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07-03-2020, 03:33 AM
Wings - Back To The Egg (1979)
https://rockandrollglobe.com/wp-content/...be63f4.jpg
Quote:The design for the album's artwork was by Hipgnosis, the company responsible for previous Wings album covers such as Venus and Mars (1975). The front cover depicts the five members of Wings in a room, looking down through space at Planet Earth through an open hatchway in the floor; the picture was taken by photographer John Shaw at his London studio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Egg
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07-03-2020, 03:39 AM
(12-01-2018, 05:37 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote:
Dude Hall and Oates had some DEEPASS songs though.
And look at this album cover, they're in/under a UFO and it says "bigger than both of us."
Some crazy shit.
https://img.discogs.com/VnoP93_L4htI0oAg...5.jpeg.jpg
I mean it really is a fascinating album cover...
Aside from the mildly hilarious Ritz cracker product placement, let's look beyond that. LOL.
They're in a UFO, but interestingly the only way this is conveyed is with the lit up disk shape ABOVE THEM, and by their positioning, central and seemingly suddenly at the end of this 'endless' weird knob/controls 'landscape'.
Out the window, all you can see is level meters and adjustment knobs which are made to look like city blocks.
OMG check it out, here's the back of the cover:
https://i.etsystatic.com/6102323/r/il/99...5_kxea.jpg
IT LOOKS LIKE DARTH VADER'S HEAD.
https://www.joesalbums.com/images/produc...l-lp1.jpeg
So they're in this...
THING.
Overlooking an endless "city" of levels and controls.
Wow.
That's some deep shit y'all.
There's a signature on it...
I guess it's an artist signature?
What does that say?
Ren Berry?
(12-19-2019, 08:35 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: You know what I never noticed before?
THE CHICK'S FEET ON THE TABLE, HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!
I feel like THEY WERE NOT THERE in the timeline from which I originally made these posts, and I'm gonna swear that UP AND DOWN.
Unfuckingbelievable.
https://www.sectual.com/thread-9462.html
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Hipgnosis did this cover for the Cure's "Lovesong" CD single:
https://imgur.com/a/EQfMHYB
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There are A LOT of really good weird album covers. I'll try to find more. I can think of a couple off the top of my head.
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"The image displayed below shows the originally planned cover art (prepared in June 2001) for a forthcoming Party Music album by the hip-hop group The Coup which was scheduled for release in November 2001. The cover depicted The Coup with an exploding World Trade Center in the background; group member DJ Pam the Funktress waved two sticks held between thumbs and forefingers (as if “conducting” the proceedings with two batons) while “Boots” Riley displayed what looked like a detonator (but was actually just a guitar tuner):"
Oh. That kind of weird stuff.
..."if you got beef with the c-o-ps, throw a molotov at the p-i-gs" ....
album art here isn't that weird; just "coincidental" as it was designed/made pre 9Eleven
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I remember that Coup album cover. It came up on teh interwebz after 9/11.
Def Leppard's Pyromania cover was similar, showing an explosion in a nondescript cartoon building, but I don't think there was a hidden message behind it.
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That album cover, by a group called "The Coup" no less??
That's just TPTB telling us their plan in plain sight.
Nothing more, nothing less.
The guys in that group probably had absolutely zero creative control re: their album cover.
Most bands didn't have any control over album art back in the day, and I'm sure they still don't.
I remember The Cars discussing how they had no control over their album artwork and that they didn't even particularly like some of them, including the most iconic:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e...e_Cars.jpg
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I don't think that one is weird, I just think it's badass.
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