Long before Photoshop. All done with film and darkroom.

I have many of those. Some of them I used to have in vinyl, when cover art was legible.

Olivia Newton-John seems out of place on that list.

I had no idea The Alan Parsons Project had released so many albums. My God.

I had no idea The Alan Parsons Project had released so many albums.

I noticed that too. I had no idea they released so many in the 1990s. I got one neo-APP, or maybe an Alan Parsons solo, and didn't care for it. I loved their original work, 1978-1983 or so.

I'm going to cut me liver out and shove it in your face.

the link is clearly nsfw

heh

Awesome. I have some of these on vinyl. And I have a turntable that I haven't used in a couple of years.

Argue all you want, it sounds better to me.
Analog media and darkroom photo editing FTW!

I can remember seeing Montrose "Jump on It" in my best friend's older brother's record collection. After we did a Beavis and Butthead "heh, heh heh, heh" we put it on, and that turned to heeeeyy. Life was never the same.

ah yeah Hipgnosis.

Frequent contributor of art on required albums in every stoner kids dormroom in America. People who are now over 40 mostly.

Those gatefold double albums made such great portable lap tops, they even provided a nice trough down the center.

Generation_D: they even provided a nice trough down the center.

Ahhh memories...

I have 17 of these and loved almost all of them.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I see what you did there.

I had the Floyds (was a big time fan at one point), a couple of the Alan Parsons, the Led Zep and several others, including some of their more new wave ones like The Fabulous Poodles.

All gone, all lost in a move, all trashed by a very small person a very long time ago.

They took up a lot of space....

The Pink Floyd ones really are the best

Hipgnosis hasn't existed since about 1983. Everything since then is just Storm Thorgerson. Who is teh awesomes.

/pedant
//I'm sad that I'll never be a rock star, because that means I'll never get to commission a Thorgerson or Hugh Syme album cover.

Pedantic cat says Hipgnosis actually "disbanded" in 1983. From the looks of them, it appears that all the covers post-1983 featured here were designed by Storm Thorgerson, one of Hipgnosis' founders.

As I was scrolling through I began to wonder if he did The Mollusk. I was pleasantly surprised.

Storm Thorgeson is farking awesome.

PerfectlyCromulent: Storm Thorgeson is farking awesome.shiat. Let's try this again...



Storm Thorgeson is farking awesome.

I have 26 of them.


The Nice - Elegy and The Winkies - The Winkies both appear on TFA's list multiple times, for some reason.

Roger Dead is much better

Geddyhead: Roger Dead is much better

damn that should have been Dean.

"Fun in Space"
Roger Taylor, FTW.

PerfectlyCromulent: PerfectlyCromulent: Storm Thorgeson is farking awesome.shiat. Let's try this again...



Storm Thorgeson is farking awesome.

That poster is in my dorm room.
/I don't listen to pink floyd anymore...
//Oh well. Pink Floyd still has some of the best album covers.

Shopping for LPs was almost a like going to an art museum. More than once the album artwork turned out to be more interesting than the music.

freakin sweet! I freakin LOVE nearly all of Hipgnosis's cover art!!!
that's for the awesome find, subby!

wait a minute..... i thought that Syd Barrett painted the cover art for his "Barrett" album...

/ i thought it was a photograph at first, it was so good
// yes i was far away

Third_Uncle_Eno: wait a minute..... i thought that Syd Barrett painted the cover art for his "Barrett" album...

/ i thought it was a photograph at first, it was so good
// yes i was far away

You're right.
Another error in that list is Pink Floyd's "Relics". the original cover (which is featured in the list) was drawn by Floyd's drummer Nick Mason. Thorgeson did the re-release cover (which was better).

List was missing Muse.

I have alot of these of actual vinyl records. All the Pink FLoyds (studio albums) and Led Zeppelins. Also the Bad Company, AC/DC. I started to collected records years ago just for album art, now for the listening pleasure too.

Bought Grateful Dead's Shakedown Street and Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream on vinyl today!

Geddyhead

Roger Dean is much different. He's a good artist with a narrow style.

I read a science fiction story recently which described a scene as (stuff I forget) as if painted by Roger Dean. A perfect description for a person of a certain age and muscal taste. I knew exactly what he meant. (Might have been by Alistair Reynolds. He dropped a jarring reference to Yes into his novel Revelation Space. A novella of his has a title out of David Bowie.)

...or it might have been Halting State by Charles Stross. I read it but don't own a copy to check.

it still farks me up that peter christopherson of tg/coil was in hipgnosis and directed yes' "owner of a lonely heart" video.

Geddyhead: Geddyhead: Roger Dead is much better

damn that should have been Dean.

Better, how? Aren't they both awesome? Looks like another false dichotomy to me, so rare in the Fark music threads!

Audioslave had an album cover on the list with a song of the same name, as another album cover on the list "Cochise"

Never heard of these guys before but cool stuff.

BTW Hipgnosis no longer exists, however the people involved, namely Storm Thorgerson still do graphic design work.

Having said that, Hipgnosis is one of the main reasons I wanted to become a graphic designer. Alas, not many album covers done these days, drats.

samperkinsdog: directed yes' "owner of a lonely heart" video.

He's directed quite a few videos, some not so surprising, after all isn't a surprise to see him do a Rage Against the Machine video, some quite surprising, Hanson's I Will Come to You.

Ah, a tape version! Who knew.

Sears and K-Mart have refused to handle most of these.

/Bobbi Flekman unavailable for comment.

by the way, I think I had heard that Peter Christopherson of Coil and Throbbing Gristle used to work with Hipgnosis.

ZAZ: Geddyhead

Roger Dean is much different. He's a good artist with a narrow style.

I read a science fiction story recently which described a scene as (stuff I forget) as if painted by Roger Dean. A perfect description for a person of a certain age and muscal taste. I knew exactly what he meant. (Might have been by Alistair Reynolds. He dropped a jarring reference to Yes into his novel Revelation Space. A novella of his has a title out of David Bowie.)

"Diamond Dogs," by Alastair Reynolds.

/favorite author
//favorite of his novellas so far, too

If you can get your hands on a copy take a look at this book if you're interested in their work

Walk Away Rene (new window)

I think it was published back in the late 70's and goes through some of there artwork and how/why they created it

Actually if you look at the link Storm has compiled a couple of other books on his and Hipgnosis work.

Very neat / interesting. I'm impressed that while the bulk of his work was in the 60's and 70's, he still did work for bands in the 90's and to the current date.

Kinda sad, through, the number of bands that I've never heard of. Makes me wonder which of my well liked bands that are around now will be remembered in 30 years.

I miss At The Drive In :(