Rotating Corpse » Album Art

Let’s Do The Fink

Brittany — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:06:09 +0000

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Brittany — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:16:01 +0000

“Bat Girl EP”

Brittany — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:07:28 +0000

Dior, 1957, Amazing

Brittany — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:54:35 +0000

Even For Crazy Heavy Metal Art, This Is Pretty Crazy

Brittany — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 01:30:52 +0000

This Husband Seems Non-Plussed

Brittany — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:48:11 +0000

Bon Scott and the Heathen Girls, Atlanta Georgia, 1978

Brittany — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:04:57 +0000

found here

In 1980, A Huge Yellow and Red Sweater With A Tiny Green Car On the Crotch Area Was All The Rage

Brittany — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:26:33 +0000

More Jackie Annual here

Ozzy in a Tutu

Brittany — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:38:41 +0000

Father Abraham in Smurfland

Stermer — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:50:26 +0000

With all the recent smurfs hub-bub, I was reminded of this gem of an album. Back in the 80s, I was pretty smurf obsessed. I had the figures, a smurf sleeping bag, and was a regular fan of the hanna-barbera cartoon series. At the time, like most Americans, I didn’t realize the smurfs were created back in the 1950′s as a Belgian comic by artist Peyo. When smurf fever was sweeping my childhood, lots of random European Smurf items unrelated to what I then considered “official” versions (aka the american cartoon characters and voices) appeared. The animated movie, “The Smurfs and the Magic Flute” is a good example of this (the black faced “jungle smurf” is a bad example of this).

One version that creeped me out as a child was this record I had gotten as a gift, “Father Abraham in Smurfland”. I had no idea who this amish looking man was, or why his giant head was floating over smurf village. None of the voices did I know, where was jokey smurf? Why is Papa Smurf not voiced by Scooby Doo voice actor Don Messik? The songs to me were weird, including “Smurfing Beer” which I think I have to re-listen to the original version. Since I’ve been to Belgian and love the original comics now, I might have a different appreciation for this childhood nightmare.