1000 Record Covers

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Perhaps here some additional text might have been of use, but on the other hand its absence ensures the observer must use his or her wit, perception and knowledge to establish connections and draw conclusions about the Zeitgeist. He had owned a number of the albums shown and we chatted about some of our favorite musicians from different time periods. Sometimes there's a further comment added (these and the introduction are also in German and French). Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground.

Not necessarily an essential purchase, but if you like album covers - and you might find some really great ones to stare at - this is a great enough book. of the best record covers of all time from the Michael Ochs Archives, one of the world's largest private collections" (from the cover). A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.He has also been a disc jockey, taught a rock-history course for UCLA and written for such magazines as Rock, Melody Maker, Cashbox, and Crawdaddy. I wish I could share my preferences, but too many links are involved and making choices is pretty difficult anyway. Cada portada está acompañada de una breve reseña que proporciona información sobre el álbum, la banda y el artista. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for such as Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. Although it does include a lot of great and controversial album covers (Blind Faith, Lennon and Ono's 'Two Virgins' to name a couple), a large amount of the book seems compiled with complete rubbish, notably the first 1/4 which appears to be more a collection of the cheesiest record sleeves that the author could find.

Ochs informs us of his initial aim in life, to listen to every rock record ever released and in addition, that this book represents a very small proportion of his 100,000+ collection of albums. This edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best rock album covers of the 60s to 90s from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs's enormous private collection. To feed his habit, Ochs headed the puplicity departments of Columbia, Shelter, and ABC Records in the 60s and 70s. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.El libro también incluye una introducción del propio Ochs, que proporciona una visión general de la historia de las portadas de álbumes de rock. Las portadas están bien seleccionadas y representan una amplia gama de estilos musicales, desde el rock and roll de los años 60 hasta el grunge de los años 90. Although I do see the funny irony in celebrating the art of the LP sleeve by reducing the reproductions to about a quarter of the size of a cd cover.

This edition of "Record Covers" presents a selection of the best rock album covers of the 60s to 90s from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs' enormous private collection. My first job literally for the first month was sitting in a room with this one other guy and going through and pricing the entire Michael Ochs collection. This gives the advantage of enabling one to see correspondences, similarities, visual echoes between individual designs that can be fruitfully mined for their contemporary social and psychological significance. This is an interesting book but unfortunately this 2005 edition (ISBN: 3-8228-4085-8) is faulty as it omits all the 240 1950s covers included in the original 1996 printing ISBN: 3-8228-8595-9. El libro es una excelente fuente para los fanáticos del rock que buscan una visión general de las mejores portadas de álbumes de la era del rock clásico.The Five Keys cover is rare because the thimb on the far left might have been misunderstood as an exposed penis. The original cover was changed soon after release and a white couple was put on the cover to get the record carried in the South. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Some of the 1970s images, implying rape or other sexual exploitation, are highly disturbing to the contemporary sensibility, and it's telling to speculate on how they could not have been so when originally produced. This is, in my opinion, a weird book, composed of, as the title indicates, of photos of 1,000 record covers - one guy's albums. If you're like me (Boomer), it's a veritable trip down memory lane, full of fondly remembered album covers and others temporarily forgotten. vinyl); elsewhere unusually-shaped types and picture discs (the latter have been appearing since the 1940s (of which two examples are shown).That said, the book is a nice one to have in the collection just for those who appreciate art and music and certainly doesn't fail completely- with 1000 separate covers there's certainly enough to make you pick it up once in a while, and the nice format and design of the book makes up for the strange omissions. Not as a coffee table book, not as a collection of hipster music cred, not even as an art project would I recommend this. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The text at the start of each each decade was really quite dull and bore little or no relation to the album covers that followed. Occasionally similar designs are juxtaposed, but the book is not illuminating and not well organised, be it by date, genre, popularity, significance or whatever.