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This is great and has a lot of early historical perspective that I had never seen chronicled before. But it is necessarily limited in the amount of album cover

This is great and has a lot of early historical perspective that I had never seen chronicled before. But it is necessarily limited in the amount of album covers it can feature from what many would consider to be their heyday, the 1950s through the 1970s. If you just want to feast your eyes on a lot of great album covers from that period, pick up a copy of the "Album Cover Album" [1] or one of its six (!) follow-ups. Designers Storm Thorgerson (who worked with Pink Floyd) and Roger Dean (who worked with Yes) created these incredibly lush books, with album covers printed nice and large in vivid color, organized in a really insightfully thematic way. A bit more speedy than your average used book, but not by much. Highly recommended, good for hours of reverie. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5304267-album-cover-album https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5304267-album-cover-albu...

ryandrake 1y ago
Gotta admit: Yes's wild album covers drew me in so that their sound could get me hooked on Prog Rock so long ago. Creative album covers seem to be one of the many victims of today's single-focused and streaming-focused music landscape.
rufus_foreman 1y ago
>> Roger Dean (who worked with Yes) And Space Needle, https://store-us.rogerdean.com/products/space-needle-59x86cm-rog https://store-us.rogerdean.com/products/space-needle-59x86cm....
- wombatpm 1y ago
  And Asia
the-rc 1y ago
Thorgerson and Powell ran Hipgnosis, which made a large number of the craziest and most memorable covers of the 70s/80s, not just PF. There are only three days left to watch the great documentary that Anton Corbijn made about them: https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81721595 https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81721595
- tveyben 1y ago
  I have this book https://biblio.co.uk/book/album-cover-album-book-record-jackets/d/1587927224 https://biblio.co.uk/book/album-cover-album-book-record-jack... And also a lot (well some - it’s a large book…) of the depicted albums. I find it sad that cover art is reduced/dead due to 12” -> 120mm -> gone (LP -> CD -> mp3/streaming. I really enjoy my covers for all the ‘old’ music I have. Thank you Rockaway Records from where I bought > 1.000 vinyls when living is LA in ‘87…!

ryandrake 1y ago

Gotta admit: Yes's wild album covers drew me in so that their sound could get me hooked on Prog Rock so long ago. Creative album covers seem to be one of the many victims of today's single-focused and streaming-focused music landscape.

rufus_foreman 1y ago

>> Roger Dean (who worked with Yes) And Space Needle, https://store-us.rogerdean.com/products/space-needle-59x86cm-rog https://store-us.rogerdean.com/products/space-needle-59x86cm....

wombatpm 1y ago
And Asia

the-rc 1y ago

Thorgerson and Powell ran Hipgnosis, which made a large number of the craziest and most memorable covers of the 70s/80s, not just PF. There are only three days left to watch the great documentary that Anton Corbijn made about them: https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81721595 https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81721595

tveyben 1y ago
I have this book https://biblio.co.uk/book/album-cover-album-book-record-jackets/d/1587927224 https://biblio.co.uk/book/album-cover-album-book-record-jack... And also a lot (well some - it’s a large book…) of the depicted albums. I find it sad that cover art is reduced/dead due to 12” -> 120mm -> gone (LP -> CD -> mp3/streaming. I really enjoy my covers for all the ‘old’ music I have. Thank you Rockaway Records from where I bought > 1.000 vinyls when living is LA in ‘87…!