Showing posts with label albums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label albums. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Cover Up #2



Once the Grilling It executive branch promised to keep posting records that time forgot (because they suck) which have awesome covers. Remember installment #1?

In our spotty commitment to undercooked online journalism and slapdash music blogging:

Welcome to installment #2:

PETRA - NOT OF THIS WORLD

The album is generic soft boy trying too hard to be futuristic radio friendly cock rock. Overproduced, yet undercooked. I won't lie, I only listened to side one.

But the cover is a guitar spaceship blasting out into a cartoonish 80's spacescape:



Since the Petra has no jams to offer, here's my absolute top tune from the "palatable anachronistic pre-future cosmic rock" sub genre:

Monday, March 30, 2009

Cover-Up # 1



A salute to mediocre records sheathed in amazing artwork.

Y&T - Down For The Count (1985)

The record was a rushed, soft eighties hair metal effort, but...the cover is Dracula on a downtown balcony about to sink his teeth into a sexy lady robot.




Here's the best work of art ever made about vampires:

WITCH'S HAT - Glodyany 1972