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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 00:40
I do read the album covers and appreciate the art...

It is crucial to know who are the producer or engineers sometimes as i am a media student myself and appreciate those who work behind the music...

The album cover's design might contribute 10% of the sales if it is pretty attractive, eye catching.. Not to forget that particular person who imply his creativity and thoughts into designing the cover...

Yea.. I do dig them =)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 01:13

Apart from the lyrics and the art which I love to examine again and again, I particularly like reading the thank you list of the band and of each member. There are sometimes some ammusing notes there or some serious things that clarify certain aspects of the album. In metal albums this is particularly interesting. The band thank you list helps you see who's friends with who. For instance Blind Guardian and Iced Earth always used to mention one another in their thank you's. THey even refered to one another as Iced Guardian and Blind Earth. Hence the collaboration Demons and Wizards. Death, for example, or more accurately, Chuck Schuldiner (RIP) had always something to say. In Human for example you can understand his complex relationship with the media and certain critics and industry people and other "malevolent" people who were spamming him - He says there something like this: this is more than a record to me, it is a statement, it is revenge!. It is also interesting to see the lineup and the guest musicians (if any) to understand relationship between bands and to understand where some influences might have come from. For instance, Wobbler's multi-keyboardist is a member in White Willow. THe producer of their album is Holm-Lupo, WW mainman.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 01:14
Yeah, I'm a design student at university, so I do really appreciate some of the covers that have been created. Standouts for me are all the Yes covers (except perhaps close to the edge), Scenes by Dream Theater, Deadwing, Snow, and a lot of others.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2006 at 03:01
There are some covers which have such small details on them it is a pity it so small. The vynil cover is more helpful in these cases. For instance the cover of Lizard (KC), Metropolis II (DT), The Masquerade Overture (Pendragon), Martian Chormicles (Solaris), Quella Vecchia Locanda (first and second albums), Il Passo Del Soldato (Nuova Era) and Zarathustra (Museo Rosenbach), to name some.
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