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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9108 Registered: 05-2005 |
He made some of the greatest record sleeves of our lifetime. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/arts/ vaughan-oliver-dead.html?nl=todaysheadli nes&emc=edit_th_200104?campaign_id=2&ins tance_id=14929&segment_id=20046&user_id= cbe1711fb1a9b330cf9b74a05c3e7b1b®i_id =337950710104 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4292 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, back before youtube and the internet I had to use a personal sort of voodoo to figure out what music to buy. I wasn't very often interested in what was being played on the radio (though it's too bad I never discovered Deirdre O'Donahue's show on KCRW). I was working part-time and didn't have a lot of money. I had to decide what to buy without having a clue what it sounded like. I relied on 'zines like "Forced Exposure," a bit of word-of-mouth though that required friends with similar tastes--something I didn't really have, knowledge about certain record companies and record producers and finally, cover art. 4AD's cover art is what brought me to the Cocteau Twins. I had never heard them. Nobody I knew was cool enough to know anything about them. I first bought the anthology The Pink Opaque. Then I picked up Treasure and kept going from there until the Cocteaus unwisely went major label. There are plenty of records and CDs I bought in the '80s that I have no lasting use for but Mr. Oliver's art direction brought me to the classic Cocteaus which I still enjoy and which is one of the major building block influences on a lot of music being made today. And I only found it because of the cover art. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9109 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nicely put, Randy. |