AllBum.Art - Alternative Art-Work for Album and Single Covers

Always nice to receive a well thought through remix from someone who is clearly a bit mad. Dave Wilson of London, England has sent us this remix of the single Jackie by Scott Walker. Dave takes up the story:

Jackie was the name of a pirate radio station in the 1980s in London and used this song as their theme. As a boy listening to the radio I often dreamed about what Jackie must look like and was disappointed when I saw the cover of the song and found that Jackie was not there. I always imagined here as being a swash-buckling sea-wench and when I saw your site it inspired me to rekindle my childhood fantasies and do a remix.

Nothing mad there, you might think. But then again, you might not think, and that would be mad. A-harrr!

Continuing in the 'rain' series, here's a remix of I Wish It Would Rain Down by Phil Collins. On the original single cover we see Mr Collins looking like he was hoping to go on a picnic but that the rain stopped him and he's irked. Now the shame of it is that on the remix we can see what awaited him at the picnic had he bothered to get a plastic mac and head out into the storm. Anyone got a picnic basket they don't mind getting wet? Yogi!

Here we are again with another dreary song by Travis. And accompanying their melancholy, downbeat performance is the cover of a single that could have been made by a 10 year old with no idea of art. Thankfully the remix shows something more akin to the ethos of the song. A sexy babe in a see through dress. Does her love come through? It certainly looks like it does. Opaque!

You know, one of the most popular remixes of cover artwork on the AllBum.Art web-site is the remix of Frank Sinatra's Come Fly With Me, so when remixing the erstwhile Mr Sinatra's songs, there's some big boots to fill. Here we present our remix of Fly Me To The Moon (originally known as In Other Words). On the original we see old blue-eyes a-grinnin' in the front of the silvery moon. On the remix we see a hot babe in latex who looks like she could pilot our starship any day. Lift-off!

Anyone For Tennis? A cry that goes out through the ages to those who enjoy that kind of racket (see what we did there). Cream sang about this in 1968. But, and here's the rub, the cover of their single, singularly fails to sing or even hum anything that is connected with the ancient and vaguely incomprehensible sport of tennis. We see the band members, lazing around in denim jackets. This balls-up is corrected in the remixed cover with the net result being a cute tennis babe who, if she uttered the phrase 'anyone for tennis' would certainly attract more love than the members of the band would have. Deuce!

Who would have believed that a band as obscure as Visage would merit a remix of their single covers here at AllBum.Art? But here we are with a remix of the cover artwork for their single Night Train. The original cover shows the lead singer (Steve Strange no less) standing around in black and white. So it might be night, but where's the train Steve? The remix shows a hot babe who is clearly dressed for the night (you don't go out in the day in nothing more than stockings, lingerie and a long black coat) and about to board a train. We think Mr Strange would approve of the remix, do you? Steaming!

As if yesterday's remix wasn't going far enough back in time, we delve even deeper into the depths for today's. The Sun Has Got His Hat on was performed by Ambrose And His Orchestra in, wait for it, 1932! The original cover shows a pin-up girl of the era on a beach holding her sun hat so as to cover her particulars. The remix shows much the same thing, just zazzed up to be more 21st century. Hip hip hip hooray!

Lollipop, lollipop, ooh lolly-lolly-lolly... For this song we are going way back in time to the 1950s, but it's a song that makes as much sense now as it did then. The Chordettes sang lollipop, and from the looks of the cover artwork of their single, they did so whilst sitting in the rear of an open-top Ford. Such a classic song deserves a classic remix and so the remixed cover features a babe doing guess what... sucking a lollipop. In a skimpy top. Slurp!

Although August may almost be over, the summer sun is still shining. And when the summer sun is shining, what better to do than shuffle, at the sea side. That is, as it goes, what Terry Dactyl And The Dinosaurs sang about back in the 1970s, when the sun was known to also shine. Sea Side Shuffle is about shuffling, at the sea-side. This appears to involve dancing around with boots on. We prefer a different view, that of a babe dancing in a blue bikini. Is she shuffling? Do you care? Bop!

Ever So Lonely is what Monsoon were in 1982. Maybe they weren't trying hard enough to encourage other people to join them. Maybe their performances were so bad that they were left on-stage all alone as the audience walked off. What they needed was some gimmick to get people to join them, then they wouldn't be so lonely. Something like the hot babe who is on the front of the remix of the cover of the single. That would do the job. Gregarious!