Worst album covers, ever !!!
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Worst album covers, ever !!!
i saw this on popbitch yesterday and couldnt resist sharing it
http://www.stevecarter.com/albumcovers.htm
http://www.stevecarter.com/albumcovers.htm
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Yeah, horrid.thinline wrote:Worst ever? (What's The Story) Morning Glory!
Moody Blues have the worst album covers ever. Next to CS&N.
Double-take:
Someone here goes to popbitch? For a laugh, right? I'd rather slash my wrists than read that shite.
Last edited by Spamuel L. Jackson on Tue May 08, 2007 3:35 pm, edited 4 times in total.
Nah, the "Be Here Now" cover was tacky as fuck, but nothing sums up mediocrity like the (WTS)MG one. Just that naff, Ben Sherman-y, mid 90's vibe...corny in the first place, and some fuckers are still living it out even now. Staler than a dodo turd.is wrote:Hmmm... the one with the Rolls Royce in the swimming pool was much, much worse, to name but one.
The "Urban Hymns" cover really stunk. But I don't reckon that all their earlier sleeves were great anyway..not a big fan of the Brian Cannon faux-abstract thing. The pre-'the' singles looked nice in 12" form tho.
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Yep, gossips, dickheads, muckrakers and musichaters. Fuck 'em. Let's talk about sounds.is wrote:Sorry. I was forgetting.
I edited out 'retro', didn't sum it up. I'm thinking of that 'trying to be vaguely evocative of something' vibe. Kind of like someone was trying to harken back but was too fucking clueless to really nail it or only had some art-print revisionist understanding of what they were attempting to evoke. The whole Oasis thing post-94 was about that anyway...sweaters that looked a bit like something 'someone from the 60's' might wear, just those vague sentiments of affected timeliness, music that flatters itself to approximate the sound of the bands they profess to worship, but with all the substance taken out. The "Be Here Now" art is the culmination of what started with the more insidious (WTS)MG cover. Whatever, it all stinks of Eau D'Paolo. Despise that shit.is wrote:Was it 'retro' in the mid-90s though? It seemed bang-up-to-date at the time, but with hindsight...
Nice writing. I just can't be as stoic as you. Probably something to do with insufficient education, the ability to rationalize this shit, I sometimes wonder if I was born minus some important part of the brain, I just flail in confusion at the weird scenes and attitudes I'm surrounded by. I wanna disappear off into my own world, but people keep pulling me back into theirs.
Tired of everything, tired of the 80's, tired of the 70's, tired of the fucking 60's too. Far as I'm concerned, all the shit I dig exists exclusively of the junk that surrounded it, I don't want it associated with crumby revivalist era-fetishism. What I can't, and won't ever, understand is why people want to celebrate the stuff they supposedly dig in the context of all that junk (y'know, "Ooh, I love Soft Cell, weren't the 80's great?!"). Who would do that?
p/s: cheers for the book tip
Re. Oasis LP covers:
What makes me laugh is how, once they'd reached the apex of all that retrogressive crap with "Be Here Now", they kind of apologetically tried to go 'modern' with that shitey cover for "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants", and came off looking even more tasteless.
Tired of everything, tired of the 80's, tired of the 70's, tired of the fucking 60's too. Far as I'm concerned, all the shit I dig exists exclusively of the junk that surrounded it, I don't want it associated with crumby revivalist era-fetishism. What I can't, and won't ever, understand is why people want to celebrate the stuff they supposedly dig in the context of all that junk (y'know, "Ooh, I love Soft Cell, weren't the 80's great?!"). Who would do that?
p/s: cheers for the book tip
Re. Oasis LP covers:
What makes me laugh is how, once they'd reached the apex of all that retrogressive crap with "Be Here Now", they kind of apologetically tried to go 'modern' with that shitey cover for "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants", and came off looking even more tasteless.
there's a shop in brighton called 'greenwich villaige' and it sells ponchos and bin bags as retro 60s fashion...
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'