Except for the Steve Miller band. Only good song they ever did apparently was Abracadabra.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
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Except for the Steve Miller band. Only good song they ever did apparently was Abracadabra.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
https://merchbar.imgix.net/product/4...,format&w=1400
Excellent...
Ott – Blumenkraft
Label: Ottsonic Music – OTT039
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180g
Country: UK
https://i.discogs.com/3s6ZbktxpMtVnH...0My5qcGVn.jpeg
Oh I don't know:Quote:
Originally Posted by cube-tube
https://i.discogs.com/ePTe0wIRhvWlgi...M5LmpwZWc.jpeg
and
https://i.discogs.com/Ujwvt17uPs2pJh...A2LmpwZWc.jpeg
well that was rubbish, didn't even make it all the way through. Bloody folk music. Liked his playing with Dire Straits but on that one it's very heavy-handed and the tunes are crap.
Now - Landlady:
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Is that parts one and two? Mine has tits on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
It's the 'Hendrix Family Authorised Edition' remastered from the original tapes with 24 page booklet'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
No tits on show, not allowed to have tits on album covers in our progressive liberal/fascist brave new world, but I do have the original vinyl gatefold with the proper cover.
My original copies looked like this:
Part 1
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/OPMAA...Zxh/s-l300.jpg
Part 2
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jBcAA...pED/s-l300.jpg
Wish I still had them.
Shpongle – Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost
Label: Twisted Records – TWSLP28RM
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered
https://i.discogs.com/ub23K_aaFLkHOR...4NC5qcGVn.jpeg
Hendrix was angry when he found out about the original cover - but in those days the recording companies had total control over everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
My copy has the original cover, and I have to say some of the models do look 'uncomfortable' with their poses.
So did the double album with the models come out first? I'd always assumed my old copies which were two separate albums would have been the originals.
One strange thing about my double album with the models: The sides are arranged across the two discs so that presumably you could put both discs on an autochanger record deck and follow side one with side two without any swapping over, if that makes any sense.
I was unaware that Electric Ladyland had been issued as two separate LPs.
I think the new cover was done for the American Market; to protect their delicate sensibilities. Record shops there probably tired of selling the LP in a brown paper bag.
My copy is the double with the gatefold sleeve, distributed by Track Record (a division of Polydor) in 1968.
It too has the four sides (labelled A to D) arranged for playing on an autochanger, which was not uncommon at the time
Yes the ones I had in the early 70s were as the images I put up in post #26209. It looks like the double with the naked models may have come before them. And American censorship sounds like a plausible reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
According to Wikipedia there are at least 3 different 'original' covers which varied depending on the label. The nude cover was done for Tracks.
Hendrix wanted a completely different photo to any of those actually used for the covers, but it was vetoed.
Also says that the side arrangement across the 2 discs was done for autochangers.
Yes, my poke around tinternet confirms what you're saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
One other thing that might interest some: if the text on the inside of the 'models' cover is blue, it is worth a lot more than if it's white. Though really life's too short to be concerned with such nonsense.
Does what it says on the tin. Very angry young person, Zack. I imagine his mum and dad had a very troubled parenthood.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Alaska Reid - Disenchanter
https://static.qobuz.com/images/cove...2tuy0b_600.jpg
earlier...
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underrated album imo..
now..
https://www.annielennox.com/wp-conte.../nostalgia.jpg
SUPERB ALBUM !!!!!! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dom66
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Not as NM as I'd hoped. Might have to take it back.
Karen Carpenter
CD
Yes, the sound is "dated" but absolutely what one would have expected at the time. Her layered background vocals on this one are extraordinary and executed with utter precision. I'm a jaded musician and these BGV's make my jaw drop. Yes, 2 or 3 songs seem completely out of place. Minus those, in 1980, she could have given any number of female pop vocalists a run for their money, if not made them look altogether foolish. They should have tweaked, finished, properly mixed and mastered this one and let it fly. Shame on A&M. Listen with headphones... goodness gracious.
https://i.discogs.com/_2vScryy5sVk-t.../OC5qcGVn.jpeg
On this side of the pond, it's the liberals who want to walk around with things flapping and dangling in your face... and want you to like it. :rolleyes: But, yes... someone beat me to it. Hendrix was not fond of that cover. I can't blame him. Though said label executives were not the first to play the game of "just put a chick on the cover and it'll sell", whatever they were going for, I do believe backfired.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I read that the models were paid £5 to go topless, or £10 if they would go naked. One of the models in a later interview said: "Everyone looked great, but the picture makes us look old and tired. We were trying to look sexy, but it didn't work out. It makes us look like a load of old tarts. It's rotten".Quote:
Originally Posted by WOStantonCS100
I have to agree, they look like "readers' wives". I'd happily swap my original double album for the later separate single albums in a shot. On my shoulder I have a tattoo of Jimi Hendrix... it's not very good, Jimi looks more like newsreader Trevor McDonald, but even that would make better and more relevant album art.
I was going to say I thought they all looked a bit rough. According to wikipedia Hendrix didn't like it but 'Dug' it anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
He thought the cover for 'Axis' was disrespectful so didn't like that one either.
Funny how one of the most creative geniuses that ever lived didn't get to choose his album covers.
Absolutely horrible cover, good thing the music is better. Won't get fooled again, what a blinder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Us-&-Them
Excellent album. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Us-&-Them
I've seen worse, much worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
Hmm, there's an idea for a thread. Best and worst album covers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I never liked the cover for 'Axis', thought it was horribly 'kitsch', but regard it as his best LP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I think we might have done a 'worst', or most disgraceful-looking cover thread in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Yes, as soon as I'd typed it I thought that may be the case.
Anyway, just been listening to my latest arrival:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/3F4AA...eyM/s-l300.jpg
As albums covers go, this is certainly not the worst I've seen, but I'm not sure what two pigeons atop a flying rock have to do with anything. And the sleevenotes are so bog basic looking I thought at first the seller might have knocked this up on his pc.
But I liked the album. Bit of a wonky start, but soon gets into its stride. Decent recording for its age too.
what is it??
It's the "Donovan Live in Concert 1968" we spoke about last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Oh yes. I had forgotten.lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Don't normally listen to 70s American rock/pop, but I loved a track off this LP so much, had to buy it, 'Dirty Work', then I discover the first track is a classic of radio stations everywhere, 'Do it again', so nice to hear it on a home hifi system rather than a tinny radio.
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I have a love/hate relationship with the Dan. Can't decide whether it's well-polished AOR, or if it's more than that. Despite my doubts, I have all their LPs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
I remember being round my mate's on a Saturday afternoon and his older sister coming back from town with that record - had to look it up - 1982!Quote:
Originally Posted by Us-&-Them