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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Charles Manson Commemorating Sixty Years of Struggle against Cowardice, Stupidity and Lies (1994) |
Bad Religion Tested (1997) |
The Divine Comedy Victory for the Comic Muse (2006) |
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The Rolling Stones Tattoo You (1981) |
Various Cover You: A Tribute to the Rolling Stones (1998) |
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50 Cent The Massacre (2005) |
50 Cent The Massacre (Special Edition) (2005) |
Fatal Bazooka T'as vu (2007) |
