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Dario Argento Blood Is Red LP Collection

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Five original soundtrack albums from Dario Argento films on 180 gram vinyl with delicious gatefold sleeves. I scored one of these limited edition collections, called Blood Is Red, and I have to say the vinyl junkie in me is VERY pleased indeed. The films are Cat o’ Nine Tails, aka Il Gatto A Nove Code,  Four Flies on Grey Velvet aka Quattro Mosche Di Velluto Grigio, Profondo Rosso, Suspiria and Tenebre.

I have seen these selling for upwards of $175, so I was very happy to score mine for well under $70 and in tasty condition, too! Cat o ‘Nine Tails is a very underrated soundtrack, and it definitely gets lost in the shuffle compared with Tenebre and Suspiria. Any Goblin fan will swoon over this collection but the Morricone lover in me insists on giving the maestro his due as well.
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Seriously Bad Album Covers

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We here at Turntabling are proud of the little collection of WTF album covers, but Nick DiFonzo’s book really takes the cake. Seriously Bad Album Covers displays 50 years and over 250 pages worth of the worst album covers ever. This import features a whopping 225 covers with a variety of wretched concepts, butt-ugly musicians and rotten excesses. Any vinyl junkie should add this to their collection of vinyl-related ephemera. This is hours and hours of entertainment just waiting to be had.

One day we are hoping that Taschen dedicates one of their luxuriously assembled editions to awful art, but until then this tome is probably THE authority on crapola covers.

WTF Returns: Lennon and Ono’s Junk

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According to the John Lennon site Absolute Elsewhere, John Lennon himself referred to this album photo for Two Virgins as featuring two “flabby junkies”. The utter madness of releasing this album cover in 1968 can’t be underestimated.

It’s not as it is today with several decades of naked people on album sleeves and music videos behind us. John Lennon’s flaccid, wilty junk swaying back and forth in the squalor of his apartment wasn’t considered in poor taste, it was actually branded as pornography!

What possessed Ono and Lennon to put their naked naughty bits on Two Virgins is beyond me, but Absolute Elsewhere speculates that Lennon might have been a closet exhibitionist. No matter.

What matters to you is that your eyeballs have been permanently seared with the vision of Lennon and Ono proudly displaying pubic shrubbery so massive by today’s standards that endangered bald eagles could build a nest there.


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