A Bag Of Golf Balls
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! by Devo - Everyone assumes that face was designed from scratch. It wasn't. It came from a bundle of golf balls.
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1970s
The golden age of album art: elaborate concepts, surreal imagery and covers built to be studied as closely as the record itself.
Stories
The Decade The Sleeve Became An Art Form - The 1970s
The 1970s was the decade when the album sleeve stopped being packaging and became a full blown art form. Here are the ten greatest covers of the decade.
Absence
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd - Two businessmen. One of them is on fire. And, did you know about the invisible man?
I See Us
Horses by Patti Smith - A Salvation Army shirt. A Frank Sinatra gesture. Twelve photographs. One afternoon in a New York apartment. And one important album cover.
It Came From A Rice Cooker
Aladdin Sane by David Bowie - The lightning bolt that appeared on millions of faces the night he died. It came from a rice cooker.
Unzip This
A Controversial look at the cover of Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones
The Night Ziggy Landed
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie - He doesn't fill the frame. He's small, almost lost in the street.
Stolen From A Pub Toilet
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac - The cover is boring. Two people, a light background, and a pair of wooden balls hanging like testicles.
Screaming From The Earth
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic - The cover disturbed me. The music surprised me.
Those Lines
Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division - The iconic cover isn't abstract art. It's a signal from a dead star.