Album art nostalgia

[major_clanger]

Sometimes an image will hit you with very place and time-specific memories.





I always think of my time as an occasional presenter on Imperial College Radio in the late 1980s when I see this. In part it's because we had a primitive LP catalogue on a VT220 terminal that looked quite a lot like this, but also because 'Telegraph Road' was a very useful track for the isolated presenter. If you were presenting on your own late in the evening, and nature called, it was a safe bet that you could be back well in time to cue up the next track.

So, what other bits of memory-triggering album art are there?

Comments

[cmcmck]

Strawbs 'Grave New World'
Captain Beefheart 'Bluejeans and Moonbeams'
Jethro Tull 'Aqualung'

Oh lord! Just so many! :o)

[jazzy_dave]

Album art was so great in the 70s and 60s

So many ...

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

... but then, given what we used to use those nice flat album covers for back then, the memories are simultaneously foggy and vivid.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

The Lou Reed where your ex-wife cut her wrists and bled over it?

Not mine (the idea of my ex-wife even listening to Lou Reed is bizarre enough), but a friend's. It left him in rather a quandary what to do with it. Hard to just throw it away after something like that.