i can confirm that i recall being grossed out by the cactus cover once before. ugh.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 14:25 (five years ago) link
Ott'n'Sweaty
― Jacob Lohl (stevie), Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
Saw this one in the wild the other day, can't remember if it's already been posted:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/814nXLm0l4L._SX355_.jpg"I Didn't Know They Still Made Records Like This" - of course it's a Warners Loss Leader for the win.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 23 November 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
I posted that one once - I remember struggling to find images of it after seeing it in the bin.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 23 November 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
I’d never heard of the Loss Leaders series... great mail-order copy here (now I see where labels like Matador got some of their schtick): https://www.discogs.com/label/41348-Loss-Leaders
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Friday, 23 November 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
This cover art concept is great (if you get the reference); and the track list looks terrific: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Whole-Burbank-Catalog/master/321050What’s the final song?!
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Friday, 23 November 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
Warner was cool, man
Also found on some were humorous, bizarre interstitial audio material—clips from old records and movies, short skits, found sound, etc.--and most albums featured clever, humorous cover art and liner notes. Most of the 1970s albums were compiled and annotated by Barry Hansen, better known as Dr. Demento.
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Friday, 23 November 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
I don't get the reference on that Whole Burbank Catalog but the tracklist is kind of amazing
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 November 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/larger.jpg
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 November 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
Ahh not familiar
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 November 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it was a staple of (post-)hippie culture; my dad had a bunch of editions on his shelf when I was growing up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog
― my guitar friend wants his money (morrisp), Saturday, 24 November 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9N0g_PJ1kU/T-xNazntTxI/AAAAAAAACcI/xyFRYWe0Sqo/s400/Album+cover+Johnny+Carroll.jpg
Johnny Carroll – Do You Want To Touch Me
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71B8WdN2jsL._SL1280_.jpg
Maxwell Plumm – We Can Work It Out
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71kGHLHYkiL._SY355_.jpg
Detective - It Takes One To Know One
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
xpost I assume that's named for a cover of the Beatles song, which I admit is a pretty lame way to title your album. Looking them up, they apparently have one named.... "A Taste of Plumm."
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
I kind of doubt that they can work it out tbh, just based on the photo
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
Bevis Frond keepin' the dream alive...
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0014336001_10.jpg
We're Your Friends, Man
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
is that Johnny Carroll a private press? it's pretty great (as far as this thread goes obv)
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
not exactly a private press but on a tiny independent that only had about twenty releases. there was a follow up to that album, perhaps inevitably called 'Touch Me Again'...
https://i.ibb.co/XXX0Q9t/touchmeagain.jpg
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Irish? Or Scottish?
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
brummie of unknown ancestory, assume it's mostly straight simian tbh
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
Orang O'Tan
― It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christ (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link
now sold as a twofer "Touch Me Again/I'll Fuckin Kill Ya"
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
b/w Jeannie Sealy's "Don't Touch Me"
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
this is the rear of the first sylvester album (yes, that sylvester). does it mean what i think it means?
https://i.ibb.co/sv7HLZL/IMG-E1471.jpg
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
idgi(?)
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
(just putting that here because you would be the people to ask - i don't think it's horrible btw)
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
s.o.m.f. = sat on my face?
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
haha, is that a known abbreviation(?) what's that a photo/depiction of, anyway?
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
idgi either
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
amyl nitrate i guess
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
oh shit, that's not the first sylvester apparently. first one has versions of southern man and a whiter shade of pale on it, kind of want to hear that now
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
This is from Joshua Gamson’s Sylvester biography. Fwiw, he places it in the context of the growing acrimony between Sylvester and his band:
“Sylvester does not appear on the back of the Bazaar album cover. Instead, there are pictures of the band members, and beneath them their own cryptic inside joke: “Why is the Hot Band smiling? Because they have S.O.M.F.” (“S.O.M.F.” was Hot Band code for Sit on my Face.) On the front is a photo of Sylvester, with long flowing hair, turquoise Indian jewelry, and light makeup. He is not smiling.”
(I tried and failed to upload a photo of the book page with the quote)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 14 December 2018 09:29 (five years ago) link
ah thanks bc! so somf in the sense that they've taken advantage of sylvester perhaps? but then the amyl makes no sense
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Friday, 14 December 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link
It does if “sit on my face” is in the context of eating ass though
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 14 December 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/h7DT3bhBax5pVeONJFBvIDf4daA=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3282069-1509105025-4066.jpeg.jpg
has this one been done yet?
― Bênoit Balls (stevie), Monday, 24 December 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link
i don't think so!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 December 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
Picked up this Loss Leader yesterday...
http://vinylbeat.com/images/gallery/PromoWBcomps/Pro-591---Deep-Ear.jpg
Deep Ear
You really don't want to see the rest of the cover.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 December 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
What’s the final song?!
I just got a copy of this one a few weeks ago and the answer is a stereo recording of a train going though a crossing.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 December 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
groovy, lol... looks like a cool album to own, I may seek out a copy.
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 24 December 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
Is the waiter unashamedly checking out Freda Payne's ass on that cover?
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 29 December 2018 06:50 (five years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/neeawK7rW3ROBLhraeWlGWd31X4=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3328535-1437560601-5794.jpeg.jpg
Roy Clark & Buck Trent: A Pair of Fives (Banjos, That Is)
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 03:46 (five years ago) link
I saw so many of these at the record store yesterday, not sure if any of them have cropped up here before but
Mark Farner Band "No Frills"https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fecx.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F51gpZ4JJt9L._SL500_AA240_.jpg&f=1
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
Grisso posted "No Frills" this past summer; I somehow failed to notice how much it reminded me of this exchange concerning Leo Sayer's "Endless Flight":
"Endless Flight" should be a picture of him looking at his watch on a commercial airplane― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, August 4, 2014 4:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkPassenger next to him is either (a) a buxom, eyelash-batting rocker babe, with Sayer mugging wild-eyed ("can you believe my luck, with this flight being endless and all?") or (b) a yakking grandma, shoving unwanted family photo album into Leo's lap (with other distractions surrounding: shrieking baby, record execs, cigar-smoking mustachioed old money type, etc). However, if photo is really cheap, everyone can just be quietly perusing an in-flight magazine.― Doctor Casino, Monday, August 4, 2014 5:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI feel like there might also be a bell-shaped tourist in an xxxl Hawaiian shirt, his gut spilling over the armrest onto Leo― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, August 4, 2014 7:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink...with an implausibly large sandwich, also spilling its guts.― Doctor Casino, Monday, August 4, 2014 7:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, August 4, 2014 4:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Passenger next to him is either (a) a buxom, eyelash-batting rocker babe, with Sayer mugging wild-eyed ("can you believe my luck, with this flight being endless and all?") or (b) a yakking grandma, shoving unwanted family photo album into Leo's lap (with other distractions surrounding: shrieking baby, record execs, cigar-smoking mustachioed old money type, etc). However, if photo is really cheap, everyone can just be quietly perusing an in-flight magazine.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, August 4, 2014 5:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I feel like there might also be a bell-shaped tourist in an xxxl Hawaiian shirt, his gut spilling over the armrest onto Leo
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Monday, August 4, 2014 7:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
...with an implausibly large sandwich, also spilling its guts.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, August 4, 2014 7:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
here's a bigger image for the occasion:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/281858623131-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
Excellent.
― Never Turn Your Back On Virginia Woolf (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
ah thx, sorry for the repeat post! I was just flipping through the bins and saw it and lol'd
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
that's actually a good cover
― Number None, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
epitomizes the "just rock 'n' rolling over here" ethos.
― visiting, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
I like how he's using his guitar as a table/tray.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
BRB recording my mid-career slump record "Basic Economy"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 21:40 (five years ago) link