Monday, December 24, 2007

Bizarre Les Baxter Album Cover

Typical title



Typical exotic femme



Coupled with a strange photo montage of effeminate men, the text explains that they have been mysteriously snatched away from their desk jobs to exotic locations through the power of Les Baxter's "Quiet Village". Featured prominently in the middle of the cover is veteran airline captain "whizzer" Broadsport who according to the text after leaving his "walkup bachelor apartment", hijacked his own airliner and crashed it into the sea near the Antipodes. Where he escaped on raft to parts unknown. Quiet Village is one of Baxter's better records, Simba being its best track, and hey on top of that it has the ability to transform flamboyantly gay airline pilots into hijackers so desperate to escape to the isolated islands of the pacific that they would steal a multi million dollar jet and crash it into the sea.

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