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Robert Pearlman | From RateYourMusic.com: About astronauts in album covers A collection of music albums that use astronauts in their (or as their) cover art. |
FFrench | I'm surprised that they seem to have missed this Tom Petty one, which was being heavily promoted recently. |
Wehaveliftoff | I have #3 signed by Moby in a large mylar size, and he drew a cartoon on it as well. I love stuff like this. |
FFrench | The band 'Spiritualized' seem to be going for a spacesuit theme; I just saw this image and this image in the local paper. |
Matt T | Spiritualized lead singer Jason 'Spaceman' Pierce's previous band was Spacemen 3, and his most succesful album was 'Ladies & Gentleman, We Are Floating In Space'. It's something of a theme. |
Robert Pearlman | It doesn't have an astronaut on its cover, but Mostly Bears' debut album, "The Ed Mitchell Clinic," is named after one, reports the Arizona Daily Star: The group named its new album after Apollo 14 astronaut Ed Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon who experienced something bassist Geoffrey Hidalgo called "instant global awareness": seeing the planet from afar and realizing that the world is one.Space is a recurring theme in the world of Mostly Bears. The title song on the "Only Child" EP mentions dreaming of "stars and astronauts" and the "Ed Mitchell" artwork shows planets behind a deconstructed sketch of a human. Lopez said he's infatuated with the final frontier, and it carries over into the band's music. "If you took away the vocals, there'd still be a spacelike element to it," he said. |
FFrench | The posting about the Ed Mitchell Clinic album reminded me of the Spiderbait album, Flight of Wally Funk. The band were inspired by reading Wally's story, and she and the band have been in touch with each other and had some fun conversations. |
FFrench | Here's another album cover that I just spotted. |
GoesTo11 | I just might download Bad Astronaut for that title alone... |
Mr Meek | The Fruit Bats' 2005 album Spelled In Bones has an Apollo CSM, apparently submerged, on the cover. Check it out |
Falcon109 | Matthew Good's "Last of the Ghetto Astronauts" has a walkout pic of the Apollo 8 crew on the cover. |
mmmoo | The new Dido album has the distant shot of Bruce McCandless during the first untethered spacewalk. |
mjanovec | A couple of examples that pop into mind are the cover of the Afgham Whigs album "1965" (featuring a photo of the Ed White EVA) and the cover of Sleeper's album "Smart" (featuring the iconic photo of the Mercury Seven in their silver spacesuits). |
FFrench | I spotted another one next to the sofa in the photo on this story's page. |
FFrench | An interesting shot on the new Klaxons album "Surfing The Void." |
Paul23 | I think that picture confirms my suspicion that NASA has missed a trick all these years by not making greater use of surly looking cats in the space programe. |
Spacefest | The Ventures used my Morning Launch for this one in 1983. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo | Not cover art, but Grateful Dead knocked off the STS-7 emblem for their backstage pass. |
NeilPearson | Not an astronaut, but Dave Stewart's (Eurythmics) 2012 album 'The Ringmaster General' featured an Apollo Command Module! |
sev8n | Scrolled through their list and didn't see "Gordon" by Barenaked Ladies... |