OLD SOCK VS. FORK IN THE ROAD: Which Album Cover Has The Most IDGAF Old Dude Swag

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Neil VS Clapton! battle of the fedora codgers! weigh in on the issues people

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― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:34 (twelve years ago)

Neil wins on handwritten font alone

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:34 (twelve years ago)

neil why because clapton looks like and is a gigantic prat

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:38 (twelve years ago)

neil does have the most iconic handwriting...i wonder how many of his albums use that? a lot of them for sure

neil obv kills clapton on every level, and his cover's "oh hey i shot this with a shitty old nokia phone" is pretty IDGAF....that said...literally calling your album OLD SOCK is kind of incredible

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:42 (twelve years ago)

the Clapton font is really really unforgiveable

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:43 (twelve years ago)

also Clapton in general is really unforgiveable...

I always die a little inside whenever I have to bite my tongue about him around various relatives

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:44 (twelve years ago)

also that Clapton is somehow managing to slightly peer DOWN in that photo is just FUCK OFF

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:45 (twelve years ago)

the clapton looks like it was swiftly made with CorelDRAW v. 1.4

the neil looks like the hand-sharpied product of an unhinged mind you'd find in a salvation army five-for-a-buck pile

advantage: neil

― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:52 (twelve years ago)

I guess what Eric is trying to tell us is that he is an ass:

http://www.heehaw.com/images/logo.png

He is the worst.

― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:55 (twelve years ago)

someone should turn neil's handwriting into an actual font.

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 8 March 2013 18:57 (twelve years ago)

otm

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 18:57 (twelve years ago)

old sock would be a good ilx user name

― buzza, Friday, 8 March 2013 18:59 (twelve years ago)

yeah clapton does look smug as fuck the more i look at it....neil's like all creepin' on u o_O

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:11 (twelve years ago)

anyway i voted for neil cuz i would never not vote for neil in anything and certainly not in favor of clapton

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:14 (twelve years ago)

otm x 1000

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:15 (twelve years ago)

background presence of tropical vegetation ought to be infuriating to any right-minded person

― goole, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:24 (twelve years ago)

that summer camp font, good god

― goole, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:25 (twelve years ago)

if i'm being honest i may have made this thread just as an excuse to bitch about eric clapton yet again

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:29 (twelve years ago)

it's a living

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:29 (twelve years ago)

Trolled by Clapton!

― cwkiii, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:31 (twelve years ago)

Clapton's cover is way more swag. WAY MORE.

OLD SOCK.

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:32 (twelve years ago)

woah chr1s i don't even know u anymore

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:33 (twelve years ago)

though i guess the poll is about SWAG, and clapton's looking all pleased with himself, clearly on vacation on his estate on some island, so...

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:33 (twelve years ago)

I'm only talking swag, Clapton's has swag, Neil's...not so much

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:35 (twelve years ago)

he should have called it COCK SOCKET

― goole, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:36 (twelve years ago)

Neil's photo looks like he press the photo button while he falling down.

Clapton is getting blown while rich guitar playing lawyers pay huge sums to tell him how cool his tones are

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:36 (twelve years ago)

well, no he shouldn't, i just felt like writing that out

― goole, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:36 (twelve years ago)

He should have called it EASTER ISLAND

― cwkiii, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:39 (twelve years ago)

Actually the only way I'd ever respect Eric Clapton even a little bit is if he changes the name of this album to I'M AN ASSHOLE

― cwkiii, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:39 (twelve years ago)

neil - "I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter."

eric - "this pic was taken on the beach by our summer home in hawaii. not pictured, beach and home obv! :P"

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:40 (twelve years ago)

Neil - Yr weird deadbeat uncle trying to figure out how a polaroid camera works
Clapton - VP of yr office on a weekend vacation

do the math

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:45 (twelve years ago)

or what al said

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:45 (twelve years ago)

neil looks like he got too close to the camera after setting the timer and then just said fuck it and used the photo anyway
clapton looks like the kind of disgusting old men my former roommate used to sleep with

advantage: neil

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:49 (twelve years ago)

Love Neil, don't care for Clapton but gotta vote for the latter cause Neil's artwork here feels far more affectedly shitty. Clapton's is just a lapse in taste.

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:53 (twelve years ago)

Which is to say, lazy enough to be TRULY IDGAF

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 March 2013 19:54 (twelve years ago)

Clapton one reminds me of
http://www.manrecordings.com/manrecorder/wp-content/uploads2/2010/11/caetano-veloso_araca-azul1.jpg

― brimstead, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:00 (twelve years ago)

Interestingly, Old Sock was originally titled Racist Fucking Piece of Shit.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:03 (twelve years ago)

all these arguments against clapton ironically add to the evidence that he gives less of a fuck. young's cover is somewhat calculated while clapton is effortlessly and repulsively lame.

― chilli, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:10 (twelve years ago)

chilli & chr1s are winning me over i think

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:30 (twelve years ago)

To be fair I am peppering yr work email with supporting claims.

We've already put in twice the work the Shakey or Slow-Hand put into their respective album covers

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:33 (twelve years ago)

DON'T LISTEN TO THEM m@tt

Clapton's effortlessly says Hi I'm a Right Bloody C--t and whether he did it on purpose or not he's still Eric Clapton therefore he loses

aka the Don Henley equation

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:34 (twelve years ago)

it's really the 'swag' part of the equation, being a cunt is often an important part of swag

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:35 (twelve years ago)

it's really the 'swag' part of the equation, being a cunt is often an important part of swag

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 8, 2013 2:35 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM OTM OTM OTM

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:36 (twelve years ago)

Also we all need to step back and think on one thing:

Eric Clapton has a new album. That album is called OLD SOCK. OLD SOCK! SERIOUSLY

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:38 (twelve years ago)

This is new?! I had just figured that it was some forgotten thing from the 90s or the 00s.

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:39 (twelve years ago)

It comes out next week!

OLD SOCK!!!

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:39 (twelve years ago)

Clapton GIVES A FUCK that's why he's a cunt his whole persona is this fake laid back slowhand bullshit and it's a LIE

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:40 (twelve years ago)

point:

Clapton GIVES A FUCK that's why he's a cunt his whole persona is this fake laid back slowhand bullshit and it's a LIE

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, March 8, 2013 2:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

counterpoint:

OLD SOCK!!!

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, March 8, 2013 2:39 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:44 (twelve years ago)

IT'S THE NAME OF HIS YACHT

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:46 (twelve years ago)

hahahahaha for real?

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:46 (twelve years ago)

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this man fucks

― goole, Monday, November 14, 2016 10:57 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:49 (eight years ago)

he'd be a good host for the inauguration ball.

― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 17:30 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZcrxVrjOL._SS500.jpg

― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Saturday, 7 January 2017 21:35 (eight years ago)

trying too hard imo

― niels, Saturday, 7 January 2017 21:35 (eight years ago)

You think!? It's completely unnatural and unconvincing.

― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Saturday, 7 January 2017 21:48 (eight years ago)

Is this a genre?

― calstars, Saturday, 7 January 2017 21:55 (eight years ago)

it's a great cover, I just find the whole setting with the bike a bit trying to hard - if Cliff truly dngaf he would've been in his kitchen or smth

― niels, Saturday, 7 January 2017 21:58 (eight years ago)

Old Dude Swag levels are off the charts though

― badg, Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:50 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

This thread is about idgaf swag complete opposite

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 13:31 (eight years ago)

eight months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/uMrFaBq.png

― niels, Sunday, 22 October 2017 09:28 (seven years ago)

four months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYLYsvHVAAMLsNW.jpg

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 21:42 (seven years ago)

Lyme disease - era Neil

― zlstrz (calstars), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:39 (seven years ago)

-max Realness achieved-

― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 22:42 (seven years ago)

eight months pass...

dgaf swag on:

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Jimmy-Wes.jpg

― niels, Saturday, 1 December 2018 09:12 (six years ago)

six months pass...

comic sans swag

https://imgur.com/5lQSGqi

― tandoor vittles (unregistered), Sunday, 2 June 2019 19:13 (six years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/5lQSGqi.jpg

― tandoor vittles (unregistered), Sunday, 2 June 2019 19:13 (six years ago)

not nearly enough old dude swag to pull that off imo

― naked rollercoaster-riding world record holder (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 2 June 2019 19:29 (six years ago)

kinda cool/amazing that jim kweskin is still releasing albums though

― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:11 (six years ago)

also amazing that Mel Lyman's cult/commune is still going strong 50+ years after its inception (albeit with less murder and mayhem these days). afaik Kweskin still makes a living with the construction company that grew out of it

― tandoor vittles (unregistered), Monday, 3 June 2019 14:50 (six years ago)

one year passes...

Dave Gilmour's Spotify pic

https://i.scdn.co/image/e0f9457be19be371905ea704c9fa67614e00fe82

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:23 (five years ago)

that pic exudes "figured out how to live" energy (the piles of money helped with that I'm sure)

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:25 (five years ago)

but the eyes say "syd knows i betrayed the true psych vibes"

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:28 (five years ago)

I wonder if he calls that guitar, "Precious".

― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:22 (five years ago)

one year passes...

ehhh

https://img.discogs.com/QYetJ3f-TIYmqoQcXL0H3B18CwA=/fit-in/600x589/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-20180788-1631274263-6408.jpeg.jpg

― brimstead, Saturday, 11 September 2021 23:01 (three years ago)

https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/study-after-velazquez-s-portrait-of-of-pope-innocent-x-c-1953_u-l-f2hviy0.jpg?artHeight=550&artPerspective=n&artWidth=550&background=fbfbfb

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 12 September 2021 12:59 (three years ago)

Slothfingers and Can’t

― calstars, Sunday, 12 September 2021 13:30 (three years ago)

three months pass...

Joni bringing the Old Dudette Swag

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_640,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__IG-CX6rJCvFFyH.jpg

― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 19:06 (three years ago)

eleven months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/uO3OVrS.jpg

― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Saturday, 10 December 2022 03:30 (two years ago)

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/556621337/photo/portrait-of-from-left-american-blues-musicians-bb-king-john-lee-hooker-and-willie-dixon-at-the.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=_LIgv3L5cn1Bm0P5tZyCa72gSG1U1lmr9pIh62nzuFE=

― earlnash, Sunday, 11 December 2022 06:57 (two years ago)

four months pass...

The cover photo to the new Graham Nash album looks like it was taken during a court-mandated wellness check.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ft8CD6sWcCE1le7.jpg

― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 17 April 2023 19:02 (two years ago)

one year passes...

J. Mascis bringin' it:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTlVGa5xDEHbeqXFvpraG_0j9Mt1_fmvB_68A&s

Full-Size: https://www.instagram.com/p/C-BFr0eRq0w/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 July 2024 13:24 (one year ago)

one month passes...

New Clapton delivers...

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music211/v4/83/86/e1/8386e1cb-aa27-63cf-ab0b-44cb1c62bb1b/198588273616.jpg/600x600bf-60.jpg

― Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 September 2024 22:33 (ten months ago)

Hey slothfingers, get the fuck out of my coffee shop

― calstars, Friday, 20 September 2024 22:35 (ten months ago)

Old Fork vs Sock in the Road

― calstars, Friday, 20 September 2024 22:37 (ten months ago)

Old fuck

― glumdalclitch, Friday, 20 September 2024 23:05 (ten months ago)

Old fuck vs Cuck in the Road

― calstars, Friday, 20 September 2024 23:09 (ten months ago)

The Original Rat

― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Friday, 20 September 2024 23:29 (ten months ago)

Giving Old Sock a go at the laziest album cover...

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music211/v4/83/86/e1/8386e1cb-aa27-63cf-ab0b-44cb1c62bb1b/198588273616.jpg/600x600bf-60.jpg

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 October 2024 14:25 (ten months ago)

lol Mercury Records logo

I do feel like he’s trying to tell us something with these covers

― brimstead, Friday, 4 October 2024 15:07 (ten months ago)

Didn’t we cover this somewhere else? I remember ragging on it

― calstars, Friday, 4 October 2024 15:33 (ten months ago)

maybe, sorry, just saw it myself this morning and instantly thought of this thread

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 October 2024 15:41 (ten months ago)

It's literally the first post in this revive.

― Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 October 2024 16:24 (ten months ago)

is that meat in his pocket?

― moral ziosk (geoffreyess), Friday, 4 October 2024 16:37 (ten months ago)

oh, I'm getting a broken image link there. fine, a mod can delete my post.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 October 2024 16:44 (ten months ago)

After Armani Clapton and Antigua Clapton, has he entered a phase of Connecticut Small Town Clapton (But A Bucket Hat to Keep a Low Profile)?

― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Friday, 4 October 2024 16:45 (ten months ago)

Without googling his current status, I imagine a new wife a few decades his junior taking this photo.

― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Friday, 4 October 2024 16:46 (ten months ago)

The Clapton cover really needs a half-completed crossword or sudoku on the table to achieve full old man coffeeshop.

― Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 October 2024 19:36 (ten months ago)

Or maybe a bookmarked mass-market paperback, a Tom Clancy or John Grisham.

― Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 October 2024 19:38 (ten months ago)

He probably quit doing crosswords when all the papers went woke.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 October 2024 19:39 (ten months ago)

I went down to the crossword, tried to flag a ride

― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 4 October 2024 20:13 (ten months ago)

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