For music and Star Wars lovers, this exhaustive series of hilarious album cover mash-ups will be a huge hit. Artist Steve Lear is a self-professed obsessive music, movie, and Photoshop aficionado, perfect for a personal project like this.
Full of Star Wars puns and classic album covers to Photoshop, Lear went to work on a huge series of hilarious (and fitting) mashups. Aside from the clever Star Wars placements, we’re especially impressed by the sheer number of album covers he’s created, using everything from David Bowie to The Fugees to Björk as material. It’s a nerdy and fitting tribute that feels appropriate, and also reminds us of some great albums along the way. We’ve collected several of our favorites below.
Lear published the series under the name Why The Long Play Face, and it grew to several hundred covers over the years, which is roughly the point where a joke becomes a body of work. The best ones land because the original sleeves are so deeply lodged in memory that a single swapped face, Han Solo in Bowie’s pose or C-3PO standing in for Nirvana’s transparent angel, is enough. For more music and film crossovers, see album covers recreated entirely in LEGO, Richard Wilkinson’s Star Wars bugs, and great movies reimagined as old, worn books.
Edited by Ben VanderVeen · About Moss & Fog
