Album Artwork

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Supposed to. If a book cover isn't related to the story, it's a bad cover. Many such cases exist.

Like this one:

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Wonder what the illustrations look like

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Can't believe this is a real album cover

Bless the naive, for they shall believe!

 

[Birdjaguar]

Those were the days! One could display one's naivete openly and there was no social media to mock you silly. Of course, back then no one who would think nasty things about the word choices on album covers would likely ever see those anyway. But now?

I do wonder what modern Christians would think of such covers.

PS: Dick Handler needs a fourth, but maybe he can't count.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

PS: Dick Handler needs a fourth, but maybe he can't count.

Bless the unbelievers, so that they may come to know the name of the unseen member!

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Of course, back then no one who would think nasty things about the word choices on album covers would likely ever see those anyway. But now?

There's a whole genre of BuzzFeed-style articles compiling comic panels which were innocuous in their day but now have rather different connotations...

 

[Birdjaguar]

Bless the unbelievers, so that they may come to know the name of the unseen member!

That crossed my mind, but "nah" Everyone back then knew a quartet had four members and each had their own vocal part. I doubt God is a soprano.

 

[Angst]

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love this album. cover is surprisingly befitting it. even if the metaphor can be kind of mixed, for someone with depression, it makes sense.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Supposed to.

Touché. I'd offer an apology but you didn't put a "May induce vomiting" warning on the Brothers Karamazov cover.
However, I do sense a business opportunity: Don Jr and Eric Trump for a better cover; Ivanka as Anna Karenina.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Dick Handler needs a fourth

Maybe it's the "We Three" joke.

 

[Comrade Ceasefire]

Maybe it's the "We Three" joke.

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“Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you”
— The Waste Land by T. S. ELIOT

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

I like this. No fluff, no esoterism.

But admittedly it does lose something by going for a more straightforward look, by getting a more corporate sort of feel.

Which I guess is what the 'esoteric' album covers are going for. They don't want to look like they've been carefully packaged for promotion and sales. They don't want to come across as reaching out to sell themselves to you. They're like the kid cool on the block who builds up a following by staying aloof, "I don't need you, you like me, fine, don't, I don't care".

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Which I guess is what the 'esoteric' album covers are going for. They don't want to look like they've been carefully packaged for promotion and sales. They don't want to come across as reaching out to sell themselves to you. They're like the kid cool on the block who builds up a following by staying aloof, "I don't need you, you like me, fine, don't, I don't care".

Like, maybe. It could be one of the factors

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

"Esoteric"

Does the last one count, though?

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

This one is interesting enough that it makes me curious enough to give it a listen

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

"Esoteric"

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[Cutlass]

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

This one is interesting enough that it makes me curious enough to give it a listen
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JFK assassin POV

 

[Manfred Belheim]

PS: Dick Handler needs a fourth, but maybe he can't count.

I'm going to go out on a crazy limb and suggest that maybe that one isn't a genuine album cover.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I have no idea what makes a good album cover, either. I don't even really know what the covers of albums I've listened to lately look like. I had to go find them.

Lesser Man (2014) by Boy Harsher: Cover is pretty boring. Looks like something my friends in high school might've Xerox'd for a compilation tape.

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Tago Mago (1971) by Can: Meh. Points for trying, but it doesn't draw me in.

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Lip Led Scream (2022) by Incirrina: Again, very simple, looks like something somebody whipped off on their PC, but it's more compelling than the other two. I actually find myself pausing to look at it, for a few seconds.

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