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Alucard 
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 Topic: The Famous Gimmick Record Cover
Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:09 |
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Yes, one more poll about the good ol' days, when record companies were willing to to anything in order to pull the pocket-money out of your pockets by the means of record covers that were more or less original, but special nevertheless.Some of them are impossible( maybe not in Japan) to reproduce as CD covers. My favourite ones are Odgen's... In a Glass-house & Long John Silver (my mother never had a clue, what I kept in this box)
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:18 |
It was a fold-up box, which could serve as a storing device for...hmmm, pencils.
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:21 |
Annexus Quam, a Krautrock band. Their first LP "Osmose" had one of the most interesting gimmick covers ever. The front cover could be folded in several different ways, and you could make 16 different covers. Very cool. It's in our collection at home.
Here "Osmose" in one of it's 16 permutations. This however is a pic of a reissue without the gimmick cover. The original had title and artist name on the back only.
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:25 |
I would've mentioned also Tull's TAAB, Dr. Z's Three part of my soul , Hawkwind's Ritual, Ramases's Space Hymns, Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies, Grand Funk 's Pluribus Funk, Faust's debut that was an X-ray of the hand , ELP's BSS and a few others.
On your list, though choice! GG and Stand up are prog albums! But the Airplane's LJS is , although hardly their best) definetely the most original folding into a cigar box and under the cigars (record's inner sleeve), comes the weed. 
I'll sleep on it
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Alucard
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:33 |
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Inner Cover |
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Inner Back Cover | | In a way similar to LJS, it was a round cover, representing a fold-up tobacco box, but you couldn't store anything in it but the record.
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Alucard
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:06 |
The inner gatefold cover of Area : Arbeit macht frei +the gun inlet
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:16 |
No counterfeits exist of any Banco releases.
Banco : same
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 part to pull up.
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Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (original issue) - front cover |
extractable tab detail |
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Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - inner gatefold |
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:20 |
Jethro Tull : Stand up
When you opened the gatefol cover the band was ... standing up
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:31 |
Gentle Giant : In A GlassHouse
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The plastic sheet in the middle was glued on the inside of the outer cover and superposed with the inner cover which gave the " 3D" effect.
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:36 |
Rolling Stones : Their Satanic Majesty's Request
This was a "real 3D" plastic sheet glued on the cover, Does anyone know how it works exactly?
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:40 |
Oops I forgot this one..
Rolling Stones : Sticky Fingers, the famous Andy Warhol Cover with a real Zipper in the first edition
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:47 |
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"Arbeit macht frei" ("Work Liberates") is a little tasteless to choose as title for an album, in my opinion. It was inscripted over the gate to the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps. Buchenwald had "Jedem das Seine" ("To Each His Own") above the gate.
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 13:49 |
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Wallace gorts Flea de Cologne's "Rockoper Profitgeier" live set. The cover ha' a plucked chicken bein' stabb'd. Th'gimmix be tha yew can pull oot th'guts.
Farmyard-same (NZ '70) shoppin' bag gimmix
Derek & Clive "Ad Nauseum" 0rigerrnol came wrapp'd in its ain barf bag
Envelope covers:
Jeff Air -bark
Zeppelin- in thru out door
ino Valente
United States of America
Capt Beefheart - clearspot
Atomic Rooster -Made in England (green denim sack)
VA- Glastonbury Fayre
Family -anyway (textur'd bag)
A Frith/Cutler live Check lp had cover done oop in sum sart o poolliner-type plastic
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Posted: June 01 2005 at 15:48 |
Another one from the italian scene:
Cervello : Melos
 
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Posted: June 02 2005 at 07:02 |
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"Arbeit macht frei" ("Work Liberates") is a little tasteless to choose as title for an album, in my opinion. It was inscripted over the gate to the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps. Buchenwald had "Jedem das Seine" ("To Each His Own") above the gate.
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Area an openly communist oriented group (look at the hammer & sickel on the inner cover), choose the title consciuosly as an antifascist statement. (BTW on the left side of the cover you can see the foto of th KZ entry in the frame)For other groups I would agree with you, but Area has not used the title in an unreflected way just to shock. |
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Posted: June 04 2005 at 07:25 |
Man's "Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day"
Gatefold opens up to a large pop-up map of Mans Map of Wales
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"We've got to get in to get out"
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Posted: February 26 2006 at 14:58 |
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Small Faces - Ogden's....
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In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole
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ANDREW
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Posted: February 26 2006 at 17:07 |
 Alucard wrote:
No counterfeits exist of any Banco releases.
Banco : same
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part to pull up. |
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Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (original issue) - front cover |
extractable tab detail |
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Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - inner gatefold | |
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marktheshark
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Posted: February 26 2006 at 17:28 |
I went with Satanic. Clever use of 3-D. A lot of people haven't noticed but the Beatles are in there too. Sort of a payback for mentioning the Stones on the Sgt Pepper cover. Just look closely in the flowers.
The one I always liked was Cheech And Chong's Sleeping Beauty cover. Fold it out and it becomes a big pill. Pretty clever.
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