Category Cover Art

YES, MR WILSON

August 4, 2018 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, ART AND ABOUT, b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], Cover Art, GENRE SPECIFIC, Particular platters, Progressive · 20 Comments

After my first listens to Steven Wilson’s remixes of five core seventies albums from the Yes catalogue, I confess I was ambivalent. It was not easy to pin down what was preventing a full-hearted embracing of Mr Wilson’s work. Perhaps it was simply different, and I was uncomfortable with the changes to sounds I’ve enjoyed […]

VERTICAL VOYEUR

July 2, 2018 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ART AND ABOUT, b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], Cover Art · 25 Comments

This next instalment in the ‘vertical gatefold’ series brings together a varied collection of LP covers that feature, um, bodies. A progression from Buffalo’s body parts, you might say, though each is a little challenging or even risqué in its own way. First up is a double album of the Velvet Underground recorded live in […]

ERUPTION DOWNUNDER

June 29, 2018 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, ART AND ABOUT, b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], Cover Art, Particular platters · 21 Comments

As has been related elsewhere, I met Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep and assorted seventies noise-makers in Rod Amberton’s bedroom. I also encountered a band less well-known outside these sunburned shores: the hard riffing Sydney band, Buffalo. Buffalo’s first two albums were popular amongst teenage boys of a certain age, and although I managed to find […]

VERTICAL PURPLE

June 25, 2018 · by · in a) Sixties and earlier [0 - 1969], ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, ART AND ABOUT, b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], Cover Art, GENRE SPECIFIC, Particular platters, Progressive, Records · 34 Comments

The quest to unearth further 60s vertical gatefold album covers produced many nominations of 70s covers that do indeed open up in ‘portrait’ format, but only one addition from Sixties-land. The LP was the third Deep Purple release, their self-titled record from 1969. Many thanks to Arterrorist for the reminder. I say that because the CD […]

VERTICAL HOLD

June 21, 2018 · by · in a) Sixties and earlier [0 - 1969], ACROSS THE DECADES, ART AND ABOUT, b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], Cover Art, GENRE SPECIFIC, Progressive, Records · 36 Comments

There are plenty of books on album cover art on the Vinyl Connection bookshelves, but none of them could tell me which record had the glory of being the first gatefold pop/rock album. Everyone knows Sgt Pepper was the first LP to have the song lyrics on the cover—the back, incidentally, not inside in the […]

ANOTHER DAYBREAK

June 15, 2018 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, ART AND ABOUT, c) Eighties [1980 - 1989], Cover Art, Particular platters · 25 Comments

In a recent post, blog friend JDB of Augenblick introduced the famous Maxfield Parrish painting ‘Daybreak’ and we looked at a 1984 record by Dali’s Car that borrowed it for the cover. Here are two further eighties album covers inspired by Parrish’s iconic painting. BOBBY WOMACK — SO MANY RIVERS [1985] Bobby Womack was a […]

DAYBREAK

June 9, 2018 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, ART AND ABOUT, c) Eighties [1980 - 1989], Cover Art, Particular platters · 20 Comments

Some time back (2015, actually), Vinyl Connection was delighted to have fellow blogger JDB of Augenblick contribute to a series about fine art on album covers called Art On Your Sleeve. After something of a hiatus, we’re back with edition #4 and the world’s most famous poster. (No, not the one of the girl tennis […]

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