Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Covered up, uncovered (and a Part Two)

Twenty out of twenty!  Congrats and many thanks to all who played along with last week's album cover puzzle, every one of them was solved by you - and very quickly too.  The full images are at the bottom of this post just to confirm your expert identification skills.  But before that, I've been snipping more bits out of other sleeve artwork - so if you're up for a Part Two to while away the minutes (or maybe that should be mere seconds judging by the last lot), here are twenty more:

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Whose and which albums are the above sections taken from?  
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THE ANSWERS FOR LAST WEEK ARE:

 1. Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray


2. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside


3. Deep Purple - In Rock


4. Prince & the Revolution- Purple Rain


5. Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking


6. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On


7. Siouxsie & The Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse


8. Blondie - Autoamerican


9. Eagles - Hotel California

 

10. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars


11. Billy Bragg - Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy


12. Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring

  

13. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds


14. Julian Cope - Fried


15. Abba - Abba

   

16. Ash - Meltdown


17. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde


18. Massive Attack - Protection


19. Saint Etienne - Fox Base Alpha


20. Roxy Music - Avalon




33 comments:

  1. Got a couple:

    5. Who - A Quick One
    8. Weller - Stanley Road
    12. Carole King - Tapestry
    13. Ian Dury - New Boots…
    17. Pink Floyd - the one with the cow!

    JM

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    1. ‘Atom Heart Mother’

      JM

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    2. I prefer calling it 'The One With The Cow' now!

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  2. 18. I want to say Syd Barrett - A Madcap Laughs, but it’s not is it?

    JM

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  3. 20. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

    JM

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  4. 9. Elvis Costello - My Aim is True

    JM

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  5. I know 4 but can’t place it. Got the look of Hefner but it’s not.

    Same with 7. I’m sure I own 7 but can’t dredge up a name.

    JM

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  6. 10. One of Peter Gabriel's many eponymous albums
    15. Sweethearts of the Rodeo - The Byrds

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  7. 6. New Order - Power Corruption Lies

    My other three have already gone! Bit rubbish at this as just didn’t ever have many albums.

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    1. I thought I wouldn't run it as a competition, just for individual fun (hopefully!) so the fact you got 4 already is great. Just putting it together, and what you say about not owning many albums, has revealed a few things to me about our relationship with record artwork , so it might be the subject of another post I think!

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  8. 2 looks like a 4AD album cover but if it is I can't tell you which
    4. Weasels Ripped My Flesh - Frank Zappa
    6. New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies?

    That's me done

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  9. 20 is bugging me, but for now...

    1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love
    2. Pixies - Doolittle
    3.
    4.
    5. The Who - Sell Out
    6. New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies
    7. Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
    8. Paul Weller - Stanley Road
    9. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
    10. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3
    11.
    12. Carole King - Tapestry
    13. Ian Dury and The Blockheads - New Boots and Panties
    14. Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
    15.
    16. The The - Dusk
    17. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
    18. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
    19.
    20.

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    1. Excellent Martin.... but can you get the elusive no. 19 now?!

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  10. 20’s gone already.

    JM

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  11. 3. Patti Smith - Wave

    JM

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  12. No takers for 11 and 19 yet!

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    1. Are either of them 'Neu Smell' by Flux of Pink Indians? If not I think I'm completely stumped.

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    2. No nepotism here, Ernie!

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  13. I'm starting to understand the pain of turning up at 8.45 on Saturday morning and finding all the easy ones are long gone.

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  14. Brilliant, C! I’m with Rol, although there is one left that I recognised:

    11 is Deep Sea Skiving by Bananarama

    The others look naggingly familiar, but my brain’s too foggy to process right now!

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  15. Work commitments ensured that I missed out on the fun this time around, though I've just played along without reading the comments and am confident I know all except 11 and 19. Kicking now that Khayem has pointed out that 11 is Bananarama!

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    1. *kicking myself! Sorry, it's very early!

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    2. Could have been worse, TS. Thanks to typos, I’ve been known to state in print that I’ve been kissing myself. Ironically, I’m kicking myself (again) when I’ve belatedly spotted it!

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  16. Super impressed by everyone's answers - just intended this as a bit of a brainteaser not a competition so no shame in missing out at the start! Hope it got the cogs whirring...

    Just 19 left unsolved. Whose luxuriant, thriving cacti are pictured?

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    1. My immediate thought that it might be Sulk by Associates… although I didn’t specifically recall cacti, and I was right because it’s not it!

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    2. I'm sure you will know it... and may kick (or kiss?!) yourself when you see

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  17. 1. Hendrix Axis Bold As Love
    2. Pixies Doolittle
    3.
    4. Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Zappa I think
    5. The Who Sell Out
    6. New Order Power Corruption and Lies
    7. ELO I think- don't know the name of the album
    8. Weller Stanley Road
    9. Elvis Costello My Aim Is True
    10. Peter Gabriel
    11.
    12.
    13. Ian Dury New Boots
    14.
    15. The Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo
    16. The The Dusk
    17. Pink Floyd, Atom Heart Mother
    18. The Cure 3 Imaginary Boys
    19.
    20. Van Morrison Astral Weeks

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    1. So many, well done!
      19 remains the only one so far unsolved by anyone...

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