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This book sucks. I didn't like almost any of the music in this book. Too much rock n roll ,blues,metal..
A book from 2018...where is the 2000's and 2010's decades music?
All vinyl records? Where are CD's?
Theres only American music and what americans like in here,
did not even see Indian Classical Music, or Mohammed Abdelwahab or Teresa Teng....all very important.
Only a few records in this book are very good. i saw The Prodigy's album.

I bought this book to see covers that I wouldn't normally run into. I read this book by looking at covers, reading the fun notes and finding good jams for listening. I felt like Tarantino directing his movie and finding in records some lost forgotten music.
Even thought this book has little text, just looking at covers your brain starts to develop context: American propaganda, hippie movement, gender issues, racial context and you can see that the records shown here say a lot about the collector who owns them.
It's an enjoyable book whom you can pick up any day to find some inspiration.

True, this hardbound version has fewer than a thousand record covers since it omits the 1950s covers found in the original softcover book, but it's still plenty of fun. If you're like me (Boomer), it's a veritable trip down memory lane, full of fondly remembered album covers and others temporarily forgotten. Would make a great gift, too, for people who didn't live through the era in which the LP cover was a deliberate art form unto itself. Getting vintage "cover art" shrunk to CD size usually isn't very attractive.

See them all in one time: what a weird effect

If you're looking for a history of album design, I don't think this is it. 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. Flipped through this in my spare time over a couple of months and enjoyed it.

Ok. I sorta have a unique perspective on this book. When I first moved to Los Angeles, the first job I got was at the famous and now deceased Rhino Records store in westwood. My first job literally for the first month was sitting in a room with this one other guy and going through and pricing the entire Michael Ochs collection. Thats right. After making this book, Michael Ochs sold his entire record collection. I think it was around 300,000-500,000 records. And let me tell you, this book in no way showed the pick of the litter from his collection. In fact this book is pretty generic in terms of record collecting. No overall theme here. Sure its fun to look at and reminisce about that KANSAS record you used to roll spliffs on in 1984, but over all this is just one of those crappy books you get for you dad for his birthday cause you don't know what the fuck else to get him.. hell, some of the records in this book really aren't all that rare. Sure the SATANIC MAJESTY's REQUEST rolling stones record looks cool with that lenticular cover, but... in the days of ebay, its not really all that difficult to find a copy.

This is not that original of an idea for a book. Brad Benedict (the guy who produced all of the ultra lounge records that were popular in the mid 90s) put out a book in 1977 called PHONOGRAPHICS: CONTEMPORARY ALBUM COVER ART & DESIGN.

On a side note... After Rhino bought his collection, Michael Ochs came into the store and I asked him after so many years of collecting, why he would want to get rid of it all. He told me a story about how he kept all his records in his basement, and one time it began to flood. so he started panicking and frantically moving all these records to safer ground. While doing this he looked down and saw a Bill Cosby record that he had never listened to. and he realized. what the fuck is he even bothering keeping all this shit around for. so he decided to get rid of it all.

It's a book filled with album cover art! Can life get better?

Good collection of obscure and familiar covers. Could be more of the weirdos, though.

Evolution of the album cover...

An absolutely cool book to flip through while cranking tunes on a Saturday afternoon. Many years ago, back when cds were taking over LPs as the new music medium, I was stupid enough to give my record collection to a friend. I had pretty much replaced everything that I thought essential, with either cds or cassettes. At the time I never even thought about the record cover art. (What I lost, for example, was the super cover of Dylan's awful Knocked Out Loaded, as well as my parent's scratched up Meet the Beatles (with a fine, intact cover). But I could go on and on...) So here I am now looking through antique shops and used book stores on Fredericksburg's main drag for albums (and their cover art) from the longago, which we can frame. My wife and I picked up some just yesterday: Dylan's Blood on Tracks, Steely Dan's (very trashy and hip) Can't Buy a Thrill (we're still debating over "Who's Next" for the downstair's bathroom). Problem is, albums that I once owned, early Beatles, Stones (up through the mid-seventies), are very hard and expensive gets, and the other stuff usually shows wear and tear. Sigh. Whatever, this book is a pleasant way to ease the pain. It's not meant to be a study of cover art, but instead represents the author's (very) impressive collection (along with some fine running commentary), which runs from the 1950s through the mid 1980s. Bing Crosby to early Bjork. Wonderful! Highly recommended.

The holy grail of album covers from the 50s thru the 90s.