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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TV on the Radio Dear Science (2008) |
Band of Horses Infinite Arms (2010) |
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Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky (1983) |
The Sisters of Mercy Vision Thing (1990) |
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The 13th Floor Elevators The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966) |
Suicidal Flowers The Psychedevilic Sounds of Suicidal Flowers (1997) |
Various The Psychedelic Sounds of the Sonic Cathedral (2010) |
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Kruder & Dorfmeister The K&D Sessions (1998) |
Bénabar Reprise des Négociations (2005) |
