I have been asked to write a blog for my issues in visual culture class. Each blog entry is about every lecture I attend for my issues in visual culture class.
In out last lecture we discussed a few subjects. In one instant my tutor was talking about society and in the other LSD, I don’t think I ever seen the day when I thought to two subjects would be discussed in the same process. When the class is called issues in visual culture. Although it did pull together in the end. The lecture had many good points including the one about society. When he referred to school as teaching us to act in a appropriate way I do agree with this because going to an all girls catholic school where you had to wear the same thing and act the same way you weren’t allowed any makeup or piercing’s or crazy colors in your hair.
In out last lecture we discussed a few subjects. In one instant my tutor was talking about society and in the other LSD, I don’t think I ever seen the day when I thought to two subjects would be discussed in the same process. When the class is called issues in visual culture. Although it did pull together in the end. The lecture had many good points including the one about society. When he referred to school as teaching us to act in a appropriate way I do agree with this because going to an all girls catholic school where you had to wear the same thing and act the same way you weren’t allowed any makeup or piercing’s or crazy colors in your hair.
When it came to the track test in which was a very interesting method. I did not have a clue about half the people or bands I was listening to I was pretty clueless. I could only guess Bowie, The who and the beetles. I was very disappointed in myself as I thought I had a better knowledge of music history, obviously I was wrong. I actually went to my parents after wards asking, “ who was Chuck Berry” and they exclaimed, “do you not know anything”, which I replied I was never taught. However it did get me thinking that maybe I should brush up on a bit of history.
The lecture then moved on to the subject of album covers and how many had become timeless and a work of art. They’re many timeless songs but also album covers. It is a well known that we identify with music by looking at a album or CD cover just like we judge books based on their covers. Which means that music actually speaks to us before we have even listened to it. I am hugely influenced by album covers I actually bought the yeah, yeah, yeahs album fever to tell because I liked the cover but I ended up liking them so it worked out well. However times have changed and album covers have taken a backseat and CD’s are now being phased out and downloading has taken over. Album covers are timeless; many are collector’s items especially when it comes to timeless bands such as, the beetles and the rolling stones. The beetle’s album “Yesterday and today” is highly collectable. In the cover you see the beetles covered in baby dolls and butcher meat, most of the albums where recalled and pasted over with a more convenient image. In 1968 the rolling stones released an album called “Beggars banquet” it was the first album cover to not feature a picture of the band instead it was a picture of graffiti on a bathroom wall. Their record label considerate to be bad taste and a legal battle followed which the rolling stones lost. The cover was then changed to an invitation like cover.
Psychedelic album covers where also referenced in the lecture. This is the part where LSD was referenced and how it influenced a different style on vinyl covers as they where very hippy and surreal. Psychedelic music came about in the 1960s when the use of LSD was introduced as a recreational drug. LSD had a huge effect on popular music in the 1960s. The beetles are one of the bands in that you can actually see how LSD influenced their music especially when you listen to songs such as “Lucy and the diamonds” and “tomorrow never knows” you can also see this in their album cover Revolver.
In conclusion to the lecture, I have learnt that society has asked us and trained us to ask a certain way and because artists through the decades have rebelled against society we now have very liberation music and timeless pieces of album art, which have controversial imagery, which is defiant and inspired by recreational drug use.
In conclusion to the lecture, I have learnt that society has asked us and trained us to ask a certain way and because artists through the decades have rebelled against society we now have very liberation music and timeless pieces of album art, which have controversial imagery, which is defiant and inspired by recreational drug use.
