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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Neil Young Hawks and Doves (1980) |
Stone Temple Pilots N°4 (1999) |
Zabranjeno Pušenje Muzej Revolucije (2009) |
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Eddie Vedder Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild (2007) |
The Derek Trucks Band Already Free (2009) |
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Sven Libaek, Ron & Val Taylor Inner Space (1973) |
Ride Today Forever EP (1991) |
Elio e le Storie Tese Eat the Phikis (1996) |
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Faith No More The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection (2009) |
Black Mountain Wilderness Heart (2010) |
Savas & Sido Royal Bunker (2017) |
