#1
deadsetgav wrote:
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The strange thing is - this is new - released this year!!
um - just seen it was released last year - its still a shit cover though
Posted on Wed, 7 April 2004 at 19:18
#2
Lola* wrote:
Posted on Wed, 7 April 2004 at 19:41
#3
Michael wrote:
It’s a lame cover indeed! But how about the best cover? I’ve been thinking about this a while ago, I think my fav is the cover of LoveHateTragedy by Papa Roach. I attached the pic, but I edited it a bit, that is, I removed all text so that the ‘rocking baby’ is the only thing left!
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Posted on Wed, 7 April 2004 at 20:23
#4
Taunty Dan wrote:
thank you deadsetgav for bringing this sleeve into my world, its absolutely superb! i’m so tempted to buy the album if only to hear the track ‘guts for sale’. These people should be in the charts. Genius isn’t the word.
Posted on Wed, 7 April 2004 at 20:49
#5
deadsetgav wrote:
You should see the back - really, you should!
Posted on Wed, 7 April 2004 at 20:55
#6
not_that_kind_of_guy (a story on the radio) wrote:
i always tend to think that muse have pretty lame album artwork.
Posted on Wed, 7 April 2004 at 21:19
#7
Taunty Dan wrote:
…well i may be starting an argument here but don’t you think T?’s artwork is bad enough??
Posted on Wed, 7 April 2004 at 22:06
#8
not_that_kind_of_guy (a story on the radio) wrote:
shameless and high anxiety have very bad artwork. shameless especially. rabbits (or hares, sorry) in a theatre? please…
Posted on Wed, 7 April 2004 at 22:30
#9
Lola* wrote:
i can’t even look at the cover for shameless cos rabbits really freak me out…
Posted on Wed, 7 April 2004 at 22:41
#10
White Psycho wrote:
well my girlfriend just pissed herself laughing at that cover! What a shit cover!
She doesn’t like the shameless cover either because bunnies scare her too
Posted on Wed, 7 April 2004 at 22:57
#11
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
Okay, worst album cover (at least in recent memory) is probably Iron Maiden’s Dance of Death.
Umm, can’t think of any particularly good ones right now.
Best T? cover is Troublegum. Worst T? cover I’d have to say Semi-Detached. In my opinion.
Maybe.
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 07:40
#12
prisonbreaker wrote:
the music is nice, but the artwork is just terrible
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Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 08:48
#13
Dr. Bigjoint wrote:
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 09:17
#14
Fordonian wrote:
I quite like the artwork on Shamless and HA.
Rabbits/hares- fuckin weird! Thats the beauty of it for me- nothing that you may expect. And imagine if started to happen at T? gigs, without acid! In fact- I may get a costume just for this tour and wear it to the gigs. And die in the heat!!:D
HA’s artwork has that punky “cut things up and whack em together” aspect but doesn’t do as everyone else to flag up the “We’re punk!” point. The forthcoming Amen album (well the ads for it at least) reeks of that to me- ransom note-esqe title graphics etc.
Oh well, each to the their own :)
SP-YF used to really annoy/disturb me for many reasons though- took me ages to look at it without feeling repulsed. Maybe thats what T? wanted to do though? :)
Don’t know about worst album cover that I own. The cover of Kicking Against the Pricks by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds is a bit weak- just Cave looking a bit confused and a bit drunk (if theres a difference!) :D Wouldn’t say its the worst though. Theres gotta be some utter shite my minds blocking out right now!
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 09:24
#15
ColdEthyl? wrote:
Ci? wrote:
i can’t even look at the cover for shameless cos rabbits really freak me out…
You’re afraid of rabbits, too? By accident, or the Anya-syndrome? :D
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 11:41
#16
deadsetgav wrote:
Dr. Bigjoint wrote:
I think you just haven’t seen those germs.
I have heard one of the songs off that Zip Zap Rap album - and it sounds like it looks!
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 13:25
#17
RobbyVDH wrote:
Michael wrote:
But how about the best cover? I’ve been thinking about this a while ago, I think my fav is the cover of LoveHateTragedy by Papa Roach. I attached the pic, but I edited it a bit, that is, I removed all text so that the ‘rocking baby’ is the only thing left!
This one rocks indeed, I really like the one from Megadeth too… little people rock :D
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Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 19:07
#18
Lola* wrote:
ColdEthyl? wrote:
You’re afraid of rabbits, too? By accident, or the Anya-syndrome? :D
they’re fuckn awful…the only thing worse than rabbits are people dressed up as rabbits!!!
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 19:24
#19
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
What about rabbits dressed as people? That would freak me.
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 19:53
#20
Taunty Dan wrote:
i urge EVERYBODY to check out dr bigjoints link, its fucking GENIUS!! especially ‘happiness with ron johnson’ and ‘the many facets of roger’. And i doubt there will ever, EVER, be a band name as good as ‘The Braillettes’.
Back to T? artwork though, yeah shameless is bad, but what abot babbyteeth and pleasure death?? and troublegum is awful! AND, even though its my personal fave and one of the most ROCKINGEST albums ever, suicide pact. So bad. Good job they make up for with the musci, eh?
And by ‘musci’, i, of course, mean ‘music’. I’ve drank four THOUSAND cups of coffee today and i’m a little shaky and fucking HYPER right now.
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 20:13
#21
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
Taunty Dan wrote:
And by ‘musci’, i, of course, mean ‘music’. I’ve drank four THOUSAND cups of coffee today and i’m a little shaky and fucking HYPER right now.
Yeah, I sympathise. I’m fine for the first three thousand four hundred and one, four hundred and two or so, but after that…
I just can’t hold my coffee I guess.
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 20:20
#22
Taunty Dan wrote:
i’m trying to balance it out with a few cans of mr carlings finest and as many cigarettes as is humanly possible to cram in my face at the moment to counter effect the caffeine rush. I’m a man of extremes. And i’ve got Public Image Ltd on, which, although i really should discuss in another thread, is fucking SUPERB.
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 20:24
#23
3ddo-on-the-balcony (eddo) wrote:
All the ‘alle 13 goed’ album covers are terrible, but after a lot of drinks and a conversation with a few artists with a convincing attitude, you feel the urge to say they’re great covers, only to get rid of them.
Shameless is my least favourite of the T? covers, and I still think CRASS made the best covers and art work. Check the site: http://www.southern.com/southern/band/CRASS/
cheers!
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 20:26
#24
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
Possibly better to balance it out with a complete blood transfusion, but your way sounds better ;)
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 20:27
#25
Bad Karma wrote:
The cover of the first Muse album is one of the worst album covers in the last five years.
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 20:27
#26
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
Are you sure? there’s a lot of stiff competition. It _is_ uninspired, though.
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 20:30
#27
Taunty Dan wrote:
Misanthropologist wrote:
Possibly better to balance it out with a complete blood transfusion, but your way sounds better ;)
yeah, at least my way i get to be drunk in another hour or so!!
I agree with bad karma abot the muse sleeves, fucking terrible. Great sleeves are so few and far between these days. One of my personal faves (although i’ve never heard the album or intend to) is frank zappa’s ‘weasels ripped my flesh’. In fact most of zappas sleeves are ace, and you’ve gotta respect anyone with album titles like ‘thing-fish’ & ‘sheik yerbooti’.
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 20:34
#28
3ddo-on-the-balcony (eddo) wrote:
Agree with you Dan.
I always found the Talking Heads covers of ‘More songs about buildings and food’ and ‘Remain in light’ superb artwork. Fortunately there are more good than bad covers. Prince’s Purple Rain is one of the worse though.
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 21:01
#29
Taunty Dan wrote:
actually i’ve just this last week read a prince biography and my GOD his early sleeves are bad! In all fairness though, although i may get lynched for saying this on the WOM, he’s got some CRACKIN songs. The general public may find him weird, but you can’t fault a classic songwriter like that.
Sorry!
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 21:13
#30
Andy D (Andy) wrote:
Not only is the CD one of the best I’ve heard the last few years (I’ve certainly heard it the most), the cover is very beautiful and psychedelic what describes their music as well. The cover makes you think it’s a heavy metal band though but actually it’s just plain psychedelic Indie Rock.
http://www.rizstory.com/album.gif
Posted on Thu, 8 April 2004 at 21:37
