1000 Record Covers

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Printed in eye-popping colour throughout, each has a caption of artist, title, year of release, record label, sleeve designer and extra notes. Scrutinising the cover of an LP record used to be a major part of the pleasure of acquiring and acquainting oneself with it. Ochs informs us of his initial aim in life, to listen to every rock record ever released and in addition, that this book represents a very small proportion of his 100,000+ collection of albums. To feed his habit, Ochs headed the publicity departments of Columbia, Shelter, and ABC Records in the 60s and 70s.

Would make a great gift, too, for people who didn't live through the era in which the LP cover was a deliberate art form unto itself. He had owned a number of the albums shown and we chatted about some of our favorite musicians from different time periods. 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' enormous private collection. Sometimes there's a further comment added (these and the introduction are also in German and French). They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.

This special edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best 60s to 90s rock album covers from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and ex-record publicity executive Michael Ochs's enormous private collection.

I like the pictures a lot--especially the 50s and 60s--but thirst for a sentence on each one, not just an occasional note. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for such as Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. Sometimes artists themselves got involved in creating them (hurray for Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell or John Lennon; bad, bad choice for Fish, although I love Marillion), other times famous photographers got to work on them - Annie Leibovitz or Storm Thorgerson, and let's not forget the famous cover Andy Warhol created for The Velvet Underground. For someone who was in the music and record business from mid-1960s to mid-1980s it was a waltz down memory lane.Even thought this book has little text, just looking at covers your brain starts to develop context: American propaganda, hippie movement, gender issues, racial context and you can see that the records shown here say a lot about the collector who owns them. Record Covers es un libro de 1996 escrito por Michael Ochs, un archivista musical, disc jockey, periodista y ex ejecutivo de Atlantic Records. I do wish there could've been included some more covers, but I guess they have to stick to that number - and the book *is* pretty thick already.

He told me a story about how he kept all his records in his basement, and one time it began to flood. A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition), record covers are a sign of our life and times. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Although each section here is divided by decade – Ochs makes some attempt to group album covers together based on similar image or artwork (often very tenuous) with varying degrees of success and to what purpose is unclear? My first job literally for the first month was sitting in a room with this one other guy and going through and pricing the entire Michael Ochs collection. There's not much text, and much of what there is is unreadable: one section consists of black print on dark green paper!

A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. El libro está dividido en décadas, con cada década presentando una selección de 100 portadas de álbumes.The original cover was changed soon after release and a white couple was put on the cover to get the record carried in the South. Occasionally similar designs are juxtaposed, but the book is not illuminating and not well organised, be it by date, genre, popularity, significance or whatever. Here and there appears some that have some kind of 'promo copy' sticker in them, a few have a corner clipped or pierced. from the 1960's; 17 from the 1970's; 5 from the 1980's and 90's) Many I had not even heard of either the album or the group.