― Bill E (bill_e), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bill E (bill_e), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rex jr., Tuesday, 25 March 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
So...you're saying this isn't the new Puffy Ami Yumi record?
― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 06:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
I remember my step-father looking at this cover after I'd been playing it on the living room stereo, and he commented that it looked like something he'd like (guessing it was Medieval Madrigals or something). It just doesn't speak to the album's content at all. I mean, yes, there is a guy getting punched in the face ala "Mean Street", but it looks like a Breugel painting....not the sort've thing that would normally grace a hard rock/heavy metal sleeve.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 June 2004 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.rossoalice.it/alice/musicstore/image/47/47484.jpg
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.darkanddeadly.as.ro/Swans/Albums/whitelight.jpg
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.southern.com/southern/band/KILLD/pics/07943L.jpg
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
http://swans.pair.com/IMG_PRODUCTS/loveoflife.jpg
. ..which is kinda more of a what-you-see-is-what-you-get sorta thing.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS1643837-02A-BIG.jpg
If you knew nothing about Drexciya or Tresor Records, you'd probably imagine this to be a metal album.
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
It looks rather gauzy and ethereal to me.
Re: ACDC from upthread: ALL of their alternate album covers are fucking weird.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/20/Acdchighvoltageeur.JPG
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
When I bought this record in 1994 my techno-obsessed buddies were salivating. What would it sound like? Black Dog? Plastikman? Robert Armani?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxFRR73luyo/TZffj5roicI/AAAAAAAAFLw/TB_DhmXApzQ/s1600/Stereolab%2B-%2BTransient%2BRandom-Noise%2BBursts%2BWith%2BAnnouncements%2B-.jpg
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 August 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, 2xpost was going to say I'd imagine a slightly harder Cocteau Twins there,.
Whereas that one says "I sound like Neu boogie" to me.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
Really? That totally looks like a DJ mix.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
Oh I suppose..
Then again, if it was it'd be from above the record, not below.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't have thought that Stereolab album to be a techno record or a DJ mix back in 1994. Few techno and mix albums looked that artsy and minimal in 1994, they looked more like this:
http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/d/dave-angel/17757-dave-angel-trance-lunar-paradise.jpghttp://img12.nnm.ru/8/4/4/9/8/84498df9886249384978846a6efbdd35_full.jpg
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I didn't get into techno until 97 or so, so I missed all that crap.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Soundgarden_Telephantasm_cover.jpghttp://bsides.myx.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/311-Universal-Pulse.jpg
― MarkoP, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-Nick-Drake-Pink-Moon.jpg
This album of strange orchestral swellings, daliesque exclamations and surreal dialogue and lyrics oh hang on....
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
What's the album with the goat?
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
If you are referring to the Bighorn Sheep, that's the new 311 album.
― kkvgz, Friday, 12 August 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Okay, I've never heard of 311, what do they sound like?
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
mmm, Maroon 5 / nickelback style soft rock.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
Except with more reggae and rap/funk metal influences. They've usually been linked in my mind with being closer to Sublime than the bands mentioned, but I might wrong with that.
― MarkoP, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
I'm basing it on the one track I heard, "Amber".
― Mark G, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
They have always been down, down
― Trip Maker, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.kindamuzik.net/gfx/gomez-cvr-0711.jpg
i wouldn't expect rootsy rock/britpop from this one. (more like the new SCOOTER or some other nineties dance compilation)
― Ludo, Friday, 12 August 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, if it was Scooter it would need some colours, the black & white is too stark.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 14 August 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.musictastershop.com/files/images/287.jpg
I used to see this album in bargain bin of the local record store, and I thought it was heavy metal... I haven't actually listened to it, but apparently it's rap?
Then again, metal style imagery isn't that uncommon in rap music, like Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, DMX, etc.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 14 August 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/worst-album-covers/41-1.jpg
Obviously an '80s new-wave band, kinda like AC/DC
― Lee626, Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=throbbing+gristle+20+jazz+funk+greats&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&tbm=isch&tbnid=GShsMWruFocIcM:&imgrefurl=http://amputeearms.blogspot.com/2009/02/throbbing-gristle-20-jazz-funk-great.html&docid=f16MKkEA3WduEM&w=300&h=300&ei=SctHTu-IBcHB8QOrg9SUBg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=901&vpy=76&dur=23&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=109&ty=102&page=1&tbnh=139&tbnw=135&start=0&ndsp=31&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0&biw=1440&bih=732
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
html failure, sorry, but i think you know the one i mean
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ngk_5UhX4HA/ThLyMcgQY2I/AAAAAAAADFU/KRYM33RlTQE/s1600/bongo+date.JPG
― psioni, Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_osaKxjJ33dE/S9iaLjzA1aI/AAAAAAAAAhg/jNshYDQFH_s/s400/579787%5B1%5D.jpg
^ Only has 49 of the first 50 singles.
― everything, Sunday, 14 August 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/f/fahey_john~_letgo~~~~_101b.jpg
imo this is the saddest record cover in the world
― ogmor, Sunday, 14 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
This cover is one of my all-time faves! Give yourself three guesses as to the genre before reading the small print....
http://musicology.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/10/wgso81763c.jpg
― Lee626, Monday, 15 August 2011 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
I suspect that it's impossible to read this album title without seeing the whole coverhttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/word.jpg
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
Looks like "storms" - what's the album?
― Small Town Pizza Lawyer (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
Correct!. I was wrong. It is Nanci Griffith's 'Storms'.
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/51Q3OLTVuTL.jpg
― Bookmark No Bingus Permalink (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71op39EbQQL._SL1268_.jpg
― remove butt (abanana), Friday, 22 July 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1752648874_10.jpg
― The ED, Friday, 22 July 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-WwmD0_perbo%2FU-gsMc4BeQI%2FAAAAAAAAORI%2FrJ1LOJtQCv0%2Fs1600%2FFront%2BCover%2BOBI%2Bcopy.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
Blue Cheer - Oh! Pleasant Hope (1971). Saw a NM copy of this in new arrivals at a store and until my eyes picked out the band name, figured it was some also-ran indie psychedelic band of the 2000s, somewhere in the space between AnCo and Of Montreal. It's tough to find a JPG that really conveys this, since if it yellows at all, suddenly the quiltiness registers and it belongs in the 70s again.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 12:37 (three years ago) link
Initially read that as "Pleasant Mode," which is probably what it would be called if it were a 2000s release as you describe
― Josefa, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
Allan Clarke - Legendary Heroes. Solo album by the guy from The Hollies, rather than the epic power metal the artwork suggests.
https://img.discogs.com/oLsFQAGFNDNZT8yZ3hbDIOuFJRM=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1793447-1268165417.jpeg.jpg
― it's popol vu all over again (Matt #2), Monday, 12 April 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link