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Points: 27802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 14:25
I don't see anything wrong with it.

I just don't see what you see Ian.Wink


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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 14:55
To me, it looks like a valve that's attached to a blow-up cushion or something.  That's what I've always thought.  The edges look like the edge of a Whoopee Cushion, it's the same rubber material.  Maybe it's a blow up rubber cushion?

Don't ask me what that has to do with the album... I have no clue!

Found this on an Amazon review:

Finally, a word on the cover, which looks like one of his blandest until you open up the gatefold LP to reveal an extraordinary drawing (not included in the CD issue) of what appears to be a kind of landscape/building/temple object which, when you squint your eyes and look at it again, turns out to be EXTREMELY obscene. Clearly, the most depressing man in Britain had a wry sense of humour!


I think Snowie maybe onto something!


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Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

To me, it looks like a valve that's attached to a blow-up cushion or something.  That's what I've always thought.  The edges look like the edge of a Whoopee Cushion, it's the same rubber material.  Maybe it's a blow up rubber cushion?

Don't ask me what that has to do with the album... I have no clue!

Found this on an Amazon review:

Finally, a word on the cover, which looks like one of his blandest until you open up the gatefold LP to reveal an extraordinary drawing (not included in the CD issue) of what appears to be a kind of landscape/building/temple object which, when you squint your eyes and look at it again, turns out to be EXTREMELY obscene. Clearly, the most depressing man in Britain had a wry sense of humour!


I think Snowie maybe onto something!
 
I wrote my doubts in my review of this abum back two years ago!! But I habe been thinking of this for some ten years nowWink
 
You are completely right about the inner gatefold which is clearly a masked vagina >> which more than likely accreditates that the outside cover is what I think it isBig smile
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2006 at 17:09
Erm, I only have the CD release, so I'm unaware of the inside cover... can somebody point me to a link (I'm not asking for it posted up here of course)?
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Points: 2537 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2006 at 17:12
It´s a silly cover IMO
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2006 at 17:39
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Erm, I only have the CD release, so I'm unaware of the inside cover... can somebody point me to a link (I'm not asking for it posted up here of course)?
 
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Points: 60 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2006 at 18:31
I've always saw it as a part from a neuron's body Confused

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/brain-neuron.gif

But well, I guess that what you say makes some sense...but I just can't "see" it, I have to add a little bit of imagination LOL
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I got this from the PH/VDGG FAQ page:
 
Sleeve (fold): by Betina Hohls. [Henk's interpretation] The white tissue on the front represents a woman's womb, with an egg cell waiting to be fertilized in the blue (the big circle with the monogram).

The little scuba diver in this blue region is the spermatozoa.

The back pictorizes the birth of Hammill in the same setting (take a look at the sunglasses :)

On the inside, a rather suggestive colour pencil drawing is shown ('is there more in this than meets the I?'). The picture looks like a view on a cave with a staircase leading to it through its centre. The cave is lined with folds and there is a drop of blood falling down (a woman's period?).

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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 27 2006 at 03:38
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Hmm, not sure about that.
 
Reminds me of when someone told me the inside photo of Tangerine Dream's Rubycon was rude.


LOLLOL

No,I don't find anything naughty in there...what mind you have sometimes,Snowy...Wink
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Points: 2546 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 27 2006 at 05:00
Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

I got this from the PH/VDGG FAQ page:
 
Sleeve (fold): by Betina Hohls. [Henk's interpretation] The white tissue on the front represents a woman's womb, with an egg cell waiting to be fertilized in the blue (the big circle with the monogram).

The little scuba diver in this blue region is the spermatozoa.

The back pictorizes the birth of Hammill in the same setting (take a look at the sunglasses :)

On the inside, a rather suggestive colour pencil drawing is shown ('is there more in this than meets the I?'). The picture looks like a view on a cave with a staircase leading to it through its centre. The cave is lined with folds and there is a drop of blood falling down (a woman's period?).

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Smile Mystery solved! Ah, the wonders of the web!
 
 
Thanks for the explanation for the little scuba diver - I could not figure his role in this - shall we say -
Erotic !! album cover art work. Wink

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