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Title: Naked Vinyl: Bachelor Album Cover Art by Tim O'Brien, Mike Savage ISBN: 0-7893-0862-2 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: very nice representation of a lost art form
Comment: Face it...in the 50s & 60s, record covers sold most LPs, NOT the music. The cooler the cover, the better chance you had of selling a schlock recording. Sexy models were always in vogue, yet NUDE models were usually reserved for third party labels, bargain basement recordings and risque comedy LPs. There are a BUNCH of covers reproduced here, most of them were limited released and single pressings. This is true manna for the record collector and a great conversation piece for the average reader. Not much text but tons of full color covers featuring REAL (not enhanced or anorectic) models. Lots of topless nudity, so you may want to keep this one on the top shelf.
Rating: 3
Summary: Naked but not naughty.
Comment: The back cover of this paperback has a line that says 'A stunning collection of more than 100 nude album covers' If only that were true, well the 100 bit is true! Most of them are low budget stock shots bought by small record labels for their LP covers. Mainstream record companies were too conservative to use such blatant selling techniques. None of the covers are of any photographic or design interest (and most of the music on these LPs was produced by session musicians and is of no particular interest either).
The hundred plus covers are presented one to a page with some copy on the adjacent page, this is rather overgenerous for the text because there is really nothing to say about the covers so the author's repeat bits of the clichéd copy from the back covers. I think the (mildly) most interesting covers are the ones produced for the American bachelor market during the fifties and sixties, these are now so ancient and of such awfulness that they take on a curiosity of their own.
I think it is only worth getting this book if you are interested in a very sub-genre of commercial art or maybe you'll want to own the only book that will ever be published about the subject. Worth checking out though is 'Vixens of Vinyl' by Benjamin Darling, a nicely produced little book (six by six inches) of LP covers that feature females but not nudes. These covers are from major labels so at least you'll see some decent photography and design.
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Title: Vixens of Vinyl: The Alluring Ladies of Vintage Album Covers by Benjamin Darling ISBN: 0811831345 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers, 1947-1989 by Paul Kingsbury, Country Music Hall of Fame ISBN: 0811835723 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: In the Groove: Vintage Record Graphics, 1940-1960 by Eric Kohler, Tony Bennett ISBN: 0811821218 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Exotiquarium : Album Art from the Space Age by Jennifer McKnight-Trontz ISBN: 0312201338 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 30 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Swingin' Chicks of the 60's by Chris Strodder ISBN: 0768322324 Publisher: Cedco Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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