O/T Not your Fav Album but your Fav Album Cover

I love the two Jenny Saville Manics sleeves:

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td53 said:
I played it in the car to someone who'd never heard of it before (I do that, subject passengers to music they probably don't like lol) and asked them to guess the year it was made. They said 'I dunno, this year?' - They weren't having it was the 70s for a second. It doesn't age.

Death Disco is the most moving, frightening, searing, honest, soul baring, beautiful exotic piece of music I've ever heard. Ol' Rotten Johnny is such a chameleon, clown and contrarian and yet those times when he's just an artist, pure, simple and vulnerable are breathtaking.

I can take or leave a lot of the post Wobble/Levine stuff, there's some good stuff but that original line up is just breathtaking - afterwards, it feels a bit too much like Lydon's band and he doesn't get reigned in enough or challenged enough. The good stuff is much more thinly spread - I love the claustrophobia of Flowers of Romance as you can virtually hear the simmering tension and paranoia between them, but that's what draws each one of them out and pushes (in particular Metal Box and Flowers of Romance) into such strange and exotic waters. It's mind blowing in a way - Lydon was kind of a boy band singer (in a round about way) and Wobble hadn't played the bass very long and yet, it's one of the single most original and compelling line ups in music. It doesn't sound like anyone else. Pistols were great, but they were just reheated pub rock. What Johnny did next is turn everything upside down and make entirely original music. It's got that thrill to it, where you can hear them subsumed in the journey of the sound. It's like Levine is just guiding the guitar, chopping it, stroking it, shaking it, like Wobble is locked into some other wavelength in a trance and the drumming is not so much keeping time as doing something ritualistic with Lydon the shaman lost in his own spell.

I think it might be evident I like it a lot lol.

Went to see Wobble do a talk about playing the bass and stuff - I don't play bass, but it was fascinating. He just talked about life with his bass on his lap then every ten minutes or so played one of the PiL bass lines and went on another ramble about this and that.
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Spot on summary td. Went to see PiL at the Belle Vue 79 Creation for Liberation gig,they only
played for about 30mins,Johnny was in a bit of a mood lol, brilliant set though.9F8A4890-ED95-4213-A421-35F100015F30.jpeg
 
Agree with LA Kings, my favourite album's Powerslave (which is a great cover in its own right), but my favourite cover design is Somewhere In Time. Loads of oblique and hidden references to Maiden songs and history.

It's a bit like Sgt Pepper, but with better references.

And music.
 
Leither said:
The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column. An early Factory records release with a sleeve made out of coarse sandpaper designed to damage the record sleeve alongside !!
I bought a copy from that second hand record shop near the bus station when I was a kid just because I liked the sleeve. Also quite liked the music.
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Want to sell it to me :)
 
Fleetwoodblack said:
Want to sell it to me :)
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Hahahaha!! I bought it when I was about 17 for £5 . . . proper original with no stencil and free flexi. I sold it a few years later for about £30 thinking I'd done well. It now sells for well in excess of £500 so not the best move of my life !!
 
Leither said:
Hahahaha!! I bought it when I was about 17 for £5 . . . proper original with no stencil and free flexi. I sold it a few years later for about £30 thinking I'd done well. It now sells for well in excess of £500 so not the best move of my life !!
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woah ! pricey !! I saw it in that record shop down coronation street on the end and should have bought it...that was a great shop..bought some Led Zepp bootlegs instead and like you sold them..worth a bob now !
 
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CGP1 said:
Agree with LA Kings, my favourite album's Powerslave (which is a great cover in its own right), but my favourite cover design is Somewhere In Time. Loads of oblique and hidden references to Maiden songs and history.

It's a bit like Sgt Pepper, but with better references.

And music.
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Better references? What makes a reference to Alistair Crowley, Mae West or Sonny Liston better or worse than anything else?
Nothing, is the correct answer. So we're into the arena of subjective opinion, aren't we?
As for the music...not a snowball's, mate!
 
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