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Deface The Music - do you qualify to compete in the hardest rock trivia quiz of them all?

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Welcome back my friends to the un-Googleable quiz that never ends. We've taken well-known (and some hilariously obscure) album sleeves and obliterated the marks of their branding. Can you recognise them? Among the comments below you'll see some of the people who have triumphed so far. If you reckon you can compete with the elite have a look at these and then try your luck below.


gotan project

La Revancha Del Tango

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ChaosandMorphine | 30 March 2009 - 1:38pm
David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 2:13pm

Silk Torpedo

The Pretty Things.

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joyneski | 30 March 2009 - 2:20pm

I'm winning

First one took three minutes to identify. Second one was seven.

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 2:24pm

Um...

...what would count as 'us' winning? Any chance of some rules definition? Just, y'know, asking (he said casually, pretending his snarling, saliva-flecked, testosterone-fueled competitive streak wasn't straining its leash to breaking point).

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joyneski | 30 March 2009 - 2:41pm

mercury rev

snowflake midnight

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ChaosandMorphine | 30 March 2009 - 2:28pm
David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 2:42pm

Impossible Quiz

The Right Time by The Mighty Diamonds

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Billybob Dylan | 9 April 2009 - 10:25pm

Ha!

You're not singing anymore...

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 2:53pm

Right Time

By the Mighty Diamonds

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Preston74 | 30 March 2009 - 3:06pm

24 minutes

I think the house is winning.

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 3:11pm

Mallard

In a Different Climate

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Fraser Lewry | 30 March 2009 - 3:13pm

Fraser!

You've already played!

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ChaosandMorphine | 30 March 2009 - 3:19pm

True

Sorry. I'll be quiet on the other four I know.

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Fraser Lewry | 30 March 2009 - 3:30pm

Wise guy

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 3:20pm

Metallica

Load

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Chimney Singing... | 30 March 2009 - 3:22pm

And can I just note

that the cover of this and Reload (damned for being crap in the last ish) actually show a photograph of mixed blood and semen sandwiched between glass, not paintings.

Isn't that nice? It's Piss Christ all over again...

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Fraser M | 2 April 2009 - 11:22am

If I recall correctly

Did the bodily fluids in question not belong to the guitarist- Kirk Hammett?

Edit: Just checked: they actually belonged to the artist, Andres Serrano.

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Peckham For The... | 2 April 2009 - 2:27pm

load

metallica

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ChaosandMorphine | 30 March 2009 - 3:21pm

What about this side project?

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Alex Rowe | 16 April 2009 - 10:31pm

My best guess is that there's a

Roky Erickson connection, but beyond that I'm stumped.

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Vulpes Vulpes | 17 April 2009 - 1:10pm

This is by Prizefighter

This is by Prizefighter Inferno, a side project of Coheed and Cambria...

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MattyH | 23 April 2009 - 10:36pm

here's a hard one!

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Chris G | 30 March 2009 - 3:50pm

Mothers

Live at Fillmore East, June 1971

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EricPodeOfCroydon | 31 March 2009 - 3:52pm

The Mothers

Fillmore East, June 1971?

or maybe "The Beatles", i.e. the white album.

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EricPodeOfCroydon | 2 April 2009 - 12:24pm

And who's next?

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 4:02pm

barbara streisand - superman

barbara streisand - superman

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stuartpwilson | 30 March 2009 - 4:05pm

Streisand Superman

Barbara Streisand

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Steerpike | 30 March 2009 - 4:06pm

Now try this

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 4:08pm

Is it a fresh intake

at the dodgiest 1980's car sale force training scheme?

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Chris G | 30 March 2009 - 4:11pm

Ahh!

The Inmates - First Offence

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JQW | 30 March 2009 - 4:34pm
David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 4:40pm

Spectres

Blue Oyster Cult

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scooter | 30 March 2009 - 4:48pm

Haven't you just taken a piccie

with your office webcam?

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Ahh_Bisto | 30 March 2009 - 4:46pm
David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 4:51pm

Simple.

That's a self titled effort from Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes. The other bits crossed out are the names of the two major hits that feature on the album - If You Don't Know Me By Now and another.

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JQW | 30 March 2009 - 4:56pm
David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 4:58pm

Easy Peasy!

King Crimson - Islands

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JQW | 30 March 2009 - 5:00pm

Blue Notes and Ballads

Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes

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Preston74 | 30 March 2009 - 5:04pm

Getting tenser

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 5:07pm

Pat Metheny

Off Ramp

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Ahh_Bisto | 30 March 2009 - 5:21pm

Coming up

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 5:26pm

Holger Czukay

Movies

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Ahh_Bisto | 30 March 2009 - 5:35pm

Recognise that one

Movies by Holger Czukay

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joyneski | 30 March 2009 - 5:33pm

But what about this?

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 5:35pm

Easy!

The Japanese Popstars - "We Just Are" - got it in the car at the mo

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Grant | 30 March 2009 - 6:36pm

Oh gone quiet now, haven't you?

The secret is mine...mine...*mine* do you hear?

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 6:03pm

Oh. Next!

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 6:47pm

catch bull at four cat

catch bull at four
cat stevens

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stuartpwilson | 30 March 2009 - 6:49pm

Blast

I would have got that one but didn't check for 20 minutes. A few more whining singer/songwriters and I may stand a chance.

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Bruised Mike | 30 March 2009 - 7:04pm

Here's another

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 7:20pm

leftfield

leftism

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stuartpwilson | 30 March 2009 - 7:21pm

I knew that one!

Please let the thick kids have a go sir.

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matthew | 31 March 2009 - 1:29pm

And again

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 7:31pm

Things Fall Apart

The Roots.
Terrific album.

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spunkybackpack | 30 March 2009 - 7:36pm

the roots!

thigs fall apart

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stuartpwilson | 30 March 2009 - 7:32pm

or,

THINGS fall apart.

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stuartpwilson | 30 March 2009 - 7:33pm

some people

spend too much time in record shops, but this is very impressive stuartpwilson!

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Bruised Mike | 30 March 2009 - 7:36pm

This is a test

Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 7:38pm

Hark! The Village Wait -

Hark! The Village Wait - Steeleye Span

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JQW | 30 March 2009 - 8:06pm

It's either

Mungo Jerry or The Hammersmith Gorillas in their respective unsuccesful "heavily influenced by The Band and The Allman Bros" phases

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Preston74 | 30 March 2009 - 7:45pm

Do I get

any points for the White Album?

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eddie g | 30 March 2009 - 8:37pm

I'm turning in...

...secure in the knowledge that when I get up in the morning *nobody* will have got this one.
Image

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David Hepworth | 30 March 2009 - 9:00pm

No idea this time.

Hungry Chuck's self-titled debut.

They were formed from the ashes of Ian & Sylvia's former backing band. Drummer N.D. Smart played with Gram Parsons on his Fallen Angels tour in 1973,

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JQW | 30 March 2009 - 9:54pm

Clairvoyance not their forte

The opening track on this album contains the line:
"Tell your kids, don't worry, cause the banks will never fail".

Further evidence that the pronouncements of rock musicians should always be ignored.

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Dipsy | 30 March 2009 - 10:10pm

Play

Image

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 9:15am

chemical brothers

we are the night

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ChaosandMorphine | 31 March 2009 - 9:18am

And another

Image

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 10:35am

gnarls barkley

st elsewhere
[I must be the only one playing]

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ChaosandMorphine | 31 March 2009 - 10:38am

no you're not

I just don't know any of the answers!

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Hannah | 31 March 2009 - 12:17pm

Neither do I.

.

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bigsteviecook | 31 March 2009 - 1:12pm

And more

Image

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 11:06am

Jens Leckman

Night Falls Over Kortedala

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ChaosandMorphine | 31 March 2009 - 11:15am

I know this one

This is Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala.

Great video for second track on album.


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Big Guxy | 31 March 2009 - 11:17am

Beat me to it ChasandMorphine

Gutted

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Big Guxy | 31 March 2009 - 11:19am

I get strangely agitated when I know the answer!

Competetive, me? No!
Thanks for the video clip, btw

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ChaosandMorphine | 31 March 2009 - 11:25am

One for lunchtime

Image

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 1:18pm

Pat Benetar

Get Nervous

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Big Guxy | 31 March 2009 - 1:21pm

Wrong!

Go to the back of the class.

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 1:46pm

pardon ?

http://www.amazon.com/Get-Nervous-Pat-Benatar/dp/B000008DDC sure looks like it to me ?

Gutted I wasn't here in time for Jens Lekmann : I was listening to him last night!

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el hombre malo | 31 March 2009 - 2:06pm

You may have been marked down

for incorrect spelling - Outrageous if you have. It's Pat BenAtar 'Get Nervous'

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ChaosandMorphine | 31 March 2009 - 2:07pm

Oh no

Marked down for spelling - All smugness gone. Please forgive me Mr H. 100 Lines as follows:

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Big Guxy | 31 March 2009 - 3:01pm

Rock star is two words

Do it again and bring it to my office after school.

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 3:22pm

Noooooooooo!

And yes my day job does involve proofreading.

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Big Guxy | 31 March 2009 - 4:06pm
David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 2:11pm

Easy!

The Flamin' Groovies - Flamingo

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JQW | 31 March 2009 - 2:14pm

Now I'm getting cross

Image

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 2:19pm

Like it!

This is a great game. Can't you put something by the Jim Carroll Band so I can get it? Ta.

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Sting Ono | 31 March 2009 - 2:22pm

Waiting

For one that I know...

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Lucas Hare | 31 March 2009 - 2:24pm

Think I'll take some time off

Don't think anyone's going to be bothering me for a while.

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 2:38pm

Not so fast, Heppers...

Just tuned in from foreigh climes - this is the mighty Lambrettas - Beat Boys in the Jet Age - Da-a-a-a-a-a-nce was their battle cry!

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Stephen Hanley | 31 March 2009 - 2:41pm

Grrrrr

Image

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 2:50pm

spandau ballet

true

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ChaosandMorphine | 31 March 2009 - 2:51pm

My turn

Giving Heppo a break for a moment, this was my album of the year in 1987. Anyone recognize it?

Image

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Fraser Lewry | 31 March 2009 - 3:05pm

Oooh, oooh, pick me!

Is it The Jim Carroll Band?

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Sting Ono | 31 March 2009 - 3:21pm

It's gone quiet in here

*taps fingers on desk*

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Fraser Lewry | 31 March 2009 - 4:15pm

Church bell in the distance....

....hooting of an owl.....

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 4:41pm

No, no

Hooting of an owl was their third album

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gunnerboy | 31 March 2009 - 4:43pm

*Someone* will get this.

And I'm prepared to wait.

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Fraser Lewry | 31 March 2009 - 5:00pm

Hurry up

I'm locking up soon.

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David Hepworth | 31 March 2009 - 5:26pm

This one is hard

I'm locking up. Hopefully someone downunder or across the pond will put us out of our misery come morning.

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Big Guxy | 31 March 2009 - 5:54pm

From across the pond...

It's Bumper Crop by the Volcano Suns. Never heard it.

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petertomlinson | 31 March 2009 - 8:49pm

Yay!

We have a winner! Can I ask how you knew?

Anyone else got a mutilated sleeve they'd like to tease the massive with?

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Fraser Lewry | 31 March 2009 - 9:40pm

Volcano Suns

1987 was one year of many that found me working in a record shop, and Bumper Crop was a pick-to-click amongst our more discerning clientele that year. Seeing as how it was your album-of-the-year as well, perhaps I should give it a spin one of these days!

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petertomlinson | 31 March 2009 - 11:18pm

1987

I was working in a record shop too. I still like Bumper Crop, but it hasn't aged all that well.

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Fraser Lewry | 31 March 2009 - 11:52pm

UTS

Unknown to Spotify. Has anything more damning ever been said?

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gunnerboy | 1 April 2009 - 2:57pm

Don't get me wrong

I love Spotify. But it would be a hell of a lot better if it was as all-encompassing as they say it is. I mean, I wouldn't have thought Joe Henry's last album was exactly plumbing the depths of obscurity.

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Lucas Hare | 1 April 2009 - 3:07pm

Another day...

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David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 7:14am

hot fuss

the killers

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badartdog | 1 April 2009 - 7:21am

I feel good

Ooh! Sir! Me Sir! The Killers, sir! Hot Fuss, I believe.

EDIT: Curses. I changed my post to include italics and now I'm no longer first. I knew I'd pay the price for pedantry...

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Lucas Hare | 1 April 2009 - 7:23am

heh heh...

I didn't even waste time with capital letters. This is only the fourth one I've recognised.

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badartdog | 1 April 2009 - 7:35am

How about this?

Image

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David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 9:56am

Jill Scott

Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1

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backwards7 | 1 April 2009 - 10:12am

She of the no1 ladies

She of the no1 ladies detective agency, if memory serves.

Jono

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Jono_13 | 13 April 2009 - 8:05pm

Twist

Image

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David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 10:16am

The Wu

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

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backwards7 | 1 April 2009 - 10:29am

Are you the only one playing?

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David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 10:36am

Yes

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ChaosandMorphine | 1 April 2009 - 10:46am

No, I'm playing...

just not getting any (as it were).

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Clerk Kent | 1 April 2009 - 10:46am

This one looks like

a spot the ball competition.

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Clerk Kent | 1 April 2009 - 10:48am

Jane Birkin Arabesque

Jane Birkin
Arabesque

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SydneyScarborough | 1 April 2009 - 10:48am

You see, now I'm really annoyed

I saw the image and thought 'That's Jane Birkin'. So I had a little browse, couldn't find anything, and got called away to do some work. When I get back, I find I was right. I'm going to get one eventually...

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matthew | 1 April 2009 - 11:03am

I don't know if I have a browser problem

But all I get is the word image. Are we supposed to telepathically decide what is in Mr H's head? Or does randomly typing the most obscure album that comes into your head win?

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Humphrey Plugg | 1 April 2009 - 11:06am
David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 11:07am

Gotcha!

Curved Air - Live.

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JQW | 1 April 2009 - 11:27am

Took long enough

Image

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David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 11:30am

Looks like I've won

Is there a prize, Fraser?

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David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 12:02pm

The Jags - Evening Standards

It ain't over yet

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Clerk Kent | 1 April 2009 - 12:07pm

Bugger

The Jags entered my head but I don't remember the lead singer looking like that. Should have researched better. Instead I was looking at Department S record covers.

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Austin | 1 April 2009 - 12:17pm
David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 12:29pm

Haven't a clue

But I have learned that Diana Ross (okay, now I look it looks nothing like her) has had some AWFUl album covers. Really, really bad.

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matthew | 1 April 2009 - 1:21pm

I can't recognise her either.

I've no idea who the woman on the front cover is either.

Of course it's possible that she's not the artist on the album anyway; I've got several jazz albums which feature a similar sultry shot of a woman on the front cover instead of the act themselves, and this could be the same here.

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JQW | 1 April 2009 - 2:23pm

Bah humbug

I've been playing since the beginning in a "I don't know that one! Maybe I'll know the next one. Nope, not a clue" sort of way.

Am desperate to get one right!!! I'm beginning to feel musically inferior...

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Hannah | 1 April 2009 - 1:27pm

You could be making the elementary mistake...

...of thinking the person on the cover is the artist.

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David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 1:29pm

But I work at an elementary level

Can't you put a Queen cover up? I'd know that.

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matthew | 1 April 2009 - 1:46pm

Method

Tried the "oh, oh, its Toni Braxton - go to Amazon - Oh, no it's not" method. It's not Toni or Phoebe Snow. Now bored.

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gunnerboy | 1 April 2009 - 2:19pm

You're right about methodology

trudged through lots of Crown Heights Affair and similar on Amazon in hope of striking gold, but no.
Also stumped.

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SydneyScarborough | 1 April 2009 - 2:30pm

and been reminded of a few

and been reminded of a few gruesome Millie Jackson album covers. *shudder*

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SydneyScarborough | 1 April 2009 - 2:37pm

Upside

On the upside, I have found some software to deal with my missing album art in iTunes so DH gets a gold star or something

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gunnerboy | 1 April 2009 - 2:52pm

What's the software?

I'm tired of grainy shots culled from google image searches.

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Con Coleman | 1 April 2009 - 3:26pm

Ohio Players?

Although most of theirs featured rather more torso than that. Come on, am I warm?

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Preston74 | 1 April 2009 - 3:39pm

I was convinced it must be them too

.. but I could find no evidence to back it up

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theListener | 1 April 2009 - 3:52pm

That's who I was thinking of

Not them? And what is this talk of sequels?
*racks brain*

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SydneyScarborough | 1 April 2009 - 4:51pm

I tried

Linda Lewis, to no avail.

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Bruised Mike | 1 April 2009 - 3:47pm

It came out in the 70s

It sold more than most of the records whose sleeves have been identified here. So many, in fact, that it had a sequel.

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David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 4:00pm

Tubular Bells?

Alternative edition?

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Fraser Lewry | 1 April 2009 - 4:39pm

The Loaf

Is it the inside cover of Bat Out of Hell then?

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gunnerboy | 1 April 2009 - 5:00pm

That's never

Led Zep 2 is it?

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Molesworth | 1 April 2009 - 5:34pm

I'm retiring....

...undefeated.

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David Hepworth | 1 April 2009 - 6:01pm

Retiring

to bed? Or to the knacker's yard?

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Bruised Mike | 1 April 2009 - 6:27pm

I Think it's a

a compilation.

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ChaosandMorphine | 1 April 2009 - 6:39pm

Haven't a bloody clue...

... but isn't it interesting that there is no capability to search the web by picture.

Only a matter of time I suppose.

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Nicodemus | 1 April 2009 - 10:56pm

Taps nose......

....keep it to yourself, but there is. I suspect it may have been used by cads in the know to identify some of the other photos. However, it draws a blank on this one. I reckon Hepworth must have mocked this one up himself!

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Dipsy | 2 April 2009 - 1:10am

"I reckon Hepworth must have mocked this one up himself!"

I don't think so, it looks nothing like him.

Looking at the flimsiness of the glossy paper (you can see the indentations around the middle of the record), I think this is an inner sleeve. No-one said anything about inner sleeves.

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Austin | 2 April 2009 - 1:43am

Millie Jackson

The "big seller & there was a follow-up" clue just won't let me get past the possibility it's one of hers.
There was one called "Caught Up" and a later one "Still
Caught Up."
I therefore nominate the former and demand a paper hat or chocolate watch if correct.

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Preston74 | 2 April 2009 - 7:36am

As I have already said above...

...the person on the cover is not the artist.

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David Hepworth | 2 April 2009 - 9:12am

Hmm...

It's probably by one of those bandleaders who released oodles of albums back in the 1970s - James Last, Ray Coniff, etc.

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JQW | 2 April 2009 - 10:05am

Bit rubbish, me

Do I get points for knowing it's not The Jim Carroll Band?

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Sting Ono | 2 April 2009 - 12:15pm

If it had a sequel

Could it be something like "This Is Soul"

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Big Guxy | 2 April 2009 - 12:31pm

I've got it!

It's Sex And Soul by Roy C.
So sad am I that I've been out trawling the 2nd-hand record shops of Berwick St.

Do I get a prize?

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David Rothon | 2 April 2009 - 1:50pm

Result!

Were you looking through the racks, or going to the counter, picture of sleeve in hand?

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Fraser Lewry | 2 April 2009 - 1:57pm

Through the racks…

… the other way would have felt like cheating.
BTW, it's in Music & Video Exchange if anyone needs a copy.

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David Rothon | 2 April 2009 - 2:06pm

Well Done Sir!

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ChaosandMorphine | 2 April 2009 - 2:03pm

Oh well done sir

Bravo

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SydneyScarborough | 2 April 2009 - 8:35pm

And now we begin again

Image

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David Hepworth | 2 April 2009 - 2:04pm

Is it...

'The Five Foals of Sidney Stallion' by Rick Wakeman?

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Patrick Crowther | 4 April 2009 - 9:46am

I know this one!

It's the poster my friend Lee had on the wall of his flat in 1993.

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matthew | 2 April 2009 - 2:13pm

An hour has gone....

...so to prevent this one dragging on till tomorrow, I will expose the identity of this as being the eponymous album by Stud, who were the early seventies leftovers from Rory Gallagher's Taste.

I claim no points for this one as I used "dark arts".

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Dipsy | 2 April 2009 - 3:32pm
David Hepworth | 2 April 2009 - 3:36pm

Wow!

... a sleeve that comes with a free record inside. A great idea for shifting more units of empty cardboard sleeves.

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Nickinlondon | 9 April 2009 - 10:10am

Too easy…

Honey Bane - Turn Me On, Turn Me Off

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David Rothon | 2 April 2009 - 3:41pm

Drat!

Beat me to it!

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JQW | 2 April 2009 - 3:46pm
David Hepworth | 2 April 2009 - 3:46pm

Arrrrggghhh!!!

It's chuffing Racey!

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JQW | 2 April 2009 - 3:49pm

Not me, sir…

… a simple case of remembering what her face looked like.
Not a clue with this one though…

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David Rothon | 2 April 2009 - 3:50pm

Twist

Image

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David Hepworth | 2 April 2009 - 3:52pm

Piece of cake!

The Saturdays - Chasing Lights

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JQW | 2 April 2009 - 4:00pm

Finally I know one

and it's pop piddle. dammit.

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Hannah | 2 April 2009 - 8:33pm

I'm glad someone

else answered that one

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Big Guxy | 2 April 2009 - 4:02pm

I've got work to do, you know

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David Hepworth | 2 April 2009 - 4:03pm

I've seen this one somewhere.

It's an early release on either Harvest or Vertigo or a similar label. One of those obscure albums that's worth a bit of cash purely because it was issued on such a label, and not necessarily due to the actual content.

I've no idea as to who it's by - probably something self titled.

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JQW | 2 April 2009 - 4:17pm

Bakerloo

Clem plays a blinder.

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Vulpes Vulpes | 2 April 2009 - 7:03pm

If only you'd told us

you were going through your "specialist" collection...

curses, beaten to the punch by a different kind of sleeve. I meant the Saturdays...

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Molesworth | 2 April 2009 - 4:04pm

we gotcha on the run now

don't we David. Come on, come on - hit us with a hard one.

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badartdog | 2 April 2009 - 4:04pm

damn my hubris

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badartdog | 2 April 2009 - 4:07pm

Bakerloo

Self-titled album on Harvest, surely?

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kinkywolfgang | 2 April 2009 - 4:34pm

kinkywolfgang has it...

...and I'm in from the subs bench.

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Fraser Lewry | 2 April 2009 - 4:39pm

Radio Birdman

Radios Appear

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David Rothon | 2 April 2009 - 4:47pm

Bakerloo

Damn - beat me to it while I was searching for my password !

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Badlands | 2 April 2009 - 4:42pm

Just easing my way in...

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Fraser Lewry | 2 April 2009 - 4:50pm

Goodbye Mr Mackenzie

Good Deeds and Dirty Rags

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Con Coleman | 2 April 2009 - 5:06pm

Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie

And that is Shirley Manson

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Big Guxy | 2 April 2009 - 5:06pm

Can we call this one a draw..?

???

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Con Coleman | 2 April 2009 - 5:08pm

Beaten again

Can't believe it. I think I saw them supporting Aztec Camera at the Town And Country Club

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Big Guxy | 2 April 2009 - 5:08pm

Yeah yeah yeah

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Fraser Lewry | 2 April 2009 - 5:09pm

A great album…

… Bradley's Barn by the Beau Brummels

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David Rothon | 2 April 2009 - 5:22pm

Obviously time to get tough.

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Fraser Lewry | 2 April 2009 - 5:24pm

....

maybe if we all pretended the picture was blank he'd put up another one instead?

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badartdog | 2 April 2009 - 7:19pm

I nearly had it!

I pulled out my copy of the Music Revelation Ensemble's Crossfire - and found it is close but not right.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00001ZTSP.03.LZZZZZZZ.gif

I'm now sitting down to a bottle of Islay Ale to recuperate.

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el hombre malo | 2 April 2009 - 8:07pm

Right folks, I'm off to Belgium for the day.

A 2am start. Trenches, cemeteries and chocolate. So please, at each new cover, can someone refer back to this post and ask

'Is it Randy Vanwarmer?'

for me.

Thanks. I'll get you all some choccies from Leonidas in Ypres.

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matthew | 2 April 2009 - 8:13pm

Ian Dury and the Blockheads'

Ian Dury and the Blockheads' Do it Yourself had many different 'wallpaper' sleeves when it came out. Is it one of those?

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speybay | 2 April 2009 - 8:38pm

Use of the dark arts.....

....has found a possible solution. Or at least it has found the identical pattern but in slightly different colours. I guess two different groups could have used the same design or alternatively Fraser's picture could be of the back cover or an inner sleeve.

Anyway, having cheated, I won't give the answer, but I will give a clue for those still hunting. If it is the same album I have found, we are talking sixties prog.

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Dipsy | 2 April 2009 - 9:40pm

dark arts

what is this 'dark arts' of which you speak?

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badartdog | 2 April 2009 - 10:06pm

Eye of newt....

...toe of frog, wool of bat, tongue of frog....and image searching software!

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Dipsy | 2 April 2009 - 10:24pm

...and

do you recommend a particular program?

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badartdog | 3 April 2009 - 7:20am

Is it...

"Fully Interlocking" by The Web?

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Grant | 2 April 2009 - 10:07pm

Bingo!

Good work on my obscure UK prog/psyche teaser.

This should be easier:

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Fraser Lewry | 2 April 2009 - 10:36pm

And Here We Test Our Powers Of Observation...

...this would be Give by those oddball prog-jazzers The Bad Plus.

I got one! I got one! This glow of self-satisfied smugness feels soooo nice...

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Oysterfrond | 3 April 2009 - 12:56am

And another

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David Hepworth | 3 April 2009 - 7:18am

That'll be…

Ellen Foley - Another Breath.

All those years spent riffling inconclusively through racks of albums are at last starting to bear fruit…

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David Rothon | 3 April 2009 - 7:43am
David Hepworth | 3 April 2009 - 7:50am

Interview

Snakes and Lovers

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Paul Barber | 3 April 2009 - 9:15am

But...

... is DH in the office yet?

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Nicodemus | 3 April 2009 - 9:26am

Just got here

Bugger! If I hadn't stopped for coffee I would have beaten you.

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David Hepworth | 3 April 2009 - 9:26am

Right

If anyone gets this, we know they're either a) cheating, or b) extremely well-travelled.Image

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Fraser Lewry | 3 April 2009 - 9:28am

Fat Freddy's Drop?

??

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Paul Waring | 3 April 2009 - 12:38pm

Nope

They're not a kiwi band.

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Fraser Lewry | 3 April 2009 - 12:52pm

Give us a clue Fraser,

is the green, yellow and red background a reference to a flag (Mali? Senegal?) or is it a reference to the music they play?

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Vulpes Vulpes | 3 April 2009 - 1:33pm

It's

The music.

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Fraser Lewry | 3 April 2009 - 1:34pm

Hmmmmm

so we're looking for a North Korean or Turkmenistan reggae band with no members actually from North Korea or Turkmenistan?

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Vulpes Vulpes | 3 April 2009 - 1:38pm

Lets put this one out of its misery

As someone who is both:
a) extremely well travelled
and b) a cheat

I can confidently state that there ain't no reggae like Chilean reggae!

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Dipsy | 3 April 2009 - 5:14pm

Sir,

I admire your cheating. Gondwana's second album Alabanza (Por la Fuerza de la Razón) is actually a very good record, possibly the best roots album to not come from the UK or Jamaica. And they're huge down Santiago way.

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Fraser Lewry | 3 April 2009 - 5:21pm

Inner Circle?

(Erm, geddit?)

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Matthew Horton | 3 April 2009 - 12:32pm

Here's my obscure offering...

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Vulpes Vulpes | 3 April 2009 - 1:48pm

Cressida

Next!

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David Hepworth | 3 April 2009 - 2:10pm

Cressida

Jesus that’s just showing off! It took me 20 minutes on the net to find the band let alone confirm the album cover was their second "adventurous" offering on Vertigo called "Asylum". Sounds hideous to be fair.

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harrisburg | 3 April 2009 - 4:55pm

Actually,

it's pretty damn good.

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Vulpes Vulpes | 3 April 2009 - 7:47pm

I saw it recently...

...on our Album Cover Atlas.

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David Hepworth | 3 April 2009 - 5:55pm

Bugger.

It was me what put it there.

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Vulpes Vulpes | 3 April 2009 - 7:46pm

Arguably

this is the best series that Mr Hepworth has initiated since the Randomiser - and somehwhat more difficult to cheat on. Bravo, Sir.

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Bruised Mike | 3 April 2009 - 8:14pm

Am I allowed to submit one?

If anyone gets this I'll be very impressed...

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Patrick Crowther | 4 April 2009 - 9:55am

Paul Barrere

On My Own Two Feet!

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kinkywolfgang | 4 April 2009 - 6:30pm

I am...

seriously impressed!

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Patrick Crowther | 4 April 2009 - 6:37pm

Paul Barrere - On My Own Two Feet

You'd think with his pedigree, it'd be a decent album (it isn't - it's rubbish).

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Billybob Dylan | 9 April 2009 - 10:30pm

My turn...

Criminally overlooked second solo album from gravelly voiced American R 'n' B-ish singer, released on major label in 1980. 1st 3 tracks on side 1 are simply perfect imho. Never issued on CD. Probably sold all of 3 copies on vinyl. 1 of which went to me.
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Is it only me that knows of (and loves) this record?

Oh, is no-one going to have a go? He went on to become the lead singer of 38 Special and - gosh - Tower Of Power.

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kinkywolfgang | 7 April 2009 - 8:07am

Erm..

Max Carl - "Max"?

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Grant | 9 April 2009 - 11:57pm

Close enough!

Max Gronenthal, as he was known then. The record was credited to simply, "Max". In later years he became known as Max Carl Gronenthal, then simply Max Carl.

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kinkywolfgang | 10 April 2009 - 6:59am
David Hepworth | 6 April 2009 - 12:09pm

ooh! ooh!

I've got one!

Holly and the Italians?

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Austin | 6 April 2009 - 12:22pm

title:

The Right to be Italian

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badartdog | 6 April 2009 - 12:28pm

And again

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David Hepworth | 6 April 2009 - 12:35pm

Deftones

Around the Fur

FINALLY I get one!

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Joe R | 6 April 2009 - 1:05pm

I have three more

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David Hepworth | 6 April 2009 - 1:10pm

Alan White

Ramshackled by Alan White

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Tim Nott | 6 April 2009 - 3:00pm

I probably shouldn't say this, but...

...Yes, I do recognise him.

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Dipsy | 6 April 2009 - 2:38pm

Eyes down

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David Hepworth | 6 April 2009 - 3:05pm

The Vapors

New Clear Days - hope my spelling passes muster

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theListener | 6 April 2009 - 3:41pm

Once again

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David Hepworth | 6 April 2009 - 3:53pm

once again

that's Jan Akkerman, eponymous album
vriendelijke groeten

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oldeu | 6 April 2009 - 4:31pm

Top o' the morning

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David Hepworth | 7 April 2009 - 8:22am

Um.

String Driven Thing. I only remember this from seeing a copy on the wall of a second hand shop I used to frequent some years ago, never to be sold.

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JQW | 7 April 2009 - 1:23pm

One for the 70s Soul Boys

Perhaps the best dance album ever made hiding inside the worst sleeve design of all. A mid-70s compilation on Atlantic records.

Photobucket

Remixed by Tom Moulton, this record sounded like a nightclub sound system. The last in a series of four. Quite collectible nowadays.

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kinkywolfgang | 7 April 2009 - 9:31am

Various Artists

"Emperor Rosko - So Ya Wanna Hear Another?"

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Paul Barber | 8 April 2009 - 12:21am

Take a chance on romance, ask that lady to dance!

Rosko does his thing, presenting a bogus radio show complete with fab jingles and corny rhymes between The Tramps, Darrel Banks, Wilson Picket et al. And, er...Hall & Oates!

Be grateful that the album budget was spent on the fabulous remixing and (specially created) jingles package, rather than the sleeve design.

DJs the world over, listen to this album. And weep. This is how it's done.

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kinkywolfgang | 8 April 2009 - 7:53am

And again

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David Hepworth | 7 April 2009 - 1:56pm

Crabby Appleton

Self titled Elektra album?

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kinkywolfgang | 7 April 2009 - 4:27pm

Eyes down

Image

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David Hepworth | 7 April 2009 - 4:59pm

scarlett johansson

anywhere i lay my head

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stuartpwilson | 7 April 2009 - 5:20pm

Scarlett Johansson

Anywhere I Lay My Head

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Stuart Graham | 8 April 2009 - 12:38pm

We go on, we go on

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David Hepworth | 7 April 2009 - 5:35pm

Hatfield & The North

The Rotters Club!

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kinkywolfgang | 7 April 2009 - 5:50pm

Hatfield & The North

The Rotters Club!

Oh bugger I've done it twice...

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kinkywolfgang | 7 April 2009 - 5:51pm

Last one today

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David Hepworth | 7 April 2009 - 5:51pm

The Dream Syndicate

Debut mini-album/EP.

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Paul Barber | 8 April 2009 - 1:05am

Hatfield & The North

The Rotters Club
Edit: bugger - didn't see page 2!

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David Rothon | 7 April 2009 - 5:54pm

Morning

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David Hepworth | 8 April 2009 - 6:03am

The Shakin' Pyramids

Skin Em Up

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Churnster | 8 April 2009 - 6:36am

Oh crikey

This might keep you busy
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David Hepworth | 8 April 2009 - 6:51am

Little Beaver

Party Down

Used to love this. Have I still got it hiding somewhere?
Off to work now with two in a row. Whoo hoo.

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Churnster | 8 April 2009 - 7:05am

Has he gone yet?

Give it a minute.

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David Hepworth | 8 April 2009 - 7:24am
David Hepworth | 8 April 2009 - 7:47am

Fripp & Eno

Evening Star

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kinkywolfgang | 8 April 2009 - 7:56am

I'm still on Scarlet

I'm still on Scarlet Johannson and posted this by mistake.

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Clerk Kent | 8 April 2009 - 12:09pm

Me

Three...

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Stuart Graham | 8 April 2009 - 12:39pm

I've been out

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David Hepworth | 8 April 2009 - 2:14pm

Steve Harley

Love's A Prima Donna

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Molesworth | 8 April 2009 - 2:20pm

Scarlett Johannson

I know I spelled it wrong but I'm right aren't I? Hey what's this over the page malarkey??

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kcgrady | 8 April 2009 - 2:23pm

OK, wise guys

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David Hepworth | 8 April 2009 - 2:38pm

Kula Shakur

Strangefolk

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Molesworth | 8 April 2009 - 2:43pm

Late entry into the stupid musical partnerships thread

Exploring the great abyss of nothingness where Kula Shaker and Tupac Shakur meet.

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Joe R | 8 April 2009 - 2:52pm

bugger

Cola Shaker it is

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Molesworth | 8 April 2009 - 3:08pm

Not...

Scarlet Johansson then?

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Clerk Kent | 8 April 2009 - 3:37pm

And another

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David Hepworth | 8 April 2009 - 4:14pm

Jobriath

S/T

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Dr.Pill | 8 April 2009 - 4:18pm

And another...

Photobucket

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kinkywolfgang | 8 April 2009 - 8:54pm

Brainchild

Healing of the Lunatic Owl

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Paul Barber | 8 April 2009 - 11:36pm

Spot on!

Well done, Sir!

Incidentally, I have no idea what this record sounds like. I took the image straight out of The Album Covers Album.

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kinkywolfgang | 9 April 2009 - 5:41am

Likewise

Recognised the striking image; never heard the contents.

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Paul Barber | 9 April 2009 - 7:45am

Bad

It can't be any worse than Steve Harley's Love's A Prima Donna (see above). Jeez, that is one awful record.

"Repossess me, Mama! Repossess!" (Lyrical extract provided for those not altogether familiar with this slice of absolute tosh)

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kinkywolfgang | 9 April 2009 - 8:57am

Starting here, starting now

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David Hepworth | 9 April 2009 - 6:47am

Jean Knight

Mr Big Stuff.
Stax logo clue in the corner.

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Paul Barber | 9 April 2009 - 7:50am

Another

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David Hepworth | 9 April 2009 - 8:54am

Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry Is On Top.

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Paul Barber | 9 April 2009 - 9:23am

Nope

Wrong album.

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David Hepworth | 9 April 2009 - 11:22am

How about..

"Chuck...Berry is on top"?

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Grant | 9 April 2009 - 12:08pm

Nope

Still wrong. Clue in picture.

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David Hepworth | 9 April 2009 - 12:36pm

Come on...

This link proves that it's the aforementioned album!
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/iamtanuki/tanukis_top_10___1959/
Oh, hang on..the frame has something to do with it?

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Grant | 9 April 2009 - 12:48pm

The referee is never wrong

Except when he gets a bit confused between this and "A Dozen Berrys". Never mind. Onward and upwards.
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David Hepworth | 9 April 2009 - 2:16pm

Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant - even got the spelling right

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Molesworth | 9 April 2009 - 2:20pm
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