Robert Longo

Robert Longo turns 67 today.

Pitchfork Top 200 LPs of the 80's

Today Pitchfork ran an article titled The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s. Included on the list were several artist's records - mostly by women - including: Yoko Ono's Season of Glass at #188, Pauline Oliveros and Stuart Dempster's Panaiotis at #164, Meredith Monk's Dolmen Music at #153, La Monte Young's box set of The Well-Tuned Piano at #150 and Laurie Anderson for Big Science, at #22.

Also on the list: David Bryne, Philip Glass, Psychic TV, Malcolm McLaren, Steve Reich, and Brian Eno, who appears twice for collaborative albums and twice as a producer (for U2 and Talking Heads).

Four of the two hundred discs have covers by visual artists: Fischli & Weiss contributed the cover image to Liliput's 1982 debut, Gerhard Richter's 1983 painting Candle was used for Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, and Robert Longo appears twice: once for the cover of Glenn Branca's The Ascension from 1981 and later for The Replacements' 1985 album Tim. 

Read the full article here: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-1980s/

ACBA: Robert Longo for Dominic Woosey

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Offenbach a.M., Germany: Recycle or Die Records, 1992

Audio CD, digipack

Edition size unknown

The inaugural release from Recycle or Die Records is Berlin-school trance electronica with a cover that reproduces a painting by Robert Longo. Trib, from 1991, is 78cm x 58cm., and made with gesso and acrylic on newspaper.