Thinking more about Nevermind: the bollocks, am I right to think the photographer took pictures of other babies as well? I think that's what they said.

If so, they should ask one of the other now-30-year-olds for their fully-informed adult consent to be the new Nevermind baby on all reprints and digital streaming services, and Spencer Elden can be reassured that he is not and never was that big a deal and Teen Spirit will still smell the same if he is taken off the cover and replaced with somebody else. They should offer to do this instead of paying him out.

It is a terrible album cover. Pay the man, and then use it as an excuse to repackage!

Adam_I_III wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:13 am It is a terrible album cover.

This is true.

Geiginni wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:23 pm

El Protoolio wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:19 pm

jason from volo wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:50 am

It doesn't ever get old.

It really doesn’t.

This seems like a cash grab to me. I’m sure I’m not alone.

And through it all, the statement the cover made becomes all the more apropos.

Maybe he's a performance artist and this is all just a piece? After all, is an MFA not the difference between a con artist and a performance artist?

Gave me a chuckle.

Adam_I_III wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:13 am It is a terrible album cover.

I was just thinking that before too; it really is. The fishhook with the money is such a cringingly unsubtle addition, like a bad political cartoon.

the exemplification of "baby dick energy"

Anthony Flack wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:00 pm

Adam_I_III wrote: Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:13 am It is a terrible album cover.

I was just thinking that before too; it really is. The fishhook with the money is such a cringingly unsubtle addition, like a bad political cartoon.

Isn't it basically a self-effacing statement about the band signing to Geffen?

I expect so (so very gen X, woe is me I'm selling out), but I don't think that makes it any less of a cheesy addition. I wonder how the cover might have been remembered if it was just straight up baby in water, not cynical gen X 'tude baby.

Anthony Flack wrote: I expect so (so very gen X, woe is me I'm selling out), but I don't think that makes it any less of a cheesy addition. I wonder how the cover might have been remembered if it was just straight up baby in water, not cynical gen X 'tude baby.

On a purely technical level the crude overlay looks very hokey, but I was always pretty pleased with the groovy "Nevermind" font. Then again, who would notice any of that with the incredible eye candy on display.