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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Chicane Thousand Miles Stare (2011) |
Jean-Michel Jarre Les Chants Magnétiques (1981) |
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Quicksand
Slip (1993) |
The White Birch
Come Up for Air (2005) |
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Gone Is Gone
Gone Is Gone (2016) |
New Order
NOMC15 (2017) |
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Judy Garland Judy in Person/At Carnegie Hall (1961) |
Rufus Wainwright Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (2007) |
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The Cramps Bad Music for Bad People (1984) |
William Shatner & The Cramps Garbageman (2019) |
