Cover Me, Game Forty

David Medsker August 24, 2009 60

Cover Me has now used over 1,000 album covers! And truth be told, I’m running out. Cover Me will continue, but don’t be surprised if it takes a few…breaks.

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 no acrostic this week, but there is definitely a theme. We are also breaking one of the main rules above. Good luck!

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Lastly, the Puzzle Cover

There is a picture there, I assure you.

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!

  • http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/ arensb

    7. The Beatles, 1967-1970
    Puzzle: The Beatles' White Album.

  • http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/ arensb

    21. Pet Shop Boys, Discography

  • luffy66

    17. Pat Benatar- Best Shots
    23. Howard Jones- The Best of Howard Jones

  • http://harpandthistle.blogspot.com RLB

    4 is Duran Duran's best-of, Decade
    5 is Legend by Bob Marley (being a mandatory purchase for all incoming freshmen this week)
    15 is Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry's GH compilation Street Life.

    So we got a theme going

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Can you tell I was running out of album cover ideas? This one will be over in 20 minutes.

    All guesses are correct, except for The White Album.

  • luffy66

    9. Air Supply- Greatest Hits

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Air Supply is incorrect.

  • luffy66

    Damn- 50/50 shot should have went with fist impressions

    9. Bread – Anthology

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Bread is correct.

  • ATM Kid

    2. Blur – Best of
    Puzzle : David Bowie – Best of 1969/1974

  • didyouevernotice

    2. Blur s/t
    3. Motley Crue – not sure of the album
    6. Flaming Lips – Soft Bulletin
    17. The Cure – Distintegration
    19. Prince – Dirty Mind
    24. Stones – Hot Rocks

  • ozarkmatt

    Well, The Beatles – The Beatles was an obvious guess when first seeing the “picture” of the puzzle, but it doesn’t fit the theme. So, I will say it’s the part of the “Shaved Fish” by John Lennon cover up by the title.

  • http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/ arensb

    should have went with fist impressions

    Hey, careful where you swing that fist!

  • luffy66

    first- sorry about that!

  • ozarkmatt

    Or David Bowie – Best of 1974/1979

  • jamesballenger

    2. Blur best of
    17. Pat Benatar Best shots

  • MichaelFortes

    11. The Kinks – Come Dancing with the Kinks

  • ATM Kid

    16. Echo and the Bunnymen – Songs to Learn and Sing

  • http://giardinodeileoni.blogspot.com/ PaoloBassotti

    8. Pixies – Death to the Pixies

  • ATM Kid

    Hey David, I wonder why there ain't no “Carry on up the chart” featured?

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Max three guesses per turn, please. And I hate to say this, but the only one you got right was the Stones.

  • ATM Kid

    And 18. is Eagles' Their Greatest Hits.

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Blur, the Kinks, the Pixies, the Rolling Stones, and Echo & the Bunnymen are correct. The puzzle cover is not David Bowie or John Lennon.

    As for Carry On Up the Charts, that's an import, right?

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    The Eagles is correct as well. Time for an OFFICIAL UPDATE:

    1.
    2. Blur, The Best of Blur (ATM Kid)
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    4. Duran Duran, Decade (RLB)
    5. Bob Marley, Legend (RLB)
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    7. The Beatles, 1967-1970 (arensb)
    8. The Pixies, Death to the Pixies (PaoloBassotti)
    9. Bread, Anthology (luffy66)
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    11. The Kinks, Come Dancing with the Kinks (MichaelFortes)
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    15. Bryan Ferry, Street Life (RLB)
    16. Echo & the Bunnymen, Songs to Learn and Sing (ATM Kid)
    17. Pat Benatar, Best Shots (luffy66)
    18. The Eagles, Greatest Hits Volume I (ATM Kid)
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    21. Pet Shop Boys, Discography (arensb)
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    23. Howard Jones, The Best of Howard Jones (luffy66)
    24. The Rolling Stones, Hot Rocks (didyouevernotice)
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    Puzzle:

  • http://harpandthistle.blogspot.com RLB

    10 is Crowded House – Recurring Dream
    22 is History, by America

  • ATM Kid

    Yeah, I don't know this since I'm overseas. Did a band with best-selling competition album in UK really recieve nothing status in US?

  • ATM Kid

    Oops, I mean compilation. (Sorry for my darn poor English.)

  • luffy66

    1. Elton John- Greatest Hits Vol 2

  • ATM Kid

    Well, another try for the Puzzle Cover. I second Depeche Mode's “The Singles 1981 – 1985″.

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Hey, my wife plays the daylights out of that album, but the Beautiful South were never more than a cult band in the States, I'm afraid.

    I will admit that I'm using only US releases for the sake of simplicity. Which is a drag, because that renders a lot of my favorite albums ineligible. (Ahem, Dubstar's Disgraceful)

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Elton John is correct. Depeche Mode is incorrect.

  • ozarkmatt

    I never realized how many of these types of albums have areas of pure white on the cover!

    Puzzle: Joni Mitchell – Hits

  • drxl

    12, Queen> Greatest Hits

  • drxl

    19. INXS: The greatest hits

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Queen and INXS are correct.

    Joni Mitchell is incorrect.

  • drxl

    25: Supergrass is 10

  • ozarkmatt

    #20 Bad Company – 10 from 6

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Supergrass and Bad Company are correct. Only a few more…

  • ATM Kid

    3. Motley Crue – Decade of Decadence

  • kmbone

    Puzzle: James Taylor—Greatest Hits?

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Motley Crue is correct. James Taylor is incorrect. (Man, I didn't think this one would be so hard.)

  • JerryM

    I'm pretty sure it got a US release, complete with a sticker advertising it as “The UK's 3rd fastest selling album ever!” But apparently, nobody bought it over here but me and your wife.

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    You're right, it's available for $9.49 as a download on Amazon. My bad.

  • MarkoP

    Puzzle: New Order – Substance

  • http://www.bullz-eye.com DavidMedsker

    Ding ding ding! New Order is correct.

  • http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/ arensb

    Ah, that's an equals sign.
    At first, it looked like a pause button, seen sideways, so I thought it might be Bauhaus's “Press Eject and Give Me the Tape”.

  • albertross

    1) Elton John's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
    2) Blur- Best of
    7) Beatles- Please Please Me/Red Album-Blue Album

  • http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/ arensb

    BTW, is it too early to submit guesses for Cover Me, Game 41? Because I recognize #4 and #6 from the images that were (mis-?)posted some days ago.

  • drxl

    No clues on 6, 13 and 14 yet?

  • WHarrisBullzEye

    6. Icehouse, “Great Southern Land”
    14. The Jam, “Greatest Hits”