Cover story : 100 beautiful, strange and frankly incredible New Zealand LP covers. Volume one / Steve Braunias.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Vinyl with pictures : the beginning -- Postcards from the edge of world -- Country and southern hemisphere -- We cross live to the Westward Ho Tavern -- Shaun at Wairakei -- Richard at home -- Three-piece lounge music -- The age of Jack and Garth -- Albums of colour : Aotearoa and Pasifika -- The golden age of pop art -- The horror. The horror -- Dear God -- That 70s look -- Ready to roll, brightly -- Through a glass, darkly -- Pieces of art : vinyl with canvases -- Acknowledgements -- Disocgraphy -- Index.

"From 1957 to 1987, the LP was king of New Zealand recorded music and the cover art from those decades provides a fascinating window into our culture of the time. Award-winning journalist Steve Braunias has been amassing old LPs for years, and documents with his deadpan eye a first top 100 LP covers from Bill & Boyd to Tina Cross, Christian music to punk with detours into the obscure, the iconic and the awful."--Publisher's information.