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Gatefolds, Unipaks, and Generic covers
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- In this segment of VinylLingo we’ll dive in to the different types of album covers in the world, including Gatefolds, Unipaks, and Generic covers
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Besides the practicalities of identifying specific records, album covers serve the purpose of advertising the musical contents on the LP, through the use of graphic design, photography, and/or illustration. An album cover normally has the artist's name, sometimes in logo form; and the album title.
- The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
- Deep Purple – Deep Purple in Rock
- Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
- Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of The Moon
- The Police – Can’T Stand Losing You
- Supertramp – Breakfast in America
- Nirvana – Nevermind
- David Bowie – The Next Day
The Beatles were not only groundbreaking musically, but also in the design of their covers. By 1967, choosing an album cover that took album sales into consideration was no longer of interest to the band, they had a feeling that they would sell millions of copies anyway. A picture with a total of 70 personalities was created for Sgt. Pepper’s. For ...
Andy Warhol, known for his eccentric presentations, also wrote design history with The Velvet Underground & Nico. The album from the early days of Lou Reed and his bandmates at Velvet Underground was almost entirely produced, designed andmarketed by Warhol. It was to become one of the pioneering milestones of underground music and later independent...
The cover of Deep Purple in Rock should not be missing from this list. The 4th studio album by the British rock pioneers is also known as “In Rock“. The album cover shows the portraits of the band members as gigantic stone sculptures. The depiction is based on the Mount National Memorial, a monument completed in 1941 with monumental portrait heads ...
Bridge over Troubled Water by soft rock and folk duo Simon & Garfunkel is in millions of households. The song won multiple Grammy awardsand has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The cover itself shows Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, who stand together quite well. So far so good. From the designer’s point of view, it is actually the o...
A few years later, another design idea by Andy Warhol was a big success. The idea with the zipper on the cover of Sticky Fingers comes from the pop art legend. The main motif shows the lower body of actor Joe Dallesandro in tight jeans from the front and back, with his genitals clearly showing. A working zipper was incorporated into the first editi...
At the beginning of the 1970s, the band members of Pink Floyd were annoyed by the fact that their music provided almost exclusively an atmospheric background mood for the drunk. They were in a deadlocked image dead end. Founding member Syd Barrett had to leave the band in 1968 because of mental deterioration due to his excessive drug use. Roger Wat...
As explosive as provocative, The Police, around bandleader Sting, put their finger into a tabooed sore. “Can’t Stand Losing You” is about suicide. And the cover showed their drummer, Stewart Copeland, hanging from a noose above a melting block of ice. The BBC banned the single from their airwaves until an alternate cover was arranged. Being blackli...
One of the most famous covers in music history is the album Breakfast in America from Supertramp. The British band, at their zenith, had been alive and well for a few years already in the USA. Although the reference to the partly curious American way of life by members of the band, one does not quite get the suspicion of irony: The cover shows the ...
A four-month-old infant dives towards a dollar bill and is completely naked. Already the design of the Nirvana cover for Nevermind caused heated discussions. After all, the penis of the baby is clearly visible. The record company feared a sales-damaging scandal and wanted to avoid public displeasure. Kurt Cobainwas prepared to make a value-consciou...
Always ahead of his time was David Bowie, a man of many faces, who revolutionised the music scene in terms of not only music but also design and photography. He himself has repeatedly reinvented himself and this can be seen on most of his album covers. According to cover designer Jonathan Barnbrook, the special feature of The Next Day album cover i...
Jan 9, 2024 · Cardboard and paperboard are the primary materials used for vinyl album covers. Cardboard provides a sturdy casing for the record, while paperboard offers a balance between protection and pliability. Most standard covers are printed on a type of paperboard that’s coated to resist moisture and wear.
Nov 2, 2020 · Many people usually go for a normal cover, printed inner sleeve. Our advice is to opt for the gate-fold cover. Same price, more creative possibilities. A gate-fold cover, when folded, is the same size as a standard LP cover (i.e. a 12½ inch, or 32.7 cm, square). Typically, double albums feature one disc in each half of the cover.
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Oct 28, 2021 · Countless classic album covers are instantly recognizable; they transcend generational boundaries and form part of our collective identity as a society. In some case, they even cross cultural boundaries and become globally recognized by millions across the world.
Apr 14, 2019 · The cover to The Doors’ second psychedelic rock album “Strange Days” is a vivid example of the one-long-image formula. It also combines both the text-over-image and text-as-part-of-the-image ...
