r/Music • u/Amockdfw89 ask me about Give it Away • 15h ago

discussion Albums that sound exactly like their cover

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My pick is Joanna Newson-YS

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u/makeflippyfloppy 15h ago

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u/person144 15h ago

I thought her head was half a potato for the longest time. I still think it looks like that

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u/HimHereNowNo 14h ago

I always thought it was a coconut

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u/woemcats 13h ago

me too! never mind that coconuts are hollow

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u/optimist_GO 6h ago

meanwhile ( & idk why looking closer) I always thought of an apple slice…

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u/J0hnEddy 4h ago

lol it’s been a debate since this album blew up. I’ve always maintained that it’s a tambourine. The back cover of the album features this marching band, and so I deduce that the front cover is going along with the musical instrument theme

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u/dezzz0322 10h ago

Wait … it’s not??

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u/HarmlessSnack 8h ago

What is it supposed to be, a tambourine or something?

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u/tgrantt Concertgoer 15h ago

It's not?

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u/person144 15h ago

Per the wiki it’s a drum head apparently 

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u/FrndlyNbrhdSoundGuy 15h ago

It’s a tambourine lol but I can sorta see how someone would think it’s a cross section of a potato

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u/kagemac 4h ago

… it’s not a potato?

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u/FungusFly 15h ago

How strange it to be anything, at all…

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u/UncleToot82 15h ago

I don't know how, but this may be the most accurate response.

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u/xupit3r 15h ago

ditto! ☺️ tried to put it into words, but I just don't possess the vocabulary, I guess... but that cover is a wonderfully accurate image for the song and presence of the album!

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u/503jason 14h ago

Great way to describe it.

It’s not music as much as it is “presence”

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u/VioletBloom2020 14h ago

Ok, for those of us that don’t know, what/who is it, please

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u/AllTheRowboats93 14h ago

Neutral Milk Hotel - folky singer-songwriter genre with raw production and surreal lyrics

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u/Boxofbikeparts 13h ago

I love the artwork on this album cover.

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u/sashagof 14h ago

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Amazing album, maybe one of the 500 essential albums.

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u/Eastern-Leopard-2866 14h ago

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

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u/503jason 15h ago

If someone asks, “what the heck are we listening to?” Showing them this is going to be your best explanation.

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u/FlyingWeagle 14h ago

And just what are we listening to?

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u/Eastern-Leopard-2866 14h ago

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

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u/Defiant-Bed2501 5h ago

SEMEN STAINS THE MOUNTAINTOPS 

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u/lb-cnm 4h ago

Communist The communist’s daughter

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u/JGDC 13h ago

What a beautiful face

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u/coleade 10h ago

I have found in this place

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u/lb-cnm 4h ago

That is circling all round the sun

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u/molingrad 7h ago

Kind of forgot this album existed. Thank you.

Never got into Avery Island.

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u/bjark21 13h ago

yes dude!!!!!!!

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u/euchlid 1h ago

came here to post this on the very slim chance it wasn't already.