Yeah. No live b-side "Bodhisattva" tho.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
um, sorry about that. frustration with bad day + boring ILX led to surf-by shooting. as NV said, it's the threads that don't exist, not those that do. who am I to quibble your choices. :(
― have a nice Blog (imago), Thursday, 16 May 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
It's like every one of those covers is the work of a different style of band - "Thrill" is some Westbound funk band, "Ecstasy" is a great Brit prog band, "Pretzel" is some American singer-songwriter, "Scam" is a crap Brit prog band.
"Katy Lied", just because I can never resist that sort of muddy-green palette.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that makes sense -- and Aja is a creamy CTI fusion LP
― tylerw, Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it's strange how diverse they are.
this is pretty funny: "The [royal scam] cover was designed by Larry Zox and Charlie Ganse, and was originally created for Van Morrison's unreleased 1975 album, Mechanical Bliss" did they have no say over their artwork or they just didn't care or what?
― wk, Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
I apparently am too enamored of terrible 70s fantasy/SF because I can't fathom disliking the cover to The Royal Scam
signed, a perplexed goth
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's great in a kitsch kind of way but I can see why people find it ugly. it's pretty murky and visually cluttered, and the fade into the photo at the bottom is awkward. it's like a poor man's giger.
― wk, Thursday, 16 May 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
― wk, Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they weren't on the same label, so my guess is the artist was contacted about doing the cover and was like 'well i have this perfectly good cover that was never used'
my favorites are Aja and Countdown, and i have no idea what's really going on in either.
― trick paddy pollars (some dude), Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
it's pretty murky and visually cluttered, and the fade into the photo at the bottom is awkward. it's like a poor man's giger.
^^^ this. it's got a severe shift in perspective 2 inches from the bottom of the sleeve, its a mass of ugly dark blues/greys/blacks, etc.
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
DF said somewhere that the Royal Scam cover is the ugliest album art of the 70s, except maybe CBaT
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
two against nature
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
Exactly!
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 17 May 2013 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
'70s was some kinda golden age for rock LP art imo
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 17 May 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
i've always really loved the CTE artwork.
― leno dunham (get bent), Friday, 17 May 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
i love the Dan like crazy, but these covers are all varying degrees of hideous. the Nightfly artwork really does outclass them all. it's true that Two Against Nature is the worst offender; looks super budget and that ridiculous ill-fitting "2" makes it seem like one of those 2 for the price of 1 schemes.
― charlie h, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Aja isn't overly unflattering, i guess.
― charlie h, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
also, i don't really mind the IDEA behind the artwork for The Royal Scam. it's just wretchedly executed is all.
― charlie h, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
oh come on, that cover is utterly classic.
― wk, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
well, it's artistic and stylish (which i can't say about any of the others), but i still somehow don't enjoy looking at it.
― charlie h, Friday, 17 May 2013 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
So she's Asian but what's her nationality?
― calstars, Friday, 17 May 2013 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
Israeli
― how's life, Friday, 17 May 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
voted for 'katy lied'. 'aja' and 'gaucho' have this sort of iconic feel about them, and i also like the 'countdown to ecstasy' one.
― rusty_allen, Friday, 17 May 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
I think I rank them:
TRSAjaGauchoKLCTEPLCBATTANEMG
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RESSLING (DJP), Friday, 17 May 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
The only one I really like is Pretzel Logic. Katy Lied & Aja are pretty good, & so is Gaucho, except for its fonts, ugh. Can't Buy A Thrill & The Royal Scam are awful.
― Euler, Friday, 17 May 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
I get seriously squicked out by mouths that are not attached to faces. So Can’t Buy A Thrill, the Rolling Stones logo, Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack, and certain models of fleshlight are just out.
― how's life, Friday, 17 May 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
whoever upthread said "a great collection of '70s ugliness" is kind of onto it
― the bitcoin comic (thomp), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
amen. I like "Everything Must Go", it seems to sum up their aesthetic in a way I can't quite place my finger on. Aja and Gaucho are also v. good.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
Everything Must Go is dope. especially the color scheme of the text.
― some dude, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
EMG is basically an instagram post from anyone vacationing in DC
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
LOL
― how's life, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
Argh, this band not only has a ton of bad cover art, but bad cover art that is ahead of its time -- Pretzel Logic is proto-90s radio-friendly alt rock, Countdown to Ecstasy looks like a Radiohead/Bjork collabo, etc.
Voted for Aja, find that one elegant and it suits the record. Can't Buy a Thrill and Royal Scam are just a mess. Gaucho is so bad I find it endearing.
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
gaucho because I remember seeing it as a kid and it was the first dan album I ever saw
― akm, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Countdown To Ecstasy because here they come.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
"Pretzel Logic is proto-90s radio-friendly alt rock"
ahah, so true.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
Steel Daniel Pilots
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 30 May 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Surprised by Katy coming first. I know a lot of people like it, but I don't really dig it that much.
Good to see a big turnout though!
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Thursday, 30 May 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
56 votes for boring, 36 votes for awesome, and 2 trolls.
― wk, Thursday, 30 May 2013 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.popspotsnyc.com/pretzel_logic/― sons of plutarchy (will), Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:07 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sons of plutarchy (will), Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:07 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i love this
― ʎqןıs (gr8080), Thursday, 30 May 2013 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
it's remarkable that a band that were such perfectionists on the music end of things seemed to just not give a fuck - like, at ALL - about the album artwork. Liner notes, sure, but the art = "eh, who cares"
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
aja is a legitimately great album cover imo, and pretzel logic has its charms.
― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
also think katy lied and gaucho are pretty charming
at this point i only think the reunion records have godawful covers
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
Countdown to Ecstasy is pretty bad
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
no
― brimstead, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
i love that one, it's pretty fuckin cracked
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
nearly all of this band's album artwork is shit. I like the Aja art, and I also like the Katy Lied art but that's also probably my least favorite Dan album. Gaucho is just incomprehensible to me as a cover, it's hard to think of album art that relates less in content or aesthetic to the music.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
come on the gaucho painting would totally be hanging in luxury apartment of someone who's done so much coke they think the walls have eyes
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
I think the Gaucho art makes sense if you consider it as this sort of fantasy image, considering how many of the tracks are these imagined scenarios in which the narrator tries to mythologize themselves or their situations or even their adversaries, while in the meantime they’re living this empty existence facing down middle age and partying past their sell by date.
― omar little, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
i like katy lied, aja, gaucho, pretzel logic, and find the remainder VILE
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
gr8080, this isn't the cursed images thread
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
absolutely not
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
also coke will kill you before you ever start hallucinating
― gr8080, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link