http://www.vinylparadise.com/goodlp/1/8be5klh1.jpg
http://www.vinylparadise.com/goodlp/1/8si4kah1.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000042GU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
There's a Mahler cover from the 60s that is fantastic, but I can't find it. Anyone? It's very, er, mathematic..
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)
― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)
http://homepage.mac.com/bernardp/Stockhausen/dg2707045b.jpg
(I like this one so much I got a t-shirt made of it)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2001/Aug01/varese.jpg(Kandinsky - I think)
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000005IZS.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg(Roy Liechtenstein)
― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)
Here's the most mathematic Mahler there is...from 78 though.
http://marathonpacks.com/Files/Mahler.jpg
― Eric Harvey (eric marathonpacks), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.iclassics.com/content/assets/selection/4/3029E.jpg
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 12 October 2006 00:57 (nineteen years ago)
VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY
presents
SCRIABIN: KING OF DA KEYS vol. 2
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)
my pick (sorry for crap picture)
http://i6.ebayimg.com/03/i/08/02/b7/22_1.JPG
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)
I've never heard that Lewenthal but it's got the best name (and cover) in just about ever
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)
― monocle (Sean Miguel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)
http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000004263.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― monocle (Sean Miguel), Thursday, 12 October 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim R-J, Monday, 23 April 2007 09:52 (nineteen years ago)
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 April 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/jpegs/66607.jpg
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VTYNC2Y4L._SS500_.jpg
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)
this is a great thread.
this is another DG cover i like:
http://www.andante.com/images/Articles/PolliniSchoenbergCD-204.jpg
― sam500, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)
http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GG4ATM5HL._AA240_.jpg
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.timelessmusic.com/TimeLife/Images/CDs/Greatest%20Collection/classicalthunder.jpg
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.uh.edu/engines/switchedonbach.jpg
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.tommcmahon.net/images/SOBNew2.jpg
sorry.
― mehlt, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)
Blast! Beat me by 39 seconds! Had I only been less picky. . .
― mehlt, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PSTQ5PNDL._SS400_.jpg http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/516W2D4ZGML._SS500_.jpg http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41A6RRJDEHL._SS400_.jpg
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)
http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VBECAEM0L._SS500_.jpg http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R4T0QAVZL._SS500_.jpg http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/319M5NMRAKL._SS500_.jpg
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)
ECM new series always has awesome design/packaing :)
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uxxuJrtDL._SS500_.jpg
(better straight-on and without "4 CD" etc)
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jiH94kG2L._SS400_.jpg
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:09 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/_images/pochettes/913_2279.jpg
― sam500, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)
Wow, that Elektra cover (xpost) almost gives me the horn!
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)
yea, that designer is awesome. judging from the font, i think he's also the guy that did the illustrations for the most recent issue of Krauss' Ring Cycle.
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)
Cover for "The Seasons" is fantastic!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)
you should check out the record, too, if you don't know the music. It's the best Cage collection I've heard / seen available.
― poortheatre, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)
Will do! There are, however, many pretty great collections of his music, I reckon. The 3-CD "25 year retrospective", the "Etude Australes" whose record cover I posted at the top...
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.iclassics.com/content/assets/selection/1/579E.jpg
― me.lack.space, Thursday, 9 August 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)
Is Alex Steinweiss not considered awesome for some reason? Apparently, he's the guy who came up with the idea of "album cover art" and his style seems like the template for every battered 40s/50s classical cover I've ever seen in a thrift store. Those covers never made much of an impression in that context, but the crisp images on this site have definitely got me attention (sorry, don't know how to embed flickr images):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl-incrowd/sets/72157604531858301/
― dad a, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 21:01 (eighteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y3GFJHARL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― kony indie fuxx (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 9 March 2012 21:39 (fourteen years ago)
Dolby Surround so you KNOW it's good...
Is Poortheatre still on ILX under some name? I regret any loss of ppl willing to talk classical on here...
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 9 March 2012 22:09 (fourteen years ago)
I think I have really very different taste in classical album sleeves than most of the ppl posting on this thread
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 9 March 2012 23:31 (fourteen years ago)
Me too. A favourite of mine:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FPpiWNARTt4/R6tgrqN21uI/AAAAAAAADlc/K9Cg2TrXqVs/s400/reflexe.jpg
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Saturday, 10 March 2012 09:50 (fourteen years ago)
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2725754-1298228294.jpeg
― Träumerei, Saturday, 10 March 2012 23:06 (fourteen years ago)
Best of All Time:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cgB8qmjAL._SS500_.jpg
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 11 March 2012 13:17 (fourteen years ago)
Love Brian Sewell at bottom left
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0000/995/MI0000995980.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:21 (twelve years ago)
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/lk/f/l/4b194494f74461c3cbc9fa6205643867/3334298.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:23 (twelve years ago)
http://www.1000recordings.com/images/artist-w/weill-kurt-958-l.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:25 (twelve years ago)
http://p.playme.com/cspv/93-17-06-30-00-MetaPreview-Cover-JPEG256x256/paul-zukofsky/jo-kondo-mulberry.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:26 (twelve years ago)
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/69120062/Halina+Lukomska+87f.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:32 (twelve years ago)
http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/010/699/0001069977_350.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:47 (twelve years ago)
http://www.deccarecords.com/files/2013/07/CM-For-Dogs-300x300.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:51 (twelve years ago)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2190/2413073206_1cbeacd31b.jpg
― squeak and gibber (Eight Model Play), Sunday, 18 August 2013 00:59 (twelve years ago)
that paganini one is ridic
― R'LIAH (goole), Sunday, 18 August 2013 01:17 (twelve years ago)
There was a great piece on classical album art in the psychedelic era on the All Music blog quite a while back.
Of course, the terrible new redesign of the site makes finding old blog posts impossible, so sorry.
― Austin, Sunday, 18 August 2013 02:14 (twelve years ago)
I bought this one because of its cover.
http://i.imgur.com/Fju4axE.jpg
― Ex Slacker, Sunday, 18 August 2013 22:04 (twelve years ago)
Can't decide if this is awesome or awful
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/138/MI0001138360.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 March 2014 04:57 (twelve years ago)
http://fj.pt80.net/data/attachment/forum/201208/06/0841542q10dr0w4r2zq44p.jpg
― millmeister, Monday, 17 March 2014 16:40 (twelve years ago)
i am shocked at how hideous most of these are.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 17 March 2014 19:25 (twelve years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Duf-aEloL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:32 (twelve years ago)
http://www.bruceduffie.com/starker3.jpg
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 03:04 (twelve years ago)
Sorry, having trouble finding one with better res http://i43.tower.com/images/mm106948373/weill-aufstieg-und-fall-der-stadt-mahagonny-lenya-bruckner-ruggeberg-cd-cover-art.jpg
― I Forgot More Than You'll Ever POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 03:31 (twelve years ago)
Always dug this one:http://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/14/13115/full-1024x1024/526dc2b6/rca_lsc-1934.jpeg
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:35 (twelve years ago)
big fan of the "Living Stereo" logo too
Another nice Starker:
http://www.lotusrecords.at/fileadmin/lotus/pics/SR90392LP.jpg
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:37 (twelve years ago)
Starker was pretty photogenic in an Intense Artist kind of way.
The Reiner Bartok is all-time. I also love the cover for his Das Lied Von der Erde.
That era of DG Karajan covers (70s to early 80s) were unremittingly awful but inescapably lol.
― Myth or it didn't happen (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:51 (twelve years ago)
Two favorites:
http://www.popsike.eu/pix/20100221/170449354036.jpg
http://www.ambergreen-classical.co.uk/ekmps/shops/padmagupta/images/stockhausen.-sternklang-.dg-2707-123-2470-p.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 22 March 2014 14:56 (twelve years ago)
http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7064/6815640468_0c2cb69bbf.jpg
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 22 March 2014 16:15 (twelve years ago)
Nonesuch covers from the 60s/70s had a great style, all groovy watercolors and gaudy cartoon drawings.
http://classicvinyl.com/files/IMG_0771.jpghttp://www.schoenberg.at/diskographie/images-n/nones192.jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ro4LYVLHo8w/Tv8dPuexKnI/AAAAAAAAAug/vR2tfZ-OGGU/s1600/LP17796.jpghttp://www.vinylvendors.com/Pictures/a/n/angelicum453564.jpg
― Ari (whenuweremine), Sunday, 23 March 2014 14:23 (twelve years ago)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D_M3EBDZmPI/UUiOaCi8tfI/AAAAAAAABUE/jBkEYUzUnZ0/s1600/untitled.bmp
― Ari (whenuweremine), Sunday, 23 March 2014 14:25 (twelve years ago)
http://store.acousticsounds.com/images/large/XXXX__80164__01272012111603-674.jpg
― no lime tangier, Monday, 23 March 2015 20:22 (eleven years ago)
this is extra extra nerdy but that font looks more like a Decca font than one EMI would use
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 March 2015 20:25 (eleven years ago)
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61PB8QyPWJL.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 06:07 (five years ago)
Wow!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 07:13 (five years ago)
I have a soft spot for the very 1960s designs of the World Record Club. UK/Aus mailorder operation with regional in-house designs for licenced recordings. They're some of the most common sights in charity store bins here and are sometimes more striking than expected.
eg. some of the first few I found online just now
https://images2.imgbox.com/d7/4b/9Y5zlLKz_o.jpg
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:42 (five years ago)
Haha. Meant to embed it but that will do.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 08:44 (five years ago)
the v. williams symph. 9 art reminds me of:
https://img.discogs.com/Ba1Ok9uYQM07aOreWfsmfopUT3Q=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-322191-1487004156-9867.jpeg.jpg
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 20:44 (five years ago)
I bought this box of Shostakovich symphonies purely based on the cover art (and the price at the time). Good thing it rules.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/617556aGV7L.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 26 January 2021 21:18 (five years ago)
It's not the most idiomatic set by any means but it's my favourite Western take on Shosty's symphonies, by far. Even the 14th, with its (imo) ill-advised move away from Russian, is incredible thanks to Julia Varady and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's contributions. And if you like the 14th, it's also worth hearing the Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarotti, which is sometimes called Shostakovich's 16th symphony.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 21:54 (five years ago)
Not entirely sure of the chronology but I guess it's possible that World Record Club and Sonic Youth were BOTH ripping off this series:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/144a4414d773b2673ee9c0f3855d2246/tumblr_p4b9etckY21qk5u0to9_500.jpg
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 03:49 (five years ago)
I still quite like Kairos's CD covers. Variations on a very limited number of themes, I guess, but my eyes often linger...
https://www.kairos-music.com/sites/default/files/cds/0015025KAI_andreyev_webcover.jpghttps://www.kairos-music.com/sites/default/files/cds/0015086KAI_nono_frontcover.jpghttps://images2.imgbox.com/b5/e2/wn6G1quz_o.png
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 04:19 (five years ago)