Thursday, March 23, 2006

the rigors of a day off

some of the best album covers (a list in progress, in no particular order)
except:
#1: revolver, the beatles. every time i look at it i notice something new. always, however subconsciously, modeled my drawing after this. love the faces peeking from the hair. and yes, this by far upstages the (overrated) sgt pepper and (close second) abbey road.
#2: court of the crimson king, king crimson. the only straight lines on this are the teeth. i am a fierce advocate of curves. the colors are fantastic.
#3: whipped cream and other delights, herb alpert & the tijuana brass. fucking brilliant, sexy and hilarious.
-rift, phish. i have a 2.5'x6' print of this on the wall of my loo. i still haven't found all the song titles in the art.
-tapestry, carole king. this looks like a spur-of-the-moment photograph taken by a close friend, probably whilst talking about love and drinking tea. it is a setting i would enjoy living in.
-blind faith. a bit fucking pedophilic and disturbing, done with such sunshiney colors. isn't this one of their daughters?
-lust for life, iggy pop. because every time i look at it i laugh.
-wear your love like heaven, donovan. pink and dreamy yet somehow rather dim and thereby a bit sinister; he looks like a bit of a pervert, lurking in the boat at the bottom of the picture.
-sabbath bloody sabbath, black sabbath. unsettling and creepy. why i don't go to church.
-piano man, billy joel. another style of drawing i have tried to emulate. didn't work too well.
-peter gabriel reflected in the windshield. one of those moments i notice a thousand times and offhandedly wonder if it could be captured on film... like a hand reflected in the chrome as it reaches for the automatic dryer.
-velvet underground. they're all smiling and look very young. it looks like it was taken in somebody's basement. (overrated cover: the velvet underground and nico)
-ecstacy, lou reed. feel kinda dirty just looking at it.
-modern life is rubbish, blur. great layout, great colors, simple.
-animals, pink floyd. reminds me a bit of monty python.
-octopus, gentle giant. can has a similar cover...
-tago mago, can. primitive and instantly recognizable. a guy in seattle makes lapel pins of various lp covers. i saw this one from about 15' away.
-alone together, dave mason. very dated. he looks like a silly fop who ended up randomly propped on a crag. this encapsulates late '60s british music.
i am consciously omitting the following themes: -flaky '70's fairies-and-swirlies art a la yes; overly grin&winky art a la supertramp's 'crisis? what crisis?'; pictures of the bands looking bored/posed/snotty.
i want to see an album cover of the inside of a messy refrigerator, or a dirty lavatory- or of a group of disgruntled commuters on a bus. if there is already such a thing, please let me know.

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