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william@williamtuttlewho· 1d

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william@williamtuttlewho· 29d

top '68 LPs #223: Wonderwall Music by George Harrison. The first solo Beatle album sounds like a 2010 lo-fi Bandcamp release. The Wikipedia page is more interesting than the record itself. “Dream Scene” is the obvious standout, a preview of “Revolution 9."

the cover for wonderwall music is neat. on the left side is a drawing of a stuffed-shirt-type man with an umbrella, a bowler hat, and tie. on the right is a scene of young black-haired women bathing in a pond with houses in the distant background. in between them is a brick wall with one brick missing, an empty space too high for the man to peer thru. what really puts the album art over the top is the typeface used for the title, placed above the image in a very 2012 way. it's super clean. a+ album art.

william@williamtuttlewho· 29d

the blair witch project (1999)

william@williamtuttlewho· Jul 8

Oh look, there's Mr. McConnell now, waving us over for lemonade!

william@williamtuttlewho· Jul 7

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell returns to the Senate floor

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 30

top '68 LPs #224: Hardwater. This is completely one-note (that note is BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD), but if you are inclined to enjoy California stoner rock with close harmonies, this might speak to you.

This is a seriously cool album cover. I'm not huge on the font and the kerning and the letter size - I feel like the cover is busier than it needs to be and it's entirely the fault of the HARDWATER title appearing four times - but the colors are perfect and the band portraits are hilarious, especially the bloke with the sunglasses. perfect teen rock star shit. i can't believe this is an album cover produced in the '60s - its design-forward composition places it firmly in the early 70s.

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 28

top '68 LPs #225: Transformer by David Stoughton This xxxperimental album has been included on lists with titles like “Top 50 Albums We Found in the Ditch Covered in Pig Diarrhea,” but it’s not too fun to sit through. Its kinkiest aspect is the inclusion of folk/pop tunes. Cover’s pretty funny.

it's our boy david stoughton photographed in front of the sun --- or was he???? were the tree branches superimposed over his face behind the sun and his head strategically placed in front of THAT sun? questions abound. he looks like a fucking nerd either way

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 26

top '68 LPs #226: Wake Up … It’s Tomorrow by Strawberry Alarm Clock Psychedelic lounge albums were a-dime-a-dozen at the time, but the ‘Larm Clock had the chops to construct a seven-minute track that holds yr attention (“Curse of the Witches”). It craps out during side B.

this feels like two concept artists were each given half of the cover. there's a sketchy, colorful painting on the left featuring the bandmembers being blasted into an autumnal sunset by the sun. and then there's an illustration of a grim-faced man with a long beard, carefully drawn with thick lines. the background is black for some reason. it's a bad cover, I don't like looking straight at it.

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 25

top '68 LPs #227: Child Is Father to the Man by Blood, Sweat & Tears Occupies the intersection between proto-funk, pop, blues, and lounge jazz. Their first LP gives us one great original (“I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know”) and one good cover (Harry Nilsson’s “Without You”).

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 25

top '68 LPs #228: Something Special by Lee Hazlewood The tunes run the gamut from blah blues workouts to rip-offs of Hazlewood’s previous songs to open-mouthed three-chord country. The lyrics are hangover stupid; you can call out the rhymes as they occur. For serious Hazlewood fans only.

i either love this or hate it or maybe I'm just shrugging at it. It's a tanned Hazlewood with mildly graying hair and a nice thick mustache looking into the camera in some kind of public park setting. he's wearing a khaki corduroy sweater or something with a black collar. definitely low-effort. he looks like he's covered in barbecue sauce, like he's been smoked over the course of an afternoon

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 25

top '68 LPs #229: Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake by Small Faces Often hailed as a classic, but this listener thinks it’s try-hard, using too many phasing effects, bird noises, literal bells ‘n’ whistles, etc. etc. I miss the band that recorded "Itchycoo Park."

the album art is pretty dope here, looking like 1910-1920 package illustration. the record was originally shipped in round jackets.

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 25

top '68 LPs #230: The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack by The Nice Pretentious nonsense. “Rondo,” an eight-minute piece structured around a simple bass part, sounds like jazz played by prep-school kids, with wandering guitar and keyboard solos, but no killer riff, no vocals, no passion, no point.

cover for this album which I don't want to name because the name is long and annoying. this is just a photo of the band against a black background. it looks better than it should. i like the colorful jelly-bean typeface for the album title. it's unfortunate that the one bloke's arm is cut off, cheapening the effect. whatever, it's fine 5/10 album cover

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 21

happy father's day to the only father i recognize, tv's keith mars

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 21

top '68 LPs #231: The Second by Steppenwolf I understand why Steppenwolf remains an iconic late ‘60s rock band (clean, unfussy hard rock sound & two megahits), but they sound like marionettes who perform at a family restaurant. The suite on side B is sort of neat. Whatever.

there were a lot of lps with covers in which bandmembers looked down at the camera (see count five's 'psychotic reaction'), but this one takes it to another level. the bandmembers are in purple and black, while the background is a white star radiating a sort-of rainbow (yellow, green, and blue - missing the other colors). the band's name surrounds them, printed on every edge. it's too busy.

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 19

top '68 LPs #232: Two Virgins by John Lennon & Yoko Ono. John wanted to be respected as a “real” artist, so he turned snippets of conversation, found music, piano noodling, etc. etc. into a commercial product. This isn't casual listening, but rather a landmark weirdo LP that holds a strange power.

so the actual cover is a photo of the two of them naked as jaybirds, but the album was released in most countries in a paper sleeve with two little cutouts - one for john & yoko's faces and another for the title "two virgins." i generally like seeing naked people, but john and yoko were not two of the top go-to naked people, so I like the bagged version more. it's a neat design in and of itself.

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 19

top '68 LPs #233: You’ve Come This Way Before - Nancy Priddy. Nancy Priddy (Christina Applegate’s mom!) presents what can only be described as 10 false starts, each one shifting gears more often than Steve McQueen in Bullitt. Is this folk? Chamber pop? Adult contemporary? You decide!

standard '60s album cover, with denim-clad Priddy sitting cross-legged on ... what is that? it's not grass, it couldn't be water, but it's gray and dappled and seemingly goes on forever. in fact, other than her name and the title (purple and blue, respectively) the cover is mostly gray. maybe she escaped earth and was floating in some indeterminable liminal space

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 19

top '68 LPs #234: Presenting Isaac Hayes. Recorded at the behest of Stax executive Al Bell (concocting their “Soul Explosion” of ‘68), who probably said, “Wait, one of our best songwriters can sing? Prepare the recording booth!” Feels like a homework assignment.

the cover for the lp is bad. they did a photoshoot with hayes in a coat and tails, and this image is a closeup of him holding a top hat and cane and wearing outrageous silver cufflinks. the typography feels like an afterthought. feels like one of several dozen debut albums sitting in a "sale" bin

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 18

This is my favorite car I ever owned. I would spend happy minutes quietly admiring its boxy compact lil ass. Cars today aren't built to be beautiful

Red 93 Buick Regal, a beautiful grandma car

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 13

Infamous garfield "alone" storyline from the late 80s

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 10

top '68 LPs # 235: For the Sake of the Song by Townes Van Zandt. Absurdly bad production mars Van Zandt’s debut, but it can’t completely obscure the strength of his original songs. The best cuts are stripped to the bone, and the worst are slathered in thick, syrupy Phil Spector bullshit.

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 10

top '68 LPs #236: Children of the Future by Steve Miller Band. Another melting pot of genres, this one in particular borrowing liberally from the Moody Blues and Cream. Each side’s tracks blend and flow into one another, so it’s too bad that side B turns into endless anonymous blues-rock.

this one's hard to describe. pink, blue, and orange are the dominant colors. the band is center-set, high-contrast orange and navy blue. the band name is orange and yellow above the photo, looking like chalkboard art, very handwritten, sort of Old West style. there are cacti on the pink ground below the photo and half-circles bubbling out of the earth. i just now noticed the green splotches in the blue "sky." why the artist crowded the margins so much is anyone's guess. it's not a good cover, to be honest. 4/10

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 10

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 9

top '68 LPs # 237: It’s Been a Long Long Time by The Hep Stars The Stars hail from Sweden and have a guileless, lobotomized sound. Their fourth album was intended to be their international breakout, so they sacked the band and hired session guys to cut psychedelic cover songs. Bright. Clean. Dull!

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 8

top '68 LPs #238: The Beat Goes On by Vanilla Fudge Shadow Morton forced the Fudgies to record a concept LP featuring sound collages, excerpts of Churchhill and FDR speeches, classical music, bloodless pop covers, interviews with the band, and readings from the bible. It's terrible (a must-listen).

the album cover is really poor, lots of black with an ELO-looking symbol in the middle with the four bandmember's faces printed on it north-south and east-west. They're each a different color. I like some aspects of this, but it looks like a kid made it. There's handwriting on it in different languages. I'm sure that means something.

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 8

top '68 (not '69, sheesh) LPs #239: The Power of the True Love Knot by Shirley Collins. You’re going to need to be in a very specific mood to listen to 40 minutes of Collins’ untrained, childlike singing accompanied by her sister on the five-string dulcimer. But if you're there, this is spot-on.

the original cover of the LP (I understand a newer one is circulating now. it's shirley holding some kind of complicated-looking string instrument with a heart-shaped sound hole. she's among dry, brittle-looking bushes and weeds wearing a modest black dress with a blue and yellow flower design. it's a turtleneck dress. there's some psychedelic/old-timey text with her name and the album title and then a lot of room given to the track listing and a credit for her sister Dolly.

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 5

top '69 LPs #240: David Ackles self-titled. This is a surprisingly subdued LP given the musicians involved - guitarist Danny Weis and bassist Jerry Penrod were original members of heavy rockers Iron Butterfly, while Michael Fonfara went on to work with Lou Reed. Love the dramatic album cover.

ackles, out of focus, stands in a dark room staring at a cracked window, which is in focus in the foreground. very moody, very writerly, the guy might be wearing a cardigan, but who can tell?

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 5

top '69 LPs #241: Crown of Creation by Jefferson Airplane. For a band that continued to exist under various names and configurations for 45 more years, Jefferson Airplane sounds utterly cooked on their fourth LP. The songs just aren’t there.

this is a semi-disaster of a cover, depicting a nuclear explosion with bandmembers pasted into it somewhat haphazardly. the colors are all orange and yellow, but the title is green for some reason? dunno, everyone was stoned

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 4

top '69 LPs #242: The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink by Janis Ian. Ian’s ‘70s records defined my single-hipster-drinking-three-dollar-red-wine-alone-at-home twenties (and, let’s be honest, thirties), but her third album isn’t good! At all! I'd be hard-pressed to remember a single song on it.

cover for the album. janis is standing outside a sherlock holmes type residence dressed like sherlock holmes, presenting as masculine. the cover is the best thing about the record tbh

william@williamtuttlewho· Jun 3

top 1969 LPs #243: Ultimate Spinach. Strung-out 20-somethings must have had had major epiphanies tripping to this, but it sounds like novelty music today. Choice lyric: “I went down to the draft house and said, ‘you guys are nuts/Killing people just ain't right.’” Right on, brother! Speak it!

cover of ultimate spinach. predictably, there is spinach. it's bluish-green with a burst of gold in the middle on an off-white background. stupid.

william@williamtuttlewho· May 20

244. Nazz. Here, baby Todd Rungren farts out his first assterpiece. Listen closely and you can hear the groundbreaking singer-songwriter-blue-eyed-soul-soft-rock stew just starting to cook, but it’s all poorly-written or sloppily-arranged. But sure, let him cook.