March 2012
5 posts
Francoise Hardy - Self Titled
This is an example of a record that I only bought for the cover. I knew who Francoise Hardy was, knew that she was very beautiful, but didn’t know any of her music. I was mezmorized by the picture in a “french new wave” kinda way when I found it in a junk shop for a dollar. The record was pretty beat up, but thankfully the song “Le Temps de ‘l’amour”...
Roy Harper - Flat Baroque and Berserk
Mr Harper has never shied away from tackling the big social issues except notably, the hunting of protected animals or the preservation of patterned wallpaper. Velvet, or to use its proper name, Flock wallpaper popularly adorned the walls of many drinking establishments across the British Isles. With the wholesale refurbishment of pubs, as they are called, that started in the 1980’s and...
InSides
This blog is dedicated to all you out there that never realized your favourite album had a gatefold sleeve, or was even produced originally to be a vinyl record.
Or, this blog is dedicated to one of the pinnacles of human civilization: the 12” album, and the artwork that decorated it.
Or, in the post World War II period, people felt the need to express themselves in an individual manner...
Ray Barretto -The Other Road
This wonderful gatefold sleeve accurately depicts that in life there are two paths you can go by. On the one hand it will be stormy. But if you choose the road to the futuristic Logan’s Run city, it will be at least sunny. I found this album after looking for a copy of Mr Barretto’s Acid or Hard Hands, after reading the great Wax Poetics article about this man. But I couldn’t...
