The art of rock n roll... As a vinyl lover (but not able to enjoy since I have no working turntable currently) this book is very cool! It spans many generations of music and genres. Great coffee table style book.

1000 Record Covers es un libro de 1996 escrito por Michael Ochs, un archivista musical, disc jockey, periodista y ex ejecutivo de Atlantic Records. El libro presenta una selección de las mejores portadas de álbumes de rock de los años 60 a los 90.

El libro está dividido en décadas, con cada década presentando una selección de 100 portadas de álbumes. Las portadas están organizadas alfabéticamente por artista. Cada portada está acompañada de una breve reseña que proporciona información sobre el álbum, la banda y el artista.

El libro es una excelente fuente para los fanáticos del rock que buscan una visión general de las mejores portadas de álbumes de la era del rock clásico. Las portadas están bien seleccionadas y representan una amplia gama de estilos musicales, desde el rock and roll de los años 60 hasta el grunge de los años 90.

Las reseñas son informativas y concisas, y brindan una buena introducción a cada álbum. El libro también incluye una introducción del propio Ochs, que proporciona una visión general de la historia de las portadas de álbumes de rock.

A must for all vinyl lovers!

Some people say this is just a bunch of small photos of album sleeves slapped together with minimal thought and little point except to encourage the drools of the nostalgically excitable.

But I demur. 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.

Still, I would never have seen all these sleeves gathered in one place myself, so yeah.

Mr Ochs is a man of few words. 99% of these sleeves are presented without comment. The comment is all in the juxtaposition. But very occasionally he rouses himself to make an observation, usually on one topic :

The Five Keys cover is rare because the thimb on the far left might have been misunderstood as an exposed penis. Most copies have the thumb airbrushed out.

These compilations are of primarily black recording artists, yet, once again, only white people are shown on the covers.

The original cover was changed soon after release and a white couple was put on the cover to get the record carried in the South.


Some covers really stop you in your tracks, however many times you flip through these 768 pages - this time for me it was :





As words have now failed me, I will stop.

while this books shows lots of covers it does not discuss them.
There are a few examples of early (1950s) cheapness and misdirection.
Also missing are many "fantastic" album covers. Covers that were bigger than the album themselves.

This book makes a good coffee table read.
Not a lot of text,but as is common with Taschen,beautifully reproduced album covers(sleeves).
A fabulous source material book for those who are new to the vinyl game.
For us older ones, a great memory jogger of all those albums we used to,or still,have.

Short on text, but rich with illustrations.

I paged through looking at the pictured album covers. Enjoyed seeing a few I'd forgotten. Got a special tingle when I saw one I still have myself upstairs. Missed seeing some I thought should have been included if there was any rhyme or reason to this other than someone's personal collection. I was surprised (but maybe I shouldn't have been) and the sexual aspect of many of these, and the oh so many different ways to display the female body. And rarely with subtlety or cleverness.

Nice coffee table book. As the title suggests, it’s 1,000 images of record covers.

‘1000 Record Covers’ (2002) by Michael Ochs – is essentially an interesting photo collection of album covers throughout the decades – but ultimately this amounts to nothing more than a vanity project for its author/curator Michael Ochs.

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.

Although each section here is divided by decade – Ochs makes some attempt to group album covers together based on similar image or artwork (often very tenuous) with varying degrees of success and to what purpose is unclear?

Ochs also provides us with a written preface to each decade of covers, a resume of key developments in popular music which is somewhat cursory and futile to say the least.

It goes without saying, that there are many great album covers included in Ochs book here – but vicariously or otherwise that doesn’t mean it amounts to a great book – mildly diverting at best.

This was a cool gift.

A Christmas gift from my wife, this is an excellent book for anyone who loves music throughout the decades. I learned a ton looking through it and saw some very interesting record covers. There isn't much text in the book, mostly just pictures and credits for the art work. Would have been nice to get a short sentence or two about each one, that's my only suggestion, because I'm sure there are interesting stories about each one, even if it's just a factoid or two. Really enjoyed it.