Kevin's Watch

Ah the joys of days gone by! Alas CDs are a little too small to do this any more but back in the Ice Age when they had vinyl albums, ocassionally neat things were included. Here are some examples:

A very cool postcard of the two guys (one partially on fire) shaking hands in Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd.

An indian ink cardboard print of a polar bear in The Foriegner Suite done by Cat Stevens himself-which graced my apartment for 5 years.

And we all know what was in Cheech and Chong's Big Bambu, don't we?

Have you ever found any other prizes in the Craker Jack box? (...didn't mean to sound like a Meatloaf song )

Sadly, no. I'm a little too young for vinyl and, as you said, nothing very exciting comes in cd cases except the cds.

Well, some do fold out into posters right? (Any poster you've found that you like?) They could always insert something the size of a business card...I guess

Talk about designs on CDs (themselves) if you like..some of them are wicked...

Discovery by Daft Punk came with a credit card-style fan club membership. You had to enter the number from it to gain access to hidden parts of the official site. That album is also available as an 'Animated House Musical' by Leiji Matsumoto, which is great.

Also Garbage's Beautiful Garbage came in a very pretty folding sleeve, which was in the shape of a rose. Probably the prettiest CD cover I've ever seen. Shame about the awful album inside it, really.

danlo wrote:And we all know what was in Cheech and Chong's Big Bambu, don't we?

You're kidding....

One part of Zep's In Through the Out Door cover changed from b&w to various colors when you wet it.

About the only interesting thing on that album.

i received half a dozen punk albums in the mail for 10 bucks or something like that back in 1990. one was Nirvana's Bleach. had poster and other stuff I can't remember. didn't like it much, lost track of it. could have sold that puppy at the height of Nirvanamania.

Well, a good proportion of the vinyl I own has those little messages etched into the part between the label in the centre and the end of the groove. Some of those are pretty cool.

My Radiohead - Amnesiac special edition comes in the style of a hardback library book, complete with a library card from "Nosuch Library, Catachresis College" and stamped with various dates (some from the future, some from the past at the time of its release... we're now only 4 months away from the latest date). The card has things like "Spine Damaged" handwritten on it and its reference number is "F HEIT451".
The book itself contains various bits of artwork from singles and the regular album booklet of that era.

Erm... my Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place and Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land booklets both smell really nice.

And when I bought the Hundred Reasons - The Great Test single, it came free with a signed poster.

"Do what thou wilt" on the runoff area of side 2 of Led Zep II.

4 different covers for In Through The Out Door.

i had the alternate cover to Pink Floyd's Relics at one time. the one drawn by Nick Mason.

i distinctly remember a Dylan poster that came in one album but i can't remember which one...i might have been Before the Flood (Dylan's last live album with The Band) and also...sheesh...i'm CERTAIN i got a Chicago Transit Authority poster in my copy of Chicago at Carnegie Hall.

One part of Zep's In Through the Out Door cover changed from b&w to various colors when you wet it.

About the only interesting thing on that album.

WHAT?! That is my favourite Zep album!

take that, vile fiend!

The Somberlain wrote: Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land booklets both smell really nice.

I'm going to go check that now!

The Infinity Land one's started to lose its smell... I guess it depends on when you bought it.

sgtnull wrote:i had the alternate cover to Pink Floyd's Relics at one time. the one drawn by Nick Mason.

Got that one too.

How about when you could buy "Dark Side of the Moon" on vinyl?
Came with a couple of posters, stickers, and a few postcards inside.
I've noticed that a lot of CDs don't even carry the lyrics sheet anymore, like the albums did on the inside jackets.

My mum gave me a bunch of her old records to try and sell on eBay (just going through them, looking up catalogue numbers and stuff, trying to work out which ones are worth putting up is taking AGES).

But amongst all the rubbish (I know it's all opinion, but really, "Geoff Love Plays Top TV Tunes"?) I hit upon the Beatles' self-titled (or the White album, whatever you want to call it).

I don't even like the Beatles all that much, but the gatefold sleeve with the embossed title, plus the big arty poster, and the photos inside... I thought it was wonderful packaging. I couldn't sell that, so it's now in my record box.

Besides from being a mind blowing piece of music to a childs ears my fathers copy of Emerson Lake and Palmers Brain Salad Surgery was pretty mindblowing to my little eyes also,that album cover is awesome.There was another,I think by Kansas that had a man made out of thousand of tiny little sea shells and other marine animals.My fathers album collection exposed me to a lot of abstract images and ideas as a young child,and I think I am better for it.

the cd for Sugar's Besides came witha surprise bonus live disc.