Who, from the "Ready, Steady, Who" period. Elvis Costello, from the "Trust" period (hella huge subway poster). Joy Division "Here Are The Young Men" on my door. Various nonmusic posters also.

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about band members posting to ILM. I say fine, classic, as long as they suck up to us normies every chance they get.

― Curt, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On a bulletin board over my desk: Patti Smith (early 70s, pre-Horses), Marc Bolan with crown and scepter (postcard), Brigitte Bardot postcard, a photo strip with 4 small pics of Bowie on the Station to Station tour, my late friend Louie with Liza Minnelli from the Results photo sessions, Sal Mineo in jeans and a white t-shirt from the movie Dino. I've also got a painting my Kristian did for some LA art show that features Belinda Carlisle surfing a tsanami through downtown LA past the crumbling City Hall building and into the head of then-Mayor Tom Bradley. And a Tomata DuPlenty painting of Jeannie C. Riley.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

giant spiritualized ladies and gentlemen poster,procured from tower a few years ago,and a flyer for surgeon,more because of the night than the gig itself,which was fairly disappointing...

― robin, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Big ol' poster of the cover of Disintegration that I've had since 1989 in my room, Suede poster on my door, three huge Suede ones at my workplace, along with small Plaid, Windy and Carl and Chris Mills efforts.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a tom waits poster and that poster of the slits that came with the record.

― chaki, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At the moment, yes the walls are covered with music-related stuff -- but I'm sure in the next incarnation of our aparment, my wife will seize a bit more control in the decor department. For the moment, I have a large Killing Joke promo poster for the 12" of "Let's All Go (To the Fire Dances)" over my dining room (Jaz Coleman's eyes follow you ominously around the room) and over the front door is a huge poster for a black-eyed mohican Wendy Orlean Williams from the Legal Defense Fund Benefit of the Plasmatics at long-forgotten Bond's in Time's Square. The wife really hates that one. Our living room is festooned with vintage promo posters of the Stranglers, Iggy & the Stooges, Cop Shoot Cop, Kiss, the Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock, the Ramones and another Killing Joke one (a small one for the "Eighties" 12") . Above my couch is a Bob Gruen print of the Sex Pistols performing in Baton Rouge, Louisiana during their ill-fated trek across the South in `78. All of these are very lovingly framed. The only thing the wife really put her foot down about was the Firewater poster in the kitchen that featured the cover of GET OFF THE CROSS, WE NEED THE WOOD FOR THE FIRE, a picture of Jesus smoking and drinking a Miller beer. She figured her dad would hit the ceiling if he ever layed eyes on it, so I relented and took it down.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

for a long time i thought posters were kinda tacky, particularly friends of mine who'd plaster their walls with any kind of promotional poster they got from a record store or show, regardless of how they felt about the band. but in the past few months i've taken a shining to decorating my wall. i try to keep it to stuff that's unique and/or important to me, preferably tour posters over album posters (with one exception: the foldout from the Ryko version of This Years Model..i love that cover, and it's important to me to have EC up there). i have a Raymond Pettibon-designed poster from Mike Watt's most recent tour, a poster from the Dismememberment Plan's 2-night stand @ the Black Cat in Dec. 2000, and a poster my friend Susie silkscreened herself for a tour she did last summer as Snoozer, which looks awesome. also, some photos of old friends and places I used to live, and an Eraserhead poster (!) and a huuuge 6-ft Royal Tenenbaums tapestry-type thing my brother got from working at a movie theater.

― al, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have plans to purchase a framed White Stripes poster. My gf wants the JSBX one. Plus I will shortly frame my Art of Fighting poster and that Earworm one with the catalogue number. They will *all* adorn and brighten my dull white walls.

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a Bjork poster, Slum Village, Notables and Slabco Records posters, all on doors to the closet. Also 3 pics of Chan Marshall, 2 pics of Carrie Brownstein, 1 Kathleen Hanna and 1 Meg White photo, most from Index magazine. I guess I'm a softie for those indie rock chicks. Hey, I even subscribed recently to Venus to get my fix.

― Ron Hudson, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Carl Craig: More Songs About Food... promo poster Pure Sonik/Sexy Adventures Of Orietta St Cloud Promo poster Billie Holiday pin up Giant sized Kraftwerk Tour poster.

I have tons of posters that are rolled up, Marychain, several Joy Division posters, a few Cure posters left over from middleschool, and several archival boxes of press clippings, fliers, and weird papers ala Andy Warhol.

that's it, I am starting to feel weird about having music posters in my room. It just feels so highschool to me these days. I turn 25 a week from today. Do any of you guys ever feel weird for being old(not 16 anymore) and still being into music every bit as much when you were in school? I do radio and collect records when other people my age are starting families and buying their first home. Does it ever make you feel out of place?

― mt, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to try to do all three at once. I'm doing two and having problems as it is (i.e. owning a house and still collecting records)

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

I've got a Pink Floyd poster in my room, I got it from the record of "Dark Side of the Moon". I would really like a King Crimson one, anyone know where I can get it? My brother has the one from "Umma Gumma" and my younger brother (aged 11) has pictures of animals from "Your Big Backyard" magazine.......

― Anna Rose, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven years pass...

that "glamour" poster mentioned upthread is great, has anybody been able to find a reprint of it? saw it in an episode of "the killing"

― chilli, Friday, 10 May 2013 06:45 (twelve years ago)

for those interested
http://www.bowiegoldenyears.com/1980/80-glamour-500.jpg

― chilli, Friday, 10 May 2013 06:48 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

I just bought a repro of this Gunther Kieser poster (b/c originals tend to be like $1000):

http://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/PosterConnection/85/309185/H2180-L24360769.jpg

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 30 December 2015 16:55 (nine years ago)

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