You know what... reply with album covers that changed your life

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@dannotdaniel Um quite a list of special guests! You hang in the Chi? I'll def check it

[geoffduncan@mindly.social]

@samvarma
It’s weird: I don’t remember getting obsessive about album covers. I thought a lot of them were dull or just embarrassing.

I do remember obsessing over some *liner notes*.

[meltedcheese@c.im]

@samvarma #JimiHendrix

[guyjantic@infosec.exchange]

@kinsale42 @samvarma King of the mountain of still such a kick-ass track

[guyjantic@infosec.exchange]

@samvarma

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@geoffduncan This isn't about the covers—it's about remembering how much we loved the music, and the extent to which the images embody that love

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@geoffduncan Maybe I'm weirdly visual, but my pre-experience of the music was the imagery, so the album covers are totems of a sort

[guyjantic@infosec.exchange]

@samvarma

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@guyjantic god yes. Didn't appreciate it at the time, but could not be more in awe of the artistry now

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@guyjantic Wow yeah just a staggering 10 of an album

[_slotek_@mastodon.social]

@samvarma

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@_slotek_ Uncanny

This is on rn

[geoffduncan@mindly.social]

@samvarma
I remember my friends going over every detail, talking about hem, speculating, etc. I just didn’t for whatever reason—and *I* was the visual arts kid!

But I remember making sure my parents never saw this one. Or heard it. (Ironic given what happened a few years s later.) About ten seconds of this still lives rent-free in my head whenever someone tells me “Play something terrifying.”

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@geoffduncan Listening now for the first time

[geoffduncan@mindly.social]

@samvarma
Bits hold up, “Electric Eye” could be covered today. The end of the title track is still the platonic ideal of a divebomb+rage for me.

A few years later local parents would sue Judas Priest for the suicides of their sons, claiming subliminal messages egged them on. The band was acquitted.

[billyjoebowers@mastodon.online]

@samvarma @geoffduncan

WHAT?

[rowan_johnson@mastodon.social]

@samvarma I’m not GenX, but it’s over 20 years old, so I think it deserves to be thrown in the ring…

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@samvarma just been a few times for conferences, etc. Last time for a wedding..

on that trip I went to KM both nights I was in town

And Joanna Connor was on the other stage 🤩

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@samvarma this was the first pink thing that i actually wanted

[samvarma@fosstodon.org]

@billyjoebowers @geoffduncan Yeah don't ask me why... I always liked the well-known songs, just never bit down on it