Posted in Favorite Album Covers, Marketing, WTF on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Okay, technically this is not part of my illustrious album collection, but one of my good friends forwarded me a few of what were called The Worst Album Covers of All Time. This one was my favorite. Meet the famed gospel group, The McKeithens.
First off, their name is grammatically incorrect and one of my [...]
Posted in Favorite Album Covers on February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ahhhh… the Grease Soundtrack. Do you know that I listened to this so much that I actually wore it out and had to buy another one? Did you even know that you can wear out a record? Well, you can and I did.
Grease was my favorite movie of all time when I was a kid. [...]
Posted in Favorite Album Covers on January 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In my ramblings about old album covers, I came across a new fun pastime called “Sleeveface.” It’s where you take old album covers and match them up to your body to make a cool composite picture. After looking at a few on the Flickr Sleeveface Group, I’m betting that this is much harder than it looks. [...]
Posted in Favorite Album Covers on January 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This fine album was one of the first albums I ever bought myself with my allowance. Yes, it’s a Fonz record. Not only that, it’s a Fonz record with special appearances by Laverne & Shirley and the Sweathogs. Cool, huh? I certainly thought so when I bought it in the Bargain Bin at Woolco.
Yes, [...]
Posted in 80s, Favorite Album Covers on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My first record was a 45 (look it up) of Oscar the Grouch singing “I Love Trash.” I don’t remember where that record came from, but I do remember begging my parents to play it over and over again on their cool console hi-fi when they were more into Lynyrd Skynyrd. I know it used [...]
