Would Sgt. Pepper's be exactly the same without Peter Blake's cover ? At a time when full-length records do not mean much any longer and album covers even less, I found interesting to make a website on sleeve design. Long before videos, record covers were the visual embodiment of music, a way to put images on sound. I remember having spent hours as a teenager detailing the cover of records while listening to them. Later on, I realised that some of them had things in common in their design, revealing either a mere sign of the times or a more deliberate connection. Some records even obviously copied famous sleeves, as a tribute or as a mockery. Here is a collection of record covers I came across, which share some common visual features.
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Donald Byrd Band and Voices A New Perspective (1963) |
Tone-Loc Loc-ed after Dark (1989) |
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The James Taylor Quartet Hammond-ology - The Best of (2001) |
Various Blue Note Revisited (2004) |
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Angelo Badalamenti Soundtrack from Twin Peaks (1990) |
Die Toten Hosen Unsterblich (2001) |
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John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (1970) |
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band (1970) |
Travis The Invisible Band (2001) |
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Prince Sign 'O' the Times (1987) |
Battles Mirrored (2007) |
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Simon and Garfunkel Bookends (1968) |
Kruder and Dorfmeister G-Stoned (1996) |
