20 Completely Unbelievable Vintage Record Covers
Holy crap, why can’t music still be this awesome?
Holy crap, why can’t music still be this awesome?
Your favorite tunes, back from a trip in the time machine.
These 8ft hips don’t lie. (via Closer UK)
These guys are all legends partly BECAUSE they were willing to fail way more than anyone else.
There are a few, but not many.
History never looked so good. The New York City Department of Records recently unveiled a massive online archive of over 800,000 scanned pictures. Here are but a few.
The most acclaimed competitive eater in the world faced off against the most delicious lunchroom staple today at SXSW. A new world record of 13 sandwiches in one minute was set.
An ’80s band called Wankers had the all-time best idea for its vinyl album art. With tracks like “Pizza Boy Massacre” and “Too Skinny For Love”, this 1988 release was clearly seminal in the pizzawave genre.
Christian Marclay creates these wonderfully bizarre pieces from old records. (via visualnews.com). One image NSFW.
Wow, this was a really great game. (H/T Playbook for finding these.)
Watch a 13-year-old girl encountering an LP for the very first time in her life. Somebody should show her an 8-track cartridge.
Here is Mitt Romney’s selective service record. The document shows Romney received deferments as a Mormon “minister of religion” during the duration of his time in France.
Apparently this happens everytime she sneezes. She could make an effort to go on for 40 sneezes! (via uniquedaily.com) Watch Video ›
An assortment of famous people with their record collection, in a record store or just plain seen with vinyl. [Via The Buzz Brewery] View List ›
Record Store Day is coming up on Saturday, and we’re going to be celebrating the event on and off throughout this week. Let’s start off with a collection of first albums. What was yours? Upload an image or a video from the first album you remember buying below! Read More ›
Nashville musican Matt Glassmeyer built a roof on his porch out of 350 damaged LP records. It’s held up pretty well after two years of use.
Hey DJ! Bring that beat back right meow! [Ed. note: Brings new meaning to the term “scratching records”! Sorry. I know. Look, I said I was sorry.] Watch Video ›
I saw this near my house and as a music geek, it broke my heart. View Image ›
Ever wish your favorite album covers could become Monty Pythonesque animated GIFs? Your wish has been granted by the nifty new Tumblr blog aptly titled: Animated Albums.
A record under 1000x magnification of a microscope. View Image ›
If you’re hanging out at the Mall of America (Oh man, I wish I was), make sure to go check out the world’s largest cupcake: a 100-pound SpongeBob Squarepants-themed pastry, created by Cakes.com. Has the cupcake flurry finally hit it’s peak? Is it sad to anyone else that it ended in a SpongeBob blaze of glory? Watch Video ›
2007 saw the greatest number of births ever in the U.S. In case you’re wondering: 4,317,119, just beating 1957’s record. Nice work, everybody! View Image ›
The woman who held the world record for “World’s Longest Fingernails” lost them in a car crash this week outside Salt Lake City, Utah! She had been growing her nails since 1979, so although her injuries aren’t life threatening I’d consider them pretty damn serious. At its peak, her longest thumb nail measured 2ft 11in. Read More ›
Rolling Stone unveils the secret White House record collection, which was last updated during the Carter Administration. It includes such classics as Led Zeppelin IV, Let It Bleed, and more by Santana, Neil Young, Talking Heads, Isaac Hayes, Elton John, the Cars and Barry Manilow. But the question everybody’s been asking is, “Will Obama bring it back?” Read More ›
For reasons unknown, a man attempts to set a new world record for looking at images of fish sandwiches. Surreal and true. Happy New Year. Read More ›
A Lebanese farmer grew what may be the world’s largest potato - weighing in at an impressive 25 pounds. And it is ugly! It resembles something like Patrick Star after a horrible undersea car crash. View Image ›