Album covers you loved as a kid

Freebird

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5929b26f13d197565213a786/1:1/w_600/ea703ecd.jpg

chillidoggy

Freebird said:

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5929b26f13d197565213a786/1:1/w_600/ea703ecd.jpg

Is that the endoscope picture of Emp's arsehole?

Wolfetone

Most of the Budgie covers...

Wolfetone

....and also Molly Hatchet covers

axisus

Yay! Frank Frazetta (first Molly Hatchet cover there) superb artist.

The other two pretty good as well, although not FF

Wolfetone

...and this one of course

tampaxboo

i'm too young for vinyl, but i always thought this was a stunning idea. a sandpaper cover so you either have to keep the album separate from the rest of your collection, or it will gradually destroy your entire collection from within. very factory.

The Durutti Column - The Return Of The Durutti Column.
http://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/the-durutti-column-the-return-of-the-durutti-column-7-ab.jpg

axisus

tampaxboo said:

i'm too young for vinyl, but i always thought this was a stunning idea. a sandpaper cover so you either have to keep the album separate from the rest of your collection, or it will gradually destroy your entire collection from within. very factory.

The Durutti Column - The Return Of The Durutti Column.
http://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/the-durutti-column-the-return-of-the-durutti-column-7-ab.jpg

Brilliant. And also incredibly annoying.

57Deluxe

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fHvWWKSeonE/maxresdefault.jpg

Wolfetone

This one by Boston always fired my imagination and I never tired of looking at it...

ICBM

axisus said:

tampaxboo said:

i'm too young for vinyl, but i always thought this was a stunning idea. a sandpaper cover so you either have to keep the album separate from the rest of your collection, or it will gradually destroy your entire collection from within. very factory.

The Durutti Column - The Return Of The Durutti Column.

Brilliant. And also incredibly annoying.

Just put it in one of those clear plastic sleeve protectors. Fixed.

tampaxboo

ICBM said:

axisus said:

tampaxboo said:

i'm too young for vinyl, but i always thought this was a stunning idea. a sandpaper cover so you either have to keep the album separate from the rest of your collection, or it will gradually destroy your entire collection from within. very factory.

The Durutti Column - The Return Of The Durutti Column.

Brilliant. And also incredibly annoying.

Just put it in one of those clear plastic sleeve protectors. Fixed.

actually the problem went deeper, in that the glass bits came off the sandpaper and ended up inside the sleeve (scratching the vinyl), so more ended up getting retured than kept.
but it's like the infamous new order 'blue monday' cut-out cover (one of the few vinyls i have. charity shop find bought solely for the cover as i don't even have a player).

in case you haven't heard that story, the legend is that everyone was so excited about the idea (anonymous black sleeve, band name in colour 'code' along side, cut-outs to imitate floppy discs of the time) that it went off to production without being priced. eventually they got the figures back and realised they were losing money on every one they sold.

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20160728/122062822714.jpg

the band were then placed in the surreal situation of suddenly wishing their new song would drop out of charts without a trace, from which point it went on to become the best selling 12" of all time. it's poetry really. that phrase 'snatching defeat from the jaws of victory' comes to mind.
but you have to admire the band for never giving up, no matter what. there's genuine heroism there. and such great work.

factory records were like the last scene from 'the italian job' spread out over an entire decade.