Asian Fab
I hope the music was at least half as good as the cover art — way groovy:
The Quests’ Go Go ReQuests
A post on Robot Action Boy pointed me to this treasure trove of Asian pop album covers from the ’60s and ’70s. Good god, they just keep going and going… and every last one has got some kind of crazy-cool thing about it.
The Quests’ Go Go ReQuests album (pictured above) — well, you can see for yourself how fabulous it is. One of the songs on the album is “Ding Dong Twist,” which sounds like either a new Hostess snack product, or an obscene gesture. Sing Along With the Christones features a band of young, hip, Asian priests — each wearing one of those little white & black priest collar things. Four Hits, also from the Quests, has a very soulful-looking pointing finger on the cover — appropriately, to illustrate their song “Soul Finger.” Now, that’s a song I want to hear.
Off Beat Cha Cha
Some of the albums look funky, like they may be soundtracks to obscure Thaispoitation films… others look like the Ravi Shankar’s schtick re-arrived back home after being filtered through the Beatles… and lots are clearly light, fluffy Go-Go dancing frothiness, complete with smiling, happy girls. Well, except for Off Beat Cha Cha, which has three girls who are clearly dancing under court order and are miserable about it.
Don’t take my word for it, go check out the entire gallery of albums for yourself at David Greenfield’s photo site.
Wow, this is really cool to find a blog posting about my photo gallery! Drop me a line and I’ll send you some music. Thanks, David G.
posted on May 6th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Hey, thanks for having such a post-worthy collection of fab albums!
posted on May 6th, 2007 at 3:30 pm