Dated Album Covers

Not necessarily, more like a time when the imagery would have been more acceptable.

 

I miss those type of clothes.

 

I just want to say I'm glad this thread exists if only because I'd never seen this music video before. I dislike music videos but this may be the best one ever made. It's glorious.

 

It looks like Bob raided Sonny Crockett's closet.

 

May the ghosts of Sandy Denny and her parents haunt the rest of your days

 

WTF is going on there?

 

I think the cover of Liege and Lief is more dated, though that's not to say I dislike it.



It's the pink, and that ornate border, that make it look very 1960s.

 

that lady is wearing tablecloth!

 

Bob: solid acting, questionable dancing, yellow tele, leather jacket. yes please.
hot backing singers, confusing storyline, good song. Check!

 

i think it’s called reverse cowgirl

 

Actually it's the cover art of a folk music album from the 1970s, former Yugoslavia. Not bad at all if you ask me, as it's a funny stuff as the music & lyrics as well, as it's a kind of somewhat comedy-like folk music, but it's indeed dated 'cause those "pop"-folk album-covers look like this these days in the Region:

 

Personally, I disagree. For me, it's a timeless artwork due to the nature of the subgenre on that album, which is a floating, also timeless "prog-folk" kind of thing of which there are a lot of new artists today that use a more or less the same kind of artworks for their fantastic albums.

 

only reading through this thread now - but this is not dated at all.

 

+1

 

I heavily struggle with calling album covers "dated".
They are part of the art, but also the advertising for its content.
Now if you think of advertising, there's rarely something timeless - most times, you WANT to go for something actual ("modern" and "fresh" are attributes mostly fading so quickly I don't even want to mention them) to get people's attention.
So, I much prefer of describing album covers as "typically of their time" which can again be good or bad - they're testimonies to their timeframe, they're not "dated".
Duran Duran's "Rio" is a case where I'd say it's great and typically 80ties, Maria Muldaur's "Live In London" is more a case of "did they get away with at even back then?"

 

I don't know if anyone commented on this later, but PCs very definitely existed in 1981 - the Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET all came out in 1977.

 

You’re right of course, but PCs hadn’t exactly taken off yet. I believe the Commodore 64 launched in 1982 or late 1981 was the first bestseller?

 

I think that the VIC-20 was a bestseller before the C64. I went thru the entire CBM line in the 80s - VIC-20, C64, C128, and Amiga 1000

 

19, 21, 25, 30; 1984; 1999; 2112.

 

This album popped up in another thread. I don't know if I would call this "avant-garde," but it's from 1973 and (in retrospect) looks like it's from about ten years later:

 

Nah , he's a pinball wizard .

 

Lucky fella.

 

I never thought about it, this looks like it could be from the Love Stinks / Freeze Frame period,

 

That may make your hubby REALLY faithful....