Weird / Neat Covers
This category is devoted to weird, cool, interesting cover art on records that might otherwise be not so interesting.
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Paul Becker & Hearing Things: SafeQuirky local record with what has to be one of my favorite covers ever. Musically it’s a somewhat uneasy mix of ultra lightweight punk, bland AOR, and ballads with an almost prog bent. A tough one to figure out as there seems to be a whiff of novelty to it, but also some fairly sound […]
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OPERATION DROPOUTPicked this one up for the great cover. It’s a two record set put out by the Chicago Daily News and WLS Radio in conjunction with forums and broadcasts addressing the problem of school dropout in 1966. Three out of the four sides are dry and boring press conferences. The remaining side contains excerpts from […]
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Anenzephalia - LyseFirst I’ll start off with a disclaimer: I borrowed this record from my girlfriend who used to be a big industrial fan. I am really not that knowledgable on industrial stuff at all, hell I don’t really like it even, but this one seemed too weird not to be shared. Thanks to […]
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AMERICA - The Golden Eagle BandMaybe I should have saved this post for the fourth of July. But as I write this, I feel as patriotic as ever (in a retrospective, founding fathers kind of way) listening to this Middle School band (orchestra) pile drive through the great works of American composers and marching band standards. I originally […]
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Les Charlots - L’allumeuse des vrais berberesWhat side you on?
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Various Artists - Million Sellers Of The SixtiesI originally saw this record in the book “Naked Vinyl”, which is basically a collection of record covers that feature chicks in varying degrees of nakedness. Worth a read for sure. The book actually belongs to my girlfriend and as we were flicking through it laughing at some of the covers she saw […]
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Happiendo - Kazemachiroman (~Happy End - Windy Street Romance)Many consider Happy End the first true rock band from Japan. This is due to the fact that they were the first to make rock albums sung entirely in their native Japanese. They are very well known in Japan, however Im not sure of their popularity in the Western World so I hope this mini-review […]
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Bill Spivery: Trouble With The OperatorHello… HELLO???
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Various - Cumbias Y Gaitas de ColombiaHoused in an incredibly nice cover with a unique pre-historic Flinstone vibe (the drum, the model, the hair…), this record contains several outstanding cumbias. I thought the following cumbia (eh, or Gaita?) from this record is a nice one to post because it features a great hot-jazz guitarist who at one point goes out of […]
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Dannie Richmond: In Jazz For The Culture SetInteresting stab at pop-jazz by longtime Mingus Associate Dannie Richmond. The album consists of about half pop and rock (Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind”, Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen”, etc) covers which actually work into jazz better than one would expect, and half light originals penned by various players and contributors to the date. Gary […]
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Various - SensazioniThe Italian Phase 6 series might have had one of the coolest strings of sexy covers ever. This one is an absolute favorite of mine. The typefont, the angle, the color of the sky, the choice of model, the negligent position of her bikini. One can almost smell the hot herb-filled air of Italy’s coast […]
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Teenage Talk-InStrange 60’s Christian lp that has one of my favorite covers of all time. It depicts youthful scenes of of the era; playing baseball, dancing, riding on a motorcycle, holding a portable radio dangerously close to your ear and screaming, getting maced by the cops, hallucinating the Beatles’ disembodied heads, etc. And the message, delivered […]
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The Elementals with Captain Ricky Pluto - Living StonesThis private press gem originated in Michigan in 1984. Unfortunately the cover is the best part of the package. The music is really really bad 1980s synth pop/new wave stuff, with lyrics that seem to be deep but don’t actually say anything. If you’ve ever seen the British TV show The Office, the “Free Love […]
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The Wombles - Keep On WomblingThe moment I saw the trippy psych/kiddie album cover, I knew I had to buy this record, and I’m sure glad I did. The Wombles are an H.R. Pufnstuf meets The Muppets children’s television and book series from the UK with a mission: they’re all about picking up litter. I had some high hopes for […]
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Bobby And Betty Go To The MoonWay in the future, 1985, these 2 kids are the first to fly solo to the moon. Loads of fun science facts and cheesy effects, girls don’t care much for engineering in the future, where scientists sound like cheap impersonations of Bela & Boris. More fun on side two, tame library versions of soul […]
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Rainbow Promise - self titledRainbow Promise, teenage Jesus freak jam band from Texas, early 70’s recording, recorded in Ohio, on a Springfield MO label. 2 pressings with different cover variations were made, only sold at their concerts. Four stand out cuts with heavy shredding guitar jams.
Listen - my fave track
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Gertrude Behanna - God Isn’t Dead!Here is the “highly personal story” of Mrs. Gertrude Behanna, a story of alcohol, drug addiction, three broken marriages and attempted suicide. Just look at Gertrude, doesn’t she exude the aura of misbehavior and a youth gone wild?! But who am I to know. Maybe God healed her visage of all that was ugly and […]
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Norman Ezell / Resurrection DayEasily one of the greatest record covers of all time, making use of a painting called ‘Rapture’ by Charles Anderson. I also found a different shitty gospel record using the full, uncropped artwork on the cover. Just off to the left of the picture you see here? A 747 smashing into a skyscraper.
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Tutti Frutti MelodicoThe social life of fruit revealed. This answers a lot of questions for me.