Can anyone thing of another album where both were not included on the cover?
There are probably tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of albums since Led Zep IV where no text appears on the front cover, and I would also guess a few thousand since that one where there's no text front or back, as well as a large number (maybe a few thousand) before Led Zep IV where no text appears on the front but there's some on the back. But if you're looking for albums released in 1971 or earlier that have no text (or at least no name/title) front or back, that could be a challenge. (I'd bet there are a few, though...)
I should add that there are probably some cases in or before 1971 where the original band/artist concept called for no text, but the record company was only obligated to go along with that for the "domestic" release — for example, Pink Floyd's Meddle (1971) had no text (other than the catalogue number) front or back on early versions in the UK, but everywhere else they added the name/title on the front as well as a track-listing on the back. (Same with 1970's Atom Heart Mother as I recall. Dark Side was like that too, but that was 1973, so...)
Of course, they would just place stickers over the shrink-wrap when bands insisted on that sort of thing, because record labels always know better.
Also, I didn't want to make this claim earlier because it meant getting out of the chair, but I've just confirmed that my (original UK, I think?) copy of New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies has no text on the front or back, or on the spine. No text front-back-or-spine is probably the most unusual thing, before or after 1971, as far as no-text cover art is concerned.
Also, I didn't want to make this claim earlier because it meant getting out of the chair, but I've just confirmed that my (original UK, I think?) copy of New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies has no text on the front or back, or on the spine. No text front-back-or-spine is probably the most unusual thing, before or after 1971, as far as no-text cover art is concerned.
Need to check out my copy but from memory, I think you are right
I'm not sure that this was the best topic for the anomalies thread. Too many examples to make it that rare.
Also, I didn't want to make this claim earlier because it meant getting out of the chair, but I've just confirmed that my (original UK, I think?) copy of New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies has no text on the front or back, or on the spine. No text front-back-or-spine is probably the most unusual thing, before or after 1971, as far as no-text cover art is concerned.
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Here's one of those "what do we do with this?" situations — the answer is probably "nobody cares, just leave it," but for some mysterious reason I thought it was worth mentioning. (Not worth its own thread, though.)
There are two albums on BEA entitled Gone to Seed — a 2012 album by Judy Parker, and a 2016 album by Latlaus Sky:
So I figured that couldn't be a coincidence, but the only person named "Judy Parker" associated with the music industry (at least according to Discogs and Wikipedia) was Judy Parker Gaudio, the late wife of Bob Gaudio, who played keyboards in The Four Seasons. They co-wrote the song "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)," which was a big hit in 1975. If you listen to the Judy Parker Gone to Seed album though, it's pretty obvious that the singer is male, and if you then listen to the Latlaus Sky album, it turns out it's not just most of the same songs, it's the same recordings of the same songs, just reordered (and in one or two cases, retitled) and with a slightly different album cover. So it's not the exact same album, but it might as well be, really.
There's no explanation for this on Latlaus Sky's website, or anywhere else I could find. They're a husband 'n' wife new-age duo (Brett and Abby Larson) from Portland, OR, and my best guess would normally be that they called themselves "Judy Parker" the same way Vince Furnier called his band "Alice Cooper," only the real Judy Parker found out and sent them a cease-and-desist (or whatever) and they had to change it. That would also explain why the Latlaus Sky website doesn't say anything about it, but then, why is it still available on Amazon Music and Apple Music after all these years? Did they just not bother to take it down? And why would a new age duo call themselves "Judy Parker" in the first place? That's a terrible name for a new age duo.
I guess I could e-mail them and ask them what gives, since their e-mail address is on their Bandcamp page, but that seems a little creepy... so I'd prefer not to. Not important enough anyway.
On a larger scale, I don't think that The Chicks much felt like doing a full recall to change their band name from Dixie Chicks on all of their albums out there in the universe. I wouldn't. That would suck trying to change that. I'm sure they have sizeable management enough to get it done on streaming services...a smaller time outfit like the former Judy Parker probably does not. Dealing with streaming services (which are already run by Satan) sucks balls. I wouldn't bother trying if I was them. Besides...all publicity is good publicity. _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
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Here's one of those "what do we do with this?" situations — the answer is probably "nobody cares, just leave it," but for some mysterious reason I thought it was worth mentioning. (Not worth its own thread, though.)
There are two albums on BEA entitled Gone to Seed — a 2012 album by Judy Parker, and a 2016 album by Latlaus Sky:
So I figured that couldn't be a coincidence, but the only person named "Judy Parker" associated with the music industry (at least according to Discogs and Wikipedia) was Judy Parker Gaudio, the late wife of Bob Gaudio, who played keyboards in The Four Seasons. They co-wrote the song "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)," which was a big hit in 1975. If you listen to the Judy Parker Gone to Seed album though, it's pretty obvious that the singer is male, and if you then listen to the Latlaus Sky album, it turns out it's not just most of the same songs, it's the same recordings of the same songs, just reordered (and in one or two cases, retitled) and with a slightly different album cover. So it's not the exact same album, but it might as well be, really.
There's no explanation for this on Latlaus Sky's website, or anywhere else I could find. They're a husband 'n' wife new-age duo (Brett and Abby Larson) from Portland, OR, and my best guess would normally be that they called themselves "Judy Parker" the same way Vince Furnier called his band "Alice Cooper," only the real Judy Parker found out and sent them a cease-and-desist (or whatever) and they had to change it. That would also explain why the Latlaus Sky website doesn't say anything about it, but then, why is it still available on Amazon Music and Apple Music after all these years? Did they just not bother to take it down? And why would a new age duo call themselves "Judy Parker" in the first place? That's a terrible name for a new age duo.
I guess I could e-mail them and ask them what gives, since their e-mail address is on their Bandcamp page, but that seems a little creepy... so I'd prefer not to. Not important enough anyway.
That definitely qualifies as an album anomaly in my book. That is so weird and it would be interesting to find out why!
This is the sort of thing that I hoped would be unearthed in this thread
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