In the '60s, all the Album Covers moved, or was it just because we were all stoned?

May 12, 2010 6:15 PM

Animated Album Covers featuring iconic images from The Beat les, David Bowie, The Clash, Pink Floyd (semi-related: The Dark Side of the Moon in real life) and more...
posted by oneswellfoop (10 comments total)

Heh heh! Yeah, some of these are really good! Love PJ Harvey crossing Broadway.

Wish he'd ditch that multiple-Bowies-passing-by background, though: takes away from enjoying each GIF on its own.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:34 PM on May 12, 2010

Ooh yes, this came up on my tumblr dashboard the other day and I loved it. However much fun this one is - I like them best when they use only the existing cover art.
posted by jardinier at 6:44 PM on May 12, 2010

Much better after blocking the Bowie background with AdBlocker.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 7:01 PM on May 12, 2010 [1 favorite]

For all your animated-gif needs.
posted by emjaybee at 7:54 PM on May 12, 2010

Looks like an awful lot of time went into that "DSOTM in real life" effect, only to come up with very underwhelming results.
posted by fairmettle at 2:42 AM on May 13, 2010

I guess animating Tool's AEnima would be redundant, but hence a challenge.
posted by adamms222 at 8:32 AM on May 13, 2010

These album covers aren't nearly as animated as the ones we used to stare at back in the 60s, if you know what I mean. I remember one night when Ray Davies climbed out of the cover of "Kinda Kinks" and ran into Jimmy Carl Black, who'd stepped out of the "We're Only in it For the Money" center-spread for a smoke, and the two of them dragged Mick Love off the cover of "All Summer Long" and beat the crap out of him.
posted by Faze at 9:57 AM on May 13, 2010 [1 favorite]

Slight but fun.
posted by jeffen at 10:00 AM on May 13, 2010

These album covers aren't nearly as animated as the ones we used to stare at back in the 60s, if you know what I mean. I remember one night when ...

Ray Charles once sang directly to me. It eventually got too weird so I looked at the side of the fireplace instead. He was there too, in amongst the brickwork. I remember thinking, he wants me to calm down but this is just freaking me out.

Psychedelics are so much more effective than the internet.
posted by philip-random at 10:32 AM on May 13, 2010

Looks like an awful lot of time went into that "DSOTM in real life" effect, only to come up with very underwhelming results.

I'm thinking it probably whelmed a bit more if you were actually there, as opposed to viewing it via three-inch Youtube screen.
posted by philip-random at 10:35 AM on May 13, 2010