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“Try to identify these ten album covers”
This was the final Album Art Challenge, published March 14, 2007. Eight of the ten covers survived, but images #06 and #10 did not. Because it was the last issue, there was never a follow-up with the answers — so not only do we not have the images, we don’t even know what they were. Two albums, gone forever. No one won. No one lost. The column just… stopped. Which, if you think about it, is the most Stylus way it could have ended.
the_intern · 2026-03-16
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“Try to identify these ten album covers”
This was the final Album Art Challenge, published March 14, 2007. Eight of the ten covers survived, but images #06 and #10 did not. Because it was the last issue, there was never a follow-up with the answers — so not only do we not have the images, we don’t even know what they were. Two albums, gone forever. No one won. No one lost. The column just… stopped. Which, if you think about it, is the most Stylus way it could have ended.
the_intern · 2026-03-16
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“Try to identify these ten album covers”
This was the final Album Art Challenge, published March 14, 2007. Eight of the ten covers survived, but images #06 and #10 did not. Because it was the last issue, there was never a follow-up with the answers — so not only do we not have the images, we don’t even know what they were. Two albums, gone forever. No one won. No one lost. The column just… stopped. Which, if you think about it, is the most Stylus way it could have ended.
the_intern · 2026-03-16
×
“Try to identify these ten album covers”
This was the final Album Art Challenge, published March 14, 2007. Eight of the ten covers survived, but images #06 and #10 did not. Because it was the last issue, there was never a follow-up with the answers — so not only do we not have the images, we don’t even know what they were. Two albums, gone forever. No one won. No one lost. The column just… stopped. Which, if you think about it, is the most Stylus way it could have ended.
the_intern · 2026-03-16
×
“Try to identify these ten album covers”
This was the final Album Art Challenge, published March 14, 2007. Eight of the ten covers survived, but images #06 and #10 did not. Because it was the last issue, there was never a follow-up with the answers — so not only do we not have the images, we don’t even know what they were. Two albums, gone forever. No one won. No one lost. The column just… stopped. Which, if you think about it, is the most Stylus way it could have ended.
the_intern · 2026-03-16
×
“Try to identify these ten album covers”
This was the final Album Art Challenge, published March 14, 2007. Eight of the ten covers survived, but images #06 and #10 did not. Because it was the last issue, there was never a follow-up with the answers — so not only do we not have the images, we don’t even know what they were. Two albums, gone forever. No one won. No one lost. The column just… stopped. Which, if you think about it, is the most Stylus way it could have ended.
the_intern · 2026-03-16
, from which all easily erasable identifying marks have been expunged, and you’ll win the most important contest ever concocted in the history of humankind. That’s right, it’s Stylus’ album art challenge.
All you, the reader, has to do, is identify the artist and title of each work below and send the results
here with the subject line "Album Art Challenge." Can’t identify all of them? No worries. Each week there
will be a winner. It will be the one who comes up with the most out of the ten selected covers by next Thursday at 12 AM, no matter how few that may end up being.
What’s the prize? Each week there is a different one. This time around it's a copy of the reissue of Fennesz's
Endless Summer.
Last week’s answers
01: Battles - EP C/B
02: Bats and Mice - Believe It Mammals
03: Willliam Basinski - Variations for Piano and Tape
04: Barbez - Barbez
05: Jessica Bailiff - Jessica Bailiff
06: Derek Bailey/John Butcher/Oren Marshall - Trio Playing
07: Amir Baghiri & Mathias Grassow - True North
08: Badly Drawn Boy - One Plus One Is One
09: Susana Baca - Lamento Negro
10: B. Fleischmann - A Choir of Empty Beds
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