This is an interesting book but unfortunately this 2005 edition (ISBN: 3-8228-4085-8) is faulty as it omits all the 240 1950s covers included in the original 1996 printing ISBN: 3-8228-8595-9. This special edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best 60s to 90s rock album covers from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and ex-record publicity executive Michael Ochs's enormous private collection.

They are roughly grouped by the decade (1960s, 1970s, and 1980s-early1990s: all getting a short introduction), some appearing in other decade than their own. My first job literally for the first month was sitting in a room with this one other guy and going through and pricing the entire Michael Ochs collection. Cada portada está acompañada de una breve reseña que proporciona información sobre el álbum, la banda y el artista.There's not much text, and much of what there is is unreadable: one section consists of black print on dark green paper! Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an underappreciated art form. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for-Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. This faulty edition should carry a sticker or disclaimer admitting that it omits the 50s and contains only 791 covers.

I do wish there could've been included some more covers, but I guess they have to stick to that number - and the book *is* pretty thick already. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Ochs informs us of his initial aim in life, to listen to every rock record ever released and in addition, that this book represents a very small proportion of his 100,000+ collection of albums.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for such as Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground.

They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. He told me a story about how he kept all his records in his basement, and one time it began to flood. The form - a basic 12" x 12" framework - lent itself to as much detail as the artist cared to put in or to leave out, to instant impact, to portability, to duplication or triplication via the gatefold format, and presented itself as an artefact as solid as the record it contained. vinyl); elsewhere unusually-shaped types and picture discs (the latter have been appearing since the 1940s (of which two examples are shown). from the 1960's; 17 from the 1970's; 5 from the 1980's and 90's) Many I had not even heard of either the album or the group.

That said, the book is a nice one to have in the collection just for those who appreciate art and music and certainly doesn't fail completely- with 1000 separate covers there's certainly enough to make you pick it up once in a while, and the nice format and design of the book makes up for the strange omissions. Although I do see the funny irony in celebrating the art of the LP sleeve by reducing the reproductions to about a quarter of the size of a cd cover. I like the pictures a lot--especially the 50s and 60s--but thirst for a sentence on each one, not just an occasional note. Sometimes the back covers or the whole folding of the covers are shown (like Small Faces' "Ogden's Nut. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground.

The Five Keys cover is rare because the thimb on the far left might have been misunderstood as an exposed penis. While us oldies bemoan the shift from vinyl to CD and the fact that it deprived us of one of the greatest pleasures of music ownership - that great 12 inch artwork that was the album sleeve, replaced by a tiddly five inch booklet that you need a magnifying glass to read - spare a thought for this generation with their i-Pods and downloaded mp3s - they get nothing at all to go with the music! Pese a que los textos y anotaciones son demasiado escasos, siempre es agradable revisar portadas de discos de las que nadie se acuerda. Un recorrido más o menos cronológico que busca puntos en común por portadas seleccionadas dentro de la colección de Michael Ochs, que se intuye algo aleatoria y muy del gusto norteamericano.