Front album cover is half the image

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by classicrockguy, Nov 24, 2022.

  1. folkfreak

    folkfreak The cold blooded penguin

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    Love the Silly Wizard album.
    There is something strange with the smoke on the picture...
     
  2. Metalmat

    Metalmat Forum Resident

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    Cheap Trick had a few of these:

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  3. Metalmat

    Metalmat Forum Resident

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  4. CellophaneTrousers

    CellophaneTrousers Well-Known Member

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    Kids today missed out on staring at album covers while an entire record played.
     
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  5. AngusStanley

    AngusStanley Forum Resident

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    Kids today miss out on even knowing what an album is.
     
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  6. VinchVolt123

    VinchVolt123 I took a look at those hands.

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    There's still a lot of talk about music in terms of albums among younger generations from what I've seen. It might not be the defining artistic statement in popular music anymore, but the album is very much alive as a format in the way that, say, books are.
     
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  7. Cronverc

    Cronverc Forum Resident

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    Omega 5
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  8. Cronverc

    Cronverc Forum Resident

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    Van Der Graaf Generator
    “The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other”
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    "Pawn Hearts"
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  9. Cronverc

    Cronverc Forum Resident

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    Magna Carta

    “Seasons”
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    “In Concert” (live)
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  10. Cronverc

    Cronverc Forum Resident

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    10'CC
    “The Original Soundtrack”
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    “Bloody Tourists”
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  11. Cronverc

    Cronverc Forum Resident

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    The Alan Parsons Project
    “Pyramid”
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  12. Iving

    Iving 'Neath Kishmul's walls

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    Some of the VERTIGO Various Artists samplers qualify.

    + Joe Walsh 'Barnstorm'

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  13. SJB

    SJB Beloved Parasitic Nuisance

    Just released, the New Pornographers' latest album Continue as a Guest has half the cover art on the front and half on the back - but not continuous across the fold. Instead, the bottom of the front cover is a continuation from the top of the back cover, so to see the art as one piece you'd need two copies or a pair of scissors.
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    EDIT: I found the complete, intact picture online by searching the artist's name (Amy Casey).
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  14. longdist01

    longdist01 Senior Member

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    Badfinger - No Dice (1970)

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  15. Dondy

    Dondy Forumaniac

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  16. audiomixer

    audiomixer As Bald As The Beatles

    "White Album": The Beatles
     
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  17. Stuggy

    Stuggy Forum Resident

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    Old cd version of this only had part of the image so it was really difficult to work out what she was doing. I'm still not fully sure.
    Is that a victorian pharmacy or a tea seller or what?
     
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  18. Gasman1003

    Gasman1003 Forum Diplomat.

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    From Wikipedia:

    The album was issued in a gatefold sleeve with a distinctive cover photograph of Denny weighing seeds in an old fashioned apothecary shop. The image covered both the front and rear sleeve, and was taken by Keef (Macmillan) who went on to do a lot of work with another British female singer-songwriter: Kate Bush.[11] A two-disc Deluxe Edition was released by Island Records in 2011. It features the original album plus outtakes and demos, including a previously unreleased instrumental version of Lord Bateman.[12]

    I guess that the cover mirrors Sandy Denny's music, the meaning, if any, is left to our imagination.
     
  19. Stuggy

    Stuggy Forum Resident

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    I was trying to think of the word apothecary and got as far as alchemy and then went no. So I guess apothecary is probably a pre Victorian role that was replaced by pharmacist later. Possibly as science became more specific/precise etc.
     
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  20. Gasman1003

    Gasman1003 Forum Diplomat.

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    You are spot on.

    Apothecary - Wikipedia

    When I began my career in 1984 one of the senior consultants remembered that when he began his career, perhaps in the late 1940s/early 50s, Foxglove Tea was prescribed for some heart conditions. Later this was replaced with digoxin, isolated from the Foxglove plant.

    The history of medicinal plants is fascinating, indeed the Royal College of Physicians, London has a garden containing 1100 such plants preserved for history.

    Garden of medicinal plants
     
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  21. FramboGND

    FramboGND Givin' it all

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    Nice thread, really nice in fact, cool to see it resurrected :thumbsup: Got a few of these gatefolds myself, make great displays. Got one on a table at the moment, but no picture handy: Loose Ends - Zagora, old British soul/funk album :cool:

    That Sandy Denny cover, I always just assumed it was marijuana she was weighing out? :faint: :shh: :cop:
     
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  22. ARK

    ARK Forum Miscreant

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    I wouldn’t say they miss it
     
  23. fRa

    fRa Conny Olivetti - Sound Alchemist

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    Correct!
     
  24. bob_32_116

    bob_32_116 Forum Flaneur

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    Genesis - Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot. Possibly others, but I would have to check.
     
  25. lil.fred

    lil.fred Señor Sock

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    She is reading tea leaves.

     

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