If albums were book covers...

Here's a bit of fun - artist Christophe Gowans has created book covers based on album titles:

http://fridaynightboys300.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/christophe-gownas-if-albums-were-book.html

 

Like the Dire Straits one. Looks like those Action Man annuals.

 

I laughed out loud at the one for Metal Box!

 

I like the way he worked second edition into it.

the new-order-as-translation-dictionary is great, too ('does not include blue monday').

 

I was just checking out his website, where he has a lot more of these. they get kind of repetitious after a while, but I really liked are you experienced? as a business pundit's book of the moment and a love supreme as a low-budget religious tract.

 

I love the seediness of some of these!

 

Yeah, they're clever, but there is a limit