The Insane Human Slingshot

I've definitely got that one on vinyl and tape - in fact I'm fairly
sure that, for whatever reason, I have two copies of the LP...

It's certainly up there in my mental list, but has a lot of
competition for the top slot.

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Secret Treaties. Worth buying for the sleeve art alone.

I really, really miss decent LP sleeve art. A few square inches of CD
case isn't the same. I want loads of art to pore over, anna decent
lyrics sheet, an'... an'....

Anyone else remember the amazing amount of gubbins that came with the
original Captain fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy LP?

(Amazing that Elton got away with an album title like that, really,
given the era.)

 

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:49:24 +0000,

I'll see your Brown Dirt Cowboy and raise you Dave Greenslade's
'Pentatuech of the Cosmogony'. Hard covers, double album - 47-page
book, written and fantastically (!) illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe.
Some of the artwork is unbelievably wide in scope and beautifully
detailed - it took me years to find a copy to replace mine that was
lent by a friend to one of his friends ...

The CD of the music, of course, comes with none of this, just as Jon
Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow doesn't. Oh, I mourn the passing of the
concept album.

 

I got into a major - oh, the length of the thread! - debate on this very
topic over on another group, once. See, I reckon the first true concept
album was the superb "Days of Future Passed." OMMV, as they say. Olias is
wonderful. I first had it properly, on vinyl, with the book and artwork. It
all went to pot after that.

Ali

 

I loved Greenslade, and I remember that album.

They did the theme music for some cops & robbers show of the 1970s, too.
Damned if I can remember what it was, though.

 

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Gangsters - plus some more recent stuff
http://imdb.com/name/nm0339165/

imdb.com and allmusic.com are wonderful resources for those myopic memory
issues

 

I remember that. Brum based mayhem.

Anyone remember the midlands based 'Connie' with Stephanie Beacham?
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Concept albums still happen y'know ("IQ - Subterranea" springs to
mind). They don't have the mind-blowing cover art any more though.

You would have to venture into the deeply untrendy Prog world to get
them though.

Phil

 

Surely you mean Moodby Blues? The only "Days of Future Passed" that I
know of was by them (in 1967)

Phil

 

Yup, that's the one I meant. Justin Hayward and all that weed smoking music.

Ali

 

Yer right.

<Slaps self>

 

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:49:24 +0000,

You can't roll on a CD case.

No, but the early Jethro Tull albums were fantastic for taking LP art
to a new level.