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Screen13 · 10-21-2012, 11:25 AM

I love great album covers. For the longest time, they were the starting point of any interest in a musician/band.

Usually they reflect both the mood (or the attempt at the mood) and the care that was put into the creation of the album.

Sometimes, the covers from the 50's and 60's would be hit and miss (usually made by the Marketing people), and when it got to the "Supermarket Albums" there would be those who used some classic tease-a-rama style marketing to cover up the fact that it was a throwaway that would still be worth it for the cover alone, but once it got to the 70's and the artists controlling more of their presentation, it mattered more.

10-21-2012, 11:25 AM	#15 (permalink)
Screen13 Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,388	I love great album covers. For the longest time, they were the starting point of any interest in a musician/band. Usually they reflect both the mood (or the attempt at the mood) and the care that was put into the creation of the album. Sometimes, the covers from the 50's and 60's would be hit and miss (usually made by the Marketing people), and when it got to the "Supermarket Albums" there would be those who used some classic tease-a-rama style marketing to cover up the fact that it was a throwaway that would still be worth it for the cover alone, but once it got to the 70's and the artists controlling more of their presentation, it mattered more.