Music Album Covers with Turntables, Record Players, or Gramophones on Them

20 music album covers that feature a turntable, record player or gramophone on them.

Here are 20 album covers featuring turntables, record players, or gramophones. We initially thought we’d easily find many more album covers to make our composite, but that wasn't the case. Some definitions:

• A turntable is typically a standalone device that spins vinyl records, picks up the playback signal, and sends it to an attached amplification or speaker system.
• A record player integrates a turntable, amplifier, and speakers into an all-in-one system.
• A gramophone (phonograph), the precursor to record players, relies on mechanical energy and acoustic amplification. It was widely used from the 1890s into the early 1900s.

01 Dafuniks - Enter the Slideshow Groove
02 The Delgados - Universal Audio
03 Hugo Kant - Another Point of Mix I
04 Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

05 Junior Jack - Trust It
06 Status Quo - If You Can't Stand the Heat
07 Thievery Corporation - Sounds from the Thievery Corporation HiFi
08 Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boy - Turntable Matinee

09 Les Baxter - Young Pops
10 The Blazers - College Drinking Songs
11 Barney Kessel - Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By
12 Erasure - Other People's Songs

13 Sweet - Off the Record
14 The Spinners - The Best of the Spinners
15 Various Artists - Turntable Essence
16 Verve Remixed

17 Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
18 Vetiver - Thing of the Past
19 Dirty Vegas Sound System - A Night at the Tables
20 Southern Avenue - Be the Love You Want

Music Album Covers with Fish on Them

25 music album covers that have fish imagery

Here are 25 albums covers featuring fish imagery. We excluded shark-themed album covers and other vaguely fish-themed covers. Hey, this is our curatorial choice, not yours, and this post is not meant to be the final word on the topic. 👌 We feel compelled to add this disclaimer. For past themed album cover posts, some readers have commented about how we forgot to include this or that album, which we appreciate in general, but a few comments veered into nasty territory. 

A grammar note. We thought about the use of fish/fishes and got stumped on which form to use. From what we could learn, ‘fish’ refers to multiple individuals of the same species—or can serve as a general plural. 'Fishes', on the other hand, draws attention to the variety of species, which is true in this case. Even though 'fishes' may be technically more accurate, we went with the more idiomatic and concise version of 'fish'. 🐠


01 David Chapman - Fish
02 Man - Slow Motion
03 Puracane - Things You Should Leave Alone
04 The Sunshine Fix - Green Imagination
05 TV Ghost - Cold Fish

06 The Hepburns - The Magic of the Hepburns
07 The Roches - Another World
08 White Noise - White Noise 2
09 City Center - City Center
10 Cosmos Sheldrake - The Much Much How How and I

11 Counting Crows - This Desert Life
12 Our Lady Peace - Happiness in Not a Fish That You Can Catch
13 Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
14 Cracker - Cracker
15 Haley Heynderickx - Fish Eyes EP

16 Stevie Wonder - Original Musiquarium
17 Killifish - First Fish in Space
18 Antonello Venditti - Sotto il segno dei pesci
19 Oxis - Bacqui
20 In the fishtank 11

21 Moodswings - Moodfood
22 Fool's Garden - Dish of the Day
23 The Radiators - Law of the Fish
24 Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness
25 REO Speedwagon - You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish

A Hike from Ceresola (Valtorta) to Piani di Bobbio

Overview ~ Notes ~ Flora ~ Photos

  

Left: Waking east, descending from Passo del Gandazzo 1660m.
Center: View from Piani di Bobbio into Valsassina with Grigna in the background left,
Right: View from Piani di Bobbio toward Zuccone dei Campelli 2159m.

Overview

Length: 3 hours
Duration: 9.4 km
Elevation gain: 406 m
Location: Italy, Lombardy, Val Brembana, Valtorta

Notes

The access to Piani di Bobbio is typically from Barzio (Lecco provice) where there is a cable car. We’ve always come up from the Valtorta (Bergamo province) side, where there is no cable car. At Rifugio Trifoglio in Valtorata there is a large parking lot. In the winter, there is a chair lift to take you up (not a cable car) and in summer, just your legs.

We did a hike from Piani di Artavaggio and Piani di Bobbio in 2023, see the post Hiking Between Piani di Artavaggio and Piani di Bobbio. But during that hike we stayed high and didn’t descend into Valtorta.

We’ve skied twice at Piani di Bobbio, so it was fun to see what the ski slopes and meadows look like in the summer. Answer: full of grass and wildflowers!

We made a small loop hike today, starting and stopping in località Ceresola, steps away from the parking lot. There is a bar/restaurant there to grab something before and after the hike. In Piani di Bobbio, there are several rifugi to choose from as well.

Flora

[Asteraceae] Cirsium sp.

[Asteraceae] Jacobaea sp. - not 100% sure about this identification.


[Liliaceae] Lilium bulbiferum

[Ranunculaceae] Aquilegia atrata

Photos

  

Left: Beech forest in Valtorta.
Center: Descending on località Ceresola (Valtorta).
Right: Hike tracks.

  

Left: Passo del Cedrino in Valtorta.
Center: Piani di Bobbio and Zuccone dei Campelli 2159m.
Right: Walking on a ski slope of Piani di Bobbio above Valtorta, view east.