Tag Archives: Cover Art
8 CAR COVERS – FROM THE INSIDE
The last instalment (for the time being) on ‘car’ themed album covers. This one was inspired by Victim of the Fury‘s suggestion of the Minutemen album. Got me thinking, are there other sleeves with a view from inside the car? Here are the ones I found… * THE ALBUMS Béla Fleck – Drive [Rounder, 1987] […]
10 AWESOME AUTO ALBUM COVERS
* THE ALBUMS Miles Davis – A Tribute to Jack Johnson [CBS 1971] The Orange Humble Band – Humblin’ (Across America) [Half A Cow 2000] Beach Boys – The Capital Years [Capital/EMI 1983] Chuck Berry – Motorvatin’ [Chess 1977] Original Soundtrack – Rikky and Pete [EMI 1988] The Cars – Since You’re Gone (12″ Picture […]
ALBUM COVER ART | 9 LIVES
A COVER ART JOURNEY * Some Girls – Heaven’s Pregnant Teens [2006] Barclay James Harvest – Baby James Harvest [1972] Various Artists – In the Beginning [1985] Matthew Sweet – 100% Fun [1995] James Taylor – James Taylor [1968] James Taylor – Live in Germany [1986] James Taylor – Before this World [2015] The Cure […]
10 ARTISTIC ALBUM COVER PORTRAITS
While assembling the album cover Portrait Playoff (One and Two), I considered having a satellite event where the artist portrait was not a photograph, but a painting, drawing, watercolour, stick and ochre, whatever. But that idea did not really mesh with the ‘realistic’ covers, and so was shelved. Yet those LPs making it through the qualifying rounds were diverse and […]
ART ON YOUR SLEEVE #2 − OSIBISA
For the second instalment in the Art On Your Sleeve series I’m delighted to welcome JDB. Her blog Augenblick is well worth checking out. JDB contributed the ‘art’ section of this piece, increasing the overall depth and quality of the post immeasurably. Hope you agree. * OSIBISA – Osibirock [1974] * THE MUSIC When Osibisa was […]
ALBUM COVERS | YESTERDAY’S PAPERS?
May 10th marks the second anniversary of Vinyl Connection. Two years of weekly long-form posts with a second mid-week item more often than not. Over 180 posts in all; some 140,000 words. The statistics page reveals that there have been over 28,000 page views and greater than 1,000 ‘Likes’. So roughly every thirty-or-so ‘looks’ produces […]
ANOTHER COVER ART QUIZ (QUIZ #2)
The first of these quizzes was well received, so it is time for another. * Here are 12 album covers (CD sized) sitting on top of an LP. How many of the 13 Albums and Artists can you name? * To allow folk in different time zones to participate, here is the one rule: ONLY TWO COVERS PER […]
ART ON YOUR SLEEVE #1 − PROCOL HARUM
An occasional series featuring LPs boasting ‘fine art’ on their covers, with words about the music and something about the art #1 PROCOL HARUM – Exotic Birds and Fruit [1974] THE MUSIC By 1974, the massive success of Procol Harum’s debut single was a long time gone. Not that the band had disappeared; more gently but […]
DON’T STOP ‘TIL YOU GET ENOUGH
So here is the Vinyl Connection New Year’s Resolution: To post a weekly diary of all – I mean all – new music arrivals at Base Camp Connection. The good, the bad (as in “that’s really, bad, man”) and the ugly. It’s been tried before and lasted two posts, there has been a holiday edition, even an […]
MATI AND THE MUSIC [PART TWO]
This article is the second part of a feature on the album covers of artist Mati Klarwein. The first part is entitled More Than Abraxas. The life of a peripatetic artist is one of change and blending influences. Mati was a great traveller and enthusiastically soaked up images of culture and mythology from the many countries […]
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