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

http://media.tumblr.com/7e44bc21279c9da877800288feb96f08/tumblr_inline_ml1nr98aj51qz4rgp.jpg

Bono coming up on the outside:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BRPu-5yCUAAPTQb.jpg

http://www.davidcrosby.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Croz_Cover-2Asm.jpg?itok=xXVgvwYU

Something weirdly cryingeagle.jpg about that image.

Had a dream about this very thread just last night! I was visiting my sister and Clapton was in the kitchen for some reason, talking on the phone and looking like he looked in the '70s. Meanwhile I was amusing myself by playing the special 4CD expanded version of Zappa's "Freak Out!" in four different players at once so it just sounded like a lot of garbled noise. My brother-in-law came in and asked "What the hell are you listening to?" just as Clapton ended his call and joined us. I pointed to him and said "He's on this record!" (even tho it's actually a different Zappa album I was thinking of) and he said "That's 'Freak Out'!" and laughed and did the "It's God! I See God!" just like he actually does on "We're Only In It For The Money". Then it occurred to me that as long as Clapton was there, I might as well ask him a question about Neil Young just so I could post his reply on this thread (seemed like a good idea) so I addressed him, but for some reason I started stuttering and mumbling and couldn't get the words out. Finally I managed "What do you think of Neil Young?" and he gave a noncommittal "oh, he's all right, y'know". I realized that with all my stuttering I'd come off as some kind of fawning fanboy and that he was giving me a really patronizing answer just to shut me up. I was pissed off but said no more. The end.

Lol

...and now I have a Neil Young dream to contribute! I dreamed I was at his house with my niece - she was attending some kind of children's party for his young kids. He entered the house dressed in a pinstripe suit and running shoes, complaining about his commute home from the office: "That drive, that drive..." I was aware that he'd taken a position in the A&R dept of some record company and asked him "How do you like your new job?" He grinned and nodded a few times and said, "My focus is on the mind," then turned away. I pondered his answer for a few seconds, then his wife took me aside and advised me not to pay him any mind - he didn't understand my question, and in fact was almost totally deaf.

woah.

btw i just remembered i meant to post the back cover photo to Under The Red Sky by Bob Dylan on this thread:

http://johannasvisions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/under-the-red-sky-back.jpg

nice kicks bob

only thing that could improve it is if they were Reebok Pumps

feel like peter buck saw this thread and was inspired
http://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/peter-buck.jpg?w=800

is he wearing leopard print underwear over his slacks?

that willie nelson & roger miller upthread really is the game-ender on this front

feel like peter buck was also inspired by the "Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do" thread. wonder what his ILM username is.

that cover is awesome

You could've left us guessing a little longer, Peter, sorry "Doctor"

hahah

yeah buck's definitely not givin a fucc...jaunty stance, just wedged the bike in between 2 rocks, threw that straw hat on the ground, no worries

Thanks for reviving this, I needed it.

also i think that album was only released on vinyl, he doesn't even care if you hear it

shoulda named it I Just Don't Give A Buck

still no bucks given

Old Sock. Seriously.

Old Sock.

The Buck cover is calculated as shit...not having it.

Old Buck

is it more or less punk rock than 'monster'

I think Peter Buck was on record saying that if it was up to him
REM albums wouldnt even have any artwork, just white space, and something to distinguish it from the last album, as if he was talking about Chicago albums or whatever

Although maybe the White Album has kind of ruined that for everyone else

I get that, REM album covers were pretty consistently bad, imo.

step back

http://www.clashmusic.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_feature/public/field/image/10559777_10152629792329644_3684191939279121399_n.jpg

lenny wins

he is so thin!

same photographer's shadow (and red duplication) as the last album WHAT DOES IT MEAN

http://www.nme.com/images/gallery/2012LeonardCohenOldIdeas260112.jpg

i wish he was wearing the same suit

that is a pretty good one, but the dgaf ante would be upped if he wasn't looking so dapper. break out the hawaiian shirt, cohen!

That'd be a major uphill battle against Jimmy Buffett, the John Coltrane of dgaf Hawaiian shirt album covers.

yea he is too well-dressed to not give a fuck

dig his goatee though!

i think you guys don't realize he probably goes to sleep in a suit, it's not a sign of "effort"

more buck
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Peter-Buck.jpg

the hell?

Holding Cramps vinyl = trying too hard

more like peter suck

Buck's going for this 70 year old lifer thing and im like, yeah, you could be doing something better than this. Even down to the forgettable garage rock stuff.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9kt-Jz4vcyM/VjTuZk6oPJI/AAAAAAAALE8/Lhs3crNGiRI/s1600/Elton-John-Wonderful-Crazy-Night.jpg

Lolll

haha

this is a great poll

I can't tell if that is an actual album cover or a meme, which is probably the point, good work Elton.

Still

OLD SOCK!

Engineer:"Well, Eric I just love the mix, think everything is sounding great...say what are you going call this one?"
Clapton: "Old Sock"
Engineer: "...huh."

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/A1R4M8utp7L._SX522_.jpg

Has there been a "pointless" round for "Neil Young Albums" ?

(I know there's been a "songs on Leonard Cohen's Greatest Hits" round)

For a sec I thought that Clapton painting was signed by Peter Buck