Cool concept … record sleeves with only the living on them, the dead having been removed with some software or other … via http://liveiseedeadpeoples.tumblr.com/  [tnx4tip Eav!]

Madeline Bell, Alan Parker c.s. in 1976, for Parker's Themes International library label … just reissued on (Dutton) Vocalion (CDSML 8473, 2011). The sleeve's nicked off Millie Jackson's "It Hurts So Good" (Spring 1973), actually.

Hùh? Eggsplanation via http://snaporaz.posterous.com/being-for-the-benefit-of-mr-pike & image source http://peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com/ … and dig these lyrics (printed in the YT comment field):

What with Warp rereleasing 1991's "Frequencies" by LFO, here's some LFO rarities …The studio tracks all date from 1991, the live tracks were recorded 1992-01-18 @ "la Rave de la grande Arche - La défense - Paris" which also featured Laurent Garnier, Eric Rug and Jérôme Pacman. Co-organisers Libération & Fnac Music later launched "Live In Paris 18.1.1992 (La Grande Arche De La Défense)", a six track mcd "hors commerce" in a rouge & noir sleeve by the Designers' Republic™. Sadly, the boundary between tracks 4 & 5 wasn't mastered properly on that mcd, with the intro of "LFO" starting at the end of "Sam & Dave". The 5'43" version below does feature the correct intro, though, as reassembled from the original aiff files. Hey and do check Luke Vibert's 2009 version of "LFO" as well, won't you?

Silly … but since we'd already posted this one … here goes! Hey and while you listen to that brand new "Love will tear us apart" cover version by June Tabor & Oysterband (off "Ragged Kingdom", Topic 2011), or Bis's interpretation (2002), or to two more Curtis & co covers by My Robot Friend (2006) & Tortoise (1995) … well, do check Kapetank's two other nods to to Joy Division, Peter Saville and Chris Mathan's CP1919 pulsar sleeve for "Unknown Pleasures" won't you?
http://kapetank.tumblr.com/post/3102166266
http://kapetank.tumblr.com/post/6278563909/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
http://adamcap.com/2011/05/history-of-joy-division-unknown-pleasures-album-art/
http://joydivisionunknownpleasures.blogspot.com/2011/09/front-cover-image-comes-from-edition-of.html
http://testpressing.org/2011/07/tony-wilson-and-peter-saville-in-conversation/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2011/may/29/joydivision-neworder
http://homepage2.nifty.com/truefaith/tosq/petersaville/1985-1989.html
http://paulstolper.com/gallery/img.php?id_img=207
http://ricardocabello.com/blog/post/640
http://www.joydiv.org/covers.htm
http://www.joydiv.org/up.htm

Stomu Yamash'ta's East Wind in 1973! Saul Bass sleeve!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Is_Frightening
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=1634
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bass

John Cale & Terry Riley in 1970! Play loud!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Anthrax
http://www.woundedbird.com/cale_john/131.htm
http://albumcoverart.wordpress.com/tag/john-berg/

Mo' smurfin': Tyrone Brunson! Super sleeve too (not the one in the YT clip above)!

One of the most wonderful - and sensuous - breakup songs in soul history, in memory of Jerry Ragovoy (aka Norman Meade, 1930-09-04 > 2011-07-13), who cowrote "How can I tell him" with Jacob Brackman. Off Dionne Warwick(e)'s 1975 lp "Then Came You" (recorded 1974). Dixit Ragovoy (as interviewed by Mick Patrick in 2008 for the booklet to Ace UK's "The Jerry Ragovoy Story: Time Is On My Side 1953-2003"): "I sometimes think of the Dionne Warwick album I produced. Every time I hear it, I want to cry. It's the worst group of charts I ever did in my whole life. My arrangements were good but overorchestrated. […] If I could see Dionne, I'd apologize for it. I think it's one of the worst albums I ever made in my whole life. I am still angry with myself." We strongly disagree. As wrote Mick Patrick (ibidem): "Ragovoy's negative hindsight notwithstanding, the […] album is regarded by many as one of Warwick's best." Its sleeve, however …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Ragovoy
http://soul-sides.com/2011/07/jerry-ragovoy-rip/
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/content.php?page_id=2014
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98936592
http://obitpatrol.blogspot.com/2011/07/jerry-ragovoy-aka-jordan-ragovoy-aka.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/arts/music/jerry-ragovoy-songwriter-and-producer-is-dead-at-80.html
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/genre/rock-and-pop/legendary-songwriter-producer-jerry-ragovoy-1005280202.story
http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/music/jerry-ragovoy-reknowned-songwriterproducerarranger-dies-at-80/

2011-06-22: Too Noisy Fish "Fast Easy Sick" cd presentation at Ghent's Vooruit. Wonderful jazz in a funky sleeve … Curious if they'll play their Queens of the Stone Age cover.
http://www.toonoisyfish.be/
http://vooruit.be/nl/event/2726
+ see earlier http://uzine.posterous.com/sketches-of-pain