The Famous Gimmick Record Cover
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Topic: The Famous Gimmick Record Cover
Posted By: Alucard
Subject: The Famous Gimmick Record Cover
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:09
| 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 By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:18
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It was a fold-up box, which could serve as a storing device for...hmmm, pencils. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:21
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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. -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:25
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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 ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 11:33
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:06
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The inner gatefold cover of Area : Arbeit macht frei +the gun inlet |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:16
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No counterfeits exist of any Banco releases.
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Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:20
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Jethro Tull : Stand up
When you opened the gatefol cover the band was ... standing up |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:31
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Gentle Giant : In A GlassHouse http://www.blazemonger.com/GG/pix/big/iaghB.jpg"> 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 By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:36
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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? |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 12:40
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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 By: BaldJean
Date 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. ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: wallace
Date 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 |
Posted By: geezer
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 15:48
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Another one from the italian scene: Cervello : Melos   |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: June 02 2005 at 07:02
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Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: June 04 2005 at 07:25
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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  ------------- "We've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 14:58
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Small Faces - Ogden's.... ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 17:07
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Alucard wrote:Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 17:28
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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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