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12-28-2012, 06:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Palm Coast, FL | | | Favorite Vinyl Album Art
With vinyl making a comeback, for those of you who remember, what were your favorite vinyl album covers?
Here's mine:
Depeche Mode- A Broken Frame
Yes- Fly From Here
Billy Joel- Streetlife Serenade
Boston- Don't Look Back
Led Zeppelin- In Through the Out Door
Beatles- Revolver
Rolling Stones- Some Girls
Jimi Hendrix Experience- Bold as Axis
Slash- Slash
Talking Heads- Little Creatures
Journey- Escape
Asia- Alpha
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12-28-2012, 07:00 PM
|  | Non Serviam | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Schenectady NY | | | Cal Schenkel's designs for Zappa. Especially Burnt Weenie Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
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12-28-2012, 07:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Indianapolis | | | Original pressing of electric ladyland by Jimi Hendrix
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12-28-2012, 07:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: LaGrange, Georgia | | | Always liked the Yes Albums.
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12-28-2012, 07:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: 404 / 804 / 202 / 610 / 212 | | Ohio Players - Fire, Honey, Skin Tight, Ouch!, Pleasure, Ol' School... you get the idea  http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...+art&FORM=IGRE
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12-28-2012, 07:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Danville, Illinois | | I love the intricate scenes on the Rudimentary Peni LP covers. These were hand drawn in pen and ink. The amount of detail involved is incredible.
Here's the "Death Church" cover: http://rintoulvinyl.s3.amazonaws.com/DSC_0946.JPG |
12-28-2012, 07:20 PM
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12-28-2012, 07:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Las Cruces, NM | | | The first Black Sabbath album and Queen's News of the World are two of my favorites.
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12-28-2012, 07:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Purple Mountain Majesties | | Great album jacket art, photos, and text are what I really miss about the golden age of vinyl. With the cassette and CD, it all got too small to enjoy, and with the digital download, it all but disappeared.
Here are the first two that came to mind.  
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12-28-2012, 07:32 PM
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12-28-2012, 07:36 PM
| | | I'm a little partial to this one...
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12-28-2012, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by repoman  I'm a little partial to this one... | pablo picasso was never called an *******
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12-28-2012, 07:45 PM
|  | Dangerous User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Fort Wayne, IN | | | For me it will always be Roxy Music's Country Life.
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Talk about unforgettable.
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12-28-2012, 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by bluestarbass Original pressing of electric ladyland by Jimi Hendrix | Quote:
Originally Posted by mellowinman For me it will always be Roxy Music's Country Life.
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Talk about unforgettable. | Guys... |
12-28-2012, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by basscooker pablo picasso was never called an ******* | ...this album (movie) has an insane punk sound track!
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12-28-2012, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by colcifer Guys... | hey, no one mentioned Blind Faith's one and only album....now that would deserve a "guys"....
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12-28-2012, 07:59 PM
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Blues For Allah
Point of Know Return
Powerslave
Revolver
The Joker
Bitches Brew
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12-28-2012, 08:01 PM
| | Dangerous User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Fort Wayne, IN | | | Blind Faith's album had a too-young looking girl, and was more "strange" than "sexy." The original "Electric Ladyland" cover was not approved by the artist, Jimi Hendrix, and it is silly.
"Country Life" was legitimately sexy, and was actual art. It is one of my all time favorite album covers, along with some of the Hipgnosis covers for Pink Floyd, and all the other great covers from back when album art was a big deal.
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12-28-2012, 08:06 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | I love all things Yes. Close To The Edge gets my vote. And the one with the cats too.
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12-28-2012, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by mellowinman Blind Faith's album had a too-young looking girl, and was more "strange" than "sexy." | whose saying it was sexy...geesh....now, talk about The Cars CandyO ... 
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