1000 Record Covers

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vinyl); elsewhere unusually-shaped types and picture discs (the latter have been appearing since the 1940s (of which two examples are shown). This edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best rock album covers of the 60s to 90s from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs’s enormous private collection. This edition of "Record Covers" presents a selection of the best rock album covers of the 60s to 90s from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs' enormous private collection.

About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe! 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. This is not a book that I would have picked up; my son gave it to my husband for Christmas, and I thought that someone should look at it. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.This is, in my opinion, a weird book, composed of, as the title indicates, of photos of 1,000 record covers - one guy's albums.

I like the pictures a lot--especially the 50s and 60s--but thirst for a sentence on each one, not just an occasional note. I bought it because I think album covers are cool to look at, and this provides hundreds of them, from simple "This is what we look like" photos to wilder art and concept images. 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. El libro está dividido en décadas, con cada década presentando una selección de 100 portadas de álbumes.Although it does include a lot of great and controversial album covers (Blind Faith, Lennon and Ono's 'Two Virgins' to name a couple), a large amount of the book seems compiled with complete rubbish, notably the first 1/4 which appears to be more a collection of the cheesiest record sleeves that the author could find. If you're like me (Boomer), it's a veritable trip down memory lane, full of fondly remembered album covers and others temporarily forgotten. 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. There is good, bad and ugly (sexism, underage person(s)) covers, though that might sometimes depend on the reader's taste. Perhaps here some additional text might have been of use, but on the other hand its absence ensures the observer must use his or her wit, perception and knowledge to establish connections and draw conclusions about the Zeitgeist.