I hesitate to argue with David but the SF Chronicle and others online have the Duck Kee Store at 32nd and Peralta in Oakland.

Street level on Google is no help, the buildings all appear to have changed.

Why do I find myself thinking that picture wasn't actually taken in the States? I'm sure I read somewhere that it was taken in somewhere like Holland?

The photo on the cover was taken in Castle Markets, whereas the marker on the atlas is showing Charter Square. I think the correct postcode is S1 2AH (Exchange Street/Castlegate).

Sorry, I didn't spot the space limitation. I should have just said the location is North Promenade, Cleethorpes.

Cheers

Microdisney's 39 minutes has the sleeve for Clock Comes Down The Stairs
cheers
steve

As the location for Echo and the Bunnymen Crocdiles? Never heard of them. Think you mean Croxley Hall woods...

Well, they are woods, and they are near Rickmansworth, but where your pin is pointing is actually called Croxley Hall Woods.

this site is in the middle of a road! I think we need a finnish adjudicator!
Lepakko, Porkkalankatu 1 Helsinki

being super picky this realy in "Lee" not "black heath" unless we are going by estate agents street atlas in which case London has about 6 postal areas!

pointer needs nudging onto road not housing estate

when you go to the aha map location if you scroll to the left of the lp tag there's bits of the map that you can't access is the area 51!

for the utter cack I wrote for Seth Lakeman's Poor Man's Heaven? I can possibly blame my cross-lateralism for getting left and right mixed up, but definitely not for the use of the word 'outcrop' when I actually meant 'islet'.

Where I wrote

"The shot looks south west, with the blurry outcrop visible on the left side of the album cover."

can I ask it be changed to something along the lines of:

"The shot looks south west, the rocky islet visible on the right side of the cover being the whitish blur in the sea on the map."

Thanks!

Think location wrong.I always thought the flats in the background are part of the Alexandra Road Estate NW8.

http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/assets/aa_image/320/8/b/d/9/8bd99c1...

the album artwork has disappeared - can you put it back in? available here:-
http://www.ear.fm/Encyclopedia%20B/bow_wow_wow.jpg

cheers

the bloody nevermind artwork has gone too

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/nirvana_nevermind_cover.j...

repost it eh?

ta

It's Alec, not "Alex"

Sheryl has an 'l' - my mistake

Someone on the net has the cover of 'In It For The Money' by Supergrass as the corner of 'Three Colts land' and 'Stratford High Street', but I can't find 'Stratford High St' - anyone know it?

http://www.bcb-board.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=69937&st=0&sk=t&sd...

The entry was referencing the rear cover (though the front cover is also probably at Coney Island as mentioned) - the wording and the URL I used may puzzle some now as the word 'rear' has been removed from the album title. If the album must not include any other words (rear, inside, etc.) then could you possibly change the text to:

"Rear cover show the parachute jump at Coney Island. The front cover is possibly at Coney Island too as the words 'The Wax Musee' can be seen on either side of Cyndi"

thanks
PT

That should say Columbia River, not Colorado River. I dunno why I get those confused.

Why has this been deleted? I can kind of understand why Yesterday & Today by The beatles was deleted (it being a studio shot) but I'm stumped as to where George's album has disappeared to - any reason or is a database problem?

Should be at 30.24075 N, 84.0165 W, in some empty looking rural area, roughly 2 miles SE of Fanlew, FL. I typed in incorrect coordinates, and it inadvertently placed the location near a river west of Tallahassee. My bad.

The location of the cover shot on this album is correct, but the Google map shows Sunset Strip to be a rather desolate stretch of road on Phillip Island in Victoria, Australia. Google maps probably doesn't recognise "Sunset Strip" as a legitimate name for that particular stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood.

The marker on the map is not the "correct" Bethel, NY where the Woodstock festival was held in 1969. As the caption says, Bethel was 43 miles southwest of Woodstock, yet the marker appears to be due east of it. The actual concert site was just west of Monticello and White Lake, NY. I believe that is Sullivan County, not Columbia County as the marker depicts.

Ever been to Manassas? It may seem like a bedroom community of DC, but that place is hickness embodied, only with a few housing tracts spread around the place. I went with a friend to Manassas, his hometown, and we spent the whole time driving around finding out what parking lot or creek we'd be hanging out at via cb radio. It's like South lite.

I submitted the cover for "Faith" by The Cure. Well I clicked a bit too south. It's a little bit north of the location, it's the abbey ruins not the estate. I just plugged in the location and it was off by a bit.

Actual coordinates are: 53°58′57″N, 1°53′14″W

Caption says "west bank of the Colorado River, facing north.."

Last time I was in Central Washington State, the river flowing past The Gorge was named the Columbia River.

wings london town is on twice

location, Heddon Street, is now a sanitized pedestrianized area with very posh Moroccan restaurant Momo.

The first entry ":" is some sort of botched spam. I'd delete it.

There's another one called "fUVOpgXHuXB" that's also spam. Spammers love to get into ANYTHING that allows any sort of input at all.

I'm kind of confused with this one, I'm just back from L.A. and I saw Morrison Hotel on Sunset Strip, just a few blocks east from the clubs (Whiskey, Roxy, Rainbow etc) and it was a photograph shop. It seemed to me like the same building as the album cover, is this a replica?

Thanx, Steph in Montreal Canada

Can you get the spam off there? Please, don't leave this great resource to the spam vultures.

That is not Schiphol on the cover, it's Charles de Gaulle!

on the Dave Mattthews Band, Before these crowded Streets entry. The cross streets should be 5th Avenue and 43rd Street, not 5th & 39th, like I entered. If someone can delete it, I can reenter it, or you can correct the text and put the correct location.. doesn't matter to me. Thanks much.

There are two entries for the Gorge album. One incorrectly states that it was taken on the 'Colorado' River. Sorry, mate, that's the 'Columbia' River.

As a dutch guy who travels a lot I frequently visit schiphol airport. I am afraid that the I, Robot cover from the alan Parsons Project is not based on that airport.

I was the one who posted the location (I shot the photo and designed the album artwork). However, I had to guess on the original map as I couldn't see the castle or gardens. Now that I can, I see exactly where the fountain is (at the very end of the garden, east side, next to the pond). Any way to move the marker over there, or is it too late?
Thanks,
Rachel

I pinpointed where "The Velvet Underground & Nico" by The Velvet Underground was recorded, but you're looking for the place where a cover photo was taken. Duh. Please delete that entry.

I'm very sorry (and horribly embarrassed).

W

The Hindenburg crashed at Lakehurst Naval Air Base. The map points to Toms River Intermediate School East - attended 7th grade there a lifetime ago. The base is about 7.5 mile NW of where it is marked on the map. Not that its a cover you can recreate but it does have a museum if you wanted to know everything about the Hindenburg.

Why is the cover of 'This is the Ice Age' attached to a map pointer of Beach Park, Toronto, wherein the poster is making reference to the song "Echo Beach"?

"Echo Beach" is on their album 'Far Away in Time'. So why is that cover image not being used?

I put in the address pointer and metadata for Martha & the Muffins' 'This is the Ice Age.' The album cover is a photograph of a skyscraper in Toronto.

Problem is, I forgot to upload the image, and now I don't see how to edit my entry, i.e., add the cover image.

Can someone at Word please do this for me?
Thanks.

This doesn't drill down to the level of an album, but can you post something about the band (or is it label, or a series?) Cafe Tacuba?

Cafe Tacuba, as many will know, is the famous, fantastic restaurant in Mexico City.

Any chance of getting a post for that?
Clownboy

Cover shot of Thames Barrier is taken from the south shore, not north as stated - the building in the foreground is Greenwich Yacht Club which is about halfway between the Dome and the Barrier

Windsor appears to have moved to the other side of Reading. Needs shoving left by about 20 miles.

This is not the Brunswick centre at Russell Square.
It is Rowley Way NW8 which is part of the alexandra and Ainsworth Estate.
My brother lives there. It is situated at the junction of Abbey Road and West End Lane and is a listed building although I can't understand why as it is a blot on the landscape. Sheldon

While the Sweet's Desolation Boulevard was indeed taken on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, West Hollywood is not in Melbourne, Australia. Could someone please move it to LA, CA?

I must say, though, if you had to pick a spurious location for it, Melbourne would be at the top of my list.

The picture you have provided is not the regular album cover.
This cover was used for the withdrawn 12 track version released only in Scandinavia.
The released cover is vastly different. The U.K. album photos were taken by John Prosser. It is the back cover that shows the band walking through the Heath.

The balloon on your map is at the wrong end of Abbey Road. The zebra crossing is outside the studios at the junction of Grove End Road. The photo was taken facing North towards West Hampstead.

Where does the artwork come from? I've submitted a couple of albums that were removed from the list.. I'm assuming because the artwork couldn't be found. Can it be submitted if you can't find it? Can we send along a link?

Thanks!

The balloon should be positioned south of were it is. The house faces on to a semi-circle hedgerow and has two lakes in the grounds.

You have not given me a credit for adding this album.Sheldon.

Hi,
I have told you about 3 items which may be in the wrong place on your map.
You have not moved them which is fine, but it would be nice to get a response and to hear the reason why not.
Isn't This page supposed to be a two way thing, we tell you about things which we feel are wrong and you respond either by doing something about said items or at least acknowledging our effort.
As it stands 3 items on your map may be in the wrong place which kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a map in the first place. Come on!
Please respond.

The album cover picture in the listing is the wrong cover. The original had the live pictures from Radio City Music Hall on one side and the suburban living room in Oldwick, NJ on the other. The location points to the living room photos.
Wikipedia has it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tnotbithr.jpg

Thanks,
jdalton

Is there a reason why this album has not been included on the map?
Thanks.

You now have 2 entries for this album in different locations.
One say's it is the Brunswick Centre at Russell Square WC1 (wrong) and one from me which is correct. The correct location is Rowley Way NW8. The google page affirms this if Brian H would care to look.

Unfortunately I've just added this, a tad hastily perhaps, without giving the full artists' name - Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band (I ommitted the 'Band'). Can you correct this?
Thanks, Jerry

Hi there,

pretty sure that the location "Lakeside, Rannoch Moor" is in Scotland, and not somewhere in Georgia, USA.

Cheerio,

Stephen

Fantastic site! Thanks.

Felt I should take issue with the comment here that Bob "wore the same jacket on Freewheelin', Blonde on Blonde and Nashville Skyline". I think it's pretty self-evident that the Freewheelin' one at least is different. Blonde On Blonde and John Wesley Harding, well yes. That's the one that Joannie hated, allegedly.

This has 2 locations on the map - both are wrong. I passed the building daily on my way to University, and it was on the West Side of Cathcart Road just before the Railway Bridge.

The building was at the Eastern end of Larkfield St.

Larkfield St, Glasgow, Glasgow City G41, UK
Link: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=larkfield+St...

There are 2 locations for Raintown - either could be correct. (Sorry that's not more helpful!)

The current pinpoint for the album cover photo is at the junction of Mermaid Avenue and West 27th Street.

Close but not correct.

The house still stand on the south side of Mermaid Ave between West 28th St and West 29th St.

If you plug this address into Google Maps -> 2836 Mermaid Ave, Brooklyn, Kings, New York 11224 <- and hit Street View, you are looking at it. It's changed a bit, but still recognisable, as is the building to its right.

There are duplicate entries for Neil Young's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, and the one on Utica Drive in Laurel Canyon seems to be wrong -- the actual location is the 'somewhere in Topanga Canyon' noted by the other entry.

Hi,

I just entered the Finbar Furey's album "No Farewells, No Goodbyes". I made a small spelling mistake in the album title. Also a good link with the album's cover is here http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/3508622/No-Farewells-No-Goodbyes/Product...

I am the author of the photography on this cd.

Great idea for the Covers Map by the way. Congrats!

Surely Zuma Beach, not Santa Monica? I'm perfectly prepared to be wrong but would love some proof either way. Particularly as I'm going to Santa Monica in the morning and thought I might check it out.

EDIT: I went to Santa Monica beach yesterday, and compared to a visit to Zuma beach three years ago am pretty convinced it's the latter. Wasn't Young, along with members of The Band, living in Malibu in the mid 1970s? Plus, he did name an album Zuma two years later. If you compare the shape of the headland on the album cover with anything you can find on Google Images, it looks much more like Zuma Beach than Santa Monica.

(What is the difference between those words anyway)

Have only found my way to this site in the last couple of months and I have to say I love it, so much to read, interesting posts - how do we access these older thread/blog/posts?

I know it's an immediate instant world out there but I am old school back-copy kinda guy

(aka Old Poof)

This photo was taken from the 500 Fifth Avenue Building...

I have a huge collection of Album Cover Locations &
you can see some of them at...

www.myspace.com/peterarndell

Peter...

The "men's toilet" mentioned is shown as being smack in the middle of the road!

The location for the Led Zeppelin cover is wrong. The Hindenburg crash site (and memorial) is here:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=40.030457,-74.3255...

I added this yesterday but neglected to credit my friend who found the location, I just took the photo. Can you add Richard Hart to the credit? Or remove my name and change it to Richard Hart? (Whichever is easier.)

Thanks,
Brandon Burke

I'm sorry to say you were not in Amsterdam. This in Paris: the world's worst airport.
Charles the Gaulle international airport is unmistakably for robots only.

I, Robot
Alan Parsons Project
Traveling in Europe once I was suddenly surprised to realize I was in the middle of the I, Robot album cover at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. The people carrier tubes are unmistakable.

The Bo Diddley "Have Guitar Will Travel" album cover is horribly misplaced on the map. Mr. Mantica places it on Northern Boulevard on the Roslyn - Manhasset boarder in suburban Long Island. The correct location is more than 20 miles away in downtown Brooklyn New York. The photo was taken in front of the Fox Theatre where Murray the K used to throw his famous early Rock and Roll shows. The photographer is standing in front of the now demolished masterpiece and the 368 address seen behind Bo is for 368 Livingston Street in Brooklyn, N.Y. This would be directly across the street from the Fox. And trust me, Bo Diddley was not wasting his time with a bunch of squares on Long Island.

Here you can see another photo from the same shoot with the Fox in the background:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.blogcdn.com/www.spinner.c...

By the way, this site is fantastic. I cannot wait to add content. I hope this helps.

is in the wrong place. And the Ram cover also has the same location.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=55.471289,-5.648303&spn=0.006276,0.01...

Is more correct, if my mrmory serves.