The Greatest Record Album

[Pip in a Poke]

Not just for the musical content but for all the extras that came with the album.

I've already alluded to my favourite in another thread. Unfortunately, the version I now have is a soulless MP4 file from iTunes but the original had extras galore.

That album was Venus and Mars by Wings.

A single album in a gatefold sleeve. I remember unwrapping it at Christmas when I was about 13 and seeing that Venus and Mars motif for the first time. A motif that also featured on a huge poster that came with the album as well as a set of coasters. All emblazoned with the slogan Venus and Mars are Alright tonight.

Wonderful stuff. I recall scrawling those words over my school exercise books thinking it was the coolest thing in the world to do.

Probably even scrawled it on the back of my jacket. Now, if only they'd done an iron on patch as did Judas Priest with the British Steel Album.

Am I right in remembering an album by Gaye Bikers on Acid entitled Drill Your Own Hole? You were literally required to do just that in order to accommodate the spindle on your turntable.

I used to love all those vinyl gimmicks. Cue John Cooper Clarke.....

[zeitghost]

DSOTM.

Wish You Were Here.

Brilliant.

Especially if one carefully slit the black plastic wrap around WYWH in approved truly absent fashion.

[Pip in a Poke]

DSOTM.

Wish You Were Here.

Brilliant.

Especially if one carefully slit the black plastic wrap around WYWH in approved truly absent fashion.

OIC

[Dactylion]

Cue John Cooper Clarke.....

Some daffodil just used the N-word!!

[Pip in a Poke]

Oooh look, there it is:



Great little album that one....

(Hmmm... Linda was looking good in those days )

[TestMangler]

The Spanish import of Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" which came with an actual newspaper instead of the printed album sleeve.

[darmstadt]

King Kurt - Destination Zululand 12" which plays from the inside outwards
This Heat - This Heat of which the last track has a never ending run-off groove
Atomic Rooster - Made in England which is in a denim bag

[Big Blue Plymouth]

King Kurt - Destination Zululand 12" which plays from the inside outwards
L Heat - This Heat of which the last track has a never ending run-off groove
Atomic Rooster - Made in England which is in a denim bag

I Am The Beat by The Look did that as well.

[MarillionFan]

The Spanish import of Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" which came with an actual newspaper instead of the printed album sleeve.

They wrote that about you.

Of course it has to Misplaced Childhood. As well as being the first album to run all the way through with transitions between Songs, the first 100 albums also gave away a free Jester with bells and a jingle stick. I eventually had to set him free as he scared the dog and was always running himself up against the sofa. I often wonder what happened to my Jester. He was really crap at juggling, couldn't do a single thing and was really ******* unfunny. I used to call him Mordac.

[greenlake]