| Author |
 Topic Search  Topic Options
|
Guldbamsen 
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23104
|
 Topic: Cover Art Blakey
Posted: September 30 2014 at 07:40 |
Pick your favourite cover art out of these  ......and yes the music on offer is completely irrelevant.
|
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
 |
chopper
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: July 13 2005
Location: Essex, UK
Status: Offline
Points: 20029
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 07:55 |
The Atoll one is pretty cool.
How long before you run out of Arts?
|
|
Saperlipopette!
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 20 2010
Location: Tomorrowland
Status: Offline
Points: 11522
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:00 |
Kind of like them all in one way or another (except perhaps the Santana). Both Atoll's albums got some genuinely lovely psychedelic fantasy drawings which makes me want to reinvestigate the band. While Zeit's always been a favorite and a perfect package for the music within.
I'm certain I enjoy the Kansas-cover a lot more than I would enjoy the album (based on having heard other stuff by them). Death May be your Santa Claus isn't a favorite but atleast succeeds in being a similar fun mess on the outside as on the inside. Vision Creation Newsun comes across as a little cheapish compared to the rest.
I also think Guldbamsen is more fond of yellow, blue and purple in combination than I am.
|
|
Andrea Cortese
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: September 05 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 4411
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:11 |
|
I like the Kansas cover. Love it.
|
|
Dean
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout
Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 37575
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:12 |
Death May Be Your Sanity Clause is possibly the worse pre-Photoshop cover of all time, I mean, what the 'ecky-thump are those two flaming lipsticks doing firing out of the carburettor air intakes of a V8 engine... I can't not vote for it 
|
|
What?
|
|
hellogoodbye
Forum Senior Member
VIP member
Joined: August 29 2011
Location: Troy
Status: Offline
Points: 7251
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:18 |
|
10 CC for me, but it's hard to reject the Second Hand's cover because of the music inside that I love so much.
|
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23104
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:39 |
 chopper wrote:
The Atoll one is pretty cool.
How long before you run out of Arts? |
I haven't thought about that, but I guess I'll start bending reality like I usually do.
BTW There are two Atoll options in the poll, but i take it you voted for Musicien-Magiciens as the other one still is without any votes
|
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23104
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:41 |
Saperlipopette! wrote:
Kind of like them all in one way or another (except perhaps the Santana). Both Atoll's albums got some genuinely lovely psychedelic fantasy drawings which makes me want to reinvestigate the band. While Zeit's always been a favorite and a perfect package for the music within.
I'm certain I enjoy the Kansas-cover a lot more than I would enjoy the album (based on having heard other stuff by them). Death May be your Santa Claus isn't a favorite but atleast succeeds in being a similar fun mess on the outside as on the inside. Vision Creation Newsun comes across as a little cheapish compared to the rest.
I also think Guldbamsen is more fond of yellow, blue and purple in combination than I am.
|
You have no idea  you should see my wardrobe...
The Atoll ones, musically, are a bit misleading. Not nearly as psychedelically influenced as the cover arts portray....but they're some fine 70s symph prog albums nonetheless.
|
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23104
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:42 |
Andrea Cortese wrote:
I like the Kansas cover. Love it. |
Oh yes. There's just something about an Indian chief wearing a buffalo space helmet.
|
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23104
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:45 |
Dean wrote:
Death May Be Your Sanity Clause is possibly the worse pre-Photoshop cover of all time, I mean, what the 'ecky-thump are those two flaming lipsticks doing firing out of the carburettor air intakes of a V8 engine... I can't not vote for it |
My thoughts exactly. This is so much better than 90% of what I've come across in today's photoshop trend. I'm very close to voting for it myself.
|
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23104
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:47 |
hellogoodbye wrote:
10 CC for me, but it's hard to reject the Second Hand's cover because of the music inside that I love so much. |
Nice pick my dear canard. Storm Thorgerson all the way!!!
Btw Pierre, did you accidentally vote for Santana instead? 
Edited by Guldbamsen - September 30 2014 at 08:48
|
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
|
Saperlipopette!
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 20 2010
Location: Tomorrowland
Status: Offline
Points: 11522
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:49 |
Guldbamsen wrote:
Dean wrote:
Death May Be Your Sanity Clause is possibly the worse pre-Photoshop cover of all time, I mean, what the 'ecky-thump are those two flaming lipsticks doing firing out of the carburettor air intakes of a V8 engine... I can't not vote for it |
My thoughts exactly. This is so much better than 90% of what I've come across in today's photoshop trend. I'm very close to voting for it myself. |
Yes, Dean description is closer to what I actually mean than what I wrote myself.
|
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23104
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:56 |
There is another one I've been meaning to use in these polls, Hapshash & the coloured Goat, which reminds me a lot of that Second Hand cover, but they don't really look that similar. Maybe it's the composition? I'm not sure.
Definitely featuring in my next poll though.
|
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
|
hellogoodbye
Forum Senior Member
VIP member
Joined: August 29 2011
Location: Troy
Status: Offline
Points: 7251
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 09:12 |
I love that one.And no, I voted the Ten CC
|
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23104
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 09:22 |
Ahh now I see it.
Edited by Guldbamsen - September 30 2014 at 09:23
|
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
|
Sagichim
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: November 29 2006
Location: Israel
Status: Offline
Points: 6632
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 09:46 |
|
First vote for Birth Control! Though I think being infectiously inlove with that album is affecting my good judgment.
|
|
HolyMoly
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: April 01 2009
Location: Atlanta
Status: Offline
Points: 26138
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 09:47 |
|
I have a strong emotional reaction to the Boredoms album cover. It's a fairly simple cover, probably didn't take a whole lot of effort to make, though the idea behind it is what really connects. It's very reflective of the music inside - an almost overwhelming brightness that would and should be blinding and unbearable to look at, but - and this may be key - the cover CAN be stared at indefinitely without pain or retinal damage. Not only that, but it allows you to see a human figure partially obscured by the blinding light, but who acts as a consoling figure as if to say, "you are in very dangerous territory here, but don't worry - we are people like you, and you're going to be okay." Likewise, as bold and daring and strange as the music inside is, it is never strident or repellent. At least I don't think it is.
Edited by HolyMoly - September 30 2014 at 09:49
|
|
My other avatar is a Porsche
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
-Kehlog Albran
|
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23104
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:02 |
HolyMoly wrote:
I have a strong emotional reaction to the Boredoms album cover. It's a fairly simple cover, probably didn't take a whole lot of effort to make, though the idea behind it is what really connects. It's very reflective of the music inside - an almost overwhelming brightness that would and should be blinding and unbearable to look at, but - and this may be key - the cover CAN be stared at indefinitely without pain or retinal damage. Not only that, but it allows you to see a human figure partially obscured by the blinding light, but who acts as a consoling figure as if to say, "you are in very dangerous territory here, but don't worry - we are people like you, and you're going to be okay." Likewise, as bold and daring and strange as the music inside is, it is never strident or repellent. At least I don't think it is.
|
This post is so ridiculously filled with win sauce, it's insane. Cheerio Captain Katjing!
|
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
|
Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator
Retired Admin
Joined: January 22 2009
Location: Magic Theatre
Status: Offline
Points: 23104
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:05 |
Sagichim wrote:
First vote for Birth Control! Though I think being infectiously inlove with that album is affecting my good judgment. |
I think it's their best album. According to my tastes then it probably shouldn't be, but life is fickle in that way.
|
|
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
|
|
Saperlipopette!
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 20 2010
Location: Tomorrowland
Status: Offline
Points: 11522
|
Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:25 |
|
After a couple of minutes streaming Atoll I ended up voting for Zeit. You can say the music is copmpletely irrelevant as much as you like, but if the visuals don't correlate with the sounds I like the cover less (or I find it less succesful).
|
|
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage")
Cover Art Blakey
