[Closed] Can't remember the name of the album or the artist

Since Reluctant's living up to his name I'm going to have another go:

A field of undyed calico, inset an arc of pink flowers against a blue sky. The name of the artist and album sit above.

Clue?

Clue please! (I don't know what calico is 🙁 )

Ooh, can I play too? I recorded MTB races over my rock video collection on VHS tapes 🙁

There is a video from 80's Monsters of rock show, song playing very orange 'artwork' with grim reaper playing a violin, might have been nuclear blast in the background. What song and what band?

No clue yet! Anyway, I thought someone would get it straight away - if someone gets it in the next hour, whilst I'm on the bike, it's their go...

mmannerr - best wait until the previous one has been answered or it'll get confusing! Album sleeves only, I reckon. (Someone has to make the rules!)

Come on lemonysam - what year??

I'm sure it's an 80's britpoppy ting, but damned if I know which one.

Got it

Nick cave - lyre of Orpheus/ abattoir blues!

Ok - maybe a tricky one

Close up on the shaven head of the artist

He is looking down at the ground so you can't see his face

He is wearing sunglasses and a very large gold chain

Well done that man!

Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul [edit]Removes "?" - definitely!

Well done. Not that hard after all then

Not when you've got it 🙂

Yellow sleeve. Cartoon drawing of a woman's torso wearing a black bikini.
On her right tit is the artist's name. On her groin is a gun, pointing at you. She's got a fag in her left hand..

GODDAMN I CAN SEE IT BUT CAN'T REMEMBER WHO IT BE

😡

🙂 Classic artist, maybe not one of their classic albums though (of which they have quite a few!)

Actually killing me

Alright another clue. This'll give it away -
album is from 2001, but they have releases going back to the late '60s.

album is from 2001, but they have releases going back to the late '60s.

I was pretty sure I knew this until you said that. Now I've not got a clue...

Blimey. Er, ok. Hardly ever seen with a shirt on?

Ah, so: Iggy Pop.

Right:

A severe looking youngish man in a grey room.

He is sitting at a table.

He regards a geometric shape on the table with a look of indifference.

He is wearing a fairly sharp suit.

Winner!

Pleasure Principle! 😀

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F*ck!

Too fast Dez, too fast.... 😉

If I'd said "a look of cold, machine-like disregard", would it have slowed you down?

Blimey. Er, ok. Hardly ever seen with a shirt on?

Ahhh crap, that's the cover I thought it was, I just had the artist wrong in my head. 😳

Iggy Pop?

Ha! Not the album cover I was thinking of... d'oh (maybe it only exists in my mind...)

[i]If I'd said "a look of cold, machine-like disregard", would it have slowed you down?[/i]
No - the staring at the object thing gave it away. Mate had it back in the day, not something I've even owned!
Someone else going?

Someone else going?

It's your go!

Right ...

White border. A painting of a tree dominates the centre, with the sea and clouds behind. The tree is adorned with shells with a puffin in the middle.

Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk?

winner!

🙂

Ok - tricky one to describe this

In the background is a mountain range

mid ground is the name of the artist and album

left foreground a man looks out of a window - a shard of sunlight / laser beam/ something (?) is coming from his head up into the sky. His eyes are closed

That sounds like Stevie Wonder?

yep

Blimey, didn't even get a chance to read it!

Big fan of SW and this album, so jumped into focus straight away.

OK, try this:

Purplish background, foreground is a stylised picture of some flowers, in a reddish shade, with greyish leaves.

Top left has the artist's name and album title, in large greyish/white text.

I know this one (great choice)

But I think I'm going to give someone else a turn!

🙂

Its a steesher of an album, isn't it?

Not ringing any bells..

A clue: double album.

I DON'T KNOW!!

🙂

grievoustim - Member

I know this one (great choice)

But I think I'm going to give someone else a turn!

Me too.

Good game innit?

OK, another clue:

Solo artist at times, has been part of a band in his earlier career (late 60's), multi-instrumentalist, very well-regarded for songwriting, musicianship, and producer- of his and many other artists.

Has appeared on tons of major albums.

Ok - I'm going to put this one out of it's misery

It's Todd Rundgren - Something/ Anything?

Although I'd love to see someone have a go at describing the cover of the album that followed it

[img] http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart/R/Rundgren/rundgren_wizardf [/img]

🙂

I thought about "AWATS", but quickly discarded the idea!

Who's go? I just been for a bike ride with the image of a damn purple sleeve with red flowers on it going through my head!

I think cody gets another go......

When he gets back from lunch.
🙂

In the meantime:

A large female fruit cake kicks her shoes off whilst relaxing on a swing.
Watching are a snail and Gainsborough's Blue Boy.

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Cheers cody.
🙂

🙂

I had to do some actual work! Will edit mine out for later RS.

[i]A large female fruit cake kicks her shoes off whilst relaxing on a swing.
Watching are a snail and Gainsborough's Blue Boy.[/i]

Sorry... what?? 😆

Sailin shoes!
Edit:
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edit2: I have to admit, I'd never actually noticed the two spectators before

You are a man of obvious taste and class, Mr lemonysam. 🙂
Some days I prefer Dixie Chicken, some days this one.

It's a tough call.....

Arousing!

Never really listened to Little Feat, apart from some of the 'hits'. Must do so soon.

I want a go =

It's a darkly tinted picture of Tricky giving some woman a blowback ..

Oh bollocks.

So...

A group of children, two girls and four boys smile at the camera, two of the boys pull faces... OH GOD THEIR FACES...

Is it related to this?

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Indeed it is.

lemonysam - Member

So...

A group of children, two girls and four boys smile at the camera, two of the boys pull faces... OH GOD THEIR FACES...

Wasn't that cover on a single?

Wasn't that cover on a single?

Apparently it was an EP, my bad...

Cracking EP mind

Well one of you is up...

Whilst I self flagellate and promise to check in future.

Indeed. Better make this a quickie.

Looks like a photo taken of a TV screen. On the left, moored (if that's what you do with them!) gondolas, to the right a gondola being piloted (if..etc). City in the background. Quite fuzzy with a greenish-blue tinge. Album title at the bottom is in the photo, band name at the top overlayed in red.

No-one? One of my all time fave bands of all time..

Nope, not a clue.

I've got nothing

Post-punk, i suppose. Maybe I should've gone with their most famous - Bold RED cover, band name in contrasting Blue across the top.
Right hand side is a few frames of a comic strip featuring a cowboy and an indian.
(I'll cry if no-one gets that!)

After your large clue. Gang of Four - Songs of the free.

Man in morph suit has head in bin.

Yay, Hobster!

A lamp, a fridge and an old hoover

Hobster - 3 Imaginary Boys (I can't hold back!)

Can someone do this one please
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