Four t-shirted men confront the viewer – apart from the chap second from the right, who’s squinting sideways at the man on his right, our left. All four men are gagged with what could be heavy-duty adhesive tape. In the background is a neo-classical building upon whose portico the name of the establishment, and the album, is written in capital letters in a serif typeface. The whole image is ‘lo-f’i, as if it has been photocopied multiple times.
An excuse to post one of my favourite records! Anyone with a passing interest in dub and The Clash should make room for Dub Spencer & Trance Hill’s ‘Clashification Of Dub’ album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFT2ll2-eH0
Its the frozen north somewhere, we’re looking out over maybe a lake or a flat field. In the distance a line of trees and behind them perhaps a mountain. There’s a pole in the foreground.
Extra hard one:
A girl is pouting. Behind her are some large cuts of meat hanging from hooks in an abbatoir or butchers.
I include the second one as it comes in a cardboard sleeve with a fetching photo of the band on so the girl and her meat are only visible once you get to the CD cover proper. The record company – not the first – went ‘piles of meat do not an album sell’.
A sky blue album cover with bright red lettering. A pair of hands with red nail polish are resting upon the cover. The right one is tearing a chunk of it away.
Framed picture of a cockerel, perched on a metal fence and crowing with bright sun behind his head. Picture is very slightly askew against nailed wooden planks.
Hundreds of iron beds trail into the distance of Saunton Sands beach, Devon. A trouserless man sits on one while five dogs look on and a microlight flies overhead.
A grid. Just a grid – on the first vinyl pressing. One colour for the framework, one colour for the spaces between the frames. The framework is slanted and the spaces between the grid are lozenge-shaped. Or a collection of lozenges in a grid formation arranged against a different-coloured background. You get the idea.
Four well-turned-out chaps are on their way downstairs. They notice something mildly interesting happening over to their left, and stop to have a shufti.
I think our Torero Band* friend looks astonished, but I have succeeded in bringing you to this thread, so he’s served his purpose whatever we think of him.
(*as he definitely will be, by no means some random bod in EMI’s art department, who probably came in to do the drains and got kidnapped)
There’s a woman and she’s stuck halfway through the ceiling feet first , so we can see her knickers and her billowing skirt – or is it her skirt? Or some artex ceiling effect. My mind is blown…honestly this cover is only one step away from Love Drive, it’s just awful.
Bottle-blonds makes me think of Sting and his colleagues in the constabulary. It wouldn’t Outlandox D’Amour? The background looks very dark: no light at the end of that tunnel.
also risibly used by Smashing Pumpkins in the video for Bullet For Butterfly Wings, where Billy Corgan thought that it was an apt metaphor for expressing his inner pain. Bless.
Male and female, looks like a kind of post coital vibe. Her expression is loving but resigned, and he just wants out. They both look about ten years old.
salwarpe says
Mount Rushmore, only there are five heads, all with long hair.
DrJ says
Wish You Were Here
Houses Of The Holy
Best Of The Smiths
Deep Purple In Rock
How about:
Jesus, a golden figure and another unknown seem to be in a taxi.
mawny says
Together Alone ?
DrJ says
Correct!
Gary says
Cow’s arse.
Pig’s ear.
Rigid Digit says
Atom Heart Mother
fitterstoke says
….and Meddle….
Twang says
Young bloke walking down city street in the middle of the road with a young woman on his arm.
minibreakfast says
Bob.
Twang says
Group of blokes looking moody in leather jackets.
Got you now haven’t I!
Rigid Digit says
Leaning against a wall?
Bowl hair-cuts and ripped jeans?
The OsmondsThe RamonesCarl says
The second Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes album This Time It’s For Real.
Rigid Digit says
Woman in a cloak standing in the woods near Mapledurham Watermill
salwarpe says
Black Sabbath 1
Rigid Digit says
Four blokes crossing the road
duco01 says
I think I know this one.
It’s the Abbey Road EP by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, isn’t it?
Rigid Digit says
With strategically placed socks?
Could be … or Booker T and The MGs: Mclemore Avenue
Twang says
Bunch of hairys sitting on the lawn in someone’s garden with elderly couple standing outside the garden wall.
Rigid Digit says
Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking
salwarpe says
Couple on the back seat of a car. He’s pulling bubble gum off her chest.
Black Celebration says
I don’t want to give that one away too early but I’ll offer a clue:
It’s fandabidozy!
Tiggerlion says
It’s a Krankies album?
Black Celebration says
That’s what I was leading the readers to believe (snigger!)
Rigid Digit says
Scorpions – Lovedrive
Accusations of sexism are incorrect – that’s art that is
salwarpe says
There’s a woman, with no clothes on, riding a serpent.
Twang says
Whitesnake…..LOVEHUNTER…
attackdog says
There’s a woman with no clothes on manipulating a silver serpent.
Rigid Digit says
sounds like Lovehunter again?
attackdog says
No. ‘Serpent’ is probably inaccurate. Let say Silver Machine.
Rigid Digit says
Space Ritual
???
attackdog says
No, nowt to do with Stacia. Other than the Ginger hair.
attackdog says
It was very ‘controversial’.
Rigid Digit says
Blind Faith
?
attackdog says
Yay. Hurrah for Mr Digit.
Tiggerlion says
The Silver Machine is the hood ornament for a Chevrolet Bel Air. The model is an eleven year old girl. Hardly a ‘woman’.
attackdog says
Ah, but it was the ’60’s where everything was possible and nothing was real.
Almost Blind Faith.
Gatz says
How much more white could it be? The answer is none. None more white.
Tiggerlion says
I think it’s an off white, so it could be whiter.
fitterstoke says
A suburban sprawl below, with a bacchanalia going on in the clouds above….
Mike_H says
Hatfield and the North.
fitterstoke says
Correct!
Mike_H says
Your username was a clue.
fitterstoke says
Dang nabbit…..
Vincent says
a prism generates a rainbow…
Black Celebration says
It’s Dark Side of the Moon. I would have thought that this should have been a non-more-black cover.
Sewer Robot says
Similar to a current McDonalds advertising campaign, but ruder…
Neela says
Atom Heart Mother?
Sewer Robot says
Er… no. Does this help?
http://i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o615/JohnDetail/E07E4E2B-01AF-4CE8-B4AA-B1A477CA2AC9-197-0000004FDC10A5EC_zpsfbun5qr7.jpeg
Rigid Digit says
Never Mind The Bollocks
Not seen that advert – has Julien Temple got a new gig?
Sewer Robot says
They’re everywhere over here. Have been surprised at no comment on the AW. Maybe there’s a Jamie Reid shaped obstacle to using them in the U.K.?
Rigid Digit says
Jamie Reid!
Why did I say Julien Temple?
(Because I’m a tw*t)
This of course means I will have to resign my commission from The Afterword, and immediately shoot myself
JimmyJimmy says
A misted-up window with writing on it.
Black Celebration says
Slippery…
DrJ says
I Want to see The Bright Lights Tonight, no? By The Thompson Twins.
nickduvet says
The Afterword’s generational divide in a nutshell
Tiggerlion says
A giant beetle.
Black Celebration says
Massive Attack
Black Type says
‘Mezzanine’
Mike_H says
Gigantic balding long-haired man’s head in the sky, above a distorted rural landscape.
Twilight Alehouse says
The balding guy is Terry Riley. Rainbow in curved air.
Mike_H says
Gorrit.
Mike_H says
Rear view of the neck and headstock of a Fender bass guitar against a blue background, showing bassist’s left hand.
fitterstoke says
801 live?
Mike_H says
Correct!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3az6E4qUwoA
Mike_H says
Cartoon car with 7 cartoon figures, atop a cheeseburger.
fitterstoke says
Mothers – Just another band from LA?
Mike_H says
A winner!
nickduvet says
Frizzy red-head climbing out of a sunken garden
DrJ says
Zappa, Hot Rats
DrJ says
A Neon Ice Cream
A Man Shines a torch on a piano
Kid Dynamite says
First one’s the last Blur album
Jackthebiscuit says
Is the second one Rattle & hum?
Sniffity says
Billy Joel – Songs In The Attic
DrJ says
Yes, it’s blur and Billy…
nickduvet says
Perched lizards look on as a flying elephant swoops in
duco01 says
Roger Dean’s “Osibisa” cover. Nice.
nickduvet says
specifically…
duco01 says
Woyaya, I suppose – although the first album’s cover is pretty similar
retropath2 says
Fish in a hat and velvet jacket.
Noboru Wataya says
Trout Mask Replica!
Kid Dynamite says
ah, not the SFAJTH then
Noboru Wataya says
Four t-shirted men confront the viewer – apart from the chap second from the right, who’s squinting sideways at the man on his right, our left. All four men are gagged with what could be heavy-duty adhesive tape. In the background is a neo-classical building upon whose portico the name of the establishment, and the album, is written in capital letters in a serif typeface. The whole image is ‘lo-f’i, as if it has been photocopied multiple times.
Noboru Wataya says
An airborne komondor
Twilight Alehouse says
Odelay by Beck
Noboru Wataya says
Affirmative.
Twang says
A ballerina lies on her back gazing at the camera with a backdrop of a grand concert hall.
nickduvet says
A Passion Play
Black Type says
Off-duty Pierrot havin’ a fag.
Woman suspended on a kite.
Mannequins at a party.
Giant orchid preserves singer’s modesty.
badartdog says
bowie – scary monsters
bush – kick inside
Black Type says
Two down, two to go.
nickduvet says
Roxy Manifesto
Prince Lovesexy
Black Type says
Four down, none to go.
duco01 says
A close-up of the left eye of a snowy owl.
hubert rawlinson says
I know the one you mean but can’t remember the name.
hubert rawlinson says
Got back home, sat down and the name Mari Boine Persen came to me. Hurrah. Am I right @duco01 ?
duco01 says
You most certainly are, Sir Hubert, sir.
“”Gula Gula” by Mari Boine Persen.
nickduvet says
Hollywood Boulevard transposed to the desert, with the Hollywood Hills depicted as a giant jelly
Mike_H says
Little Feat “The Last Record Album”
fitterstoke says
…like a mirage in your garage…
badartdog says
St John’s Ambulance Bearers
Twilight Alehouse says
Setting sons by The Jam?
badartdog says
it is!
badartdog says
A Chinese horseman watches impassively as a cowboy’s corpse is devoured by vultures.
Davidg says
Ah, two cultures CLASHing.
Kid Dynamite says
An excuse to post one of my favourite records! Anyone with a passing interest in dub and The Clash should make room for Dub Spencer & Trance Hill’s ‘Clashification Of Dub’ album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFT2ll2-eH0
badartdog says
yessir
badartdog says
Kudzu. Everywhere.
Noboru Wataya says
R.E.M. Murmur
badartdog says
yup
Neela says
He´s a bit out of focus, wearing suede and a chess board, and has a lot of hair.
Neela says
Dylan´s Blonde On Blonde, anyone? He was famous long ago.
Noboru Wataya says
Two airborne dolphins.
moseleymoles says
Orange Juice You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever
Noboru Wataya says
Mmhm
Tiggerlion says
Orange Juice
Noboru Wataya says
Half a point
Noboru Wataya says
The lead singer sporting a drawn-on moustache, head and shoulders wrapped in a bedsheet. In moody black and white.
seekenee says
The Auteurs new wave
Noboru Wataya says
Cow’s eyes lying on some salt.
Tiggerlion says
Pixies
Noboru Wataya says
0.5 again
Tiggerlion says
Trompe Le Monde
Noboru Wataya says
Oui!
moseleymoles says
Its the frozen north somewhere, we’re looking out over maybe a lake or a flat field. In the distance a line of trees and behind them perhaps a mountain. There’s a pole in the foreground.
Extra hard one:
A girl is pouting. Behind her are some large cuts of meat hanging from hooks in an abbatoir or butchers.
JustB says
Is the first one Yield by Pearl Jam?
moseleymoles says
No sorry.
I include the second one as it comes in a cardboard sleeve with a fetching photo of the band on so the girl and her meat are only visible once you get to the CD cover proper. The record company – not the first – went ‘piles of meat do not an album sell’.
Black Celebration says
Is the first one Matt Bianco?
moseleymoles says
@black-celebration no it’s not.
moseleymoles says
Meat album number two: (number three of course is the HJHers)
There’s a girl. She loves meat. She loves meat so much she’s only gorn and made a dress out of it the crazy minx
Black Type says
The Undertones ‘All Wrapped Up’
moseleymoles says
Yup – any ideas on ‘girl plus meat one’ then?
retropath2 says
Take away the girl and we have the Edgar Broughton Band
moseleymoles says
Nope it’s girl plus meat. She looks unhappy. Whereas the girl on Unwrapped looks delighted at all that meat.
Malc says
Black Box Recorder – the Facts of Life
Mike_H says
A sky blue album cover with bright red lettering. A pair of hands with red nail polish are resting upon the cover. The right one is tearing a chunk of it away.
Sniffity says
The Tubes first (self-titled?) LP
Mike_H says
Correctamundo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFltXDMQsQQ
Mike_H says
Eight sheep in a field near a wooden gate and a tree. Seven are lying down, one is standing. Blue but clouded sky. No lettering.
minibreakfast says
Are the sheep Chilling Out?
Mike_H says
Yes they are, Mini.
Mike_H says
Framed picture of a cockerel, perched on a metal fence and crowing with bright sun behind his head. Picture is very slightly askew against nailed wooden planks.
Twilight Alehouse says
Hundreds of iron beds trail into the distance of Saunton Sands beach, Devon. A trouserless man sits on one while five dogs look on and a microlight flies overhead.
Sniffity says
Momentary Lapse of Reason.
Moose the Mooche says
Bird shit and fruit.
fitterstoke says
Might it be…..Procol Harum, Exotic Birds & Fruit?
Moose the Mooche says
Nope.
Quite a few species of birds, and they’ve been very busy…
fitterstoke says
You’ve got me there, Moose – I give up!
Sewer Robot says
The Stone Roses?
Moose the Mooche says
Stone me!
He’s right.
SteveT says
Naked loony with a turtle shell on his back crawling through a field.
Black Type says
Fried
Sniffity says
Copey’s “Fried”
SteveT says
Correctomundo.
SteveT says
A heard of Elephants rampaging towards you with what look like pterodactyls overhead.
Sniffity says
Armed Forces.
Sewer Robot says
Are they disco elephants?
Twilight Alehouse says
Two snooker balls, one red and one yellow.
Moose the Mooche says
Venus and Mars?
Twilight Alehouse says
Correct!
Twilight Alehouse says
Two blokes walking along a country lane turn back to face the camera. Both wear scarves.
Moose the Mooche says
S & G with their Sounds of Silence.
Moose the Mooche says
Man wears gas mask pretending to be an elephant.
2 Live Crew and Lenin also make an appearance.
Twilight Alehouse says
Goodbye jumbo by World Party?
Moose the Mooche says
Wahey!
2 Live Crew’s As Nasty As They Wanna Be could be described as “Four Female Arses and Four Male Arses”
Twilight Alehouse says
Sunset. Three men or the same man three times?One in a car, one lights a cigarette, a third has a torch which has a trail coming from it…
Davidg says
And then there were three
Moose the Mooche says
Old bloke without a shirt on gets ready for a fight.
Twilight Alehouse says
Peace and love by Pogues?
Moose the Mooche says
No.
hubert rawlinson says
Jammy Smears Ivor Cutler.
Moose the Mooche says
(Woollen) Aye
Moose the Mooche says
Bog-eyed vent’ dummy.
Moose the Mooche says
Two chaps in nick. One of them, rather ill-advisedly, is pouting.
Moose the Mooche says
Cannot believe nobody’s got this…
Sewer Robot says
It Takes A Nation Of Millions? Are you going to tell him that’s a pout? I’ll just wait outside….
Moose the Mooche says
He can’t see me, he’s too busy reading the lyrics on the underside of his hat.
Twilight Alehouse says
Father and son standing outside a clothes shop.
Moose the Mooche says
New Boots & Panties!!
Twilight Alehouse says
16portraits of the four band members, each portrait painted by a different artist.
duco01 says
That sound a bit like Face Dances by the ‘Orrible ‘Oo.
Twilight Alehouse says
It does and it is.
Moose the Mooche says
Bona omi spark out on his palliasse. Very green image.
Davidg says
Dog man star
Moose the Mooche says
Fantabulosa!
Twilight Alehouse says
A distant figure with a walking stick/staff climbs a hill of brown-ish grass.
Moose the Mooche says
Common One?
Twilight Alehouse says
Yup.
Moose the Mooche says
Leonardo’s cannons.
Mike_H says
Family “Anyway”
Moose the Mooche says
Yus!
Moose the Mooche says
A marble bust of a military figure with some kind of middle-eastern town in the background.
Twilight Alehouse says
Empires and dance, simple minds.
Moose the Mooche says
Aye (travel)
Moose the Mooche says
A lot of sweet wrappers.
Sewer Robot says
Pills n Thrills n Bellyaches. How would you describe the image on the inner sleeve of Bummed, Mr Moose?
Moose the Mooche says
Which side – standing or sitting?
Moose the Mooche says
A pink cloud comes out of a subway.
Kaisfatdad says
Loaded . The Velvet Underground.
(Nice work Rigid! This thread was a lot of fun.)
moseleymoles says
A grid. Just a grid – on the first vinyl pressing. One colour for the framework, one colour for the spaces between the frames. The framework is slanted and the spaces between the grid are lozenge-shaped. Or a collection of lozenges in a grid formation arranged against a different-coloured background. You get the idea.
Kid Dynamite says
Animal Collective – Meriweather Post Pavilion?
walker1 says
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark?
moseleymoles says
@walker1 indeed, first vinyl pressing had a natty cut-out, like the much more famous Blue Monday.
Moose the Mooche says
Man opens his coat to reveal poor-quality merchandise
(steady)
moseleymoles says
Joe Jackson I’m The Man
Moose the Mooche says
Tick!
moseleymoles says
Curtains, vase with purple flowers, table/dais/stage type thing.
fitterstoke says
Wire – Chairs missing
Kid Dynamite says
Aftermath of a nasty DIY accident.
Kid Dynamite says
*sigh* I thought you were all teenage metalheads. It’s Kill ‘Em All.
Sewer Robot says
Still of a sailor from a classic Sergei Eisenstein film
Kid Dynamite says
The Redskins! Neither Wasington Nor Moscow! A great album! All the songs have exclamation marks at the end!
Sewer Robot says
Indeed (and many feature parenthesis)…
Kaisfatdad says
Wearing sunglasses, the artist stands in a large building that looks like a station perhaps, eating a banana.
Kid Dynamite says
Is the station in Manhattan, or maybe Berlin?
Neela says
Len´s I´m Your Man.
Kaisfatdad says
Quite correct Kid D and Neela.
Black Type says
Flaxen-haired beauty in maxi dress reclining languorously on a chaise- longue.
Jackthebiscuit says
The man who sold the world?
Black Type says
Correct, oh by jingo.
Black Type says
Beardy guy sniffs own armpit.
Kaisfatdad says
I was convinced that the beardy guy was Zappa. But my memory seems to be playing tricks with me.
Kid Dynamite says
Doesn’t have Courtney Love on the back cover.
Rigid Digit says
The Magic Of Richard Clayderman
(Courtney Love is not on the back cover of that album, so this is a technically correct answer)
Kid Dynamite says
but was it ever popularly* believed that it did?
*”popular”
Moose the Mooche says
Malcolm X impersonator, not quite dressed for the part.
Sewer Robot says
It’s not about a salary, it’s all about…
By All Means Necessary
Moose the Mooche says
You clearly think very deeply…
Moose the Mooche says
Valentina Tereshkova
(not strictly an album)
Jackthebiscuit says
Two geisha girls against a green background.
Rigid Digit says
Kimono My House
(only album I can think of with Geisha Girls (there must be others?) – no idea about the background colour)
Jackthebiscuit says
Correct – I thought it might have lasted a little longer.
Sniffity says
A friend at the time insisted that was really Ron and Russell in drag.
Moose the Mooche says
Karl Marx – possibly – covers his face in tiredness or despair.
Moose the Mooche says
Come on….
Moose the Mooche says
Come on…
Rigid Digit says
“I’m really annoyed with my bass guitar. Take that y’bastard”
Moose the Mooche says
London Calling.
Rigid Digit says
Yup
Moose the Mooche says
God turns out to be a cartoon dog.
hubert rawlinson says
Uh oh I think I’ve got this.
Moose the Mooche says
Heh.
Very underrated. I played it very loud last night and it sounded very good indeed.
seekenee says
David Byrne uh-oh
Moose the Mooche says
A bicycle – possibly punctured – on a hillside desolate.
Jackthebiscuit says
Cartoon of a man in Top hat & tails straddling a piano (against a very busy background).
Sniffity says
Captain Fantastic?
Moose the Mooche says
Four well-turned-out chaps are on their way downstairs. They notice something mildly interesting happening over to their left, and stop to have a shufti.
Rigid Digit says
Please Please Me
?
They stopped again 8 years later, but were much hairier
Moose the Mooche says
No. “Left” not “down”.
Sniffity says
Kraftwerk’s The Man Machine?
Moose the Mooche says
KOORRR-EKT!
(wouldn’t it be great if any K-heads got this brilliant in-joke?)
Rigid Digit says
A cartoon pig in pink shades wearing a yellow shirt with loads of writing on it
Black Type says
Now That’s What I Call Quite Easy!
Although I’ll look rather foolish if it isn’t…
fentonsteve says
Four blokes in suits laugh, whilst flanking a stern woman in a dress.
Moose the Mooche says
Parallel Lines.
fentonsteve says
I made that too easy, didn’t I?
Moose the Mooche says
If I got it, yes
Rigid Digit says
A diagram depicting radio waves emitted from a Pulsar
Moose the Mooche says
Unknown Pleasures
Rigid Digit says
Showing a high degree of insight there, Mr Moose
Moose the Mooche says
I remember everything.
Rigid Digit says
A rear shot of a bloke walking down Berwick Street
Moose the Mooche says
Faster than a cannonball?
Rigid Digit says
Some might say
Moose the Mooche says
The waters after the flood start to subside, revealing a tree…
Wilson Wilson says
Spirit of Eden?
Moose the Mooche says
Oh yeah (the world’s turned upside down)
Moose the Mooche says
Man in red suit and sombrero plays trumpet. Looks astonished.
Kaisfatdad says
Have you any idea how many Mexican album covers this decribes, Moose?
I started looking and got distracted by this senorita in a sombrero.
Moose the Mooche says
I see no trumpet. Not on the screen, anyway.
minibreakfast says
Hmm, none of the Tijuana Christmas albums I can think of feature an astonished-looking chap. Pained, perhaps, but not astonished.
Moose the Mooche says
I think our Torero Band* friend looks astonished, but I have succeeded in bringing you to this thread, so he’s served his purpose whatever we think of him.
(*as he definitely will be, by no means some random bod in EMI’s art department, who probably came in to do the drains and got kidnapped)
minibreakfast says
Darn it. Lured in with Torero-flavoured Breakfast bait.
This guy looks quite astonished, but is lacking the red suit: https://www.discogs.com/Border-Brass-Tijuana-Christmas/master/335176
Moose the Mooche says
Do you think when he puts the trumpet down his ‘tache goes with it?
nickduvet says
Naked burlesque dancer has a migraine and a stomach-ache
nickduvet says
since none of you got this, here’s the answer:
fitterstoke says
Fried egg on a white plate – cigarette stubbed out in the yoke.
nickduvet says
by the Death Walks Behind You hitmakers?
fitterstoke says
Half a point deducted for omitting the album title…..but yes, the DWBY hit makers is correct!
Mousey says
Man with moustache in pink t-shirt and white jacket
fitterstoke says
It’s yer Uncle Frank – Broadway the Hard Way?
Mousey says
Yo!
fentonsteve says
It is dark. Two sisters in their undies stand in front of some trees.
Sniffity says
Roxy Music – Country Life
Twilight Alehouse says
Country life by Roxy?
Twilight Alehouse says
A Victorian diver emerges from the sea carrying a woman wearing a red dress.
Sniffity says
10cc – Deceptive Bends
Twilight Alehouse says
How Dare You get it right so quickly!
Twilight Alehouse says
The artist, a man wearing jacket and tie, a lady with two faces and a chap wearing specs and a boater stand in front of a lake.
Moose the Mooche says
Human’s Lib.
Twilight Alehouse says
You have thrown off your mental chains, correct.
Twilight Alehouse says
A tempestuous shoreline and some long thin metallic hanging tubes.
Black Celebration says
The answer is in the question. The answer is of course Mike Oldfield’s “Tempestuous Shoreline”.
Twilight Alehouse says
Although you may prefer the sequel which was Tempestuous Shoreline 2
Twilight Alehouse says
A lady, on the point of being embraced, with a key on her tongue.
Black Celebration says
The Dreaming – Kate Bush
Twilight Alehouse says
Five air traffic controllers stare pensively as an unexplained phenomena emerges from a blue and purple sky.
Sniffity says
Jethto Tull – A
Twilight Alehouse says
That’s right: the rear cover is great as the Tull rock the ‘beard and boilersuit’ look.
Twilight Alehouse says
Final one for now…
An envelope shows a figure going for a moonlit walk in a shallow sea.
duco01 says
That sounds like “Communiqué” by the Lady Writer hitmakers.
Twilight Alehouse says
It is
Gatz says
The boxer has six fingers on his right hand. He has to.
Moose the Mooche says
Peace and Love
PS That’s my answer, I haven’t become Ringo.
Gatz says
Just so. I like that you got the answer when it had already been a wrong suggestion for one of your one entries higher up.
Moose the Mooche says
Yeah. I remember the six fingers too. Not so much southpaw as wrongpaw.
fentonsteve says
A painting of a basket of flowers, to which has been added some small coloured squares.
Moose the Mooche says
Cower, Lorruption and Pies
fentonsteve says
Peter Saville really was taking the piss, wasn’t he?
Moose the Mooche says
I feel like he picked that one up in a jumble sale.
duco01 says
Peter Howson’s “The Bodybuilder” painting.
Moose the Mooche says
Quench.
Possibly one of the bleakest albums ever made.
duco01 says
No. Afraid not.
The painting on the cover of Quench is indeed by Peter Howson, but it’s not “The Bodybuilder”.
Moose the Mooche says
Curse! Foiled by huge men with flat heads.
duco01 says
Hmmm … it sounds like you’ve got it, Moosey.
The answer was indeed “Fairy Tales for Hardmen” by Jackie Leven.
DrJ says
Some people are standing around on a beach, except their heads are toes.
nickduvet says
Toe Fat!
duco01 says
That cover freaks me right out. Always has done. I hate it. I just can’t look at it.
DrJ says
How incredible would it be if it wasn’t Toe Fat? But yes, the answer is Toe Fat, and it freaked me out too when I first saw it.
Moose the Mooche says
Exhibits from the golden age of toys….
Moose the Mooche says
Oh come on.
hubert rawlinson says
Octagonal glasses
A pipe
A knotted beard
Wreathed in smoke.
DrJ says
Your user name is quite a clue!
Moose the Mooche says
Album named after your older brother.
hubert rawlinson says
Thought it could be quite difficult!
Alas no.
Twilight Alehouse says
A troubadour sits on some steps and serenades us, seemingly unaware or unconcerned by the hole in the crotchular area of his blue jeans.
duco01 says
“And it’s a long way to Buffalo
It’s a long way to Belfast city too
Especially when you’ve got a hole in the crotchular area of your jeans”
Why! it’s our favourite old curmudgeon, Sir George Ivan Morrison. Oh yes!
Twilight Alehouse says
It is. Have some pickled herrings ( in case you get finished before dinner)
Moose the Mooche says
We didn’t want that kind of preview, pal!
Black Type says
Not-so-young soul rebel in ‘relaxed’ attire.
Sniffity says
Kevin’s “My Beauty”?
Black Type says
Too rye ay!
Leicester Bangs says
There’s only one face, but all of the band members’ faces are on it.
Gatz says
Too easy – Love’s Forever Changes
Leicester Bangs says
It’s not what I’m thinking of…
There’s *literally* just one human face on the album cover. (Yet, hmm, all of the band members’ faces are on it.)
DrJ says
Queen’s The Miracle. A *hideous* album cover.
Leicester Bangs says
What?! That’s got four faces on it.
I’m talking about one human face (i.e. two eyes, a nose, a mouth, a chin)
DrJ says
Spirit?
Leicester Bangs says
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v662/strontiumdawg/download_zpsghedgtq8.jpg
moseleymoles says
Dashboard. Windscreen. Road. Fences. Fields. Sky.
DrJ says
Nebraska!
moseleymoles says
@drj .minimal. Left ‘flat’ off.
moseleymoles says
There’s a woman and she’s stuck halfway through the ceiling feet first , so we can see her knickers and her billowing skirt – or is it her skirt? Or some artex ceiling effect. My mind is blown…honestly this cover is only one step away from Love Drive, it’s just awful.
DrJ says
That Two Door Cinema Club album?
moseleymoles says
Yep, though should be the 1975 as that cover is straight out of 1975.
DrJ says
A giant squid battles a sperm whale in space.
Noboru Wataya says
They Might Be Giants, Apollo 18
Baron Counterpane says
A turquoise Lancia Flavia in the rain. The artist does not look joyful.
Rigid Digit says
Peter Gabriel
Baron Counterpane says
Monochrome. The artist appears to have scratched off the surface of the photograph he is in.
minibreakfast says
PG “Scratch”
Baron Counterpane says
Monochrome. The artist is in a striped shirt. His face is partially melted.
minibreakfast says
PG “Melt” 🙂
Rigid Digit says
Jenny Saville – Strategy
hubert rawlinson says
la lampe philosophique
Noboru Wataya says
Alan Hull, Pipe Dreams
hubert rawlinson says
Top man. you that is.
Noboru Wataya says
The band pretending to busk
Rigid Digit says
Supergrass – In It For The Money
(I listened to that album for the first time in about 10 years last month – it is still damn fine. In fact, probably even better than I remember)
Moose the Mooche says
It’s a stunner – of the best albums of that whole decade.
Moose the Mooche says
She’s had her face skewered. Looks like swiss cheese (heh heh)
Billybob Dylan says
KooKoo – Debbie Harry
I wish I could think of a witticism to counter your “swiss cheese” remark.
Moose the Mooche says
A cheese counter?
Shut that bloody bouzouki music up!
Billybob Dylan says
It’s radioactive cheese!
Kid Dynamite says
Coo, is the Swiss thing a Giger reference?
Moose the Mooche says
It’s like one of those big eggs that backfires in your face.
Billybob Dylan says
Bloke in pink suit leaning on a green Oldsmobile with the licence plate number 986 JGF.
Billybob Dylan says
Anyone? How about a clue? English guitarist, this is an eponymous solo album
from 1976, although he’s best known as a sideman.
Noboru Wataya says
Chris Spedding, Chris Spedding (‘English guitarist’ and ‘sideman’ were the clinchers)
Billybob Dylan says
That’s the one!
fentonsteve says
There’s a big black star in the middle… Oh bugger! I’m rubbish at this.
Rigid Digit says
Big Star #1 Record?
or is it The World Of Bobby Crush
Stephen G says
1. Graffitied Delacroix
2. Altered Gericault
3. Bosch (probably more than one)
Gatz says
A Coldplay (not a follower so don’t know which one)
Rum Sodomy aNd the Lash
A Black Sabbath Greatest Hits I hafpd as a kid to name but one.
Stephen G says
Yup – was thinking of an early Deep Purple for the Bosch but not surprised to hear BS have used him as well
Noboru Wataya says
Dead Can Dance’s Aion too.
Stephen G says
Sandpaper
Billybob Dylan says
Wild Willy Barrett. Or Durutti Column.
Moose the Mooche says
Wow, there’s a collaboration waiting to happen.
Noboru Wataya says
There goes my ‘Texturally Described Album Covers’ mini-thread!
Moose the Mooche says
Three bottle-blonds in a tunnel.
Kaisfatdad says
Bottle-blonds makes me think of Sting and his colleagues in the constabulary. It wouldn’t Outlandox D’Amour? The background looks very dark: no light at the end of that tunnel.
Moose the Mooche says
They’re in some kind of subway. Probably hiding from a Clash audience.
Moose the Mooche says
Plumpish man in bowler polishes Roller.
duco01 says
I can sort of picture this one, Moosey. I know I’ve seen it, but I’m damned if I can think what it is.
Moose the Mooche says
It’s George Martin’s best non-Fabs album, The Best of Sellers.
hubert rawlinson says
Colourised Reptiles
seekenee says
Baby with reptile head
Baby underwater with dollar bill
Babies trampled under ladies in dresses
duco01 says
Hmmm … well, the last one of those is definitely the Human League’s “Reproduction”.
minibreakfast says
And the second is Nevermind.
seekenee says
Yes
seekenee says
Yep
duco01 says
A classic black-and-white photo by Sebastão Selgado of thousands of workers at the Serra Pelada open gold mine in Brazil.
Moose the Mooche says
Jerry Harrison’s Casual Gods?
duco01 says
You’re on top form today, Moosey.
Kaisfatdad says
I googled but was none the wiser. But his black and white photos are wonderful. Perfect for a metal album I thought. Oh well!
Kid Dynamite says
also risibly used by Smashing Pumpkins in the video for Bullet For Butterfly Wings, where Billy Corgan thought that it was an apt metaphor for expressing his inner pain. Bless.
minibreakfast says
A black and white photograph taken in 1940 by Arthur Fellig of a densely-packed Coney Island beach.
seekenee says
George michael. Listen without prejudice I’m guessing
minibreakfast says
Correct!
Kid Dynamite says
Male and female, looks like a kind of post coital vibe. Her expression is loving but resigned, and he just wants out. They both look about ten years old.
Kaisfatdad says
Not Bowie’s Pin Ups by any chance?
Kid Dynamite says
Very nope
Billybob Dylan says
Is it Buckingham Nicks? You know, assuming 10 year old boys have ‘taches.
Kid Dynamite says
Not that one either