Same cover - different disc

[TheGSMoeller]

[Daverz]

Very popular Boccherini cover:

[mahler10th]

Yeah, I definitely notice this too!

This painting:



is another very frequent album cover hog, although I can't remember the other examples.

My old pal Hans...

[Wakefield]

Not exactly the same cover, but a sort of variation on the same theme:

[Peter Power Pop]

Ever get the feeling you've seen a picture somewhere before?

From the Wikipedia entry on artist Karl Friedrich Schinkel:

Working for the stage he created in 1816 a star-spangled backdrop for the appearance of the "Königin der Nacht" in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, which is even quoted in modern productions of this perennial piece.

This is Schinkel's painting:




It got quoted alright.

Here's a (distinct lack of) variety of covers:

     

   

   

   

 

And a non-Mozart (and non-classical) album:




That sure is one popular painting.


(Thanks to Gurn Blanston for the Andrew Manze and Jordi Savall covers. And thanks to Moonfish for Mozart: The Complete Operas.)

[Peter Power Pop]

Snap!

       

The painting is The Angel of Splendour, by Jean Delville:



(Thanks to Dancing Divertimentian for supplying the Messiaen cover.)

[Peter Power Pop]

Update: I'm new to this particular thread, and didn't know that the image used in this post had been used in two previous (and entertaining) posts. This post will contain all the covers.

My previous post on this thread featured a painting by French artist Jean Delville on no less than five album covers.

Another of Delville's paintings has been used more than once, but this time it's only twice four times.

The painting is Satan's Treasures:



First the classical covers:

(Thanks to Wanderer.)

(Thanks to Toccata&Fugue.)

And now for your head-banging pleasure, the two metal covers:

Hexenhaus - A Tribute To Insanity (1988) http://www.youtube.com/v/5NdYKhXmIg8

Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick (1991) http://www.youtube.com/v/NdHJ0u5cLB0

[North Star]

My previous post on this thread featured a painting by French artist Jean Delville on no less than five album covers.

I like the way you use those hyperlinks, Peter. 

[Pat B]

Sensitive Fluffy.






I think the Christmas one is my favorite.

[Gurn Blanston]

Good god, it's almost scary!  The Karajan, that is. Actually, the lack of creativity amongst the designers is a bit scary too.

[Peter Power Pop]

I like the way you use those hyperlinks, Peter. 

Thanks, North Star. The hyperlink is one of my favourite aspects of the Internet. The ability to zoom off to another part of the Internet by simply clicking on a link is, to me, miraculous. And to do it in an instant is nothing short of amazing. (Or maybe I'm just easily impressed.)

I use them as often as possible because I find them incredibly useful. Who's Jean Delville? Let's find out! What's the square root of 236? Easy!

Thank you, Internet.

[Peter Power Pop]

Sensitive Fluffy.


I think the Christmas one is my favorite.

I like how the Very Best Of Adagio people coloured Herbie's jacket blue, to match the background colour. That was a nice touch.

As for the others, I'm not keen on the ocean, sunrise, or the Christmas covers. They each have an awkward blend of two images, so that Herbie has a bit of Christmas tree in his jacket, and his jacket has all that water in it etc.

But for me, worst of all is the photo of Herbie himself. It's so prosaic. Herbie doesn't look excited, interested, pensive, sad, happy, ecstatic, or even miserable. He doesn't look anything. From what I can see, Herbie could be at a restaurant, reading the menu and not being interested in anything he sees. Or he could be looking at his bank statement. Or sitting in the lounge room, thinking how he should get around to putting out the bins that night. Or anything else that requires no emotion whatsoever.

[The new erato]

From what I can see, Herbie could be at a restaurant, reading the menu and not being interested in anything he sees. Or he could be looking at his bank statement.

I think those two sentences are very at odds.

[amw]

But for me, worst of all is the photo of Herbie himself. It's so prosaic. Herbie doesn't look excited, interested, pensive, sad, happy, ecstatic, or even miserable. He doesn't look anything. From what I can see, Herbie could be at a restaurant, reading the menu and not being interested in anything he sees. Or he could be looking at his bank statement. Or sitting in the lounge room, thinking how he should get around to putting out the bins that night. Or anything else that requires no emotion whatsoever.

Actually, what's just out of frame in that photo:

[Peter Power Pop]

I think those two sentences are very at odds.

A part of me was imagining Herbie as a regular guy, with regular-guy concerns, doing regular-guy things.

But considering everything written about The Big H, it's pretty unlikely.

Who knows? Maybe Mr. Super-Ultra-Successful-Conductor-Man-Who's-Great-Just-Ask-Me-I-Am-Great did occasionally think about taking out the bins. Maybe.

[Peter Power Pop]

Actually, what's just out of frame in that photo:

Excellent.

[Bogey]

Well, sometimes it turns out to be a cool thing:

[Bogey]

Another place where it worked:

[Bogey]

And failed:

[Peter Power Pop]

And failed:

I find that cover disturbing in more ways than one.