GENRE BOOKS

Based on the private collection of the Welcome To The Robots Project. No claim to completeness.

COVER ARTWORKS

PET SHOP BOYS: CATALOGUE


Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their first album and coinciding with a major world tour, Pet Shop Boys, Catalogue is a lavish visual retrospective of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s entire career. Every aspect of their work is featured: all the elegantly designed sleeve artwork and packaging; stills and behind-the-scenes shots from every video, film, concert and theatre show; experimental stage sets and cutting-edge fashion and costume designs; collaborations; publications; and ephemera. A visual feast of art, music and design, the book will appeal to both the devoted Pet Shop Boys fan and anyone interested in contemporary popular culture.


Publisher : Thames and Hudson Ltd; 

1st edition (16 Oct. 2006)

Language : English

Hardcover : 336 pages

ISBN-10 : 0500513074

ISBN-13 : 978-0500513071

Dimensions : 24.5 x 3.5 x 25.7 cm

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EXTRAORDINARY RECORDS


This book describes vinyl-mania. This highly original collection, made in collaboration with "Colors" magazine, brings new meaning to the term 'album art' - what's featured is not record covers but records themselves, in a plethora of colors, shapes, and forms. This book showcases over 400 records owned by Guinness-award-winning collector Alessandro Benedetti. From artists such as Pink Floyd, Queen, the Beatles, Prince, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Bon Jovi, and many others, these rare and valuable records run the gamut from gold to transparent to painted, photo-printed, or shaped like a map, butterfly, heart, star, or even a tree!


Publisher : Taschen GmbH; 

First Edition (25 May 2009)

Language : English

Paperback : 496 pages

ISBN-10 : 3836507293

ISBN-13 : 978-3836507295

Dimensions : 24.03 x 3.53 x 23.88 cm

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FACTORY RECORDS

THE COMPLETE GRAPHIC ALBUM


Between 1978 and 1992, Factory was one of the most important record labels in Britain. It launched the careers of Joy Division, New Order and the Happy Mondays, to name but a few; it opened the legendary Haçienda club and Dry bar; and it introduced to music the concept of high-quality, cutting-edge design. The visual languages developed alongside the music, by designers such as Peter Saville, Central Station Design and 8vo, are still widely recognized and imitated today. 

Factory Records documents the label’s entire visual legacy and its role in bringing design into the mainstream. Every item with a famous Factory inventory number is illustrated or listed, including album sleeves, singles, special editions, flyers, posters, stationery and architectural projects. With a foreword by Tony Wilson, Factory’s charismatic record label owner and nightclub manager, this book amply conveys the energy, creativity and enthusiasm of one of the most dynamic (and chaotic) record labels ever. 


Publisher : Thames and Hudson Ltd; 

1st edition (10 Sept. 2007)

Language : English

Paperback : 224 pages

ISBN-10 : 0500286361

ISBN-13 : 978-0500286364

Dimensions : 25 x 2 x 29 cm

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MUTE

A VISUAL DOCUMENT

FROM 1978 -> TOMORROW


Daniel Miller created Mute Records to release his debut single (‘Warm Leatherette’/’T.V.O.D’), a pioneering electronic sound with a defiantly DIY attitude. Mute quickly established a reputation for releasing cutting-edge, chart-topping music and through the music of its community of artists – ranging from Fad Gadget, Moby, Can, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds and Einstürzende Neubauten to Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure, Laibach, Goldfrapp, Liars and Ben Frost – it has had an incalculable impact on popular music for four decades. 

Mute: A Visual Document is packed with stunning artwork and photography – much of it previously unseen – from the Mute Archives and Daniel Miller’s personal archives, including photography and video stills from legendary photographers, conceptual artworks, rare ephemera and equipment. 

Comprehensive discographies, a family tree of Mute artists, an extensive introduction and commentary by Daniel Miller, who has curated the materials for the book, plus anecdotal and photographic contributions from key figures in the label’s story, including Moby, Alison Goldfrapp, Anton Corbijn, Bleddyn Butcher, Brian Griffin, Jon Spencer, Barry Adamson, Ivan Novak, Angus Andrew, Adrian Shaughnessy, Tom Hingston, make this book the definitive chronicle of the label.


1. 1978–1979: Warm Leatherette and Letraset: 

Founding a New New Wave

2. 1980–1982: Mute in the Charts: 

Depeche Mode and Yazoo

3. 1983–1989: Beyond Electropop: 

The Experimental Side of Mute

4. 1990–1999: Mute into the Nineties

5. 2000– Into the Future


Publisher : Thames and Hudson Ltd; 1st edition (9 Nov. 2017)

Language : English

Hardcover : 320 pages

ISBN-10 : 0500519722

ISBN-13 : 978-0500519721

Dimensions : 19.56 x 3.81 x 24.38 cm

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THE ALBUM COVER ART OF PUNK


The Album Cover Art of Punk documents the visual side of punk, which mirrors the creative and innovative anarchy of the music, with album covers by the most notorious artists.

Foreword by Malcom McLaren.


Publisher : Collins & Brown (1 Jun. 1998)

Language : English

Paperback : 120 pages

ISBN-10 : 1855856271

ISBN-13 : 978-1855856271

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THIS AIN’T NO DISCO

NEW WAVE ALBUM COVERS


Why did Frankie say "Relax"? Did anyone really want to hurt Boy George? And why didn't anybody walk in L.A.? This Ain't No Disco can't answer all these head-scratchers, but it does bring the New Wave era back with page after totally awesome page of 300 of the best album covers. This rad collection includes covers from the late 1970s to the mid-'80s and will have true believers of a certain generation totally spazzing. New Wave was defined as much by style, fashion, and graphic design as the music itselfwitness the ruffled cuffs and heavy makeup of the New Romantics, the skinny ties and peg-pants of the neo-Mods, and the unsettling robotic personae of Devo and Gary Numan. Bursting with wild hairstyles, futuristic typography, pastel shapes, and outlandish clothing, these are the album covers that defined an era and continue to influence music and fashion styles today. A nostalgic trek with a mental soundtrack, This Ain't No Disco will inspire readers to don those rubber bracelets once again and proclaim, "Let's dance this mess around!"


Publisher : Thames & Hudson; 

1st edition (29 Mar. 2005)

Language : English

Paperback : 256 pages

ISBN-10 : 0500285500

ISBN-13 : 978-0500285503

Dimensions : 17.8 x 17.8 cm

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PLATTENKISTEN

EXKURSIONEN IN DIE VINYLKULTUR


Das Buch Plattenkisten ist eine Hommage an das Gesamtkunstwerk Schallplatte. Es porträtiert besondere Persönlichkeiten und einzigartige Orte des Vinyl-Liebhabertums in Wort und Bild und nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Exkursion zu den Refugien des guten Geschmacks. Jörn Morisse und Felix Gebhard haben sich als Geheimagenten unter die schreckhafte Spezies der Vinyl-Connaisseure gemischt und lassen sich über den Umweg des Mediums Schallplatte persönliche Geschichten erzählen: Geschichten über Obsessionen, die Fehler der Plattenindustrie, wie man als Unternehmer auf Krisen reagiert, warum der Record Store Day so kontrovers gesehen wird und ob analog wirklich besser ist. Plattenkisten zeigt die Menschen hinter ihren Plattensammlungen, setzt sich mit den wirtschaftlichen Aspekten des Vinylcomebacks auseinander und gibt Auskunft darüber, wie es ist, in einem Plattenladen zu arbeiten.

Nicht nur die Besitzer unabhängiger Plattenläden kommen in Plattenkisten zu Wort; auch Presswerker, Labelbesitzer, Archivare, Musiker und DJs, Sammler wie Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) und Chris von Rautenkranz (Mastering Engineer u. a. für Slime, Blumfeld, Kraftklub) stehen ebenso Rede und Antwort wie Verkaufsleiter großer Elektronikfachmärkte und Hersteller von High-End-Plattenspielern. Sie alle werden zu ihrem Verhältnis zur Analog-Kultur befragt und erklären in O-Ton-Protokollen, wie viel Musik- und Sozialgeschichte, Identität oder auch Protest von einem Stück Vinyl ausgehen kann. Persönliche Musikvorlieben und große individuelle Popinitiationsmomente kommen dabei nicht zu kurz.


Publisher : Ventil Verlag (1 Oct. 2015)

Language : German

ISBN-10 : 3955750442

ISBN-13 : 978-3955750442

Dimensions : 24.5 x 2 x 24.9 cm

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ALBUM COVERS FROM THE VINYL JUNKYARD


This work re-evaluates 40 years of LP design, standing as a tribute to the forgotten world of disposable sleeve art with over 500 illustrated ecamples of easy listening, loungecore, world muzak and kitsch classics. Robert Chapman - singer, music journalist and broadcaster - reassesses the sleeve designs in an amusing introduction.


Publisher : Booth-Clibborn Editions; 

First Edition (10 Oct. 1997)

Language : English

Paperback : 208 pages

ISBN-10 : 1861540752

ISBN-13 : 978-1861540751

Dimensions : 25.5 x 1.5 x 25.5 cm

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ALBUM COVER ALBUM 3


Major collection of key album covers selected by celebrated designers. 

144 pages.

Colour illustrations.


Publisher : Paper Tiger (1 Oct. 1984)

Language : English

Paperback : 144 pages

ISBN-10 : 0905895991

ISBN-13 : 978-0905895994

Dimensions : 30.48 x 1.27 x 30.48 cm

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THE ART OF THE LP

CLASSIC ALBUM COVERS 1955–1995


Sexy, provocative, playful, beautiful: from their earliest days, LP covers have been objects of art and fascination. This celebration of album artistry presents more than 350 of the best covers, and departs from the usual approach by organizing the images by visual theme. Many of us remember the iconic album-cover images that defined our collective and individual historiessuch as the smoldering pinup girl on the Cars’Candy-O, the plaintive baby following a dollar bill through water on Nirvana’sNevermind, and Andy Warhol’s controversial zippered pants on the Rolling Stones’Sticky Fingers.

From perennial classics to lesser-known gems, here is the LP art that shook, rattled, and rolled us through music’s early formative years.

The thematic chapters include:

Art: Ornette Coleman, Empty Foxhole; The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks; Santana, Abraxas

Death: Otis Redding, History of Otis Redding; Frank Zappa,Hot Rats; Ice Cube, Kill At Will; Metallica, Master of Puppets

Drugs: The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; The Monkees,Head; Thelonious Monk, Underground; Peter Tosh, Bush Doctor

Ego: Frank Sinatra, No One Cares; Astrud Gilberto,Nothing Better To Do; Joni Mitchell, Clouds; LL Cool J, Mama Said Knock You Out; Bjork, Debut

Escape: Johnny Cash, Orange Blossom Special; Bob Dylan,Freewheelin’; Peter Gabriel, 1 (car)

Identity: The Jackson 5, ABC; Pink Floyd,Dark Side of the Moon; Blondie, Parallel Lines

Politics: Funkadelic, America Eats Its Young; Bruce Springsteen,Born in the USA

Rock & Roll: Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis and His Pumping Piano; Clash,London Calling

Sex: The Ohio Players, Honey; Robert Palmer,Double Fun; Pulp, This Is Hardcore

Real World: The Allman Brothers, Brothers & Sisters; Bob Marley,Catch A Fire; Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road


Publisher : Sterling; New edition (7 Oct. 2015)

ASIN : 1454918063

Language : English

Hardcover : 400 pages

ISBN-10 : 9781454918066

ISBN-13 : 978-1454918066

Dimensions : 23.62 x 3.3 x 30.73 cm

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1000 RECORD COVERS


Unique in its scope and choice 1000 Record Covers, in a new flexi-cover format, illustrates how Rock is not just music but a way of life, an attitude and a style. By definition, rock music is for the moment; today's hit is tomorrow's oldie, probably destined for oblivion. The same applies to album covers. Designed by innovative artists and photographers, they hit the popular nerve of the moment and a good cover can help underwrite an album's success. 1000 Record Covers collect the most important covers of the Rock Era, from Megahits to obscure collectors' items: a history of almost half a century's music in miniature.


Publisher : Taschen GmbH; 

Illustrated edition (16 April 2020)

Language : Multilingual, French, German

Hardcover : 576 pages

ISBN-10 : 383655058X

ISBN-13 : 978-3836550581

Dimensions : 15.4 x 5.3 x 20.5 cm

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1001 ALBUMS YOU MUST HEAR BEVOR YOU DIE


The ultimate compendium of a half century of the best music, now revised and updated. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and the most influential pop albums from 1955 through today. Carefully selected by a team of international critics and some of the best-known music reviewers and commentators, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal to the understanding and appreciation of music from the 1950s to the present. Included with each entry are production details and credits as well as reproductions of original album cover art. Perhaps most important of all, each album featured comes with an authoritative description of its importance and influence.


Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY); 

Revised, Updated ed. edition (23 Mar. 2010)

ASIN : 0789320746

Language : English

Hardcover : 960 pages

ISBN-10 : 9780789320742

ISBN-13 : 978-0789320742

Dimensions : 17.02 x 6.1 x 21.84 cm

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THE ART OF PUNK + NEW WAVE COVERS


Tear-off calendar, shrink-wrapped with stand-up display. This brilliant new tear-off calendar is introduced for Christmas 2019 sales showing off 365 brand new pictures of the most legendary Punk or New Wave LP covers from the past 40 years. The talents and work of all manner of known and unknown recording artists are collected together here to produce a selection of images, which will delight the owner of the calendar, year after year. It will be a must-have present for any and every fan of punk.


Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY); 

Revised, Updated ed. edition (23 Mar. 2010)

ASIN : 0789320746

Language : English

Hardcover : 960 pages

ISBN-10 : 9780789320742

ISBN-13 : 978-0789320742

Dimensions : 17.02 x 6.1 x 21.84 cm

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SLEEVEFACE – BE THE VINYL


This hilarious book immortalizes the craze that began while DJ Carl Morris was having a bit of fun in a Wales bar. Here is how Sleevefacing works: You find an old-school vinyl record sleeve with a nice head-shot of your musical icon (Elvis or David Bowie or Debbie Harry will do nicely), put the sleeve in front of your face, and strike a pose. Now get someone to snap your photo.

This growing Web phenomenon has its own Web site (sleeveface.com), Facebook presence, and thousands of inventive practitioners around the globe. Sleeveface compiles the cleverest of these images: the faux Morrisseys, wannabe Bob Dylans, and lookalike Madonnas whose posture and clothing is in perfect sync with their idols’ most classic record covers. With essays that celebrate the merits of vinyl in an age when music has gone digital, it will appeal to record collectors, music lovers across the generations, and anybody—which is to say everybody—who ever fancied him or herself a rock god.


Publisher : Artisan Division of Workman Publishing; 

Illustrated edition (6 Oct. 2008)

Language : English

Paperback : 192 pages

ISBN-10 : 1579653790

ISBN-13 : 978-1579653798

Dimensions : 15.39 x 1.22 x 19.38 cm

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