Covering Album Covers

[revbob]

Have we discussed what a god awful cover this is?

Is there a need to? I mean it is at lest representative of the music.

[matedog]

Have we discussed what a god awful cover this is?

Is there a need to? I mean it is at lest representative of the music.

I guess I'm just annoyed that I don't see it on "Worst Album Covers" lists.

[Marky Dread]

Have we discussed what a god awful cover this is?

Is there a need to? I mean it is at lest representative of the music.

I take it that it's the Warner Bros. logo you find offensive.

[Dr. Medulla]

[Marky Dread]

[matedog]

Let's let Sabbath week continue. What the fuck is with their album covers? They are all over the place:

Creepy ass nightmare fuel. Ozzy looks like a witch.


This looks creepy and hard to figure out at first glance until you realize it's an echo image or a slow exposure of a goofy looking cop with a sword? in the forest?


Now we go all text. Glad that Warner Brothers label that sticks out matches the color scheme.


I would assume this is a live album based on the image.


Now we are doing a parody of 80s metal albums that are yet to exist.


Just what the fuck is this?


Great now we have Hipgnosis and Storm Thorgerson's bullshit - robots shooting eye laser while on an escalator.


I think there are one or two decent Hipgnosis album covers and the rest are abysmal. This is the latter.

[Dr. Medulla]

Heavy metal bands didn't warrant much of a promo budget in the early days, so the sleeves were pretty slap dash.

[matedog]

Heavy metal bands didn't warrant much of a promo budget in the early days, so the sleeves were pretty slap dash.

It's not necessarily that they are all bad, I quite enjoy the first one, but there are just so different from each other in every possible way.

[Marky Dread]

Let's let Sabbath week continue. What the fuck is with their album covers? They are all over the place:

Creepy ass nightmare fuel. Ozzy looks like a witch.

Mapledurham watermill not that creepy at all. Played there as a kid many times.

[revbob]

Let's let Sabbath week continue. What the fuck is with their album covers? They are all over the place:

Creepy ass nightmare fuel. Ozzy looks like a witch.


This looks creepy and hard to figure out at first glance until you realize it's an echo image or a slow exposure of a goofy looking cop with a sword? in the forest?


Now we go all text. Glad that Warner Brothers label that sticks out matches the color scheme.


I would assume this is a live album based on the image.


Now we are doing a parody of 80s metal albums that are yet to exist.


Just what the fuck is this?


Great now we have Hipgnosis and Storm Thorgerson's bullshit - robots shooting eye laser while on an escalator.


I think there are one or two decent Hipgnosis album covers and the rest are abysmal. This is the latter.

The first cover is great, totally captures the feel of the album for me.

There was an alternative cover for Paranoid that showed up


But the album was intended to be called War Pigs but depending on who you ask the record company wouldn't go for that as the title (Vietnam War was still going at the time).

Vol4 isnt a live album. I believe it was originally planned to be titled Snowblind as they did ridiculous amounts of coke while recording the album and that is one of the songs on it. Record company wasnt going for that album title either still an odd choice of artwork.

SBS has a great cover.

[matedog]

There was an alternative cover for Paranoid that showed up

That cover is rad.

[Dr. Medulla]

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/exclai ... rs_of_2023

[revbob]

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/exclai ... rs_of_2023

Never heard of the majority of those bands and the rest pretty much verifiably suck ass.

[Dr. Medulla]

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/exclai ... rs_of_2023

Never heard of the majority of those bands and the rest pretty much verifiably suck ass.

Even with sites that cover left-of-centre artists, I figure I'm doing good if I've heard of 25%. Which might be age, but I imagine it's also just so much music being released.

[revbob]

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/exclai ... rs_of_2023

Never heard of the majority of those bands and the rest pretty much verifiably suck ass.

Even with sites that cover left-of-centre artists, I figure I'm doing good if I've heard of 25%. Which might be age, but I imagine it's also just so much music being released.

I just figure to make such a list you should be sonewhat known. Not that Im one to know whats current these days.