ChrisKnudsen

A pretty good list actually:
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/year2005...bum_covers.htm
Fully agree with their #1.

ChrisKnudsen

#1

ChrisKnudsen

Other cover art that I love from their list:

The Antipodean

I consider myself moderately hip in musical knowhow, but i might have to change my self-appraisal... I haven't heard of a single band on that list. Nice pictures, though.

ChrisKnudsen

There were 3 albums on there that I didn't get around to listening until that list was published but now, I am caught up and I am really glad I end up listening to that Feathers record despite not so awesome word of mouth. I think it is excellent. Funny thing is that Islaja album at #1 is probably also one of my favorite albums of the year.

DeanoBKN

Same here.

The Bus

They're name dropping regionally known indie band names. I mean I'll make my own list and mention the Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin / Michael Holt CD that Catbird Records came out with... http://www.catbirdrecords.com/cbr001.html

Yes, every CD is hand-painted.

I think the cover to X&Y is better than many things on that list. I think the cover to The Mouse and the Mask is great in how it references its many sources in so many ways (the aged comic book parchment, Doom's mask, Mickey Mouse, pirate flags, etc.). And I like the simplicity of the Stars of CCTV cover.





But then again, I'm not some preening, self-important blogger who then lists Amerie in their best-songs-of-the-year list like they're trying very hard to be Pitchfork.

The Antipodean

Personally, I still love this one:

But I'm a "photos" over "artwork" kind of album art guy myself...

The Bus

Yes but if they picked that they would lose their indie cred. You can't like bands that do commercials for Coke.

PopcornTreeCt

I never heard of any of those bands.

jonnyrocks

Good call on that one--I scored a pretty cool cover myself (blue background, yellow bird in the middle).

It's not just the fact that there are 250 unique covers that's interesting; the rest of the packaging is also very impressive. Very promising DIY-type stuff coming from these guys, with some great artists on board (the Pet Politics EP is great)!

wendersfan

I'm finding it hard to believe how few people have heard of John Fahey.

The Bus

I've never heard of him.

Mopower

You mean that guy that's been all over the radio...oh no wait, the guy that has been all over TV....oh no wait. Who?

wendersfan

The legendary folk guitarist and founder of Takoma Records.

auto

ouch.

Tarantino

Same.

= J

Mopower

OH that guy.



Nope, never heard of him.

ChrisKnudsen

Their singles list is a staff vote up and people can choose what songs they feel is good and you know what, that Amerie song and Kelly Clarkson song are both excellent catchy tracks and that Amerie single is better than any song that MIA did. Tiny Mix Tapes have been a while, I used to write for them about 3 years ago or so. Still respect them.

Also, every cover been hand painted is very common for cd-r releases. If those were going to be included, many covers would be knocked off that list but I do think they would be too pretenious (myself included) to include a mock Freedy Johnston rip-off on there.

Dangerdoom is a cool cover but MF Doom always has nice covers for his records.

ChrisKnudsen

What do you think of that record?

nickdawgy

I also have never heard of any of those bands.

ChrisKnudsen

You should check out that Islaja record, it is truly wonderful. Their #2 pick for album picks is also probably in my top 10 of the year, the Feathers album is a short and sweet freak folk record sort of in the vein of the Danielsons if they weren't so odd. The records I don't care for that much on the list is the Earth and the Twilight albums.

Penny Lane

um.... why the vitriol? We aren't trying hard to be anybody. Actually, I could count on my hands the number of times I visited Pitchfork in the past year.

The idea behind that collaborative article was just to write a blurb about certain songs we liked throughout the year and put them all together as a list of very different songs that we find interesting. If anything, I think it shows the diversity of tmters' taste in music.

btw, thanks for reading.

Calculon

http://press.comedycentral.com/image...lbum_Cover.jpg

ChrisKnudsen

I thought the link was going to be of funniest album covers of the year.