365grammofoonplaten

Taken from Bas Trimbach's daily blog. Each day he searches through his collection for an appropriate record to fit the news or occasionaly his own life.

Where's the party?!

LPCoverLover: Where's the party?!
---

Alex Steinweiss - Creator of the LP

Alex Steinweiss with some of his designs for Columbia records, photographed by William P. Gottlieb in 1947.
Courtesy of William P. Gottlieb.
(Copyright W.P.Gottlieb.)

"The first illustrated album cover was designed in 1938 for a 78rpm record, by Alex Steinweiss, art director at Columbia Records, in 1938. And it was he, in the early 1950s, after designing hundreds of packages, posters and catalogues for Columbia, who created the paperboard LP cover to protect and market the latest revolution in music delivery, and in the process defined the visual identity of recorded music for decades to come."

from the eye feature article by Stephen Heller

Follow the development process here.

A Steinweiss record cover gallery @ Used Wigs.

Sabor de Rocks

Find the differences between the two album covers found at
Zip Your Rip (above) and Touque Music below and win the prize. Clue #1: the Bob Thompson is much more entertaining than the Orquestra Namorados.

Cryptic Covers

Today's cryptic album cover features a hastily assembled tableau of Man Examining Harmonica and Ignoring Nearby Parasol. The music is pretty good, I especially liked Beer Barrel Polka (Barrel de Chopp).

Viejo Pickup

I never knew Leif Garrett, Rip Torn, and Keye Luke were in a band together,Grupo GT indeed.

Who else loves looking at obscure and dorky record sleeves? Viejo Pickup does, apparently.

Soviet Russian Album Covers

more

Beauty Shop Beat

Donna Lethal found this great album cover at Stirred, Straight Up, With a Twist and I found a cut from the album here (listen, don't watch)....now I need the rest of the album! Who knows where I can download it?? The copies I've found are around $100. (yes, Donna, I've stepped on your toes yet again, but I need this album!)

The Spanish Jerry Lewis and SO much more.....

There's the Universal Language of Love, but there's also the Universal Language of Fecking Weirdness. It doesn't matter that the only Spanish words I know are related to food and booze, I still thoroughly enjoyed the downloads from Lo Pior de la Red, in particular the music of Hermanos Calatrava (see below)--great version of "Ground Control to Major Tom", whatever that song is actually called. You can get 1990s Argentinian Coca Cola jingles, Spanish versions of music from Masters of the Universe--and as you can see, the collection of oddball album covers is quite good, indeed.

Yo Ho Ho!

Avast there mateys, is this the best Olan Mills family portrait of all time or what? Better still....there's music that goes with it too!

The Late Great Soundalike LPs

Over at Grooves of Delight, it's Soundalike Month and you can get down to such covers of "Valleri," "Me and You and A Dog Named Boo," and other cringeworthy classics of my (and perhaps your) youth.

From European fleamarkets

CLUB INTERNACIONAL DEL DISCO

CLUB INTERNACIONAL DEL DISCO (front)
Originally uploaded by el estratografico

Some interesting looking vintage album sleeves on Flickr--keep clicking and you'll see France Gall and Françoise Hardy, among others.

The Many Faces of Blue Note.

Vintage Vanguard has a terrific (and incredibly comprehensive) gallery of Blue Note album covers (front and back!), stretching from the mid-1940s to the late 1970s or so. Gorgeous design work. The fun starts here.

[via The FontFeed.]

Six Slick Fellows.

Someday, if I ever get married again, I'm going to make all my groomsmen dress like this.

[via Katastrofala Omslag.]