sleeve design: Bidochons

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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Stayling Alive


Various Saturday Night Fever (1977)	Various Sesame Street Fever (1978)	Ricki Gal Chassidisco Fever (1978)

Boston Pops Orchestra with Arthru Fiedler Saturday Night Fiedler (1979)		Bidochons Saturday Night Bidochons (2008)

French teenage rock


Téléphone Crache ton Venin (1979)	Bidophone Cache ton Machin (1996)

The first never mind


The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks (yellow/pink) (1977)	Die Roten Rosen Never Mind the Hosen (1987)	Les Sex Bidochons On s'en Bat les Couilles (1989)


The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks (pink/green) (1977)	Opium Jukebox Never Mind the Bhangra (2002)	Pink Merkin Disregard the Genitals (2014)


Max Pashm Never Mind the Balkans (2009)	United Nations Never Mind the Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures (2010)	The Ukrainians Never Mind the Cossacks (2014)

Circus


The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1968/96)	The Rolling Bidochons The Singles Collection (1998)

Girls and monsters


The Rolling Stones Some Girls (1978)	The Rolling Bidochons Sales Gueules (1991)	Opium Jukebox Sticky Bhangra (2002)

A true classic... and its derivatives


The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)	The Rutles Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band (1967)	Frank Zappa and The Mothers We're only in it for the Money (1968)


Bläck Fööss Et Es 20 Johr Jenau Jetz Her (1990)	Beadochons 4 Beadochons dans le Vent (1993)	Macabre Sinister Slaughter (1993)


Various Tropical Tribute to The Beatles (1996)	The Simpsons The Yellow Album (1998)	Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. St. Captain Freak Out and the Magic Bamboo Request (2002)

Intense Mutilation

Sgt Leppers Falling Parts Club Band (2004)

Various

The Exotic Beatles, Pt.2 (2005)

Good Clean Fun

Between Christian Rock

and a Hard Place (2006)


Easy Star All Stars Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band (2009)	Acid Police Noise Ensemble Extraordinary Renditions (2011)

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