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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
― 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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
It comes out next week!
OLD SOCK!!!
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
point:
― 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:
― 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 (eleven years ago) link
IT'S THE NAME OF HIS YACHT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
hahahahaha for real?
― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
it sounds true, so let's say yes
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
>:)
SEE? PLAUSIBLE. THEREFORE = LOSES.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
If OLD SOCK is the name of his yacht then I'm selling all my Neil records. THAT IS SWAG AS HELL. THAT'S SOME DRAKE SHIT!
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
stop it right now
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
So long "On The Beach"! Hello "461 Ocean Boulevard"!
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
what is that against neil's door anyway
― goole, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
The reason I think Neil wins this is that I really don't think he took that picture with the intention of it being his album cover, whereas I think the concept behind the OLD SOCK cover was brainstormed in a conference room around a very, very expensive table.
― cwkiii, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
See you in hell "Rust Never Sleeps"! "E.C. Was Here" is my new jam!
a dalek
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
i can't tell if whatever is against neil's door is leaning or affixed to it. like maybe it's some 2x4's he nailed to the door after he kicked it in the previous night and made a hole.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
is that a dog against the door?
― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
a stuffed dog maybe?
see, i get the feeling neil thought this crazy old man photo would be a great cover for his crazy old man music, really set it off, get people looking at it, no mistake
i get the feeling it never occurred to clapton that anyone would object to title old sock in goofball font with vacay pic
careful consideration is not very swag.
― goole, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Plus, Neil already did the IDGAF SWAG album cover with the cover of "Silver & Gold" taken with a damn Game Boy
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
we need to talk about Clapton's Jimmy Buffet vibe ie THIS IS WHY HE LOSES
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
fork in the road cover is a youtube screenshot right? #swag
― tylerw, Friday, 8 March 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
jimmy buffet has mad swag tho; he's commodified an entire way of life
― mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
Clapton :P
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 8 March 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
Clapton had his pic taken on Tanned Penis Island shortly before Sting's house burned.
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 March 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
hahah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
Neil wins on handwritten font alone
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), 8. maaliskuuta 2013 20:34
neil does have the most iconic handwriting...
― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), 8. maaliskuuta 2013 20:4
someone should turn neil's handwriting into an actual font.
― fact checking cuz, 8. maaliskuuta 2013 20:57
I think the writing on the cover already is a font. They try to hide it by putting a different "n" in the word "Young", but other than that, all the recurring letters are identical.
― Tuomas, Friday, 8 March 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah yr rightactually hiring some designer to make him his own font would be a TOTAL neil move
― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
scroll down to the bottom here for a couple downloadable neil fonts:
http://www.thesongdog.de/rust.php?cont=art
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
I voted Clapton because he looks like the bigger cock. I hate him.
― C: (crüt), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
crut knows what's up
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
Clapton missed a golden opportunity to make the "L"s in the title little pictures of old socks. He still would suck to death.
― today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
Unless that font is actually crusty, stiffened old socks nailed together. He would then suck slightly less to death.
― today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
Re: Old Sock - If I remember correctly, when Clapton released the Journeyman album, the review in Musician Magazine was "Well he wasn't going to call it Hack, was he?"
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 9 March 2013 06:27 (eleven years ago) link
Xgau, actually:
Journeyman [Duck/Reprise, 1989]What did you expect him to call it--Hack? Layla and 461 Ocean Boulevard were clearly flukes: he has no record-making knack. So he farms out the songs, sings them competently enough, and marks them with his guitar. Which sounds kind of like Mark Knopfler's. B-
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 9 March 2013 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
Neil's cover precisely nails that found-object outsider art mystique that chillwavers and underground noise artists have been fetishizing for 10+ years
STILL showing up the kids at their own game in your fifth decade & counting = swag as fuuuuuuuuck
― Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 March 2013 07:51 (eleven years ago) link
Project high living yacht rock fantasies onto Eric all you want; his cover looks as swag as Stephen Stills
― Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 March 2013 07:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/c/crosby-stills-nash/album-csn.jpg
"I'm on a boat motherfucker take a look at me"
― earlnash, Saturday, 9 March 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xogiUUMy_RU
i apologize if it's already been acknowledged but neil's cover is a screencap from the title track's video, in which he plugs headphones into an apple and shakes it at us while lip syncing.
Neil by a mile.
― da croupier, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like this cover is just more of Clapton wishing he was as cool as JJ Cale
― brimstead, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
Clapton's cover just looks like an old rich dude that wants to make a point to the folks that have picked up the album that he is rich, and you aren't.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
I GOT A HAT FOR MY BIRTHDAY = Clapton
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thewaxfactor.com/images/Ry-Cooder-Paradise-And-Lunc-334267.jpg
― da croupier, Saturday, 9 March 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like the older generation is taking a "well the kids obviously aren't even trying anymore so why should we" stand with these moronic album covers
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 9 March 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
but the eyes say "syd knows i betrayed the true psych vibes"
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
I wonder if he calls that guitar, "Precious".
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
ehhhhttps://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 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
Slothfingers and Can’t
― calstars, Sunday, 12 September 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link
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 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uO3OVrS.jpg
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Saturday, 10 December 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link