Help me identify this album cover.

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Time frame: Early to mid 1980s.

Genre of music: I’m guessing rock or post-punk.

Description: The album cover was very hippy/surreal looking. It had one or two people on the cover, and one of them (a young woman, I think) was wearing really weird glasses. Around the lenses there were flowers or plastic rays or something. I think she (or the other person on the cover) was holding a strange string instrument, like a long oriental guitar or something.

I could have *sworn *it was a **Sonic Youth **album. But when I googled their album covers it did not come up.

Any ideas?

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Xtc? I forget the title, and I believe it has more than 2 people… And there are no girls :wink:
But it is one of the most famous covers of that era and it is psychedelic.

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Oranges and Lemons is the title.

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That is virtually nothing like what the OP was describing…so you are probably correct!

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Nope… this was an actual photo of actual people.

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I can totally picture it, the girl is holding an autoharp. Carpenters? Jefferson Starship? Something from Elton John?

Nope, it was Dr Funke’s 100% Natural Good Time Family Band Solution. Sorry…unless that’s what you were thinking of too. Of course, I still swear I can see a real album cover where the girl is holding an autoharp.

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The Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC pseudonym) from 1984 is along those lines.

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Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I found it! :slight_smile: And completely by accident.

So this evening I was listening to the album Evol by Sonic Youth on CD. The CD contains a multipage insert. I have never opened the insert, and decided to peruse it.

The pic I recalled is behind the lyrics for the song Starpower.

The reason you all had trouble finding the album cover is because I royally screwed up the description in the OP. The person in the pic (Thurston Moore?) is not wearing glasses. The “flowers or plastic rays” I recall were his fingers! :smack:

Apparently the song was released as a single on 7" and 10" vinyl, and the pic was the album cover. And that’s what I must have seen.

Good song and good pic, BTW.

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You confused eyes drawn on someone’s hands for glasses and their fingers as ‘flowers or plastic rays or something’.

Next time you come back 4 years later, bring mushrooms for all of us.

At least you got the band right.

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That is both very funny and very true more often than not!

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What’s 10" vinyl?

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A ten-inch vinyl record. ETA: Whoops, or did I miss a 10-inch 78 joke in there?

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Requisite link.

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Exactly what I expected. :slight_smile: Though I suspect the record referenced would be shellac, not vinyl.

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I was “playing” stupid but went too far by leaving out the smiley. Bad dog.

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I also had to click to see if that’s what was being linked to. And it was.

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I had a feeling I was being whooshed…