Bright Moments Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 there is some great music under some ugly album covers! post 'em here! Quote
sidewinder Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 This 'gem' from Corky McCoy comes immediately to mind: Great music though - especially side 1 of the original LP. Quote
Bluesman Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 The entire "Legends of Acid Jazz" series. Take your pick but this is my (least) favourite. Quote
Bright Moments Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Posted March 25, 2007 there is some great music under some ugly album covers! post 'em here! i knew i saw this cover before! Quote
BFrank Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 The entire "Legends of Acid Jazz" series. Take your pick but this is my (least) favourite. The entire 32 Jazz label. Take your pick ... Quote
Free For All Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 The entire "Legends of Acid Jazz" series. Take your pick but this is my (least) favourite. The entire 32 Jazz label. Take your pick ... Amen.... Quote
BFrank Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 The entire "Legends of Acid Jazz" series. Take your pick but this is my (least) favourite. The entire 32 Jazz label. Take your pick ... Amen.... ... brother. Quote
Spontooneous Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 Has there ever been a more tragically unfitting album cover than this one? It's so wrong in so many ways. Quote
BFrank Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 Ths album (w/Joe Farrell, Eddie Gomez and Steve Gadd) is nowhere NEAR as bad as it's cover. Quote
brownie Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 (edited) Most 1950's Savoy covers. Oh, come on, Mike! Don't you just love that one! I do Edited March 25, 2007 by brownie Quote
mikeweil Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 Most 1950's Savoy covers. Oh, come on, Mike! Don't you just love that one! I do Nice Idea, ugly girl, badly painted ... Quote
brownie Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 Another classic Savoy album cover from the fifties! Quote
Van Basten II Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 Don't know gow to put a picture, but Harold Danko's After the rain on Steeplechase is awfully cheesy. The cover of L'incroyable vérité of Sebastien Tellier almost made me not buy the record. A guy that looks Demis Rousos is not a good to put on a cover. Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted March 26, 2007 Report Posted March 26, 2007 All these covers are nowhere near as bad as MANY of the typical 70s reissue covers of a lot of fine 50s music, e.g. the entire nondescript "standard" covers of the "Jazz Lab" series on German MCA that featured reissues of 50s Coral jazz albums or some of those 80s Jazzline series reissues on French RCA . Or is there anything worse fitting the contents of the album than 70s/80s cover shots of artists that look sooo old and sooo long-haired, bearded and tired and wear funny flower-power garb in the worst 1973 fashion style while the actual contents of the music are prime 50s or even late 40s stuff? Worse than any of the funky 70s covers of original releases shown above. A related question to those who may have been around and into record production in the 70s/early 80s: Whatever was it that kept record companies from reissuing 50s records with their ORIGNAL artwork covers (like the Japanese did early on) back in the 70s? What were they afraid of? Would a bearded, worn-out looking long-hair viking named Gerry Mulligan really promise that much more sales of his early quartet sides in those long-hair days than a repor of the original cover showing a crisp-looking young dude? Quote
brownie Posted March 26, 2007 Report Posted March 26, 2007 Don't know gow to put a picture, but Harold Danko's After the rain on Steeplechase is awfully cheesy. Harold Danko 'After the Rain' Quote
Claude Posted March 26, 2007 Report Posted March 26, 2007 Has there ever been a more tragically unfitting album cover than this one? It's so wrong in so many ways. You must be kidding Quote
Spontooneous Posted March 26, 2007 Report Posted March 26, 2007 Has there ever been a more tragically unfitting album cover than this one? It's so wrong in so many ways. You must be kidding Hmm...charming music decorated with a cover featuring a device designed to kill thousands of people. Just hilarious. See, we Americans ain't all nuke-happy. Quote
BFrank Posted March 26, 2007 Report Posted March 26, 2007 (edited) Has there ever been a more tragically unfitting album cover than this one? It's so wrong in so many ways. You must be kidding Hmm...charming music decorated with a cover featuring a device designed to kill thousands of people. Just hilarious. See, we Americans ain't all nuke-happy. I think Claude was making a reference to his 'avatar'. Edited March 26, 2007 by BFrank Quote
Spontooneous Posted March 27, 2007 Report Posted March 27, 2007 Has there ever been a more tragically unfitting album cover than this one? It's so wrong in so many ways. You must be kidding Hmm...charming music decorated with a cover featuring a device designed to kill thousands of people. Just hilarious. See, we Americans ain't all nuke-happy. I think Claude was making a reference to his 'avatar'. Oh. Now I git it, when you draw me a diagram. Sorry about that. My day job is editing copy written by people who think that "nuke" is the funniest verb imaginable in a joking context. This leads me into arguments over nuclear metaphors and images quite often. As you can see, I'm getting pretty good at it. Quote
Spontooneous Posted March 27, 2007 Report Posted March 27, 2007 Gee, that was my favorite photo of Bud... Quote
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