Category Archives: music

the stickers on records

Parental advisory on Niggaz4Life. N.W.A. 1991.

Maxinquaye. Tricky. 1995.

Use Your Illusion I. Guns N’ Roses. 1991.

cute couple alert

Shelley Duvall and Ringo Starr.

press conference

At a Sony Sucks press conference, Al Sharpton tries to keep a straight face as Michael Jackson accuses Tommy Motolla of being “a mean, a racist and…very, very, very devilish”. July 2002.

Michael further takes the glove off here and here.

And here‘s a Fox News interview from the same day—notice how the anchor calls him “The Gloved Wonder” and describes him as a “multi-platinum singer” as if she were talking about Ralph Tresvant and not the person who put out Thriller. It’s predictably condescending in tone (though MJ’s claim of having just written “somebody” a check for $500 million dollars is pretty hard to believe) but Michael sort of sits the reporter down—correcting her as she misquotes him and answering her inevitable stupid 9-11 question with the stupid answer it deserved: “What are your thoughts of 9-11, being here in New York?” “I hated it; I’d hate it if it were anywhere.”

Martin Bashir was waiting in the wings.

what’s wrong with being sexy?

Wild-Eyed Southern Boys. 38 Special. 1981.

record labels

Leave Home (with original track-listing). The Ramones. 1977.

vintage jam (costello channels the beach boys edition)

The Other Side of Summer. Elvis Costello. 1991.

on your sleeve

Surfin’ Safari. 1962.

Fun, Fun, Fun. 1964.

Australian Fun, Fun, Fun.

I Get Around/Don’t Worry Baby. 1964.

Dance, Dance, Dance. 1964.

Do You Wanna Dance? 1964.

German Do You Wanna Dance?

Help Me, Rhonda. 1965.

California Girls/Let Him Run Wild. 1965.

The Monkey’s Uncle. Annette Funicello (with The Beach Boys as backing band). 1965.

The Little Girl I Once Knew. 1965.

Sloop John B. 1966.

Hits EP. 1966.

French Wouldn’t It Be Nice EP. 1966.

Good Vibrations. 1966.

Dutch Then I Kissed Her. 1966.

French Heroes and Villains. 1967.

German Gettin’ Hungry. For some reason this single was credited to Mike and Brian alone. The German sleeve designer managed a photo of Mike and Carl. 1967.

Darlin’. 1967.

German Do It Again. 1968.

Yugoslavian I Can Hear Music. 1969.

Odd Israeli Cotton Fields EP. 1970.

Yugoslavian Cotton Fields. 1970.

You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone. 1972.

French You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone. 1972.

Sail On, Sailor. 1973.

Portugese California Saga: California. 1973.

Rock and Roll Music. 1976.

German Rock and Roll Music.

Brian looks like a fucking maniac on the German Everyone’s In Love with You. 1976.

Portugese Susie Cincinnati. They got a lot of milage out of that Brian’s Back photoshoot. 1976.

Weird Brother Records Mona EP. The rear cover suggests that the music The Beach Boys were making from 73 to 77 was their definitive sound. Circa 1977.

German Peggy Sue. 1978.

Japanese Peggy Sue/Hey Little Tomboy. 1978.

U.S. and U.K. Here Comes the Night. 1978.

Good Timin’. 1979.

Horrifying Japanese reissue of Surfer Girl.

Japanese reissue (?) of I Get Around.

Getcha Back. 1985.

It’s Gettin’ Late. 1985.

Rock ‘n’ Roll to the Rescue. 1986.

Reissue of God Only Knows with an appalling sleeve. I’m guessing this is from 1986.

Wipe Out. The Fat Boys with The Beach Boys. 1987.

Let’s Go To Heaven In My Car. Brian Wilson from the Citizens on Patrol soundtrack. 1987.

Kokomo. 1988.

No clue exactly what this sleeve is for but it’s supposedly from Spain. (And supposedly from) 1990. This thing reminds me of that creep who broke into that Chicago PBS station’s signal and interrupted that Dr. Who broadcast. That was probably the only time anyone saw anything interesting while watching Dr Who.

A second Beach Boy Medley. Supposedly Spanish. That Max Headroom creep goes to the beach.

I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times. On Sub Pop! 1996.

the stickers on records

Surfer Girl. The Beach Boys. 1963.

(Also, “File under:…Surfing Music”)

spector

Phil Spector on Pan Am flight 101 by George Harrison. 1964.

cute couple alert

Mick Jones and Ellen Foley (with Joe Strummer and I’m not sure who that other chick is. Anyone?). Circa 1981.

Before the internet made everything so instantly verifiable it seemed almost like a bizarre urban legend to me that the girl who sang on Hitsville UK was the same girl who sang on that Meatloaf album and who played the district attorney on Night Court before Markie Post. Still seems a little weird I guess.