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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Kiss Destroyer (1976) |
Manowar Fighting the World (1987) |
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Thievery Corporation Sounds from the Thievery Hi-fi (1999) |
Bosques de mi Mente Lo-Fi (2007) |
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The Kinks The Kink Kontroversy (1965) |
Sleater-Kinney Dig me Out (1997) |
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The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers (1971) |
Mötley Crüe Too Fast for Love (1981) |
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Various Paint it Black - A Reggae Tribute (2002) |
Various Paint it Black (2006) |
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Téléphone Crache ton Venin (1979) |
Bidophone Cache ton Machin (1996) |
