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.

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/6314/homepage_large.5f3cdbf7.jpg

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! 😀

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…)

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Steviewonder_innervisions.jpg

yep

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

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