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| From Roxy Art |
I love how this one says that it was recorded on May 2nd or May 3rd. It was one or the other, anyway. Distributed by Ennui Records around 2001, I don't have a back cover for it.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Cry in Your Cognac
I love how this one says that it was recorded on May 2nd or May 3rd. It was one or the other, anyway. Distributed by Ennui Records around 2001, I don't have a back cover for it.
Cap d'Agde
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| From Roxy Art |
"Old school" fan art makes it onto a sleeve! This is something I found attached to a very recent download of Roxy's 1982 show in Cap d'Agde. This show has also been seen to circulate on Ace Bootlegs's Les Arenes.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
1982 Tour Rehearsals
Found this one while doing a little research. This isn't the only sleeve out there with Dita von Teese as the cover model.
Admittedly, this is not a recording that I've heard, but I couldn't imagine it being all that entertaining until I saw the track list. I mentioned previously that the 1982-83 tour was my least favorite Roxy tour, in part because of the tired set list and in part because, from the tapes available, if they were giving 100% every night, something was making 100% a little rough going. (Except Glasgow '82 - that show was awesome.) On the other hand, they rehearsed both "More Than This" and "The Space Between," neither of which were present on any night that I heard, and either one would have spiced that lazy tour up considerably.
Anyway, not a bad sleeve, and Dita is a terrific choice for a cover model - a helluva better choice than Kate Moss, I'd say - but she looks downright creepy in that front cover photo.
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| From Roxy Art |
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| From Roxy Art |
Admittedly, this is not a recording that I've heard, but I couldn't imagine it being all that entertaining until I saw the track list. I mentioned previously that the 1982-83 tour was my least favorite Roxy tour, in part because of the tired set list and in part because, from the tapes available, if they were giving 100% every night, something was making 100% a little rough going. (Except Glasgow '82 - that show was awesome.) On the other hand, they rehearsed both "More Than This" and "The Space Between," neither of which were present on any night that I heard, and either one would have spiced that lazy tour up considerably.
Anyway, not a bad sleeve, and Dita is a terrific choice for a cover model - a helluva better choice than Kate Moss, I'd say - but she looks downright creepy in that front cover photo.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Les Arenes
Here's an interesting surprise that I turned up researching this blog. Turns out I was wrong, and people still make CD-R artwork.
Case in point: Here's an album of Roxy performing in 1982 in Cap d'Agde, France on the Avalon tour that was not generally circulating while I was active in fandom. The sleeve is by Ace Bootlegs, who assembled artwork at least from 2007 to 2009. There are certain standards to Ace's design, including the stock green background to the rear cover and a little inset detail from the Avalon cover.
Ace picks some pretty good cover models, but this would have been greatly improved, to my eye, if he reversed the image so that the model's face was on the front cover, and put the name ROXY MUSIC on the same panel as her face. Also, the text on the spine is upside down. Still, Ace has a better eye than most. I'll find a few more before I'm done.
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| From Roxy Art |
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| From Roxy Art |
Case in point: Here's an album of Roxy performing in 1982 in Cap d'Agde, France on the Avalon tour that was not generally circulating while I was active in fandom. The sleeve is by Ace Bootlegs, who assembled artwork at least from 2007 to 2009. There are certain standards to Ace's design, including the stock green background to the rear cover and a little inset detail from the Avalon cover.
Ace picks some pretty good cover models, but this would have been greatly improved, to my eye, if he reversed the image so that the model's face was on the front cover, and put the name ROXY MUSIC on the same panel as her face. Also, the text on the spine is upside down. Still, Ace has a better eye than most. I'll find a few more before I'm done.
Out of the Blue
Every so often, I would just get frustrated with not having to hand what should have been easy to locate and choose to cobble something together. The results were rarely satisfactory.
The Swingin' Pig was a very well-known bootleg label out of Italy. According to this German fan site, they released 233 CDs and 147 records. This, a very-near-the-end Avalon show, was their only Roxy Music title. I could be mistaken, but from what I read at some of the fan sites, this was the only Roxy bootleg to have been released by the label on both vinyl and CD. Many fans recreated old vinyl boots for compact disc, but this is the only one to get an official release on both formats. Well, maybe "official" isn't the right word there.
Anyway, if anybody ever owned this blasted CD, they never felt like answering the calls of collectors and putting the booklet on a flatbed and making a proper scan of it for CD-R traders to make a proper copy. So what you see here is an inelegant solution, matching a very decent condition front cover with a much less decent inside. Blowing the inside up to the same resolution would have resulted in distortion and artifacts, so just leaving it alone was the better option.
So... does anybody own this blasted CD and do they feel like putting the booklet on a flatbed and shooting the whole thing at 600 dpi...?
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| From Roxy Art |
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| From Roxy Art |
The Swingin' Pig was a very well-known bootleg label out of Italy. According to this German fan site, they released 233 CDs and 147 records. This, a very-near-the-end Avalon show, was their only Roxy Music title. I could be mistaken, but from what I read at some of the fan sites, this was the only Roxy bootleg to have been released by the label on both vinyl and CD. Many fans recreated old vinyl boots for compact disc, but this is the only one to get an official release on both formats. Well, maybe "official" isn't the right word there.
Anyway, if anybody ever owned this blasted CD, they never felt like answering the calls of collectors and putting the booklet on a flatbed and making a proper scan of it for CD-R traders to make a proper copy. So what you see here is an inelegant solution, matching a very decent condition front cover with a much less decent inside. Blowing the inside up to the same resolution would have resulted in distortion and artifacts, so just leaving it alone was the better option.
So... does anybody own this blasted CD and do they feel like putting the booklet on a flatbed and shooting the whole thing at 600 dpi...?
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Live in Concert
Well, this is strange. Mr. Monopoly has no idea why it was necessary for him to make a back cover for this CD.
The Frejus show is... a little controversial among one or two fans. Okay, so this is the Avalon tour, and Roxy is in France, touring with King Crimson as their opening act. Both acts were recorded that night, and Roxy's performance, which was kind of weak if you ask me, was released on home videotape and laserdisc (if you remember those) under the name The High Road. This was also broadcast, in part, on The King Biscuit Flower Hour and bootlegged. More on that another time.
In 1983, a separate mini-LP called The High Road was released. It contained four songs broadcast by Radio Clyde from a far stronger performance in Glasgow. More on that another time.
In 1990, EG Records released, without Bry's approval, a live Roxy album called Heart Still Beating. It purported to be the soundtrack of the High Road film, but it actually mixed in some of the Glasgow songs. Not an accurate or complete performance.
In 2002, Reklaw Records put out the actual, complete Frejus recording on CD for the first time. But I guess they only did a front cover and not a back, and so Mr. Monopoly was asked to make a back cover by another fan...? Not really sure, actually.
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| From Roxy Art |
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| From Roxy Art |
The Frejus show is... a little controversial among one or two fans. Okay, so this is the Avalon tour, and Roxy is in France, touring with King Crimson as their opening act. Both acts were recorded that night, and Roxy's performance, which was kind of weak if you ask me, was released on home videotape and laserdisc (if you remember those) under the name The High Road. This was also broadcast, in part, on The King Biscuit Flower Hour and bootlegged. More on that another time.
In 1983, a separate mini-LP called The High Road was released. It contained four songs broadcast by Radio Clyde from a far stronger performance in Glasgow. More on that another time.
In 1990, EG Records released, without Bry's approval, a live Roxy album called Heart Still Beating. It purported to be the soundtrack of the High Road film, but it actually mixed in some of the Glasgow songs. Not an accurate or complete performance.
In 2002, Reklaw Records put out the actual, complete Frejus recording on CD for the first time. But I guess they only did a front cover and not a back, and so Mr. Monopoly was asked to make a back cover by another fan...? Not really sure, actually.
Charm City
One of five albums designed by Mr. Monopoly and his then-wife Tatiana to be traded under the POPocalypse banner. This was the fourteenth and final POPocalypse release.
Each of the five albums was given a different pun title to reflect the location of its recording (here, Baltimore). Each used three pictures of a new Roxy girl from the same photo session (with one exception to be noted later). This model is Petra Verkaik, modeling for the M&B site.
Design across the five titles was identical, with only the name ROXY MUSIC on the front (as on the first five Roxy studio albums). The inside front image used a different solid background color. The back cover of each CD is also standard, with a simple font and a black and white photo of the album's Roxy girl. The "eight-channel hypnotransistorized sound" disclaimer was standard across all fourteen POPocalypse free releases, not just the Roxy Music ones, and was written in tribute to the liner notes of Hillbilly Frankenstein's classic album Hypnotica!
At least ten copies of this CD were assembled for friends and members of the POPocalypse CD Club. This artwork was never noticed on a copy for sale anywhere.
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| From Roxy Art |
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| From Roxy Art |
Each of the five albums was given a different pun title to reflect the location of its recording (here, Baltimore). Each used three pictures of a new Roxy girl from the same photo session (with one exception to be noted later). This model is Petra Verkaik, modeling for the M&B site.
Design across the five titles was identical, with only the name ROXY MUSIC on the front (as on the first five Roxy studio albums). The inside front image used a different solid background color. The back cover of each CD is also standard, with a simple font and a black and white photo of the album's Roxy girl. The "eight-channel hypnotransistorized sound" disclaimer was standard across all fourteen POPocalypse free releases, not just the Roxy Music ones, and was written in tribute to the liner notes of Hillbilly Frankenstein's classic album Hypnotica!
At least ten copies of this CD were assembled for friends and members of the POPocalypse CD Club. This artwork was never noticed on a copy for sale anywhere.
Better Than Football
I only have the front cover of this album:
This was a sleeve by a fellow called The New Guy who designed under the label Ennui Records and was alleged to be out in California. Conceptually, it's not too awful, but it ended up being an awfully busy front cover with too many elements, too many words and one footballer who is being towered over by his two peers.
As I recall, I didn't much care for the 1982-83 tour and so I never followed up in actually getting a copy of this show from anybody, and so never got any more artwork than this.
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| From Roxy Art |
This was a sleeve by a fellow called The New Guy who designed under the label Ennui Records and was alleged to be out in California. Conceptually, it's not too awful, but it ended up being an awfully busy front cover with too many elements, too many words and one footballer who is being towered over by his two peers.
As I recall, I didn't much care for the 1982-83 tour and so I never followed up in actually getting a copy of this show from anybody, and so never got any more artwork than this.
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