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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The Byrds Byrdmaniax (1971) |
The Soundtrack of our Lives Behind the Music (2001) |
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Maxïmo Park A Certain Trigger (2005) |
Bryan Adams Anthology (2007) |
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Bruce Springsteen Nebraska (1982) |
The Kinks Live - The Road (1988) |
The Jesus & Mary Chain Stoned & Dethroned (1994) |
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Acetone I Guess I Would (1995) |
Hothouse Flowers The Best of (2000) |
Vincent Gallo When (2001) |
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Monster Movie Last Night Something Happened (2002) |
Weekend Players Pursuit of Happiness (2003) |
Bon Jovi Lost Highway (2007) |
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Ray Manzarek/Roy Rogers Translucent Blues (2011) |
Mark Knopfler Down the Road Wherever (2018) |
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Sandie Shaw Me (1965) |
Nico The Marble Index (1969) |
Diane Birch Bible Belt (2009) |
