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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
by 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 agoThat’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 agoApple 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 agoThat’s one reason why a lot of people collect vinyl.
- iechoz6H 3y agoAnother 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.