Double album covers or hinged covers were good for ... ugh ... cleaning stuff.
Okay, this is taking me back...
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Let me google some more then...
They are coming back. Some smaller labels are reissuing records, and there are new records being made. Bloodshot Records has vinyl out for all its artists.
My daughter's band released a vinyl album that was selected as the Vinyl of the Month for April in Performer Magazine.
Vinyl's slight return is good in some ways, but I can't ever see it really taking off again.[/IMG]
I thought the Roger Dean stuff got old real fast, especially when everyone (and their customized van) felt they needed wild, fantasy landscapes to be taken oh-so-seriously. Hipgnosis designed a lots of cool covers in the 70's (all that Pink Floyd, etc.) and that became the look you had to have... but again, when everyone has it, it really isn't special anymore.
When I was watching 20 Feet From Stardom, there was a point when all the great backup voices started getting recording deals and putting out albums of their own. The documentary wondered why these great voices couldn't break through, but as they flashed the absolutely generic album covers they all had onscreen, it was easy to see at least part of the problem. One awful cover after another.
People pored over every detail of this cover for months, and this crosswalk is still a tourist attraction 40-some-odd years later. That's a cover.