Matt and Tony are two guys based in New York who've spent the last 30 years collecting vinyl LPs and 45s with funny, quirky and unusual covers. Now they've decided to share their collection with the world at the LP Cover Lover blog.

Here are just some of the many gems they’ve revealed so far:


Soul Snaps drum breaks have been sampled by Ol’ Dirty Bastard and The Prodigy.


Health and safety was a big thing in the fifties


It meant something different in those days apparently...

Loads more at the Song Charts Flickr pool. Picked up at Swiss Miss.

Genius video for the 2008 remix of Utah Saints’ Something Good. Expect to see the running man on a dancefloor near you from this weekend onwards.

How many times have you seen that title on a forum or blog post and groaned, waiting for the nerd dogfight to unfold with a tedious inevitability?

This is different though. The internet at it's most brilliantly pointless has brought forth a piece of music made entirely from Windows system sounds. And not to be outdone the Mac community have made one out of OS X sounds too. The fabulous thing is, the Windows tune is complex, overblown and cheesy, while the Mac version sounds like a pretentious piece of stripped down jazz. It's as if someone has distilled the very essence of each platform into a couple of minutes of music.

Windows version:

Mac version

Picked up from Listening Post

A funny and well made guide to the art of Sleevefacing TM. Found at Word Magazine.