I want a new tattoo.

I was in Booths today (a Northern version of Waitrose, but with only 23 or so stores, to the uninitiated) and the kiddie shelf stacker had a great Sonic Youth tattoo on his forearm and I was totally jealous. It looked really cool and me being a geeky fool went and told him so. He seemed chuffed that I know who Sonic Youth are.

The tattoo was a working on the Raymond Pettibon picture shown here.

Album cover of the Week #2

Not their most popular album by any stretch of the imagination but Sonic Youth have had some inspired artwork for flyers, posters and packaging often using the young and the hip before they make it big time and there is no pretence, there is no Saatchi style buy all artwork and see what becomes popular going on. They just have an eye and a gift for selecting interesting work.

The Murray Street album is no different. A couple of kids under some strawberry netting may not be an obvious cover for a now ageing experimental noise band from NYC, however it doesn't seem out of place either.

Sonic Youth rock, there's no debate required, it's fact.

Album cover of the Week #1

Here's the first of the Album cover of the Week section. Please note that this may not be as regular as the title suggests.


Here we have Herb Albert and his Tijuana Brass and the their album Whipped Cream and Other Delights


And what did they do? Just put a woman covered in whipped cream on the cover. When people mourn the end of sleeve art with digital downloads, I don't think that this will be used as an example.