Enjoy the Experience: obscure record sleeves - in pictures
Dining at the Suburbian with Frank Cimmino at the Organ. As the sleeve indicates, the Suburbian was a restaurant in Wanaque, New Jersey, which had a Wurlitzer organ on the premisesPhotograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the ExperienceBen Harrison – Getting Bald Going Barefoot. In 2002, the Key West newspaper reported that Harrison, a local, had songs including Rocky, "a true story about a Chihuahua that impregnated a Rottweiler a few years ago"Photograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the ExperienceDaisy – Songs From My Heart, a vanity pressing of an album from the 70s, collected into a new book, Enjoy the Experience. 'Some are schools projects; quite a few are Christian; and many are by genuinely eccentric people', writes Bob StanleyPhotograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the Experience
Gary Wilson – You Think You Really Know Me. Wilson hung out with John Cage (briefly) and played at CBGB's but was just too eccentric to work with collaborators or build up a fan base.Photograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the ExperienceGoff Olympic Band 1980 – Goff Middle School. The school still exists, although in December high winds blew part of the roof off. This is an album the school band produced in 1980Photograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the ExperienceMyrna and Sherry Emata – The Winners! According to the book: 'Sherry and Myrna Emata were sisters who won back-to-back Yamaha Electone Organ contests. The privately pressed record The Winners! was a celebration of the sisters’ success'Photograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the ExperienceOregon Middle School Music Department commemorated their efforts with this releasePhotograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the Experience Peter Grudzien – The Unicorn. Five hundred copies of this Dylan-influenced album were printed in 1974, which Grudzien tried – and failed – to sell in bookshops. It was reissued on CD in 1995Photograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the Experience Rev Dr OL Jaggers – Life. Jaggers, who died in 2004, was a US evangelist and the author of 300 books with titles such as Flying Saucers! and How to Rid the World of Red CommunismPhotograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the ExperienceRon and Shirley – Rock and Scroll, a Christian rock album from 1977. The album concludes with a six-minute number called Bad Love is a DemonPhotograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the Experience Ross Emery – The Jogger, an obscure record from 1977 which fetches up to $50 online Photograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the ExperienceThe Living End with Ed Lyman, another Christian rockerPhotograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the ExperienceThe Shaggs – Philosophy of the World. Rolling Stone described the album as the worst record ever made, but Kurt Cobain was a fan – he named it his fifth favourite of all timePhotograph: Sinecure Books 2013/Courtesy Enjoy the Experience
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