British stamps to celebrate classic album cover design

http://www.norphil.co.uk/2010/01-album_covers_stamps.htm

Leaving aside music considerations, which of these will work best as a stamp?

Screamadelica seems to stand out the most at that size

Unknown Pleasures might have looked cool

im sure some british artists wouldnt mind this sort of coverage.

artists as in painters etc

The Division Bell has a horrible cover, which was anachronistically old-fashioned when it came out in 1987. Led Zep 4 is designed as a gatefold. It seems a bit weird to honour a design classic by shrinking it to a fraction of the size then discarding half the image.

"Cake by Delia Smith" is a cool credit though.

Tubular Bells...in stamp form!

Power, Corruption and Lies looks best methinks.

Should I bitch for the inclusion of Coldplay? Both the album and the artwork aren't particulary special imho.

when it came out in 1987+7

Coldplay are only included for the thickies

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kS_-n7aFyyA/Sr_r3o1KaDI/AAAAAAAAAH8/hSoMjcg1jW4/s400/Sex_Pistols_-_God_Save_the_Queen.jpg

^lol. And then lol again.

No White Album?

Ziggy Stardust looks worst small.

I agree that Ziggy Stardust looks crap. Couldn't they have chosen Low or Station To Station or, well, most of the others?

Although it's a bit of a pain to see the likes of Coldplay honoured in this way, think of how much worse this selection could've been.

Nice to see Peter Saville get some recognition.

Out to-day!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8444156.stm

Why have they made them look like actual record sleeves, i.e. with some vinyl sticking out the side? I think just the pic would have been best. Also (as someone has said already) the Pink Floyd choice is very odd.

For those who can't be bothered to click the article at the top.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47046000/jpg/_47046425_albumcovers466.jpg

think bowie becomes only the second living non-royal to appear on a british stamp

Paul Simonon not dead AFAIK

duh, always thought that was strummer

(not a clash fan)

Anyone know if the man carrying the sticks is dead?

i believe he is on the stairway to heaven

that's the floyd cover they choose? There's nothing more iconic than that one?

yeah, that's ridiculous, you can say what you like about Dark Side (and many here will) but you can't argue with the iconic status of its cover

There must be some reason, meaning legal or bureaucratic shenanigans behind the scenes, I presume. I can't imagine that would really be the first choice.

I think that "Living Non-Royal" thing is wayyy over by now?

(e.g. the Beatles' series, and so on)

ya rly dark side and wywh *just a little* more iconic.

clash choice is odd, in that it's a pastiche.

same w. new order, rly.

they ought to do 'country life'

can't believe they couldn't find a copy of London Calling without ringwear on it for their shtoopid stamps

1) True
2) Not really, just the lettering
3) PSav complained that the back of the sleeve was intrinsic, now it's just some 'nice flowers'
4) people b lickin the one edge tho.

It's also missing the "Pay no more than" sticker. (xpost)

pcl looks most stamp like but the inside/back diskette cover would have been more iconic

quite like the tubular bells one

as much as i fucking loath blur their album art always did look like exerts from the great big book of british nostalbia stamp collection so it's appropriate

don't recognise the first two at all so not as iconic as they reckon

would it have killed them to do one (or more!) lp by a non-all-white-males act?

poor gillian gilbert

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/240/0000024056_350.jpg

could sub for pink floyd

gillian was a man who used a woman's name -- sike.

gillian gilbert looks like a girl who knows her way around a 303

http://www.rouladeunlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/neworderpumpedfullofdrugs.gif

^^^^^^^^^^^^had such a crush on her when i were a lad

I met her once, she's nice. As you'd expect.