MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Kate Bush, known for her extravagant style and her expressive music, has also chosen unusual motifs for her LP sleeves.
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The LP covers by Alan Parsons Project, or Alan Parson, may not always be particularly extraordinary, but they have a high recognition value, such as “Eye in the Sky”. Typical of Alan Parsons Project albums: they were mostly concept albums. A central theme was taken up musically, which was then also represented visually in the Cover Art. „Tales of Mystery and Imagination“, for example, is a collection of songs inspired by short stories by British-American writer Edgar Alan Poe. “I Robot” was composed in direct reference to the science fiction novel of the same name by Isaac Assimov. The „Pyramid“ album, on the other hand, deals with the history of the Egyptian pyramids and various myths that grew up around them, etc. An Easter egg is hidden in the Alan Parsons album “Try anything else“: One of the pictures is a stereogram; when the viewer looks at it correctly, an image of a man and woman upside down will appear, similar to the other pictures in the album’s artwork. This image is also on the CD itself.
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Some of the most iconic album covers probably come from Pink Floyd. While I’m not a proven Pink Floyd expert, I would like to include some of the covers in this topic. Perhaps one or the other of you has interesting background information on selected LPs or Covers by Pink Floyd.
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Here is an interesting idea how you can design the legendary LP cover „Dark Side of the Moon” yourself with very simple means. 😄
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By the way: a remix of the album „Animals“ was released which is said to sound pretty good. The cover was also redesigned. The power plant has now been photographed as an impressive monument of industrial culture. Interesting, but the charm of the original cover has been lost.
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Not to forget the various anniversary boxes by the Beatles, which really go beyond any spatial framework. I couldn’t resist ordering some the 50th Anniversary Editions. Among other things also because of the surround mixes. Certainly a nightmare for the real Beatles purist. I like it. All in a weight class and size that you can use to hammer nails into the wall or dig up the vegetable patch in the garden.
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Sting choose his own way when designing the CD cover for his new album “The Bridge”: The jacket looks like the cover of a double LP, only in mini format. Maybe the size of a single, otherwise it looks like the sleeve of an LP. The rebirth of the classic LP cover, only in small? Away from Jewel Case and various other solutions.
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Hi Jung,
I had a glimpse of the LP cover of “Crisis what Crisis?” at some point, but I never consciously noticed it. I like the theme very much. It reflects the daily madness that we live in very well. The human will and motivation to survive and enjoy even when the world descends into chaos. Or just purposeful optimism and a twisted perception of the world as it really is?
Music can create images in the mind of the listener and lead to daydreams or fantasy journeys. But sometimes images are also the actual source of music. A famous example is certainly Mussorgski’s work „Pictures of an Exhibition“. The modern pianist Martin Vatter was also inspired to make music by a picture exhibition. He received the inspiration for one of his music albums from the paintings of the artist Lovis Corinth, who captured the forest and lake landscapes of his homeland with brushes and paint.
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David and Jung, movies and music, a combination that is always impressive. Many film productions would never have had their effect without the appropriate music. For me, an impressive symbiosis of image and music is Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” when the spaceship docks at the space station to the sounds of “The Blue Danube”. It’s like a space dance. When I saw the movie in the cinema for the first time, I was very irritated. At some point I liked it. Up to this point I had only seen space operas like „Star Trek“ or „Star Wars“, but this kind of movie music sounded more heroic or groovy.
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Hi Jung,
yes, the Supertramp cover “Even In the Quietest Moment” is something special. The grand piano in the picture doesn’t even seem particularly out of place. Quiet the contrary: it seems as if the piano has been there for ages, to capture the beauty and wildness of the landscape and transform it into sounds. Or music as a monument over time. As this LP cover by Kitaro symbolizes.
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Hello Ckay,
thanks a lot for your posting. Writing about art and LP covers is a beautiful thing, meeting someone who has worked as an art designer in this industry is great. Of course, I immediately have a lot of questions: what were they like, the well-known stars of the rock and pop scene that you got to know through your work? Likeable, approachable people with whom you could work well, or did one or the other already have certain airs and graces at the beginning of their career? And how have these people changed over time? Was Rod Stewart, whom you met at the beginning of his career, still the same person after many successful years? Were the Dexy’s Midnight Runners as funky and casual as they portrayed themselves in their music videos? And David Bowie, always a kind of artifact for me: who was the real person behind this backdrop? Thanks for sendig the link. I didn’t know the back of the „Faces“ album, but the design with the characters is pretty cool. I think it’s very nice that the design of the LP sleeves has developed into an independent art form. I’m not an art expert, but I like it very much. As I wrote at the beginning of this topic: what I miss most about the LPs are the beautiful art covers. Are you still working as an art designer and do you still have some fancy LP sleeves from your work days at home?
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Thanks again, JP. The Album „Animals“ seems to be a bit overshadowed by „The Wall“ and „Dark Side of the Moon“. I’ve listened to it more closely now: an extraordinary album.
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Hi Chris,
thanks for sending the photo (of course, I first read your message and only then noticed the photo). „Tommy“ is an album with an also interesting cover and some very nice songs by The Who.
Who Tommy Who is will be explained in the course of the album… 😀
PS: I remember the stereos of the 70s that were intended more for living than for listening to music. My uncle also had one of these. The whole thing should represent a living room wall unit. The record player was placed in a pull-out drawer and the radio was in a hinged part of the cabinet. Oh yes, and the stereo boxes were integrated into the side of the cabinet. As a child, I was terribly impressed. From today’s point of view: terrible, not impressed.
This is my favorite track from the LP:
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Hi JP,
I was always fascinated by the impressive building on this Pink Floyd cover. Dominant and overwhelming. I’ve always thought it was a photo montage or fictitious. I didn’t know that it was a real existing power plant. Also the background story to this LP was unknown to me. Thanks for the interesting article. I would not have guessed a reference to George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The whole thing reminds a bit of the message of George Harrison’s Piggies.
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Hi Chris, it seems like you have a cornucopia of hidden treasures at home. Who knows what else you will find if you search long enough. 😀
I listened to Wild Horses Tomás. I like this song, it sounds more mature than other Rolling Stones songs I know.
