1000 Record Covers

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Would make a great gift, too, for people who didn't live through the era in which the LP cover was a deliberate art form unto itself. Sometimes there's a further comment added (these and the introduction are also in German and French).

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. 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.

vinyl); elsewhere unusually-shaped types and picture discs (the latter have been appearing since the 1940s (of which two examples are shown). Printed in eye-popping colour throughout, each has a caption of artist, title, year of release, record label, sleeve designer and extra notes. of the best record covers of all time from the Michael Ochs Archives, one of the world's largest private collections" (from the cover). 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. I like the pictures a lot--especially the 50s and 60s--but thirst for a sentence on each one, not just an occasional note.

The form - a basic 12" x 12" framework - lent itself to as much detail as the artist cared to put in or to leave out, to instant impact, to portability, to duplication or triplication via the gatefold format, and presented itself as an artefact as solid as the record it contained. The Five Keys cover is rare because the thimb on the far left might have been misunderstood as an exposed penis. A Christmas gift from my wife, this is an excellent book for anyone who loves music throughout the decades. 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.Scrutinising the cover of an LP record used to be a major part of the pleasure of acquiring and acquainting oneself with it. There is good, bad and ugly (sexism, underage person(s)) covers, though that might sometimes depend on the reader's taste.

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. He had owned a number of the albums shown and we chatted about some of our favorite musicians from different time periods.Record Covers es un libro de 1996 escrito por Michael Ochs, un archivista musical, disc jockey, periodista y ex ejecutivo de Atlantic Records. These compilations are of primarily black recording artists, yet, once again, only white people are shown on the covers. Sometimes the back covers or the whole folding of the covers are shown (like Small Faces' "Ogden's Nut.

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. True, this hardbound version has fewer than a thousand record covers since it omits the 1950s covers found in the original softcover book, but it's still plenty of fun.Even thought this book has little text, just looking at covers your brain starts to develop context: American propaganda, hippie movement, gender issues, racial context and you can see that the records shown here say a lot about the collector who owns them.