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I think Tom's right about this "reinforcing the total aesthetic"
business. It IS packaging - but not "just" packaging. What's
packaging for? Keeping something together, all wrapped up in one
place. What seems more aesthetically apppropriate, that the new Of
Montreal album have childlike surrealistic cartoon drawings on its
art - or ambiguous H.R. Geiger paintings of technologically advanced
sexual penetration? (On second thought, don't answer that.)
― Josh, Wednesday, 6 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Ah but Tom, my comparison to Roger Dean was, as I admitted, very
obvious, lazy and cheap, just an instant reaction to all those
Radiohead = prog analogies of a few years back. You're right, the
Kid A cover is *very* straightforward and pared-down compared to his
designs.
Like you I was deeply irritated by the uniformity of the promotions
for OK Computer and its singles (that mock-sloganeering around the
lyrics: so obvious, so arrogant, so horribly "above" the screaming
teens on TOTP, so convinced that it will remain so for all time).
But I also think the aesthetics surrounding a band (its album covers,
style of promotion, etc.) do create, for many people, a certain
assumption of how it will sound. Radiohead's aesthetics have always
influenced me to think of them as arrogant in their sense of
intellectual superiority, distancing and isolation (I could write
this better), and when I've actually heard them I've usually
concluded that they don't have the music to make such tendencies
excusable, in my view at least.
― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 7 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I'm sorry, but that album cover looks like it was knocked up on
photoshop by someone who had the mp3s but wanted a cover to go with
it whne they burned it to CD.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 21 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
three years pass...
((One of Thom's attempts at drawing, I believe ))
It's better than his singing at least.
― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 2 October 2003 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
one month passes...