4 ms·

#TIL that this is the full photo on the cover of IV. Mind blown. I guess it would have been back + front of the LP? https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/wp-conte

by jzl 3y ago

#TIL that this is the full photo on the cover of IV. Mind blown. I guess it would have been back + front of the LP? https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Led-Zep-IV.jpg https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/1...

cratermoon 3y ago
Yup. LP covers we a genre of art for a time. Famously, the original vinyl issue of the Rolling Stones 1971 album "Sticky Fingers" included an Andy Warhol design of a picture of a man in tight jeans, and had a working zip that opened to reveal underwear fabric.
- mikestew 3y ago
  And in the Led Zeppelin category, we have III with the spinning wheel that would reveal various pictures through holes in the album cover, and Physical Graffiti where the windows on the building would open to reveal stuff. And finally, In Through the Out Door where you could wipe the inside cover with a wet cloth to reveal the color. Many albums used the large area for some kind of physical interaction. Sadly we lost that starting with cassettes.
  - Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
    That’s astonishing. It makes me sad when computers represent things with lossy abstractions, like “album art is a square image,” and those abstractions end up widely supplanting the essential idea of what the thing is.
    - colejohnson66 3y ago
      Apple Music has support for animated album art, which is a nice middle ground. If everything is digital, why not take advantage of digital features?
    - ambrose2 3y ago
      That’s one reason why a lot of people collect vinyl.
      - iechoz6H 3y ago
        Another reason is the physical act of playing vinyl necessarily requires a certain level of reverence (to protect from clumsiness causing scratches) a sentiment sorely missing from much of the rest of our lives.
- drcongo 3y ago
  I actually picked up an original of that album in a charity shop for 20p in about 1985. It was in mint condition, looked like it had never been played.

by jzl 3y ago

cratermoon 3y ago

Yup. LP covers we a genre of art for a time. Famously, the original vinyl issue of the Rolling Stones 1971 album "Sticky Fingers" included an Andy Warhol design of a picture of a man in tight jeans, and had a working zip that opened to reveal underwear fabric.

mikestew 3y ago
And in the Led Zeppelin category, we have III with the spinning wheel that would reveal various pictures through holes in the album cover, and Physical Graffiti where the windows on the building would open to reveal stuff. And finally, In Through the Out Door where you could wipe the inside cover with a wet cloth to reveal the color. Many albums used the large area for some kind of physical interaction. Sadly we lost that starting with cassettes.
- Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
  That’s astonishing. It makes me sad when computers represent things with lossy abstractions, like “album art is a square image,” and those abstractions end up widely supplanting the essential idea of what the thing is.
  - colejohnson66 3y ago
    Apple Music has support for animated album art, which is a nice middle ground. If everything is digital, why not take advantage of digital features?
  - ambrose2 3y ago
    That’s one reason why a lot of people collect vinyl.
    - iechoz6H 3y ago
      Another reason is the physical act of playing vinyl necessarily requires a certain level of reverence (to protect from clumsiness causing scratches) a sentiment sorely missing from much of the rest of our lives.
drcongo 3y ago
I actually picked up an original of that album in a charity shop for 20p in about 1985. It was in mint condition, looked like it had never been played.