Miles Davis – On The Corner
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| Artist | Miles Davis |
| Title | On The Corner |
| Label | Columbia |
| Year | 1972 |
| Designer | Cover paintings: Corky McCoy, inside cover photo: Allen Morgan |
| Music | Out of this world |
| Desktop | Download image |
| Notes | Miles was allegedly aiming for the youth market hence, perhaps, this cover design. Corky McCoy’s work would also be seen on the follow up live double album. If you haven’t heard On The Corner you really should. One of my desert island choices. I love the disjunction between the imagery and the atonal acid funk attack of the music.
See also: - Miles Davis – Agharta |
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Love the Fat Albert inspired funkiness.
But pound for pound you can’t beat the insanity that is the cover of Bitches Brew
http://revivalist.okayplayer.com/core/wp-content/uploads/bitches-brew.jpeg
or the overall WTF ‘Planet Sauvage’-inspired “Miles Davis and Horns”
http://www.plosin.com/images/covers/Horns-LP.jpg
Good call on the strange precedent that is Miles Davis and Horns. My favourite Miles covers as referenced in the post above are the Japanese releases of Agharta with its occluded sister, Pangaea, a close second. And not forgetting the brilliant Tutu…