Albums that get reissued in godawful alternative sleeves..

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G0egtZjppOs/UBdr4aMooXI/AAAAAAAABkM/d5yeGUvriS4/s1600/len+bright+combo.recto.jpg
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XpKEhl9ohw0/0.jpg
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0003/674/MI0003674390.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Which one of those is the godawful one? They all look pretty ugly to me.

The original Miles Ahead yacht sleeve would have totally worked if you opened out the gatefold and Miles was racing off into the distance on a jet ski

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 23:16 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That would be "Miles Off"

Not sure which is earlier, or if it's a different countries thing, but I had the white one and never saw the space one until many years later.

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

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_O0wk-qJQm6U/TLNg6IIrV0I/AAAAAAAAC7Y/wZ7yV0cUfFg/king_crimson-islands-front-8x6.jpg?imgmax=800

there are a few different shots for Wish You Were Here also, with the burning guy in different positions.

I prefer the white cover of Islands, which is not the original nor a version I ever owned.

We should make lol white people covers for other classic Miles records. Like you could do "Cookin'" with a very pompous, cartoonish french chef on the cover

In A Silent Way with a shushing librarian

Get Up With It is like a farmer rise-and-shining next to a rooster

Jack Johnson with Jack Johnson

No, Hurting, I'm sorry, I can't do this.

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

band of gypsys cover with puppets of john peel and robert wyatt:

http://s2.photobucket.com/user/mckendrick/media/BandOfGypsysFront.jpg.html

my favourite miles' record, the broth of the collie

I love those puppets but Billy Cox and Buddy Miles are not even two white people, let alone three

I remember liking the Blood and Fire reissue art at the time, but now it seems so pointless.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Congos.jpg http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/055/MI0002055222.jpg

http://bobmarleyconcerts.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/279.jpg http://www.ebreggae.com/reggae-images/front/Vinyl/132744/USED-ITEM-Keith-Hudson-Pick-A-Dub-ORIGINAL-PRESS.jpg

wk hits the nail.

i love the b&f reissues ..

but hey, just put the proper cover art on them ..

(never seen the original pick a dub original before, ta !)

that pick a dub reissue cover is another example of "more dated than the original" imo

I kind of like the Heart of the Congos cover though, honestly never knew it wasn't the original or gave it much thought, and the original is kind of a crappy photo.

..and the original is kind of a crappy photo.

which epitomises the whole albums groove perfectly as opposed to a revised 90s art house re-jig.

Yeah I mean, those B&F covers are pretty great! They looked good at the time and still hold up pretty well, but in the long run they're going to end up looking really dated to a particular place and time that has nothing to do with the actual music. They probably helped sell a lot of CDs though.

I'm not sure if the red and green pick a dub cover is original. The little inset version on the b&f cover is the black and white version, so maybe that came first?

This isn't godawful and it's technically not even a reissue (it's just the Spanish version of the cover released at the same time as the rest of the world got the zipper cover). But anyone who hasn't seen it before should.

http://i.imgur.com/x2OQDhg.jpg

i was pretty excited when rvng announced they would reissue Harald Grosskopf's Synthesist. For some reason they took one of the best covers ever and made it boring.

mizzell, Wednesday, November 19, 2014

This got reissued again a couple of months ago with the original artwork. I picked it up straight away.