1000 Record Covers

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I wish I could share my preferences, but too many links are involved and making choices is pretty difficult anyway. He has also been a disc Jockey, taught a rock-history course for UCLA and written for such magazines as Rock, Melody Maker, Cashbox, and Crawdaddy. Although each section here is divided by decade – Ochs makes some attempt to group album covers together based on similar image or artwork (often very tenuous) with varying degrees of success and to what purpose is unclear?

El libro es una excelente fuente para los fanáticos del rock que buscan una visión general de las mejores portadas de álbumes de la era del rock clásico. Printed in eye-popping colour throughout, each has a caption of artist, title, year of release, record label, sleeve designer and extra notes. To feed his habit, Ochs headed the publicity departments of Columbia, Shelter, and ABC Records in the 60s and 70s. 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.Even when the book gets the bands right it often fails with the albums- despite including the Beatles' Hey Jude and Meet the Beatles, there's no White album, and artists such as Joy Division and Radiohead don't get a single cover printed. Not as a coffee table book, not as a collection of hipster music cred, not even as an art project would I recommend this. Sometimes there's a further comment added (these and the introduction are also in German and French).

If you're like me (Boomer), it's a veritable trip down memory lane, full of fondly remembered album covers and others temporarily forgotten. Record Covers’ (2002) by Michael Ochs – is essentially an interesting photo collection of album covers throughout the decades – but ultimately this amounts to nothing more than a vanity project for its author/curator Michael Ochs. 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. Ochs provides interesting bits of information here and there, such as that picture albums were first produced in the 1940s.The footprint is smaller than A4 but it made it easier for me to hold and so I'm more than happy with the format. Would make a great gift, too, for people who didn't live through the era in which the LP cover was a deliberate art form unto itself. 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.

El libro también incluye una introducción del propio Ochs, que proporciona una visión general de la historia de las portadas de álbumes de rock. Record Covers es un libro de 1996 escrito por Michael Ochs, un archivista musical, disc jockey, periodista y ex ejecutivo de Atlantic Records. A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. To feed his habit, Ochs headed the puplicity departments of Columbia, Shelter, and ABC Records in the 60s and 70s.

There's not much text, and much of what there is is unreadable: one section consists of black print on dark green paper! He has also been a disc jockey, taught a rock-history course for UCLA and written for such magazines as Rock, Melody Maker, Cashbox, and Crawdaddy. El libro está dividido en décadas, con cada década presentando una selección de 100 portadas de álbumes. Would have been nice to get a short sentence or two about each one, that's my only suggestion, because I'm sure there are interesting stories about each one, even if it's just a factoid or two. Sometimes the back covers or the whole folding of the covers are shown (like Small Faces' "Ogden's Nut.