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Topic: Favorite Album Cover?
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Archiver
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Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 09-27-2000 05:32 PM
   
I know what your thinking. Another fucking favorite thread...but tell me or post your favorite cover art, keeping it local would be nice but not a must.IP: Logged |
zomzom
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posted 09-27-2000 08:14 PM
You don't know what I'm thinking.IP: Logged |
cruzzler
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posted 09-29-2000 01:12 AM
okay...my favorite cover art was not a punk band, but there was a metal band in mpls called powermad i think...anyways, they put out an album that had a really nice painting of some godzilla type creature storming down nicollette mall smashing the ids tower...i first saw that record in san franciso, it made me so homesick, damn..i knew i shoulda bought it.IP: Logged |
RAH
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posted 09-29-2000 01:22 AM
I think Powermad may have covered "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" on that album, so maybe they have a punk influence.IP: Logged |
Garage Woman
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posted 09-29-2000 08:27 AM
If it's local bands, Babes in Toyland Nemesisters.Otherwise, it's Big Black dressed up like Cheap Trick and Kraftwerk on their 7" covers single. IP: Logged |
Scotty
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Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 09-29-2000 10:13 AM
I've probably seen better, but for some reason two pop into my head. The ltd. edition Scratch Acid "just keep eating" lp with the color changy thing. And the TAD 8-way Santa is a great cover, even though the supposed lawsuit by the people on it was just a gimmick to sell more copies.Cows album covers.. sexy pee story, peacetika, cunning stunts, whorn ... all outstanding. IP: Logged |
guernica
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posted 09-29-2000 02:55 PM
not my favorite, but always makes me chuckle- the black album, was it "smell the glove" ?by spinal tap. doesn't get none blacker.IP: Logged |
Beving
Punk Posts: 1926
Registered: May 2000
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posted 10-01-2000 02:44 AM
No particular order:The Stranglers - The Raven with the 3D cover DEVO - Duty Now original press where you could punch out the back to make it stand up Abrasive Wheels - When The Punks... best punk rocker collage on record Micky Jupp - Juppanese where he's pulling his eyes tight (simulating an Asian). NO ONE would use that for cover art in these PC days. Any LP where you got a free pin (Joe Jacksons Look Sharp, John Cooper-Clarke's Snap Crackle and Bop) The Feederz - Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss with the sandpaper glued to it. Mad props to the cd re-issue with the sandpaper on the jewel case. The Mentors - Up The Dose & You Axed For It where thier "sexy" model is some fat bar whore they picked up IP: Logged |
Patrick_Toth
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Registered: May 2000
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posted 10-01-2000 02:55 AM
The Clash, "London Calling"Why? The colors and placement of the words on this cover are the same as Elvis Presely's first record.
On the Presely cover, he's holding his guitar. On the other hand, Joe is symbolically and artfully smashing his into the stage. Move over, Elvis...nuff said. IP: Logged |
Garage Woman
Punk Posts: 666
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posted 10-01-2000 12:43 PM
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Originally posted by Patrick_Toth:
The Clash, "London Calling"Why? The colors and placement of the words on this cover are the same as Elvis Presely's first record.
On the Presely cover, he's holding his guitar. On the other hand, Joe is symbolically and artfully smashing his into the stage. Move over, Elvis...nuff said.
Just a minor correction. It's Paul Simonon thrashing his bass. IP: Logged |
Patrick_Toth
Punk Posts: 95
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posted 10-01-2000 10:00 PM
Thanks for the correction, GW. 3am on a Saturday morning has a way of deterring the memory.  IP: Logged |
Subrec
Punk Posts: 69
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 10-02-2000 12:10 AM
I've always liked the first Libido Boyz 7" cover. Dunno, why...it's kinda dumb.IP: Logged |
HAUNTED
Lil Punk Posts: 9
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 10-14-2000 10:34 PM
ChumbaWumba's first alblum that folds out from the front. I wish I didn't lose that albim. It was a fav.IP: Logged |
dapper dean
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posted 10-17-2000 12:45 PM
since i was a kid, i always thought thatNew York Dolls- Too Much To Soon ('74)
Kiss- Alive ('75) were pretty cool covers. someone should post them here side by side. i don't have a scanner. IP: Logged |
toycomputer
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posted 10-17-2000 02:28 PM
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Yuck Foo
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posted 10-17-2000 03:43 PM
here are four of my all time faves     IP: Logged |
Beving
Punk Posts: 1926
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posted 10-18-2000 03:19 AM
The original cover to Carcass' "Reek of Putrifaction" LP was classic. A collage of guts and body parts. I hate all that grind-core shit but Pat Dwyer sold me that lp on the artwork alone. Then a few years later I sold it to some St Paul metal dude for $35.IP: Logged |
Scotty
Punk Posts: 1848
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posted 10-18-2000 04:13 PM
Sounds like you sold it to Earl Root.. he'd pay $35 for it.. It was a classic cover, no doubt.IP: Logged |
Archiver
Punk Posts: 784
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 10-23-2000 02:03 PM
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
This is the inside photo of Big Blacks "Headache" cover. Do Not Click the link if you do not wish to view. This is an extremely graphic photo! You've been warned.
http://www.gorezone.com/GoreLite/Gross/15.jpg IP: Logged |
bug
Punk Posts: 113
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 10-23-2000 04:30 PM
Is there any truth to the urban myth that one of the dudes holding up the Kiss sign on the back cover of 'Alive" is Tesco Vee? I've heard this more than once.IP: Logged |
gilligan
Punk Posts: 700
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 04-26-2001 04:51 PM
Ramones first record. The Clash's first one stand out oh The Dickies Night of the living Dickies thats the one with giant tooth brush? There heeps!!! Local The Mats Let it Be[This message has been edited by gilligan (edited 04-26-2001).] IP: Logged |
The Sponge
Punk Posts: 232
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 04-26-2001 05:13 PM
Soul Asylum - Clam dip & other delights ep. A thing of beauty if ever there was one.IP: Logged |
TinTin
Punk Posts: 237
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 04-27-2001 08:30 AM
the sponge wrote:
"Soul Asylum - Clam dip & other delights ep. A thing of beauty if ever there was one."my studio smelled like fish for a month after that shoot. kinda freaked the cats out.
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The Sponge
Punk Posts: 232
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posted 04-27-2001 09:38 AM
Ha, I'll bet, Tin. Karl said he smelled for a week. Still, a great shot though.IP: Logged |
Scotty
Punk Posts: 1848
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posted 04-27-2001 09:48 AM
I loved the Herb Alpert album cover that was taken from.... for some reason, as a small child I used to really enjoy looking at it. I always liked album covers that were sorta textural ... like the fake black corrugated metal look of Talking Heads "Fear of Music" Or the super thick gray felt on the Joy Division "Still" lp.. The Scratch Acid "Just keep eating" cover was good.. IP: Logged |
Reno
Punk Posts: 1460
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posted 04-27-2001 05:20 PM
I can't remembet the name of the band, but someone made a record with a sandpaper cover, just so it'd fuck up your other records.On a slightly related note, I've always loved the cover of Costello's "Get Happy", with the wear marks on the jacket. IP: Logged |
Garage Woman
Punk Posts: 666
Registered: May 2000
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posted 04-27-2001 06:05 PM
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Originally posted by Reno:
I can't remembet the name of the band, but someone made a record with a sandpaper cover, just so it'd fuck up your other records.
Feederz "Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?" - the CD version even has the sandpaper... IP: Logged |
Beving
Punk Posts: 1926
Registered: May 2000
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posted 04-29-2001 06:01 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Garage Woman:
Feederz "Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?" - the CD version even has the sandpaper...
I thought that was a great idea until I found out one of the DaDa-ists had put sandpaper on the cover of one of their books back in the 20's or 30's (I don't know who, or any dates because I never took any art history classes) And now for soemthing completely different: Call me an idiot...
but I was just playing Sticky Fingers by the Stones, with the original zipper cover. After 10+ years of owning that lp I finally noticed the bulge in the pants. I guess I was too preoccupied with the fact that there was a working zipper to pay any more attention to the sleeve.
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vashrok
Punk Posts: 284
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 04-30-2001 08:27 AM
In Combo , Suburbs
weren't the sleeve pictures taken inside the Longhorn?
or am I remembering something different?
anyway, I did like the back cover with them standing still and their heads all blurry.IP: Logged |
MoldyRamone
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Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 04-30-2001 10:30 AM
Local-- Nemesisters by Babes in Toyland. What a great painting. I love carnival art! Wish I'd gotten a poster when it came out.
Otherwise--Alice Cooper-Billion$Babies
Alice Cooper-Killer
Bowie-Diamond Dogs
Iggy-American Caesar
Stooges-Raw Power
Cramps-Anything, esp. Stay Sick, Date with Elvis & Look Mom, No Head!
Nashville Pussy-Let Them Eat Pussy (Hmmm...can't imagine why...) 
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larrybob
Punk Posts: 51
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 08-07-2001 01:04 AM
Locally, the North Equator Nine LP is a close runnerup to Big Black's Headache in the disgusting cover art sweepstakes. A small thumbnail can be seen here: http://www.terryeason.com/discography.html Apparently it was a picture somebody took in India of a guy holding a brick in his hand and covered in gore. The guy would pound his head with the brick and make people pay money for him to stop. Or that's how I remember the story being told to me 2nd hand. IP: Logged |
trainwreck
Punk Posts: 821
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 08-07-2001 09:47 AM
P.I.L.s metal box was originally to be done in sandpaper...Theres a noise record,something to the effect of "Record without a cover" whick is just what it says, a picture disc(I think its all words)designed to not have a cover
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Garage Woman
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Registered: May 2000
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posted 08-08-2001 05:46 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Garage Woman:
...it's Big Black dressed up like Cheap Trick and Kraftwerk on their 7" covers single.
Thought I'd scan these in for entertainment (they're big, sorry)  
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MrsPeel
Punk Posts: 2656
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posted 08-09-2001 01:01 AM
Oh my god too funny.IP: Logged |
troll
Punk Posts: 258
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 03-29-2002 05:17 PM
the DWARVES= BLOOD, GUTS, & PUSSY.IP: Logged |
Ollie Stench
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posted 03-29-2002 08:10 PM
Up there with the Big Black art is Mayhem's "art"  IP: Logged |
SicGirl
Punk Posts: 41
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 11-23-2002 05:37 PM
Beki Bondage from Vice Squad put out a 12" disco club mix single under the name "Beki" called "don't turn away." The music was not good but she looked really cool on the cover. That was pretty much what I was hoping I would look like when I grew up :-)IP: Logged |
SicGirl
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posted 11-23-2002 05:41 PM
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Ollie Stench
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posted 11-23-2002 05:47 PM
I've got that record, plus another 12" she did. Man do they suck!And Beki was way cuter when she was chubby. IP: Logged |
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