Comments on: Between The Liner Notes: 6 Things You Can Learn By Obsessing Over Album Artwork

By: Robert Holdridge

Robert Holdridge — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:25:56 +0000

I always admired Led Zepplin’s “In Throught The Out Door”. Six different covers twelve pictures/points of view of the various people in the setting. These were wrapped in brown paper so you never knew which cover you were getting.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:39:18 +0000

I can’t remember any of the actual notes inside, but I think my favorite album cover of all time is Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. I don’t even think I’ve heard the album, but when I was a kid I used to spend hours staring at that cover. There were so many strange things to see! It was beautiful. I really miss the creative things they did with vinyl record albums. Like the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers that had the real zipper. I used to love looking through my Dad’s records. I guess now we have flash on websites.

By: kat

kat — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:02:55 +0000

holy cow! i’ve had tool’s undertow for 15 years and never looked under the disk rest. what a hilarious surprise.

By: J.Mo

J.Mo — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:40:33 +0000

Friends of mine had a band whose album cover was oh so cleverly a magnified image of the surface of a pot leaf. Original eh? Perhaps I should mention it was a BC band and almost every album was mistakenly believed to have a scratch & sniff feature.

By: alice

alice — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:32:36 +0000

@Justin

That was Big Bambu! It was big enough to roll a whole lid …

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:55:43 +0000

I can’t find it, but I would swear there’s a Ryan Adams CD where he thanks Jay Z and mentions something about true greatness never fading to black.

By: Amauriel

Amauriel — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:11:33 +0000

My favorite notes has to be in Weird Al’s Running with Scissors. On Albuquerque (that maybe 12-minute story song) the notes start the lyrics and then say something about how he can’t be bothered to write all those lyrics out.

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By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:13:58 +0000

Does anyone remember the Cheech & Chong vinyl comedy album that came with a gigantic rolling paper?

By: Azrael

Azrael — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:12:38 +0000

Kiss’ Double Platinum came with a cardboard Platinum record award inside. As a twelve year old, that was pretty cool…

By: dagnabbit

dagnabbit — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:50:02 +0000

KISS Alive II came with a sheet of temporary tattoos. I was 9 years old when I got that record and loved the tattoos. Guess KISS knew their audience well.

R.E.M.’s album Green had barely perceptible transparent shiny number 4′s everywhere the letter R appeared on the packaging. Supposedly this was an inside joke referring to a typo on one of their earlier albums, but still, it was something very mysterious to ponder while listening to Green in my college dorm room.