Easily one of the 10 most recognizable prog-rock album covers of all time: KING CRIMSON - IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING. This one took the VHUS trademark purple pretty well.
True confession time (and this could lose me some of my prog street cred): Uncle is not much of a King Crimson fan - not my preferred style at all. I do LOVE this album, but everything else after this debut gem leaves me cold. There, I've said it.
NOTE: I did not re-master the artwork for Volume 59. At the time, the purple-drenched GRAND FUNK style looked just fine to my eyes. (Or maybe I just got lazy, who can remember?)
In my humble opinion, UFO is a criminally underrated hard rock band (especially here in the USA). VHUS Volume 60 was augmented with this nightmare-fuel artwork from their 1978 classic OBSESSION , supplied by the legendary design group Hipgnosis.
For Halloween 2016, we decided to break tradition and dive deep into the well of New Wave. As such, we needed an iconic neo-wave image to mutate. The 1979 debut from THE B-52's fit the bill perfectly (even though we felt compelled to jack the color scheme to extreme levels.)
Trivia: VHUS v.61 was by BY FAR our most downloaded and streamed episode EVER. A smarter podcast host might take that hint and run with it. But not this one.
Finally, some mutated album art we probably would have used for Halloween if we hadn't gone the new wave route. Believe it or not, there are a few folks out there who still don't know that George Romero's 1978 undead masterpiece DAWN OF THE DEAD was known as ZOMBI in Italy and much of Europe.
Composed by the group some call Dario Argento's House Band: GOBLIN , this soundtrack album contains some of horror's most recognizable themes, and is still being parroted by dozens of contemporary electronica outfits 40 years later.
I think you're all up to date now.
Thursday, January 12:
Fresh-from-the-vault VHUS Classic Encore
(Volume 48, from November 2015)
Monday, January 16:
No idea. Maybe more of "The Best Of Track 13?"
Thursday, January 19:
Premiere of all-new VHUS v.66 - Our Third-Anniversary episode!
(Gimmick To Be Determined)
Monday, January 23:
We'll think of something, I promise.
Monday, January 23:
We'll think of something, I promise.
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