| Author |
 Topic  |
|
|
bob f.
Old Love
USA
1308 Posts |
|
|
rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
 Posted - 19/05/2011 : 14:43:28
|
...amazing what was on the music radar back when!... |
 |
|
|
captain america and billy
Old Love
907 Posts |
Posted - 19/05/2011 : 15:43:55
|
| Obviously,lnly locally recognized talents with little or no commercial probably won't have tgheir arms around some of the better graphic designers.But as far as bad covers from MAJOR acts...The Rolling Stones' Satanic Majesties Request" sprung immediately to mind.As if their foray into pyschedelia just to satisfy fan curiousity of how they might even dare to upstage the Beatles in this arena wasn't somewhat embarrassing in itself,the attempt here to try and create their own similar hodgepodge jacket was even far more pretentious.A much more successful take on the Fabs' latest innovation was the Mothers' "We're only In It For The Money".I also was never a big admirer of Led Aeppelin's visual concept for "Presence".I did get the idea, an entire family all with a Zen-like focus on the same inanimate object therefore creating true "presence" of mind,but the delivery was bland and therefore duly ineffective.And what about the "Pet Sounds" sleeve?.I've seen covers representing the artist with more dignity on Sesame Street designs! |
|
|
|
lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 19/05/2011 : 17:58:53
|
PET SOUNDS has become so iconic as the NUMBER ONE ALBUM of all time on so many best of polls, it's hard to not like the cover...it is too much of a part of me to not defend with passion, like I would a child of mine!! So lay offa my PET SOUNDS!!
Cover art and title
On February 15, the group traveled to the San Diego Zoo to shoot the photographs for the cover of the new album, which had already been titled Pet Sounds.[13][18] According to the Pet Sounds' liner notes, "The photos of The Beach Boys feeding an assortment of goats was a play on the album's chosen title, Pet Sounds. The title came from Brian's wish to pay tribute to Phil Spector by naming the album using his initials, and the idea that the sounds heard on the album were Brian's 'pet,' or favorite, sounds. Exactly who came up with the idea for the title is disputed. Brian has credited Carl.
Carl, on the other hand, thought it was Brian: "The idea he had was that everybody has these sounds that they love, and this was a collection of his 'pet sounds.' It was hard to think of a name for the album, because you sure couldn't call it Shut Down Vol. 3." Mike also has laid claim to coming up with the title. "We were standing in the hallway in one of the recording studios, either Western or Columbia, and we didn't have a title," he recounted. "We had taken pictures at the zoo and ... there were animal sounds on the record, and we were thinking, well, it's our favorite music of that time, so I said, 'Why don't we call it Pet Sounds.'[13] George Jerman has been credited for taking the cover photo.[27]
_____________________________________________
Everyday I wanna get on my camel and ride! |
Edited by - lemonade kid on 19/05/2011 18:00:31 |
|
|
|
markk
Old Love
USA
803 Posts |
Posted - 19/05/2011 : 22:31:05
|
| Thats great stuff Bob. I needed that today |
|
|
|
lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 20/05/2011 : 02:03:15
|
So bad, bob...so funny!
_____________________________________________
Everyday I wanna get on my camel and ride! |
|
|
|
captain america and billy
Old Love
907 Posts |
Posted - 21/05/2011 : 15:47:59
|
| These people would have been better off if they just had their names and album titles stenciled on there in black and white!Look at the White Album.Almost literally nothing there and its one of the ten or twelve most classic covers ever!I don't know.Maybe these people are all just masochists or something and there's a ceratin thrill they get from the sheer humiliation. |
|
|
| |
Topic |
|
bad album covers
