Pink floyd atom heart mother backcover12/26/2023 ![]() OVO is quite possibly the worst of some recent, very bad Peter Gabriel albums, with little that is memorable but the album cover. Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse created many covers for the Dead, but this was their hippy apex. Staying with the absurd for a moment, the Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72 double-album is a classic of crisp, stoney animation. For Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother, somehow a drooling cow looking back at the camera works for a band that would later write poignant social commentary in the metaphors of pigs, dogs and sheep. The art group Hypnosis was responsible for countless great album covers in the 70’s. Miles was on the cusp of launching the next movement in jazz – the Birth of Cool. On the Blackhawk cover, a suave Davis lights a cigarette, coat over his shoulders, and a pretty girl looking on. Miles David had learned his jazz chops a decade earlier with giants like Charlie Parker, and had gone on to form the quintessential quintet offering modern renditions of classic standards. ![]() Interesting to note he recorded this album in Berlin (itself a city of dichotomies at the time) to loosen the binds of a heroin (Heroine?) addiction. On the “Heroes” cover, David Bowie manages a similar dichotomy – his brown eye dark and menacing, his blue one illuminated and starstruck. All but one are admittedly from the grand age of vinyl, when the marketing space left so much more room for creativity than the “thumbnail” image on an iPhone.īyzantine artists sometimes portrayed Christ with two very different eyes – one stern in judgement, the other loving in forgiveness. These are nothing more than the album covers I have looked at over the years that still give me pause. Presumptuous? Indeed! But it’s my blog, after all, and I’m leaving the door open wide for future entries.
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