Music discussions

[Big Dave]

Enjoying the music discussions muchly.

What about other categories.

As discussed with Motu
Best album art:

Close to the edge - yes.
i sat and stared at that album cover and got lost in those eerie airbrush worlds.
Anything by Roger Dean really - he did heaps, and most of the best Sci Fi novel covers as well.

What about greatest band too:

Rolling Stones.

[Biff]

Best album art, IMO: Magnum - On a story tellers night. So much to see, and so much to miss. Every time I look at it I see something different. (The original LP cover, not the re-mastered one)

[MSTRS:Me]

Santana's old LP covers were a bit choice esp. when we'ed been smoking (sic)

[chris]

What about greatest band too:

Rolling Stones.

Their front man made them who they were I reckon. I love their music, but without rubber lips on the mic..............not sure.

[idb]

Their front man made them who they were I reckon. I love their music, but without rubber lips on the mic..............not sure.

If I had to be stuck on a desert island for the rest of my life with one band only to listen to it would definitely be the Stones.
A bit wider I would say Smashing Pumpkins, Ben Harper, Radiohead, JPSE.
I can feel another mix CD coming on.....

[Big Dave]

If I had to be stuck on a desert island for the rest of my life with one band only to listen to it would definitely be the Stones.
A bit wider I would say Smashing Pumpkins, Ben Harper, Radiohead, JPSE.
I can feel another mix CD coming on.....

Haven't embraced the mp3 world yet?
I live in my iPod.

[idb]

Haven't embraced the mp3 world yet?
I live in my iPod.

No mate, MP3s on CDs at this stage - a day's music on one disc.
An iPod's on the list somewhere....

[idb]

No mate, MP3s on CDs at this stage - a day's music on one disc.
An iPod's on the list somewhere....

I'm actually playing cassettes at work at the moment from my vast dusty library.

[Motu]

I'll never throw my 500 plus LPs away,there was almost as much in the covers as in the music - we read far too much into both anyway...

The records were the first things unpacked in our move,tonight I may come back with some good ones,but for now...


Wishbone Ash's Argus I mentioned before - the medievel knight watching the UFO,love that.Moody Blues always had an excelent album cover,I really like concept albums and these guys were way ahead of their time.Yes,Osibisa,both distinctive.Deep Purple in Rock,a classic joke - Ian Anderson on all the Jethro Tull albums,sooooo good,even a comic strip in Too Old to Rock N Roll,Too Young To Die,Thick as a Brick that won't fit into anyones record cabinet.Alice Cooper's paper panties as the sleeve on Schools Out.The spinning disc on Led Zep II - ooooooh,did you spin it on the turntable?? Was that really Lou Reed on the back of Transformer? The endless discusions about Abbey Road.....I reckon he's been dead ever since.

I used to like the Stones....sort of still do - but if they come on my radio I will often change stations......I get this mental image of big lips strutting around and my mind recoils - maybe I'm homophobic,but Mick is a big turn off for me.

[vifferman]

I'll never throw my 500 plus LPs away,there was almost as much in the covers as in the music - we read far too much into both anyway...

Yeah, some LP album art was great (the ones you mentioned, plus stuff like Uriah Heep), and you could read the stuff on the sleeves and cover while listening to it. CDs suck, epecially the last one we bought, which had almost nothing at all on it, despite a booklet thingie with several pages, no pictures (just some coloured crap), and no words. WTF?!? You pay WAAAAY too much (unless you buy from the Warehouse or SmokeCDs), and you get stuff all for it, not even a decent CD holder that doesn't crap out after a few days..

But (BUT!!) the cover art on "The Mighty Rearranger" was choice! So was the music.
Other good cover art was Margaret Urlich's album "Second Nature" - actually had real NZ art on the cover.
Still a bit pathetic compared to LP art, especially because even if it IS good, it's so damned small!

[MSTRS:Me]

Stones - StickyFingers - didn't the original LP release have a working zip in the cover?

[idb]

Stones - StickyFingers - didn't the original LP release have a working zip in the cover?

Yup.
I have a copy of a Kiss double album.
I can't remember the name of it but it is a Best Of.
It is shiny chrome gatefold cover with each of the band members' images displayed in relief.
Not as deep as Hawkwind & Pink Floyd maybe but very stylee.
A...Kiss. My first rock album was Rock n Roll Over.
I wore it out I'm afraid.

[N4CR]

My favourite cover art is off: Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at dusk.
'Random obscure black metal time'

Some bands I don't like have fantastic cover art, I always find it interesting if it complements the music/style that the band has, develops the music so to speak.

[MSTRS:Me]

I have a copy of a Kiss double album.
I can't remember the name of it but it is a Best Of.
It is shiny chrome gatefold cover

In the early 70's Uriah Heep put out an album Look at Yourself - had a print of a mirror with a 'chromed' centre. Was considered 'out there' for the times

[What?]

The original version of Look At Yourself was totally mirrored - the framed version came out later (and didn't look half as cool).
Other intersesting covers (CD's just don't do it, do they?) include:
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Iron Maiden - Killers
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Alice Cooper - From the Inside
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma