Cover Stories
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So this one
Was supposed to be this one.
(Which was actually there first demo too I THINK). Heh heres another link to the story. Metal up Your Ass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Was supposed to be this one.
(Which was actually there first demo too I THINK). Heh heres another link to the story. Metal up Your Ass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
bluepenguin
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...spectral rainbow through a prism, actually.
Well this one is notorious for being one of the most (if not the most) controversial album covers ever. The Scorpions - Virgin Killer. Title alone is enough but check out original artwork.
Yeah just a little controversy. I'm not much of a writer but here is the alternative cover they had to release later in certain countries. Also here is a link to the entire story about it on wiki. Virgin Killer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yeah just a little controversy. I'm not much of a writer but here is the alternative cover they had to release later in certain countries. Also here is a link to the entire story about it on wiki. Virgin Killer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apparently the cover represents Oasis coming down from the North and the music industry , the media & the fans coming up to meet them , and them both meeting in the middle.
Noel Gallagher didn't know this at the time and when he found out later thought the concept was a load of shit. :laughing:
sadomiforgets
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It's Septeraber 21st, 1979, at a Clash show at New York's Palladium, and Paul Simonon's bass has only seconRAB to live. "The show had gone quite well," says Simonon, "but for me inside, it just wasn't working well, so I suppose I took it out on the bass. If I was smart, I would have got the spare bass and used that one, because it wasn't as good as the one I smashed up." Simonon still has the pieces.
The moment was preserved by photographer Pennie Smith for the cover of the Clash's third album, London Calling, a visionary musical sampler that explores R&B, ska, rockabilly and other genres. "If you're a painter or a musician," says Simonon, "you get your research from the past and you mix it with what's affecting you today." The photo does just that, harking back to Pete Townshend's traditional set-ending tantrum. The typography is another rock homage: It was lifted from Elvis Presley's first album. "When that Elvis record came out, rock & roll was pretty dangerous," says Simonon. "And I suppose when we brought out our record, it was pretty dangerous stuff, too."
Besides smashing his good bass, Simonon does have one other regret about the cover. "When I look at it now," he says, "I wish I'd lifted my face a bit more."
I could write quite a bit regarding the Smiths and Morrissey covers about, and i probably will.
Before Morrissey went solo and decided to use himself as the subject of his covers, Smiths covers would for the most part be a place for them to show off their influences and other icons.
The woman here is Shelagh Delaney, probably one of the most important influences on Morrissey. She was a Manchester playwriter who had the first play (which she amazingly wrote when she was only 19) premiered in the late 50's. It was called A Taste of Honey, and Moz famously nicked a fair few lines from it.
Just like Moz she was an image of a working class intellectual wanting to break free, and it's pictured beautifully here. I love this cover.
Before Morrissey went solo and decided to use himself as the subject of his covers, Smiths covers would for the most part be a place for them to show off their influences and other icons.
The woman here is Shelagh Delaney, probably one of the most important influences on Morrissey. She was a Manchester playwriter who had the first play (which she amazingly wrote when she was only 19) premiered in the late 50's. It was called A Taste of Honey, and Moz famously nicked a fair few lines from it.
Just like Moz she was an image of a working class intellectual wanting to break free, and it's pictured beautifully here. I love this cover.
John Choats
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I find that odd about the face thing. I think it's bloody well perfect the way it is.
. Actually now my memory is working is'nt it refracted light?
:komal karthik
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Talking HeaRAB - 'Little Creatures'
The Reverend Howard Finster.
Smiling angels swoop across the cerulean sky, trees and mountains rise amiRABt "twenty-six wholesome verses", and David Byrne carries the world on his shoulders like a post-modern Atlas. The painting was the cover of the Talking HeaRAB
Sean Williams
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From what I heard, this guy took 50 bucks a "shot" for this cover. (Couldn't find a source, sorry.)
iluvcrazeekats2
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Here's what he has to say about the UFO's;
Several people have seen UFO’s and they’ve described them, ya know. I had a vision going 200 light-years away. My son that was borned in space and I was buried in space and my granRABons grew up in space. I have visions of other worlRAB and that’s why I’m a stranger in this world…people should know that there’s other planets with life on ‘em…
Jesus came from an inhabited planet. He didn’t come from the barnyard or just over thar’. He came from the greatest inhabited planet where there’s streets of gold and mansions of gold and cities with everything…why don’t people here believe in [other] planets inhabited? I don’t see what’s the matter with people here.
:crazy:
Several people have seen UFO’s and they’ve described them, ya know. I had a vision going 200 light-years away. My son that was borned in space and I was buried in space and my granRABons grew up in space. I have visions of other worlRAB and that’s why I’m a stranger in this world…people should know that there’s other planets with life on ‘em…
Jesus came from an inhabited planet. He didn’t come from the barnyard or just over thar’. He came from the greatest inhabited planet where there’s streets of gold and mansions of gold and cities with everything…why don’t people here believe in [other] planets inhabited? I don’t see what’s the matter with people here.
:crazy: