Comments on: Copycats

Question: Copycats

Skyanth — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:10:09 -0800

Music Nerds! Looking for album cover that are references to others.

What I got so far is... well, not very much:

Kruder & Dorfmeister - G-Stoned // Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Clinic - Internal Wrangler // Ornette Coleman - Ornette!
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By // Serge Gainsbourg - N°2
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter // Boris - Akuma No Uta

Bonus points if the covers you know are b/w or jazz-related!

By: Skyanth

Skyanth — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:16:49 -0800

(And yes, Akuma No Uta is the reference to Bryter Layter, got the order mixed up there)

By: lemuria

lemuria — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:20:56 -0800

Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley/The Clash - London Calling
The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy/Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out

Here's a list.

By: Aznable

Aznable — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:40:30 -0800

Here's another list.

By: Glow Bucket

Glow Bucket — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:51:54 -0800

Here's an extensive list: The Knockoff*project.

By: Glow Bucket

Glow Bucket — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:52:41 -0800

Sorry Aznabel, I didn't see that.

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Wed, 31 May 2006 01:08:58 -0800

Shellac - 1000 Hurts // Ampex audio tape box
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly // The Best of George Jones (Okay, I'm reaching here.)

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Wed, 31 May 2006 01:28:09 -0800

A relatively subtle one, but I have no doubt it's a reference:

Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain //
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Wed, 31 May 2006 01:31:25 -0800

Also:
Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Bursts // Haymarket Publishing Groups - Stereo Test Record (see here)
Barbra Streisand - My Name is Barbra // Allan Sherman - My Name is Allan

By: jontyjago

jontyjago — Wed, 31 May 2006 01:52:50 -0800

One that the knockoff project has missed:

Blue Train - John Coltrane // Qui Sème le Vent Recolte le Tempo - MC Solaar

By: donut

donut — Wed, 31 May 2006 02:30:45 -0800

A german one:
Die Toten Hosen - Kauf mich // Boxhamsters - Klau mich.
Translation: Buy me // Steal me

By: ROTFL

ROTFL — Wed, 31 May 2006 04:00:48 -0800

Not an album, but the Big Black 7" "He's a Whorel" b/w" The Model" covers Cheap Trick and Kraftwerk and features dead-on parodies of the respective artists' album covers.

By: rfs

rfs — Wed, 31 May 2006 05:16:40 -0800

Nick Lowe - Bowi // David Bowie - Low is more of a pun, actually.

By: nimsey lou

nimsey lou — Wed, 31 May 2006 05:50:58 -0800

Ween - the Pod // Leonard Cohen - the best of..

By: AJaffe

AJaffe — Wed, 31 May 2006 05:52:54 -0800

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass/Whipped Cream and Other Delights; Soul Asylum/Clam Dip & Other Delights

Beatles/Sgt. Pepper;Mothers of Invention/W're Only in It for the Money (inner gatefold)

some old country/bluegrass compilation called Hootenanny; Relacements/Hootenanny

and there's a Pussy Galore album called "Historica del Music Rock" or some such that's completely ripped off from those cheap Italian compilations of bands like the Rolling stones

By: dydecker

dydecker — Wed, 31 May 2006 05:56:16 -0800

there is a million threads about this over at ILM

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/searchresults.php?board=2&q=connections&mode=threads

By: dydecker

dydecker — Wed, 31 May 2006 05:56:46 -0800

that link

By: nylon

nylon — Wed, 31 May 2006 06:06:46 -0800

Things not mentioned on the knockoff list:

John Mayall // Cable
Horace Parlan // Freddie Hubbard // Steve Stoll
Plunderphonics
Trainspotting // Camelspotting

Blue Note has a history of reusing old album sleeves for compilations:
Lee Morgan // Blue Note Plays Stevie Wonder
Pete La Roca // So Blue So Funky 2
Stanley Turrentine // Blue N' Groovy 2
Big John Patton // Blue Movies
Donald Byrd // Blue Note Revisited

And, as usual, here's a gratuitous self-link: Lum Col Con Pix

By: Wild_Eep

Wild_Eep — Wed, 31 May 2006 06:08:12 -0800

A bunch of them by Weird Al, naturally.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Wed, 31 May 2006 06:47:31 -0800

one of the most famous is The Mothers Of Invention's We're Only In It For The Money, which parodied The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

By: aparrish

aparrish — Wed, 31 May 2006 06:58:10 -0800

Heh, I love that Boris album's cover.

By: Joseph Gurl

Joseph Gurl — Wed, 31 May 2006 09:13:31 -0800

A nice recent one is Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble Plays Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch" which does a nice twist on the original Dolphy cover, and certainly fucks up the original music in some entertaining ways. Good band.

By: bwilms

bwilms — Wed, 31 May 2006 09:48:34 -0800

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band // Macabre - Sinister Slaughter

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:35:08 -0800

Isn't sort of disheartening to realize that whatever wacky project/collection/concept you can come up with, someone else has already made a website about it?

By: modernnomad

modernnomad — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:49:15 -0800

A bit different than what you are looking for, but most of the objects on the cover of Oasis' (generally rubbish) "Be Here Now" refer to a variety of events in rock n roll history -- ie Keith Moon driving his Rolls into a swimming pool.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:21:20 -0800

I've seen a ton of covers inspired by Freddie Hubbard's Hub-Tones but right now I can only find one, a project of Boom-Bip & DJ Osiris.