1000 record covers

by Michael Ochs

Paperback, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

741.66 Oc37

Publication

Köln : Taschen, 2015

Description

Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for--Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. This edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best rock album covers of the 60s to 90s from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs's enormous private collection. Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an underappreciated art form.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Alaska

It's an eccentric buy--interesting cover and interesting photographic content. Some kinda boring album covers are in here, but there are some really interesting one. In multiple languages. Good as a coffee table book.

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LibraryThing member Arctic-Stranger

A fun book, especially if you used to own some of the albums. I owned a lot of these, and got rid of them when I moved to Alaska. So this book is a fun romp through musical history.

LibraryThing member stipe168

beautiful actually.. i didn't' realize taschen's books are not so much a coffee table book as it is a story. not one to leaf through, it needs to be seen from beginning to end. I like how the records are thematically represented, and plenty of odd stuff to find here as well.

LibraryThing member datrappert

This is an enjoyable (but long) browse and will have you searching Allmusic.com and your favorite music streaming service to figure out who some of these performers are and whether they are worth listening to. However, the few pages of text aren't well written or informative, and the selection is

sort of haphazard, although some of the juxtapositions of similar looking covers are well done.

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