Album Cover Nostalgia........

Porgy

Not the first album I bought - but nearly


or this - when i look at it I can remember the interior of the Virgin store in Plymouth and how it smells - and even the smell of the vinyl when I first took the record out of the sleeve. Buying this record led to '5 years' of being a Bowie obsessive.

Porgy

MadammeMarie wrote:

you do surprise me

Ectomorph

I spent a lot of time studying these covers as a ten-year-old...

timb64

Ectomorph wrote:

I spent a lot of time studying these covers as a ten-year-old...

Bit scary given the artist of the second listed track! :shock:

attica

Porgy wrote:

or this - when i look at it I can remember the interior of the Virgin store in Plymouth and how it smells - and even the smell of the vinyl when I first took the record out of the sleeve. Buying this record led to '5 years' of being a Bowie obsessive.

I discovered Bowie thanks to this

+1 for the sensory associations surrounding albums.
I distinctly remember getting my first "walkman" for Christmas one year (an Aiwa with auto reverse and a 3 band graphic - woah, the technology!) buying "Slippery When Wet" (I know :oops: ) with some christmas money and walking home listening to mobile music for the first time. I can still smell that tape and remember the walk and the rain very clearly.

attica

_Brun_ wrote:

One of my favourite possessions is a limited print of the painting behind this, signed by the artist himself...

Is the artist John Squire?

Ectomorph

timb64 wrote:

Bit scary given the artist of the second listed track! :shock:

Well I'm a bit embarrassed to say that my first proper independent purchase (from Woolies, naturally) was an LP by Mr Gadd. Even at the time I think my parents expressed concern...

Dear god, I've just found it on ebay:



Look, it was the early seventies, ok?

-spider-

What an album! What a cover.





Not the first one I bought but pretty early in the vinyl buying days.

Prog lives on.

pllb

Great thread - this does it for me!

-spider-

Attica wrote:

Great Album

oscarbudgie

_Brun_

Attica wrote:

_Brun_ wrote:

One of my favourite possessions is a limited print of the painting behind this, signed by the artist himself...

Is the artist John Squire?

Aye, him it is.

Ectomorph

This got played to death by me in the late 70s



...until I had my ears forcibly wrenched open by this:



Bl*ody brilliant!

Richie63

This one...had it on my school rucksack

cheesebeanie

shockedsoshocked

pllb wrote:

Great thread - this does it for me!

Good shout!



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or

HonestAl

pb21

ShockedSoShocked wrote:

This

mercsport

Evidently, I might be 'The Ancient of Days' here on this thread. Even back then I didn't think much of the cover art, but the content was magical. I've still got them, a bit gnarled and chewed, but playable, had I something to play them on.

agnello

Ands

Tricky between this and Simple Minds Alive & Kicking - but I was a huge INXS fan, so I'll stick with this as being the most memorable for my teens:

Alain Quay

I was a big Midnight Oil fan.
Redneck wonderland:

Red sails in the sunset:

Diesel & dust

Place without a postcard:

Bird noises:

Blue sky mining:

RonB

May as well choose the first LP I bought. All looks v.exotic with Jerry Hall doing what she does best (ahem). Truth is the shot was taken just below South Stack Lighthouse on Anglesey! True believers can follow the tale here...QI...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPjljAZgEgY

Aggieboy

No finer............

Alain Quay

stevewj

-spider- wrote:

What an album! What a cover.





Not the first one I bought but pretty early in the vinyl buying days.

Prog lives on.

One of the best debut albums ever as well as one of the best full stop.

Alain Quay

Alain Quay

Westerberg

agnello wrote:

+++1

Slightly older of tooth and more addled of mind when I got into this lot though....

dennisn

Wish I had it together to post a picture.

How about Frank Zappa's "Weasels Ripped my Flesh"
or anything by Zappa for that matter.