Ochs informs us of his initial aim in life, to listen to every rock record ever released and in addition, that this book represents a very small proportion of his 100,000+ collection of albums.Īlthough each section here is divided by decade – Ochs makes some attempt to group album covers together based on similar image or artwork (often very tenuous) with varying degrees of success and to what purpose is unclear? ‘1000 Record Covers’ (2002) by Michael Ochs – is essentially an interesting photo collection of album covers throughout the decades – but ultimately this amounts to nothing more than a vanity project for its author/curator Michael Ochs. Not necessarily an essential purchase, but if you like album covers - and you might find some really great ones to stare at - this is a great enough book. I do wish there could've been included some more covers, but I guess they have to stick to that number - and the book *is* pretty thick already. There is at least 3 Andy Warhol works, two that use Escher, and Hipgnosis' odd art gets its pages.įinally, there is the index for each artist. Some famous artists and designers I recognise: Norman Rockwell makes one cover that is clearly just for the album and not borrowed from somewhere else (Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper - "The Live Adventures Of.").
Here and there appears some that have some kind of 'promo copy' sticker in them, a few have a corner clipped or pierced. Sometimes the back covers or the whole folding of the covers are shown (like Small Faces' "Ogden's Nut." vinyl) elsewhere unusually-shaped types and picture discs (the latter have been appearing since the 1940s (of which two examples are shown). Sometimes there are 2-3 versions of the same cover - like The Mamas & The Papas' "If You Can Believe." album. There is good, bad and ugly (sexism, underage person(s)) covers, though that might sometimes depend on the reader's taste.
Some with similar themes or style are grouped together. One does notice that each decade has its own 'looks', which can date it there a bit. Sometimes there's a further comment added (these and the introduction are also in German and French). Each cover is accompanied by artist name, title, record label, your (or rough guess - I do wish there had been some more insisted searching), then design/collage/art/photo by, if known (but put sometimes just as 'unknown'). They are roughly grouped by the decade (1960s, 1970s, and 1980s-early1990s: all getting a short introduction), some appearing in other decade than their own.
This is a collection of album covers, well-known and less-known. (the author pic - *very* much early-90s style, especially those jeans and shoes XD )
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