Tag Archives: Album cover art
MOON WOT?
rappin’ flower germs lake man gas safari dawn Moon Rappin’ Jack McDuff [Blue Note 1970] Moonflower Santana [CBS 1977] Moon Germs Joe Farrell [CTI 1973] Moonlake Klaus Schulze [SPV 2005] Moon Man Charles Lloyd [Kapp Records 1970] Moon Gas Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo [MGM 1963] Moon Safari Air [Source 1998] Moondawn Klaus Schulze [Brain […]
WOT MOON?
thirsty havana new harvest marquee banana pink The fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing. Wot an excuse to post some album covers! But we did space a while back, twice in fact. So this collection presents albums from the VC collection having two-word titles ending in MOON. * Thirsty Moon Thirsty Moon [Brain 1972] Havana […]
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
Prior to 2017’s Tomorrow Forever, the last Matthew Sweet album of original material was 2011’s Modern Art. In between was the third volume of Under The Covers, the charming series recorded by Sweet and ex-Bangle Susanna Hoffs. Matthew Sweet’s personal circumstances had changed considerably in the intervening years: he re-located away from Los Angeles to […]
DUNES #3.1
Final instalment of the desert album covers series. In this collection I was particularly struck by the human element, either overt or implied. Although the poor photograph makes the title of the third album impossible to read, it is actually Missing Persons. A prize for the best 100 word story linking all the covers. Afterwards, […]
DUNES #2
More album covers for your sandy enjoyment We’ll finish this three-parter with the remaining Vinyl Connection choices next time. Today, however, we are indebted to VC readers whose responses to part one included the albums you see below. Got a favourite? * CREDITS Sleep – Dopesmoker [1537, J.] Robin Trower – Day Of The Eagle: […]
DUNES
Been an eternity since a cover art post. What better reason to dust off some interesting album covers than the current ‘Dune’ series? So don your hat and sandals, slop on some sunscreen and let’s get sandy! THE ALBUMS Gong — Shamal [Virgin 1975] Helmet — Dead To The World [Ear Music 2016] Uriah Heep — […]
ALBUM COVER QUIZ — THE SIXTIES
Here is the third instalment in the ‘Decade’ themed album cover quizzes. We’ve aced the Eighties, and nuked the Naughties… Now it’s time to swing into the Sixties. Below are fourteen album covers (CD sized) resting on a 12″ LP. All were released between 1960 and 1969. The task is to identify as many as […]
VERTICAL OVERLOAD
The last instalment* of the series on gatefold album covers that open vertically. Enjoy. * Keef Hartley Band – Halfbreed [Deram 1969] May Blitz – May Blitz [Vertigo 1970] The Peddlers – Birthday [CBS 1969] Muddy Waters & Howlin’ Wolf – London Revisited [Chess 1974] Queen – News Of The World [Elektra (US) / EMI […]
VERTICAL RETURN
We’re back with the vertical gatefold sleeves for a couple more instalments. This should not be construed as an attempt to show every specimen, but simply present further examples that have caught this record collector’s eye. First off we have a very recent addition to the genus. Bob Masse is a legendary Canadian-born artist and […]
VERTICAL VOYEUR
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
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
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 […]
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