Ochs provides interesting bits of information here and there, such as that picture albums were first produced in the 1940s. This gives the advantage of enabling one to see correspondences, similarities, visual echoes between individual designs that can be fruitfully mined for their contemporary social and psychological significance.

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. Sure the SATANIC MAJESTY's REQUEST rolling stones record looks cool with that lenticular cover, but. Some of the 1970s images, implying rape or other sexual exploitation, are highly disturbing to the contemporary sensibility, and it's telling to speculate on how they could not have been so when originally produced. Record Covers es un libro de 1996 escrito por Michael Ochs, un archivista musical, disc jockey, periodista y ex ejecutivo de Atlantic Records.

Many are works of art, for example Andy Warhol's covers including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe! This is not a book that I would have picked up; my son gave it to my husband for Christmas, and I thought that someone should look at it. 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. 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.

Cada portada está acompañada de una breve reseña que proporciona información sobre el álbum, la banda y el artista. 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.They are roughly grouped by the decade (1960s, 1970s, and 1980s-early1990s: all getting a short introduction), some appearing in other decade than their own. He told me a story about how he kept all his records in his basement, and one time it began to flood. Michael Ochs has been an obsessive music since the 1950 and this book provides a sampling of the 100,000 or so albums that he owns. Las portadas están bien seleccionadas y representan una amplia gama de estilos musicales, desde el rock and roll de los años 60 hasta el grunge de los años 90.

Here and there appears some that have some kind of 'promo copy' sticker in them, a few have a corner clipped or pierced. This edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best rock album covers of the 60s to 90s from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs’s enormous private collection. 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.The text at the start of each each decade was really quite dull and bore little or no relation to the album covers that followed. of the best record covers of all time from the Michael Ochs Archives, one of the world's largest private collections" (from the cover).

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.All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.