Entertainment For Lively Minds
LITERAL ALBUM COVERS
Posted by Bodhisattva on 24 August 2010 - 8:00pm.
Who doesn't like an album cover that completely, stupidly, nakedly reflects the actual title? Where the "creatives" have taken the band's idea and simply realized it?
I give you Redbone's 1970 debut that had as it's sleeve a huge human thigh bone painted red.
I give you Wishbone Ash's debut that, in gatefold, presented an enormous wishbone blackened and smouldering.
I give you Jack Bruce's Things I Like that had Jack nearby some lurcher dogs, a bottle of Jack Daniels, good looking model and a fancy car.
Hall & Oate's "Whole Oates" that showed up an enormous popcorn beaker filled with...well you get the idea.
Lazy imaging? I say full on genius!
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Weezer - Hurley
Frank Zappa
Ladies & gentlemen I present from 1982:
http://images.bluebeat.com/an/9/6/1/1/1/l11169.jpg
Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
"Gag me with a spoon!"
A pretty good album
Always liked the title track, and that
song, of course...that song
What song ?? - do tell.
The famous one...
Valley Girl. Though I like most of what's on there: Teenage Prostitute, Drowning Witch, I Come From Nowhere. Pretty good album all told.
Plural should be singular
In the case of Hats by the Blue Nile.
May I refer you to this
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/found-the-most-literal-sleeve-desi...
Doh!
Damn, its getting tough to unearth new subjects on here...hey has anyone ever though about about mis-heard lyrics?
The devil is in the detail
You know how much I hate to be pedantic, but I suspect you're working from memory there?
The album is correctly called Things We Like (it's the title of a grade school textbook Jack used as a boy).
Those "lurcher dogs" you speak of are actually (l to r): a Labrador Retriever, Irish Setter, Jack Russell terrier(?) & Dalmatian.
No bottle of Jack Daniel's is visible.
No model (good looking or otherwise) is pictured on the cover.
There is a "fancy car" on the sleeve, it's a 1969-70 Ferrari Daytona 365 GTB/4 (I think).
The other striking image on the cover is that of Jack stuffing his face with what appears to be a large plate of cake. This is difficult to ascertain exactly, as the Setter is (somewhat unhygienically in my view) also eating from the same plate, obscuring the food.
Fuck Buttons
I'd hate to see an eponymous album cover from these west country boys. Especially if it was released during panto season.