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 enlarge | Authors: Grant Scott, Barry Miles, Johnny Morgan
Publisher: Collins & Brown
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 188573
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Re-issue
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 8.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 1843404818
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9781843404811
ASIN: 1843404818
Publication Date: October 7, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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 Addictive to look at March 24, 2008
My fiance and I spent over an hour in the book store looking through this book. We were so impressed by the collection that we actually decided to use this as the guest book at our wedding. There is something in this book for everyone and we intend to let our guest flip to their favorite cover and leave us a message. The great thing about music is that is spans cultures and generations, and we will be able to learn more about our wedding guests through their choices in this book. We highly recommend it for music lovers fanatic to casual listener.
 why aren't the art directors listed in the index????? March 30, 2007
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
My husband, John Berg, was the art director of many of the covers in this book. I looked in the index to find where they were and I was amazed that a book on the subject of the album COVERS would not have a listing for the people who created the album covers. Listing the albums by recording artist and listing by album name is fine but the subject of the book is the ART on the covers, and yet the art directors, while buried in the text under the pictures of the individual album covers within the body of the book, are not singled out in an index. A person researching the work of John Berg, or Bob Defrin or Paula Scher would have to KNOW the album title or the band in order to see the work. That's ok for a book about the bands, or the music or even the decade, but if it's about the cover art lets have it BE about the cover art- there should have been an index for the ART PEOPLE: the illustrators, the photographers and the art directors...so for someone interested in who did the covers rather than just what they look like this is not the best book, no matter how well it's printed.
 For Fun or the Music Enthusiast January 29, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I received this book for the holidays and wound up reading it cover to cover in 3 hours. The book does a great job of explaining the evolution of the album cover. It also gives great background into what the artist's was trying to portray with the cover. The book covers all genres, as well as, explains covers that were giving social commentary to covers that are just plain silly. Great purchase for anyone that loves not only the music but everything that goes into it.
Fun Book, brings back the memories January 21, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
If I had known, this would have been the last gift my husband opened. We could not get him away from this book on Christmas morning. It was fun to see him sit with our daughter and tell her about which titles he had and some of his memories to go along with the album covers. Neat book!
Some mistake: perheaps most banal covers of all time? December 9, 2006
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
I am a record collector with more than 30 years of addiction.
I enjoyed enormously Michael Ochs "1000 Record Covers" issued by Taschen in 1994. And afterwords I bought and reasonably enjoyed other record cover reference books such as One Hundred Album Covers by Storm Thorgerson & Aubrey Powell issued by DK and others.
Well learning about such a luxury edition as what this one seemed at a first glance, I thougt that I shall have a valuable addition to my library...
but I was badly mistaken.
This is the worst collection of "best" covers I ever came accross in my life.
The Authors begin with the Fiftes: Frank Sinatra's banalities that will not catch the eye even of a Sinatra's dedicated fan. Then come other albums full of b/w graffities. A whole page is dedicated to the White Album with a ridiculously high issue number (White Album means logically a white page). Just for a laugh - there is another completely red page with another "highly conceptual" cover, that would merit only a verbal mentioning. The only passable covers in the book are either in bad printing quality or poor(creased and soiled) cover quality. Apart from that these staple famous cover art pictures are so banal that a 10-years old child is already tired of looking at them.
I wonder why the Authors made such an expensive and useless book.
Well I understand that the tastes differ, but ... not to this point.
My advice to any serious collector and cover art fetishist: leave this book to the Remainders.
It is a pity there are no 0 stars in this scale, but I should perheaps leave 1 star because the Authors are at least interested in cover art: good for them.
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