burun wrote:There it was! On the wall! So exciting to me, to see the album cover of the Silkworm at a wine and cheese type reception!

I had the reverse happen to me: a few years before Lifestyle I was in the back of a gallery in New York drinking wine and eating cheese, and there were several canvases leaning against the wall. I was taken with the topmost one, a broad landscape of tiny figures, trucks and shipping containers. My roommate said "oh, I've seen that guy's stuff around, he's Japanese I think".

Then I move far away, pick up the new SKWM joint and there it was! The little tingle of recognition! Impressing my friends with the "yes, I saw his stuff in New York, he's good"! So easy to impress, these friends!

But! the topic at hand:



Archers of Loaf, you made albums I continue to enjoy greatly, and put them in consistently off-putting packages.

syntaxfree07 wrote:

No, that cover is pretty rad. I had that on a t-shirt actually.

Birthday Party-Junkyard
Not that I don't like it exactly but it's so obviously Ed Roth artwork that it takes away from being about the Birthday Party. And it just doesn't seem to fit. You are expecting to hear an old surf record or something. The record itself is a classic though.[/img]

Ed Roth was pissed off when he heard the music that was on the record, after having done the cover.

He was particularly annoyed that there was a song on the record titled "Big Jesus Trash Can".

MrFood wrote:

DregsInTheCrowd wrote:

Psh.

If you think this is a bad sleeve, you are a goddamn fool.

I don't think it's a bad sleeve. I know it is. Somebody explain to me why this cover is great, or even good. It's not wretched or anything. Just bland. Shall I also stand behind The Obliterati's artwork because its tunes are awesome?

syntaxfree07 wrote:

That's an awesome cover! It's hilarious!

My submissions would be:

Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual (both versions of the cover are fucking lame and most of the music is pretty great)

Stooges - The Stooges (the cover is such an obvious ripoff of the Doors' first album that it's hilarious, and classic precisely because it was so cheap, lame and uncreative on Elektra's part to saddle them with that. The music inside...do I need to go on?)

Led Zeppelin - III - C'mon there's corn on the cover...(as one member of the Clash - I think it was Joe Strummer - said, "Just looking at one of their album covers makes me want to vomit..." - and it's one of my favorite Zeppelin albums ever, primarily for the acoustic stuff, though "Hey Hey What Can I Do" should have been on there...)

Velvet Underground - Loaded - Say what you want, but I've always loathed the cover for this...

Bob Dylan/The Band - The Basement Tapes - Bob and the Band looking like a bunch of damnfool idiots in some crudball basement somewhere...gee, this really makes me wanna buy this... (most of the music is really great - "Apple Suckling Tree" and "Clothes Line Saga" are unappreciated classics)

The Doors - L.A. Woman - [sound of multiple raspberries blown]

And Jimi Hendrix never had good album covers except for Are You Experienced.

Neu! 2, The Stooges?

What the heck.

SecondEdition wrote:And Jimi Hendrix never had good album covers except for Are You Experienced.

Bullshit.



(okay, so it's from a re-issue...)