al*** covers revisited

Posted by: Rico on 25 April 2002

anyone else noticed this..

a K&D album cover :

corresponding with this, errr Simon & Garfunkel offering from the dim and not so distant past :

All great fun of course. IIRC there was that Joe Jackson album [body & soul] anyone else care to post some of these?

Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

Posted on: 25 April 2002 by Mike Sae

I don't get it.

Posted on: 25 April 2002 by Mike Sae

Rico's post inspired me to blow the dust of this one.

Firstly, it's been a long bloody time, 6 years to be exact! Secondly, it's as fresh as the day it came out the oven.

Top gear.

Posted on: 25 April 2002 by Jez Quigley

The Travis Invisible Band cover bears no similarity to Lennon's Plastic Ono Band.

Posted on: 25 April 2002 by Mike Sae

Oh I see, you want us to dig for covers that look like other covers...

(Deleted my totally unrelated post...)

[This message was edited by Mike Sae on FRIDAY 26 April 2002 at 07:34.]

Posted on: 25 April 2002 by Jez Quigley

oops!

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by John C

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Posted on: 26 April 2002 by JohanR

There is of course a couple of covers "inspired" by Beatles Abbey Road, like Booker T and the MGs (don't remember the name of the record just now). And New York City:s "Soulful Road".
Sorry, no pic's here, but I'm shure you can guess how they look!

JohanR

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by Former member

And of course The Mothers' We're Only In It For The Money/Sgt. Pepper spoof.

Our local record shop in Birmingham bent the Mothers sleeve inside out to display it, either cos some twit thought it should be that way round or they thought the sight of grown men in dresses was too much for right-thinking Brummies to cope with.

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by Rico

that's the one I was trying to think of, JohnC!

Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by Malcolm Davey

Hi Rico

JJ Body and Soul was the homage cover to SR. BTY have you reasd JJ's autobiography. One of the best couldn't put it down and made me play some of the old stuff as well

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by throbnorth

I've noticed that Starsailor [the band] have adopted the typeface of Starsailor [the Tim Buckley album]

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by John C

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Posted on: 26 April 2002 by Rico

man, that Blakey album should be good with that lineup - 'guess I should look out for it!

Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by Rico

so here's one I stumbled acros on Tigersushi...

and blurb here on Tigersushi

Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by Former member

Hopefully obvious which cover it's aping...

And everyone should own a BJ album:

http://www.billyjenkins.com

BfT.

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by Mike in CO

Didn't the Style Council release an LP with a photo similar to the K&D/Simon & Garfunkel shot? Somewhere in the mid 80s, called "Internationalists" in the US, and it was "Our Favourite Shop" in the UK, I think. Can't find a pic of the US version on the Web to confirm, so I could be wrong.

M

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by aybee

Another Billy fan! Mnnn 'Sounds like Bromley' or 'Beyond E Major' 'Suburbia'... everyone should own at least one if not them all.

Not to be missed live, if you get the chance

Posted on: 26 April 2002 by Former member

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Originally posted by aybee:
Another Billy fan! Mnnn 'Sounds like Bromley' or 'Beyond E Major' 'Suburbia'... everyone should own at least one if not them all.

Yay!

Yes! BJ's da man. Where 'da man' equals bizarre anarcho jazz genius.

Well, actually I don't own 'Sounds like Bromley', though I do have 'Still sounds like Bromley', which has some wonderous Billy moments. And some 'difficult' Billy moments, just to keep you on yer toes.

Suburbia is a classic - rightly gets a 4* rating in the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD.

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Not to be missed live, if you get the chance

Oh yes - Live, he's the bee's bollocks, the dog's knees. I've seen him thrice and every time a coconut. Most recently was during the Suburbia tour, at a concert at the MAC, Birmingham. Wonderful. Said concert was (I believe) transmitted on Radio summat-or-other, too.

Another highlight was when BJ and others (including Martin France and Huw Warren IIRC) improvised to a chap completing one of the Tomb Raider levels. Cool.

Other stuff on the Babel label is similarly wonderful, and - like BJ - is best experienced live...

Oooh, off to give Monkey Men a spin I think.

BfT.

Posted on: 27 April 2002 by aybee

I've caught Jenkins live only twice, the first which converted me was at the Crawley Festival in '93 where the usual band was joined by the Fun Horns of Berlin - as recorded on 'East/West (now wear the same vest)'. Then last year the Suburbia tour included the Turner Sims @Southampton, where the hall's pipe organ was put to use!

Alan

Posted on: 28 April 2002 by John C