Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that
takes the classic mixtape approach to building
a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.
Joining me tonight, once again, as guest curator
is my former Tunestiles co -host, Jay Sweet.
Jay, welcome back, man. Hey, man. Good to be
here. Never a dull moment. That it's not. And
tonight, we're going visual. Now, not really.
It's still an audio -only podcast. I'm not changing
that. That's too much work. But tonight you and
I are going to take on a challenge that we haven't
done in many years. We did this once back in
our Tunestiles days and it was a lot of fun.
So I figured why not revisit that with a couple
of more years of hindsight on our ends here.
And that is talking about iconic album covers.
So you, I like to use you as like a guinea pig
for some of these episode ideas because it's
very tough. To describe album covers without
the visual on screen. Right. And now you and
I are going to have to do that back and forth
20 times in a row. Well, I think you made it
easy, though, because we're talking about, you
know, easily recognizable album covers. Right.
We've got a list of literally 100. So, you know,
you could go in any direction. But these are
from where I pulled from. You wouldn't have to
describe them. The minute we announce what title
we're going to go with, for me, what title I
want to pick, you will automatically see that
vision in your head. I hope so. But just to be
safe, I'm going to put all the album covers we're
talking about tonight in a gallery on the episode
page at myweeklymixtape .com so you could watch
the album covers. They're not going to do anything.
They're just going to be photos of them. But
you could look at them while we're talking about
them. It's as close to video as you're going
to get, people. So I hope you enjoy it as we
go down this memory lane of iconic album covers
that we have collectively spent, I'm just going
to assume, hours and hours staring at growing
up, be it on album cover, cassette, or possibly
CD. I know some of mine were CD only, sans some
of the vinyl re -releases that have happened
in recent years. But wait, there's a twist. Jay,
it might be fun for us to rattle off 20 album
covers and talk about why we like them, and we're
going to do that. But this is My Weekly Mixtape.
And in true My Weekly Mixtape fashion, there
has to be a playlist to attach to it. So, Jay,
I'm just going to lay this on you now. This is
the first time you're hearing this. As we go
through this, you're going to have to pick one
song from each album. So we could build a playlist
to go along with these album covers. M. Night
Shyamalan is in shock. What a twist. Well, given
the fact we're talking album art over songs here,
this playlist can either strangely make sense
or be an absolute train wreck, which if it is
a train wreck, you won't actually be able to
see it because it's not video. So. But Jay, it
would not be a full My Weekly Mixtape conversation
if we did not include the fellow mixtapers and
several over on the Patreon mixtaper channel,
which is patreon .com forward slash My Weekly
Mixtape chimed in with some of their favorite
album covers. And I want to give a shout out
to a few of those. Seeker chimed in from Australia
saying album covers for many rock and metal bands
sell the brand as much as the aesthetic of the
album. I couldn't agree with that more. No more
so than Iron Maiden, Derek Rigg, and Eddie. As
to my favorite album cover, it comes down to
Iron Maiden's Power Slave, Live After Death,
or Somewhere in Time. Seeker calls it Peak Riggs.
Why? Well, the Power Slave is majestic, Egyptian,
and monumental. Live After Death is a dynamic
representation of their live show. And Somewhere
in Time is chock full of Maiden -related Easter
eggs. Having just seen the Future Past World
Tour this past year, I have to say that Somewhere
in Time album cover is truly full of Maiden Easter
eggs, and it's a hell of an album. Philip Bergman
chimed in with The Beatles' Revolver. Chad LaMassa
chimed in with Living Colors' Vivid, saying it's
colorful and hectic and matches the vibe of the
album perfectly. And finally, Tom Hutchinson
chimed in with Baroness, the blue record. saying
all Baroness album art is drawn by the lead singer,
John, and the artwork for all their albums is
incredible and so detailed. But the Blue album
has so many elements and is a conversation piece,
as well as one of the best stoner rock albums
of all time, in his opinion. So thank you to
all the fellow Patreon mixtapers for chiming
in. And if you'd like to become a part of the
mixtaper community, you can join for free over
at patreon .com forward slash my weekly mixtape.
So Jay, with those Patreon picks out in the atmosphere,
as Olivia Newton -John would say, let's get visual
or something like that. Which album cover are
you choosing to kick things off tonight? We're
going off with a bang. I'm going with Queen's
News of the World. Nice. I think that's the perfect
way to start this off. One of the most iconic
Queen albums covers, as it were, because of the,
you know, you've got the giant robot and it's
holding so many pop culture references because
even Family Guy took a whole stab at it when
Stewie was terrified of the album cover. And
at the end, the giant robot saves the family.
It's great. But yeah, from where I was coming
from. when we set out on this project, my thinking
is, if I say the name of the album, you should
immediately see that picture in your head. And
Queen had no shortage of iconic album covers.
Even the simplicity of A Night at the Opera jumps
out at me. And then you think about even the
iconic inside of jazz with the naked women riding
the bikes. They had no rules or boundaries when
it came to what they did. For me, I had in my
bank of album covers. queen two with their four
faces on the album cover because to me that's
an iconic image that kind of got portrayed into
the album but news of the world is certainly
one of those album covers that i spent a lot
of time as a kid staring at because it felt almost
comic book -esque outside of the music being
absolutely incredible and with that is my follow
-up you have to pick As our friend Jason Whistle
over on, there can only be one. You have to pick
one song from this album to represent it for
this playlist tonight. You know what? I could
go with We Will Rock You because it's a great
album opener. As you've done on this show in
the past, we've done it on TuneStyles. Fantastic
opening track. And it's a great way to, it's
good symbolism to how we're going to open this
mixtape. But you know what? I'm going to go with
spread your wings. Wow. Because it kind of gives
you an idea of where we're going to go on this.
We're just opening up. Spread your wings. Get
ready to fly. All right. Well, I think musically,
I'm going to stay in a similar vein to Queen
to follow this up because I'm thinking album
art covers that are iconic. But now we're also
thinking a mixtape here. So I got to come out
of queen with something that doesn't left turn
too much here, but again, captures one of the
greatest album covers of all time. So, all right.
I know who I'm going to go with. I just don't
know the album yet because this person had so
many iconic album covers off the top of my head.
Heroes could easily go here. Ziggy Stardust could
easily go here. But when I think about David
Bowie, it's tough. I think the most iconic album
cover for him, and this could be argued because
he has so many iconic album moments, cover art
alone. Let's take the music aside here. I'm going
to go with the follow -up to Ziggy Stardust and
Aladdin Sane. All right. The androgynous David
Bowie. That image, just that photo at the time
was the most expensive album art ever created.
Yep. Try to wrap your mind around that. And that
was shot by Brian Duffy. And it is literally
just Bowie with the red hair and that red and
blue lightning bolt. And it's been used in Bowie
concerts over the years, but it's not like it's
something that he. kind of used all the time
over the decades. It's just that album cover.
But for some reason, when people think of David
Bowie, that's the first image they go to. So
I think for this episode, that has to be the
one. Although personally, the album cover I grew
up staring at the most was Diamond Dogs. I was
going to say that album was the one my parents
happened to be playing the most when I was younger.
So Rebel Rebel and stuff like that. But. At the
end of the day, Aladdin Sane has to take it here.
And for songs, I think I'll go with the Gene
Genie for this one. All right. Good choice coming
out of Spread Your Wings. Very good. Yeah. Ziggy
Stardust and that whole persona. Bowie had a
great habit and propensity to kind of reinvent
personas for every album that he did. And it
just spoke volumes, often eclipsing some of the
music in terms of how it... resonated with his
listeners, with his fans. So great choice. I
had it on my list for sure. And The Gene Genie
is a great tune. So how do I come out of David
Bowie? Let's stay with the classic rock for now.
I got a lot of classic rock because they were,
I mean, you're talking the invention of album
art, right? And how to sell your records. I feel
like a lot of the classic rock Album covers are
going to be at the top of this conversation because
at the time, when you think about this from a
marketing perspective, album covers, when people
were in a record store, were sometimes their
introduction to that artist's music. That's right.
So when you think about Queen's News of the World
and David Bowie's Aladdin Sane, these album covers,
people saw them. And if you think about the music
that's on each of those albums, doesn't the cover?
kind of tell you what you're about to hear and
maybe not a perfect color by numbers way but
there is a representation of the music in those
album covers at least from my humble opinion
i think so too and i think that's why a show
like this works so well why this concept works
so well is because it it pulls back your core
memory unlocked you know mentality of being young
and being introduced to music walking into your
local record store for the first time and seeing
walls of album art and posters and when you look
at a cassette and this is kind of where the side
of a tangent but this is kind of where the formats
of the media came into play because you know
back when we were younger when we were kids the
album art was on the 33s on the albums you couldn't
really see the cassettes you know you see the
spines of the cassettes or the cds and For a
little while, I think that worked for CDs because
of the long boxes, right? Oh, yeah. Back before
we got environmentally conscious. Yes. We're
wasting, killing trees and wasting cardboard.
But again, iconic art cover, you know, for long
boxes on CDs, they weren't exactly the most,
like you can't rifle through them and see. They're
harder to post on a wall like an album would
be, like a vinyl record. I think the worst offender
of those were the cassettes in the 80s where
they took the album cover, but they squared it
off at the top. And then the bottom half of the
cassette J card was just black with the name
of the artist and the name of the album. Those
were my least favorite art aspect of any type
of format ever because it was so tiny and you
could barely, you had to kind of stare at it
as if we are looking at anything now, kind of
holding it right up close and pulling it back
a little bit. You know, a little blurry as we're
getting where we are in age. But I digress. Next
album pick. Let's go with Pink Floyd. We'll nail
this one off the top as well and go with Dark
Side of the Moon, of course. Of course. The probably
most, arguably most iconic. I also could have
gone with Wish You Were Here and The Wall, of
course. Very iconic in and of itself. But I think
when one is describing or introducing a new listener
to Pink Floyd, one begins with Dark Side of the
Moon. One of the most iconic prisms of all time.
I guess. Yeah. Beside the one that was in my
physics class, right? Yes. That was the whole
thing about being in physics class that made
it fun was that my teacher would, you know, Pink
Floyd, here's why. Here's how that works. Oh,
cool. And the song from it that you're choosing?
Oh, for a song. Let's see. Coming out of the
Gene Genie. I'm going great gig in the sky. Ooh.
With that gorgeous vocal over the top. the screaming.
Unbelievable. I don't think anybody our age whose
parents grew up listening to classic rock. I
have to add that because there's, I'm sure there's
some listeners whose parents grew up listening
to country music. But for those of us that are
our age that had parents that were in the classic
rock, my parents had dark side on a track. And.
there was something about eight tracks that were
just so, so terrible. I hated eight tracks so
much. You'd be in the middle of a great song
and it would just stop and you'd have to wait,
hear the click, wait for it to start up again.
And it would like fade back in totally killing
the vibe. But anyway, dark side of the moon is
definitely one of those album covers that is
probably been framed more than any other one.
There's posters of this album cover and it's
such a simplistic concept. But its execution
is perfect. And it really does say what you're
about to hear. It makes perfect sense. So obviously
Pink Floyd is on the nose pick. And Queen and
David Bowie are obvious classic rock staples.
So I'm going to stay in this classic rock vibe
we've got going here. And I'm going to go with
another band who once again has no shortage of...
iconic album covers physical graffiti houses
of the holy four three if you think about the
album cover because you could spin the wheel
on the album so that was pretty cool my favorite
led zeppelin album was two but when it comes
to album art i think you have to acknowledge
where it all began the original album art which
was the black and white image of the Hindenburg
taken by Sam Shear back in the 1930s. And it
happened in New Jersey. So, I mean, it's like
local album art, local setting. It's tough, especially
with that physical graffiti album cover, because
every time I go to New York, I kind of want to
go visit that building. And that one is another
one I spent so many hours staring at. And then
the house is the holy is. So controversial at
the time. Yep. And it was one of those album
covers that went into full landscape mode when
you open the album. So it wasn't just a square.
It was actually a rectangular piece of art. Yes.
But at the end of the day, Led Zeppelin one,
I think edges out those albums just by a touch.
And probably because along with Led Zeppelin
two was. The album I listened to most as a kid,
but for the song, great gig in the sky. We just
came out of babe. I'm going to leave you. Beautiful.
Beautiful. Zeppelin is, uh, this album. I think
I agree with a lot of what you said as to why
it edges out all the other Zeppelin covers. And
mostly it's one. This is our introduction to
Zeppelin. period is the coming out in the in
the summer of love kind of you know post woodstock
extra like real blues rocky different kind of
like introduction as to where we're where we're
going to go with this particular band and this
is kind of you know that's how my how my voice
got real high there this is kind of no this is
um this is a one of those very blues very very
heavy sludgy blues kind of good times bad times
dazed and confused real kind of sludgy blues
rock and then they kind of morph into that in
the rooms where they did a lot of uh like hobbit
imagery and jr tolkien and but maintain that
beautiful sound and the shock value i think to
tie it all back together of that album cover
is what kind of drives it to all right yeah this
is what started it all this is our introduction
to the band and they use that that iconic oh
the humanity moment to kind of launch their career
which is not throwing any shade on on the guys
or on the on the tragedy of that event but it
really kind of you know pulls you into it for
sure all right what are we going to follow up
this four pack of classic rock perfection Well,
let's stay in England, and we'll go with The
Who. And again, here's another pick an album.
You could go any direction with this. But I'm
going to go with Who's Next because of the controversy.
I think it's extremely recognizable with the
boys taking a pee on a monolithic piece of rock.
And again, just a solid album from track one
to track nine. Some of their hardest rocking
tunes on this album for sure. And with that,
which one are you going to pick for this playlist?
I want to go with behind blue eyes. Oh, I love
that song. It is a great acoustic start. And
then he gets into that bridge section where they're
just rocking out and picked up by Fred Durst
a few, a few years later. And I'm not a big Limp
Bizkit fan. I wasn't really a huge fan of Fred
Durst and Limp Bizkit. But I really think that
he did the cover version of this song, Justice.
So I'll give him some credit there. Give credit
where credit is due. And yeah, I think that's
a great song coming out of Babe, I'm Gonna Leave
You. Look, I love Limp Bizkit. And some of the
West Borland -inspired album covers that they've
done over the years, I think are... in a modern
way, iconic, because I spent so much time when
I was in college and just graduating, listening
to those new metal albums that were all the rage
at that point in time. But when you get it back
to The Who, man, you could have went with anything
on this. Won't Get Fooled Again was an obvious
pick. Baba O 'Reilly, for me, we talked about
this on Spellbinding Songs. This song always
leaves me with my jaw on the ground. But I mean,
realistically, this album is so stacked, you
could have picked any song and I would have went,
yeah, that works. But Behind Blue Eyes is an
undeniable staple. I won't say Limp Bizkit's
is better than The Who. It's certainly not in
any way, shape or form. But it introduced a lot
of people that were our age that didn't listen
to classic rock to The Who from Limp Bizkit's
version. So I do. think that these covers that
happened decades later, where it puts a spotlight
back on the original song that we all grew up
loving or that a lot of people grew up loving,
I think is a great thing. Yeah, definitely. And
following that up, I feel like it'd be silly
to pivot out of classic rock. Maybe we just continue
and make side one all classic rock and then take
side B elsewhere. So with that said. So many
options here. All right. All right. When my mom
was pregnant with me, she talked about listening
to an album every day during her pregnancy. And
that album was one that for some reason I took
a liking to when I was on this side of the universe
and growing up. And I spent a lot of time. Looking
at this album cover and I was mesmerized by the
beauty of Stevie Nicks and the arrogance of Mick
Fleetwood. If you'd call it hubris. Yeah, maybe
it's proud of himself. Let's go with rumors.
All right. I mean, the album is an absolute masterpiece.
We learned that it was a masterpiece again in
the nineties when they came back, that album
exploded. And then everyone went back and realized
how amazing rumors was. You had that nineties
tribute to rumors that included sister Hazel
and the cranberries and Elton John was called
legacy, incredible tribute album. This album
to me is literally ingrained in my DNA. My mom
listened to this every night when she was pregnant
with me. And to this day, I still there's not
a song on it. I don't love. It's one of my favorite
albums of all time. And that's what I was going
to ask. You consider this a perfect album? Oh,
God. Yeah, absolutely. Perfect. I mean, yeah.
OK, if I was going to deduct half a point, it
would be that Silver Springs wasn't on the original
rumors. All right. I think that's the only criticism
I can make is that they left the song off because
that song is so, when you listen to the deluxe
edition of the album and you hear it on there,
it's like, oh, wow, I can't picture this album
without it. So that's my only critique on the
album. That's how perfect it is. But to pick
the song to go for this playlist, and I'm going
to go from a playlisting perspective here because
you had Babe, I'm Going to Leave You and Behind
Blue Eyes. I'm going to go with The Chain. Nice.
Nice. That is, yeah, I would, that's where I
would have gone as well. I do think that this
is a perfect album. This is an album you listen
to with no skips. And the singles that came off
of this song that have been so far reaching that
they're still being used by social media influencer,
musician types, content creators, not necessarily
influencers, but. These songs just keep coming
back. And Go Your Own Way is one of my favorite
songs to play and sing in cover bands that I've
done a couple of them. And it's that syncopated
strum pattern that Lindsay has is just unreal.
Gold Dust Woman is a fantastic album. Closer.
I just can't say enough good stuff about this
album. And The Chain is an excellent, excellent
choice for a song. All right. So what are you
going to follow that up with? All right. Let's
start when rock and roll began. I think it's
time to talk about the elephant in the room and
we can get into the Beatles. And I think you
can't go anywhere with the Beatles without Abbey
Road. You totally scooped me. I mean, listen,
you can use Sergeant Pepper. You could use. the
white album, you could please, please me. All
of them just give you that image in your head.
But I think that when you talk about Abbey road,
when they're all crossing the, uh, with the,
the street and the crosswalk with the, with the
old cars behind them and, and, um, the side story,
the conspiracy theory was Paul dead. What does
it mean is, you know, with. the different meanings
of what they're dressed as in this. And that,
you know, John is barefoot. And then what does
that mean? And it's such an iconic album cover.
And I, I just, you'd be remiss if you left that
off of any list like this. I'm not going to lie,
dude, that was going to be my side closer for
this side. So you totally scooped me on this
one. Philip Bergman chimed in with revolver.
Another one you could easily go with the white
album. One of my favorite memes. Anytime I see
it, I always repost it is the one where it says,
pick up your limited edition t -shirt of the
Beatles white album for $49 .99. And it's literally
just a white t -shirt. I love that. There's something
about the Beatles knew how to capture people's
attention. And the white album did that in its
simplicity, in it being so plain. But Abbey Road,
I can't imagine. The amount of foot traffic that
street has to this day. How many times a day
do you think people are trying to recreate that
photo? Families, just single people. How is that
that they really should consider shutting that
section down and just making it a landmark? Because
so many people probably block traffic to make
those photo moments happen. And I swear, if I
ever get back to London again with the family,
that's going to be one of the first things I
do. I mean. How the hell can't you? You have
to. You're not a musician or a music fan if you
don't. So get over to London, clog the streets,
take it all down. Sorry to all our friends in
the UK listening. We're just being leaf peepers
like we would call the people up in New England
when you go up there and stare at leaves. That's
kind of the equivalent overseas as being the
Abbey Road peepers. That's right. That's right.
But even I mean, it's so iconic that even. Poor
people like me can't go to London. And we still
try to do it in crosswalks outside, you know,
outside the street in Chicago or in Atlanta or
New York City. You know, wherever there's a crosswalk,
people will. We'll try to do New York city. I
wouldn't recommend that. I was going to say,
if you're going barefoot in New York city, that's
a whole other set of problems. The fact that
you probably get hit by some taxi cab driver
who, you know, well now the toughest part of
this one, because Abbey road is another masterpiece.
Yes, absolutely. Um, what song carry that weight
is, is gotta be one of my favorite songs off
this, uh, off this album, but I'm, I'm going
to, I'm going to stick with the album starter.
I'm going to go with come together for this one.
Just because coming out of the chain, that's
a great dark turn on that. All right. All right.
Well, we got the Beatles in. So I guess now that
that's off the table, I'd better scoop the stones
before you do that next. The age old argument.
Yeah. And I think we need to save that for a
separate episode in and of itself. I think that
Beatles and Rolling Stones argument is a fun
discussion. for another time. But personally,
I'll just start the fire a little bit, a little
Kindle here. I'm a bigger Rolling Stones fan.
Don't at me. I'm sorry. I just love the Rolling
Stones. I got to see them for the first time
last year, and I'm so glad I was able to check
that off my list. But you think about iconic
album covers, Let It Bleed, Exile on Main Street,
Beggar's Banquet, the band cover, Some Girls.
Even Voodoo Lounge in the 90s. But when it all
boils down to it, I think we have to go with
Andy Warhol and Sticky Fingers. Oh, nice. When
you talk about the sex that came from rock and
roll in that era, this was definitely leaning
into that with the shot of the crotch and the
pants. And it's... Very typical of the weirdness
that kind of comes out in an Andy Warhol album
cover. I mean, you go all the way back to I'm
Still Swinging, which was an album that Joe Newman
put out that Andy Warhol made the album art for.
That's an interesting album art. Then you take
into consideration the Velvet Underground and
Nico with just the banana that you could peel
off. That was very Andy Warhol. Then you jump
into the 80s. You had Emotions in Motion by Bob
Seger and Aretha Franklin's 86 self -titled album.
All Andy Warhol. I'm not the biggest Velvet Underground
fan in the world. I respect the album. I respect
the art. And I feel like you can't have an album
art episode and not talk about Andy Warhol. So
I'm doing that through sticky fingers. And, oh
God, this is another one you could go in any
direction. Brown sugar. Can't you hear me knocking
scandal noted? Oh, you got to move bitch. But
coming out of come together, I'm going to go
with wild horses. Great. I mean, tying it into
the nineties, you have the Sunday's beautiful
version. That was incredible. And they used it
in that movie fear, but wild horses is one of
those songs that. repeatedly gets covered in
the country music scene over and over again.
And every time I hear it, I'm like, man, that's
so good. But then you go back and listen to the
original, which they played when I saw them.
Oh, great. At MetLife. There's just something
about this song that just makes the hair on my
arm stand up. And because we're going in and
out with this kind of like heavy and it's kind
of an ebb and flow, like a classic rock album
would after the chain has that big ending rocking
out. And then you have come together with kind
of bring it down a little bit more for wild horses.
No, it's great. It's this song was a friend of
mine when they got married. This was their first
dance. And I got to DJ that wedding was so having
that and playing this in cover band in the various
bands that I've been in just on nearly six minute
romp through, you know, the softer side of Mick,
you know, that kind of a thing. And it's a great.
A little bit of a soft left, right, on the direction
that we've gone in, but I think we needed a ballad
here. Coming out of that... Yeah. Hmm. Well,
you talked about Andy Warhol, and I kind of want
to talk about those kind of photos. Every band,
I think, does one of these where it's the members
of the band in a grid pattern. You know, the
Beatles had let it be. I mean, we talked about
Queen, too, which is not necessarily in the squared
off fashion, but in that essence. Right. Even
a play on that with Guns N' Roses, Appetite for
Destruction. And so but I think, you know, talking
about Andy Warhol and some classic kind of like
photography, I think Talking Heads Remain in
Light is a great album cover. It brings the four
members of the band and it kind of blots out
their faces in the red to kind of give it an
air of mystery, if you will. And it really catches
your eye. And again, I remember as a kid walking
into the record store and seeing that album and
thinking, oh, what's this about? I'm interested
to find out what this is about. And boy, am I
glad I did, because Once in a Lifetime is an
amazing, amazing song. And that's the song I'm
going to obviously, I'm going to go with the
obvious on the remain in light track for, for
the song. Well, you scooped me on the album cover,
but not on the song. Cause I would have chosen
when it comes to songs cross -eyed and painless,
but that's because I'm a big fish fan and I love
their cover of it. But I do think that this definitely,
there's a lot of talking heads album covers that
you could conceivably make a. argument for even
something like fear of music with just the ridges
on the album cover that to me, I remember seeing
that vinyl and holding it and feeling kind of
the texture on that album cover. That was something
different. Then you even jump into the eighties
and you have speaking tongues and little creatures
that are both very memorable for eighties album
covers. But I actually appreciate you going with
talking heads here, Jay, because you made my
side closer pretty easy. All right. You stole
the Beatles from me, which would have been an
obvious side closer for a side of classic rock.
But because you kind of leaned a little bit in
the new wave here with talking heads, I think
it's pretty obvious what I'm going to go here
to close the side. And some people might argue
this, including members of the band, because.
Elliot Easton and David Robinson are not fans
of this album cover, but I'm going with my favorite
album of all time, the Cars self -titled album,
the beautiful Natalia Medvedeva. She is just
gorgeous. Her smile is so infectious. And I could
get why some people might not understand why
this is in the discussion. But to me, I've talked
about this so many times. The Cars ushered in
a new era and a new genre of music. They were
one of the people at the forefront of it, making
new wave mainstream. And this album cover to
me is part of that defining moment. And yes,
there is a personal bias on this album. And I'm
okay with that because. I host the show and I
can make up the rules as I go along. That's right.
I have this one framed on my wall and there's
got to be some personal bias in this because
art, just like the music on the album, is very
subjective. But if you disagree with this one,
I'd love to hear which Cars album you like more.
I'm guessing a lot of people might say Candio
or Heartbeat City because I think both album
covers, all three of them, are iconic in and
of itself. And moving on, that's when David Robinson
started. designing the album art outside of the
record company who actually made the art for
the self -titled cars out now picking a song.
I'm using a loophole here because it's my show
and I can, and I am choosing bye -bye love moving
in stereo and all mixed up because at the end
of the day, those three songs are bridged together
on the album. If you drop them. Needle on the
vinyl after You're All I've Got Tonight. Those
three songs are intertwined as one. And I cannot
hear the opening to Bye Bye Love and not hear
Greg Hawk's sax at the end of All Mixed Up. To
me, it's one piece of music. I have it ripped
on my phone as one piece of music. I cannot listen
to any of those songs separately. I feel weird
when it happens. It feels just wrong. Even in
Fast Times at Ridgemount High, as much as I love
moving in stereo in that movie for some strange
reason, I don't know what that reason is, but
some odd reason. I have to hear it bookended
with Bye Bye Love and all mixed up. So closing
out Side A, The Cars, self -titled album. Fantastic.
Yeah, you've talked about that on a previous
episode, if I'm not mistaken. Probably about
500 previous episodes. Yes. But yeah, man, again,
another perfect album, I think. We're talking
about the origination of what effectively brought
New Wave to the United States and really turned
it into a very pop culture phenomenon. Moving
and stereo being used during the great swimming
pool scene and Judge Reinhold. Phoebe Cates became
a household name. What can I say? What can you
say? But which became lampooned in the something
about Mary Stiller sometime later. Great way
to close the album. I love it. I love it. Well,
there you have it, folks. Side A of the ultimate
iconic album art mixtape, which consists of Queen's
News of the World and Spread Your Wings, David
Bowie's Aladdin Sane and the Gene Genie, Pink
Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Great Gig in
the Sky. Let's Zeppelin's one and babe, I'm going
to leave you the who's who's next. And behind
blue eyes, Fleetwood Mac's rumors and the chain
Rolling Stone's sticky fingers and wild horses
talking heads remain in light and once in a lifetime
and the cars, the cars with bye -bye love moving
in stereo and all mixed up. Head over to my weekly
mixtape .com to view all the album covers and.
Hear all the songs we've discussed in this mix
through the gallery and playlist embedded on
the episode page. And now, Jay, I get to kick
things off on side B. And side A, I'd say, was
a pretty good snapshot of classic rock album
covers. So for side B, we're going to go, or
at least I'm going to start by going off the
beaten path. You could 180 me right back into
classic rock land, if you will. We can't talk
iconic album art and not talk Metallica. Oh,
yeah. We could talk about Kill Them All, Ride
the Lightning, my favorite Metallica album, Injustice
for All. You could even talk the Black Album,
which is the flip of the Beatles' The White Album
discussion. Right. I mean, Metallica is known,
especially in those first five albums, for iconic
album art. But I think none is more iconic than
Master of Puppets. That graveyard with the hands
and the puppet strings hanging down. Yeah, I
got chills. I actually have a 3D album art of
that album cover. It's a 3D art piece based on
the album cover. I love this album cover so much.
And in terms of songs, because it's the start
of Side A, there's no other choice I can use
but battery. Start off really calm and quiet
and then just kick you in the face with intensity.
And I guess that little classical bridge will
be a way to bring us into side B and ease us
out of the classic rock world into something
a little heavier. That's fantastic. Uh, great
album. Metallica has so many great songs like
that though, where like your favorite Metallica
album is mine as well. And just as for all, uh,
one comes screaming to mind in that pun intended
because of the, uh, the gorgeous acoustic intro.
And then the, build into that hammering end of
darkness. Imprison me. So good. Uh, based on,
uh, that song, by the way, based on Johnny got
his gun, a novel, um, which I read in 10th grade,
I want to say, but wow. Yeah. Batteries. Great
tune. Uh, great pick. Okay. Let's stay there.
Uh, let's go with iron maiden. I know, uh, one
of your, one of your Patreon supporters had mentioned.
Iron Maiden. And again, you could go with Power
Slave. I agree wholeheartedly. Power Slave is
a great album with the pyramids and the imagery
there. I'm going to go with Number of the Beast,
though, because that is the album that I was
introduced to Maiden with. And it also contains
some of my favorite Iron Maiden songs to not
only listen to, but to play as well. Run to the
Hills. I love soaring on that vocal when I play
that song. Hollowed Be Thy Name, Number of the
Beast, obviously, 22 Acacia Avenue, The Prisoner.
Great, great songs. And I think for the song
that I'm going to pick off of that, I think I'm
going to go with Run to the Hills. Nice. And
Jay, I don't know if you did this on purpose
or not, but the synergy. Between the puppet strings
on Metallica's master of puppets and the puppet
strings that Eddie's using to control Satan in
the album cover. I feel like that's a theme here.
And I love that. I love that. Yeah, totally not.
Totally not coincidental. I did that on purpose.
Okay. And I love the fact that Eddie is in this
discussion because when you talk about iconic
album covers. If you're into metal music, I feel
like you can't have that conversation without
Eddie being in the discussion. And along with
Eddie, when I think of Eddie, I immediately also
think of Vic Rattlehead from Megadeth. And following
up Metallica and Iron Maiden, we are definitely
going to keep this metal thing going. Rust in
peace. Fantastic. All of the world leaders around
it. It gets a little political, but it's still
Vic Rattlehead holding up the kryptonite. You've
got that body of the alien inside the tube. To
me, Peace Cells is also an incredible album cover
and including some of the later ones that they've
done. Dystopia, I thought was a really cool album
cover. Absolutely. And Megadeth and Vic is just
as synonymous as Iron Maiden and Eddie. And I
feel like we'd be doing a disservice to not talk
about them back to back, similar to the Beatles
and Rolling Stones on Side A. And as far as music
goes, God, this is another tough one. I can go
with the title track, Holy Wars, The Punishments
Do, Tornado of Souls, Take No Prisoners. I'm
going to go obvious, Hanger 18. Hanger 18. I
mean, battery run to the hills. It's got to be
hangar 18, right? Yes, definitely. I had a great
opportunity in 1999 to cover Woodstock in Rome.
We lovingly dubbed Rome stock and got to interview
Dave Mustaine and just rift on this record, particularly
for a couple of questions. And then, you know,
talked about the newer stuff that they were doing.
And it was I mean, that is. Check that box, right?
That's a dream come true. Wait a minute. All
the years we've been podcasting and you haven't
called in a favor to get. Oh, I wish. Dave on.
This isn't another Donny Osmond moment for me.
He'll remember you, Jay. Sure. You had board
shorts on. I am sure of it. There it is. Yes.
Yeah. Dave, remember the guy that came over and
he had the board shorts on and WSYR 194 FM t
-shirt on? Yeah. He's going to be like, yup.
How could you forget that? Yeah. You'll never
forget that. Please lose this number. All right.
Trifecta of metal. What do you got next? Let's
take a little bit of a veer to the left on this.
and go heavy punk. I think, you know, we, we've
been doing a lot of like classic stuff, seventies,
eighties, even, you know, in, in early nineties,
heavy metal. Let's talk about some alternative
and, and the, the emergence, the reemergence
of like punk and how that came into pop punk.
And I want to talk about the offspring. Oh, smash.
Nice. With the album art. Being of the Human
Skeleton, and this was kind of my introduction
to this group back when I was programming the
college radio station, and we'd flip formats,
and it was just, you know, this came out, and
it was just rocking all the way through. Wow.
I mean, you've got such great songs on that that
were huge radio hits. Come Out and Play, obviously,
was the big one. Self -Esteem is one of my favorite
songs. Gotta Get Away. Where can we go with this?
I know where I would go, but I'm curious to see
what you pick. Um, let's see coming on a hanger
18. I'll go with bad habit. Yes. Yeah. I think
that's a good call. That is the correct answer.
Drivers. So rude. Such attitude. I love it. It's
excellent. Yeah. Coming out of metal. That to
me makes the perfect ease out of metal into punk
from that album. But now you've opened up Pandora's
box, Jay, because now we're in the punk universe.
Yes. All intentional, friend. We got to shake
this up a little bit. Yeah, and that we are.
And I mean, obviously, when you think punk, there's
the Ramones self -titled album. Bad Religion
has some incredible album covers, Social Distortion.
But when I think about punk album covers, I have
to. go to the one that immediately jumps into
my mind with the logo being modeled after Elvis
Presley's album and the iconic image of Paul
Simon and smashing his base. There is only one
on the stage at the Palladium in New York city.
It's London calling by the clash. I mean, when
you think about an album cover that tells you,
this is what you're about to hear. This says
it. And again, Train in Vain, Death or Glory,
The Guns of Brixton, Brand New Cadillac. This
album is just perfect. But I'll go title track.
I'll do opening track and title track, London
Calling, just like I did with Battery on Master
of Puppets. It sets the tone for what you're
about to hear. Could have gone with Revolution
Rock as well. Another, you know, just kind of,
hey, this is what you're in for. Buckle up. But
what a, you know, what a great introduction into
the punk world. And then, you know, obviously
the clash kind of separated out a little bit
and did a big audio dynamite. And we had a whole
bunch of different things that train in vain
was kind of a departure for the rest of the album
as well. Right. And that kind of sparked off
where Joe Strummer was going to take the band
and in the future. And, but I, I really agree
with you on this London calling. You can't leave
that off a list. One of the most. iconic punk
images ever maybe maybe absolutely uh i mean
it describes exactly uh what the punk movement
was and again you know you mentioned uh and how
that influenced you know without the clash without
black flag you don't get half of that stuff green
day bowling for soup you don't get blink 182
uh which is you know more of the the pop fun
side of things but uh you know Good music is
good music, man. You can't go wrong. Every single
one of those that you just mentioned could easily
go into this list. I mean, I think about Green
Day's Dookie as an iconic album cover. I mean,
yeah, a lot of people are going to think that
iconic album art is mainly in classic rock. And
I like where we're going here on side two, kind
of dipping into some different genres here. What
do you got now? Because we're starting the second
half of side B. I'm going to feel really badly
if I don't do this, but I'm going to feel really
badly if I do. Okay. I'm going to, uh, take us
completely off the road here and I'm going with,
uh, I'm going to go into, uh, hold your breath.
Uh, I'm going to go into a new genre that we
haven't covered yet that we really need to cover.
And that is hip hop and R and B. Thank you. Yeah.
I think it's time to get some love in here for
that genre. And growing up and, and, uh, little,
everybody was related to each other town in upstate
New York. You know, I took to nineties hip hop.
Like it was, it was insane how well I can still
perform some of these songs and people look at
me like I'm crazy. Uh, but I loved a tribe called
quest and theory. So I'm going to put that right
here. It is a very hard right from the clash.
But I think, you know, how we how we keep that
tied in is the fact that that genre in that time
period was kind of punk in its own right. And
it did an amazing tectonic shift in American
society and in American culture, you know, calling.
Those fights into the spotlight, public enemy,
tribe, and even more of the West Coast stuff
that was coming out. And getting right up into
Jay -Z and Biggie Smalls and Cypress Hill. And
it all started with guys in the corner grousing
about the fight that they were in. that's iconic
in and of itself to me in terms of the contribution
to the music scene that R &B and that hip hop
genre brought. Punk was counterculture and hip
hop was counterculture. And from that standpoint,
musically, yes, the genre might be a little bit
of a pivot. But I can't tell you how many playlists
I have that combine hip hop songs and rock songs
and punk songs together because it's a vibe.
It's not necessarily a genre anymore. I work
out to hip hop songs all the time. Absolutely.
Ice Cube's Wicked goes right into any song by
Korn or Limp Bizkit or into Metallica and then
into Bad Religion. They all get me hyped up and
excited to do whatever I'm doing. So I feel that
from a. musical perspective as well as from a
counterculture perspective yeah you you're saying
the exact same thing that i was trying to say
but far more eloquently than well what's the
song are you choosing from low end theory because
to me that's the hardest question of them all
oh man uh i mean scenario is a great tune uh
was my introduction of course to the to the band
off mtv but uh i would be remiss if i didn't
go check the rhyme i think that's that's the
way you go with it Hell yeah, man. An undeniable
classic album. My favorite Tribe album. So glad
they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, deservedly
so. They changed the face of hip hop forever.
Absolutely. And what they did on this album is
just nothing short of masterful. And I am going
to follow that up because I talked about just
now the fact that I love mixing rock. and rap
and punk all into my playlists together. And
I think one of the reasons I enjoyed doing that
was because of my love for this next album. So
yes, it's going to fall a little bit into the
hip hop side of things like you're doing with
a tribe called quest, but it's also going to
harken back to side a and some of our classic
rock roots, because this band sampled Led Zeppelin
a lot on this album. And you bring in Rick Rubin.
When he's young and hungry and trying everything
under the sun and throwing spaghetti at the wall
to see what sticks. And you get a masterpiece
like the Beastie Boys License to Ill. Talking
about an album cover that I stared at on cassette,
then on CD, and then on vinyl. I owned all three.
Now I only own the CD and the vinyl. My cassette,
sadly, is no longer with me. that album art of
the smashed airplane in the side of the mountain,
where if you hold it into a mirror, the number
on the side spells out, eat me and everything.
It signifies like a broken joint in the cover
as well. It's so symbolic and so intriguing.
And this, I'd say continues that mindset of when
you look at the album art and then you hear the
music. it does tie together really well. And
the fact that Eminem presented his Kamikaze album
using a play on this album art. So arguably the
greatest, if not one of the greatest hip hop
artists of all time paying homage to this album
says to me that the album art inspired future
generations and deserves a spot on this list.
Now, when it comes to songs, And look, I completely
understand why the band distanced themselves
from girls as they matured and got older. They
even referenced it in Sure Shot. And, you know,
look, young people say stupid things sometimes,
and maybe it was even a hindsight is 2020 moment
for them. I also understand that the song Fight
for Your Right to Party didn't go over with the
message that the band had in mind, and people
actually took it as a party song. And, you know,
some of those things happen. But at the end of
the day, it's so tough to pick something on this
album. Brass Monkey, The New Style, Paul Revere,
Slow and Low. There's so much to go from here.
Then there's the fact that Rhyming and Stealing
is one of my favorite Beastie Boys songs ever.
However, No Sleep Till Brooklyn has to be my
pick. Because of my wife and my story of when
we were dating, driving up to New Hampshire,
this song came on as we were crossing over the
then Tappan Zee Bridge. And I made a mention
that Kerry King from Slayer plays the guitar
solo on No Sleep Till Brooklyn. Three hours later,
we were passing the Holyoke Mall in Massachusetts,
ready for a pit stop. So we pull off into the
mall, go have lunch and walk around. And I said,
by the way, if you could tell me who played the
guitar solo in Beastie Boys, No Sleep Till Brooklyn,
I will buy you an engagement ring right here
and right now. That didn't go over so well. But
we are married 20 something years later. So I
ended up doing it eventually. But at the time,
that became an inside joke between the two of
us. And anytime the Beastie Boys came on, she
would be like, really, really, really. And just
recently, Kerry King. made an appearance at WrestleMania.
And she turned to me and she said, the no sleep
till Brooklyn guy, huh? And I said, finally.
There it is. There it is. 20 something years
later, this has paid off. This story has a conclusion.
So that is my song choice for tonight. I love
it. That's fantastic. Yeah, you're absolutely
right. This is another perfect album. You could
have picked any song off of that. And again,
girl scandal noted. But yeah, rhyming and stealing
is a great one. And I really like No Sleep Till
Brooklyn as a choice on that. That's coming out
of Tribe. That'll work. And I could have easily
went with Paul's Boutique as well. Another iconic
album cover, especially for those living in the
five boroughs in New York and New Jersey, the
tri -state area. Sure. People know that location.
And that was iconic as well. However. I spent
so much time staring at the J card of License
to Ill when you spread it open and then like,
you know, really squinted at those song lyrics
because they were tiny. I think that's why I
have eye problems now, but I digress. Track eight,
Jay, what do we got coming out of metal, punk,
hip hop? And then the mix, a mix of hip hop and
rock, I think will dovetail us back onto the
rails of classic rock. And let's. one of my favorite
albums my favorite perfect albums 1976 is boston
self -titled oh of course i had this in my list
for side a and we didn't get there and i was
already feeling guilt about it so thank you for
writing this wrong jay i have to ask this might
be a personal question how old were you when
you discovered that it was an upside down guitar
on the Boston album cover and not a spaceship.
I think it was, I was in high school for sure.
I'm pretty sure when that moment hit, because
let's be honest, we all looked at that album
for many years before we realized it. And then
one of your buddies came over and it's like,
is that a guitar? And it's like, yeah the big
uh the how i met your mother the glass shattering
but all of their albums right were um were a
theme and variation on that so don't look back
had the biodome in the center the sound hole
and then third stage was uh was the new modern
electric guitar with the biodome at the at the
pickups and that was theme and variation this
is an album for me had i bought a pinky tip worth
of the talent that brad delp had vocal talent
i mean the notes that that guy could stratospherically
just him and uh the lead singer steelheart like
i don't want to butcher his name right now so
you know every time i heard it there's something
i could inspire to and when you and i met 25
years ago we went out to some karaoke bar in
jersey somewhere and you said all right do more
than a feeling and i thought oh god here we go
and i nailed it i was really proud of myself
but uh i could not i could not replicate that
not not anymore for a song i there again perfect
album where do you go every song was a hit every
song yep let's see coming out of coming out of
the beastie boys with no sleep till brooklyn
I have a pick for sure. I don't know. I want
to see what you go with, but I have an obvious
one. I love foreplay long time. Yeah, I really
do. All right, let's go with it. Sorry, I'm swaying
the decision there, but oh my God, that opening.
Smokin' is another great driving blues rock song,
though. It's so good. There's not a bad song
on the album. No, definitely, definitely. But
yeah, let's stick with foreplay long time on
that one, just because it's anthemic. All right,
we each have one pick left, Jay. And for my last
pick of the evening, I'm going to go with a concept
more so than a singular album cover. Because
I guess if at first you don't succeed, try, try,
try, try, try again. Not that there was a lack
of success the first time this happened. So the
first time is going to be the one I'm going to
go with. However. When you recreate an album
cover five different times after the original,
I think it means you like the concept. And when
Weezer did the blue album, the green album, the
red album, the white album, the teal album and
the black album, it's a concept that to me is
so simple. But in terms of standing out, people
talk about. the Weezer color albums more than
anything that outside of Pinkerton. Yeah. People
talk about one Pinkerton's the one album that
really for Weezer fans jumps out in the conversation.
But otherwise it's like, Oh, I'm a blue album
guy. I'm a green album person. Some people do
like the red album. Obviously the white teal
and black albums have love and hate a teal being
all cover songs. Right. I love, but I can understand
why people don't like it because they were a
little color by numbers for the cover songs.
However, the blue album is what started this
off. I thought about going with Nirvana's Nevermind
here because that's another icon. I mean, Jay,
my brain, I'm thinking about. grunge and i'm
thinking about the 90s and i'm thinking about
even simple albums like counting crows august
and everything after sure rage against the machine
self -titled album all these iconic album covers
we haven't even scratched the surface yet yeah
and so i guess just for the sake of throwing
in something 90s just we have the offspring smash
and we have a tribe called quests the low -end
theory but i wanted something that was a distinctly
90s vibe and a distinctly 90s moment. And I think
the Blue album, in its simplicity, captures that.
Maybe as much as Nevermind, but not quite to
the stratospheric heights because the Nevermind
album cover has become pop lore over and over
and over again over the years, especially with
the kids suing Nirvana and then suing them again
and then going out and doing appearances but
suing them again. I don't know. I mean... Fighting
the hand that feeds you. Yeah, I mean, whatever.
With all that said, Weezer's Blue Album and...
Surf Wax America. Oh, beautiful. I know it's
weird musically coming out of foreplay and long
time, but I just love that song so, so much.
There wasn't really any way to kind of come back
unless you wanted to go back into the pure classic
rock. I was going to say, maybe Say It Ain't
So might. fit musically better after foreplay
and long time. Cause it has a little bit of that
classic rock edge to it. Sure. Especially in
the, with the chorus, but surf wax America is
just such a fun song. And for my last pick of
the night, I want that to have a little fun.
I love it. I blue album is one of my favorite
albums of all time. Favorite out. Definitely
one of the favorite albums to come out of the
nineties. It holds a great meaning for me. Again,
you know, that was we were celebrating the the
format flip went out to a bar up on the hill
that on the SU Hill that has closed and opened.
And I won't mention it by name. It's closed and
open so many times because of reasons. And let's
say so. But we were all sitting in that in that
bar that night and Undone the Sweater song came
on. And we were just having a pitcher sangria
and having a great time. And in, you know, that
is a fantastic album. Great pick. Um, leaving
me with the big clothes. Yeah. You have to close
this up tonight, man. And these are, I mean,
for, for all intents and purposes, 19 incredible
game changing album covers. And you have to put
the cherry on top of this one. No pressure. No.
This is easy. One album cover to rule them all.
Yeah, yeah. You know, I'm going to end this the
way I started it. 1969, a group that blended
jazz, rock, and a little bit of funk, maybe a
little R &B in there. And then all of a sudden
hooked up with David Foster and became what Brian
would consider the worst ballad band on the face
of the earth. Although I disagree with that.
I love Look Away, man. I love Look Away. Yeah.
Chicago Transit Authority, the first album. Wow.
Again, it's a hard right coming out of Weezer.
Yeah, a little bit. What a great way to, you
know, it's the album that started. That band,
again, it's one of those buckle up, bumpy ride,
this is what you're in for kind of thing. This
is unlike anything that the 82 to 89 era produced.
And again, I throw no shade at David Foster.
I think he's a brilliant songwriter, good producer.
But I think that Chicago Transit Authority is
an absolute gem of an album. And it really did
its job to introduce us to... robert lamb and
peter satira terry kath uh rest in peace and
the greatest horn section like amazing amazing
music to come off of that as for songs um how
do you where do you go uh from from wheezers
surf wax america where do you go south california
purples maybe um Or just stick with the greats
and go with, does anybody really know what time
it is? I think that's where we close. Wow. Unbelievable
way to close. The painted shingle is what the
album is titled on Chicago's website. And I remember
when you and I were talking about this, when
you were living in New Jersey, we were. driving
around talking about Chicago because that's the
kind of stuff you and I do. Basically, all this
episode is when I bring you on is just you and
I having any conversation we would have normally
in the car just recorded. That's how TuneStyles
was born. Exactly. We were talking about Chicago's
80s stuff and you said, you know, it's such a
180 from what they did on the Chicago Transit
Authority. And at the time, even though my parents
own the album. The only songs that I really remembered
was Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
And Beginnings, I think, was the other one that
really stuck out at me. But then you put on Introduction,
and I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot how amazing
this album is. And Jay, I don't know if you've
heard it, but online, you can hear it on any
of the streaming sites, as well as there's a
CD and vinyl version. There's a 50th anniversary
remix of the album. And if you want to hear this
like you've never heard it before with instrument
separation, that you feel like you're surrounded
by the Chicago transit authority. You need to
look this remix up. It is on frigging believable
on the same level as some of the stuff that Steven
Wilson did for the Jethro Tull remixes. When
did that come out? A couple of years ago, the
50th anniversary. So I want to say it was 2019.
Yeah. Yeah. That had to be okay. I'll have to
check that out. I have that, that missed my radar
completely, but yeah, when I moved back to New
York in 2016, I kind of got, you know, reintroduced
to that album, if you will, by one of my ops,
who's a big fan of music and was playing that
song while cleaning out one of the storage closets
and playing that album. And it was just, I was
like, oh, yeah, Steve Wynwood influences on I'm
a Man. Just amazing, amazing writing, amazing
musicianship, musicality. You know, it's late
60s, early 70s production. You can't analog production,
right? But I imagine that judging that up in
the 50th anniversary release has got to sound
super good. And they don't brick wall it. They
don't compress it too much. It sounds very open
and very cool. It's an experience. Let me just
say that. Yeah, I'm going to find that right
after we're done here. Well, let me get you out
of here then. There, folks, concludes side B
of the ultimate iconic album art episode, which
kicked off with Metallica's Master of Puppets
and Battery, Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast
and Run to the Hills, Megadeth's Rust in Peace
and Hanger 18, Offspring's Smash and Bad Habit,
The Clash's London Calling with the title track,
A Tribe Called Quests, The Low End Theory with
Check the Rhyme, Beastie Boys, Licensed to Ill
with No Sleep Till Brooklyn, Boston, Self -Titled
with Foreplay and Long Time, Weezer's Blue Album,
Green Album, Red Album, White Album, Teal Album,
and Black Album, but going with Surf Wax America
from the Blue Album, and Chicago Transit Authority's
Self -Titled with Does Anybody Really Know What
Time It Is. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com
to view all the album covers and hear all the
songs we've discussed in this mix. through the
gallery and playlist embedded on the episode
page. Jay, once again, I think it goes without
saying that there will be a volume two for this.
We are not doing this back to back the way we
did a few months ago with fictitious bands. So
we'll have to put a pin in that for now. But
if you are out there listening and there is an
iconic album cover that you feel Jay and I missed.
chime in, email me at myweeklymixtape at gmail
.com or hit me up on the social media channels
at My Weekly Mixtape and let me know what album
you would include on this list of iconic album
covers. And Jay, as always, thank you so much
for joining me on My Weekly Mixtape. Look forward
to the next time, man. Thanks for having me,
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