sleeve design: January 2012

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.

Licks


The Rolling Stones Get Stoned 30 Greatest Hits-30 Original Tracks (1977)	The Rolling Stones Sucking the Seventies (1981)	The Rolling Stones Collection 1971-1989 (1990)

The Rolling Stones Collectors' Edition (1990)	The Rolling Stones Coca-Cola Presenta - Volumen 1 (1995)	The Rolling Stones Coca-Cola Presenta - Volumen 2 (1995)

The Rolling Stones Forty Licks (2002)	The Rolling Stones Ten Licks from Forty Licks (2002)	The Rolling Stones Live Licks (2004)

The Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang World Tour 2005-2006 Special Edition (2005)	The Rolling Stones In Store Sampler (2005)	The Rolling Stones 2009 Remasters (2009)

The Rolling Stones 1964-1969 (2010)	The Rolling Stones 1971-2005 (2010)	The Rolling Stones Complete Singles (2011)

The Rolling Stones No Spare Parts (2011)	The Rolling Stones Grrr (2011)	The Rolling Stones Blue and Lonesome (2016)