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COVER ART | ALBUMS AL FRESCO
It’s Spring in Melbourne. The weather tends to be varied—drizzle, downpours, showers, storms, occasional sun—but when time and inclemency allow, I’ve been taking some records for walks. They need a change of scenery after the long lockdowns. * The adventure began in the back garden, celebrating Joni Mitchell’s 78th birthday (7 November) during a break […]
COVER ART | A HALLOWEEN COLLECTION
I partook of a #Halloweenvinyl challenge over at the ‘gram. Here is a selection… * JEAN MICHEL JARRE — Oxygene [1976] * GOBLIN — Suspiria [OST 1976] * Two Suspirias being better than one, hello Radiohead’s Thom Yorke… THOM YORKE — Suspiria [2018] * A kind of a black magic vibe, also marking Peter Green’s […]
ALBUM COVERS | INSTA EDITION
For reasons I can neither fully comprehend nor explain in any coherent way, I decided a couple of weeks ago to dive into Instagram. Having had a Tumblr account since the dawn of Vinyl Connection I largely ignored the world’s largest image sharing social app, a choice that says much about my ability to pick […]
ALBUM COVERS | WALKING THE DOG
* PAUL McCARTNEY — Paul Is Live [1993] VAN MORRISON — Days Like This [ 1995] NEIL YOUNG — Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere [1969] JAMES TAYLOR — One Man Dog [1972] JONI MITCHELL — Dog Eat Dog [1985] JIMMY SMITH — Back At The Chicken Shack [1963] JACK BRUCE — Things We Like […]
ALBUM COVERS | A DOG’S LIFE
* ANIMAL LOGIC — Animal Logic [1989] RUSH — Signals [1982] ERIC CLAPTON — There’s One In Every Crowd [1975] BLUR — Parklife [1994] THE CRUEL SEA — Three Legged Dog [1995] WEEZER — Raditude [2009] RICK SPRINGFIELD — Working Class Dog [1980] THE CHURCH — Priest = Aura [1992] PAVLOV’S DOG — Pampered Menial […]
RAINBOW VINYL — SUMMARY
The collected rainbow vinyl posts. Because it’s pretty. Red — Orange — Yellow — Green — Blue — Purple * * The feature image is, naturally enough, what you get when a rainbow is de-prismed. The white knights were:
BACK TO FRONT
Here’s an album cover post a while in the planning. Though perhaps that should read: a while in the acquiring. Years ago, when I first got a copy of Kraftwerk’s Radio-aktivität I was struck by the cover art: a geiger counter showing the operation panel on the front of the LP and the rear of […]
ALBUM COVERS | MORE FRUIT AND VEG
Vinyl Connection readers stepped up once again. Your suggestions made Part II inevitable. It’s Harvest Festival Time! Fruit Vegetables FRUIT Shellac — Excellent Italian Grayhound [2007]Deep Purple — Bananas [2003]Strawbs — Best of Strawbs [1978]Nina Simone — Forbidden Fruit [1961] VEGIES Baby Grand – Ancient Medicine [1978] Can — Ege Bamyasi [1972]Al […]
ALBUM COVERS | FRESH FRUIT AND VEG
Vinyl Connection has been to a Farmer’s Market and brought home a basket of fresh produce. Part One Part Two FRUIT Jeff Beck — Beck-OlaGrapefruit — Around GrapefruitLana Del Ray — Violet Bent Backwards Over The GrassChuck Berry — One Dozen BerrysB B King — Indianola Mississippi Seeds VEGIES Cream — Best of […]
MASK II
Following the last post (MASK), the flow of suggestions on the theme of masks (or more generally, face coverings) on album covers was rapid and fruitful. (This is what I love about blogging). Thanks to JDB (How could I have overlooked Pink Floyd?), Victim of the Fury (Sorry about the Trower; Rainbow is brilliantly apposite), […]
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