You Can't Do This With An MP3
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Artist:
Irony! Politics! Feedback! Gang of Four didn't want to use that precious 12 inch square as a vehicle for pretty faces. For them, the album cover was a place to educate and inform.
First album:
The inner sleeve:
A soundtrack for bankers:
Loss of focus as they evoke images of Venice instead of Sticking It To The Man.
Back on track: some English Civil War with the cheeseburgers.
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Comments (11)
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I used to buy music based on the album art. mp3s and downloading has pretty much stopped that habit that, while often disappointing and expensive, did introduce me to music I'd never have listened to otherwise.
Still, I do love having 20,000 songs in my purse at any given moment. :)
Maybe Willard Wigan will become the new Roger Dean of cover art. He's a "micro-sculptor" whose work can only be seen with a microscope. Amber, you could easily fit a couple of thousand album covers in your purse!
http://www.willard-wigan.com/
But I'd need a bigger purse for the microscope.
Wait, shopping for purses = good thing.
OK, I'm in.
I'm not sure anything can replace the magic of an LP but Apple (for all it's faults) has created iTunes LP, which could pave some interesting in roads for the MP3, and Album cover designers. Oblviously the next hurdle is to make it non-proprietary and across platforms.
I was talking with a mate recently about buying albums and sitting down and playing them and reading everything on them, plus trying to get what the sonds were about etc, truth is I was a lot younger then and seemed to have more time, often music is now going while Im cooking or driving or gardening and stuff, Im not sure if that coincides with the digital age or not
Are any of the music Websites (whether affiliated with magazines or not) creating printable alternate CD covers? You could fold 'em up and stick them in a blank jewel box if you were ripping a CD for a friend, or keep them in your computer for reference. As earthman notes, it's always nice to know a little something about what you're listening to....
Amen, earthman.
i have only heard their first one yo?
but like amber i bought a BUNCH of music because of art and what the package said.
bye bye lp
i miss those days
thanks for the pics john I have most of these singles and album on vinyl. Vinyl was a lot of fun still back in the early 80's, even the 7" variety. I used to go in a record store a choose music by the album art and wasn't very often disappointed. However it is nice to to be able to carry a portion of my music wherever I go.
I'd say the album is far from dead. Like a lot of you I grew up on LP's (album rock, mostly) in the 70's. I still prefer listening to an entire album over "mixes." But I just bought the NCIS sound track (Vol 1) from iTunes and it included all the album art in a PDF which I could view on my computer, enlarge, etc. So the album has changed, but not gone away.
What I think is interesting is that people have more control now over what singles become popular. It used to be the record companies that decided what singles to release, but now listeners are free to find gems without buying the whole album. Which is why I hate "Album only" tracks. They're an abomination!!