![]() ![]() The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)Įarly versions of the album asked the owner to “Peel slowly and see”, upon which they’d reveal a flesh-coloured banana beneath. It’s an open casket for the compact disc. ![]() An album described by West as ‘a protest against music’, the cover represents the death of CD. Now that we’ve covered the birth of image combined with the physical formats of music, let’s have the death of it.Ī sharp contrast to West’s previous album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy using excessive amounts of artwork, there was a clear determinance for a minimalist aesthetic and style for the album to mirror its barebones production, explaining the use of a CD in a clear case sealed with a piece of red tape. It wasn’t until 1938 that Columbia records hired Alexander Steinweiss as an art director, initiating the idea of cover art which became a major success. ![]() To start with, record packaging was pretty puritanical brown paper packaging tied up with string. But whether you’re a vinyl collector, CD hoarder, or a digital-music harlot who’s banished all physical formats, we can all appreciate spectacular album covers. You can’t really do much of that in today’s streaming-service-saturated world. The generation before might say how they remember flicking through the vinyls in the record store. I remember the old days of iTunes where you could scroll through your albums in a gloss-black mirror-finish void like a finely curated gallery. In a collaboration between Exeposé Music and Arts & Lit sections, Tom Bosher and Yudy Wu look at iconic album covers Tom Bosher looks at a variety of album art work from different genres over time. ![]()
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