Cover Me, Game Thirty-Nine

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!

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  • luffy66
    8. houses of the holy- led zeppelin
    22. anamalize - kiss
  • luffy66
    One more - 20. Tin Machine- Tin Machine
  • 2. New Order - Technique
    10. The Beatles - Revolver
    25. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
  • #23: Death Cab for Cutie, "We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes"
  • #3: Talking Heads, "Little Creatures"
  • #19: U2, "Boy"
  • Antti
    13. Dire Straits – Love Over Gold
    14. R.E.M. – Out of Time
    18. The Replacements – Let It Be
  • kmbone
    16. Coldplay, "A Rush of Blood to the Head"
  • All guess so far are correct, except for Dire Straits.
  • yursistah
    24-Travis-The Invisible Band
  • tippos
    13. Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil
  • Travis is correct. Midnight Oil is incorrect.
  • 6. Soundgarden: badmotorfinger
  • ozarkmatt
    #15 Asia - Alpha
  • kingpervus
    #17 Shoes - Present Tense
  • Soundgarden is correct. Over half the game is down, so let's do an official UPDATE:

    1.
    2. New Order, Technique (arensb)
    3. Talking Heads, Little Creatures (francis)
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    5.
    6. Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger (DRXL)
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    8. Led Zeppelin, House of the Holy (luffy66)
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    10. The Beatles, Revolver (arensb)
    11.
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    13.
    14. REM, Out of Time (Antti)
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    16. Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head (kmbone)
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    18. The Replacements, Let It Be (Antti)
    19. U2, Boy (francis)
    20. Tin Machine, Tin Machine (luffy66)
    21.
    22. Kiss, Animalize (luffy66)
    23. Death Cab for Cutie, We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (francis)
    24. Travis, The Invisible Band (yursistah)
    25. Depeche Mode, Some Great Reward (arensb)
  • Antti
    1. Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
  • Antti
    7. The Who – It's Hard
  • 5 is Mr. Mister, I Wear the Face
    12 is The Kinks, Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
  • Rage, the Who, Mr. Mister and the Kinks are correct.
  • Antti
    And if 13 isn't Dire Straits, then it must be Metallica's Ride the Lightning.
  • Bingo.
  • ozarkmatt
    Man, I feel moron-ish

    #11 Tooth and Nail - Dokken
  • #13, Metallica, "Ride the Lightning"?
  • D'oh.
  • Dokken is correct as well.
  • Anyone have a clue what the theme is?
  • The theme is a lot more obvious and simple than you might suspect.
  • That's long enough, time for some CLUES:

    4. They're pretty. And odd.
    9. You guys are kidding, right? Guaranteed everyone playing this game owns at least one album by this band. This one came out a couple years ago.
    15. "Kelly Clarkson!"
    17. Power pop band that received mega airplay during MTV's first year.
    21. UK pop band, once pegged to be big like U2. Never happened, but they're not bad.
    Puzzle: Figure out the theme, and you have the album title.
  • ozarkmatt
    Didn’ t we get #15 and #17 just before the first update? I think you just missed ‘em as you were typing up the first update.
  • Ah, right you are. Totally missed 'em. Thanks.

    Panic at the Disco is correct, too.
  • ozarkmatt
    Yeah man, it's so rare I ever know any of these - I want my credit!!! :-)
  • #4: Well, then that would be "Pretty. Odd." by Panic at the Disco!
  • Someone already guessed 17, I think.
  • And 15.
  • kingpervus
    #9 Cheap Trick - Rockford
  • Cheap Trick is correct. Still no clues on the theme?
  • kingpervus
    Theme - "Quartet" Ultravox
  • kmbone
    I don't own any Cheap Trick albums. Maybe that's why I'm not as good at this game as I'd like to be.
  • Ding ding ding! Ultravox and "Quartet" is correct. Nicely done.
  • 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 . . .
  • 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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