A thread for artists whose discography consists almost entirely of albums with their faces on the cover

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if you have a nice face then why not put it on your album covers, that's what I say

phil collins has not got a nice face. he is though basically the rembrandt of this shit

I think Gary Numan has put himself on every album cover

The Madonna ones, to be fair, are a variety of headshots, head and shoulders, torsos and some that don't fit at all, in a variety of styles. Same with Bowie.

That first row of Phil Collins, on the other hand, is four really unimaginative headshots. Who else has a run like this?

well Dylan's had a few runs:

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedragonites.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F05%2Fdylan-discography-2014_2.jpg&f=1

Most of Leonard Cohen's album covers do this, the only ones that don't are New Skin for the Old Ceremony, The Future and Dear Heather.

Heather Nova's done it for pretty much every album, but then again she has good reason to.

Simon & Garfunkel

Suzanne Vega
The Divine Comedy (bar one or two)

sade iirc

moz

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/LindseyBuckinghamLawandOrderAlbumcover.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G1FXH8T1L.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/LindseyBuckingham-OutOfTheCradle.jpg
http://eil.com/images/main/Lindsey-Buckingham-Under-The-Skin-375091.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mbs4U3vgL._SY450_.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-e_ECyTQZlkU/U8LN8FHuHXI/AAAAAAAAsIk/TIaMhSsS4Vg/s1600/Lindsey+Buckingham+Seeds+We+Sow.jpg

simply red were the worst for that pictures-of-one-dude-on-the-cover-when-it's-meant-to-be-a-band thing. every sleeve basically.

Bjork

The boy band genre in general to thread, really?

John Coltrane seems to be on a lot of his lp sleeves. Just listening to Meditations now.

Van Morrison too. Wonder if news of cd releases is to be believed.

Joan Jett

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/LDR_aka_Lizzy_Grant.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/BornToDieAlbumCover.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Paradise_EP.png
https://a1-images.myspacecdn.com/images04/12/fb65665f43f84339b7ce53cd1a60ebf5/300x300.jpg
http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic7/22EABF5ED-CA1C-3B8E-6F1E1E972BE11094.jpg

Doesn't this describe about 60 percent of solo artists in any given time period? And close to 100 percent before 1970? That said, I hope we can dig up some more like the Lindsey Buckingham and Phil Collins runs above - the ones that, in toto, say something deeply unflattering about the artist.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/395/MI0002395988.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/087/MI0002087546.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/417/MI0001417952.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/602/MI0001602225.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/891/MI0003891282.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

OK, try this again:

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/395/MI0002395988.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/087/MI0002087546.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/417/MI0001417952.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/602/MI0001602225.jpg?partner=allrovi.com
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/891/MI0003891282.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

http://i.imgur.com/WdhXg2H.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/LV8tsHx.jpg

the Phil Collins albums could also be "artists whose discography consists entirely of albums with their handwriting on it"

man John Denver's face cover album game is deep

album #6 Phil is so happy he finally has a body, has to dance

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2014-09/1412000743_500.jpg

oops

http://www.israbox.com/uploads/posts/2014-09/1412000743_500.jpg

http://www.lyrics007.com/images/covers/11/61/48
If I ever go to my mum's house there is a lot of this shit on display

all of these guys should have done one album cover mid career where they are surrounded by muppets a la Denver

so who has the longest unbroken run?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/stinge.jpg

i for one am shocked that sting could be so vain

there is only one studio album of his without his face on it afaict (soul cages)

it's interesting how important face covers seem to be to adult-contemporary acts. is it that they're all full of themselves or is it something about the way fans relate to them, the reasons why they seek out their music and want them in their lives? feel like someone like sting is grasped by at least some of his fans as being a sort of spirit guide or wise traveling companion/brother. but i may be reading things in from the guy i used to work for who once named a design firm after one of the albums above.

I like how even the Ghost in the Machine cover technically contains an image of Sting's face

I guess MOR adult-contemporary acts are likely to have their faces on the cover for practical reasons ie so their fans can identify/notice their albums in the store, and are less likely to be inclined to do something 'arty' with their album covers?

established audience as well I guess, you already know them and what they do. I think this is maybe the most boring of all the album covers pictured so far, like just a passport photo style picture of Lionel Richie with literally nothing else going on, obv not trying to sell LR to anyone who isn't already a fan.

http://lionelrichie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/20060911113430LIONEL-RICHIE-438x4381-e1370196272715.jpg

need confirmation that dr casino's friend's company was called zenyatta mondatta

http://i.imgur.com/Xwdd15p.png

oh man, almost a perfect streak

how do you get all the album covers all together like this?

I don't know how others have done it but I just spent the last 20 minutes working on a javascript that does that (taking all the album covers of an artist's discography from a well-known torrent site and displaying them in a collage)

oh ok. thx. too much work.

I guess one could just go to iTunes and do a screenshot
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/madonna/id20044

a standard image search for artist+catalog returns plenty of these

Bryan Ferry?

thanks xps

Bryan Ferry?

http://i.imgur.com/JiZziQA.png

Oh, I thought this was the thread for album art that is either the artist, Kate Moss, or a horse. My bad.

hahaha

tech help: how do you search for and post these album cover collages? i can't find them for most artists

A thread for artists whose discography consists almost entirely of albums with their faces on the cover

thx, hadn't read today's posts yet

http://i.imgur.com/AMcdyyT.png
http://i.imgur.com/wAY2E61.png

and the weird looking one on 2nd row should be this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LgHsw4m9L._SY300_.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2jhkeSCIAAd6-Z.jpg

Mariah Carey. posted a while back by scott, in I do know this much: CD storage units/shelving/case logic stuff/etc is some of the worst and ugliest shit i've ever seen.

https://i.imgur.com/wy4AfkI.png
https://i.imgur.com/M7H5zQc.png

stretching the topic of the thread but i feel like it fits

Tim Maia fits here: http://www.funkabolik.com/photo/TIMMAIAsame1973.jpg

if you have a nice face then why not put it on your album covers, that's what I say

― strictly dream-bait fit for moon-gazing (soref), Monday, October 12, 2015 4:19 PM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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pretty weak ratio on the diamond-denver scale

oh, go step in a puddle

just saying he's no neil diamond is all

pretty sure all the 'diamondheads' out there will back me up on this one

lol yeah. i was only kidding.

are there "diamondheads" in here? or just out there?

stands to reason ilm must have at least one "diamondhead." i mean we've been able to sustain multiple threads and conversations about late-period wings albums and we're just coming off the very lively billy joel listening thread... there must be someone here with opinions on diamond deep cuts. or "diamonds in the rough" as they're known.

kurt vile

woah when did he start posting here?

jandek has an inexhaustible supply of old pictures of himself it seems

this thread cracks me up

Van Morrison has a few albums with multiples of his face on the same cover (fingers crossed for formatting success)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondance#/media/File:VanMorrisonMoondance.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Period_of_Transition#/media/File:Period_Of_Transition_album_cover.jpg

and many others with a single helping of Van's face

^hmmm, that would be Moondance and A Period of Transition

Morrissey is a prime example of this, with the original cover of Southpaw Grammar being the only exception. (He put his face on the cover of the reissue.)

every peter gabriel record through Up iirc but I’m not up to a collage tonight

Inside Job lmao

simply red were the worst for that pictures-of-one-dude-on-the-cover-when-it's-meant-to-be-a-band thing. every sleeve basically.

Japan to thread! (Adolescent Sex notwithstanding. Obscure Alternatives is really pushing it.)

Barry Manilow

MIA

https://i.imgur.com/T52DavH.jpg

Tim Buckley

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71UjRDfWfQL._SY355_.jpg

Greeting from LA the exception

It counts if you punch out the postcard

https://img.discogs.com/BWonEZCyNHGyayatFkgBqnBk1Dk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5522773-1420255025-1528.jpeg.jpg

The Go-Betweens managed 8 out of 9.

If you flip the CD booklet on the exception (not sure there even was a vinyl issue locally) you can pretend it was 9/9 and the ugly line drawing never happened. (Not that many of the portrait covers were good!)

Descendants. I mean that's a drawing of Milo at least!

was gonna say GG Allin but realized I misread the thread title

tee hee

chris isaak belongs to thread.

Mayra Andrade. Excused for it, because she does have one of the most perfect faces I've ever seen.