Album Covers with Surrealist Art

[soulpope]

Styx "The Grand Illusion" (A&M) 1977

[soulpope]

Phil Woods "Pierre Cardine presente..." (Pierre Cardin) 1971

[soulpope]

Jazz Soul Seven "Impressions of Curtis Mayfield" (BFM Jazz) 2012

[Joe]

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Joel Vandroogenbroeck "Biomechanoid" (Couloursound Library) 1981

capitalising on the success of Ridley Scott’s "Alien" film "Biomechanoid" was released featuring cover art commissioned by swiss Surrealist HR Giger (titled Biomechanoid 75) – whose horrific Necronom IV lithograph served as the basis for the design of "Alien".

Edited May 26, 2014 by soulpope

[A Lark Ascending]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

[soulpope]

good find !!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Here's another - well, George Clinton (THEE George Clinton, I mean) is a rather surrealist person.

MG

[A Lark Ascending]

good find !!

Does this count as surrealism?:

[soulpope]

unwittingly(?) surrealistic.....

Edited May 26, 2014 by soulpope

[A Lark Ascending]

And many other Gong records!

Not sure if this is surreal or just fantasy (or Tolkeinian!):

Another from my youth. Very much from the early days of Monty Python:

I once leant that to a friend. His dad caught sight of it and immediately demanded he return it! Fortunately, my parents never noticed my record covers.

And one from a man who's never been scared to torpedo his career with bad record covers:

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[.:.impossible]

[A Lark Ascending]

And then there's:

Not to mention:

The early 70s was awash with this stuff.

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[Leeway]

[soulpope]

Another from my youth. Very much from the early days of Monty Python:

I once leant that to a friend. His dad caught site of it and immediately demanded he return it! Fortunately, my parents never noticed my record covers.

[soulpope]

Paul Butterfield "Put It In Your Ear" (Chess) 1975

[soulpope]

Archie Whitewater "Archie Whitewater" (Cadet Concept) 1970

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[JohnJ]

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Frank Zappa "One Size Fits All" (DiscReet Records) 1975

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Fleet Foxes "Helpless Blues" (Bella Union) 2011

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[soulpope]

Sweet Smoke "Just a Poke" (EMI Columbia) 1970

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Not sure if this is surreal. cartoon art or pop art:

One of my earliest records. A rock budget record from a time where there were very few.

[clifford_thornton]

I believe this was based on a well-regarded French Surrealist book's cover design (ca. 1940s), which I recently saw in a personal library. Looking back now it seems like the Lacy jacket just straightened out the letters' placement. There is definitely something of a Surrealist element in a lot of those early Hat Hut cover designs, which was lost when they went to ECM-style photographs for their CD art.