Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of record covers from the golden age of LPs


Subscribe to feed Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Tumblr

Pot shot

img_3878.JPG

David Peel and the Lower East Side “Have a Marijuana” Recrorded Live on the Streets of New York. 1968.   This is the debut record by New York street musician and John Lennon protege David Peel.   Peel plays guitar and sings (mainly about marijuana), it’s all live.   Fugs parallels are hard to avoid and there is the same type of parody here – “I Like Marijuana” actually got kind of popular – it’s a parody of “I Like Peanut Butter”   “Show Me the Way to Get Stoned” is a killer, nothing bad on here at all, a great piece of underground wildness caught on tape. (Review by Carl Slim)

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (30 votes, average: 3.43 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Steel crazy after all these years

img_3894.JPG

Shriners and steel drums — a winning combination!

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (24 votes, average: 2.92 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

The Astro Mice!

img_3932.JPG

A BLIMP, a WHIMP and a SKIMP. “On a Rocket Trip to the Moon! Via Skyway’s Rocket Ship From Your Launch Pad”   Featuring Miss Louis Lewis.   Skyway Records. 1964.   This is crazy!

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (16 votes, average: 2.88 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Three guys named…

img_3933.JPG

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (22 votes, average: 2.41 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Submarino amarillo

img_3935.JPG

This cover brings to mind those little propeller submarines I played with as a kid in the bathtub. I think I bought them from the back of a comic book or something.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (17 votes, average: 2.47 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Life is Beautiful

img_3896.JPG

Larry Corner & Sis.   A brother-sister act out of Pennsylvania.   He plays the accordian.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (16 votes, average: 2.75 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

There’s a sucker born every minute

img_3923.JPG

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (21 votes, average: 3.52 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Chemical brothers

img_3874.JPG

img_3876.JPG

“…Actual recordings of people under the influence of psychedelic drugs… Psychedelic music…the sounds of the “Acid Test”…LSD users and pushers and the amazing story of LSD in action…Comments by such LSD authorities as Sidney Cohen, M.D., the controversial Dr. Timothy Leary, Mrs. Aldous Huxley and Allen Ginsberg.”

More from the liner notes: At Capitol Records we live in a world of the young – a world of rock n’ roll music, amid the need for a constant awareness of teenage interests of all kinds. We are, therefore, perhaps more aware of, and more sensitive to, the widespread use of LSD among the school age population…”

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (47 votes, average: 3.98 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Nine dames on the road

img_3866.JPG

“Truck Drivin’ Cat with Nine Lives” Jim Nesbitt.   Even with all these ladies, the dude is reading a Playboy!

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (22 votes, average: 3.59 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

Logan’s runny nose

img_3891.JPG

Why superimpose your head coming out of a woman’s nostril?!

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (23 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...