Classic album covers MashedUp with Google Street View
The Guardian’s third and latest instalment in its ‘Cities’ series of mash-ups juxtaposing the old and new is a fun project that mashes classic album covers with Google Street View scenes.
The covers are superimposed over the locations where they were shot, and the resulting images are a nostalgic trip down memory lane for music fans.
Paul’s Boutique by the Beastie Boys, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis and the iconic Beatles Abbey Road record are just a few of the iconic covers featured.
While most of the covers look decidedly dated when viewed in contemporary settings, they also offer a glimpse into how little or much the areas have changed over the years.
(What's the Story) Morning Glory by Oasis. This 1995 Britpop classic was shot on Berwick Street in London's Soho, what was then an, um, oasis of record shops. Sister Ray, seen on the left, is still going strong today Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey. Shot in Times Square, New York, in 2000. Harvey manages to look cool despite wearing sunglasses at night as she crosses 7th Avenue Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin. The East Village residential blocks on St Mark's Place, New York, remain virtually identical to how they looked in the 1970s, with the exception of some more physical graffiti Animals by Pink Floyd. Battersea Power Station in Wandsworth, London has fewer flying pigs now than it did in 1977, but is otherwise pretty much the same – though the Nine Elms project will change all that Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys. A clothing store in 1989 at what is now the more gentrified corner of Ludlow and Rivington on New York's Lower East Side Willy and the Poor Boys by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The CCR lads are pictured mock-busking to local kids outside the Fish Kee Market on Hollis Street in Oakland, California in 1969. The shop has now been completely plastered over The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem. The rapper sits in front of his childhood home on Dresden street, north Detroit, just down the road from 8-Mile – the street he made famous in film – in 2000. The house was demolished last year after damage from a fire Late for the Sky by Jackson Browne. A surrealist view of one of the many classy houses around Hancock Park in Los Angeles, 1974: Bob Seldemann spliced the house with another sky for a result that resembles a Magritte painting Original Pirate Material by the Streets. Mike Skinner's 2002 debut features the inglorious Kestrel House in Islington, London, taken from a picture by Rut Blees Luxemburg called Towering Inferno Moving Pictures by Rush. The Canadian prog legends illustrate their album with some literal moving of paintings in front of the Ontario Legislature in Toronto in 1981 The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan. A 22-year-old Bob walks down Jones Street in the West Village, New York, with his girlfriend Suze Rotolo in 1963 Abbey Road by the Beatles. So famous is the cover for the Fab Four's last studio album in 1969 that Westminster council in London have to repaint the wall next to the crossing every three months to cover over fans' graffiti, and the street signs are mounted high above the ground because otherwise they just keep getting stolen via: theguardian , designtaxi
