Retro Album Cover of the Day

Artist: Echo & the Bunnymen
Title: Songs to Learn & Sing
Date: 1985
Label: Sire Records 25360-1


































Notes: Consisting of cuts previously released in 1981 thru 1984 this collection demonstrates the lighter edge of eighties angst. Melodies, fantastic guitar sounds and electronics all blend to make for a delicious stew. This is all in retrospect of course, I kind of dismissed these guys the first time around as disco marketed electo-dance. But no, on recent listenings these songs can stand on their own as classics of the period. I remember an ethereal video for the "Dancing Horses" cut and it was very similar to the shadowed front cover. Very nice indeed boys.

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Retro Album Cover of the Day

Artist: U2
Title: War
Label: Island Records
A1-90067 Boy
Photograph: Ian Finlay Band
Photograph: Anton Corbijn: RX

Notes: This was the record that brought the band their worldwide appeal. With material like "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Years Day" the record couldn't help but be a hit. Intelligent vocals, spare, thoughtfully placed guitar accents. Still a record to hold up for comparison with other classics. This was before the band grew too large for small crowds and fashion and a dance beat weren't part of the program. I believe that I've read that the cover subject was a neighbor of Bono's and it was a matter of the photographer just being in the right place to capture the shots. Excellent album and a great cover. Can't ask for more than that can ya?

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Retro Album Cover of the Day

Artist: Meat Puppets
Title: "Huevos"
Date: 1987
Label: SST Records SST 150
Cover: Curt
Sleeve Drawing: Cris
Sleeve Photo: Joe Cultice

Notes: From out of the scrub brush on the edge of the desert comes a trio who were making their brand of music well before alt-country and Americana were the new thing to come down the 'pike.
Don't get me wrong, I love the alt-America stuff, but there is something right and real about the Puppets and the songs they sing. This record is a bit more mellow than I remembered the first time around, but that in no way reduces the amount of pleasure to be gotten from a few repeated listenings.
The cover art appears to be painted in thick layers in a slightly southwestern palette. Hey, any cover with a bottle of Tabasco on it is welcome at my table, any meal of the day.

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Retro Album Cover of the Day

Artist: Jimmy Cliff
Title: The Harder They Come
Date: 1972
Label: Mango Records/Island Records MLPS-9202
Cover Artwork: CCS Associates



Notes: A Mango Records release. This reggae record skanks along and drags you with it. The title track alone is reason enough to own this one. Plus the cover has enough 70's nostalgia to make you want to go watch Starsky & Hutch just for the few moments with Huggy Bear. The musical line up is fantastic as well. Find it and give it a listen.

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Retro Album Cover of the Day

Artist: The B52's
Title: Party Mix
Date: 1981
Label: Warner Brothers Records MINI 3596
Cover: Tony Wright
Photograph: Lynn Goldsmith

Notes: An early set of tunes by the B-52's on a 6 song EP. Remixed for party playing and group dancing. Cocktail madness well ahead of the curve the '52's were a band to reckon with. Big hair in a good way, flashy threads and harmonies that are out of this world. It's fun stuff from the colorful cover to the innermost grooves. Turn it up and watch 'em wriggle on the dance floor.

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Perez Hilton's Yearbook Photo

What a hottie, yo.

His hair is like a well fertilized lawn...

..maybe because he's a shit head.

Retro Album Cover of the Day

Artist: Rod Stewart
Title: Sing It Again Rod
Date: 1973
Label: Mercury Records SRM-1-680
Album Design: Shakey Pete Corriston
Photography: Cosimo Sciana, Emerson, Loew and Steve Azzara

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I Love the 80's - Roxy Music

Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). The band existed from 1971 through 1983, then reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and have announced that they will be recording a new album in 2005-2006 for a 2007 release.

The group's name was partly an homage to the titles of old cinemas and dance halls, and partly a pun on the word 'rock.' (Ferry first named the band Roxy, but learning of an American band with the same name prompted the alteration of the name.)



The juxtaposition of nostalgic and contemporary (or futuristic) themes was a distinctive feature of the band, particularly in their earliest incarnation. The group is noted for their combination of idiosyncratic experimentation and sophisticated wit, evident in their literate lyrics, restrained instrumental virtuosity, and highly developed visual presentation (mainly directed by Ferry) which expropriated imagery from the realms of high fashion, kitsch, and commercial photography.

Roxy Music were a significant influence on the early English punk movement, as well as providing a model for many "New Wave" acts and the subsequent New Romantic and experimental electronic groups of the early 1980s. Ferry and co-founding member Brian Eno have also had broadly influential solo careers, and Eno in particular has emerged one of the most significant record producers of the late 20th century, with credits including landmark albums by acts such as Devo, Talking Heads and U2.





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Then & Now

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Geri Halliwell Time Machine

Geri, honey, I loved the 70's too but you don't see me walking around town with my pants up to my armpits do you?


A bit too vintage for my liking..






































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Elizabeth Taylor - One of the Most Gorgeous Women that has Ever Walked the Earth

As I mentioned much earlier today, it is Elizabeth Taylor's 75th birthday.

I remember being a kid in the 70's when the paparazzi and gossip rags were all over her back. She was always on the cover of the National Enquirer and The Globe. It was always something about her drinking or her men. I guess you could say she was sort of the equivalent to our Britney..in terms of media coverage anyhow.

That woman was so incredibly gorgeous, they just don't make them like her anymore. I had to post some pictures of the young Liz. Her beauty is just breathtaking..really.




























































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Funniest Celebrity Quote Ever - by David Cassidy

"I've always been very comfortable with my sexuality and my brothers call me Donk, as in Donkey.

People have talked about me being 'blessed' in my physique. The first time (I met Gina Lollobrigida) she looked me up and down and said, 'I hear you're a monster. I want to meet the monster.'

Well, I decided that if I had it, there wasn't any point in just keeping it in the holster all the time."

-David Cassidy in his new book Could It Be Forever


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Dita Von Teese at Mr. Chow on Saturday Night

Dita doesn't seem to be missing her freakish ex whatsoever these days!
















































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