1000 Record Covers

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For someone who was in the music and record business from mid-1960s to mid-1980s it was a waltz down memory lane.

These compilations are of primarily black recording artists, yet, once again, only white people are shown on the covers. I like the pictures a lot--especially the 50s and 60s--but thirst for a sentence on each one, not just an occasional note. This is, in my opinion, a weird book, composed of, as the title indicates, of photos of 1,000 record covers - one guy's albums.

Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. Ochs informs us of his initial aim in life, to listen to every rock record ever released and in addition, that this book represents a very small proportion of his 100,000+ collection of albums.

Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for such as Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. Perhaps here some additional text might have been of use, but on the other hand its absence ensures the observer must use his or her wit, perception and knowledge to establish connections and draw conclusions about the Zeitgeist.Pese a que los textos y anotaciones son demasiado escasos, siempre es agradable revisar portadas de discos de las que nadie se acuerda. Un recorrido más o menos cronológico que busca puntos en común por portadas seleccionadas dentro de la colección de Michael Ochs, que se intuye algo aleatoria y muy del gusto norteamericano. Not as a coffee table book, not as a collection of hipster music cred, not even as an art project would I recommend this.

I bought it because I think album covers are cool to look at, and this provides hundreds of them, from simple "This is what we look like" photos to wilder art and concept images. Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an under-appreciated art form.

He had owned a number of the albums shown and we chatted about some of our favorite musicians from different time periods. My first job literally for the first month was sitting in a room with this one other guy and going through and pricing the entire Michael Ochs collection. Ochs also provides us with a written preface to each decade of covers, a resume of key developments in popular music which is somewhat cursory and futile to say the least. I do wish there could've been included some more covers, but I guess they have to stick to that number - and the book *is* pretty thick already. A Christmas gift from my wife, this is an excellent book for anyone who loves music throughout the decades.

This is an interesting book but unfortunately this 2005 edition (ISBN: 3-8228-4085-8) is faulty as it omits all the 240 1950s covers included in the original 1996 printing ISBN: 3-8228-8595-9.Record Covers es un libro de 1996 escrito por Michael Ochs, un archivista musical, disc jockey, periodista y ex ejecutivo de Atlantic Records. Even thought this book has little text, just looking at covers your brain starts to develop context: American propaganda, hippie movement, gender issues, racial context and you can see that the records shown here say a lot about the collector who owns them.