Was my intro to the Stones. Wore it out.
Posted on 04/01/2021 12:40:08 PM PDT by mylife
Throughout the 20th-century record sleeves regularly served as canvases for some of the world's most famous artists. From Andy Warhol's electric yellow banana on the cover of The Velvet Underground & Nico's 1967's debut album, to the custom-sprayed Banksy street art that fronted Blur's 2003 "Think Tank," art has long been used to round out the listening experience. A new book, "Art Sleeves," explores some of the most influential, groundbreaking and controversial covers from the past forty years. "This is not a 'history of album art' type book," said the book's author, DJ and arts writer DB Burkeman over email. Instead, he says the book is a "love letter" to visual art and music culture.
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Was my intro to the Stones. Wore it out.
Both Becker and Fagan, who were cagey with their praise loved Hartman's "Aja" cover.
I had that one. It seems to have not survived one of several moves or roommates...
Dammit.
This is walking distance from my Manhattan office and from 36th St (facing South) you can still walk up to the iron fence and look through it. The alley has hardly changed at all.
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Emerson Lake and Palmer’s Brain Salad Surgery cover is pretty iconic. Emerson was introduced to the artist, Hans R.Giger. In the anniversary CD they have some interviews, and Emerson talking about the artist, his home and the cover is interesting.
The woman is Giger’s wife, and the original artwork had her lips to a penis. The studio wouldn’t allow it, and Giger wouldn’t let them change it. Eventually they compromised and airbrushed the penis out with a shaft of light.
First LP I ever bought when it first came out. Wish I still had it.
As a Rush fan, I’m also a big fan of Hugh Syme’s album art.
BSS by ELP was my first thought as well.
Hmm, the Sticky Fingers cover had a zipper on it... was that Warhol?
Yes, he did. I think Toto was one of the bands.
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I used to have the cover for a record by Lynyrd Skynyrd, with the band walking away from a huge fire.
Sometime later, the band was in a plane crash and some members of the band died.
I bet it’s worth a lot of money now.
great LP
Always like the sound of a squeaky door opening at the beginning of “Sugar Magnolia”. Seemed apropos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2RJ3l_0_PA
Roger Dean and David Larkham come immediately to mind...
I was always fascinated by the album art on the inside of the Allman Brothers double album "Eat a Peach". Very 70's Hippy-trippy.
I really hope there is a resurgence in LPs and album cover art. We have gone through a phase of “smaller and faster is better.” I miss the days of listening to full albums as they go round on a turntable and looking at album cover art and reading the inserts.
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