terrible cover, terrible album

How these slipped by the art director over at (aherm -cough-) Wind-Up Records is totally baffling, especially considered how deeply cultivated the aesthetic sensibilities are over there. Well, that's Active Rock for you..

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004RI7B.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00001QENY.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001ELN.01._AA260_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
new lows for everyone involved.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 15 April 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002BK9JO.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

The thing that always struck me about the cover for Unmasked is that the band even concedes to the slings and arrows of the haters by putting a guy on the cover (final frame) ACTUALLY SAYING "I STILL SAY THEY STINK!"

In the case of the album, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy (though I don't mind "Is that You?")

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

would you include music from the elder in this category?

oh yeah, another obvious one:

http://www.delphidude.com/personal/discographies/yes/tormato.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TQR8MwA6Vw0J:www.rockdetector.com/assets/img/covers/26137.jpg

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 15 April 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

I think the David Live cover is pretty fuckin' cool. Will anyone back me up on this? The way he's stickin' his ass out (which is weird 'cuz he doesn't have an ass at this point) and he's looking all soulful (except he's really just jacked out of his mind, and his cheekbones stick and his eyes look hollow like a skull, and SKELETONS are totally fuckin' rad. Haven't you ever seen a movie or read a book? Don't you know who always wins in the end? It's death! And he looks like that! Not like Terri Schiavo death, but the cool kind that you get tattoos of.

Come on, y'all're just saying the cover sucks because David said that and you want to be like him.

― Heidy- Ho, Friday, 15 April 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

Shit, I got so excited I forgot to close the parentheses a few sentences ago.)

― Heidy- Ho, Friday, 15 April 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.illustrated-db-discography.nl/albumpix/CM-inside-david-live.jpg

I find the image on the left (David up close at the mic) to be really rather disturbing.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

Beck at 40!

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

I think the David Live cover is pretty fuckin' cool. Will anyone back me up on this?

Yes, I agree. I don't know the album but that's a very cool cover. It's really evocative of a certain icy, blank 70s/80s style -- like David is an airbrushed Nagel painting come to life and sent back through time to replace Marlena Dietrich in a pre-war Berlin cabaret. Or maybe he's trying to be some kind of creepy strip club MC and these are shots from his audition for Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

Heidy- Ho OTM. I love both the album and the cover. Admittedly all of the pictures are creepy, and each in a unique and surprising way, but part of the greatness of Bowie how much panache he had when he fell apart. In fashion and in performance.

― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Oops. Walter OTM as well.

― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

He just looks positively undead in those shots.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

whoever posted "we have the facts and we're voting yes" is an abolute moron. don't sleep tonight.

― rockaction (rockaction), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

not to get crude or homophobic, but on the david live cover it looks like someone has put a really sharp stick up bowie's ass.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

Undead undead undead...the bats have left the belltower...

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000274JU.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.canadianbands.com/helixlongway.gif http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/5b/b4/159320-resized200.jpg http://glen.utdallas.edu/Glen/CDs/Bob%20Dylan/Bob%20Dylan%20Dylan.jpg

That Dylan one's chosen based on reputation alone. (Never heard it.) And my sister owned that Helix album, the only reason I ever heard it.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00001QGP4.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Come now....Helix had worse sleeves than that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

That Dylan album is fine. Not breathtakingly brilliant, but just ... fine.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

I haven't actually heard it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and bet is sucks.

http://www.philnaro.com/images/crisscat-front.jpg

― darin (darin), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0002IU0JQ.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

heh.

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

I can see maybe not liking MIA's music, but if you don't like that cover, there's something wrong with you.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

but if you don't like that cover, there's something wrong with you.

There must be something wrong with me, as I think that cover's an eyesore.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm glad I could help you learn this new information about yourself.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I can see maybe not liking MIA's music, but if you don't like that cover, there's something wrong with you.

Not to take a position, but why? Because we don't have a lot of Che Gua-qaeda artwork in pop?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 15 April 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

the MIA cover is kinda garish. but i don't think that it's awful.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

That MIA cover is just too goddamn busy. It could be good if they took it down a notch.

― darin (darin), Friday, 15 April 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

is the m.i.a. album even out yet?

― Aerodynamic (Aerodynamic), Friday, 15 April 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I guess that's just my style.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 15 April 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

The MIA cover reminds me of Living Colour for some reason....the Vivid cover in particular.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 15 April 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

http://w1.499.telia.com/~u49903153/covers/cranberries_cd_bury_the_hatchet.jpg http://www.katarsis-net.com.ar/images/jreid/bollocks.gif

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 15 April 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000894OL.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 15 April 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Renouncing Never Mind the Bollocks? You're dead to me, Geir.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard the M.I.A album (though I'd wager it's not my cup of tea), but I just think the cover is a garish mess. Good call on the Vivid resemblence, though (a great album with a hit cover).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 April 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mp3.com/images/cover/200/drc600/c651/c651113htd2.jpg

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

Also, metal in general to thread!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

No Limit to thread too.

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

the MIA cover reminds me of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, frankly.

Anyhoo:
http://drindustrial.flamingfish.com/graphics/CDs/M/Mortification/TriumphOfMercy.jpg

http://www.dailyvault.com/mortiis_stargate.jpg

(oh ok, so I could be here all day posting metal and metal-related covers... Ah, one more!)
http://www.enet.ru/kn/charon/29/wolf.jpg

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 16 April 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

the MIA cover is superb.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 16 April 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

Woah, what's that wolf thing? That's awesome. I don't see how you could not like that.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 16 April 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

the mia cover looks to be politically relevant, but as a design, it's an aesthetist's worst nightmare

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

that mia cover looks to be politically relevant, but as a design, it's an aesthetist's worst nightmare

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 5 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

The entire Black Metal genre to thread.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 5 October 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Heard M.I.A. talk about a facet of a refugee upbringing, adoptinga heavy sri lankan accent to impersonate her mother saying, "You want a dress, you make it yourself!" --> "you want a song, you make it yourself"-->you want an album cover you make it yourself.

― deekew (deekew), Thursday, 5 October 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

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