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Title: 100 Best Album Covers by Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell, Peter Blake ISBN: 0-7894-4951-X Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You'll Keep Going Back For More
Comment: I have owned this book for several years and I finally decided to write a review on it now. Why did I wait so long? Well, this is not the kind of book that you'll likely pick up right away and read all the way through. In fact, I constantly find myself going back to this book whenever I'm bored. It's fun, even after many years, to flip to an album cover and read all of the interesting details on the concept, artist, design, and history. The book is laid out in such a fashion that each time you look at a represented cover, you discover new details and gain a new perspective.
As to the question of whether or not these are truly the best 100 album covers of all time, I really can't say. In fact, in that regard I think the title is misleading because it forces the reader into thinking this is some type of a ranking or countdown. In fact, it is nothing of the sort. This is simply a really cool collection of 100 great album covers and their history. And, in that respect, this book really delivers.
Buy it today. I promise you, it will never get dull.
Rating: 3
Summary: Hastily thrown together
Comment: At least half of the featured album covers were familiar to me, and the book did contain interesting and informative snippets of information. However I was a bit dismayed that some album covers were overlooked, memorable covers by such popular bands as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Meatloaf, ELO, Boston, Blue Oyster Cult, and Iron Maiden (for their frightening Eddie character that graced so many of their albums).
As an art book, this book is a joke. I have many coffee-table and art books, and "100 Best Album Covers" is the only one I have that centers some featured graphics in the CENTER of the book. By that, I mean that a picture is centered in a two page spread, which runs the spine of the book right down the middle of the picture. All of the other art books I have put a graphic on one page so that you can see it (unless it's oversized). The pictures here aren't oversized and would easily fit on one page. It's hard to appreciate even a nifty album cover when you can only see the outer edges of it clearly. Far too many of the album covers are centered on the spine this way. The emphasis in this book is on the commentary it seems, and not so much the picture. Emerson Lake & Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery" (an impressive work by the famous artist Giger) isn't quite as breathtaking when you have to pry and bend the book open and crack the spine to see it.
The publishers should revise this book and reissue it.
Rating: 3
Summary: The top 100?
Comment: Although the information about each album cover is intriguing, I'd be hard pressed to agree that these are the top 100 best (or creative) album covers of all time. As a graphic designer, I feel that some of covers are downright dull - definately not worthy of the title bestowed upon them.
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Title: 1000 Record Covers by Michael Ochs ISBN: 3822819786 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk by Paul D. Grushkin ISBN: 0896595846 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: Classic Rock Covers (TASCHEN Icons Series) by Michael Ochs, Taschen ISBN: 3822855405 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 15 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: For the Record: The Life and Work of Alex Steinweiss by Alex Steinweiss, Jennifer McKnight-Trontz, Steven Heller ISBN: 1568982240 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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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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