Contest: ENTER Misc. Avatar Contest: Vinyl Album Cover ART

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

i'm building a time-machine, who wants tickets?

everything was sooooo much better before, right?
So, lets go back in time, to a time where they had large artwork wrapped around an analog sound storage medium called VINYL.
You dont know what vinyl is?.... you are to young to enter this competition.

Post your favourite album cover art
Standard rules:
max 200x200 pixels size
under 1mb
You can enter as often as you like

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

i'm starting with an album i remember from the old days

Frank Zappa - ship arriving to late to save a drowning witch

what incredible simple/genious artwork,
with only a few lines the whole album title is depicted

and a little psychedelic style:
Hair - Original cast recording

 

[think]

this is the only album I still have the cover for --- I lost the disk long ago after oil painting on the album -- I think I gave the finished album away too. probably. I don't know what my second entry will be- but I will post this as an avatar soon the 200 by 200 from this



In the Court of the Crimson King
by King Crimson

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[think]

Grateful Dead - Blues for Allah

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[Kai "the spy"]

#1

Queen - News of the World

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#2

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell II

#3

Nazareth - Expect No Mercy

#4

Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

this is the only album I still have the cover for ---

Thats cool, i only have a handfull of albums left myself,
i somehow manage to save this soon 50 year old album, through some 30 years in my possession.

the Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers" album with real zipper...

--

so that must be an entry:

and i always thought Manfred Manns Earthband "Angel Station" was super cool.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Jethro Tull's "Stand Up" album takes the title literally with a cardboard stand-up bit of the whole band when you upen the album:

 

[think]

Thats cool, i only have a handfull of albums left myself,
i somehow manage to save this soon 50 year old album, through some 30 years in my possession.

the Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers" album with real zipper...

--

so that must be an entry:

and i always thought Manfred Manns Earthband "Angel Station" was super cool.

you put the image of the screen there with the album and the post on trekbbs--- So you got the real zipper!! mom had that album that I got from her after she died --- from the heroin and cancer and complications in 1975. -- I also got this album ---


Their Satanic Majesties Request
Stones #3

with the hologram going on -- that was --- in college -- cut out off the album at my frat -- and put on the hall wall just like glued to it .. and they watched us as we would move down the hall LOL-- but still if I had that album now, it is like 400 dollars on ebay-

 

[auntiehill]

The Beatles, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The Beatles, Revolver

The Clash, London Calling

Journey, Captured.

Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon.

 

[auntiehill]

i'm starting with an album i remember from the old days

Frank Zappa - ship arriving to late to save a drowning witch

what incredible simple/genious artwork,
with only a few lines the whole album title

The cover art work is from a cartoonist's work, called "Droodles. " There was a series of little Droodles books from the '50s to the '70s, by Roger Price. Frank was apparently a fan. I used to love Droodles when I was little.
Here.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#5

Pink Floyd - The Wall

#6

Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

The cover art work is from a cartoonist's work, called "Droodles. " There was a series of little Droodles books from the '50s to the '70s, by Roger Price. Frank was apparently a fan. I used to love Droodles when I was little.
Here.

That was absolutely news to me...... thank you for the education, cool!
also finaly a couple of Pink Floyd entries, i got one in mind i havnt entered yet.

 

[M'Sharak]

The cover art work is from a cartoonist's work, called "Droodles. " There was a series of little Droodles books from the '50s to the '70s, by Roger Price. Frank was apparently a fan. I used to love Droodles when I was little.
Here.

I used to own one of the Droodles books, and enjoyed the minimalist style; the "Ship Arriving too Late" droodle was in that one, and may also have featured on the back cover. Zappa had worked for a while (early 1960s) as a graphic artist for a greeting-card company, which may have been part of the source of his liking for Droodles. Though he employed others to design his album art, he continued to do visual art throughout his life -- sometimes as a means of sketching out structures for musical pieces he was working on, and sometimes just for the sake of making something.

#1

Queen - News of the World

The Queen News of the World cover art was a reworking by artist Kelly Freas of a piece he'd done 25 years previously as an illustration for a science fiction short story.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

Zappa had worked for a while (early 1960s) as a graphic artist for a greeting-card company, which may have been part of the source of his liking for Droodles. Though he employed others to design his album art, he continued to do visual art throughout his life -- sometimes as a means of sketching out structures for musical pieces he was working on, and sometimes just for the sake of making something.

Thanks for that link, i had no idea he was so good with other medium than music,
his mixed-media-collage pieces was extraordinary i think. but it's clear that he was talented by looking at his early work as well, "a day at the beach" got a wonderful life to it....

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

the sound engineer for Pink Floyd and The Beatles; Alan Parson.
Alan Parson Project - EVE

not so easy to see at 200px but under the vails these lovely women have scars and boils on their faces,

another strange and wonderful album:
Pink Floyd - Meddle

 

[think]

OMG we are still doing this right?

five yes albums I don't think there were any yes album covers so now there is

 

[Avro Arrow]

You dont know what vinyl is?.... you are to young to enter this competition.

Vinyl literally still exists to this very day...

I don't personally own any vinyl, but here are a couple albums with covers I like that got the vinyl treatment:

Billy Talent, Dead Silence

Muse, The Resistance

I hope these are OK, even though the time machine only had to go as far back as 2009...

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

OMG we are still doing this right?

for another 10 hours or so, i'll put up a voting thread tonight. Them YES albums are cool btw

I hope these are OK, even though the time machine only had to go as far back as 2009...

They are very ok


So, last call for entries, a voting thread will come up later tonight.
My last entry will be the first album i bought in my life,
i have a vivid memory of that album, ofcourse, it would be cool if my first album was
like Thelonious Monk or PinkFloyds ummagumma or something, but its this one:

Colargol-the singing bear

 

[Relayer1]

Perhaps unsurprisingly :