Date: 26/08/2012 20:31:54
From: sibeen
ID: 192252
Subject: Favourite Album Covers

OK, the discussion has been started in chat. I’ll move it here.

My favourite of all time, “Thick as a Brick” – Jethro Tull.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:34:26
From: Stealth
ID: 192256
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

I love Natalie D-Napoleon’s covers of ‘Shook Me All Night Long’ and ‘To Her Door’, but they are both singles. Does anyone really cover albums?

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:35:20
From: Dropbear
ID: 192258
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

DSOTM

Often copied, never bettered..

Bat out of Hell was also awesome.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:36:36
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192261
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

sibeen said:


OK, the discussion has been started in chat. I’ll move it here.

My favourite of all time, “Thick as a Brick” – Jethro Tull.

ooohh I know that one!

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:36:45
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192262
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

There was also playing around with laser cut records for something different. The Warhol jeans album for the Rolling Stones. Shared artwork theme ala Kiss. Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks with the Bambi theme.

I think it fair to say there was a bit more room and scope for art on the old records. When they released a CD with just a smaller version of the album cover it lost a lot.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:37:03
From: Carmen_Sandiego
ID: 192263
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Dropbear said:


DSOTM

+1

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:37:32
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192264
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Dropbear said:


DSOTM

Often copied, never bettered..

Bat out of Hell was also awesome.

The intro on the actual album was haunting to a young and impressionable monkey skipper!

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:39:08
From: Cymek
ID: 192266
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Tool always puts a lot of effort into cd covers and inserts
Anemia for example has the moving pictures when you flip the cd back and forth, amusing that they have a picture of a man oral pleasuring himself as one of the pictures

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:39:50
From: Stealth
ID: 192267
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Jeff Wayne’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ was quite striking. One of the first albums I every owned.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:40:14
From: Dropbear
ID: 192268
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

monkey skipper said:


Dropbear said:

DSOTM

Often copied, never bettered..

Bat out of Hell was also awesome.

The intro on the actual album was haunting to a young and impressionable monkey skipper!

I saw Roger Waters play DSOTM live in its entirety… The intro “pulse” heartbeat was extended for ages and they played it over a video of a satellite in orbit..

Sill the best concert I’ve been to.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:41:03
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192269
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

I have the parrot tatt from the AC/DC Dirty Deeds album.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:41:45
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192270
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Stealth said:


Jeff Wayne’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ was quite striking. One of the first albums I every owned.

another powerful piece in history.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:43:49
From: Stealth
ID: 192271
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

And Cats, I like the cover of Cats (even though I am not fond of real cats).

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:44:09
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192272
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Skunkworks said:


I have the parrot tatt from the AC/DC Dirty Deeds album.

if the tat starts talking to you. run is my suggestion to you!

:-)

did ya see the re-inactment of the acca dacca song the other day?

john paul young, master’s apprentices lads, john stevens and and and some others too.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:45:21
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192274
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Stealth said:


And Cats, I like the cover of Cats (even though I am not fond of real cats).

Which reminds me RatCat had that graphic theme going which was done by the lead singer. Bit like the Rolling Stones Lips logo.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:46:14
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192277
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

monkey skipper said:


did ya see the re-inactment of the acca dacca song the other day?

john paul young, master’s apprentices lads, john stevens and and and some others too.

Nope, missed that.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:46:21
From: sibeen
ID: 192278
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

DSOTM

Hmm, love the album, but the cover art work and filler was a bit boring IMHO.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:48:49
From: Dropbear
ID: 192279
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

sibeen said:


DSOTM

Hmm, love the album, but the cover art work and filler was a bit boring IMHO.

Heathen :) it’s the spectrum from a prism… Golly

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:49:01
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192280
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

monkey skipper said:


Skunkworks said:

I have the parrot tatt from the AC/DC Dirty Deeds album.

if the tat starts talking to you. run is my suggestion to you!

:-)

did ya see the re-inactment of the acca dacca song the other day?

john paul young, master’s apprentices lads, john stevens and and and some others too.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/sunday-night/features/article/-/14515552/long-way-to-the-top/

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:49:09
From: sibeen
ID: 192281
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

>Tool always puts a lot of effort into cd covers and inserts
Anemia for example has the moving pictures when you flip the cd back and forth, amusing that they have a picture of a man oral pleasuring himself as one of the pictures

Hmm, sounds a bit derivative from “Brain Salad Surgery” by ELP.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:51:11
From: poikilotherm
ID: 192282
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

sibeen said:


>Tool always puts a lot of effort into cd covers and inserts
Anemia for example has the moving pictures when you flip the cd back and forth, amusing that they have a picture of a man oral pleasuring himself as one of the pictures

Hmm, sounds a bit derivative from “Brain Salad Surgery” by ELP.

Please forgive me if it all (looks) so familiar
i’m sure you’ve (seen) this all before
i’m only one album cover in a world of billions
and no idea’s original no more

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:51:59
From: Dropbear
ID: 192283
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/fedderedder/rolling_stones_100_greatest_album_covers

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:52:11
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192284
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

poikilotherm said:

Please forgive me if it all (looks) so familiar
i’m sure you’ve (seen) this all before
i’m only one album cover in a world of billions
and no idea’s original no more

Phraze.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:54:38
From: sibeen
ID: 192285
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/fedderedder/rolling_stones_100_greatest_album_covershttp://rateyourmusic.com/list/fedderedder/rolling_stones_100_greatest_album_covers

Out of the top 30 I have 9 of the albums.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:54:47
From: Stealth
ID: 192286
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Dropbear said:


http://rateyourmusic.com/list/fedderedder/rolling_stones_100_greatest_album_covers

I hope #39 and #40 got half price discount from the designer…

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:56:14
From: poikilotherm
ID: 192287
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers
  1. - Really? Were they stoned?
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Date: 26/08/2012 20:56:52
From: Stealth
ID: 192288
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers
  1. “Welcome to My Nightmare” is a great album but the cover is not much to write home about.
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Date: 26/08/2012 20:58:09
From: Stealth
ID: 192289
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers
  1. would really show why a 12” record cover is better value than a CD cover.
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Date: 26/08/2012 20:58:33
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192290
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

David Bowie himself in the era of Ziggy Stardust was an interesting spectacle.

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Date: 26/08/2012 20:59:44
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192291
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Then there is the Paul McCartney dead thing with clues in two (maybe more) of the album covers according to those conspiracy people.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:01:10
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192292
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Skunkworks said:


Then there is the Paul McCartney dead thing with clues in two (maybe more) of the album covers according to those conspiracy people.

yeah – quite famously too.

Back masking is difficult in the era of digital media!

:P

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:04:31
From: sibeen
ID: 192293
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

>Then there is the Paul McCartney dead thing with clues in two (maybe more) of the album covers according to those conspiracy people.

Actually, I’m a bit surprised that Abbey Road didn’t make the top 20. Easily the most copied / simulated cover of all times…and yes, I’ve done it myself.

Must give the people living on that street the shits.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:05:23
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192294
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

sibeen said:


>Then there is the Paul McCartney dead thing with clues in two (maybe more) of the album covers according to those conspiracy people.

Actually, I’m a bit surprised that Abbey Road didn’t make the top 20. Easily the most copied / simulated cover of all times…and yes, I’ve done it myself.

Must give the people living on that street the shits.

That volkswagon keeps getting sold to collectors.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:05:51
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192295
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

sibeen said:


>Then there is the Paul McCartney dead thing with clues in two (maybe more) of the album covers according to those conspiracy people.

Actually, I’m a bit surprised that Abbey Road didn’t make the top 20. Easily the most copied / simulated cover of all times…and yes, I’ve done it myself.

Must give the people living on that street the shits.

I’ve seen the beatnix play live. Does that count for something?

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:07:14
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192296
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

sibeen said:

…and yes, I’ve done it myself.

You really are getting the band back together.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:08:25
From: Stealth
ID: 192297
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

That album by the …um… whatsernames… with the baby being slightly drowned in pool… That didn’t make it either.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:08:26
From: sibeen
ID: 192298
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Shit, they haven’t given Abbey road a top 100 place.

I have to call bullshit.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:08:49
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192299
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Alan Parson Project album covers were often interesting.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:09:03
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192300
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Stealth said:


That album by the …um… whatsernames… with the baby being slightly drowned in pool… That didn’t make it either.

nirvana

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:09:33
From: sibeen
ID: 192301
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

with the baby being slightly drowned in pool

Nevermind – Nirvana.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:11:04
From: Carmen_Sandiego
ID: 192302
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Although “Wish you were here” got in the list, so it is at least half respectable.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:11:05
From: sibeen
ID: 192303
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

>You really are getting the band back together.

I did the Abbey Road walk about 6 months after i sold the original company, so about 12 years ago.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:12:27
From: Dropbear
ID: 192304
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Stealth said:


That album by the …um… whatsernames… with the baby being slightly drowned in pool… That didn’t make it either.

Nirvana?

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:12:53
From: Rule 303
ID: 192305
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

sibeen said:

Must give the people living on that street the shits.

It’s probably the only thing that props up the uber-hyped house prices. Fuck knows you wouldn’t want to live there for any other reason.

;-)

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:13:16
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192306
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

what does the original cover for stairway to heaven look like? several come up

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:14:30
From: Stealth
ID: 192307
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

sibeen said:


with the baby being slightly drowned in pool

Nevermind – Nirvana.


Yeah that one :)

>>>The Nevermind album cover shows a circumcised baby boy, alone underwater with a US dollar bill on a fishhook just out of his reach. According to Cobain, he conceived the idea while watching a television program on water births with Grohl. Cobain mentioned it to Geffen’s art director Robert Fisher. Fisher found some stock footage of underwater births but they were too graphic for the record company. Also, the stock house that controlled the photo of a swimming baby that they subsequently settled on wanted $7,500 a year for its use, so instead Fisher sent a photographer to a pool for babies to take pictures. Five shots resulted and the band settled on the image of a three-month-old infant named Spencer Elden, the son of the photographer’s friend. However, there was some concern because Elden’s penis was visible in the image. Geffen prepared an alternate cover without the penis, as they were afraid that it would offend people, but relented when Cobain made it clear that the only compromise he would accept was a sticker covering the penis that would say, “If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile.”<<<

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:14:43
From: sibeen
ID: 192308
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

>what does the original cover for stairway to heaven look like? several come up

Wasn’t an album. Was on Led Zep IX.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:16:16
From: sibeen
ID: 192309
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

>Was on Led Zep IX.

COUGH

IV

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:18:18
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192310
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

https://static.zoovy.com/img/2bhip/-/blog_images/led_zeppelin_stairway_to_heaven

this comes up and looks familiar.

i was too young for the era of release of the album it has only been in more recent years that i really listened to led zepplin

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:19:29
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192311
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Albums that just show the band tend to date badly, all muscle shirts, soft focus and mullet hairdos.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:21:06
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192312
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Skunkworks said:


Albums that just show the band tend to date badly, all muscle shirts, soft focus and mullet hairdos.

back in black was a very simple cover and yet that album holds a record

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:22:42
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192313
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

monkey skipper said:


i was too young for the era of release of the album it has only been in more recent years that i really listened to led zepplin

When I got rid of my records (yeah I know a bit silly but hindsight and all that) I got the boxed remastered set. Still gets a going.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:23:59
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192314
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Skunkworks said:


monkey skipper said:

i was too young for the era of release of the album it has only been in more recent years that i really listened to led zepplin

When I got rid of my records (yeah I know a bit silly but hindsight and all that) I got the boxed remastered set. Still gets a going.

why did you hoy your records?

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:27:28
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192315
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

monkey skipper said:

why did you hoy your records?

They were well used and worn scratched etc and I went over to CDs, cos the sound was better. I accept that there are arguments about that, but you can play a CD a lot louder than a record. And I wasnt a fanatical keeper, they got used, left on the carpet whilst another one was selected, put back into the wrong covers, etc. Plus, I tend not to hang on to stuff, and with postings every three years ago I have hoiked out lots of stuff I wish now I had kept.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:28:57
From: monkey skipper
ID: 192318
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Skunkworks said:


monkey skipper said:
why did you hoy your records?

They were well used and worn scratched etc and I went over to CDs, cos the sound was better. I accept that there are arguments about that, but you can play a CD a lot louder than a record. And I wasnt a fanatical keeper, they got used, left on the carpet whilst another one was selected, put back into the wrong covers, etc. Plus, I tend not to hang on to stuff, and with postings every three years ago I have hoiked out lots of stuff I wish now I had kept.

fair enough.

night——>

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:31:31
From: Dropbear
ID: 192319
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Led Zep was seriously over rated IMO other than StH and Kashmir

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:32:24
From: Dropbear
ID: 192320
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

monkey skipper said:


Skunkworks said:

Albums that just show the band tend to date badly, all muscle shirts, soft focus and mullet hairdos.

back in black was a very simple cover and yet that album holds a record

Yep. That is an awesome cover. Awesome album.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:33:33
From: Aquila
ID: 192321
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

I was 11 when I borrowed this album from my neighbour across the road…. :)
I used to sit on the couch playing air drums, using chop sticks as drum sticks! lol

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:33:52
From: Skunkworks
ID: 192322
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Dropbear said:


Led Zep was seriously over rated IMO other than StH and Kashmir

I liked the sweeping epicness of some of the songs, rock meets orchestra.

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:42:04
From: Kingy
ID: 192324
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Hard to pick a favourite.

Accadacca, Queen and Slade were in my collection.

If I had to pick one, it would be this:

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:46:45
From: Stealth
ID: 192327
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Kingy said:


Hard to pick a favourite.

Accadacca, Queen and Slade were in my collection.

If I had to pick one, it would be this:



Oooookay

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Date: 26/08/2012 21:50:11
From: Aquila
ID: 192331
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Anyone remember this compilation album from K-tel?
HAHAHA
Featuring that smash hit, Space Invaders…

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Date: 26/08/2012 22:07:21
From: Kingy
ID: 192341
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Stealth said:


Kingy said:

Hard to pick a favourite.

Accadacca, Queen and Slade were in my collection.

If I had to pick one, it would be this:



Oooookay

It was probably the music rather than the album art that moved it up my list.

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Date: 26/08/2012 22:15:22
From: morrie
ID: 192342
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Another Jethro Tull album would be on my list. Aqualung.

And this one.

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Date: 27/08/2012 01:28:36
From: roughbarked
ID: 192407
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

I’ve got Cheap Thrills JJ and BB&the Holding Co, among many albums.. the cover on Thick as a Brick was enough reading to keep you going through the whole album.. Disraeli gears and Wheels of Fire were Martin Sharp creations. The original release of Tommy had a great and interesting cover. Brain Salad surgery was interesting enough but it was just a copy of an existing work of art. Big fan of Roger Dean’s artwork on the covers of albums by bands like Yes and Asia.

For a while there, more money was actually being spent on album covers than actually pressing the vinyl and distribution. I enjoyed many album covers and haven’t really purchased many albums since they started making CD’s. I enjoyed covers that actually depicted somewhat of the comment within the covers.. ie the choking smoky cover of Question of Balance, with the band as tourists watching it all from the comfort of a tropical beach or that of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour I did enjoy the Moody Blues covers. In search of the Lost Chord, To our childrens childrens children. The Stones had a couple of good ones, namely the one with the jeans zipper and the octagonal Through the past Darkly.. Odgens Nutgone, was a cool concept as were those first laser coloured discs by Curved Air ~ Liquid acrobat as regards the air.. . Does anyone remember the camel walking in basketball boots and dreaming of riding in a convertible, off the Its a Beautiful Day – Choice Quality Stuff album or indeed the covers of albums like the twelve dreams of Dr Sardonicus ~ Spirit? Look at yourself, Uriah Heep, Phantasmagoria(another Curved Air album).. Who’s Next was a pisser.

There were a heap of great album covers when I think about it.. Osibisa
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Date: 27/08/2012 01:41:16
From: roughbarked
ID: 192409
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

I’ve got a few faves but this is probably one of the very best album covers of all time and is still the best R&B album of its time(not many were still playing R&B at the time..)

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Date: 27/08/2012 01:59:30
From: kii
ID: 192411
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

This has always intrigued me, maybe the memories associated with it?

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Date: 27/08/2012 02:09:47
From: roughbarked
ID: 192412
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

kii said:


This has always intrigued me, maybe the memories associated with it?

Well, they weren’t standing up.. ;)

Aqualung was another great Tull album cover.
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Date: 27/08/2012 02:18:26
From: roughbarked
ID: 192413
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Dang.. the internet doesn’t seem to remember: its a big bad beautiful day~choice quality stuff, anytime.

Obscure bands

Another of their albums was self titled.. its a beautiful day.

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Date: 27/08/2012 02:23:00
From: roughbarked
ID: 192414
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdens%27_Nut_Gone_Flake

note: Packaging

The album was originally released on vinyl in a circular novelty package of a metal replica of a giant tobacco tin inside which was a poster created with 5 connected paper circles with pictures of the band members. This proved too expensive and was quickly followed by a paper/card replica with a gatefold cover. Two limited-edition CD releases (including a three-disc deluxe edition in 2006 that included the original mono mix of the album on CD for the first time) went even further by packaging the disc(s) in a circular tin (as the original vinyl release had). However, most CD releases use conventional packaging, superimposing the circular artwork on a square booklet.

The award-winning artwork for the album cover was done by Mick Swan who was a product of the sixties art school scene. Any other work by him is unknown but he is known to have worked as a fine arts tutor at Lowestoft F.E. College in 1974.

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Date: 27/08/2012 02:36:00
From: roughbarked
ID: 192415
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

From Wiki: In 1966 Martin published a selection of cartoons in the book Martin Sharp Cartoons. “Swinging London” was the mecca for young artists, writers and musicians, and after the Oz trials, Sharp and Neville needed little encouragement to leave Australia. They set off on an overland trek through Asia, parting company in Kathmandu and making their separate ways to London.

On arrival, Sharp stayed for a short time with Neville’s sister, writer Jill Neville in Knightsbridge. It was at this time that he was introduced to a musician in the famous London nightclub, The Speakeasy. During the evening Sharp told the musician about a poem he had recently written; the musician in turn told Martin that he was looking for a lyric for some new music he had just written. Sharp obligingly wrote out the poem and his address on a serviette and gave it to his new acquaintance.

The musician turned out to be acclaimed guitarist Eric Clapton. The song that resulted from the meeting, “Tales of Brave Ulysses”, was recorded as the B-side of Cream’s smash hit “Strange Brew” and was included on Cream’s second album Disraeli Gears. His friendship with Clapton led to the commission to design the famous ‘dayglo’ psychedelic collage cover for that album, which included painted photographs by Sharp’s friend Robert Whitaker, whom Sharp knew from Australia and whose studio was in the same building where Sharp lived.

The following year Sharp designed the spectacular gatefold sleeve for Cream’s third album, the double LP set Wheels of Fire (1968), for which he won the New York Art Directors Prize for Best Album Design in 1969. He also designed the cover for the eponymous debut L.P. of London underground legends Mighty Baby (1969).

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Date: 27/08/2012 09:16:17
From: The_observer
ID: 192455
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

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Date: 27/08/2012 09:19:05
From: kii
ID: 192457
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Pleasure-Definitive-Snowtown-Murders/dp/1740512480

Seriously?

Wow, I am getting very spoilt with what I pay for books.

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Date: 27/08/2012 09:19:21
From: kii
ID: 192458
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Oops…

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Date: 27/08/2012 09:22:44
From: The_observer
ID: 192462
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

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Date: 27/08/2012 09:46:47
From: pommiejohn
ID: 192492
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Hmm. I seem to have the same taste in music as Roughie. I have that King Crimson album and my other fave that I show kids who don’t know what it’s like to buy an album and have that beautiful artwork is Grave New World by the Strawbs.

It opens up into a poster sized piece of art 36” by 12” .

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Date: 27/08/2012 09:48:05
From: sibeen
ID: 192494
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

> I have that King Crimson album

+1

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Date: 27/08/2012 09:51:32
From: pommiejohn
ID: 192496
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

sibeen said:


> I have that King Crimson album

+1

And Who’s Next is the best thing they ever did.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:15:48
From: roughbarked
ID: 192518
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Rick Wakeman moved from the Strawbs to Yes..

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:17:05
From: Boris
ID: 192520
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Rick Wakeman moved from the Strawbs to Yes..

noooooo?

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:17:14
From: roughbarked
ID: 192521
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

pommiejohn said:


sibeen said:

> I have that King Crimson album

+1

And Who’s Next is the best thing they ever did.

There be two of the greatest albums ever. In the court of the Crimson King and Who’s Next.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:19:03
From: pommiejohn
ID: 192524
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

roughbarked said:


pommiejohn said:

sibeen said:

> I have that King Crimson album

+1

And Who’s Next is the best thing they ever did.

There be two of the greatest albums ever. In the court of the Crimson King and Who’s Next.

And just to show how much of a music nerd I am.. Greg Lake ( of ELP) played bass on the Court of the Crimson King.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:19:03
From: roughbarked
ID: 192525
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Boris said:


Rick Wakeman moved from the Strawbs to Yes..

noooooo?

Not everyone ever heard of the Strawbs.. More people know of Rick Wakeman or Yes.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:21:41
From: roughbarked
ID: 192528
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

pommiejohn said:


roughbarked said:

pommiejohn said:

And Who’s Next is the best thing they ever did.

There be two of the greatest albums ever. In the court of the Crimson King and Who’s Next.

And just to show how much of a music nerd I am.. Greg Lake ( of ELP) played bass on the Court of the Crimson King.

Greg Lake did Bass and vocals for King Crimson on all their albums up to: in the wake of posideon. Jon Anderson(of Yes) came in for a song on Lizard..

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:22:19
From: morrie
ID: 192529
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Those old album covers are worth money these days. I almost sold mine recently. I mean, I never listen to them any more. At a recent fair, run of the mill albums were going for $12 each. A friend sells collectors items at his shop for more than that.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:24:07
From: Arts
ID: 192530
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

this is my first ever album that I bought as a young impressionable five yr old…

http://991.com/NewGallery/Abba-Arrival—-Deluxe-367236.jpg

and for that reason it’s my favourite

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:24:40
From: pommiejohn
ID: 192531
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

morrie said:


Those old album covers are worth money these days. I almost sold mine recently. I mean, I never listen to them any more. At a recent fair, run of the mill albums were going for $12 each. A friend sells collectors items at his shop for more than that.

I keep wondering about selling my miss-labeled Jimi Hendrix album. Right cover, right vinyl, wrong label on one side. Must be worth a fortune :)

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:25:56
From: Arts
ID: 192534
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Date: 27/08/2012 10:40:18
From: morrie
ID: 192540
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

At a quiz night on the weekend, they handed out a page of album covers with some words missing and you had to guess the missing words. This was one of them.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:41:31
From: kii
ID: 192542
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Oh dear oh dear oh dear :(

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:41:48
From: roughbarked
ID: 192543
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

morrie said:


Those old album covers are worth money these days. I almost sold mine recently. I mean, I never listen to them any more. At a recent fair, run of the mill albums were going for $12 each. A friend sells collectors items at his shop for more than that.

OK .. wonder if said friend wants to help refinance me by taking all my collectors items

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:42:54
From: roughbarked
ID: 192544
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

… notes

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:43:36
From: morrie
ID: 192545
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

roughbarked said:


morrie said:

Those old album covers are worth money these days. I almost sold mine recently. I mean, I never listen to them any more. At a recent fair, run of the mill albums were going for $12 each. A friend sells collectors items at his shop for more than that.

OK .. wonder if said friend wants to help refinance me by taking all my collectors items


I could ask. Perhaps you could email me a list?

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:46:00
From: pommiejohn
ID: 192546
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

morrie said:


At a quiz night on the weekend, they handed out a page of album covers with some words missing and you had to guess the missing words. This was one of them.


Gold!

What was the answer?

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:47:12
From: roughbarked
ID: 192547
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Choice Quality Stuff, Anytime.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:48:31
From: morrie
ID: 192548
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

pommiejohn said:


Gold!

What was the answer?


They had the word “blowing” blacked out. We guessed “Jesus”

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:49:28
From: pommiejohn
ID: 192551
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

I’ll put my hand up to owning this one too.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:50:09
From: roughbarked
ID: 192552
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

morrie said:


pommiejohn said:

Gold!

What was the answer?


They had the word “blowing” blacked out. We guessed “Jesus”

I guessed… notes

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:50:20
From: kii
ID: 192553
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:50:43
From: kii
ID: 192554
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

I’ll put my hand up to owning this one too.
——————
Yes!

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:53:35
From: kii
ID: 192555
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Oo…that’s a bit big :/

One of my favourite songs on that – Dancing Wizard.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:54:05
From: roughbarked
ID: 192556
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

pommiejohn said:


I’ll put my hand up to owning this one too.


close to the edge.. down by the river..

I have all the Yes albums.. Close to the edge was given to me by a pommie whio was camped at our place.. a Chris Nash from London(haven’t seen him since).. I fixed the plexi on his wristwatch.. he gave me Close to the Edge as a birthday present. I came home from work and he had a hot bath running.. said.. go and enjoy your bath.. I relaxed into the bath and close to the edge came slowly building through the walls.. (I had a powerful stereo).

Had to be one of the best birthday presents I ever got.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:55:48
From: roughbarked
ID: 192557
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

kii said:


Oo…that’s a bit big :/

One of my favourite songs on that – Dancing Wizard.

Sopwith Camels were what Biggles flew, in the first war.

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Date: 27/08/2012 10:58:27
From: roughbarked
ID: 192558
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

At the time, I wasn’t even aware the album had been released.. it hadn’t.. Chris got his brother to send it over from England.. so yes.. mine is actually the first copy ever to land in Australia.. or at least, to my knowledge.

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:06:59
From: roughbarked
ID: 192559
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

In fact, one musician I know asked me to do an album cover for him.. So I did make several options for him to choose from.. but he never did bother, since his eccentric nature meant that he was off somewhere else when I showed them to him..

Similarly, Roger Dean selected me out of a crowd of people at the exhibition he was doing in Glebe(35th anniversary tour of the band, Yes). I was just standing there looking at his artwork, he was chatting away to others.. then his voice came across the room, “excuse me, how is that tshirt printed?” I turned around and said, which? He said, “the one you are wearing..” So we got talking.. I told him that Rick Wakeman had written {NOT INVITED} on the album I asked him to sign.. He said, “yeah, Rick has been sacked almost as many times as I have.” So then I told him how Steve Howe (my Hero) had slapped my proffered hand away, with his left hand.. too which he replied, “his hands are precious and he has almost had a fear of crushing handshakes from grateful fans.”

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:11:14
From: pommiejohn
ID: 192560
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

roughbarked said:


In fact, one musician I know asked me to do an album cover for him.. So I did make several options for him to choose from.. but he never did bother, since his eccentric nature meant that he was off somewhere else when I showed them to him..

Similarly, Roger Dean selected me out of a crowd of people at the exhibition he was doing in Glebe(35th anniversary tour of the band, Yes). I was just standing there looking at his artwork, he was chatting away to others.. then his voice came across the room, “excuse me, how is that tshirt printed?” I turned around and said, which? He said, “the one you are wearing..” So we got talking.. I told him that Rick Wakeman had written {NOT INVITED} on the album I asked him to sign.. He said, “yeah, Rick has been sacked almost as many times as I have.” So then I told him how Steve Howe (my Hero) had slapped my proffered hand away, with his left hand.. too which he replied, “his hands are precious and he has almost had a fear of crushing handshakes from grateful fans.”

What did the “Not Invited” thing mean?

They seem a bit up themselves.

A mate of mine is a Shadows fan and wrote to the guitar player, err, not Hank, the other one and didn’t get a letter back…. he got a phone call from him!!!

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:12:35
From: roughbarked
ID: 192561
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

pommiejohn said:


roughbarked said:

In fact, one musician I know asked me to do an album cover for him.. So I did make several options for him to choose from.. but he never did bother, since his eccentric nature meant that he was off somewhere else when I showed them to him..

Similarly, Roger Dean selected me out of a crowd of people at the exhibition he was doing in Glebe(35th anniversary tour of the band, Yes). I was just standing there looking at his artwork, he was chatting away to others.. then his voice came across the room, “excuse me, how is that tshirt printed?” I turned around and said, which? He said, “the one you are wearing..” So we got talking.. I told him that Rick Wakeman had written {NOT INVITED} on the album I asked him to sign.. He said, “yeah, Rick has been sacked almost as many times as I have.” So then I told him how Steve Howe (my Hero) had slapped my proffered hand away, with his left hand.. too which he replied, “his hands are precious and he has almost had a fear of crushing handshakes from grateful fans.”

What did the “Not Invited” thing mean?

They seem a bit up themselves.

A mate of mine is a Shadows fan and wrote to the guitar player, err, not Hank, the other one and didn’t get a letter back…. he got a phone call from him!!!

Not invited.. meant that he wasn’t playing on the album I asked him to sign.
The album.. Magnification.

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:17:01
From: pommiejohn
ID: 192562
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

roughbarked said:

Not invited.. meant that he wasn’t playing on the album I asked him to sign.
The album.. Magnification.

Ah, OK, fair enough.

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:18:11
From: roughbarked
ID: 192563
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Speaking of memories.. I arranged for a small group of friends to go see the band, America when they came and played in our local club.. The band before was a local heavy rock band and there would have been at least 500 people there.. When they packed up and Dewey and the lads walked out on stage.. there were only myself and my small group of friends left in the room. Dewey called us down to the front of the stage and gave us a private performance. During the performance he told us.. why he had come to our town.. to play a game of golf on our course and look for bearded dragons. So guess who cornered him after the show while we were having drinkies with the band..? We spent the next morning out on the golf course.

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:19:18
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 192564
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

I was a Shadows fan, he was on every Saturday matinee between movies at the Imperial Theatre.
I remember one episode where he lay down on the railway track and as a train passed over hime he grabbed and axle and then lifted himself up between two carriages, I could hardly watch I was sure he would have sustained serious injuries but no he was fighting fit when he got on to the train, it was unbelievable.
But that was The Shadow, just when you thought he was finished he’d find a way to triumph, I wonder whatever became of him?

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:22:37
From: roughbarked
ID: 192565
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

A response to m posting of the choice quality stuff album cover.. Samples : http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/its-a-beautiful-day/its-a-big-bad-beautiful-day-choice-quality-stuff/10860835/

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:49:27
From: roughbarked
ID: 192569
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

To prove what I said about Yes.. that’s my daughter in back..

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:51:40
From: roughbarked
ID: 192570
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

and yes, kii would probably recognise the bookstore chain.

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:53:32
From: roughbarked
ID: 192571
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Should have said also.. a second favourite birthday present.. the kids shouted the tickets to the concert for my 50th.

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Date: 27/08/2012 11:57:22
From: roughbarked
ID: 192572
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

the spirit of..

the dreaming

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Date: 27/08/2012 12:01:34
From: roughbarked
ID: 192573
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Around a similar timeframe.. Uriah Heep brought out the album, Look at Yourself.. and yes, the cover was a flexible mirror.

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Date: 27/08/2012 12:02:48
From: roughbarked
ID: 192574
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

Oh and sorry about the c&p. My name isn’t BC.

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Date: 27/08/2012 12:10:25
From: kii
ID: 192576
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

roughbarked said:


and yes, kii would probably recognise the bookstore chain.

No.

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Date: 27/08/2012 12:31:32
From: roughbarked
ID: 192585
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

kii said:


roughbarked said:

and yes, kii would probably recognise the bookstore chain.

No.

memory says something with the word Border?

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Date: 29/08/2012 14:22:30
From: Carmen_Sandiego
ID: 193375
Subject: re: Favourite Album Covers

I suppose this is as good a place as any to post this…

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