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Braile covers are a whole undiscovered industry.
I'd of thought ABKCO would've been on to that by now.
I read that Stevie Wonder was invited by an acquaintance in the record business to attend a Passover seder. When someone handed him a piece of matzoh, Stevie asked, "Who wrote this?!"
Whadya mean you don't need seeds? How you gonna plant next season's crop?
Yeah, I wasn't sure what the postcards were about, either! Sort of like the cut outs in Sgt. Pepper's, but they were still fun to look at. I remember a friend of mine in college buying an ELO album which had not only a poster but also a mobile you could hang from your ceiling. And, did you ever see the album "Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall?" Three posters, a booklet with a list of all their concerts. Those days are long gone.
GREAT photos in Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass).
Remember the Alice Cooper "School's Out" album which folded out into a school desk?
Yes Great Album and Cover, my first Alice was I' m Eighteen and Big Hits great with them photo's, in every room in my place are vinyls and as well in my studio
.....HOWEVER......it DID have a great poster with lyrics, as well as the four individual photos. Sort of made up for the lack of anything else on the cover.
Loaded with goodies
Yeah, my wife and I were flipping around the TV one night and came across the PBS show called "Antiques Roadshow." This woman had brought the Live at Leeds album in to be evaluated, because she thought that all of those contracts and signatures and goodies were one of a kind originals that a band member or manager had stuck in there.
She figured she was about to be rich.
Bless her heart.
I do hav this great vinyl but lost inserts/poster over the years
bummer...that's a great poster
Yep thats the one and I think there were a lot of bills for damage...
Or even...
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OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Mongoose
()
Date: June 12, 2013 18:24
It is a lost art NOW, of course, due to this being the age of digital music, downloading mp.3's, etc. (although it is nice to see vinyl making a comeback).
What I offer up for discussion is those magical times when you bought a new album, put it on the turntable, and just got completely ENGROSSED in the moment. Reading the lyrics and hanging on every line. Wondering if the piano player was Nicky Hopkins. Looking at the poster, or cutouts, or inner sleeve (remember all the "freebies" you used to get with albums?). Pouring over the liner notes of when and where it was recorded, who produced it, what guest artists were at the sessions, who wrote what song, etc. Everything else in the world pretty much STOPPED for that hour or so, and then you would probably put another album on and do the same thing!
All that being said, what albums stick in your mind that you had this exact experience with......you not only gave it a "first listen," but you also spent time with everything the album cover and inserts had to offer?
In no particular order, here is my list:
ROLLING STONES - Exile on Main St.
ROLLING STONES - Let It Bleed
ROLLING STONES - Satanic Majesties
BEATLES - Sgt. Pepper's
BEATLES - Magical Mystery Tour
THE WHO - Tommy
THE WHO - Quadrophenia
PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - Electric Ladyland
CREAM - Disreali Gears
CREAM - Wheels of Fire
ELTON JOHN - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION - Uncle Meat
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Volunteers
JETHRO TULL - Thick as a Brick
STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life
What's your list?
Cheers.....
What I offer up for discussion is those magical times when you bought a new album, put it on the turntable, and just got completely ENGROSSED in the moment. Reading the lyrics and hanging on every line. Wondering if the piano player was Nicky Hopkins. Looking at the poster, or cutouts, or inner sleeve (remember all the "freebies" you used to get with albums?). Pouring over the liner notes of when and where it was recorded, who produced it, what guest artists were at the sessions, who wrote what song, etc. Everything else in the world pretty much STOPPED for that hour or so, and then you would probably put another album on and do the same thing!
All that being said, what albums stick in your mind that you had this exact experience with......you not only gave it a "first listen," but you also spent time with everything the album cover and inserts had to offer?
In no particular order, here is my list:
ROLLING STONES - Exile on Main St.
ROLLING STONES - Let It Bleed
ROLLING STONES - Satanic Majesties
BEATLES - Sgt. Pepper's
BEATLES - Magical Mystery Tour
THE WHO - Tommy
THE WHO - Quadrophenia
PINK FLOYD - Dark Side of the Moon
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - Electric Ladyland
CREAM - Disreali Gears
CREAM - Wheels of Fire
ELTON JOHN - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION - Uncle Meat
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Volunteers
JETHRO TULL - Thick as a Brick
STEVIE WONDER - Songs in the Key of Life
What's your list?
Cheers.....
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
StonesTod
()
Date: June 12, 2013 18:29
i suppose if you happen to be blind, it comes as a consolation that you're not missing out on this anymore....
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
treaclefingers
()
Date: June 12, 2013 18:31
Quote
StonesTod
i suppose if you happen to be blind, it comes as a consolation that you're not missing out on this anymore....
Braile covers are a whole undiscovered industry.
I'd of thought ABKCO would've been on to that by now.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Rokyfan
()
Date: June 12, 2013 18:35
I believe it was Catch a Fire or one of the other early Marley LPs that was a little corrugated or something to help catch the seeds. Two things gone now, album covers and seeds. Don't really need either.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Doc
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Date: June 12, 2013 18:39
I also spend some time "studying" the LP Sleeves.
Once the CD arrived, I still didi it, but I admit with lesser fun.
Some great original pressings to play with were :
Exile On Main Street
Tommy - The Rock Opera
Iron Maiden - Live after Death
Once the CD arrived, I still didi it, but I admit with lesser fun.
Some great original pressings to play with were :
Exile On Main Street
Tommy - The Rock Opera
Iron Maiden - Live after Death
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
schillid
()
Date: June 12, 2013 18:51
Quote
treaclefingersQuote
StonesTod
i suppose if you happen to be blind, it comes as a consolation that you're not missing out on this anymore....
Braile covers are a whole undiscovered industry.
I'd of thought ABKCO would've been on to that by now.
I read that Stevie Wonder was invited by an acquaintance in the record business to attend a Passover seder. When someone handed him a piece of matzoh, Stevie asked, "Who wrote this?!"
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
gimmelittledrink
()
Date: June 12, 2013 19:01
I still remember buying Exile in downtown Erie, PA and unwrapping as soon as I got home. It was such a fantastic design (although I didn't quite see how the postcards fit in). It wasn't just the album cover but the sleeves as well. I spent hours studying it and later got a copy of The Americans by Robert Frank just to see how many Exile images were in it. I still think it's the best album cover design of all time and played a big role in creating the album's mystique. You can't begin to relicate these album covers as CDs.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Roscoe
()
Date: June 12, 2013 19:15
Quote
Rokyfan
I believe it was Catch a Fire or one of the other early Marley LPs that was a little corrugated or something to help catch the seeds. Two things gone now, album covers and seeds. Don't really need either.
Whadya mean you don't need seeds? How you gonna plant next season's crop?
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Mongoose
()
Date: June 12, 2013 19:17
Quote
gimmelittledrink
I still remember buying Exile in downtown Erie, PA and unwrapping as soon as I got home. It was such a fantastic design (although I didn't quite see how the postcards fit in). It wasn't just the album cover but the sleeves as well. I spent hours studying it and later got a copy of The Americans by Robert Frank just to see how many Exile images were in it. I still think it's the best album cover design of all time and played a big role in creating the album's mystique. You can't begin to relicate these album covers as CDs.
Yeah, I wasn't sure what the postcards were about, either! Sort of like the cut outs in Sgt. Pepper's, but they were still fun to look at. I remember a friend of mine in college buying an ELO album which had not only a poster but also a mobile you could hang from your ceiling. And, did you ever see the album "Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall?" Three posters, a booklet with a list of all their concerts. Those days are long gone.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
StonesTod
()
Date: June 12, 2013 19:30
postcards have long been used as an easy mailing correspondence facility. the stones were sorry to confuse you.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Rokyfan
()
Date: June 12, 2013 19:31
Let it Bleed came with a great poster, I believe a shot taken in a London park when they had a presser tointroduce Mick Taylor. I had that one for years.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
runaway
()
Date: June 12, 2013 19:57
It's not a lost Art, its still the same for me over the years.
Vinyls were always avaible , cd's are handy but I do prefer the vinyls cause of the sound/ artworks and its gonna last, don't know this with them cd's.
I 'm waiting right now for the latest Black Sabbath on Vinyl.
here are a few vinyls 1968-2013
The Rolling Stones-Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones-Big Hits {High Tide And Green Grass}
The Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers with a zip
The Rolling Stones-Exile On Main Street
Jimi Hendrix Experience -Electric Ladyland
Led Zeppelin- Swan Song
Grinderman -Grinderman 2 with a great booklet and poster
Quicksilver Just For Love
Arno -Future Vintage
Triggerfinger- All This Dancing Around "6 july Hyde Park".
Motörhead - Wörld Is Ours-Vol 1.
Vinyls were always avaible , cd's are handy but I do prefer the vinyls cause of the sound/ artworks and its gonna last, don't know this with them cd's.
I 'm waiting right now for the latest Black Sabbath on Vinyl.
here are a few vinyls 1968-2013
The Rolling Stones-Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones-Big Hits {High Tide And Green Grass}
The Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers with a zip
The Rolling Stones-Exile On Main Street
Jimi Hendrix Experience -Electric Ladyland
Led Zeppelin- Swan Song
Grinderman -Grinderman 2 with a great booklet and poster
Quicksilver Just For Love
Arno -Future Vintage
Triggerfinger- All This Dancing Around "6 july Hyde Park".
Motörhead - Wörld Is Ours-Vol 1.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Mongoose
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:08
Quote
runaway
It's not a lost Art, its still the same for me over the years.
Vinyls were always avaible , cd's are handy but I do prefer the vinyls cause of the sound/ artworks and its gonna last, don't know this with them cd's.
I 'm waiting right now for the latest Black Sabbath on Vinyl.
here are a few vinyls 1968-2013
The Rolling Stones-Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones-Big Hits {High Tide And Green Grass}
The Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers with a zip
The Rolling Stones-Exile On Main Street
Jimi Hendrix Experience -Electric Ladyland
Led Zeppelin- Swan Song
Grinderman -Grinderman 2 with a great booklet and poster
Quicksilver Just For Love
Arno -Future Vintage
Triggerfinger- All This Dancing Around "6 july Hyde Park".
Motörhead - Wörld Is Ours-Vol 1.
GREAT photos in Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass).
Remember the Alice Cooper "School's Out" album which folded out into a school desk?
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Rollin' Stoner
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:19
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
runaway
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:20
Quote
MongooseQuote
runaway
It's not a lost Art, its still the same for me over the years.
Vinyls were always avaible , cd's are handy but I do prefer the vinyls cause of the sound/ artworks and its gonna last, don't know this with them cd's.
I 'm waiting right now for the latest Black Sabbath on Vinyl.
here are a few vinyls 1968-2013
The Rolling Stones-Beggars Banquet
The Rolling Stones-Big Hits {High Tide And Green Grass}
The Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers with a zip
The Rolling Stones-Exile On Main Street
Jimi Hendrix Experience -Electric Ladyland
Led Zeppelin- Swan Song
Grinderman -Grinderman 2 with a great booklet and poster
Quicksilver Just For Love
Arno -Future Vintage
Triggerfinger- All This Dancing Around "6 july Hyde Park".
Motörhead - Wörld Is Ours-Vol 1.
GREAT photos in Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass).
Remember the Alice Cooper "School's Out" album which folded out into a school desk?
Yes Great Album and Cover, my first Alice was I' m Eighteen and Big Hits great with them photo's, in every room in my place are vinyls and as well in my studio
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
GumbootCloggeroo
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:21
The Beatles White Album. It's a pretty deep cover if you look at it long enough.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Mongoose
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:24
Quote
GumbootCloggeroo
The Beatles White Album. It's a pretty deep cover if you look at it long enough.
.....HOWEVER......it DID have a great poster with lyrics, as well as the four individual photos. Sort of made up for the lack of anything else on the cover.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Rollin' Stoner
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:29
Loaded with goodiesRe: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Rollin' Stoner
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:31
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Mongoose
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:33
Quote
Rollin' Stoner
Yeah, my wife and I were flipping around the TV one night and came across the PBS show called "Antiques Roadshow." This woman had brought the Live at Leeds album in to be evaluated, because she thought that all of those contracts and signatures and goodies were one of a kind originals that a band member or manager had stuck in there.
She figured she was about to be rich.
Bless her heart.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Rollin' Stoner
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:35
Ha...I think the same thing happened on the Pawn Stars showQuote
MongooseQuote
Rollin' Stoner
Yeah, my wife and I were flipping around the TV one night and came across the PBS show called "Antiques Roadshow." This woman had brought the Live at Leeds album in to be evaluated, because she thought that all of those contracts and signatures and goodies were one of a kind originals that a band member or manager had stuck in there.
She figured she was about to be rich.
Bless her heart.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
runaway
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:36
Quote
Rollin' Stoner
I do hav this great vinyl but lost inserts/poster over the years
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
Rollin' Stoner
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:39
Quote
runawayQuote
Rollin' Stoner
I do hav this great vinyl but lost inserts/poster over the years
bummer...that's a great posterRe: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
runaway
()
Date: June 12, 2013 20:45
Quote
Rollin' StonerQuote
runawayQuote
Rollin' Stoner
I do hav this great vinyl but lost inserts/poster over the years
Yep thats the one and I think there were a lot of bills for damage...
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
GravityBoy
()
Date: June 12, 2013 21:22
This was obviously before they invented Playstation.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
GravityBoy
()
Date: June 12, 2013 21:23
Quote
Rollin' Stoner
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
GravityBoy
()
Date: June 12, 2013 21:24
Quote
Rollin' Stoner
Or even...
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
GravityBoy
()
Date: June 12, 2013 21:26
A whole world.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
GravityBoy
()
Date: June 12, 2013 21:30
The hours.. oh the hours...
I want them back.
Good thread by the way.
I want them back.
Good thread by the way.
Re: OT- The lost art of looking at album covers while listening to a new album
Posted by:
kleermaker
()
Date: June 12, 2013 21:34
The absolutely most interesting Stones album covers are:
1*. the original Their Satanic sleeve (very rare and valuable now!)
2. the original Through The Past, Darkly cover (octagonal cover)
3. Sticky Fingers cover with zipper
* Initial releases of the album featured a three-dimensional picture of the band on the cover by photographer Michael Cooper. When viewed in a certain way, the lenticular image shows the band members' faces turning towards each other with the exception of Jagger, whose hands appear crossed in front of him. Looking closely on its cover, one can see the faces of each of the four Beatles, reportedly a response to the Beatles' inclusion of a doll wearing a "Welcome the Rolling Stones" sweater on the cover of Sgt. Pepper. Later editions replaced the glued-on three-dimensional image with a photograph, due to high production costs. A limited edition LP version in the 1980s reprinted the original 3D cover design; immediately following the reissue, the master materials for reprinting the 3D cover were intentionally destroyed.
1*. the original Their Satanic sleeve (very rare and valuable now!)
2. the original Through The Past, Darkly cover (octagonal cover)
3. Sticky Fingers cover with zipper
* Initial releases of the album featured a three-dimensional picture of the band on the cover by photographer Michael Cooper. When viewed in a certain way, the lenticular image shows the band members' faces turning towards each other with the exception of Jagger, whose hands appear crossed in front of him. Looking closely on its cover, one can see the faces of each of the four Beatles, reportedly a response to the Beatles' inclusion of a doll wearing a "Welcome the Rolling Stones" sweater on the cover of Sgt. Pepper. Later editions replaced the glued-on three-dimensional image with a photograph, due to high production costs. A limited edition LP version in the 1980s reprinted the original 3D cover design; immediately following the reissue, the master materials for reprinting the 3D cover were intentionally destroyed.
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