They really jazzed it up for the promo poster!
https://images.eil.com/large_image/10%2C000%5FMANIACS_THE%2BWISHING%2BCHAIR-590277.jpg
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
how about Close to the Edge by Yes? what exactly happened there?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
Roger Dean wanted to show off his new airbrush I think.
― accordion no (Matt #2), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
Love love love this album, but could never figure out why they let the graphic design intern into the cache of rejected promo photos.https://img.discogs.com/u6F_qHf1fotTK7SLjapHhBtms14=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1575508-1503244025-9512.jpeg.jpg
― enochroot, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
i actually love the wishing chair art, it makes me want to get into 10,000 maniacs
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Drift Series 1 by Underworld
I liked the cover with the smiling dog, felt bold and unlike anything they've done
https://underworldlive.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Drift-Series-1-Artwork.jpg
however it was quickly noticed that there was a pretty glaring photoshop mistake (look at the "R" in DRIFT) and I think that maybe in response to that they released the boxset with this cover:
https://d1rgjmn2wmqeif.cloudfront.net/extra/2000/ReleaseFormat-418501-95991.jpg
which looks like a temporary cover, I can't believe a band with such a focus on graphic design let something like that through
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
oh and I guess LCD Soundsystem's American Dream deserves to be here, I was 100% convinced that was a placeholder up until the album actually came out
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
brad - you should get into them if you haven't! Start w/that album and "Hope Chest" (their early stuff); it's terrific, no one else has songs like that.
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
Something like 8 out of 10 Go-Betweens LPs deserved better covers. (Seems like the sort of thing I might have posted before, but it doesn't look like it.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
I mean, goofy cover pics can work perfectly fine for certain artists and albums, but if Pet Sounds is supposed to be a serious album, then the combination of the album title and the cover pic really don't convey that.― Tuomas, Friday, July 31, 2009 3:56 AM
― Tuomas, Friday, July 31, 2009 3:56 AM
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb272/TeN523/PetSoundsCover.jpg
Also, goats aren't pets.
Did this album actually have a photo session, or did they just reuse a promo shot from the Beach Boys appearance at the state fair?
― enochroot, Thursday, 15 April 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
I assume that mike love was being so annoying that they all decided to wrap it up and just go home early
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 April 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
It is funny that there's a prominent goat's ass on the cover of one of The Greatest Albums of All Time.
(...and aside from Mike Love, it also features the posterior of a member of the Bovidae animal family)
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Thursday, 15 April 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
(v proud of that joke, my Venmo user name is ____)
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Thursday, 15 April 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
become one of the weirdos who has been hacked by mike love
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 April 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
Steve Harley - Timeless Flight
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3b/Timeless_Flight.jpg/220px-Timeless_Flight.jpg
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 15 April 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.markknopfler.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/BrothersInArms-400x400.jpg
― Indexed, Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
my folks has the VHS of the brothers in arms videos and l thought that dobro looked so fucking cool and mysterious as a 5 year old or whatever
― brimstead, Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
Yeah I think that’s a cool album cover, I liked it as a kid
― Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:11 (three years ago) link
Pet Sounds did *not* deserve better.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
xp Even boring covers can be iconic and very memorable!
Also:- Always thought Grouper's covers were meh ... Dead Deer is at least vaguely creepy but otherwise they don't do much for me - The two 2019 Big Thief album covers could have been promo shots
― Indexed, Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
Brothers in Arms is peak mid-80s "elegant, restrained" aesthetic, sorta Vaughn Oliver for the mall record store, to stand out next to the Crü and Fat Boys album also on the endcap rack. Graceland, True Blue would be other examples.
― Citole Country (bendy), Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link
just shooting the shit here, but: what if the digital age has destroyed certain possibilities in album covers? like, small text. things that are hard to read or need to be examined closely. you can include that on an album cover, now, but no one's going to be able to read that in the corner of the corner of a streaming platform
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
maybe this is what autechre is getting at with their recent covers. cover art converging toward machine-readable icons
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 15 April 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link