This was a particularly fun read for me. Snagged this at the library and then my neighbors parents (we are basically family) were visiting. He mentioned he’d been looking at the book on amazon and we spent some time one evening going through the first half of this book. He had owned a number of the albums shown and we chatted about some of our favorite musicians from different time periods. It is a fun coffee table/conversation book.

Beautiful book of album covers with very sparse notation and intros by Ochs. I like the pictures a lot--especially the 50s and 60s--but thirst for a sentence on each one, not just an occasional note. And why no Bowie and very few Pink Floyd? But still.

Típica publicación carne de expositor de tienda de aeropuerto o de centro comercial. 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. Pese a que los textos y anotaciones son demasiado escasos, siempre es agradable revisar portadas de discos de las que nadie se acuerda.

Excellent book especially if you collect LP's

Not much to read, but it makes for a pleasant trip down memory lane. Mr Ochs introduces the various decades with a short synopsis and leaves the reader, or more correctly, the viewer to enjoy this wonderful collection of album covers.

He tries to fit similar artistic themes together, so it is not necessarily in order year by year.

Lovely and nostalgic.

An amazing walk through the history of the last decades via music, album art, and titles! (cultural, social, political - as in anti-war albums- etc)
While I - of course - don't know all of the albums, this book of visual art really got me. It flows like a novel of our times. Black artists sometimes would only see white people on their covers, probably a manager's choice. The photos, graphic illustrations, and later, the psychedelic art are great.
The sounds I can imagine, the scenes are there.
Hard to explain better - just get it.

1000 Record Covers provides a fun, if superficial, look into rock history. Michael Ochs has been an obsessive music since the 1950 and this book provides a sampling of the 100,000 or so albums that he owns. We see how cover art evolved over time. Ochs provides interesting bits of information here and there, such as that picture albums were first produced in the 1940s. The covers mostly focus on rock albums, which I think is a shame. I wish Ochs could have included more covers from jazz, blues, and metal acts.

Title: 1000 Record Covers
Author: Michael Ochs
Year 2001, originally published in 1996
Genre: Nonfiction - Music
Page count: 768 pages
Date(s) read: 2/14/23-2/15/23
Reading journal entry #47 in 2023

Light on text, but still very fun to ponder through while listening to your vinyl collection.

La célebre célebre colección del estudioso musical Michael Ochs sirve de base a una hermosa galería del arte de portada en el Pop-Rock; un paseo por cuatro décadas donde la sencillez pragmática dejan lugar a riesgos y propuestas de méritos propios cuyos resultados lograron en no pocas ocasiones un estatus de clásicos.

Celebrates album covers as art in their own right. Some of the best ones are pretty obscure. Taschen always hits the mark.

an ok look at cd covers...

1000 capas de discos ao longo das décadas. A escolha podia ser mais variada, a nível de estilos musicais, anos, países e continentes. Foram retiradas de uma colecção privada e nota-se que faltam capas míticas e critérios de selecção. Alguns anos estão fora da respetiva década onde foram enquadrados. Ganharia também ter mais informação/legendas e não apenas imagens.
Não obstante, muitos rebuçados para os olhos, como as capas feitas pela Hipgnosis.