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- Apr 2011
- 2053
- A bottom-bottom wata-wata in Lake Titicaca
- Atlético Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca Pan flutes FC
- Buñuelos Arequipeños
The cover of the "Crache ton venin" album by Téléphone, France’s most popular band along with Trust in the late 1970s-early 1980s, is really etched in my mind. I was 14 when it was released, in 1979, that may explain it. It was also dead original and subversive back then we thought.
There were 2 covers within 1 in fact: the one on the left (below) was what you saw, and the one of the right was what you were left with after sliding out a calque (tracing paper with an imprint) of the band members’ clothes, if that makes sense, not quite sure what the technical term with this type of calque is but hopefully you get the idea.
The audio tape:
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- Apr 2011
- 2053
- A bottom-bottom wata-wata in Lake Titicaca
- Atlético Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca Pan flutes FC
- Buñuelos Arequipeños
The cover of the "Crache ton venin" album by Téléphone, France’s most popular band along with Trust in the late 1970s-early 1980s, is really etched in my mind. I was 14 when it was released, in 1979, that may explain it. It was also dead original and subversive back then we thought.
There were 2 covers within 1 in fact: the one on the left (below) was what you saw, and the one of the right was what you were left with after sliding out a calque (tracing paper with an imprint) of the band members’ clothes, if that makes sense, not quite sure what the technical term with this type of calque is but hopefully you get the idea.
The audio tape:
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- Mar 2008
- 7492
- Off the purple line
- I'm slutty: Roma (on haitus until Jose is fired), Liverpool, and Dortmund
- Del Taco
I discovered second-wave ska via punk and I discovered reggae through second-wave ska. I didn't have much money so would spend a good hour or so looking through the reggae records trying to figure out where to start (there was never anyone in the store that could help on this front--although if I knew as a 12-year-old what I know now, I would have asked to talk with the reggae buyer). Anyway, this Steel Pulse record really caught my eye:
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Originally posted by Furtho View PostI was well into my teens when I first encountered Trans-Europe Express, but I could hardly believe that the cover of what was notionally a pop album could look like this.
Last edited by linus; 19-10-2018, 22:47.
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I wasn't a child, but was fascinated by how grotty the inside sleeve pic of Electric Ladyland is. David Montgomery was a decent photog (though rather overfond of wide-angle distortion.) However the lighting — and especially the colour seps — are so bad I thought for sometime that it must be intentional. I've since seen better reproductions so these days I'm less inclined to blame the camerawork.
Last edited by Amor de Cosmos; 20-10-2018, 00:43.
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