First post of 2008, featuring some album covers: Boston’s Third Stage and Electric Light Orchestra’s Out of the Blue. More Boston coming up soon!
January 7, 2008 By 2 Comments
Album Artwork: Boston, E.L.O.
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The Boston cover reminds me of the theme that was depicted beginning with the band’s debut record and carried along with each subsequent release: The earth is destroyed, but not before various guitar-shaped spacecraft depart, presumably carrying various major cities beneath their transparent domes as evidenced by the large “Boston” logo emblazoning the ship in the foreground. Of course, we never find out what happened to the rest of the space-bound municipalities, but Beantown at least seems to have held together.
I have three aunts who are considerably younger than my mother, their sister. Often when visiting my grandmother’s house I’d walk into the room my aunts shared and peruse their LPs. They had all the Boston records that were then available, as well as discs by ELO, and I thought to myself, “I hope I’m this cool when I’m a teenager.”
Yeah, those covers are coming up on Wednesday, hehe. I love this kind of artwork — if you know of any interesting space-themed album covers I haven’t posted yet, please let me know!