Worst album art I’ve seen in a long while, from Michaelangelo, an early-’70s U.S. folk-rock band. This was released on Columbia.
Boing Boing posted a link to a newer collection of Swedish band photography from the ’70s and ’80s. I stumbled across this similar collection several years ago, which is where I got the header for my old site. The Gert Johnnys show up in each batch, deservedly so.
Filed under: stupid stuff, things at home | Tags: sophie the cat, squirrels
The past two mornings I’ve been awoken about 9:30 a.m. — isn’t unemployment awesome? — by a squirrel chomping on a nut right outside my open bedroom window. Of course, I have to wonder where Sophie the cat is in these instances, missing a front row seat on the action. We only have about 2,300 squirrels in the back yard at any given time, so it’s odd that these are the first two instances (that I can recall) that I’ve been awoken by a squirrel. At the old apartment, the problem was pigeons. At least squirrels are cuter.
Filed under: music, stupid stuff | Tags: album artwork, ORGANS!, STRINGS!, vinyl
Boing Boing oddly linked to a site I’ve enjoyed called LP Cover Lover. The site serves as an online warehouse for curious record covers, most of them several decades old. The stranger the subject, the greater the likelihood a record has been recorded in honor of it. Case in point: Music to Help Clean Up Stream Pollution By. Of course, I spend time on sites like this one, in part, because it gives me great cover options for my theme mixes, like ORGANS!. Here’s the cover BB posted about, as well as a few other good ones from the site.
I had the opportunity to pick up the following one at WILL’s Vintage Vinyl sale a few summers ago, but passed because it was $15 and in poor shape. The Makers spoofed this cover for a 7″ of the same name they released many moons ago.
Hmm, maybe I’ve found the cover for STRINGS! … ? How would my face look on this?
M says that records are popular again. I guess I would call records “trendy” before I’d generalize them as “popular.” Fifteen years ago I could walk into two or three new record stores in Peoria and buy 45s pressed by tiny indie labels supporting obscure rock bands. That’s not the case nowadays. But LPs are once again a sign of hipness. Still, this cover to Dell’s recent catalog — which M received in the mail — surprised the hell out of me and got me wondering, “Just who is Dell’s desired demographic?”
This page inside the catalog didn’t exactly clarify things for me.
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