I feel kinda bad that the only 'iconic' album cover from my province is from Stan Rogers.

I always wondered where they photographed the cover for Abbey Road.

I'm really surprised to see some bands on there. The Specials? Sweet.

I once walked right past the building from the cover of Physical Graffiti and didn't realize it until later. I think the same building is in the Stones' "Waiting on a Friend" video.

Ah, according to the map, I was correct about the Stones. And subby, this is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. +1.

That was an interesting way to spend 5 minutes. Thank you, internet.

Only checked three and found a glaring error. Sweet's "Desolation boulvard" depicts Sunset Strip in Hollywood, not Sunset Strip in a Melbourne suburb.

/Too lazy to create a login on that site to correct the error.

Camelot Road, Byrdcliffe, New York State
Nashville Skyline
Bob Dylan
Taken outside of Dylan's first Woodstock home, Hi Lo Ha by Elliot Landy. "Landy" being an anagram of "Dylan" was thought to be a pseudonym. It wasn't. The guitar belonged to George Harison though.

That is kinda disappointing. Granted the cover is just only him and the sky, you'd think......


New York (state)!?!, Get a rope.

Somehow they got "Woodstock" not in Woodstock (the usual mistake), not in White Lake/Bethel (the right location), but in a "Bethel" that's nothing more than an intersection and a graveyard southeast of Pine Plains. Nice countryside, but there haven't ever been half a million filthy hippies there.

Dark Side of the Moon looks right.

Great link for trivia obsessed music nerds like me. Thanks.

Are some of those albums on the list jokes?


"Journey to the Centre of the Earth" by Rick Wakeman [I mean, c'mon....srsly....]

"Close to the Edge" by YES. [i mean, come on... the cover is a painting... even the inside gatefold is a painting/drawing of some weird place with a road/cliff/waterfall type thing... the only real pictures are of the band on the back cover]

and what, no "Hergest Ridge" by Mike Oldfield?

Street view (when available) would've been a nice option.

Nice...One a few blocks away (Faithless?) at the Bluebird in Denver...Oh man, I didn't realize that theater was porn palace until the 80's! Wish I didn't know that!

(click for link)

the one in my town is wrong.

will figure out how to fix it when I'm sober.

Where's this?

There were some really obscure records included.

At least to the point where I wouldn't consider them iconic. Wish they would have included a current look at the locations.

Are the Feelies popular again now?

woohoo, shadows collide with people

So that's where that Cheap Trick cover pic came from...

This is exactly what the intratubes was invented for.

+1 subby

Totally useless information, but so damn cool...

Good for whoever has the time to waste doing this.

When I was in college I tried to sneak into Battersea Power Station to take my own picture of the Animals album cover.
Didn't get very far, had to take the picture from over a wall in someone's neighborhood.

When weren't the Feelies popular?

And Stan Rogers is cool, too. He died a hero, you know.

This is actually pretty cool. Seems like next time I'm in San Fran I could make a trek to a few of these spots to "recreate" these covers to add to my Abbey Road recreation pics.

For the last friggen time: Woodstock, the festival was held no where near the Woodstock, NY where Dylan, Todd Rundgren, etc live/lived...it was held in Bethel, Sullivan County, NY - which is about 30 due west of the actual Woodstock. It was ORIGINALLY going to be held right outside of Middletown, NY (my hometown!)- but the bumpkins running local township decided at the very last second to rescind all the permits (not wanting all those damn hippes), thus necessitating the last second move, which is why everything was so jury rigged and haphazard. At the site now is a very nice (so I have heard)brand new performing arts center.....

Lynyrd Skynrd's debut album was shot a scant 3 miles from my house... no one I tell this to ever seems to care...

/Freebird!

zeppo: At the site now is a very nice (so I have heard)brand new performing arts center.....

Bethel Woods is pretty damn sweet, and kudos to Alan Gerry for pouring his own hundred million into the project. There's still a few old-time hippies biatching that it's too corporate or whatever - but consider the alternative. The rest of Sullivan County died with the borscht belt, and the only people who can afford to live there are businesspeople who head into the city once or twice a week. If you go two miles in any direction away from Bethel Woods what you've got is Appalachia with pockets of Hasidim here and there in the summertime. Once they go back to Brooklyn for the fall, the county is a ghost town.

Except for Monticello, which is a shiathole.

/went to the bethel woods museum, stood next to john sebastian watching the '69 version of himself
//yes, it WAS groovy

Still can't find the Nixa Trout Pond.
/obscure unless you're a hillbilly

"I'll take analbum cover for 7.000"

Wow, I lived a block away from Syd Barrett's old place for a year and had no idea.