Albums with posters or memorabilia
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Topic: Albums with posters or memorabilia
Posted By: Gerinski
Subject: Albums with posters or memorabilia
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 05:35
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One of the good things of the old vinyl times is that some albums included posters (or other memorabilia) which are difficult if not impossible to include in CD-size releases (I did not buy any vinyl for decades so I don't know if modern vinyl releases still sometimes include such stuff). This is a thread to remember those, if possible please include pics. I will start with Dark Side Of The Moon which included 2 posters and 2 stickers (if I remember well in the Spanish edition we had at home when I was a kid the posters were actually a 2-sided poster but I believe that the original UK versions had 2 separate posters). Pyramids poster  Band poster  Day sticker  Night sticker  |
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 06:19
My DSOTM pyramid poster was this one: ------------- What? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 06:25
I got a free (& unimpressive) T-Shirt with Anathema's We're Here Because We're Here CD: ------------- What? |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 06:31
| I don't have any pics, but one of the best ones was The Who Live at Leeds which came with a poster, a load of photos and letters. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 06:43
Before and After Science came with a set of Art prints: ------------- What? |
Posted By: Mellow Tron
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 06:44
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Best one I can think of is Man's "Be Good To Yourself At Least Once A Day" which contained a fold out map of "Man's Guide to Wales" & on the inner sleeve, Deke Leonard's "Man Family Tree".
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 07:55
Notice that Roger Waters got 2 pics in the poster, he was already starting to show his ego  Also weird that both Gilmour's and Waters' close up pics seem to have been 'mirrored', looking as if they were left-handed players. Curious as to how did that come to happen. |
Gerinski wrote:Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 08:03
The cutouts included in Sgt Peppers |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 08:08
^ and The Beatles came with lyric-sheet/poster and a set of photographs ------------- What? |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 08:16
Oh sure, those 4 Beatle faces pics hung on our bedroom wall for many years!
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 08:28
| "The Concert for Bangladesh" came with al whole booklet of pictures from the concert. One of the most beautiful collections of photographs I've ever seen. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 29 2013 at 09:14
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Surprised to see that nobody's mentioned the big poster that accompanies Floyd's Ummagumma. I had that one nailed to the wall for about a decade or so. Now it's pretty much dead though.... Too many mad activities performed in it's presence. Also, the new Vespero album Subkraut, which I bought as a blue double vinyl thing, has this poster featuring an old school submarine "cockpit". Pretty cool - although I haven't yet ornamented my apartment with it. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 30 2013 at 12:05
| My promo copy of SOT's Kind of Saltz came with 5 posters |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: April 30 2013 at 13:17
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Queensr˙che. Special 20th anniversary edition of EMPIRE. awesome fold out poster with photo cards.
Another would be THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION: THE POLICE. Fold out poster as well. ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Larree
Date Posted: April 30 2013 at 14:18
The best insert ever was the giant rolling paper in Cheech & Chong's Big Bambu album. A few of my friends and I actually rolled a three ounce joint in one of those papers when we saw the Grateful Dead on New Year's Eve at the Winterland Arena in 1977. 
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 30 2013 at 15:56
Damn, can't do pics coz I'm so computer illiterate (? - one day I'll learn...) but I have to mention my Sabbath's 'Master of Reality' came with a poster of the band looking relatively mellow in a forest.
oh, and Chicago V has a large poster of the band and a long strip-like poster too. And Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall has all sorts of things - a *massive* wall poster (like, the size of a bedroom wall, entirely.......), a smaller one and also a booklet.
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: April 30 2013 at 16:01
| My import copy of PFM's Chocolate Kings came with a poster with the lyrics, and depicting a blow up of the photo on the cover of the fat lady. (Kind of like a repulsive take on Marilyn Munroe, and i mean repulsive!) |
Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: April 30 2013 at 18:35
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Radiohead released a "newspaper edition" of King of Limbs with a full newspaper and blotter paper . They released a cryptic limited newspaper before it for promotion called "The Universal Sigh". I sure think that album is under-appreciated   Lots of pics here: http://thekingoflimbspart2.com/2011/04/27/photos-king-limbs-newspaper-album/" rel="nofollow - http://thekingoflimbspart2.com/2011/04/27/photos-king-limbs-newspaper-album/
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: April 30 2013 at 21:57
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My copy of Battles' Gloss Drop came with a glossy, big poster of the cover. It's actually really cool, looks really good on the wall.
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 01 2013 at 04:06
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This is very obscure, even for many Spanish. Miniatura was an Avant-Garde / Proto-Prog band who released a single EP in 1969, considered by some to be the seed of what would become much of Catalan Prog and Avant-Garde music in the 70's. It included a cut-out for building a "Venus Landing Module" including representations of the 4 band members (the EP quoted that this was "the debut album by the conquerors of Venus").         |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 01 2013 at 06:21
And of course the Bicycle Race poster included in Queen's Jazz |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 01 2013 at 07:15
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Posters with Prog albums are always a delight Heres the one you got with ELPs Brain Salad Surgery (shown after a look at the Tarkus vinyl) I filmed this earlier this year ------------- 
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 01 2013 at 07:40
I think Floyd have done some beautiful reissues, and I especially adore my copy of Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.http://www.discogs.com/Pink-Floyd-The-Piper-At-The-Gates-Of-Dawn/release/706138" rel="nofollow - Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawnhttp://www.discogs.com/update/images?release=706138" rel="nofollow -
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: May 01 2013 at 20:18
I have this poster of Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues on my room door. I love it. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: May 01 2013 at 22:38
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Yeah, I've got that one as well. The design's very interesting.
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: May 02 2013 at 12:16
My dad had this and my dickhead brother took it out of the vinyl slip and hung it on his wall with scotch tape no less!! When he took it down he ruined the poster. A classic dead. I now refer to my brother as the bicycle lady killer. Lol ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: May 02 2013 at 12:31
In addition to the classic album covers that folded out into posters. The compilation Roadhawks had a poster of the cover by Barney Bubbles. One of my favourite covers
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 02 2013 at 15:12
That's a great drawing, I did not know about it. |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 02 2013 at 15:25
Yeah that was a great one too. The Spanish edition I had had a smaller and simpler poster with just the 3 pics of the band members faces, which hung on my bedroom wall for years, unfortunately it's gone missing for many years, not sure if some of my brothers took it or it got sadly scrapped at some point.
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: May 02 2013 at 20:04
Do you listen to Fleet Foxes? -------------
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 02:10
Never even heard about them.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 02:46
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Other than the Pink Floyd posters and cards...... Earth Wind & Fire included group posters in albums All n' All and Faces. The comic book included with Parliament's Funkentelechy vs The Placebo Syndrome  -------------   
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 03:57
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How about the original 'Space Ritual' by Hawkwind - that cover folded out with all sorts of space-babble and cool pics. Also, a beauty in the Santana live triple album 'Lotus' - now that's a package and a half........
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 12:59
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ARENA's PEPPERS GHOST contains an album booklet that is a full on comic book explaining the nature of THE LONDON FOG 7 Heros. Very cool and CLIVE NOLAN did all the illustrations himself. Awesome. ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 15:13
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I bought a vinyl album off eBay once and there was a box of Cheerios in the package when I received it. Does that count? ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 15:50
John Zorn's The Dreamers comes with stickers.  Kudos for the Tzadic label for interesting packaging. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 21:28
| don't know how to post a photo of it, but just bought a used lp copy of Joachim Kuhn's album Snow In The Desert, and there is a really cool gigantic poster inside with a black and white photo of Kuhn with some German and English writing-it's awesome! |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 23:31
Great, great band. Check them out. If you like some relaxing, you know back in the woods kind of Folk Rock, you're go to band. I've listening to them for years. -------------
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: May 03 2013 at 23:39
Their best song. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: May 04 2013 at 01:17
Good song, thanks! another band to check out...
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: May 04 2013 at 11:59
Hey, glad you liked it. If you're interested, check out Helplessness Blues. -------------
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: May 04 2013 at 12:21
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Voivod the Outer Limits. 3d art with 2 pairs of 3d glasses so you can view with a friend. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 04 2013 at 18:55
| A bit off topic here, but I've seen some interesting CD packages for 'Tool' albums......... |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: May 10 2013 at 01:37
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Symphony X's ICONOCLAST special edition 2cd set. Has a wicked poster with it. Looks like a mech warrior or something. :) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Cornelius
Date Posted: May 11 2013 at 06:55
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What about Hawkwind's
Warrior On The Edge Of Time LP, With the fold out "CHAOS SHIELD" or their 1988 LP 'THE XENON CODEX has a brilliant fold-out cover Yessongs also has some beautiful drawings..... as do all the early period Yes LP's  ------------- I Like To Drink Cough Medicine..! |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 11 2013 at 07:06
Yep, I just bought this album for the second time, because I am a sucker for vinyls - got this drawing too - and it's going straight up on the toilet wall! One thing about the vinyl version that really sucks though, is that it's a double album, which means that you'll be turning vinyls every 12th minute or so just to get through the album. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: May 11 2013 at 09:28
 Wow, it must sound incredible on vinyl. Thinking of grabbing a copy myself. -------------
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