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This series vividly explores an element of music culture that has withered with the advent of MP3s and digital downloading. Vinyl records tell their stories visually as they do aurally, and the record cover - eye candy for the music lover - speaks a language rooted in the environment and era of the music itslef. This volume focuses specifically on the strange and bizarre products of music's most eclectic and eccentric figures, whose visions were so absurd and grandiose, they often extended beyond the boundaries of the recording and onto the covers themselves.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Love, love this book!
18 Sep 2010
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This book has become an essential item on our coffee table. My husband is an avid LP collector. I know nothing about records. But, we both thought this book was fantastic. Once we got it, we couldn't stop turning the pages. We've left it on our coffee table for the past month. All of our friends who come over start thumbing through and laughing hysterically. They won't put it down until they've gone through the whole thing and picked out their own favorite weird album. It's been the best conversation piece we've ever had. Some of the album album covers are amazing, while others are amazingly...AMAZINGLY...bad. That's the joy of it. Where else can you find art to go with the albums like "My Wife Bought a Taxi," "Yodeling Praises Unto the Lord," "Music to Massage Your Mate By," and "Music for your plants"? I just wish the pages were bigger - I would have loved to see these things the same size as the actual album covers. It would be fun to actually hear some of these albums...I'm curious if the music is as weird and interesting as the cover art. It makes me want to start going to yard sales and picking through record piles to make my own collection. For now, I'll just go back to this book every few days. It always puts a smile on my face.
0 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Could have been much better
16 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback
This book is basically about kitsch LP covers. One would only have to crate dig the now defunct Village Musics gospel bins to find many hilarious finds of this ilk. I really liked the Charles Fort introduction and yes a few great albums like IASOS and a cool PLACEBO and RESIDENTS record. I would have included this Jimmy Reed album with collaged cover; The Chamber Brothers with a cool Mati Klarwein back cover; The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing -especially the back graphic score picturing organic looking musical notations. Not much avant garde weirdness in this book. I don't see any German Prog weirdness or mutant sounds. Italian Horror soundtracks would be cool, but that would perhaps have to be included in a book about CD covers . I have this Jazz LP from the 50's that has a colorful Rorschach test cover. Another weird cover would have been the Glossolalia album that was circa 70's. I expected more from one of the Best music publications in existence.
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