"take me to baltimore" by ruth copeland. yeah. faggy painting and anal pose.
"love to love you baby" by donna summer. i bet straight guys liked this back in the day. you can see nip and everything.
"thunder & lightning" by dee d. jackson (donna summer meets kate bush. i love space disco). i like how her bodysuit tells you where to look.
"take me home" by cher. i hate to have a blog that mentions cher. but this is a sick album cover.
"knock on wood" by amii stewart. it came out before the cher one and i think maybe bob mackie stole the idea a bit... although i wouldn't be surprised if bob mackie actually designed the outfit here too. i don't care enough to research (as difficult as that may be to believe). but yeah. the headgear is amazing.
"paradise bird" by amii stewart. here she is again. her album covers got totally boring after this. but this completely reminds me of yuna's floral fallal dress sphere from final fantasy x-2*. i'd make a self-depracating quip about how faggy that game is but it seems kind of irrelevant based on the idea of this whole post.
"never trust a pretty face" by amanda lear. i saved the best for last, didn't i?
this is all a tribute to why i don't want the art of the album to die. i want vinyls to be made forever. i want tapes and cds to be made forever. even 8-tracks. i love to have the artwork to see and to hold and to smell. some of these great album covers do not house great albums. time stands still when i listen to a great album. but time won't stand still for the art of the lp.
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There is a great clip of Amii in her fantastic costume performing this son on the youtube right now!
ReplyDeleteAnd there is no shame in posting "Take Me Home" - it's a great cut. Cher was especially well cut out for disco; too bad she didn't do more of it. But you can't turn back time. ;-)
Also, Amanda Lear was a Dali protege' and a very fascinating performer. She's worth checking out.
Thanks for this! What fun! Although you forgot LaBelle. Perhaps a separate post for costumes?