![]() The original album cover pictured a crab. This one looks really bold! It's the same arrow style as Led Zeppelin IV above but has a completely different feel - striking indigo/pink colours and with all the album tracks being much more consistent in terms of playing time, there's very little white space in the artwork - just a few little peepholes. The original album artwork is a million miles away for this - a fading picture on an old wall, paint peeling away from it.Ī mix of long and short songs on the album creates this beautiful pattern, white gaps interspersed between the bands of colour. ![]() We think this arrow style geometric art in olive/wheat looks somehow very satisfying. There's more unique wall art for Genesis here, including the Genesis discography wheel If you like Genesis, try the quiz on the Genesis Quiz page(it's a quiz about the 15 Genesis studio albums). You can see from our geometric artwork (songcircles style using colours inspired by the original album cover) that, as with most Genesis albums, there's a real mix of long songs and short songs. If you love this album, you might love it for the long songs too - Driving The Last Spike and Fading Lights (the two biggest circles on the artwork). You might know this album from the hits - I Can't Dance, Jesus He Knows Me, No Son Of Mine. But they could catch a mood perfectly too (It Must Be Love). The original album artwork for Exodus was a simple red on gold affair with black text. The long song that stands like a beacon in the middle of the album (it ended side 1 of the original LP) is the title track - by far the longest song on the album.Ī collection of all of Madness's best-known songs on one album - what's not to love? The original album art was a photo of the band and we've based this round style geometric artwork on some of the colours used in the original album cover.Īll the songs on this album are quite short - Madness always had a knack of summing things up quite succinctly and often with a generous dose of humour (Baggy Trousers, House Of Fun). There's more unique Oasis wall art here, including the Oasis record collection printĪn arrow style geometric artwork with a bright red and yellow colour scheme for Exodus. If you're wondering what those two very small circles are, they're two short pieces untitled on the original album, known as The Swamp Song (excerpt 1 and excerpt 2). We've used colours inspired by the original album cover. We've shown this album as a series of songcircles, where the size of the circle is created from the length of the song. But we do know that the original cover was about as down to earth as you can get. Is this the largest selling album whose title begins with a bracket? We don't know. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? See more unique wall art for The Beatles here, including a poster with every Beatles album and all the songs on each album That long song at the end of the album - shown here by the long, last bar at the bottom of the print - is the classic 'A Day In The Life'. Each of the songs is represented by a bar, the length of each bar is determined by the length of the song, and each of the bars is mirrored to give this rather pleasing balanced-but-not-symmetrical look to the finished wall art. We've used colours inspired by the original, iconic album cover in this round style geometric artwork. The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band So, on with the classic albums, in no particular order. Read about Spotify Codes and why they're a perfect fit for wall art here. Thanks to Spotify, we can print a Spotify Code at the bottom of each artwork if you want, which means you can play the album using the Spotify App on your mobile phone. (Have you seen our personalised record collection print - if you're looking for a print that celebrates music, it's well worth a look) If you want to see our entire gallery, and the way that the same album looks in different graphic art styles, pop over to our Gallery Of Album Art. We've picked just ten classic albums here. Where original album covers give an identity to an album, an image for the overall package, these geometric artworks celebrate the the individual album tracks and the way that, together, they combine to form a whole album. Who could ever replace the exuberant album art of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the stark dark art of The Dark Side Of The Moon or the down-to-earthness of (What's The Story) Morning Glory? No, these graphic artworks aren't so much alternative album covers as an alternative way of celebrating the albums they are based on. Of course, these aren't, strictly speaking, alternative album covers. What do the resultant artworks look like? Have a look at the images below! For each album, take the running times of each of the tracks and use them to create a piece of geometric art.
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