Vintage seventies (or sixties and eighties) magazine ads for albums

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buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:50 (fifteen years ago)

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/aparsonseye.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:54 (fifteen years ago)

They are at the summit of international rock:

buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:55 (fifteen years ago)

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/20100320-Daredevil38-Zappa.jpg

Ran in Marvel Comics titles in 1968.

Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

Wish I could find a large enough scan of the disingenuous Columbia Records classic "The Man Can't Bust Our Music"

The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Sunday, 17 October 2010 17:14 (fifteen years ago)

You cut off the best part of the Alan Parsons ad:

They are at the summit of international rock: NOT!

Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:40 (fifteen years ago)

Here's a nifty Jobriath ad:

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/42/l_ea0ddec4a1fa4ec3bbb81e4c2bc936a0.jpg

Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:42 (fifteen years ago)

I remember seeing this:
http://www.indevelopment.org/2002/classicads/zappa250.jpg

...in one of my cousin's old Marvel comics when I was quite young and being totally mystified as to what it was advertising. Little did I know one day it would be one of my favourite albums.

A brownish area with points (chap), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:49 (fifteen years ago)

I posted that one upthread.

Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:54 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry, doesn't show up for me.

A brownish area with points (chap), Sunday, 17 October 2010 18:55 (fifteen years ago)

That Pretzel Logic ad with the giant cartoon guy is so great!

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.superseventies.com/oaaa/oaaa_ramones.jpg

There's a two-page version of this where they mixed horrified reviews in with all the raves.

clemenza, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)

That Pretzel Logic ad with the giant cartoon guy is so great!

I think that guy is supposed to be popular Britishes comicbook character "Desperate Dan". Which is a groovy joke.

3 saucers of synthesizer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:18 (fifteen years ago)

giant cartoon guy is Desperate Dan!

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

The Jobriath ad is the same photo that's used for the album's gatefold sleeve. Apparently he wasn't happy about the statue arse as he thought his own looked better.

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:22 (fifteen years ago)

http://posterscene.com/images/items/full/vandyke1.jpg

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)

I heard those ads made Van Dyke Parks really sad and upset.

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:23 (fifteen years ago)

dammit :-(

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

I don't remember if that's true or something I made up.

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:26 (fifteen years ago)

Well I guess that the counter argument is "You lost $35 thousand on an album that got rave reviews? Maybe you should have promoted it a bit more."

Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

http://vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/overad.jpg

margana (anagram), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

love just how much that is basically a vw ad refashioned for van dyke parks.

balls, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y201/ekkostar/R063r7%20P41m3r/everykinda-ad.jpg

Shouldn't "Vinyl Erotica" apply to the whole Double Fun album, though?

I've played polar pool for far too long (MintIce), Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

my all time fave image of laura paired w the most idiotic tag line ever (pl excuse the watermark):

http://posterscene.com/images/items/full/lauranewind1.jpg

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 17 October 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)

Van Dyke Parks ad is total classic. There's something about the tone that's so of its time.

The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnH-OStDJKI/AAAAAAAAA2w/Xw-OPFDTtf4/s800/nicklowead.jpg

bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnH-NStDJII/AAAAAAAAA2g/cDU-CdLU_Bo/s800/devoad.jpg

bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:49 (fifteen years ago)

http://bp0.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIKLStDJVI/AAAAAAAAA4I/z6t2ZO5tUts/s800/costellomodelad.jpg

bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

http://bp2.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIIfytDJRI/AAAAAAAAA3o/dLrkV7hGX6s/s400/cheaptrickad_1.jpg

bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

http://bp0.blogger.com/_thlFYTjJbmQ/RnIGrStDJPI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/ZXquYHSLd2o/s640/johansenad_1.jpg

bad boy for life (m coleman), Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:52 (fifteen years ago)

The thing that blows my mind about these, and a lot of magazine ads from the '70s, is how *text heavy* they are. I think magazine ads have been all about "tldr" my whole life. Just pics of sexy people and two or three words now.

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:13 (fifteen years ago)

all that text gets me all swoony tbh

guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:22 (fifteen years ago)

Dude, dude, dude, me too. Ok, I started smoking when I was 23, when any doc will tell you smoking almost never starts after teen years. Do you want to know why? I got all these '70s Playboys at an estate sale, and every other ad is for cigarettes, of course, full of loving, seductive paragraphs about how cigarettes are the most delicious, essential, amazing things ever. It was all that text that got me!

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

For an alternate approach, maybe somebody can post the ad for Costello's Imperial Bedroom (not having any luck finding it). I think it had a single word: "Masterpiece?"

clemenza, Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:28 (fifteen years ago)

we've come a long way. the xx album simply had one letter (X) on it's adverts. no text, no WORDS at all!

piscesx, Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:29 (fifteen years ago)

The thing that blows my mind about these, and a lot of magazine ads from the '70s, is how *text heavy* they are. I think magazine ads have been all about "tldr" my whole life. Just pics of sexy people and two or three words now.

That comes from the VW Beetle ads; a picture of the item and loads of text about the technical merits of said item.

Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 17 October 2010 22:32 (fifteen years ago)

Ok, I started smoking when I was 23, when any doc will tell you smoking almost never starts after teen years. Do you want to know why? I got all these '70s Playboys at an estate sale, and every other ad is for cigarettes, of course, full of loving, seductive paragraphs about how cigarettes are the most delicious, essential, amazing things ever. It was all that text that got me!

Abb if you weren't already married I wd propose to you for this <3

cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Sunday, 17 October 2010 23:05 (fifteen years ago)

For what it's worth, we believe that 'OVER' represents something of a milestone. On it Peter Hammill has managed to write down and interpret musically a description of love from a man's viewpoint...

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:10 (fifteen years ago)

also love the description of the ramones as occupying space, "in the dark netherworld between Herman's Hermits and ZZ Top..."

naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

Yes that made me lol as well.

cathedral-sized jellyfish in your mind (Trayce), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:14 (fifteen years ago)

Almost as funny if you're the Ramones' accountant: "Punk with commercial potential."

clemenza, Monday, 18 October 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

http://images.jambase.com/merch/Doors%20-%20DVD.jpg

bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)

http://thimk.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/pete-rock-and-cl-ad.jpg?w=500&h=646

bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)

x-post

didn't look closely at that one - solly

bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 00:59 (fifteen years ago)

I started smoking at 23, and am glad Columbia's "Masterpiece?" ad for Imperial Bedroom was no influence.

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:03 (fifteen years ago)

not an LP ad but in the "ballpark"

http://buzzardbook.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/wmms-archives-print-ads-articles-1975-125.jpg

bad boy for life (m coleman), Monday, 18 October 2010 01:06 (fifteen years ago)

Ha, they never have shows at Page Hall anymore.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 February 2015 23:18 (ten years ago)

Thread of missing Andrew Garlack.

Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 February 2015 02:51 (ten years ago)

https://lh3.ggpht.com/-Nm4a3rMzclQ/Ub70zUqk-pI/AAAAAAAAHSA/wxDlX0pyqJY/s1600/Spooky+Tooth+Ad.jpg
found

Up the Junction Boulevard (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 February 2015 02:57 (ten years ago)

Better by you, Birds Eye for me

rabatment of the rectangle (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:33 (ten years ago)

three months pass...

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_day_the_music_died_vintage_ads_of_pop_stars_selling_shit

Man, that Sam Cooke cigarette ad!

Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 18:28 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/FOInDbe.jpg

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:59 (ten years ago)

eight months pass...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ks7xKgld8CU/U43-nxQGguI/AAAAAAAACr0/pQgs4qA2IH0/s1600/Psychedelic+Sounds+UK+1967+Advertise.jpg

Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 21:43 (nine years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91PX6OdmZ3L.jpg

Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 21:52 (nine years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BNP90JOg4yU/Sn72eecy1CI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/9QoT8oFgvic/s1600/Magma+Kohntarkosz+Ad.jpg

Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:00 (nine years ago)

http://41.media.tumblr.com/709c33f57925bca8bba3feec95d747f0/tumblr_nyut3xbI9p1st208eo1_1280.png

Sadistic Mika Band

soref, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:15 (nine years ago)

Love this thread so much.

Retro novelty punk (Dan Peterson), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:18 (nine years ago)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/22/fc/ea/22fceab3b8e6cf02798e18cac97740ab.jpg

Deaf School

soref, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:19 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/y02oTFB.jpg

Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:21 (nine years ago)

not and advert for an album, but this feels like it belongs here

http://deafschoolmusic.com/communities/6/004/006/950/146/images/4614357589.swf

soref, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:21 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/8AFsOtj.jpg

Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:22 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/nur9bw3.jpg

Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:30 (nine years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/JmpjqNO.jpg

Thomas of Britain (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:36 (nine years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PrXcB-fKmJ8/T4ieocynAoI/AAAAAAAABco/RXTvlQ-M5VY/s1600/fugs3+-+Copy.jpg

no lime tangier, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:55 (nine years ago)

https://sonicmoremusic.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/queen-is-dead-ad.jpg

soref, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 21:52 (nine years ago)

omg wow

shandemonium padawan (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 3 March 2016 13:59 (nine years ago)

It Isn't Punk. It's Punxy.
It Isn't Folk. It's Folxy.
It Isn't Funk. It's Funxy.
It Isn't Baroque. It's Baroxy.
It Isn't Goth. It's Gotshy.
It Isn't Avant-Garde. It's Avantsy-Gardsy.

Tuomas, Friday, 11 March 2016 10:25 (nine years ago)

Also, didn't know Roxymusic had four guitarists (or five, depending what instrument the guy in the lower right corner has) but no drummer?

Tuomas, Friday, 11 March 2016 11:33 (nine years ago)

You were doing so well too, Tuomas.

A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Friday, 11 March 2016 11:57 (nine years ago)

ten months pass...

Not an ad for an album but

http://i.imgur.com/vs6N87E.jpg

pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 03:03 (eight years ago)

Awesome!

Anthology of Literature's Finest Penis Descriptions (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 05:18 (eight years ago)

yes that is too cool

niels, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 07:20 (eight years ago)

love that wood panneling

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 12:18 (eight years ago)

omg, that looks like heaven.

how's life, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 13:49 (eight years ago)

And when they're not recording albums, the light would have been just right to stage some photos for a fondue cookbook or something.

how's life, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 13:52 (eight years ago)

I browsed through a few of those old photos and kept seeing rock walls in the studios. Wouldn't rock be the most bouncy surface for echoes?

http://i.imgur.com/AlTdmV7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/PaVtlDv.jpg

pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 14:13 (eight years ago)

Hmmm, I'm not an acoustics person but I guess I'd depend on how porous a stone you specify...

stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 14:16 (eight years ago)

Hell, I've known studio guys who'd freak out over that pane of glass (called a mirror) suspended over the board like that.

pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 14:17 (eight years ago)

man that's just how they get the rock on record

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 2 February 2017 01:52 (eight years ago)

See? Even this studio had one.

http://i.imgur.com/1gCv9sG.jpg

pplains, Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:05 (eight years ago)

that CAN ad!

PURE, BEAUTIFUL OIL (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:11 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/yhKzDSx.jpg

new noise, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:59 (eight years ago)

seven months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/UlPp2SH.jpg

jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:10 (eight years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/3UCkNYC.jpg

jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:31 (eight years ago)

Motown??

"Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:55 (eight years ago)

1974 was a strange year!

but also this:

Gull was a British record label founded in 1974. Owned by Gull Entertainments Ltd., it was associated with Morgan Sound Studio, and was distributed by both Pye Records and Decca Records.[1] It was also distributed by Motown in the USA. Major bands on its books included Judas Priest, IF, Steve Ashley, Seventh Wave and Isotope

jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 21:06 (eight years ago)

woah!

"Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 23:15 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26814480_10155921900083614_1522997336551181662_n.jpg?oh=aaeab9178a6b6490ad1b8bc688832a00&oe=5AFC720F

Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:46 (seven years ago)

six years pass...

On this day in 1969 10/10/69 pic.twitter.com/LhDcnDILgJ

— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) October 11, 2024

bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Friday, 11 October 2024 23:13 (one year ago)

🤔

Litso Mystic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 October 2024 00:17 (one year ago)

... meaning it smoked both Abbey Road and Tommy (Let It Bleed not yet released--dropped in December).

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 October 2024 01:00 (one year ago)

Think about the fact that Rolling Stone was right about something

Josefa, Saturday, 12 October 2024 03:48 (one year ago)

... meaning it smoked both Abbey Road and Tommy (Let It Bleed not yet released--dropped in December).


Kind of agree tbh (Let It Bleed might’ve been better tho)

Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Saturday, 12 October 2024 08:09 (one year ago)


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