# Help me identify this album cover. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136 "2012-12-06T00:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/1 "2012-12-06T00:07:56Z")
**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? ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/2 "2012-12-06T01:06:54Z")
Xtc? I forget the title, and I believe it has more than 2 people… And there are no girls 😉 But it is one of the most famous covers of that era and it is psychedelic. ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/3 "2012-12-06T01:09:04Z")
Oranges and Lemons is the title. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/4 "2012-12-06T01:23:44Z")
That is virtually nothing like what the OP was describing…so you are probably correct! ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/5 "2012-12-06T02:05:21Z")
> [@tomcar](#): > > Oranges and Lemons is the title. Nope… this was an actual photo of actual people. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/6 "2012-12-06T02:15:10Z")
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](http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/blogs/lists/2010/08/11/dr_funke_family_band.jpg). 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. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/7 "2012-12-06T02:51:01Z")
> [@tomcar](#): > > Oranges and Lemons is the title. [The Dukes of Stratosphear](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_O'Clock) (XTC pseudonym) from 1984 is along those lines. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/8 "2016-09-21T23:50:25Z")
Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I found it! 🙂 And completely by accident. So this evening I was listening to the album [Evol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evol_(Sonic_Youth_album)) 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](http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/lp/ep8l.jpg) is behind the lyrics for the song [Starpower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starpower_(song)). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/9 "2016-09-22T00:06:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/10 "2016-09-22T00:12:40Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > That is virtually nothing like what the OP was describing…so you are probably correct! That is both very funny and very true more often than not! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/11 "2016-09-22T00:31:15Z")
What’s 10" vinyl? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/12 "2016-09-22T01:01:57Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > What’s 10" vinyl? A ten-inch vinyl record. ETA: Whoops, or did I miss a 10-inch 78 joke in there? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/13 "2016-09-22T01:09:22Z")
[Requisite link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gweUVWUYYQ8) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/14 "2016-09-22T01:11:52Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [Requisite link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gweUVWUYYQ8) Exactly what I expected. 🙂 Though I suspect the record referenced would be shellac, not vinyl. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/15 "2016-09-22T01:59:59Z")
I was “playing” stupid but went too far by leaving out the smiley. Bad dog. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/16 "2016-09-22T02:05:50Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Exactly what I expected. 🙂 Though I suspect the record referenced would be shellac, not vinyl. I also had to click to see if that’s what was being linked to. And it was. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-album-cover/643136/17 "2016-09-22T02:20:35Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I was “playing” stupid but went too far by leaving out the smiley. Bad dog. I had a feeling I was being whooshed…