1000 Record Covers

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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. Ochs provides interesting bits of information here and there, such as that picture albums were first produced in the 1940s. 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. El libro está dividido en décadas, con cada década presentando una selección de 100 portadas de álbumes.

Pese a que los textos y anotaciones son demasiado escasos, siempre es agradable revisar portadas de discos de las que nadie se acuerda. 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.Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an under-appreciated art form. 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.

These compilations are of primarily black recording artists, yet, once again, only white people are shown on the covers. Not as a coffee table book, not as a collection of hipster music cred, not even as an art project would I recommend this. The Five Keys cover is rare because the thimb on the far left might have been misunderstood as an exposed penis. Sometimes artists themselves got involved in creating them (hurray for Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell or John Lennon; bad, bad choice for Fish, although I love Marillion), other times famous photographers got to work on them - Annie Leibovitz or Storm Thorgerson, and let's not forget the famous cover Andy Warhol created for The Velvet Underground. El libro también incluye una introducción del propio Ochs, que proporciona una visión general de la historia de las portadas de álbumes de rock.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. Printed in eye-popping colour throughout, each has a caption of artist, title, year of release, record label, sleeve designer and extra notes. He had owned a number of the albums shown and we chatted about some of our favorite musicians from different time periods. It goes without saying, that there are many great album covers included in Ochs book here – but vicariously or otherwise that doesn’t mean it amounts to a great book – mildly diverting at best.