Cover Me, Game Forty-Three

In the interest of full disclosure, you should know that I have begun to re-use album covers. Just wanted to put that out there.

Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep you honest. You must guess both the artist and album cover. In order to keep things simple, live albums, soundtracks and singles compilations will not be used, and with all apologies to our European and Japanese friends, we are going with the covers that appeared in the US record stores…back when we had record stores. Sigh.

The rules are the same as Name That Tune. Each player can make three guesses between updates (“Update” is defined as “The time when I post a comment listing all of the covers that have been guessed correctly,” “Guess” is defined as “any attempt to identify a single cover”), so everyone will have a chance to contribute. And, just to spice things up, we have a puzzle cover this week, yay! One guess per player of the puzzle between updates, please.

There is a (very obvious) acrostic this week. The FIRST letter in the name of the artist or band will provide a clue as to the puzzle cover’s identity. Good luck!

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Lastly, the Puzzle Cover

I suggest subscribing to the comments on the post (click on “Track Comments”) to more easily follow the progress of the game. Remember, maximum of three guesses between updates of the list. Have fun!

NOTE: I’m going to be away from my computer when the game goes live. I’ll be back around 2:15 or so. Play nice while I’m away.

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  • Ding ding ding! Lady GaGa is the puzzle cover. Imogen Heap is correct as well. (The last cover is Stacey Q's Better Than Heaven, by the way.)

    Thanks everyone, and we'll see you soon.
  • dolph
    Puzzle: Lady Gaga - The Fame
  • dolph
    6. Imogen Heap - Speak For Yourself
  • Yoko Ono is correct. Time for some CLUES:

    6. Hipster singer
    17. Debut album by spinoff group that would go on to massive success.
    22. She needs you.
    Puzzle: Mega-selling pop singer
  • Fine Young Cannibals is correct.
  • 23. Yoko Ono: open Your Box
  • JDB
    17. Fine Young Cannibals-Fine Young Cannibals
  • Here's another UPDATE, for those keeping score at home.

    1. Jefferson Starship, Nuclear Furniture (JerryM)
    2. Eels, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (JerryM)
    3. Foreigner, 4 (arensb)
    4. Fun Lovin' Criminals, Come Find Yourself (drxl)
    5. Giuffria, Giuffria (Gordon)
    6. I
    7. Lou Reed, New York (Antti)
    8. E.L.O., Time (arensb)
    9. Samantha Fox, Touch Me (Antti)
    10. Yes, Tormato (arensb)
    11. Andrew Gold, All This and Heaven Too (TuffGong)
    12. Leonard Cohen, New Skin for the Old Ceremony (behindthestars)
    13. Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (MarkoP)
    14. Jen Trynin, Gun Shy Trigger Happy (coffeefortwo)
    15. Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley (SansDirection)
    16. Frank Zappa, Freak Out! (MichaelFortes)
    17. F
    18. Guster, Keep It Together (Francis)
    19. Icicle Works, The Small Price of a Bicycle (breadalbane)
    20. Led Zeppelin, III (MarkoP)
    21. Everclear, So Much for the Afterglow (drxl)
    22. S
    23. Y
    24. Allison Krauss, New Favorite (SansDirection)
    25. Lisa Loeb, Tails (drxl)
    Puzzle: L
  • eddie_w
    Argh, I love Cover Me, but I never can seem to remember to get over here on time on Mondays before the few ones I know have long since been ID'd (which this time, embarrassingly enough included Samantha Fox). Need to set that Outlook reminder...
  • breadalbane
    19 is The Icicle Works "The Small Price Of A Bicycle". I'm not sure this record was actually released in the US....
  • I'm not sure either, to be honest. I'm running low on I covers...
  • It doesn't fit the acrostic (I've been assuming the puzzle cover supplies the missing L in the second "y'all"), but I still want to give The Replacements, "Don't Tell a Soul" a shot for the puzzle cover.
  • Not the Mats. The puzzle cover is very recent.
  • "Jeff Giles y'all Jeff Giles y'all" is the acrostic. For those who missed this when it first ran...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeoH61C2j2U

    Andrew Gold is correct as well.
  • After all these years, I'm finally an acrostic! Now I can die.
  • JerryM
    Is 22 Simply Red - A New Flame?
  • Not Simply Red. Good guess, though. The artist has long curly hair like Mick, I'll give you that.
  • TuffGong
    11. Andrew Gold - All This & Heaven Too


    I'd have the acrostic if I knew what the bloody hell #23 is! But then I imagine a lot of people would.
  • Samantha Fox is correct. Any guesses on the acrostic?
  • The best I can come up with is something along the lines of "Jeff Giles! Yell `Jeff Giles', y'all!"
  • I had assumed a sort of repeating chant: "Jeff Giles, y'all! Jeff Giles, y'all!"
  • Antti
    9. Samantha Fox – Touch Me
  • Guster, Elvis and "New Favorite" are correct. Time for an OFFICIAL UPDATE:

    1. Jefferson Starship, Nuclear Furniture (JerryM)
    2. Eels, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (JerryM)
    3. Foreigner, 4 (arensb)
    4. Fun Lovin' Criminals, Come Find Yourself (drxl)
    5. Giuffria, Giuffria (Gordon)
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    7. Lou Reed, New York (Antit)
    8. E.L.O., Time (arensb)
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    10. Yes, Tormato (arensb)
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    12. Leonard Cohen, New Skin for the Old Ceremony (behindthestars)
    13. Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose (MarkoP)
    14. Jen Trynin, Gun Shy Trigger Happy (coffeefortwo)
    15. Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley (SansDirection)
    16. Frank Zappa, Freak Out! (MichaelFortes)
    17.
    18. Guster, Keep It Together (Francis)
    19.
    20. Led Zeppelin, III (MarkoP)
    21. Everclear, So Much for the Afterglow (drxl)
    22.
    23.
    24. Allison Krauss, New Favorite (SansDirection)
    25. Lisa Loeb, Tails (drxl)
    Puzzle:
  • #18: Guster, "Keep It Together"
  • All guesses so far are correct, except for Blues Traveler. And Alison Krauss is the right artist, but not the right title.

    Also, for the sake of the acrostic, #16 is credited to Frank Zappa.
  • SansDirection
    15. Elvis Presley, "Elvis Presley", or whatever the album that inspired the London Calling cover was named....
    24. Alison Krauss, "New Favorite"
  • #14 is Jen Trynin, Gun Shy Trigger Happy
  • Antti
    7. Lou Reed – New York
  • Gordon
    5. Giuffria - Giuffria
  • behindthestars
    12. Leonard Cohen - "New Skin for the Old Ceremony"
  • MarkoP
    20. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
  • MarkoP
    13. Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
  • MichaelFortes
    16. The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out
    25. Blues Traveler - Four
  • Jamie Lyon
    8. ELO "Time"
    24. Alison "Krauss"
  • JerryM
    1. Jefferson Starship - Nuclear Furniture
    2. Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
  • 4. Come Find Yourself: Fun Lovin Criminals
  • 25. tails: Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
  • Got around that firewall problem, I see?
  • No, the firewall prevents me from listening to MP3s and videos, so Cover Me is In, Name that Tune is Out.
  • 21. So Much for the Afterglow: Everclear
  • 10. Yes - Tormato
  • 4. Foreigner - 4
    8. ELO - Time
  • D'oh! I meant entry #3 as Foreigner.
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