Rock Album Cover Game

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2011
    shack wrote: »

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by blakeh
    That would be Yello's "Claro Que Si". Great album (and cover)!
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SCompRacer
    The Blue Nile, Hats.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by blakeh
    That would be the album cover for the Spock's Beard album "The Light" .

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by shack
    Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by blakeh;
    That would be El Ten Eleven's It's Still Like A Secret
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SCompRacer
    Ultravox, Rage in Eden, and used for Return to Eden.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by blakeh;
    I guess these are a bit too obscure. I grew up with them, but it's possible not everyone else did. Music is funny like that!


    All of these are too obsure for me...never heard a single track from any of them (unless it was on the radio and I was not aware of the artist or album) I was able to guess the Japan album ONLY after the clues and remembered a band by the name and did a quick search.

    and the list expands...

    Ozric Tentacles / The Bits Between the Bits & Sliding Gliding Worlds

    Crush / Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    The Jam / Setting Sons

    Ministry Twitch

    The Good Rats / Birth Comes To Us All

    New Order / Blue Monday .
    Tour2ma wrote: »
    It is starting to resemble a tennis match...

    ... and I hate tennis... :mad:

    My library of CDs and LPs may be approaching 2,000 and I think I have a fairly good knowledge of music...but these guys just keep adding to the list of stuff I've never heard of.

    I think it is cool that Rich and Blake have such a broad spectrum of musical tastes....but its pretty obvious that a lot of us don't move in the same muscial "circles" (little play on words there :wink:).

    I know Rich and the guys get together with their "listening" meets where everybody brings some music they like that others may not be familiar with....which is a great idea and a really good way to expand your musical horizons.

    I've been listening to a lot of college radio lately and heard some decent to pretty good music...but often I have no idea what the name of the group is much less what the album looks like (or even if there is anything besides a digital master of the music). Times...they are a changin'...

    Maybe someone will post a cover from someone a little more "mainstream" like Led Zeppelin or the Beatles and I can get back in the game....:biggrin:
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  • blakeh
    blakeh Posts: 491
    edited February 2011
    I've always been obsessed with cover art (almost pedantically so) which helps me in games like this. If I see an album cover, I typically remember it forever. I've also hand scanned in all of my CDs artwork over the years (which adds up) so I'm familiar with items that way as well.

    Music, more than audio, is my real passion and addiction. I like the gear aspect of our hobby as much as the next guy, but I'd rather be spending money on music than gear. Most of the articles I read are about music, not gear. That may be the same way with others here as well, but I've finally found the sound I'm looking for as far as equipment is concerned (for the most part), and I've been focused on buying as much music as possible lately.
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  • blakeh
    blakeh Posts: 491
    edited February 2011
    Hint for the last cover: the person who released the album was once a member of a very influential 60/70s rock band from New York with a close association with a famous pop artist.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2011
    The hint made it easy...Velvet Underground...Andy Warhol...Definitely not Lou Reed (who is absolutely awful BTW)...must be...

    John Cale - Artificial Intelligence
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    My wife used to say I was stuck in the past music wise. Not anymore. With Blake, Doug, Duell, Brock, Aaron, Rob, and my own ventures, I have greatly expanded my music horizons.:wink:
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2011
    SCompRacer wrote: »
    My wife used to say I was stuck in the past music wise. Not anymore. With Blake, Doug, Duell, Brock, Aaron, Rob, and my own ventures, I have greatly expanded my music horizons.:wink:

    As was discussed in another thread...I have expanded my musical listening horizions...I just haven't necessarily fully embraced what I hear. Not that it is bad...I just don't find a lot of it that wows my senses. When I hear something I like...it is usually an immediate reaction/recognition. Stuff RARELY grows on me. In the past 15-20 years "likes" have been much fewer than my dislikes when it comes to the broad category of "rock". Still some good stuff being made however...just harder to find...IMO.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2011
    Ok next...an oldie.
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    Sly & The Family Stone, There's a Riot Goin' On

    Kewl!
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2011
    SCompRacer wrote:
    Sly & The Family Stone, There's a Riot Goin' On

    Kewl!

    I timely choice given current world events...don't you thinK?
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited February 2011
    shack wrote: »
    My library of CDs and LPs may be approaching 2,000 and I think I have a fairly good knowledge of music...but these guys just keep adding to the list of stuff I've never heard of. I know Rich and the guys get together with their "listening" meets where everybody brings some music they like that others may not be familiar with....which is a great idea and a really good way to expand your musical horizons.
    Ditto… For the record, Spock, I've been interested as well… should have smilied my tennis comment. I’d actually seen two (the Sergio Mendes and one other), but couldn’t retrieve the info.

    Carry on…
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    I hear you shack. I don’t like everything I am introduced to, but a good percentage results in purchases. The covers I recently posted all reside in my music server or in my vinyl collection, while just some of Blake’s do. I like album art too so that is all filed away. I just don’t have the retrieval skills I once had.

    And yes, a timely choice of covers.

    Anyway, back to the past.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    Tour2ma wrote: »
    .....I’d actually seen two....

    Sometimes there are hundreds of views. Someone else has to have seen the covers....the albums posted have sold more than one.:biggrin: No worries about the smiley.
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  • blakeh
    blakeh Posts: 491
    edited February 2011
    Don't know this one.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    Kind of surprised some of the older folks haven't picked up on any of the six clues at lower right of cover.
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  • blakeh
    blakeh Posts: 491
    edited February 2011
    Aha! I only got it because I recognized the dice in the second small picture. I knew it was Bad Co., but then I had to figure out what album it was.

    Bad Company / 10 from 6
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  • blakeh
    blakeh Posts: 491
    edited February 2011
    Next up...

    coverartgame10.jpg
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    blakeh wrote: »
    Aha! I only got it because I recognized the dice in the second small picture.

    We did two covers previously from Bad Company in this game. One was Desolation Angels, which is the second strip clip from the bottom. While they named the album 10 from 6, there were no tracks from Burnin' Sky, so it should have been 10 from 5. The first six albums were on Swan Song Records.

    from post 570, Desolation Angels.

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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    blakeh wrote: »
    Next up...

    Depeche Mode, A Broken Frame

    A fav cover of mine.
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  • blakeh
    blakeh Posts: 491
    edited February 2011
    That Desolation Angels release is a Hipgnosis design. Very cool!
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  • SCompRacer
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    edited February 2011
    blakeh wrote: »
    That Desolation Angels release is a Hipgnosis design. Very cool!

    We had talked about that with Rob one day while you were here at my place. I may have brought out the framed album cover from my office wall to show you.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    up next...
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  • blakeh
    blakeh Posts: 491
    edited February 2011
    I must admit that it's not one of my favorite releases by the band (that honor goes to Word of Mouth with my very favorite song by the band, "Living on a Thin Line") but it's still a classic.

    The Kinks / Face to Face
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  • blakeh
    blakeh Posts: 491
    edited February 2011
    Next up is one of my very favorite pieces of cover art...

    coverartgame11.jpg
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  • blakeh
    blakeh Posts: 491
    edited February 2011
    Hint: A poster of this album cover was featured prominently in a famous 80s John Hughes film.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    Cabaret Voltaire, Micro-Phonies.

    One of my fav movies, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    next...
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,513
    edited February 2011
    I am reminded of this band every time I enter a dark room and flip the switch. A concept album first released in '81.
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  • wayne3burk
    wayne3burk Posts: 939
    edited February 2011
    I'm only Guessing from your hint...

    Electric Light Orchestra?

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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2011
    wayne3burk wrote: »
    I'm only Guessing from your hint...

    Electric Light Orchestra?

    -- wayne --

    Good guess. Simple enough to find the album if you have the ___.
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  • wayne3burk
    wayne3burk Posts: 939
    edited February 2011
    next....
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