Tag Archives: vinyl records

A NICE LIE DOWN

August 20, 2019 · by · in ART AND ABOUT, Covers Only, Thanks! · 21 Comments

Here’s an album cover post presenting reclining figures of various kinds: some seductive, some scary. All explore utilising the LP ‘gatefold’ to extend the field of view*. The bigger your screen, the better this gallery will look! *           * NOTES James Taylor‘s solo debut was released on Apple Records in […]

SOUTH OF REALITY

August 5, 2019 · by · in ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, f) Tens [2010 - ], GENRE SPECIFIC, Particular platters, Progressive · 18 Comments

Fun! Eccentricity! Experimentation! Swooshy noises! Unapologetic eclecticism! We could be talking about the wonder years of UK psychedelic pop, but we are not. Those descriptors, and more, belong to twenty-first century outfit The Claypool Lennon Delirium whose second album—South of Reality—was released in February 2019. And let it be known that this record is a […]

INCOMING [WINTER 2019 EDITION]

June 14, 2019 · by · in A PERSONAL APPROACH, ART AND ABOUT, Cover Art, Records, Vinyl Hunter Gatherer Stories · 23 Comments

Having enjoyed a couple of recent posts where fellow music nuts share the, er, nuts they have gathered, I thought I’d join the party. Don’t know how it is in your neighbourhood, but in these parts the price of second-hand records has become so absurd that it is often better value buying new re-issues. Seems […]

VALE, DALE

April 28, 2019 · by · in a) Sixties and earlier [0 - 1969], ACROSS THE DECADES, Obituaries, ODDS & SODS · 16 Comments

Richard Anthony Mansour, child of a Lebanese father and a mother with Polish-Belarusian roots, died on 16 March 2019 at age 81. Known to the world as Dick Dale, the guitarist credited as a founding force in the creation of surf guitar had a sound that was big on reverb and steeped in middle-eastern scales. […]

A BOX AND A HOLE

February 25, 2019 · by · in A PERSONAL APPROACH, ACROSS THE DECADES, ALBUM FOCUS, b) Seventies [1970 - 1979], Memoir with Music, Particular platters · 24 Comments

I don’t often pre-order records. Has to be something pretty special and I have to be feeling expansive (pre-ords are always expensive) and patient (the lead time is usually considerable). But having missed out on the multi-CD issue of Bowie At The Beeb back at the turn of the century, I was determined not to […]

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 […]

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