I wonder if there was some executive at Atlantic Records, or something like that, who minted this pose. I looked at the years, 1981, 1982, '83, '86, so within a period of five years they're all hitting this pose. Yeah, it's amazing to see them all lined up like this, they're just hitting that exact same pose, and these albums are really close together. Yeah, so this pose was used in multiple albums. Right, right, I was just going to say, the way that you would see someone laying on a spinning circular bed in a movie. So I guess this is seduction in the eighties. It's bent at the knee and they're leaning into their bent elbow, and like relaxing back. It's this very specific pose where you're leaning on your elbow and you've got one leg up, right? You know what's funny is I actually, and probably many listeners, know the lean that you're talking about. So picture four album covers, it's like a grid, Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Teddy Pendergrass, and Luther Vandross, They're all on the ground, propped up on an elbow, looking very seductive, and the caption is, "You knew the album was great if they hit this lean on the cover." Well in the eighties they clearly found the pose that was guaranteed to sell records, I feel like. You go to a record store, or you go to the music store and you're flipping through and you're trying to find what you want to buy, and the album cover jumps out at you and catches your attention. So as we've been talking about, there was a time in history when the album cover meant absolutely everything, and I feel like it just helped sell it. And for those of you who never grew up looking at the album cover, you might learn something about some of your favorite music today.Īll right, the album cover. So this is the reason we decided to talk about album art, the album cover this week. Yeah, we come from the same era, so this is working today, that's great.Īnd my brother got Blink 182, he was a little edgier. "Anyone can see the road." Yeah, that was random, oh, and Barenaked Ladies, because I love that song One Week. Oh my God, I haven't thought about that song in years. "Where were they going without ever knowing the way?" So I guess the first one was the cassette, and oddly enough I think the next one after that was Bush. I think I did have the Michael Jackson Thriller album on cassette, actually. I know there are artists out there who spend a lot of time on their art, but it doesn't get looked at the way it used to, people don't hold it in their hands and flip through the pages, like you're saying, read the lyrics all written out like poems. I do feel like maybe album art is a little more dashed off than it used to be. I'm your co-host, Will Butler, from Be My Eyes, and I'm joined by Carolyn Desrosiers from Scribely.
You're listening to Say My Meme, the podcast that describes the Internet's best memes for a blind audience. Right, and people worked quite hard on them, yeah. For those who are under 20, memes used to come in a little plastic case that you would buy at the store, and they also had music that went to them.
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