Cover Me, Game Thirty-Nine

David Medsker August 3, 2009 57

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. 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!

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

    Ding ding ding! Ultravox and “Quartet” is correct. Nicely done.

  • ozarkmatt

    Yeah man, it's so rare I ever know any of these – I want my credit!!! :-)

  • ozarkmatt

    Well, by the name on the key fob, I would guess the final band recorded this album at Sawmills Studios. And since the only people I know that recorded there were Oasis and Robert Plant (neither of which fit your clue) I went to their site to see who recorded there. Mostly bands I have never heard of. A few Wiki searches later and I give up.

  • ozarkmatt

    Oh, and I was talking about #21 if anybody didn't get that . . .

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

    It's Razorlight's first album Up All Night, and if it's any indication, I didn't even recognize the cover when I looked at all the clues today. :)

  • ozarkmatt

    Cool. So I was right, its a band my classic rock listening ears have never heard of. But it wasn't recorded at Sawmills, so I was wrong – and I call fraud on that band for that key fob on the cover!!

    Good game, see ya next week . . .

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