I’ve been trawling through my local record stores stock of vinyl today, and it’s good to see it making a comeback. CD’s are all very well and compact, the sound quality is good, but you can’t beat the feely-touchy experience of picking up an LP and admiring its artwork. Well, most of the time. It has to be said that down the years, there have been some less than bad album covers that you just wouldn’t be seen dead with!
Take this cover for example, Freddie Gage, ‘All My Friends Are Dead’. Apparently, Mr Gage is a preacher who is a reformed drug addict. That puts into perspective why and how the album title came about, but it’s hardly something that you’d want in your collection, or would you? I should imagine the songs are not the most cheerful to listen to either. It also begs the question, was there a pre-curser to this album with the odd title of ‘All My Friends Are Ill’?
I Hate Men is a self explanatory album cover from Nancy Walker. It’s pretty obvious with the photo of her sticking pins in a voodoo doll, who I assume to be her husband or lover, or worse, every man in the world. The title of the tracks show exactly what she means too, ‘You Irritate Me So’, ‘I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair’, I didn’t read any further, I put it back on the shelf out of harms way.
There are many bad album covers out there, thankfully there are far more good ones, but if you see or know of any, I’d love to hear about it. Honestly, I don’t collect this stuff, but I do find it fascinating that people take the time and trouble as well as a lot of expense to make these records that probably, or maybe never sell a single unit. Oh well, I’m off to listen to my latest purchase, ‘My Love For Cacti’ by Spike Wilkinsop.
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