This Is Why The Internet Was Invented

This site is brand new, so there's not that many examples yet. But what they do is painstakingly recreate classic album covers... out of socks!

Need an example? Here's Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon:



Cool, right? Check our Famous Album Covers Recreated With My Socks.

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DVD Review: Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here

Four notes. The same four notes. Over and over again.

David Gilmour kept playing these four notes at Abbey Road Studio in London in 1972 as Pink Floyd was preparing their follow-up the the massively successful Dark Side Of The Moon. There was something special about those four notes, something that crept into Roger Waters head and never let go, a kernel of an idea that eventually blossomed into what would become "Shine On You Crazy Diamond." That song, a brooding homage to Floyd's tormented former singer and chief songwriter, Syd Barrett, would provide the bookends and thematic soul of what would become Wish You Were Here, and as the stellar documentary Pink Floyd: The Story Of Wish You Were Here shows, it was both a tribute to a lost friend and group therapy for a band struggling to come to terms with it's sudden, astonishing success.

For fans of Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd: The Story Of Wish You Were Here (now available on DVD and Blu-ray) is a must-own. It explores in-depth the band at their most vulnerable: consciously distracted and disconnected from their audience. The emotions the band was feeling--frustration, disillusionment, pressure--took form in the songs that eventually made the album, creating a melancholic but defiant mood that was at once self-conscious and inescapable. Throughout the film, as the band and its inner circle reminisce about each song and their mindset at the time, your appreciation for the struggles of being an artist grows, and their music takes on added depth and poignancy.

The recording of Wish You Were Here was haunted, both figuratively and literally, by Syd Barrett. Mentally unstable, Syd had left the band years earlier, becoming erratic and reclusive. A handsome and talented songwriter, he had been the fuel that had propelled Pink Floyd to its initial success, but his bandmates could only watch helplessly as he slowly spun out of control. Saddened by the loss of their friend, the band used Wish You Were Here to pen their love for him and rant against the recording industry they believed drove him to madness. Waters and Gilmour speak at length about the cynical view of the business portrayed in "Have A Cigar" and "Welcome To The Machine." They linger over the overtly biographical lyrics to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," telling stories about how they invited Syd to the studio during the sessions to record but could never corral him long enough to put anything useful on tape. He would show up at the studio unannounced once more a year later--fat, bald, and unrecognizable to his friends--and the band today still seems visibly shaken by his transformation. Their recollections bring an unexpected earnestness to their stories, and paints a poignant, moody backdrop to the recording.