― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:40 (twenty years ago) link
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f182/f182747607k.jpg
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 29 May 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 29 May 2003 01:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
http://franklarosa.com/ThumbnailServlet?image=/vinyl/BigImg/vp.jpg&width=350&smooth=1
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Roman (Roman), Thursday, 29 May 2003 02:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Roman (Roman), Thursday, 29 May 2003 03:01 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 29 May 2003 03:20 (twenty years ago) link
some editions of the vinyl release came with a 24" x 36" poster of it! also one of the videos from that album has him crawling around a bit in his fabulous turtle guise... i think "me singing" or "laughing boy."
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
this one is after:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre700/e772/e77290tlfau.jpg
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 29 May 2003 05:20 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 29 May 2003 05:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 May 2003 09:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex K (Alex K), Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:12 (twenty years ago) link
Also, every single one of the Cranberries album covers are just appalling.
Love Kate Bush as I do, most of her album covers are pretty ropey, too, especially the big-hair-horror that is The Dreaming.
― russ t, Thursday, 29 May 2003 10:19 (twenty years ago) link
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f368/f36801ig9ta.jpg
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 29 May 2003 12:12 (twenty years ago) link
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link
― russ t, Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
Uhh uh . Those are nice. Especially Yes' DRAMA, where he was starting to move into a more streamlined use of form, a la Nagel (dig the panthers on the cover). I could live in a Dean landscape. And sometimes I do!
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 29 May 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
Russ, if you see the upcoming "Run, Ronnie Run", the Mr. Show flick which is gunna get released on DVD, all will be explained.
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link
Cheers Kingfish.... is the flag a negative thing, then?
― russ t, Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
(ladies, it's a gatefold.)
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
I've never understood the Sleater-Kinny All hands on the bad one cover. What the hell is going on there?
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 29 May 2003 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
heh, and what does that mean?
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― "the Management" (vassifer), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 29 May 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link
― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
I wish I could find a pic of Mitchell's "Dog Eat Dog", which features a truly hideous painting of the artist as a dog woman.
― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 29 May 2003 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 29 May 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 29 May 2003 19:38 (twenty years ago) link
hehe b-but that's not what i meant!
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:19 (twenty years ago) link
The cover's so brown. Such an ugly brown! It's probabaly the dingiest cover of the Eighties.
(Incidently, this was the first rock record I ever bought.)
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 May 2003 01:05 (twenty years ago) link
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 30 May 2003 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
― el maury, Friday, 30 May 2003 02:20 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.spirit-of-rock.com/les%20goupes/V/Van%20Der%20Graaf%20Generator/Reflection%20Van%20der%20Graaf%20Generator/Reflection%20Van%20der%20Graaf%20Generator.jpg
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
xp guessing that's nora in front of her casa.
― sleepingsignal, Monday, 31 March 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
it looks dark in there
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Monday, 31 March 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
I think it's one of the most awkward record covers I have ever seen, on many different levels
The first song here “Changüí en la Casa de Nora” is how the changüí was traditionally played before Elio Revé, Sr. migrated to Havana in 1955. Nora was born in the same place as Revé, Sr. and maintains her home there where the jam sessions still take place. After hours of musicians playing and the country dance probably going all night until close to dawn, she is known to serve up her famous soup and seafood. The chorus, always sung rapidly in childish voices, says “Let’s go to Nora’s house to eat ajiaco”.
― sleepingsignal, Monday, 31 March 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
That Van Der Graaf Generator cover looks like the artist got confused about the American and British meanings of "fanny."
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Monday, 31 March 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
Uncomfortably rapey, Eric Carmen. Gross.
http://i.imgur.com/5SY7Q2g.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
yikes
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn2.pitchfork.com/news/49692/1acfde93.jpg
thought this would be here for sure.
― akm, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
"yes a mosquito is nose raping a baby why not listen to our not very good new album"
― akm, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
alex in nyc was very proto-buzzfeed listicle in his old picture threads
― slam dunk, Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
I like the original Steve Walsh cover! It's got this weird '80s kitsch that that hits me right in the childish sweet spot.
― Hakeem Olajuwon Howard (Leee), Thursday, 18 September 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XTUkrNI.jpg
― lispectah deck (unregistered), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 17:17 (five years ago) link
man, reading the first posts in the thread is a trip. i could tell at a glance that styx album cover was a storm thorgerson joint. also fuck you i like the cover to "more you becomes you".
since we're reviving this i would like to note that while the new sunwatchers album "illegal moves" is great, the cover art is, er, not.
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
wow omg @ sunwatchers ...
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
https://cdn2.dustygroove.com/images/products/c/cobham_bill_liveontou_101b.jpg
― enochroot, Thursday, 21 March 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
https://d27t0qkxhe4r68.cloudfront.net/t_900/5015959465225.jpg?1550167115
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 22 March 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
Straight nightmare fuel
― enochroot, Friday, 22 March 2019 00:39 (five years ago) link
https://direct.rhapsody.com/imageserver/images/alb.214187/500x500.jpg
Can't tell if this is supposed to be kinda sweet or offensive?
― Tuomas, Friday, 15 January 2021 23:30 (three years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/0NLcQej-4kzz9StlD3FtqTYH-fs=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2149871-1296101414.jpeg.jpg
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link
thought this revive was about this
album cover // pre-save : https://t.co/MDAeut3QY4 pic.twitter.com/96PbZGJA83— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) January 4, 2022
― nashwan, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 14:26 (two years ago) link
michael urbaniak - ecstasy (1978)
https://imgur.com/a/wOLtZDU
idgi
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:06 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.io/N1QRKOf_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
hope that one works.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:08 (eleven months ago) link
ps- fuck you imgur. nothing you do makes sense and your "share"/"copy url" button has officially lost the plot. thanks for the absolute betrayal.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:10 (eleven months ago) link
Alex in NYC must have used a rock-solid image host back in 2003… all his pics at the top of the thread still load.
― Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Wayne Manor (morrisp), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:14 (eleven months ago) link
Amazon links seem to last forever
― brimstead, Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:15 (eleven months ago) link
yeah, that's 20 years going strong! impressive💪🏻
anyway, back the regular program: can anyone explain this one to me? like is it implying that our friend mike will pleasure the ladies as he bows his instrument? ARE THE STRINGS THE CLITORIS IN THIS ANALOGY? jfc or is it saying his playing is seductive? i've often joked that i would "lay down and spread my legs for a vibraphone solo" but IT WAS JUST A JOKE I'M SORRY.
anyway, obviously a masterwork of a cover. i don't even want to listen to the album. there's no way it can live up to the artwork.
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:25 (eleven months ago) link
The font used for his name reminds me of this:https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61azmcuN4mL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg
― Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Wayne Manor (morrisp), Saturday, 13 May 2023 16:46 (eleven months ago) link