Cover Connections X: REGIME CHANGE!

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The tenth official Cover Connections thread (I think)....if for no other reason than it's Monday. Have at it, zealots.....

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Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll start with a really obvious one...

http://www.okayplayer.com/images/electric_circusthumb.jpg

http://www.bartfan.com/beatles.jpg

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 January 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

unfair to IX's!

(or are u counting Dave 225's aborted thread?)

anyway, to business!
let's hope 2003 brings no more of this steely blue 'n' white/black/grey chessboard nonsense. enough already!

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f592/f59213xbvry.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e739/e7397599eqg.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f554/f55412bm0s5.jpg

zebedee, Monday, 27 January 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Alternatively:


gi66y, Monday, 27 January 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003CMR.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001G0I.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

GET A J0B ALEX

gi66y, Monday, 27 January 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm at my job, gi66y.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d530/d5301311c2j.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c844/c844275q8o7.jpg

Notice how both dragons seek to clutch the mysterious glowing orb? Makes ya think, don't it?

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 January 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

dude, it's all about baseball, dincha evah read Freud?

Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 27 January 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

LOL!

I'm gonna petition my band to call our next album "Clutch the Mysterious Glowing Orb".

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 January 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex... have you ever thought about making a book out of these? You could so pull it off.

Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, it'd be a lotta work, and a lot of permission would be needed, y'know? This record lable would probably refuse to let their product be displayed on the same page as a product from that label, etc. Moreover, as fun and time-consuming a task as juxtaposing these covers is, compiling it in a book would get real dull real fast. Moreover, someone's probably thought of it already. It reminds me of SPY Magazine's old "Separated at Birth" sidebars.....that were also turned into books.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm that Art G. one also looks rather like this (and I know the Mike R. one is prob disqualified for being a deliberate homage, booo):

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre100/e181/e18161if1ys.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d840/d84080e9kre.jpg

Rayas Blancas, Monday, 27 January 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

The back cover of Billy Joel's THE STRANGER would also fit nicely in with this particular bunch (moody black'n'white shots of folks at a restaurant table).

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, you know, if all else fails you should try it! I mean, I got this book on record covers a few years ago and they apparantly didn't have too much trouble getting permission for like 150 ones (and with record labels being owned by large media conglomerates). Anyway, I'm always impressed when I can come up with ONE that works.

Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

That one has so been done before hasn't it?

Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks for the encouragment, Aaron. I don't think they'd mind just showing the album covers, but in the context of playing them off each other is what might put certain labels off. In other words, say we wanted to compare this compilation, HYSTERIE by the inimitably potty-mouthed Lydia Lunch,.....

http://ebay2.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_991c62d8e4bd69c5dc7f81b8c8054287/i-1.JPG

....with this ancient album by Rod Stewart....

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc100/c131/c131292aivc.jpg


Mercury Records and CD Presents (the two labels involved) might take furious exception to their works being presented together.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmmmm... yeah... you'd hope they'd all have a good sense of humor though! But if Kramer can get a coffetable book about coffetables made, then surely you can pull this one off!

Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Chances are, they'd just be happy to have their products displayed.

Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 27 January 2003 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Especially some of the obscure stuff in these threads.

Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 27 January 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

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Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 January 2003 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

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Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 January 2003 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh you too quik JBR
http://sharifi.org/album_images/146.jpg

Someone please ell me there is not a band called "Fudge Tunnel".

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 January 2003 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

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Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 January 2003 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

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Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 30 January 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

b-b-but there's no cat in the second one!!

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 January 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

There is indeed a band called Fudge Tunnel......and they RAWK! Their covers of both "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream and "Cat Scratch Fever" are magnifique!

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 January 2003 00:10 (twenty-three years ago)

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Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 31 January 2003 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

that one right there may just very well be my finest, proudest hour.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 January 2003 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate the fact that these pages gradually take longer and longer to load each time.

Why don't why cull all this crap in a book and collectively credit it to the efforts ILM as a whole?

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 February 2003 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

That way Alex won't be the only one stuck paying the colossal settlement.

Leee (Leee), Sunday, 2 February 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

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Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 February 2003 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H5R.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007O5K.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

this is just a test to see if the HTML problem has sorted itself out.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 February 2003 00:56 (twenty-three years ago)

And apparently it has.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 February 2003 00:56 (twenty-three years ago)

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http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004T8ZB.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Friday, 7 February 2003 03:51 (twenty-three years ago)

that Carole King sleeve up there looks a bit like Ned

electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 7 February 2003 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmmm....not really actually.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 February 2003 03:09 (twenty-three years ago)

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Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 8 February 2003 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

er, the second one is http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf700/f710/f71068feyik.jpg

Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 8 February 2003 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

actually, this one's probably better: http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c928/c9288458dwf.jpg

Curtis Stephens, Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Also...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f131/f13160qsgd7.jpg and http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c658/c65820l2v6p.jpg

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 9 February 2003 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d509/d509541r7eh.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c056/c05684ppck0.jpg

......if you tilt the FUNHOUSE album to one side, so that the backdrop pic of Ig's grimacing mug is upright.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 February 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Gotta say, I still love that Ride album (GOING BLANK AGAIN), but really.....what an utterly SHIT cover it has!

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 February 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

that Carole King sleeve up there looks a bit like Ned

*weeps*

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 09:02 (twenty-three years ago)

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Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

(It's the last of the 3 Mccallum sleeves i had in mind obviously - I can only find a pic of it tied to the other two. But perhaps someone else can find pairings for the other two?)
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ghost, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

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Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 February 2003 06:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh shit, that was meant for this thread..... Album Covers with Hearts on'em

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 February 2003 06:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Now that was unexpectedly large.

Curtis Stephens, Friday, 14 February 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

*tries again*

http://www.heavenly100.com/img/covers/hvn/hvn160/hvn41_160.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d671/d67150g07h3.jpg

Curtis Stephens, Friday, 14 February 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e796/e79686ds8yd.jpg

Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 15 February 2003 06:05 (twenty-three years ago)

DOH! Let's try that again:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e796/e79686ds8yd.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd400/d405/d405788ef04.jpg

Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 15 February 2003 06:06 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...
Holy shit! I just saw this thread for the first time. Weird 'cuz I've seen a bunch of the cover connections series but I don't think I'd ever seen this one. Man, that's why this place rocks so hard. Alex in NYC was en fuego on this thread, JBR too, and everyone else. Book!

Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)


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