90s
If ever there was a limited edition packaging that was never meant to be heard it’s this one. Spiritualized’s “Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space” came presented in a prescription medicine box with 12 mini CD’s in blister packs. The problem would be actually listing to the album. Changing the CD 12 times […]
The hardest part about having a name like µ-Ziq is asking someone at the record shop if they have them in stock. Also where do you file it under M, under U or with the numbers?
Another album from my CD buying days. It’s like the control room in a James Bond (circa Sean Connery days) villan’s secret base. This album is an eclectic mix of sounds and it still sounds good today. Unlike his latest album which is a album filled with mellow sounding rubbish.
Halifax 4-piece Sloan borrow from designer Saul Bass for the cover of their 1998 70’s rock pastiche NAVY BLUES. Largely known for movie title sequences (for Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Scorcese - remember the start of CASINO?..damn right…) Bass often employed two tone contrast (or, more accurately, black and colour) for figures or moving fonts […]
A friend made me realise recently that I don’t know shit about comic art anymore. It’s been years since I actually read a comic book. I LOOK at art now and I can analyse colours and shapes and design principles but its been a while since I actually indentified with a comic as heavily as […]
Not only is this my fav Chili Peppers album but I feel their most iconic cover. Although if you describe it to someone, ie four male band members locking tongues, it sounds a little fruity :)
Since this album the band hasn’t featured on any of their covers. This could be as they are getting […]
It’s not often an album cover gets so much publicity but I guess Marilyn Manson is used to this. I remember reading about this cover everywhere when it was released in 1998. Now it was the album cover that was scaring the grannies not just the music.
Wal Mart wouldn’t stock it and it was actually […]
It’s not often you see a cover use stock photos so extensively yet still remain an original and interesting cover. Sagmeister is known for his unique approach to design and as this was the 12th album by Pat Methany the obviously needed some way of making it different and stand out.
Every piece of text, except […]
It’s funny but this is the Urban Dictionary meaning for sleevage. For those not as learned in the way of womens anatomy, there is cleavage, side-boob and sleevage. The latter is shown above in this sexy cover for Ween’s Chocolate & Cheese album.
It’s no wonder this is Ween’s best selling album. It has some […]
Yeh yeh, chicks, cars, guns it’s a dissemination of male fantasies…sure..whatever. Cliched hiphopism aside Bill Sienkiewiczs‘ cover art for The RZA as Bobby Digital debut was a sweet deal for any fans of comic art and 70’s/80’s movie posters.
The composition is all Indiana Jones/Bond/Star Wars of the late 70’s/early 80’s (Sienkiewicz actually did some poster […]
