Monday, October 5, 2020

Your Favorite Album Covers (Probably) Dept. - Your Favorite Album Covers (Probably)

Here's sambgodot's bestest, probably [above - Ed.]. Nice scan of the first edition (probably), shrinkwrapped for your convenience. Name your candidate in the comments, and I'll add it to the gallery. It's not like you have anything better to do right now.


 


 


 





 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 



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  1. LopezOctober 5, 2020 at 6:03 PM

    The first Blood, Sweat & Tears ablum cover: Child Is Father to the Man

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  2. geriatrixOctober 5, 2020 at 6:52 PM

    No contest. My all time favourite - "Jesus Use Me" by The Faith Tones.

    http://lpcoverlover.com/2008/09/28/god-have-mercy/

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 5, 2020 at 7:29 PM

      You've looked at this cover too long if you start thinking "hmm ... not bad!" about the one in the middle.

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    2. geriatrixOctober 6, 2020 at 12:05 AM

      Much much worse is thinking "hmmm threesome!"

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    3. jonderOctober 6, 2020 at 7:42 AM

      I might not use her as Jesus intended, but I'd certainly be willing to dropkick her through the goalposts of life.

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    4. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 2:53 AM

      And that's the Bare truth, Bob.

      lpcoverlover is great, a major black hole & all, but it was much greater before they added all the blurbs.

      (Middle Amur-ka's knne-jerk reaction to Beatlemania...?)('64):

      (Chryron-less):

      https://img.discogs.com/F5rgFb1nRrfyvDvLEAEWrjLq4eg=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-5662662-1431732050-2625.jpeg.jpg

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  3. ruudverkerk@kpnmail.nlOctober 5, 2020 at 8:20 PM

    All your favorite album covers and many more on: musiceureka.wordpress.com

    Go on!

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  4. BeyesOctober 5, 2020 at 9:17 PM

    Whoa! Faith Tones are not up for your usual internship/staff position, are they?

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  5. Dave HeasmanOctober 5, 2020 at 9:21 PM

    Elvis' Golden Records vol 1 UK edition with gatefold sleeve & 4 12"x12" full colour photies.



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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 6, 2020 at 9:04 AM

      Showing US edition.

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    2. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 3:00 AM

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    3. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 3:01 AM

      Good stuff! We (in the US) wuz cheated!!!:

      https://www.discogs.com/release/3074018-Elvis-Golden-Records/images

      (That has to be one of my first EP LPs. Unfortunately it was a '70s FAKE STEREO ed.!)

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    4. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 3:09 AM

      (I'll git this write eventually... Too many Elvi...)

      Here is the U.S. iteration of the imagery, as found originally in the Xmas EeePee ElPee ('57 model and "50th anniversary" '80s ri):

      http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/loc1035

      Guess the Poms got it all (or almost all) in "Golden Wreckords"...

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  6. HermannOctober 5, 2020 at 9:32 PM

    steal it here:
    https://mrweirdandwacky.blogspot.com/2020/09/ufo-on-farm-road-318-twisted-tales-from.html

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    3. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 3:43 AM


      Initial iteration "Volume one" is just as inspired:

      https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zDtaNDAWs_o/XQ-tm1m0RaI/AAAAAAAAKF8/MwdFK5Mdjp0FK_oHxoZMEKEmbYiiQrWrACLcBGAs/s1600/front1.jpg

      Don't miss the "hippie in a blunder" volume... Oh, and "Please Don't Go Topless Mother"...

      I suppose my favorite volume might be the crime spree set, Volume THREE, "Beatin' the Bars" ... The one with Johnny Otis & gang singin bout "Home On Alcatraz" & more criminal rekkids...

      https://forwardwiththesong.blogspot.com/2019/06/va-twisted-tales-from-vinyl-wastelands_26.html

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  7. HermannOctober 5, 2020 at 9:35 PM

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    1. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 3:39 AM

      Review of early volumes, here:

      "Twisted Delights - No Depression":

      https://www.nodepression.com/terrells-tune-up-twisted-delights/

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  8. sambgodotOctober 5, 2020 at 10:45 PM

    What makes the \Burritos cover for me is a sense, firstly, of decadence and secondly, there is an edginess about it, it's slightly unsettling, disquieting. Having previously said I don't take too much notice of covers, on a totally different tack, may I propose Volume 1 of Bubblegum Girl. The music's not all that exciting, but.....who cares? (And it did cross my mind, just for a micro-split second, that the one on the right above was Farq in a wig. I'm sure Farq will confirm I was mistaken........

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 6, 2020 at 9:07 AM

      Outed! Curses!

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    2. One Buck GuyOctober 7, 2020 at 9:54 PM

      "What makes the \Burritos cover for me is a sense, firstly, of decadence and secondly, there is an edginess about it, it's slightly unsettling, disquieting."

      Hillbillies in Nudie suits and a couple of hookers in the background will do that from time to time...

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    3. UncleBOctober 9, 2020 at 5:57 AM

      Maybe it's those Boston Fern fronds embroidered on to Gram's suit that have y'all distracted...

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  9. Dave HeasmanOctober 6, 2020 at 12:47 AM

    The first Gram Parsons record, GP, boring cover, great gatefold double inner sleeve that I can't find. From an Amazon review - "Open the album cover and there is Gram Parsons standing in front of a hay truck. A semi with a custom paint job, carrying hay. The paint was done by George Barris of 1960's Batmobile fame. "

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 6, 2020 at 9:09 AM

      Showing inner gatefold.

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    2. Hazy DaveOctober 6, 2020 at 9:04 PM

      Some outtakes from that photo shoot were used as cover graphics for a set of Country Rock compilations: https://www.bear-family.com/various-truckers-kickers-cowboy-angels/

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    3. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 2:46 AM

      B.F. (2 x CD set) series (with GP inner spread "outtake" shots) is Grrrr-eat!

      "Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth Of Country Rock"

      https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=Blissed-Out+Birth+of+Country+Rock+Truckers+CD&type=all

      It might just be me, but could it be that the "director's cut" version was...

      " Truckers, Sh!t Kickers... "

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    4. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 2:47 AM

      Hay, gang. Here is a slight octane boost, a minor upgrade on the GP spread:

      https://www.al.com/resizer/FKOEyG63RYNitdEZLbfin4z8ebE=/1280x0/smart/advancelocal-adapter-image-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/image.al.com/home/bama-media/width2048/img/entertainment_impact/photo/20432093-standard.jpg

      Or - Proper crop, but with a wee tad of glare:

      https://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/gram-parsons-g-p-3-ab.jpg

      CWCD:

      https://www.al.com/entertainment/2016/05/50_far-out_gatefold_album_cove.html

      (File Under: How many of these made it to Pinned-Up In The Dorm Room status over the years?")

      (More) CWCD:

      "GP" by Gram Parsons, 1973
      Cover art: Barry Feinstein, Vicki Hodgetts

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  10. bumppaOctober 6, 2020 at 1:55 AM

    No contest:
    "Weasel's Ripped My Flesh" - The Mothers

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  11. AiroeOctober 6, 2020 at 2:27 AM

    On the beach by Neil Young (because i'm living near a beach !)

    alain

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  12. MrDaveOctober 6, 2020 at 3:17 AM

    Ooh, good one! This is the kind of thing where I'm going to keep thinking of other ones and won't be able to choose any one particular favorite but I've liked Blue Cheer's Outsideinside as well as MC5's Kick Out the Jams for a very long time as examples of album art that really embody the spirit and psychic experience of their music. So much other great album art though!

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  13. Crab DevilOctober 6, 2020 at 3:31 AM

    Me, I used to wonder if The Faith Tones were just The Shaggs
    before their Pops thought of slipping them the old yagé (or
    "ayahuasca," as the more with-it people are starting to say).
    But no -- that's not the half of it, not according to The Internet.

    For example: https://www.ailantha.com/blog/the-mysterious-faith-tones.

    And also for example: https://jbw53191.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-faith-tones.html

    And especially for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ewF1jtAJs.

    Of course I agree with MrDave: there are tons of great album
    covers out there. At this very moment, though, I can't think
    of anything that's better than Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here."

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    1. Crab DevilOctober 6, 2020 at 3:37 AM

      Such as like so: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71m0ofUWYXL._SL1300_.jpg

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    2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 6, 2020 at 9:17 AM

      Found a Floyd with limited dedtion pencil title!

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  14. Hazy DaveOctober 6, 2020 at 4:08 AM

    Roxy Music's Country Life is hard to beat.

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  15. Peanuts MolloyOctober 6, 2020 at 6:29 AM

    If I can only nominate one it will be "Late for the Sky" by Jackson Browne.

    If I can stretch to three (and your title to this thread suggests plural) I'll add "It's a Beautiful Day" and "The Train and the River" by The Jimmy Giuffre 3 (the stereo reissue sleeve of a toy train, not the pic of the trio).

    If I can add a maverick selection I would choose between "The Girl I Left Behind Me" by Alison Cotton and "Ever Felt the Pain?" by John Heneghan & His Henpecked Husbands".

    But of course there's many, many more . . .

    Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.

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  16. Mickey BitskoOctober 6, 2020 at 7:23 AM

    My two fave rock & roll album covers: NRBQ's "At Yankee Stadium," depicting the boys sitting in the stands of an otherwise empty stadium, and The Youngblood's "Rock Festival" showing a a bunch of rocks.

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  17. pmacOctober 6, 2020 at 7:33 AM

    Come on, people. How does Swamp Dog not make anyone's list of best covers?!?
    Total Destruction of Your Mind
    http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/2016/08/graded-on-a-curve-swamp-dogg-total-destruction-to-your-mind/

    Rat On:
    https://www.amazon.com/Rat-Swamp-Dogg/dp/B00B2TUQUW

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    1. rickOctober 6, 2020 at 7:42 AM

      yea agreed

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    2. MrDaveOctober 6, 2020 at 6:43 PM

      I see your Swamp Dog and raise you The Handsome Beasts' Beastiality

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    3. MrDaveOctober 6, 2020 at 6:44 PM

      my linky no worky. Here it is: https://www.discogs.com/The-Handsome-Beasts-Beastiality/release/1421184

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    4. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 2:15 AM

      Swamp Dogg... Great tuneage to go with wild cover art. Unfortunately, my CD copy of "TDOYM" (Sounds great in Stereo) is the old Charly (UK) "2-fer" issue. With the "RAT ON" (mind-blowing in it's own right...) cover used on front, and no trace of the great "TDOYM" cover...

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  18. rickOctober 6, 2020 at 7:43 AM

    always been partial to the Hawkwind space ritual fold out deal

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    1. MrDaveOctober 6, 2020 at 6:30 PM

      That is really something to behold in its full glory and one I thought of mentioning as well but the online pictures did not convey its magnificence sufficiently.

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  19. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 6, 2020 at 11:32 AM

    You're a VERY BAD BOY, Kwai Chang!

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  20. Kwai ChangOctober 6, 2020 at 11:33 AM

    Censorship is tolerated!

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  21. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 6, 2020 at 11:50 AM

    I added my own choice (which is also one of Peanuts Molloy's) - IABD. Just perfect in every way, down to the vintage logo bottom right.

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    1. Hazy DaveOctober 6, 2020 at 8:29 PM

      Actually, probably the first one I thought of... I was given a dozen 12.5 inch square frames a while back, and IABD's artwork now adds a touch of class to the old rumpus room. In the interest of domestic harmony, Country Life remains on the shelf, despite its undeniable artistic value.

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    2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 7, 2020 at 6:16 AM

      You could frame that censored (US?) edition with no problems ...

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  22. OGOctober 6, 2020 at 9:49 PM

    Santana - Self Titled with the pen and ink drawing of the Lion/native girl

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 8, 2020 at 4:17 AM

      Santana have hit perhaps the highest number of home runs in album design.

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  23. Hugh CandysideOctober 6, 2020 at 10:34 PM

    It's a Beautiful Day was, I'm going to say inspired by, Woman on the Top of a Mountain by Charles Courtney Curran. Still one of my favorites though.

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    1. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 2:12 AM

      Very evocative. Sort of a Maxfield Parrish type vibe. Retro cool in the '60s meant turning the page back to the turn of the century.

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    2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 8, 2020 at 4:08 AM

      There is a very similar Parrish painting, but the Curran is almost identical. It's fine in the context of commercial art (which is what the IABD cover is) to be inspired by (*cough* copy) Real Painting. Out of the millions of images he could have chosen, Hunter chose this, and made it timeless, and arguably more important than its inspiration.

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    3. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 8, 2020 at 4:15 AM

      ... and of course Late For The Sky was inspired by (*cough* copied) a Magritte painting,

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    4. Peanuts MolloyOctober 8, 2020 at 5:58 AM

      Yeah. You've reminded me of another favourite sleeve: Alan Hull's "Pipedream".

      Neither "inspired by" nor "copied" but simply and properly credited on the inside gatefold to Monsieur M. Great record too.

      (See also Punch Brothers, Jeff Beck, The Rascals, etc.)

      Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.

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    5. Peanuts MolloyOctober 8, 2020 at 6:04 AM

      Actually, could be Meneer M.

      Belgium confuses me.

      Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.

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  24. Kwai ChangOctober 6, 2020 at 10:50 PM

    "The title is HONKY... (NOT honey)

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  25. UncleBOctober 7, 2020 at 2:06 AM

    Tough question. This will take some overtime work with the Thinking Cap firly in place... Shrink wrap optional...

    Some rill nice choices above. Lemme sleep on it (without saying Meatloaf...)

    Oh, and, at the risk of uttering the name that Iggles group, aka Kings or Dinosaurs of Cali Country Rawk....

    Nice work ON THE BORDER...

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    1. UncleBOctober 10, 2020 at 6:42 AM

      TYPO Patrol:

      Thinking Cap firMly in place...

      NOT:

      Thinking Cap firly in place...

      Who knows, maybe its a gun-jumper holidaze-decor garland- or wreath-encircled model...

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  26. Bell-eyeOctober 7, 2020 at 3:42 AM

    The original inside of the On The Beach cover matches the pattern on the chairs and umbrella on the front...I love the attention to detail

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    1. FRANCKOctober 10, 2020 at 7:59 PM

      and more, the promotional poster of the lp show a front Neil Young photo of the same session.

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    2. FRANCKOctober 10, 2020 at 8:01 PM

      and more, the promotional poster of the lp show a front Neil Young photo of the same session.

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  27. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIOctober 7, 2020 at 6:15 AM

    Well, okay, but I still ain't postin' it!

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  28. One Buck GuyOctober 7, 2020 at 9:48 PM

    A real headscratcher this one...so, yeah, gotta go with Peanut Molloy's choice...is there a cover that evokes the feel and sentiment of the music inside as much as "Late for the Sky"?...yeah, I don't think so, hoss.

    So, as an alternative: What about Warren Zevon's "The Envoy". The almost bored nonchalance of Mr. Zevon as the title character compared to the edgy security detail around him - cinematic and cool as a cucumber, that.

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  29. HermannOctober 8, 2020 at 8:02 PM

    ... small question
    whom from is R-1139784-1390250862-4975.jpeg.jpg ?

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    1. UncleBOctober 9, 2020 at 6:25 AM

      This might help.

      https://www.discogs.com/release/8730935-Outsideinside/images

      Trippy text added courtesy of the stodgy Poms who can't get with it, '68 Frisco freakout style...

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  30. MrDaveOctober 9, 2020 at 7:00 AM

    Yep! That was my pick along with the MC5: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Whee4EdAt2M/UtgbAiYsJOI/AAAAAAABIiM/_8u-iLnn2B0/s1600/kick-out-the-jams-4fb5385051907.jpg

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    1. UncleBOctober 10, 2020 at 6:40 AM

      Why not make it a kickoutthejamsmutha--- noise-to-the-neighbors trifecta...?

      Add in some White Stripes, or if you hate that I even MENTIONED them (like I do), how about some Cream or other power trio-ish stuff of the same era...?

      I am trying to think of the ONE, ultimate, Go-To LEASE-BREAKER, AMPS to "11" album of all time...

      Maybe a new "Poll" is in order...

      Hmmm... What would Jack K's Cat say...?

      I'd like to think something uber kool. Jazz. David Stone Martin... Or...

      Not a single one here by "HIPGNOSIS"? Or maybe that Fink Ployd one IS...(?)

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  31. HermannOctober 9, 2020 at 8:55 PM

    @UncleB
    Thanks.

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  32. UncleBOctober 10, 2020 at 6:32 AM

    No problemo.

    Since nothing has been added here is a while (unless it's that '68 double deal by that Phab Phour group, and it's just camouflaged here... In its Whiteness...)

    Found a good image (without having to dig out my personal copy from deep burial in The Archives) of ONE of my . . .

    Favorite Album CoverS


    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c6/f9/37/c6f9370dd65cd52c892d356889c3e977.jpg


    More to come..........?

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  33. UncleBOctober 10, 2020 at 6:46 AM

    71 Comments and counting...

    This has got to be a (wait for it) Record...

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  34. UncleBOctober 11, 2020 at 2:45 AM

    This was about my favorite entry here in ages. Er, or since the last appearance of the elusive & erudite Jack K.'s Kitty Kat.

    As Hurricane Smith once sang, "Don't Let it Die"!

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  35. UncleBOctober 11, 2020 at 2:53 AM

    Who's game?

    How about a "Your favorite covers Dept." that is devoted to those what are 7" in size or thereabouts...???

    A picture sleeve, as the old dudes used to call 'em. Or an EP.

    Like, even a favorite RECORD LABEL might count...?

    Design for madness...?

    I nominate:

    http://images.45cat.com/alfred-e-neuman-its-a-gas-mad-magazine.jpg

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  36. JohnOctober 12, 2020 at 6:59 PM

    A little late with mine: Quicksilver Messenger Service's "Happy Trails"- designed by the same people that did the It's A Beautiful Day artwork...

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  37. UncleBOctober 13, 2020 at 7:17 AM

    Better late than ... forever ignored ... ? As these FMF "topix" seem to "die on the vine" after their "best if used by dates"...

    Quicksilver Messenger Soivice did the "foiled again" thing with their '68 Capitol debut. Ala "Wheels of Fire," which came a bit later, I think...?

    Others with that "foil" thing on front?

    Steppenwolf (1st), The Chipmunks (!), The Living Guitars (!!!)

    A LOT earlier... ca. '63:

    https://www.discogs.com/Living-Guitars-The-Big-Guitar-Sound/master/331817

    Like, trippy, dood...

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    1. MrDaveOctober 13, 2020 at 4:33 PM

      That reminds me of this album by the Feederz from 1984 that was covered by a sheet of sandpaper so that it would ruin any other albums it was put next to! https://www.discogs.com/Feederz-Ever-Feel-Like-Killing-Your-Boss/master/132130
      Featured the big hit, "Jesus Entering From the Rear." I'll still stick with my earlier selections from the psychedelic 60s though!

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    2. UncleBOctober 15, 2020 at 8:20 AM

      Zipper cover of some '7Ts album called "Sticky Fingers" by some sorta Glimmer Twins and co. act had monumental returns to distributors due to damages what Warhol's widget wrought. The Real Metal (no, not the hairbands type), bluejeans closure device protruded just right to be able to ruin most of the last 1/2 of whatever side was ... "exposed" to the ... thing.

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  38. UncleBOctober 13, 2020 at 7:21 AM

    Fergot to add this link.

    Rock on with yo bad self.... And the Lounging Gee-tars:

    http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/2020/06/living-guitars-shingdig-1964-al-caiola.html?showComment=1593312948846#c3615330471896199089

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