GMG Classical Music Forum
The Back Room => The Diner => Topic started by: Maciek on April 12, 2007, 02:04:53 PM
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One of my favorite Diner threads from the old forum (here's a link (http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,619.0.html)).
A recent exchange (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19.msg2891.html#msg2891) on the Your favorite CD covers! thread over here leads me to believe we still need this one. ;D
Maciek
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Although I love Alfred Brendel's recordings, covers of his face are automatic losers.
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I remember this one was quite a hit on the old thread:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000174LTS.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_AA240_.jpg)
Though this isn't much better, is it:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000E36W.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_AA240_.jpg)
(bad hair day)
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Always though it took courage for Philips to put him on the cover -- and Birgit Nilsson, for that matter,
I'll just wait for someone else to post for the first time the cover that haunted the previous incarnation of this thread. The famous opera about head removal will never be the same.
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00000E36W.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_AA240_.jpg)
(bad hair day)
Oh my gosh! You know who that looks like:
(http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/2352/burke1.jpg)
Oh my gosh! Even the eyebrows!
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Pictures of interpreters on a cover is disgusting.
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(http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00004YX0R.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V45594524_AA240_.jpg)
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Pictures of interpreters on a cover is disgusting.
Hear that, Sarge? ;D
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000005E4I.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SS500_.jpg)
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Pictures of interpreters on a cover is disgusting.
AHEM! >:( >:( >:(
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Please, there's no competition between the two!
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Hear that, Sarge? ;D
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000005E4I.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SS500_.jpg)
My favourite is this one though ...
(http://www.geocities.com/kulturkompasset/umudgHelene_Grimaud-credo.jpg)
AHEM! >:( >:( >:(
Hey, hornteacher, I think we're posting on the wrong thread!
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It seems the worst/best are interchangeable... ;D One man's disgusting is another's Grimaud (or Hahn). ;)
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Some might think the thoughts such covers inspire in me are disgusting. My wife, for example.
Egbdf
If only I didn't know what you are talking about. ::)
;D
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I should probably change it then:
One wife's disgusting is another man's Grimaud (or Hahn). ;)
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Covers like these are just plain awful!
(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2079/d1c03f0f8ff3073821ffe03gd8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) (http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4856/b578a93e8df890758b6b625wm9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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Those are indeed very, very bad. I'm a little surprised...Ondine usually does much better work! That one on the right is especially silly-looking.
--Bruce
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For some reason I really dislike the 'Grammophone Awards Collection'. It just seems that all the CDs on there already had good covers and they had to shrink them down and surround them in purple.
(http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000001G6N.02._SCLZZZZZZZ_AA240_.jpg)
It has actually put me off buying Lulu for a while. At least until I can buy the Boulez recording without the Grammophone awards on it - sad, isn't it?
On this note: does anyone know where one can buy the Chailly recording of Varese's complete works without the Grammophone awards on it?
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Those are indeed very, very bad. I'm a little surprised...Ondine usually does much better work! That one on the right is especially silly-looking.
--Bruce
The Finnish text on the right-side cover says: "Teddy bear in consert - orchestral music favorites for children". So, the sillyness is somewhat justified but still. Why teach children accept bad design?
Some of Ondine's covers are good but the average quality is low, unfortunately. :-\
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Well, I think nothing beats that title:
(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2079/d1c03f0f8ff3073821ffe03gd8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
A Five Star Sibelius Celebration!
No, thank you, I'll pass.
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It seems the worst/best are interchangeable... ;D One man's disgusting is another's Grimaud (or Hahn). ;)
Aw, you don't like Grimaud? :( ;)
Back to the worst looking covers ...
Anything with Christophe Rousset on the front.
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I find Philips Duos artwork less than inspiring:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000041EK.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_AA240_.jpg)
....but the price is right for two discs and they do have a number of them that I greatly enjoy.
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I agree, Bill! :)
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For me, it all comes down to the first recording in Bridg'es Elliott Carter series, which looks like the cover of Issue No. 1 of Elliott Carter Comics:
(http://images.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/normal/304/Elliott_Carter_Eight_Compositions_1948_1993__5961304.jpg)
This photo really doesn't capture the wide-eyed, pothead look on Mr. Carter's face. Pity. It's a great recording.
And as far as I'm concerned, any picture of Helene Grimaud is a blessing.
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000064X2.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_AA240_.jpg)
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(http://www.sebododisco.com.br/imagens/8146.jpg)
The dreaded ultra - Vamp from Germany.... Nina Hagen!
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000064X2.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_AA240_.jpg)
MotherF*****
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See everything Erwin Olaf made, at his website ...But I'm warning you ! Not for the fainthearted .....
http://www.erwinolaf.com/
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See everything Erwin Olaf made, at his website ...But I'm warning you ! Not for the fainthearted .....
http://www.erwinolaf.com/
Thanks for that! :)
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The edges of potential captions swirl around the mind:
(http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/playmates.jpg)
In honour of the infamous Lara St.John cover:
(http://image.wetpaint.com/wiki/worstalbumcovers/image/4YYEv2uPaF2zlfa4nbBz3fQ==120054/GW200H200)
What? What? It's the same thing, isn't it?
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The edges of potential captions swirl around the mind:
(http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/playmates.jpg)
The expression on the face of the guy in the front says it all. ::)
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Don't know if these have been posted before:
(http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/worst-album-covers/67-1.jpg)
(http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/worst-album-covers/70-1.jpg)
(http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/worst-album-covers/2-1.jpg)
;D
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(http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/worst-album-covers/70-1.jpg)
Dude that one's awesome!!! It's gotta be one of the very best ever!!
Is that Mike Meyers? ;)
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Pictures of interpreters on a cover is disgusting.
Hear that, Sarge? ;D
I hear it, George. Yes, quite disgusting, some of the worst ever ;)
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/Grimaud-4.jpg)
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/Grimaud%20Schumann.jpg)
Sarge
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I hear it, George. Yes, quite disgusting, some of the worst ever ;)
Took you awhile, but I new you'd see it sooner or later. ;D
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For some reason I really dislike the 'Grammophone Awards Collection'....does anyone know where one can buy the Chailly recording of Varese's complete works without the Grammophone awards on it?
It's still shown at JPC with the old cover:
http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/8613387/rk/classic/rsk/hitlist
Sarge
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Took you awhile, but I new you'd see it sooner or later. ;D
Ya need to shout louder, George. I'm old...my hearing ain't so good no more ;D
Sarge
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Dude that one's awesome!!! It's gotta be one of the very best ever!!
Is that Mike Meyers? ;)
LOL! There is an uncanny resemblance.... ;)
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See everything Erwin Olaf made, at his website ...But I'm warning you ! Not for the fainthearted .....
http://www.erwinolaf.com/
Brilliant. Only when I accessed the 'Fashion Victims' did I know that I had come across his work previously.
Who said the Germans did not have a sense of humour? Made my day.
Thank you ;D
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Erwin Olaf is Dutch
Erwin Olaf
photographer & filmmaker
1959 Born in Hilversum, The Netherlands.
1977 School for Journalism in Utrecht. He graduates in 1980 as a newspaper journalist with photojournalism as a subsidiary subject.
1980 Works in Amsterdam as assistant photographer to André Ruigrok, who teaches him photojournalism. First steps in 1981 as an independent photographer as a volunteer for the COC magazine Sek.
1983 Choreographer Hans van Manen brings him into contact with the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and Paul Blanca. Makes photographs for Jeugd en Samenleving (Youth and Society), the journal for workers in the welfare sector. Publishes photos in the French Gai-Pied, American The Advocate, British Gay Times, German Rosa Flieder, Dutch Gaykrant.
[G] Among Men / Among Women, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
1984 Begins writing articles in Focus on aspects of photography. Olaf's work is removed from the photo exhibition in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam because the bodybuilding models in his pictures are not nude. This results in major publicity.
[G] Foto 1984, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
1985 He publishes his first booklet, Stadsgezichten (Faces of the City), a mixture of photojournalism and studio photography.
[G] The art of seduction, Melkweg, Amsterdam
1986 Does much commissioned work, including covers for the Vinyl music magazine, and begins working for the Haagse Post weekly magazine.
etc : see the full text + portrait at :
http://art.webesteem.pl/16/olaf_en.php
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Gustav and Sir Adrian must be rolling in their graves...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/Indysolo/WGS-8126a.jpg)
Last place I'd ever expect to find a crotch shot! :o
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Gustav and Sir Adrian must be rolling in their graves...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/Indysolo/WGS-8126a.jpg)
Last place I'd ever expect to find a crotch shot! :o
They might be rolling in their graves, but it's far better to update the Planets through a cover photo than adding Pluto to the equation (Colin Matthews), an addition that is now totally bankrupt since Pluto has been removed from the planet catetory.
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I think they might be rolling in their graves laughing. Not such a bad thing, after all. 0:)
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I've often wondered why super heroes and spacemen wear their briefs on the outside. Like the girl, though. Classic Playboy.
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The always-groovy Anja Silja. I found this at http://www.vinyldivas.com/index.html (http://www.vinyldivas.com/index.html).
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000079AZQ.02._SCLZZZZZZZ_SS500_.jpg)
A countertenor...in case you thought it was a girl and made proposals.
Mike
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Thanks for the warning, Mike. I was just about to... ;)
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(http://www.duke.edu/~jlw7/26254.jpg)
And many more great LP covers at
http://www.duke.edu/~jlw7/lp-collection.html hilarious!
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This one is straight out of Monty Python's "Life of Brian"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B0000042HI/sr=1-2/qid=1177017001/ref=dp_image_text_0/026-5773581-7374844?ie=UTF8&n=229816&s=music&qid=1177017001&sr=1-2
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We had that one on the old site, nice to see it again. I have the set and felt that there should be a strap line..."If I were a rich man!"
Mike
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This is just fun after a long day of hard work ...silly LP covers !
(http://www.celestialaudio.com.au/Demos/608Cleopatre.jpg)
(http://www.celestialaudio.com.au/Demos/588Aida.jpg)
And now back to more serious matters!
I'll be in Wales for a vacation.
Peter
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(http://www.vinyldivas.com/gallery/cerquetti.jpg)
(http://griffeaquitaine.free.fr/cerquetti/htm/disco/records/decca.jpg)
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More from that Vinyldivas page ;D
(http://www.vinyldivas.com/gallery/anderson6.jpg)
(http://www.vinyldivas.com/gallery/szirmai.jpg)
(http://www.vinyldivas.com/gallery/nilsson6.jpg)
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(http://www.vinyldivas.com/gallery/nilsson6.jpg)
The main item has finally arrived... ;D
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Yes indeed, the Decca art department should be named and shamed for that plastic wall.
The Cerquetti is another beaut. In the Decca photo, on the LP cover there was clearly lipstick on her teeth....a nice touch.
Mike
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But at least her taste in clothing is impeccable... ;)
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(http://www.vinyldivas.com/gallery/nilsson6.jpg)
The real reason why John the Baptist preferred death to sex ;D
Sarge
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Ondine, proudly carrying on the Decca tradition:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/new/1006481LRG.jpg)
Sarge
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00008PC8X.03._SCLZZZZZZZ)
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers
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(http://www.jacques-offenbach.de/cover/concertomilitaire/harnoy-cd-klein.JPG)
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(http://www.vinyldivas.com/gallery/callas13.jpg)
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(http://www.vinyldivas.com/gallery/callas13.jpg)
I'm definitely buying that!
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D2BPHYPXL._SS500_.jpg)
Is this the worst one yet?!
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(http://www.vinyldivas.com/gallery/nilsson6.jpg)
Imagine the dance of the seven veils!
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Imagine the dance of the seven veils!
My Gosh its JIM BELUSHI.....
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I've always felt that Polskie Nagrania (Muza) deserve all the accolades available for constantly releasing the ugliest and most unattractive looking CD covers ever conceived. I recently browsed their catalogue, and here are two CDs that show off beautifully the wonderful taste of their graphics people:
(http://www.merlin.com.pl/images_product/22/PNCD369.jpg) (http://www.merlin.com.pl/images_product/24/PNCD398.jpg)
(Don't you just have to hear that Queen of the Night? ;D)
Really, these guys are pros.
Here's another example: take one of the best violinists ever, release a 2CD set containing some of her best recordings (including a peerless Khachaturian VC - at least equal to the Oistrakh recording, though I think it's actually better). All you need now is to think up some decent cover art. What do these guys do?
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(http://www.merlin.com.pl/images_product/21/PNCD932AB.jpg)
Geez... I wonder what sort of graphics software they're using? I think it's not even MS Word... :P
BTW, all three albums are on my wish list but somehow I keeping putting off the purchase... ::)
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(http://www.unidiversal.com/Image_Beatles_Butcher_Album_Cover_001f.jpg)
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Who makes these covers?
(http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1610/badcoverpn8.png) (http://imageshack.us)
1 Fading background color is a cheap trick and looks stupid.
2 What are these bars? Stairs? The foundation of a pyramid? Stupid stupid stupid!
3 Why is all text italicized? Why is the text aligned with the picture on the left side only?
4 Sony's logo looks good but this blue large box looks stupid.
For me this "Essential Classics" serie looks horrible. No wonder I don't own any of them. They are repulsive!
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Who makes these covers?
(http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1610/badcoverpn8.png) (http://imageshack.us)
Well, the original is certainly better, I'll give you that:
(http://i15.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/83/45/2046_1.JPG)
But then the latest Essential Classics covers to me are the absolute worst.
Isn't this:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MWNC2VJYL._SS500_.jpg)
Much worse than This:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nbTrIZm1L._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MWNC2VJYL._SS500_.jpg)
This is very unimaginative. Why the peephole view :D And the colors they choose, this one or that green. And somehow it feels like I see Andre Watts' name on these covers more than anybody else ::)
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Isn't this:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MWNC2VJYL._SS500_.jpg)
Much worse than This:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nbTrIZm1L._SS500_.jpg)
Actually, no. The top cover would be regarded as better (but still crap) design by an art director. The thoughtless positioning of competing logos on the bottom cover, together with the poor typographical setting (text squashed in so close beneath the dark blue logo), are alone enough to make it a poorer relation to the one above it.
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Actually, no. The top cover would be regarded as better (but still crap) design by an art director. The thoughtless positioning of competing logos on the bottom cover, together with the poor typographical setting (text squashed in so close beneath the dark blue logo), are alone enough to make it a poorer relation to the one above it.
100 % agree with you. You should design classical CD covers too! ;)
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This is very unimaginative. Why the peephole view :D And the colors they choose, this one or that green. And somehow it feels like I see Andre Watts' name on these covers more than anybody else ::)
Yeah, it's like looking at a door in a middle school hallway. Bleck! :(
Kinda makes a good argument for downloads, though. :)
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Quick re-design of the Sony CD:
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(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/515G8KD9W5L._SS400_.jpg)
Poor Iannis... they shouldn't put him on the cover of anything.
and pretty much every CD released by the Bridge label has terrible artwork, but I thought this was one of the worst:
(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/619XGCS16GL._SS500_.jpg)
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Quick re-design of the Sony CD:
Nice work. Just need to range that Sony logo box off of something on the vertical axis (the '2' of '582', perhaps?) and that's a passable CD cover! :D
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Nice work. Just need to range that Sony logo box off of something on the vertical axis (the '2' of '582', perhaps?) and that's a passable CD cover! :D
Thanks! You are right about the logo aligment. I'd change the font of the work list remind more the font Bach is written (+remove italicizing). This was just a demonstration how easy it is to have something better.
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/31HPJ4BWWFL._AA130_.jpg)
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/31HPJ4BWWFL._AA130_.jpg)
I didn't know Conrad Veidt did album covers!
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or...
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J3ZGB9AVL._AA240_.jpg)
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I didn't know Conrad Veidt did album covers!
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:GlSVsFPwiYFWlM:www.sunrisesilents.com/Images/TMWL.jpg)
A red wig and it's not too far off!
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or...
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J3ZGB9AVL._AA240_.jpg)
Yes, terrible cover, but wow it is such a great recording!
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Yes, terrible cover, but wow it is such a great recording!
I agree. Some of my favorite/best-sounding cd's are on the Mercury Living Presence label.
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/31HPJ4BWWFL._AA130_.jpg)
Absolutely horrible! :o Some bad covers are at least funny but this is pain for my eyes!
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Actually, no. The top cover would be regarded as better (but still crap) design by an art director.
I think you're completely missing George's point which is to contemplate these two covers as purely aesthetic objects, graphic design "craft" aside. Now, even though the top cover does not break as many rules as the bottom one, it is, IMHO, much uglier than the bottom one. Just as an ungrammatical sentence can still be more beautiful than a perfectly grammatical but... ugly one. On these terms, the main difference between these 2 covers is that one contains at least a segment of something that could be considered esthetically pleasing (the very decent painting in the middle) while the top one does not contain even one beautiful element to redeem it (unless you're into peepholes that is ;)).
Anyway, when did this thread suddenly turn so serious? ??? :o :o :o ::) ;) 8)
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I think you're completely missing George's point which is to contemplate these two covers as purely aesthetic objects, graphic design "craft" aside. Now, even though the top cover does not break as many rules as the bottom one, it is, IMHO, much uglier than the bottom one. Just as an ungrammatical sentence can still be more beautiful than a perfectly grammatical but... ugly one. On these terms, the main difference between these 2 covers is that one contains at least a segment of something that could be considered esthetically pleasing (the very decent painting in the middle) while the top one does not contain even one beautiful element to redeem it (unless you're into peepholes that is ;)).
Thanks Mr. Osa!
Where you been?
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Hi George! I was at the seaside. Getting hopelessly bored, I'm afraid... ::) (We're not great fans of sunbathing in our family... ;D And what else is there to do there...? 0:))
Maciek
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Hi George! I was at the seaside. Getting hopelessly bored, I'm afraid... ::) (We're not great fans of sunbathing in our family... ;D And what else is there to do there...? 0:))
Maciek
Hope you had some 75 sunblock for Rose. :)
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Hi George! I was at the seaside. Getting hopelessly bored, I'm afraid... ::) (We're not great fans of sunbathing in our family... ;D And what else is there to do there...? 0:))
Maciek
I don't like sunbathing either. But nothing beats the sound of the sea/ocean. That, under the shade, with a book, I will happily spend my vacation doing absolutely nothing 8)
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Hope you had some 75 sunblock for Rose. :)
75? Yeah, well, more or less... ;D
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Oh dear. I guess I'll just move over to one of the travel threads before I derail this topic completely... 0:)
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(http://wuff.me.uk/Worst%20Album%20Covers/Worst%20LP%20The%20McKeithens%20w.jpg)
Ok - a good laugh before bed...
I'm in a big hair mood..
(http://www.deccaclassics.com/music/classicrecitals/images/028947561545-Cvr72.jpg)
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That Tebaldi 'hair' is realy a cosy against the winter weather and not hair at all.
Mike
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61iOroypx2L._SS500_.jpg)
Is it just me, or does Iggy look already dead, and MTT is taking him for a ride a la "Weekend at Bernies"?
Also, this disc contains some of Stravinsky's most high-minded pieces (like Agon and Aldous Huxley in Memoriam).
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Is it just me, or does Iggy look already dead, and MTT is taking him for a ride a la "Weekend at Bernies"?
Also, this disc contains some of Stravinsky's most high-minded pieces (like Agon and Aldous Huxley in Memoriam).
;D That cover definitely does not say Agon.
--Bruce
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;D That cover definitely does not say Agon.
--Bruce
I know. Agon brings to my mind the Parthenon, that is, if it were designed by the Bauhaus.
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Oh, dear...
(http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/images/51VQV4A18BL._SS500_.jpg)
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or...
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J3ZGB9AVL._AA240_.jpg)
I don't think that this is as bad as it gets simply because one needs to know what it represents: a Lincolnshire Posy or an Armenian dancer?
It cannot possibly be Japanese , can it?
Either way, a classic!
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I'd say it's the 23 Winds.
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Covers like these are just plain awful!
(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2079/d1c03f0f8ff3073821ffe03gd8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) (http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4856/b578a93e8df890758b6b625wm9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Something we agree on! It's a miracle!
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(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/Grimaud-4.jpg)
How do you say, "Hubba-hubba!" in French?
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And now for some really bad cover art:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61dtDGRlKhL._SS500_.jpg)
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And now for some really bad cover art:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61dtDGRlKhL._SS500_.jpg)
Cover art by Travis Anderson, grade 10. "I finished my Algebra exam early and drew this."
(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ERR7D57SL._SS500_.jpg)
Looks like they took this with a webcam.
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Covers like these are just plain awful!
(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2079/d1c03f0f8ff3073821ffe03gd8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us) (http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4856/b578a93e8df890758b6b625wm9.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Hehe... these two really look weird...
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(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/Apr99/mcleodpiano.jpg)
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/feb99/kay.jpg)
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/feb99/tippett2.jpg)
(http://www.armydiller.com/_images/ClassicalCD.jpg)
(http://www.audiobooksonline.com/media/Darren_Henley_Story_of_Classical_Music_compact_discs.jpg)
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(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/Apr99/mcleodpiano.jpg)
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/feb99/kay.jpg)
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/feb99/tippett2.jpg)
(http://www.armydiller.com/_images/ClassicalCD.jpg)
(http://www.audiobooksonline.com/media/Darren_Henley_Story_of_Classical_Music_compact_discs.jpg)
For once, we agree on something. :)
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B00004TQP5/sr=1-29/qid=1189380266/ref=dp_image_text_0/202-0119149-4618273?ie=UTF8&n=229816&s=music&qid=1189380266&sr=1-29
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B00004TQP5/sr=1-29/qid=1189380266/ref=dp_image_text_0/202-0119149-4618273?ie=UTF8&n=229816&s=music&qid=1189380266&sr=1-29
What's not to like with that one?
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This looks like a High School vanity shot.
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61bE6X9rvzL._SS500_.jpg)
They actually hired someone to do this?
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZJJS4NMRL._SS500_.jpg)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned DG's "The Originals" series, where they take the original cover art and put it all askew and add a stupid-looking shadow effect for no apparent reason, like this:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KPNEK149L._AA240_.jpg)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S17PJFCPL._SS500_.jpg)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Z8W218GML._SS500_.jpg)
I found this one on a blog, but I had to share it here.
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sZyVg5hBL._SS400_.jpg)
Here's MTT in a thoughtful moment, but I think he's thinking more about his Gucci sweater than Mahler.
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VCGZE1HSL._SS500_.jpg)
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For once, we agree on something. :)
Yes.... to let you know that complex probabilities can turn into simple dispositions with erosive randomness and oddity...
::)
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Either Martin Frost is fleeing a burning building, or he is about to use his clarinet as a weapon.
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X5Rj1nhtL._AA240_.jpg)
And to borrow one from another thread.....
(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WQBbCdu5L._AA240_.jpg)
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They actually hired someone to do this?
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZJJS4NMRL._SS500_.jpg)
I actually don't mind that one at all. Reminds me a little of Kentridge. It's also a very good recording.
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Either Martin Frost is fleeing a burning building, or he is about to use his clarinet as a weapon.
One of the reasons I like this album cover is exactly that! He's not intending to simply play with it: he brings his clarinet to bear. 8)
(Though of course, I am something of a nut with things sword-related, and this does qualify, doesn't it? ;))
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned DG's "The Originals" series, where they take the original cover art and put it all askew and add a stupid-looking shadow effect for no apparent reason, like this:
I think the original's series is an example of excellent graphic design. It gives the series a very recognizable style while still including and emphasizing the original cover art. Brilliant, I would say.
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This looks like a High School vanity shot.
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61bE6X9rvzL._SS500_.jpg)
Maybe it is one? ;D
They actually hired someone to do this?
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZJJS4NMRL._SS500_.jpg)
I'll second O Mensch here - that's one I actually like very much (I mean both recording and cover).
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I found this one on a blog, but I had to share it here.
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sZyVg5hBL._SS400_.jpg)
ROFL, and I thought that was a photoshop prank!
Here's MTT in a thoughtful moment, but I think he's thinking more about his Gucci sweater than Mahler.
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VCGZE1HSL._SS500_.jpg)
Is it me, or I think he looked like Micheal Jackson? :o
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61bE6X9rvzL._SS500_.jpg)
Haven't heard the disc, but I've heard Biss and he's very good.
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And now for some really bad cover art:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61dtDGRlKhL._SS500_.jpg)
wtf??? ha ha ha!!!!
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These lads should know better:
(http://www.scopecreep.com/dirty_work.jpg)
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Only after 5 minutes of searching around a bit:
(http://davegreten.typepad.com/dave_gretens_blog/images/album_cover_21.jpg) (http://davegreten.typepad.com/dave_gretens_blog/images/album_cover_29.jpg) (http://tng.cupofdirt.net/horrible_album_covers/ken.jpg)
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(http://tng.cupofdirt.net/horrible_album_covers/ken.jpg)
This reminds me of some of the puppets of neolithic people they have in dioramas at natural history museums.
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(http://peasantswithpitchforks.com/point/images/orleans-john-hall.jpg)
Whos got the most body hair? ;)
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These lads should know better:
(http://www.scopecreep.com/dirty_work.jpg)
I was going to say, 'Everybody's allowed to use the "Hey, it was the 80s" card once,' but then, I think they'd better save that card for music *on* that disc.
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What was the request: go away?
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(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/Apr99/mcleodpiano.jpg)
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/feb99/kay.jpg)
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/feb99/tippett2.jpg)
(http://www.armydiller.com/_images/ClassicalCD.jpg)
Actually, I quite like these, particularly the painting of the cricket match. Very appropriate. ;D
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This won't win the 'worst cover ever' award, but I so want to see thunderbolts coming out of his hands.
(http://www.sa-cd.net/covers/4856.jpg)
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This won't win the 'worst cover ever' award, but I so want to see thunderbolts coming out of his hands.
(http://www.sa-cd.net/covers/4856.jpg)
:D Reminds me of this one, which I found hilarious when I first saw it:
(http://www.soundandmusic.com/img/Articoli/15877.jpg)
"I HAVE THE POWER!!!! YEAAHH!!!!!!"
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(http://www.soundandmusic.com/img/Articoli/15877.jpg)
Caption: Guess who's just made the varsity team.
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(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/519QH2F3Y6L._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/412B2FRCPRL._AA240_.jpg)
For an all-gay classical album ... :-\
And this all-time classic:
(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/418TG8NHYYL._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/519QH2F3Y6L._SS500_.jpg)
Wow... it makes me want to hang it on my wall and salute it every morning :P :P :P
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(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/519QH2F3Y6L._SS500_.jpg)
Enlighten me: why is it the Worst looking CD/LP artwork?
Is it because it is the 'Stars and Stripes' or it has the St. Louis Symphony on the cover or is conducted by Leonard Slatkin?
Is it because you'se is Anti-American?
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/412B2FRCPRL._AA240_.jpg)
For an all-gay classical album ... :-\
It seems to me that if you wanted to attract gays to your disc you would signal that intention by putting a 'hunk' on the cover.
Are you homophobic? :(
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I'm just annoyed that they didn't bother to make the title look like a tattoo on his arm, that would be badass :P
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I think the original's series is an example of excellent graphic design. It gives the series a very recognizable style while still including and emphasizing the original cover art. Brilliant, I would say.
You're kidding, right?
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It seems to me that if you wanted to attract gays to your disc you would signal that intention by putting a 'hunk' on the cover.
Are you homophobic? :(
Please, anyone with taste would find that cover repulsive.
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You're kidding, right?
I actually agree with him, but then, I'm a head case myself. ;)
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I actually agree with him, but then, I'm a head case myself. ;)
It probably wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't for the shadow effect. Graphics aside, I generally trust those recordings and they are hard to beat, price-wise.
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It probably wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't for the shadow effect. Graphics aside, I generally trust those recordings and they are hard to beat, price-wise.
They are, and they actually usually fill the CD, unlike the newer Decca and Philips Originals, which I have seen at 40 minutes and UNDER!! :-\ ??? :-[ >:( :'(
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Wow... it makes me want to hang it on my wall and salute it every morning :P :P :P
Exactly. ::)
Also, the cover doesn't identify ANY of the works on this disc, as if they didn't matter (well, probably they don't). Same goes for the "gay" disc.
Edited my moderator for offensive personal remark.
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Please, anyone with taste would find that cover repulsive.
Really, I would have thought that any homophobe would find the cover not only tasteless but offensive.
Do you find it offensive?
Quentin Crisp used to say that many homophobes were such because they felt guilt about their latent homosexuality.
Incidentally, not that it interests you, John Hurt has been signed up to play the Stately Homo of England, again, in a film of Crisp's life in NY.
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Really, I would have thought that any homophobe would find the cover not only tasteless but offensive.
Do you find it offensive?
Quentin Crisp used to say that many homophobes were such because they felt guilt about their latent homosexuality.
Incidentally, not that it interests you, John Hurt has been signed up to play the Stately Homo of England, again, in a film of Crisp's life in NY.
A gay man being called a homophobe, that's a hoot. 8)
It speaks volumes that you assumed I was straight. ;D
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Exactly. ::)
Also, the cover doesn't identify ANY of the works on this disc, as if they didn't matter (well, probably they don't). Same goes for the "gay" disc.
Edited my moderator for offensive personal remark.
Oh, I see, it offends you because you are Anti-American as, clearly, the disc signals by its cover that it contains American music played by an American orchestra under an American conductor.
All I need to do is pick it out and turn it over to see what it contains, or not, depending on my interest.
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Oh, I see, it offends you because you are Anti-American as, clearly, the disc signals by its cover that it contains American music played by an American orchestra under an American conductor.
All I need to do is pick it out and turn it over to see what it contains, or not, depending on my interest.
Hector, have you lost your senses? It's just bad taste and not very creative design. One doesn't have to be a Cuban communist to dislike the cover. Chill out, dude.
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Hector, have you lost your senses? It's just bad taste and not very creative design. One doesn't have to be a Cuban communist to dislike the cover. Chill out, dude.
If only he could. But that would require some sense of humor on his part, of which there is no trace.
The producers of this disc obviously thought that the flag would sell itself, irrespective of contents of the CD. That alone is an offense against the composers.
Thomas
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(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/512MX5DKC3L._SS500_.jpg)
One word: Woof!
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A gay man being called a homophobe, that's a hoot. 8)
It speaks volumes that you assumed I was straight. ;D
Not volumes, surely, a paragraph at most, because why would I?
I didn't know.
It does not answer my question, however, merely adds to Crisp's comments: you find it tasteless because it draws attention to homosexuals or you are ashamed of your sexuality?
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Hector, have you lost your senses? It's just bad taste and not very creative design. One doesn't have to be a Cuban communist to dislike the cover. Chill out, dude.
No, you have lost yours.
I find myself defending the Americans and their flag here because some, you, for example, are offended by it.
What would be creative in this context?
Hey, DUDE, you is full o' crap!
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Not volumes, surely, a paragraph at most, because why would I?
I didn't know.
It does not answer my question, however, merely adds to Crisp's comments: you find it tasteless because it draws attention to homosexuals or you are ashamed of your sexuality?
No. I find this just as distasteful.
(http://www.larastjohn.com/photo/420/bachcover.jpg)
Stop being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. Get a hobby.
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If only he could. But that would require some sense of humor on his part, of which there is no trace.
The producers of this disc obviously thought that the flag would sell itself, irrespective of contents of the CD. That alone is an offense against the composers.
Thomas
No they didn't, Thomas, they were advertising the fact that the disc contained American music by the simplest and, in their judgement, most direct way possible with one of the most recognisable flags on the planet.
Would they put a Venezualean flag on to draw attention to the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, for example? I doubt it.
You do not answer my question but avoid it with insults. I on the other hand find you one of the most side-splitting humorous contributors ::)
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No, you have lost yours.
I find myself defending the Americans and their flag here because some, you, for example, are offended by it.
What would be creative in this context?
Hey, DUDE, you is full o' crap!
Hector, you've fallen prey to a dangerous you're-either-with-us-or-you're -against-us sort of thinking. Did I say I was offended by it? No. It's just not well done as a piece of graphic design and it doesn't even tell us what's on the CD. Disliking a particular CD cover because it cheaply uses the flag for lack of any creative ideas doesn't mean I hate the flag. Normal sentient beings would not require that I defend myself by explaining something so obvious. BTW, by contrast, the following CD cover also uses the flag, but much more tastefully:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/417VPREEVAL._AA240_.jpg)
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(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/512MX5DKC3L._SS500_.jpg)
One word: Woof!
That is awful! "I am outlined in poison green! Watch out, and also watch out for the deer-dude! " :P
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I think some of the orchestra in-house labels could really use some help with cover designs:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dWBg9vD0L._AA240_.jpg)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YCNST37GL._AA240_.jpg)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WN8H2S08L._AA240_.jpg)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/513-OvTrEVL._AA240_.jpg)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XJ77ST9VL._AA240_.jpg)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/610JTR90JFL._AA240_.jpg)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/512iMKbQeGL._AA240_.jpg)
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@ O - I actually like those RCO ones :D They aren't subtle, but very distinctive.
(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/512MX5DKC3L._SS500_.jpg)
Jesus God... that looks like a trance album...
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@ O - I actually like those RCO ones :D They aren't subtle, but very distinctive.
Really? I get a headache everytime I look at that Brahms album cover.
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Would they put a Venezualean flag on to draw attention to the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, for example? I doubt it.
Me, too. Because, Venezualeans are more mature.
I can well imagine Hector as a flagwaver ...
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Me, too. Because, Venezualeans are more mature.
Actually, they perform concerts in something that could only be called national team jerseys.
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What is with those Jansons covers? Some of them look like broken pills. ???
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What is with those Jansons covers? Some of them look like broken pills. ???
It's what happens when you leave your Aspirin on the wood block right before the hammer blows.
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Hector, you've fallen prey to a dangerous you're-either-with-us-or-you're -against-us sort of thinking. Did I say I was offended by it? No. It's just not well done as a piece of graphic design and it doesn't even tell us what's on the CD. Disliking a particular CD cover because it cheaply uses the flag for lack of any creative ideas doesn't mean I hate the flag. Normal sentient beings would not require that I defend myself by explaining something so obvious. BTW, by contrast, the following CD cover also uses the flag, but much more tastefully:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/417VPREEVAL._AA240_.jpg)
OK, I get the joke ;D
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No. I find this just as distasteful.
(http://www.larastjohn.com/photo/420/bachcover.jpg)
Stop being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. Get a hobby.
Well, that's just a matter of personal taste. If I was brought up by, say, the Plymouth Bretheren, I would, likely as not, find it beyond the pale.
But, since I wasn't (thank God >:D) I merely think: "What's she got to hide?"
I have a hobby: being argumentative ;)
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OK, I get the joke ;D
??? It wasn't one. What joke did you think you got?
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??? It wasn't one. What joke did you think you got?
You are serious, aren't you?
That MTT cover is simply hideous. No, absolutely hideous. Oh, and lacking imagination but that is no reason to condemn as the heading of the thread is quite clear.
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You are serious, aren't you?
That MTT cover is simply hideous. No, absolutely hideous. Oh, and lacking imagination but that is no reason to condemn as the heading of the thread is quite clear.
Actually, I was serious. And I await your explanation of what makes it hideous (I will for now reserve the overly "obvious" conclusion from your criticism that you are obviously an anti-American homophobe since you take offense at a cover that pictures the Star Spangled Banner alongside a photo of an openly gay conductor). ;)
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The problem with the flag cover (Slatkin) and the big guy cover is that they are too simplistic-- it looks like they just googled an image, added a text box and printed it imo. ;D
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/417VPREEVAL._AA240_.jpg)
So this cover is the cause of the squabbling? I like the graphic design, I don't think it makes ANY statement about MTT's sexual orientation, the flag reminds me of Jasper Johns, and it's a clear reference not only to the "American sound" Copland is so often identified with, but to the title and theme of the album, The Essence of America.
Excellent graphic design, the more I think about it.
As for the Lara St. Johns, there's a difference between "bad looking" and "in poor taste." However, in her case the covers are intended to sell records that otherwise would be purchased only by her friends and family, and I suspect they're somewhat successful. I've never heard her playing. My prejudices suggest that someone who stoops to such tactics has little of value to offer.
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Actually, I was serious. And I await your explanation of what makes it hideous (I will for now reserve the overly "obvious" conclusion from your criticism that you are obviously an anti-American homophobe since you take offense at a cover that pictures the Star Spangled Banner alongside a photo of an openly gay conductor). ;)
You are quite mad.
Quite the opposite as my feeling was that your objection to the Slatkin/Louisville was political rather than of taste.
Likewise the 'gay' cover.
The MTT cover has, clearly, no merit whatsoever, a view I am rapidly forming of you.
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Quite the opposite as my feeling was that your objection to the Slatkin/Louisville was political rather than of taste.
You quite misunderstood me as I clearly explained that my irritation with the Slatkin cover was a matter of taste. You imputed, without any basis, a political objection to everyone who found it irritating.
The MTT cover has, clearly, no merit whatsoever, a view I am rapidly forming of you.
Longears already eloquently explained the merits of the MTT cover (the reference to Jasper Johns and the entire American visual art heritage I found quite appropriate - so you see, it's more than just a flag in this case). However, it does frequently appear that you do form views very rapidly indeed, and without much reflection or substantiation. I suppose that attitude permits you to avoid any uncomfortable questioning of your own biases and prejudices.
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I think the MTT cover sucks because of its washed-out colors, period.
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You are quite mad.
Quite the opposite as my feeling was that your objection to the Slatkin/Louisville was political rather than of taste.
Likewise the 'gay' cover.
The MTT cover has, clearly, no merit whatsoever, a view I am rapidly forming of you.
Oh, but the stupid American flag on its own has, or some torso disconnected from any contents of any disc. That has merit. ::)
You are obviously quite mad, and if you're not, then it won't come over my lips just what you are.
Thomas
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Some of these are pretty bad, though somehow appropriate for the subject matter.
http://www.vinylvulture.co.uk/pages/moog_galleryc.htm
Incidentally I studied with Hans Wurman of the Moog Strikes Bach album.
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Oh, but the stupid American flag on its own has, or some torso disconnected from any contents of any disc. That has merit. ::)
Thomas
I do not understand anything after "stupid American flag."
Are you anti-American?
Were you drunk when you penned this?
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Actually, I was serious. And I await your explanation of what makes it hideous (I will for now reserve the overly "obvious" conclusion from your criticism that you are obviously an anti-American homophobe since you take offense at a cover that pictures the Star Spangled Banner alongside a photo of an openly gay conductor). ;)
Firstly, I did not know, nor do I care, that MTT was gay and, secondly, I thought that the objections to the covers were because you were anti-American and a homophobe...and I'm accused of jumping to conclusions to quickly.
You need a new translation service.
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Firstly, I did not know, nor do I care, that MTT was gay and, secondly, I thought that the objections to the covers were because you were anti-American and a homophobe...and I'm accused of jumping to conclusions to quickly.
Why would you ever think that if you weren't jumping to conclusions?
Methinks you need a thinking device. ::)
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This forum has a private message function, remember. I personally would prefer not to read all this bickering, but since you're doing it in a thread called 'Worst looking CD/LP artwork,' I keep having to read it to see if the new posts have anything to do with this particular topic which I like to follow.
Please take it to PMs or start a new thread out of respect for those of us who aren't interested in reading insults.
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/4107HYVSZWL._SS500_.jpg)
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Art director on acid, Don? ;D
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Art director on acid, Don? ;D
Something like that, eh?! ;D
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(http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9450/isidro6ji.jpg)
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My head is overloading with interpretations of that one. The latest is that the statue's just swiped him with the ring, causing the hair it contacted to fall down.
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/4107HYVSZWL._SS500_.jpg)
What is it with people trying to make Scriabin look like Timothy Leary?
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(http://www.musicandarts.com/CDpages/CD1125.jpg)
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(http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/71/1000271.jpg)
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(http://www.musicandarts.com/CDpages/CD1125.jpg)
"My god... it's full of stars!"
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(http://www.tubastudio.com/cd10020l.jpg)
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The cover is only slightly more disturbing than the fact that it's an album of piano/tuba duets.
Is this classical music? Is there actual literature for this or these arrangements?
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Yet another awful Scriabin cover.
(http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/2a/f4/1b94224128a0b6b564a5c010.L.jpg)
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(http://www.tubastudio.com/cd10020l.jpg)
...........................WHAT THE SHIT??
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...........................WHAT THE SHIT??
For once, I will fully agree, even in the phrasing. Whoever came up with this cover would surely give a Freudian psychoanalyst hours and hours of pleasure. >:D
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In a recent interview (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071005/music_nm/classical_dc;_ylt=Ag2b4LfZls3alc9mLT_UTDOXExkF (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071005/music_nm/classical_dc;_ylt=Ag2b4LfZls3alc9mLT_UTDOXExkF)), Canadian soprano says "In pop music, great presentation sometimes camouflages inferior product. But we in classical music have the greatest product in the world. But as we all well know, there are so many truly crappy classical music album covers out there. Why? People see you before they hear you, so why wouldn't you try not to start out with a deficit?"
And yet:
Here's the cover of her new Schoenberg/Satie/Bolcolm disc:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/Wendelle/singers/51zAT0qdt7L_SS500_.jpg)
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In a recent interview (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071005/music_nm/classical_dc;_ylt=Ag2b4LfZls3alc9mLT_UTDOXExkF (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071005/music_nm/classical_dc;_ylt=Ag2b4LfZls3alc9mLT_UTDOXExkF)), Canadian soprano says "In pop music, great presentation sometimes camouflages inferior product. But we in classical music have the greatest product in the world. But as we all well know, there are so many truly crappy classical music album covers out there. Why? People see you before they hear you, so why wouldn't you try not to start out with a deficit?"
And yet:
Here's the cover of her new Schoenberg/Satie/Bolcolm disc:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/Wendelle/singers/51zAT0qdt7L_SS500_.jpg)
HAHAHAHA!!!
That cover suggests to me a sort of Corrin Bailey Ray classical crossover, with all the horrible things that would imply. :o
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To be fair, even the cheapest pop album cover wouldn't be seen dead with curtains in that shade...
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/Wendelle/singers/51zAT0qdt7L_SS500_.jpg)
Macy Gray has crossed over? ;D
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Someone at my forum commented: "one good sneeze, and one of her "girls" is going to make a big impression in the music world. But where is the other one? I don't care for photos that make a person look deformed."
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I was just listening to this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61SHZB9C98L._SS500_.jpg)
I am not sure if this is a cool cover or if they blew it (I generally like the cover for these series a lot, the Bartok 2 CD in particular)
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I was just listening to this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61SHZB9C98L._SS500_.jpg)
I am not sure if this is a cool cover or if they blew it (I generally like the cover for these series a lot, the Bartok 2 CD in particular)
Absolutely horrible cover "art". :-X I was interested of de Larrocha's playing but I can't buy a CD that ugly. I can't. :-[
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Absolutely horrible cover "art". :-X I was interested of de Larrocha's playing but I can't buy a CD that ugly. I can't. :-[
Easy, just get the double Decca release instead:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AMXX1HMVL._SS500_.jpg)
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Easy, just get the double Decca release instead:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AMXX1HMVL._SS500_.jpg)
That is a beautiful CD, cover and otherwise. But the RCA is Granados only. I think there is another version with a painting of a young girl as well. Let me find it
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Easy, just get the double Decca release instead:
That's in my long wishlist. ;)
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Now I think they're just trying to get on this thread.
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Now I think they're just trying to get on this thread.
:D It's all about the fame with them :(
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That Bruckner one made me laugh so bad.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NF6VBHPBL._AA240_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/314WHNTH4FL._AA240_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sven-G%C3%B6ran-Eriksson-Classical-Collection/dp/B000063TTQ/ref=sr_1_53?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1195204449&sr=1-53)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21NFTKP88JL._AA130_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/God-Bless-America-Various-Artists/dp/B00005YK2J/ref=sr_1_88?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1195204673&sr=1-88)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/212FAM9BP3L._AA130_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Universe-Bach-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B00004SUB3/ref=sr_1_98?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1195204685&sr=1-98)
Bling...
Browsing the dregs of Amazon for a bargain can be a disturbing experience...
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51755EBC54L._SS500_.jpg)
Mock it not too much since it may have been inspired by this great Rembrandt:
(http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/4423/aristotlebushomergb5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
But I do still find it silly - mostly for the Star Trek style background and the goofy subtitle. Otherwise his profile-prone attitude can actually remind me a little of Fluffy (HvK).
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Mock it not too much since it
(http://www.jpc.de/image/cover/front/0/9223001.jpg)
comes in series
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comes in series
Rembrandt's idea played out in a quasi-animated style. Rather than being f-ugly,
it's actually a beauty! ;D
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I was just listening to this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61SHZB9C98L._SS500_.jpg)
I am not sure if this is a cool cover or if they blew it (I generally like the cover for these series a lot, the Bartok 2 CD in particular)
call me tasteless but I really like that. I think whoever designed it--and presumably got her permission for it--has a tremendous sense of humour, especially if you know something about the little lady.
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Mock it not too much since it may have been inspired by this great Rembrandt:
Ah, but it's still awful, even if it was inspired by something beautiful, just like the movie Tristan + Isolde. ;D
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Ah, but it's still awful, even if it was inspired by something beautiful, just like the movie Tristan + Isolde. ;D
Didn't even bother to check that movie out... ;)
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Rembrandt's idea played out in a quasi-animated style.
Don't know about quasi-animated, looks more like a still from Roger Corman movie to me.
Anyhow fire walk with me background isn't that unique:
(http://www.carlospaita.com/pochettes/8.jpg)
Paita's covers are generally interesting, I'm fond of Beamin' Beethoven and Surfin' Tchaikovsky in partcular:
(http://www.carlospaita.com/pochettes/2.jpg) (http://www.carlospaita.com/pochettes/13.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51755EBC54L._SS500_.jpg)
Reloaded? What is this? The Matrix?
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Paita's covers are generally interesting, I'm fond of Beamin' Beethoven [...]
"Pewpew laz0rz", as might be said in the context of the wonderful world of online role-playing games. ;D
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Reloaded? What is this? The Matrix?
Rembrandt Reloaded...see my comment above. :)
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"Pewpew laz0rz", as might be said in the context of the wonderful world of online role-playing games. ;D
Ludwig Unbound
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61EZAB7BYZL._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61EZAB7BYZL._SS500_.jpg)
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OMG! :o
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...is that Andrea Bocelli?
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clicky clicky (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Operas-Greatest-Drinking-Songs-Titus/dp/B000003FV4/ref=sr_1_40?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1195330689&sr=1-40)
£1.60 used...go for it >:D
edit : how can i shorten the link to show just a clickable "link" ? ???
edit : Cheers Lethe :)
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edit : how can i shorten the link to show just a clickable "link" ? ???
[url=thelinkgoeshere]the shortened text[/url]
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another contender ?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CES257VNL._AA240_.jpg)
and the track listing contains Carmina Burana.... go figure ;D
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(http://www.qualiton.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/039/039_741073.jpg)
(http://www.qualiton.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/286/286_40704.jpg)
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(http://www.qualiton.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/039/039_741073.jpg)
(http://www.qualiton.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/286/286_40704.jpg)
Hey, I like that bottom cover.
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(http://doggoneclassicalmusic.com/images/DGCM_mainpic.jpg)
how about this one....
BTW; I like Sandor Vegh's craggy face! A great conductor - with real traits .
(http://www.papelenblanco.com/images/2007/09/wh-auden.jpg)
W.H.Auden's face is another good example : almost land art!
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What were they doing with poor old Fluff (RIP), here:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41G4GPY1M4L._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://www.classicalcdexchange.co.uk/images/19491.jpg?osCsid=d6caac0934311ed5cf756b83228fe440)
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Not only is the design poorly done...but why is this girl hugging a giant cat paw?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512Q184TMZL._SS500_.jpg)
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You'd think Supraphon would be a little better, but that awful piano recital disc isn't alone. ;D
(http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/450/453458.jpg)
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Lmao...this thread never fails to crack me up.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NF6VBHPBL._AA240_.jpg)
Ugh! That is just painful to behold.
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Ugh! That is just painful to behold.
;D It was probably made in paint, as it looks like it has jpeg artefacts all over it :-\
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Not only is the design poorly done...but why is this girl hugging a giant cat paw?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512Q184TMZL._SS500_.jpg)
Yeah, not what I would call "exposed."
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Somebody at Spiegel must be reading GMG. Here is a glorious collection of derailments of good taste:
http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/authoralbumbackground/1291/aua_meine_augen.html
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Aww, it included a few joke bands - serious bands looking stupid are much better ;D I'm very impressed that they managed to find a large scan of the Handsome Beasts cover, though. They are a good (and funny) band :P It's now my desktop wallpaper!
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Not only is the design poorly done...but why is this girl hugging a giant cat paw?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512Q184TMZL._SS500_.jpg)
is a bear violating her? lol
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G5E6XC1YL._SS500_.jpg)
Hope that's not a photo from the recording session...
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That cover is awesome, Corey!!
You really think it belongs here in this thread?
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That cover is awesome, Corey!!
You really think it belongs here in this thread?
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Hee! I don't know, maybe not. It's really just a cheesy concept rather than poor album design, but this thread seems to be a catch-all for both. Reminds me of an old Samantha Fox video where she's singing in a swimming pool (with a live microphone, no less). :P
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Hee! I don't know, maybe not. It's really just a cheesy concept rather than poor album design, but this thread seems to be a catch-all for both. Reminds me of an old Samantha Fox video where she's singing in a swimming pool (with a live microphone, no less). :P
I can think of quite a few pop stars that I'd like to throw in a pool with live mics. 8)
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That cover is awesome, Corey!!
You really think it belongs here in this thread?
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Ooh, I like that cover, too. (Although I can certainly see why some wouldn't.)
--Bruce
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G5E6XC1YL._SS500_.jpg)(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/6528.jpg)
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(I freely admit that the repertoire on that CD is as appealing as the cover. ;D)
But design-wise, it's quite well-done. Meyer's knees, the lines on the pool floor and the reflections above all converge in a big "X" in the center. Actually quite a fine photograph, just on its own.
--Bruce
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Apex, Arte Nova, Testament are consistently bad.
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Apex, Arte Nova, Testament are consistently bad.
What's wrong with the historic photos on Testament covers?
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Apex, Arte Nova, Testament are consistently bad.
I agree about Testament, but Arte Nova covers are now quite attractive. The cover below is just one example of many dozens. Concerning Testament, I find their covers washed-out and have the look of "cheap" all over them. Apex covers are okay.
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Apex, Arte Nova, Testament are consistently bad.
What! I love the Arte Nova covers.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517W5ON3Z6L._SS500_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61GFX59YFYL._SS500_.jpg)
They're just beautiful!
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What! I love the Arte Nova covers.
They're just beautiful!
Yep, me too
I like this one:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414KGQ05XGL._AA240_.jpg)
Back on topic:
Some of these Trio sets are quite quaint, if somewhat random, but this one is just naff, if not down right insulting:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5100MW6SCSL._AA240_.jpg)
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I can understand the issues with Testament's covers, I also don't like them. An example of why:
(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/a5/20/948b793509a0197510bd2110.L.jpg)
The way they cut out the images and place them over a cheap looking gradient looks bad, and even worse in some such as this, when ones with significantly different looking depths are combined (the woman's photo looks flat next to the man, and together they seem to inhabit different dimensions). They also have a bad habit of tinting the photographs slightly, which when combined with a lurid background gradient produces unpleasant effects:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B66DBEAWL._AA240_.jpg)
The logo is also not ideal... An example of them doing it slightly better without as aggressive cutting out, and no gradient (the fancy font is nice as well):
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515W-SHC41L._AA240_.jpg)
This one is the best, simply because it's a full photograph for once:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AQ-cYoLvL._AA240_.jpg)
Still marred by the logos, but much better overall.
(It takes an immensely sad person to make such a lengthy commentry on a damn label's cover design :-X ;D)
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Bleh
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We have a winner. ::)
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What about this? Doesn't this look really bad?
(http://shop.castleclassics.co.uk/acatalog/V4937.jpg)
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Bleh
I think we have a winner here.
Btw, isn't that cover also somewhat "X-rated"? Isn't it a bit too late for the "Parental Advisory" warning?
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Apex, Arte Nova, Testament are consistently bad.
What is wrong with these?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/316J8qW7kEL._AA240_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uiLGbzgeL._AA240_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B1VF5KMDL._AA240_.jpg)
They look better than Naxos's covers.
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Some of these Trio sets are quite quaint, if somewhat random, but this one is just naff, if not down right insulting:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5100MW6SCSL._AA240_.jpg)
What is insulting about it? Shostakovich is a Russian composer. Those are Russian dolls. It's better than the faux-Cyrillic on most covers of DSCH recordings. ::)
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I can understand the issues with Testament's covers, I also don't like them. An example of why:
(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/a5/20/948b793509a0197510bd2110.L.jpg)
The way they cut out the images and place them over a cheap looking gradient looks bad, and even worse in some such as this, when ones with significantly different looking depths are combined (the woman's photo looks flat next to the man, and together they seem to inhabit different dimensions).
I dunno....
There's a certain 'rightness' to this cover that if you knew the libretto you'd probably appreciate (although you might know it...just guessing).
Everything is enshrouded in a kind of dankness, giving a claustrophobic feel to the story. It's sullen, misty, half-lit...
Overall, though, I'm in favor Testament's covers. Understated, for the most part, and sort of elementary.
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What about this? Doesn't this look really bad?
(http://shop.castleclassics.co.uk/acatalog/V4937.jpg)
The choice of picture is silly (and also pretentious). I love this cover from the same label, though:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510GQ4M2GHL._AA240_.jpg)
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But what does it have to do with Bruckner or the artists?
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But what does it have to do with Bruckner or the artists?
Nothing - it's just pretty (I suppose someone could suggest that the big train represents Bruckner's orchestral "power", but that would be BS IMO). Admittedly using a CD cover as some kind of photographic showcase is strange when I think about it, but it does tend to get repetitive seeing the same composer portraits, or even conductor photographs (eg I've seen Gunter Wand from 20 different front angles, all of them much the same) all the time, so mixing it up a little can be fun, in my view anyway.
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Yep, me too
I like this one:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414KGQ05XGL._AA240_.jpg)
Back on topic:
Wow; I would consider buying that one just to have the photograph on my shelf.
They look better than Naxos's covers.
Really now?
(http://www.naxosdirect.com/templates/shared/images/titles/largest/636943932827.jpg)
And my obligatory Bad Cover Art image (or, Why You Shouldn't Declare a Winner Until All the Votes Are In):
(http://einestages.spiegel.de/hund-images/2008/01/23/55/92602213db9c858044163c65af309645_image_document_large.jpg)
from the link posted a couple pages ago. ;D
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Really now?
(http://www.naxosdirect.com/templates/shared/images/titles/largest/636943932827.jpg)
Which one of those is Joan? ;D
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Which one of those is Joan? ;D
Oooh, nice. ;D
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Oooh, nice. ;D
It would have been perfect if they had superimposed a photo of Joan to make it look like she was as tall as one of the towers. She would also be wrapped in an American flag.
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It would have been perfect if they had superimposed a photo of Joan to make it look like she was as tall as one of the towers. She would also be wrapped in an American flag.
;D ;D I only have MS Paint, not Photoshop, so I apologize for the meager effort, but...
(http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4065/madeinamericaif7.jpg)
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Now that made me laugh out loud, Brian. Love the *footnote... ;D
I also like Arte Nova's covers...the Carter one below is a favorite. Naxos seems to be getting better, but not consistently. This one of Véronique Gens doing Canteloube is lovely.
(http://www.starzik.com/chanson_thumb.php?ID=1133850&H=183&W=183)
--Bruce
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What is insulting about it? Shostakovich is a Russian composer. Those are Russian dolls. It's better than the faux-Cyrillic on most covers of DSCH recordings. ::)
Hey Corey. I guess it's that glib 'touristy' association of ideas that I don't like. Russian composer? What should we put on the cover? Something Russian? I know! What about Russian dolls! Poulenc? How about three baguettes? A Lang Lang recital? What about a pair of chopsticks? ;D
I came acrosss this Philips series recently. There are a whole lot of them, 'Rachmaninoff for a Rainy Day,' 'Baroque at Bathtime: A Relaxing Serenade to Wash Your Cares Away,' 'Mozart for Massage' etc but I thought these two had the funniest covers:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R491JJ16L._AA240_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31q3HDz94eL._AA130_.jpg)
Kind of like '101 uses for Mozart ...' And here I was just listening to those darn things. I wonder if Philips is taking the piss :D.
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I await Vaughan Williams for Vivisection...
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;D ;D I only have MS Paint, not Photoshop, so I apologize for the meager effort, but...
(http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4065/madeinamericaif7.jpg)
:D :D :D
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Hey Corey. I guess it's that glib 'touristy' association of ideas that I don't like. Russian composer? What should we put on the cover? Something Russian? I know! What about Russian dolls! Poulenc? How about three baguettes? A Lang Lang recital? What about a pair of chopsticks? ;D
You're right, I was just feeling argumentative. They usually stick to more generic objects, like mushrooms or jewels.
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As much as I revere Albany Records for bringing us a lot of unique albums, their art director is certain death. Take this one, for instance:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21GCNSTTDDL._AA130_.jpg)
Not even an interesting font, and that photo! It looks like the cover was left in the hands of Bazelon's worst enemy, who of course did all he could to dissuade potential buyers.
Or how about:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LiLQLF0OL._SS500_.jpg)
The picture is trying to hint at Horwood's Amusement Park Suite and National Park Suite, but it looks like Godzilla vaporized half of Coney Island.
And Don Gillis wasn't a major composer, but he deserves better than this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21Kl3QD7s0L._AA130_.jpg)
That's "YeeeeHaaaaa!!!" coming out of the ladies ear, or mouth, or something. Even Amazon recognizes the dreariness of this and the Bazelon: there was no closeup available!
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How about this? I just saw this in another thread. I think it's pretty bad.
(http://www.iclassics.com/content/assets/selection/19/18380E.jpg)
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He looks like he's having a fit :-X
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Browsing the dregs of Amazon for a bargain can be a disturbing experience...
Have to agree.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61F54tucJVL._AA280_.jpg)
Eeek.
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EMI Triples covers are boring. At first impulse-buying glance, these covers do not entice.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31P%2BF-kSW2L._SS400_.jpg)
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EMI Triples covers are boring. At first impulse-buying glance, these covers do not entice.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31P%2BF-kSW2L._SS400_.jpg)
You mean you don't like how it says "3CD", "three", "EMI Triples", and has a big 3 and a little 3? You think that's ... repetitive? ;D ;D Although I must say, $3 would be a nice price to match. :)
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You mean you don't like how it says "3CD", "three", "EMI Triples", and has a big 3 and a little 3? You think that's ... repetitive? ;D ;D Although I must say, $3 would be a nice price to match. :)
Hmm, and it only took them several years to come up with something to match the Universal Triple series. They must have had their marketing specialists working 7 days a week to come up with this. 8)
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B000068PMF/sr=1-2/qid=1203701932/ref=dp_image_text_0?ie=UTF8&n=229816&s=music&qid=1203701932&sr=1-2
Link takes you to a photo of Vaughan Williams looking like the craters of the Moon.
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Look at this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61E6nZ5rsAL._SS500_.jpg)
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Look at this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61E6nZ5rsAL._SS500_.jpg)
Can't wait to miss that one!
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Look at this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61E6nZ5rsAL._SS500_.jpg)
Kansas City!? ;D ;D
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How about this? I just saw this in another thread. I think it's pretty bad.
(http://www.iclassics.com/content/assets/selection/19/18380E.jpg)
Yeah, I posted that and its pretty bad. [Great music though]
In fact theres a whole series of them!
'We've completely run out of ideas!'
(http://www.iclassics.com/content/assets/selection/59/58512E.jpg)
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/July02/Haydn_schopfungmesse_harmoniemesse_gardiner.jpg)
(http://www.iclassics.com/content/assets/selection/19/18380E.jpg)
(http://www.iclassics.com/content/assets/selection/48/47057E.jpg)
'Okay, look down at the chair - good. Now look at me - good. Okay now wave your arms in the air!' ;)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61EZAB7BYZL._SS500_.jpg)
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Im glad I wasnt drinking anything!
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gi9a1nGjL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Rattle is one ugly dude, he actually looks like the reptile my roommate has in her terrarium, apart from the curls, of course (if the reptile wore a grey curly wig, it would look exactly like him though), but that shouldn't matter - musical quality (or the lack thereof) should be the decisive factors. Still, do they have to advertise his ugliness in this way?
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41gi9a1nGjL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Rattle is one ugly dude, he actually looks like the reptile my roommate has in her terrarium, apart from the curls, of course (if the reptile wore a grey curly wig, it would look exactly like him though), but that shouldn't matter - musical quality (or the lack thereof) should be the decisive factors. Still, do they have to advertise his ugliness in this way?
I don't find him ugly, but his color is terrible (looks like a corpse). He just needs an extreme makeover.
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He just looks British to me. ;D
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OK, yes, that explains it :D 0:) >:D $:) :-X ::) ;D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W34J5X68L._SS500_.jpg)
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That's not so bad.
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That's not so bad.
I especially love Salieri fading into the woodwork. ;D
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I especially love Salieri fading into the woodwork. ;D
Possible caption: The opera house is falling down. The ghost of Salieri is mildly displeased.
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haha
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http://lpcoverlover.com/category/real-people-with-real-problems/ ugh! this is truly f'ed up!
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haha
What does laughing at these unfortunate people do for you?
Boost your deflated ego or just make you feel physically superior or something else, perhaps?
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Ignoring the subject (which the kitsch art is disrespecting more than me, anyway) this is one of the most hilarious classical CD covers I've yet to encounter:
(http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/5549/20080416kilarsemptemberow7.jpg)
An amazingly terrible concept coupled with an amazingly terrible 'shop, with some deeply uninspired graphic design thrown in for good measure.
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I resolved to reserve from posting until tomorrow, on account of how tired I am right now, but that is horrible. Ghastly; horrific!
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(http://www.europadisc.co.uk/thumb/phpThumb.php?src=../images/products/1215524359_1774850.jpg&w=190&h=190&zc=1)
"Behold, lowly pianists, I, too, have five fingers (per hand), so, my immeasurable talent and extraordinary hairstyle and fashion sense aside, I'm just a normal person, just like you...only better!"
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He is so good, they named him twice.
Mike
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QbD%2B5aKwL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
Adding insult to injury, of the 21 tracks, only six are J.S. Bach, one is C.P.E. Bach, and the rest are other composers whose surnames are not Bach. ::)
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(http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/7281/schw2.jpg)
Wut?
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Wut?
Exactly. :P
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(http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/7281/schw2.jpg)
Wut?
:D That is funny. Allow me to translate:
The title Seçmece Balkan: Balkan Selection.
Komşuda pişer, bize de düşer: That is a Turkish expression meaning "we can benefit from what goes around us". Literal translation would be: It [food] is cooked by/at our neighbors, but we do get a piece of it.
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(http://bp2.blogger.com/_-Wjc2NhMAU4/RjuEVCE9xxI/AAAAAAAAACU/vAypSEDEVlU/s200/2.jpg)
I'm sure we've seen this on the old Forum...but still, such a classic deserves a second serving. I love the sweater.
However, in Belgium anno 1972....a song for all mothers!
(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/003/124/779_cb167887d18b6506d0c5fda7b44ca3c6.jpg)
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Flemish treasures! ;D ;D
(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/003/120/071_48614872967cd9fc014ba687542cfb83.jpg)
(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/003/107/055_b0abfc0850a7fcbcb17a2d6fce71b0b3.jpg)
(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/003/096/233_fb75d3311af9a96024f94014b8ff788e.jpg)
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(http://bp2.blogger.com/_-Wjc2NhMAU4/RjuEVCE9xxI/AAAAAAAAACU/vAypSEDEVlU/s200/2.jpg)
This thread always has the best visuals...and the above is as fine an example as any. Somehow I missed it if it was posted before, so thanks, Peter. What was she thinking?
--Bruce
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Never mind that Bruce; what was the art department thinking?
Mike
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(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/616/433/20080430/dyn008_original_437_452_pjpeg_2616433_ab48b844711ed5508dd9da479ee397b2.jpg)
Jetty Gitari !
(http://www.muziekarchief.be/thumbnails/carrierdata_4204.jpg)
Francis Bay & his orchestra!
(http://www.muziekarchief.be/thumbnails/carrierdata_19311.jpg)
La Esterella!
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This thread always has the best visuals...and the above is as fine an example as any. Somehow I missed it if it was posted before, so thanks, Peter. What was she thinking?
--Bruce
"How dare Birgit Nilson sing electra!"
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Never mind that Bruce; what was the art department thinking?
Mike
;D
"How dare Birgit Nilson sing electra!"
;D ;D
And that Jetty Gitari is pretty appalling, too...who's that woman...and the dog?
--Bruce
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Bruce, I'll try to explain... It's all about ( usually well meant) kitsch, of course.Jetty Gitari was a VERY VERY local "chanteuse" ( she died 2 or 3 years ago). I know very little about her, but let's say that after a brief stint in Flemish show bizz, she opened a café/bar near military barracks and was "like a mother" to her boys.
As for most of these singers,choosing a "nom d'artiste" was obligatory. "Jeanneke De Keukeleire", "Jef Van Quickenborne" or " Gerda Van Uytersprot" are hardly names to start a career with ..when Catharina Valente, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra were ..errr,your rolemodel or ..adversary!
So many Ricky Gordon's, Johnny West's and Vicky Valero's tried to do their best - now singing in English, then in French or Flemish. Most of it is just boorish rock or straightforward hoompah - with a good deal of tearjerkers thrown in ( Don't leave mommy alone, Stop drinking now, Grandpa died, Red roses..) and the odd excursion into exotica : Hawaii, Mexico... the Alps and the Cote d'Azur!!
We have a few greats : Bobbejaan Schoepen ( a whistling cowboy, now at 80 making a come back!), Belgo-Italian Rocco Granata ( of "Marina " fame, now a serious producer), and young star Laura Lynn who will save the Flemish 'Schlager" all alone!
Holland's "Zangeres zonder naam" (The singer without a name!) is the godmother of them all.
(http://i1.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/db/1b/3b4e_2.JPG)
Peter
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All most interesting...thanks. (And another zinger in that last cover, too. ;D)
--Bruce
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::) ::) ::)
(http://rockerries.web-log.nl/mijn_weblog/images/front_84.jpg)
(http://www.webdjsitalodisco.ch/Vinilcovers/Rocco-Marina.jpg)
(http://www.vtm.be/promo/gfx/laura_lynn_betoverd_affiche.jpg)
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(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n213/svlove1/flytotherainbow.jpg)
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Flemish treasures! ;D ;D
(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/003/096/233_fb75d3311af9a96024f94014b8ff788e.jpg)
Magnifico!
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Was that meant to be this, Corey?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Scorpions-Fly_To_The_Rainbow.jpg/200px-Scorpions-Fly_To_The_Rainbow.jpg)
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Was that meant to be this, Corey?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Scorpions-Fly_To_The_Rainbow.jpg/200px-Scorpions-Fly_To_The_Rainbow.jpg)
Grah, yes. Serves me right for being too lazy to upload it to my Photobucket. ::)
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(http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/616/433/20080430/dyn008_original_437_452_pjpeg_2616433_ab48b844711ed5508dd9da479ee397b2.jpg)
Are those all of her sons?
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;D Of course, Belgian women are known for extremely high fertility levels!
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I did not take the time to see if this has been mentioned in the last 15 pages, so...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51itM6qddSL._SS400_.jpg)
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I did not take the time to see if this has been mentioned in the last 15 pages, so...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51itM6qddSL._SS400_.jpg)
Didn't I use the "O_o;" emoticon already? Regardless, it certainly applies here. Ouch!
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Didn't I use the "O_o;" emoticon already? [/i]
What does that emoticon signify? Kindly enlighten.
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What does that emoticon signify? Kindly enlighten.
O_o implies that one eye is considerably larger than the other, as a result of a facial expression signifying suspicion, disgust, or extreme discomfort with the object of the gaze.
Here is a very mild case of O_o in action:
(http://carboncopy.hobix.com/archives/4%20disgust.jpg)
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O_o implies that one eye is considerably larger than the other, as a result of a facial expression signifying suspicion, disgust, or extreme discomfort with the object of the gaze.
Thanks, Brian, I suspected it was so. But the semi-colon in Reinfield's post had me confused.
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Thanks, Brian, I suspected it was so. But the semi-colon in Reinfield's post had me confused.
The semicolon is an anime thing; implies frustration, embarrassment, or general "ugh"-ness.
(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/crusherdrop.gif)
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Ah. Thanks for clarifying that. :)
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The semicolon is an anime thing; implies frustration, embarrassment, or general "ugh"-ness.
(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/crusherdrop.gif)
Indeed, it is exactly this.
Most of the text-based emoticons I use (if ever) are drawn from Japanese anime expressions, mostly because of how visceral (and thus illustrative) some of them can be! Apologies if I confused you, opus67. :)
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Most of the text-based emoticons I use (if ever) are drawn from Japanese anime expressions, mostly because of how visceral (and thus illustrative) some of them can be! Apologies if I confused you, opus67. :)
Not a problem. Hey, I learnt something new thanks to you! :)
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Nicolai Yakovelich would not have approved:
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I usually like the covers by that label, but sometimes they can be horribly off the mark.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tfaB03IcL._SS500_.jpg)
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Hehe, it's too easy to mock Arte Nova's super pretentious covers 0:)
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/457/image3jv9.jpg)
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I little knew to what use you would put my picture, Sara . . . .
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I might move this one to the "Best CD artwork" thread...
(http://www.emusic.com/music/images/album/279/112/700/11270089/600x600.jpg)
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(http://www.mdt.co.uk/public/pictures/products/standard/CRC2246.jpg)
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I see Bach and Liszt on the left, but who are the other two? Is the one on the far right supposed to be Wagner?
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I see Bach and Liszt on the left, but who are the other two? Is the one on the far right supposed to be Wagner?
The 3rd guy looks like Sibelius with Wagner's nose and some facial hair... bizarre. Wagner on an organ disc would also be pretty odd, I wonder why he was picked over more rational choices...
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http://www.amazon.ca/Monuments-of-Germanic-Music/dp/B0000057Y9 (http://www.amazon.ca/Monuments-of-Germanic-Music/dp/B0000057Y9)
According to this, Germanic monument on the right is indeed Richard Wagner and the gentleman with monumental nose and moustache is none other than Sigfrid Karg-Elert.
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the gentleman with monumental nose and moustache is none other than Sigfrid Karg-Elert.
Damn, it was so obvious 0:)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VEHxzyHxL._SS400_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VEHxzyHxL._SS400_.jpg)
I like that cover. What bothers you about it?
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Without the violin (or maybe even with it), I'd usually associate that picture with fashion photography/modelling, or something along those lines. The picture as such may not be bad, but I don't see how that connects with the music.
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Without the violin (or maybe even with it), I'd usually associate that picture with fashion photography/modelling, or something along those lines. The picture as such may not be bad, but I don't see how that connects with the music.
Okay, you want covers that are in sync with the musical content. I want covers that attract me, and the St. John cover does just that.
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It's better than another infamous cover of hers.
(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/LaraStJohn.jpg)
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It's better than another infamous cover of hers.
(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/LaraStJohn.jpg)
Agreed. That earlier cover has a kiddie-porn aesthetic to it and looks washed-out as well.
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It's better than another infamous cover of hers.
Yup. That CD was listed on Amazon as well, but I remembered someone had commented about it earlier (here or, probably, some other forum), so I didn't bother posting that.
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Agreed. That earlier cover has a kiddie-porn aesthetic to it and looks washed-out as well.
Actually, I prefer the earlier cover; in the new one she looks both really angry and really ugly. And the wind is not flattering her either...it just looks astoundingly amateurish and creepy.
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Actually, I prefer the earlier cover; in the new one she looks both really angry and really ugly. And the wind is not flattering her either...it just looks astoundingly amateurish and creepy.
I gave the cover another look - still enjoy it.
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Gustav and Sir Adrian must be rolling in their graves...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/Indysolo/WGS-8126a.jpg)
Last place I'd ever expect to find a crotch shot! :o
This cover is fucking AWESOME!!!! I'll take twelve!
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This cover is fucking AWESOME!!!! I'll take twelve!
I almost regret not buying it when I saw a copy of this a few weeks ago at my local used record store.
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I almost regret not buying it when I saw a copy of this a few weeks ago at my local used record store.
"Almost?????"" >:(
What a missed opportunity!! This is death-bed regret level!!! :)
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I almost regret not buying it when I saw a copy of this a few weeks ago at my local used record store.
I DID buy it, last night. Did some Google searching, found a used copy on a record shop's website for $6, and ordered it. ;D ;D
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Without the violin (or maybe even with it), I'd usually associate that picture with fashion photography/modelling, or something along those lines. The picture as such may not be bad, but I don't see how that connects with the music.
How about he fact that it is a photograph of the performer?
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I DID buy it, last night. Did some Google searching, found a used copy on a record shop's website for $6, and ordered it. ;D ;D
Win-win! You get the acest of ace album jackets in existence, AND assist in keeping the economy afloat! On behalf of the American people, thanks you!
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Win-win! You get the acest of ace album jackets in existence, AND assist in keeping the economy afloat! On behalf of the American people, thanks you!
And the record shop was in Scranton - Joe Biden's "neighborhood" ;D
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On behalf of the American people, thanks you!
On behalf of Brian, you is welcomes!
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On behalf of Brian, you is welcomes!
i deserved that. ;D
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Holy Draft Excluders!
(http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/img_2317-498x500.jpg)
Mike
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Now that one just made me burst out laughing...
Perhaps they should model for a CD of string trios, e.g., Beethoven Use Me. ;D
--Bruce
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Or Rosenkavalier, or Cosi fan Tutti...Perhaps they are the three Norns. I could imagine them tatting.
Mike
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:D ;D :D really a true classic. !
But the ozone layer does NOT approve....!
I'm scanning some photographs from a great little book "Bad hair" - Great Britain ca 1965-1975....You'll be amazed!
Peter
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Holy Draft Excluders!
(http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/img_2317-498x500.jpg)
Mike
OMFG. The one on the right is a guy, isn't he?
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OMFG. The one on the right is a guy, isn't he?
*still laughing*
Does sort of look like it, doesn't it!
--Bruce
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I think the one on the right is Stephen Fry
(http://re3.yt-thm-a01.yimg.com/image/25/m2/2105685780)
Mike
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From London, with love!
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;D
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::)
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0:)
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Well Peter, with those you may have just created a new Ring cycle. ;D
--Bruce
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Holy Draft Excluders!
(http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/img_2317-498x500.jpg)
Mike
The Three Graces. I don't envy Paris. ;D ;D ;D
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I DID buy it, last night. Did some Google searching, found a used copy on a record shop's website for $6, and ordered it. ;D ;D
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The record shop sent me a reissue of the original album, but with a boring cover! Nooooooooooooooooooooooo! I am not in possession of the Holst Planets LP with the two morons in space costumes on the cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The record shop sent me a reissue of the original album, but with a boring cover! Nooooooooooooooooooooooo! I am not in possession of the Holst Planets LP with the two morons in space costumes on the cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hunt them down and kill them. Post-haste.
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Hunt them down and kill them. Post-haste.
I know!
Now how am I going to decorate the apartment?!
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OMFG. The one on the right is a guy, isn't he?
You mean, they're not ALL guys :o?
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(http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/jqUxW_TM16eBoaxb4a3nNw43717/GW302H327)(http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/0-BmUMTF2GJhbRe5TiTiFg158446/GW350H357) (http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/w5Qy57eJ99Bk8BtqjAYHAw71188/GW350H352)
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(http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/jqUxW_TM16eBoaxb4a3nNw43717/GW302H327)(http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/0-BmUMTF2GJhbRe5TiTiFg158446/GW350H357) (http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/w5Qy57eJ99Bk8BtqjAYHAw71188/GW350H352)
EEEEEEK!
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I know!
Now how am I going to decorate the apartment?!
You could use the print-outs of the decline of my stock portfolio and 401K as wallpaper...decorative AND ironic!
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You could use the print-outs of the decline of my stock portfolio and 401K as wallpaper...decorative AND ironic!
Why "ironic"?
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One of the potentially worst LP covers in the history of classical music never happened. As Richard Osborne relates in his Karajan biography, when he recorded an album of Prussian and Austrian marches with the winds of the BP for DG, the conductor and former NSDAP member came up with the idea to show a burning swastika rolling down a steep hill on the cover. The idea behind this was apparently to express, in the spirit of the time (that was in the 70s) with its highly critical attitude towards the not so distant NS past, how militarism had led into the catastrophe of the dictatorship and WWII. Fortunately (or unfortunately?), DG talked him out of this idea and to avoid the militarist connotations of the music, they showed a row of marching tin soldiers on the cover.
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Why "ironic"?
because this was the money that was set aside to fund my early retirement, that seemed not entirely unimpossible a year ago (meaning, not likely, but it was certainly accruing and generating numbers). I would have been better off spending that money on a trip to Vienna or whatever, since it's now non-existant.
The conventional wisdom is always you'll never regret buying a home or putting money in your company 401k program. And, historically, that was true.
But history can sometimes burp. Or, in this case, vomit. Phooey.
Back to funny album jackets!
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because this was the money that was set aside to fund my early retirement, that seemed not entirely unimpossible a year ago (meaning, not likely, but it was certainly accruing and generating numbers). I would have been better off spending that money on a trip to Vienna or whatever, since it's now non-existant.
The conventional wisdom is always you'll never regret buying a home or putting money in your company 401k program. And, historically, that was true.
But history can sometimes burp. Or, in this case, vomit. Phooey.
Back to funny album jackets!
That's not irony, Alanis, just bad luck. (Sorry to hear it, though.)
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That's not irony, Alanis, just bad luck. (Sorry to hear it, though.)
Great. First I'm broke, now I'm being compared to Alanis Morrisette. Still, better that than Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Take that, Barack!
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Holy Draft Excluders!
(http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/img_2317-498x500.jpg)
Mike
Holy Draft Excluders indeed! I'm going to make this one my wallpaper at work.
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MDL, I do think that looking at that image for too long would be detrimental to your wellbeing. It could turn you to excessive consumption of lager and public micturition....and who knows what then!
Mike
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MDL, I do think that looking at that image for too long would be detrimental to your wellbeing. It could turn you to excessive consumption of lager and public micturition....and who knows what then!
Mike
You're right. I had to replace it. It was freaking me out. Maybe I should do a bit of work instead of staring at my wallpaper. Or arsing around on GMG, for that matter... :(
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My work is done; my task is o'er. Another one SAVED.
Mike
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(http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/jqUxW_TM16eBoaxb4a3nNw43717/GW302H327)(http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/0-BmUMTF2GJhbRe5TiTiFg158446/GW350H357) (http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/w5Qy57eJ99Bk8BtqjAYHAw71188/GW350H352)
At least the Brailettes probably never saw the cover and can be to some extent excused.....
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FPpiWNARTt4/SPdW-ZHg4-I/AAAAAAAAFV8/PiKKF9m55Cc/s1600/innocentear.jpg)
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This is pretty sad:
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(http://cdn.pe.recordcup.com/img/575_b.jpg) (http://cdn.pe.recordcup.com/img/574_b.jpg) (http://cdn.pe.recordcup.com/img/565_b.jpg)
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This is pretty sad:
That kicked ass.
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I just got this disc and it rocks. But why did they have to make poor Pletnev's face look so sickly and diseased?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/316ZDA1ZB6L._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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http://cdn.pe.recordcup.com/img/565_b.jpg[/img]
What is he doing? Playing it or playing with it?
Truly awful!
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(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/kennedy.jpg)
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This is pretty sad:
;D Few conductors have so consistently appeared on awful LP covers. There were a few under the title "Karajan Express" that were pretty horrible as well - one including a still life photo on the back of expensive wine, cheese, caviar, cigars, etc on a table - live the Karajan lifestyle! ::)
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FPpiWNARTt4/SPdW-ZHg4-I/AAAAAAAAFV8/PiKKF9m55Cc/s1600/innocentear.jpg)
....please say that this is something that you photoshopped, that this never actually happened...
(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/kennedy.jpg)
This too.
I have lost all respect for classical music... :-[
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(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/kennedy.jpg)
:o :o :o
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(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/kennedy.jpg)
Tsk tsk - that's not how your destroy a Strad. ::)
This is how you should do it.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MSMN88F9L._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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He wasn't trying to destroy it, he was playing Purple Haze. >:D
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Hey, that Giardino Armonico cover is actually pretty cool! 8)
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Is this as bad as it seems to me?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TPYZW17EL._SS500_.jpg)
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No, no, the tasteful graphic design complements the music perfectly. >:D
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(A nice bit of Comic Sans, the primary school teacher's font of choice)
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Is this as bad as it seems to me?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TPYZW17EL._SS500_.jpg)
Incredible!
(And one of my best friends has a book published very soon, in the US, about Babbitt and Alan Forte: Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts (Eastman Studies in Music)!)
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Now that's what I call a shameless plug! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :P ;D
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Now that's what I call a shameless plug! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :P ;D
0:)
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Hey, that Giardino Armonico cover is actually pretty cool! 8)
Really? If it was some bizarre post-modern avant-garde interpretation of The Four Seasons played on koozoos, sure, but....
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XTN1CHWKL._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41njwX5mf4L._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XTN1CHWKL._SS500_.jpg)
No helicopters? Stockhausen would be envious...!
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No helicopters? Stockhausen would be envious...!
;D
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I think this is pretty bad, too:
(http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/418459.jpg)
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This one's pretty awful. What on earth were they thinking of?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512PC6VQJBL._SS400_.jpg)
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I don't think we've had these 2 here before but I may be wrong.
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I don't think we've had these 2 here before but I may be wrong.
Don! ;D
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This one's pretty awful. What on earth were they thinking of?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512PC6VQJBL._SS400_.jpg)
That cover would only be acceptable if the recordings were orchestral renditions of Jimmy Buffet songs.
And that idea is even worse than that damn cover!
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Don't hurt us. We surrender.
(http://www.europadisc.co.uk/thumb/phpThumb.php?src=../images/products/1225209994_4763216.jpg&w=190&h=190&zc=1)
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(http://www.naxosdirect.com/templates/shared/images/titles/largest/636943961520.jpg)
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Ghastly.
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(http://www.naxosdirect.com/templates/shared/images/titles/largest/636943961520.jpg)
I like this one - very sensual.
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This one's pretty awful. What on earth were they thinking of?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512PC6VQJBL._SS400_.jpg)
Brazil is lush?
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XTN1CHWKL._SS500_.jpg)
This one really sucks. The Vienna boys must have been high on top-grade pot.
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This one really sucks. The Vienna boys must have been high on top-grade pot.
;D
Or "Beam us up, Scotty!"
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Nevermind the cover; isn't the 1st Rasumovsky only ~40 minutes long? What a gyp!
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Pretty much nothing is going right for this CD. ;D
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Interesting new release: Maybe the picture was originally destined for Honegger's 'Pacific 231'
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Not the worst, but false advertising. I saw the font and picture and thought, "Oooh! Maybe it's a Bruckner for Kids album!" Because that sounded like it would be hilarious. ;D Then it wasn't a Bruckner for Kids CD and I'm venting my frustration by posting the picture here.
(http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/279/108/034/10803483/300x300.jpg)
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Have we had this beauty here yet?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gUAPle-tL._SS500_.jpg)
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Have we had this beauty here yet?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gUAPle-tL._SS500_.jpg)
Not gorgeous, but I have no problem with it.
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Is that Tintin with that lady.... :o
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A nice one I found during my absence...it reminded me of Karl, and I think I emailed it to him:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uxR5UCf2L._SS500_.jpg)
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...it's wrong in so many ways....
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...it's wrong in so many ways....
The woman has no hips and no more than one leg.
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...it's wrong in so many ways....
Vile.
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Has this been posted?
(http://doublebassblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/holst-the-planets.jpg)
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Has this been posted?
(http://doublebassblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/holst-the-planets.jpg)
Got an itch for dat lowest rent style 'o kitsch?
Poor Boult. I would have been ashamed to show my face to my mama after that kind of injury.
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Has this been posted?
(http://doublebassblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/holst-the-planets.jpg)
Is that a mini Steinway hanging from his belt? (Does someone else want to make the obvious six inch pianist joke now...) ;D
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What's that falling out the left side of the crotch of his pink leotard?
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Has this been posted?
Yes. And someone bought a copy just for the cover! ;D
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Yes. And someone bought a copy just for the cover! ;D
That was me. And they sent a reissue with a different cover. Fiends! >:(
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What's that falling out the left side of the crotch of his pink leotard?
Wow, how much time did you spend staring at that photo? That's scary, man.
;D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51O4pseqq6L._SS500_.jpg)
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;D that must be the ghost of Chopin hovering over Arturo 0:) in "flou artistique"!
Let's go for some expressionism : Elektra always brings out the best in great singers! Here's Astrid casting the bad eye at klytemnestra!
P.
(http://www.musicweb-international.com/classRev/2002/Jun02/Strauss_Elektra_guild.jpg)
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Thinking back to my previous post on this thread (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,239.msg277981.html#msg277981) I've got a theory that some of the worst covers are for CDs in which the less repertoire-blessed instruments of the orchestra try too hard to put themselves in the shop window. Here, for instance, are just some of the results one gets if one plugs 'tuba' into Amazon UK:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418E3E5HAAL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61rk9PAqxZL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SMGG7DW9L._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21ZJKERK87L._SL500_AA130_.jpg) (I wish this one was bigger!)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31PVK1Z2VJL._SL500_AA130_.jpg) (and this one!)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/316006G67DL._SL500_AA130_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TKAT045BL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CQFRAEAHL._SL500_AA240_.jpg) (ridiculous literalism!)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QKPCF5Q0L._SL500_AA240_.jpg) (Tom's beardy brother?)
I'm off to try 'contrabassoon'....
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;D
(http://goingdigitalmusic.com/images/album%20covers/baja%20marimba%20band%20-%20naturally%20(resized)gdmac.jpg)
Notice the socks, naturally!
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That guy on the left................? ??? :o ???
Luke, I know what you're doing is actually mistaking this for the "Purchases" thread so I'd suggest you also add this to your basket (I posted it once on the old forum (http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php/topic,619.msg382151.html#msg382151) so perhaps you already have it?).
(http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0001BUCL0.03._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
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No, I don't have that one :( I only have volumes 1 and 4.
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I'd like to have it myself but it's just too scary... I'd have to hide the cover.
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A mirror image would have been apt for volume 4.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QKPCF5Q0L._SL500_AA240_.jpg) (Tom's beardy brother?)
It's the Geico caveman!
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513DYYVRMGL._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513DYYVRMGL._SS500_.jpg)
Thank you :D :'( :D
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Thank you :D :'( :D
It's like a nightmarish modern take on the pied piper tale, except instead of a man with a flute it's a man with a saxophone and instead of little rats it's HIDEOUSLY OVERSIZED KILLER WHALES THAT CAN FLY!!! :o
I've seen them breaching the water - it's only a matter of time before evolution helps them into the skies permanently. Be scared.
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I've seen them breaching the water - it's only a matter of time before evolution helps them into the skies permanently. Be scared.
No! Embrace! Embraaaaace!
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51O4pseqq6L._SS500_.jpg)
WTF???
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WTF???
Yeah, strangeness.
I wonder if that...creature thing...isn't some sort of leftover stage prop?
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It looks like something from Alien - nifty.
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Bad on so many levels.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5101lZ8ScuL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Mike
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Bad on so many levels.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5101lZ8ScuL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Mike
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No further comment. :P
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5101lZ8ScuL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/4777/qqemote.gif)
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These characters are doing a tour...I assume of the ports.
Mike
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I'm trying to figure out the appropriateness of the picture here.
(http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/t_200/meridiancde84341.jpg)
[Sorry, couldn't find one larger.]
Beethoven's opera 120 and 34 -- John Bingham -- Meridian
Stay with me if you will
Beethoven's set of variations was based on a waltz written down Diabelli, correct? But waltz is also a form of ballroom dance. What Shiva, in the form of Nataraja, the Patron God of Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form, is doing in the picture is dancing while in the process of creating the Universe. It's just a conjecture, of course. ::)
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Beethoven meets Bollywood.
Mike
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Lots of REALLY bad stuff here:
http://www.katastrofalaomslag.blogspot.com/ (http://www.katastrofalaomslag.blogspot.com/)
An example:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2XHxqgMF4mw/SfbbMyBPK4I/AAAAAAAAAvM/ZgyTrfJ5Dhc/s400/Loco+mia.jpg)
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Any cover with Jeffrey Tate on it.
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This new disgrace from Decca:
(http://www.mdt.co.uk/public/pictures/products/standard/4781463.jpg)
Yes, they Photoshopped Jonas Kaufmann into the painting.
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Thanks, Brian. I was thinking of doing the same. That's a cover that has been irritating me for a few months.
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Not sure what she's aiming for (no pun intended):
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This new disgrace from Decca:
(http://www.mdt.co.uk/public/pictures/products/standard/4781463.jpg)
Yes, they Photoshopped Jonas Kaufmann into the painting.
Mahler Chamber Orchestra? Isn't that an oxymoron? :D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515KPH4CZVL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
To the tune of Ride of the Valkyries:
A CHERRY TOMATO? A CHERRY TOMATO? A CHERRY TOMAAAATO WONT PASS MY LIPS
A CHERRY TOMATO? A CHERRY TOMATO? I ASKED FOR A HOG ROAST STUFFED FULL OF CHIPS
:P
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she's a happy bunny.... ;D
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Not sure what she's aiming for (no pun intended):
You'll put your eye out with that thing.
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You'll put your eye out with that thing.
;D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GCF8FASDL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
What were they thinking ;_:
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GCF8FASDL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
What were they thinking ;_:
I bet they put an ostrich on the cover of a Strauss recording.
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(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/3wolfmoon.jpg)
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Some golden oldies from the old thread. The first used to be my favourite:
(http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/CLMikeTerry.jpg)
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00008ICDU.02._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1107636947_.jpg)
(http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/img_2317-498x500.jpg)
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This new disgrace from Decca:
(http://www.mdt.co.uk/public/pictures/products/standard/4781463.jpg)
Yes, they Photoshopped Jonas Kaufmann into the painting.
If they had airlifted him and the photograpic team by chopper, the disc would have been really expensive.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GCF8FASDL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
What were they thinking ;_:
That Lobos means wolf?
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It still looks like a white trash t-shirt design.
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It still looks like a white trash t-shirt design.
I don't find it very successfuil either (strange for a label like Hyperion); I was just answering what they may have been thinking. ;)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GCF8FASDL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
What were they thinking ;_:
It reminds me of those etching gifts you sometimes get at Christmas when people think you're a 'creative' type. You know, the ones where you scrape away the black coating to reveal the silvery stuff beneath and end up covered in black dust. ???
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Clearly a piece of Saul's 'work'.
Mike
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I wanted to say that, but I felt two snarky comments was too much for one album cover. :D
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Some golden oldies from the old thread. The first used to be my favourite:
(http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/CLMikeTerry.jpg)
Oh my friggin' God, you can close the thread now. :o :o
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That Lobos means wolf?
It actually means "wolves", so Corey's image should have been used. I'm sending an e-mail to Hyperion. :D
(And "Strauss" means "ostrich" BTW, that's why I wrote that in my post.)
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(http://www.danacountryman.com/danacovers/CLMikeTerry.jpg)
With the reputation of audiences at the Glasgow Pavilion; he may have been live when the photo was taken, but I find it hard to believe he was other than carried off that stage.
Mike
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31V37EWQWXL._SS400_.jpg)
ahem....
that's the 454th bestselling EMI Classics CD... just so you know.... ;D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31V37EWQWXL._SS400_.jpg)
ahem....
that's the 454th bestselling EMI Classics CD... just so you know.... ;D
:D The only difference is Rattle's hair is gray now. 8) Still...I love the dude! :)
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(http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/terence-trent-darby/album-ttds-vibrator.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Srarpromo.jpg)
(http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/drinkingsongs/mp3s/1960s/1963-why-was-he-born-so-beautiful--sportsdisc-records-(LP)/why-was-he-born-so-beautiful.jpg)
(http://www.vinylrecords.ch/E/EM/Emerson_Lake_Palmer/Love-Beach/love-beach-10.jpg)
(http://www.terry-1.com/Five-EARTH-Moons_FINAL_web-.jpg)
(http://merlin.pl/Good-To-Go-Dystrybucja-Bmg_Terrorvision,images_big,23,CDMASS0850.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31V37EWQWXL._SS400_.jpg)
ahem....
that's the 454th bestselling EMI Classics CD... just so you know.... ;D
Ghastly cover,...fun album.
Sarge
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Not strictly GMG territory, but probably deserves to be here 0:):
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oXwOuEBX6DY/SzPMVphWEOI/AAAAAAAABKk/hz8UgyDrEtg/s320/Los+grandes+de+la+musica+tropical.jpg)
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I don't think she cares much for their singing...
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A little outta proportion dont'cha think?
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I didn't know Mr. Whipple could play the organ!
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Looks like ole' Lenny's been at the eggnog again...
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I don't think she cares much for their singing...
:D!
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(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=239.0;attach=22877;image)
I'm not correcting you but rather the file name of the image. It's Korean, not Japanese.
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Not strictly GMG territory, but probably deserves to be here 0:):
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oXwOuEBX6DY/SzPMVphWEOI/AAAAAAAABKk/hz8UgyDrEtg/s320/Los+grandes+de+la+musica+tropical.jpg)
What chance is there for EMI to snatch her up to make a cover with Simon Rattle? >:D
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I'm not correcting you but rather the file name of the image. It's Korean, not Japanese.
Yes, I knew that by the writing. The title of the file was as I received it, and I didn't bother to correct it, as it wasn't really important for this purpose. Nice catch though, if your not Korean!
Regardless of the origin, it's still awful!
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Nice catch though, if your not Korean!
My wife of 12 years is, and I've lived here for the past 10 years.
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Hear that, Sarge? ;D
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000005E4I.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SS500_.jpg)
I just can't fit the two in my mind at the same time; Brahms and sex, that is.
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Still gets my vote for most ridiculous hair...
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Help! I see little people...
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The incredible shrinking organ. ;D
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Oddly enough, this cover featuring a disturbing John Wayne Gacy-ish clown, had absolutely NOTHING to do with the music on the LP, which were just some old church hymns.
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(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6019/frontbz.jpg)
:-*
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(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6019/frontbz.jpg)
:-*
Double win on that one, for the album "art" and the album name!
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The incredible shrinking organ. ;D
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n254/faustus777/TheOffice-ThatsWhatSheSaid-Michael.jpg)
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Oddly enough, this cover featuring a disturbing John Wayne Gacy-ish clown, had absolutely NOTHING to do with the music on the LP, which were just some old church hymns.
(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=239.0;attach=22981;image)
I suppose he forgot to get out of costume after filming?
(http://www.horrorsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/horrorsociety-killer-klowns.jpg)
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(http://turntabling.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/wft-kjellkraghe-lp-cover.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Okc9LHmcL._SS500_.jpg)
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Well, Eros - Thanatos, the eternal battle!
Who remembers Sylvia Geszty?
(http://www.kugin.de/user0002/Langspielplatten/825900/825%20973.jpg)
or Margit Schramm and Rudolf Schock?
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Well, Eros - Thanatos, the eternal battle!
Who remembers Sylvia Geszty?
(http://www.kugin.de/user0002/Langspielplatten/825900/825%20973.jpg)
or Margit Schramm and Rudolf Schock?
Margit Schramm and Rudolf Schock? I do - my late mother loved operetta...
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I suppose he forgot to get out of costume after filming?
(http://www.horrorsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/horrorsociety-killer-klowns.jpg)
That is a legitimately very amusing movie! I might actually watch it again in the coming months, before I leave college and move into the real world, where such movies don't have quite the same audience.
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Well, Eros - Thanatos, the eternal battle!
Who remembers Sylvia Geszty?
(http://www.kugin.de/user0002/Langspielplatten/825900/825%20973.jpg)
or Margit Schramm and Rudolf Schock?
OMG, I always thought it was Rudolph Schlock. :o
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That is a legitimately very amusing movie! I might actually watch it again in the coming months, before I leave college and move into the real world, where such movies don't have quite the same audience.
Yes, it was a family favorite after the children were no longer afraid of clowns. ;)
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I don't know, is this great or bad? :)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RmirqbpvL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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That is a legitimately very amusing movie! I might actually watch it again in the coming months, before I leave college and move into the real world, where such movies don't have quite the same audience.
Killer Klownz is........wonderful!! I idolize that film. (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/classic/angel.gif)
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I don't know, is this great or bad? :)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RmirqbpvL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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The original is better..
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The original is better..
True enough. Doesn't seem reminiscent of Handel though... never mind, I guess it doesn't have to. :)
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I don't know, is this great or bad? :)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RmirqbpvL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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It's HIP and nip.
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I don't know, is this great or bad? :)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RmirqbpvL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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A rather odd choice of artwork for a release that features two female artists! Reminds me of a Monty Python cartoon. Perhaps the one on the left saying, "I can't find Radio 3."
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Okc9LHmcL._SS500_.jpg)
I think we may have found a winner. Wow, that's just wrong.
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Well, Eros - Thanatos, the eternal battle!
Who remembers Sylvia Geszty?
(http://www.kugin.de/user0002/Langspielplatten/825900/825%20973.jpg)
or Margit Schramm and Rudolf Schock?
Is that Julian Clary?
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I think we may have found a winner. Wow, that's just wrong.
I was thinking that too, but then I stumbled across this:
(http://www.mdt.co.uk/public/pictures/products/standard/ZM0016.jpg)
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I was thinking that too, but then I stumbled across this:
(http://www.mdt.co.uk/public/pictures/products/standard/ZM0016.jpg)
I came across that earlier today, and was even ready to post it here until I read the album's name.
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A rather odd choice of artwork for a release that features two female artists! Reminds me of a Monty Python cartoon. Perhaps the one on the left saying, "I can't find Radio 3."
It seems that in fact the one on the left is saying: you are pregnant!!! you are pregnant!!! ;D
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It seems that in fact the one on the left is saying: you are pregnant!!! you are pregnant!!! ;D
That's what the wiki page says, anyway.
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The original is better..
but there are some weird variations,look here (last image ;D):
http://lenaweb.site.voila.fr/gabrielle_d_estrees.htm
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Well, Eros - Thanatos, the eternal battle!
Who remembers Sylvia Geszty?
(http://www.kugin.de/user0002/Langspielplatten/825900/825%20973.jpg)
or Margit Schramm and Rudolf Schock?
I ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE9w4ohgxJw
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I didn't notice this cover (though I was looking quickly). Would you believe it is a Naxos disc!
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61MJTFbkmeL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61XAwnc6bkL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Mike
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Ooh, let's put something outer space-y on the cover...
(http://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/5028421940441.jpg)
...even though it's unrelated to the subject of the music!
::)
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Ah, the watermelon galaxy? :P
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513eFtJ7wHL.jpg)
Sorry, George! :)
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Ah, the watermelon galaxy? :P
*Adjusts his astronomy hat*
;D It's actually called the Cat's Eye Nebula. It appears less fruity in a later image by the Hubble (http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/27/). The symmetry and all the enhanced colours appeal to human aesthetics, but it's essentially the grave of Sun-like star. And unlike the region surrounding more massive stars which go supernova, there is practically no chance of planets forming in such a "dead" environment.
Just yesterday there was an image on APOD (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100509.html) showing the rarely seen (at least, I hadn't seen it before) HUGE but tenuous shell of material surrounding the nebula.
We now return to our regularly scheduled programming. Ugly album cover art will be displayed shortly...
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Barbarian...
http://www.youtube.com/v/o_s5sVYw1m8
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61EZAB7BYZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Has this been posted yet?
I guess it's intentional to be so goofy...
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That's awesome Greg! ;D
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(http://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/9003643988767.jpg)
I'm sure there are better ways to show the performers immersed in music-making.
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(http://www.jpc.de/image/w600/front/0/9003643988767.jpg)
I'm sure there are better ways to show the performers immersed in music-making.
That reminds me of the two popsicle slurping ladies on the Gong Show!
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Any chnce you can translate that into English? 8)
Mike
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Any chnce you can translate that into English? 8)
Mike
Obscure cultural reference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkzIx382mM
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Thanks, kind of like our Cadbury's Flake adverts.
I knew what a Popsickle was having watched Mad Men, but the clip makes the point thst I was not getting.
Mike
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61XAwnc6bkL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Mike
Laugh-out-loud terrible. Who knew Gandhi had a thing for Bet Lynch earrings?
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(http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_5063-500x497.jpg)
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And Don Gillis wasn't a major composer, but he deserves better than this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21Kl3QD7s0L._AA130_.jpg)
That's "YeeeeHaaaaa!!!" coming out of the ladies ear, or mouth, or something. Even Amazon recognizes the dreariness of this and the Bazelon: there was no closeup available!
I was just about to post this myself. Here's a bigger photo so everyone can appreciate the tawdriness of the cover:
(http://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/TROY391.jpg)
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Terrible cover!
And that little star at the bottom, with "Music that's really fun!" Makes me want to reply, "Thank you for the notice, since what we're all listening to at the moment is clearly a dreadful bore." ;D
--Bruce
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Maybe it's meant to contrast with music that only thinks it's fun.* :D Yeah, that star was the last straw for me.
*I hear James is planning on putting that on Kapustin album covers...
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61XAwnc6bkL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Mike
I sort of like that one.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BiOffQTML._SS500_.jpg)
I do rather like the association of the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue with a plate of sausage!
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I thought that this one rates fairly high in terms of ridiculous covers (especially for Symphony No 4!). Even 'A Pastoral Symphony' is now mostly regarded as a Requiem for the legion dead of World War One. It would, however, be perfectly approriate for a box of Quality Street confectionery:
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BiOffQTML._SS500_.jpg)
I do rather like the association of the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue with a plate of sausage!
I like that cover; it's quite creative and well thought. Just the English Suite was clearly a problem, but I suppose the Englishmen are not especially famous by their cuisine. :)
The statuette was unnecessary.
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I thought that this one rates fairly high in terms of ridiculous covers (especially for Symphony No 4!). Even 'A Pastoral Symphony' is now mostly regarded as a Requiem for the legion dead of World War One. It would, however, be perfectly approriate for a box of Quality Street confectionery:
In complete agreement here. Anyone buying this would think he'd be listening to idyllic and innocuous works.
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In complete agreement here. Anyone buying this would think he'd be listening to idyllic and innocuous works.
Yes, the EMI Eminence series of VW symphonies excelled itself in completely inappropriate cover images!
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OK, maybe not worst, but weird, and a bit jejeune. Some of Haydn's 'Paris Symphonies':
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/Gurn_Blanston/HaydnHencover.jpg)
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I take it 'The Hen' is in there, otherwise it is perverse as well as ugly.
Mike
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I take it 'The Hen' is in there, otherwise it is perverse as well as ugly.
Mike
Yes, The Hen & The Queen. The title says "Hen Hunts Queen". Not sure about that, since I haven't heard any Paris symphony called "The Hunt". Perhaps it is #73, 'La Chasse'? :)
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I take it 'The Hen' is in there, otherwise it is perverse as well as ugly.
Mike
And what is that other, sadly drawn object? It looks like a New Year's Eve party hat.
--Bruce
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And what is that other, sadly drawn object? It looks like a New Year's Eve party hat.
--Bruce
That is The Queen. Looks rather more like The Witch, does it not? :D
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That is The Queen. Looks rather more like The Witch, does it not? :D
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Hot enough to boil a monkey's bum, Your Majesty.
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That is The Queen. Looks rather more like The Witch, does it not? :D
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That is *exactly* what I first thought, but then, "Nyah, looks a little frivolous for a witch." ;D
--Bruce
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That is The Queen. Looks rather more like The Witch, does it not? :D
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Glad you told me Gurn, I could not see what it was. Well, I hope the performances are worth the eyesore.
Mike
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Looks a bit like a running Chinaman (no. 3 son, maybe) from a children's book I read when I was 4 . . . .
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That is The Queen. Looks rather more like The Witch, does it not? :D
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Now that you've mentioned it, the image of a giant hen facing off against a part-human-part-platypus is gone from my mind. It was fun while it lasted. :(
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Now that you've mentioned it, the image of a giant hen facing off against a part-human-part-platypus is gone from my mind. It was fun while it lasted. :(
*[laughing]*
That's now the award-winner. ;D
--Bruce
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True it is, covers like that make this (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,17764.0.html) easy ; )
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True it is, covers like that make this (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,17764.0.html) easy ; )
But think of all the CDF (photoshopped or otherwise) that one could collect.
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Did they have to choose that angle?
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Did they have to choose that angle?
Ride 'em Cowboy! ;)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OA9nk3I8L.jpg)
Beethoven for the Suicidal
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Now that cover is just plain weird. And I'm all for oblique approaches to CD cover design (e.g., other than photos of the artists), but that...
--Bruce
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Did they have to choose that angle?
Do you know I had to think for a few moments, looking at the pic and wondering about the statues angles.
:o
I am so niaeve. :-[
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OA9nk3I8L.jpg)
Beethoven for the Suicidal
As a side note, the title of the CD gives the viewer no reason to believe that that set has 6 violin sonatas rather than just 2. (It does have 6.)
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More legs (plus extras):
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61TN569EZ3L._SS500_.jpg)
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Hehe, it's too easy to mock Arte Nova's super pretentious covers 0:)
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/457/image3jv9.jpg)
That is one of the most ridiculous covers I've ever seen. What a stupid cover.
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That is one of the most ridiculous covers I've ever seen. What a stupid cover.
I'm pretty sure Lethe photoshopped that. ;)
As a proof of concept, consider this cover (which I actually like!) before and after my intervention...
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Now that cover is just plain weird. And I'm all for oblique approaches to CD cover design (e.g., other than photos of the artists), but that...
--Bruce
Is it not just trying to suggest Spring?
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Loving your Arte Nova mock up, btw, Brian. Inspired!
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I'm pretty sure Lethe photoshopped that. ;)
Yes, the original looks like this:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gM3FF5TIL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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I'm pretty sure Lethe photoshopped that. ;)
As a proof of concept, consider this cover (which I actually like!) before and after my intervention...
Even Lethe let a proof of her "crime" because she forgot (?) to delete the neck of the bottles on the upper part of the intervented cover: :)
Hehe, it's too easy to mock Arte Nova's super pretentious covers 0:)
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/457/image3jv9.jpg)
... the perfect crime doesn't exist my fellows. Anyway, it's a great "intervention"... ;D
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Hoisted by my own petard :'(
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This doesn't below under "worst" but certainly weird. Seems to be a landscape but those two hills look suspiciously like something else. Sarge, we need a judgement here, you're the expert.
And no, I didn't Photoshop it!
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This doesn't below under "worst" but certainly weird. Seems to be a landscape but those two hills look suspiciously like something else. Sarge, we need a judgement here, you're the expert.
The mind sees what it wants to see. 0:)
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Did they have to choose that angle?
I think she's saying, "I need more butter!"
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I think she's saying, "I need more butter!"
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I think she's saying, "I need more butter!"
And what's he saying? I need more butt?
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Did they have to choose that angle?
At first I thought this was another Lethe's intervention. ;D But then I recalled that I own this recording and it's the actual cover!
As a sort of relief for Chandos' stupidity, I will post the complete picture of the sculpture:
(http://www.galleriaborghese.it/opere/maxi/dafne.jpg)
Apollo e Dafne (1622-25) marmo di Carrara cm. 243 | Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Galleria Borghese, Rome
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At first I thought this was another Lethe's intervention. ;D But then I recalled that I own this recording and it's the actual cover!
As a sort of relief for Chandos' stupidity, I will post the complete picture of the sculpture:
(http://www.galleriaborghese.it/opere/maxi/dafne.jpg)
Apollo e Dafne (1622-25) marmo di Carrara cm. 243 | Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Galleria Borghese, Rome
I see nothing stupid about Chandos's use of the image. The entire point of sculpture is that it can give a different impression from different vantage points, and Bernini's work is hardly chaste.
(http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/178267/1/Apollo-And-Daphne-$5bdetail$3a-3$5d.jpg)
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I see nothing stupid about Chandos's use of the image. The entire point of sculpture is that it can give a different impression from different vantage points,
True, but no person walking around it can see it from Chandos' vantage point. ;D
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True, but no person walking around it can see it from Chandos' vantage point. ;D
I'm not so sure. If you look at the Chandos image, if Daphne turned her head a little to her right she would be looking directly at the camera. Now look at the full figure that A-M posted. If Daphne turned her head a little to her right she would be looking downward. The Chandos image appears to have been taken looking slightly up at Daphne's face, not to far from where the A-M image was taken. I think the Chandos image was taken from a location a bit below and a bit to the right of where the A-M photographer is standing. The novelty seems to come from the fact that the frame is rotated somewhat in the Chandos image.
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It appears to be that the novelty comes from the fact that the image has been rotated.
Yes, that's my point: the image has been manipulated --- no real walking around the statue would result in that vantage point.
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Yes, that's my point: the image has been manipulated --- no real walking around the statue would result in that vantage point.
If you turned your head, you'd see that vantage point. If Bernini wanted to determine the perspective from which we see Daphne he would have made a painting, not a sculpture. 0:)
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If you turned your head, you'd see that vantage point. If Bernini wanted to determine the perspective from which we see Daphne he would have made a painting, not a sculpture. 0:)
Well, it's all conjecture --- let's meet at the statue, Chandos picture in hand, and check it. :)
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Well, it's all conjecture --- let's meet at the statue, Chandos picture in hand, and check it. :)
Here, this is simpler. In the Chandos image you can see under Apollo's chin. The Chandos photo was definitely taken looking up at Apollo's head, from the point of view of someone looking up at the statue. But the image was rotated almost 90 degrees as framed on the Chandos CD. If you want to see the couple oriented normally, just turn the CD on its side. 0:)
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Here, this is simpler. In the Chandos image you can see under Apollo's chin. The Chandos photo was definitely taken looking up at Apollo's head, from the point of view of someone looking up at the statue. But the image was rotated almost 90 degrees as framed on the Chandos CD. If you want to see the couple oriented normally, just turn the CD on its side. 0:)
This only proves my point, as it is equivalent to turning the statue on its side --- piece of cake with a camera, impossible for someone walking around it. Now, if I understand your point correctly, you mean that Chandos didn't necessarily meant a sexual undertone of that picture --- and I agree. Why can't you accept my point? ???
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I see nothing stupid about Chandos's use of the image. The entire point of sculpture is that it can give a different impression from different vantage points, and Bernini's work is hardly chaste.
(http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/thumbnail/178267/1/Apollo-And-Daphne-$5bdetail$3a-3$5d.jpg)
I consider that picture a non-sense because (1) it doesn't suggest at all the classical beauty of the complete sculpture; it's an ugly and pseudo-intellectual picture; (2) it simply transforms the terrified fugue of Dafne ( wich is all movement) in a static couple copulating and (3) the vantage point is totally unnatural, even without to consider the fact that a sculpture of almost two and a half meters it is never intended to that kind of absurd close-up.
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I consider that picture a non-sense because (1) it doesn't suggest at all the classical beauty of the complete sculpture; it's an ugly and pseudo-intellectual picture; (2) it simply transforms the terrified fugue of Dafne ( wich is all movement) in a static couple copulating and (3) the vantage point is totally unnatural, even without to consider the fact that a sculture of almost two and a half meters it is never intended to that kind of absurd close-up.
QFT.
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This only proves my point, as it is equivalent to turning the statue on its side --- piece of cake with a camera, impossible for someone walking around it. Now, if I understand your point correctly, you mean that Chandos didn't necessarily meant a sexual undertone of that picture --- and I agree. Why can't you accept my point? ???
Yes, I agree, the rotation of the picture changes the impression. But if I gave you a postcard of the statue you could also rotate it, no?
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I consider that picture a non-sense because (1) it doesn't suggest at all the classical beauty of the complete sculpture; it's an ugly and pseudo-intellectual picture; (2) it simply transforms the terrified fugue of Dafne ( wich is all movement) in a static couple copulating and (3) the vantage point is totally unnatural, even without to consider the fact that a sculpture of almost two and a half meters it is never intended to that kind of absurd close-up.
I think it is pretty silly for you to claim that Bertini did not intend an "absurd close-up" when the camera had not been invented yet. I suspect he took it for granted that people would walk around the work and decide to look closely at different parts of it as it took their fancy. As to the "classical beauty," I also suspect Bertini took delight in the conflict between the classical beauty and the raw sensuality that are combined in the work.
In any case, you have your view of the work, perhaps you will condescend to permit me my own view of the work. ;D
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At first I thought this was another Lethe's intervention. ;D But then I recalled that I own this recording and it's the actual cover!
I think someone at Chandos just has a sense of humor.
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I think it is pretty silly for you to claim that Bertini did not intend an "absurd close-up" when the camera had not been invented yet. I suspect he took it for granted that people would walk around the work and decide to look closely at different parts of it as it took their fancy. As to the "classical beauty," I also suspect Bertini took delight in the conflict between the classical beauty and the raw sensuality that are combined in the work.
In any case, you have your view of the work, perhaps you will condescend to permit me my own view of the work. ;D
(1) Had I been a smartass --- which some of you might think I really am --- I'd have corrected Bertini as Bernini, twice... :P
(2) Why someone would think that classical beauty and (raw) sensuality are mutually exclusive is beyond me --- and more likely than not, beyond Bernini himself. ;D
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I think someone at Chandos just has a sense of humor.
And more than one person at Chandos has no sense of propriety at all. ;D
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I think it is pretty silly for you to claim that Bertini did not intend an "absurd close-up" when the camera had not been invented yet. I suspect he took it for granted that people would walk around the work and decide to look closely at different parts of it as it took their fancy. As to the "classical beauty," I also suspect Bertini took delight in the conflict between the classical beauty and the raw sensuality that are combined in the work.
I'm sorry if you feel my opinion as derogatory, but it is just that: my opinion. Anyway, I would prefer to avoid adjectives such as "silly", even if they are improperly replaced by words like "wrong". I think it is more polite.
About the "close-up": Yes, photography and sculpture are different arts and that picture -considered on the basis of its own merits- it's, IMO, an ugly picture. I won't comment its merits as a supposed exercise in style.
In any case, you have your view of the work, perhaps you will condescend to permit me my own view of the work. ;D
No problem at all, I just have my arguments and paraphrasing Voltaire, I would say:"Monsieur Scarpia, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write". ;)
P.S.: BTW, that "to detest" is merely rhetorical. ;D
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Chandos realizes that "sex sells." Love it or hate it, it does. I'm not surprised that chose that "angle." No pun intended.
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"Monsieur Scarpia, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write". ;)
P.S.: BTW, that "to detest" is merely rhetorical. ;D
I don't detest it either: I don't take it seriously. ;D :P
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Just reminds me I want to listen to Strauss' Daphne again. Indecency in generous supply there. :P
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This is just unfortunate. What were they thinking?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nVJxXAxkL._SS400_.jpg)
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This is just unfortunate. What were they thinking?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nVJxXAxkL._SS400_.jpg)
Three pieces, three wind quintets?
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Surely there has to be a better way of illustrating that! :D
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This is just unfortunate. What were they thinking?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nVJxXAxkL._SS400_.jpg)
I thought that was a parody of Otto Böhler's picture of Bruckner entering heaven until I noticed they didn't use the composers in the picture :(
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going through Amazon bargains... ;D
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going through Amazon bargains... ;D
You haven't seen the Rachmaninoff, have you?
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going through Amazon bargains... ;D
"Shacking Up"... yeah, that's what they're doing. ¬_______¬
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These are horrifying.
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Bring on Felching with de Falla - if it makes money I'm sure the majors will have no qualms.
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Is there music on those CDs? And what's with the parental advisory? ???
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Is there music on those CDs? And what's with the parental advisory? ???
They translated 'La ci darem la mano' to English... and amended the lyrics so the characters sing what they're really thinking.
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Bring on Felching with de Falla - if it makes money I'm sure the majors will have no qualms.
Aren't you a GIRL?!? :o Such language!! :-\ Y'know, now someone gonna ask you what that means! ::)
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Aren't you a GIRL?!?
snyprrr,
I think this is a great moment to clarify the veracity of those reports (Gurn?) which indicated that you are a girl too. ;D :D ;D
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I think anybody who Googles something so ominous sounding is just asking for whatever they may find ;D
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My favorite of these was from someone here (can't remember who): "Fuckin'er to Bruckner" ;D
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You haven't seen the Rachmaninoff, have you?
Have you seen the Cesar Frank ? ;D
here's another one :
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here's another one :
Just make sure Il Furioso doesn't see it. :-\
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'Bedroom bliss with Beethoven'... The mind boggles.
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'Bedroom bliss with Beethoven'... The mind boggles.
Indeed! I remember reading in Maynard Solomon's Beethoven that once, in the early 1790s, the young composer's fellow students went to a tavern with him and bribed a waitress to flirt with him as a joke. The joke ended when an irritated Beethoven punched her in the face.
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Indeed! I remember reading in Maynard Solomon's Beethoven that once, in the early 1790s, the young composer's fellow students went to a tavern with him and bribed a waitress to flirt with him as a joke. The joke ended when an irritated Beethoven punched her in the face.
Yes, four times. He immortalized them in the opening of his Fifth Symphony.
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going through Amazon bargains... ;D
I'd buy all three if I could find them for cheap, and I'm serious. Ridiculousness of the entire concept has so passed beyond being terrible that I find them utterly fascinating. The idea that someone actually came up with it with straight face, and that it got realized is amazing. Would love to have them.
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Just watched an episode of the British The Peter Serafinowicz Show.There is a spoof commercial there, for a CD called 'Sexual Classics', from the 'horniest composers', like Butthoven, Depussy, Shaftakovich, Vulvaldi and Tchaicocksky...
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*serious laughs*
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here's another one :
That one really cracked me up. ;D
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Is there music on those CDs? And what's with the parental advisory? ???
No idea to either question, sorry.
I'd buy all three if I could find them for cheap, and I'm serious. Ridiculousness of the entire concept has so passed beyond being terrible that I find them utterly fascinating. The idea that someone actually came up with it with straight face, and that it got realized is amazing. Would love to have them.
Well put. I probably wouldn't buy them, but I agree with what you're saying.
I don't know if I'd call that one 'bad,' though I certainly wouldn't call it good. It's clever and risk-taking enough that even though it ultimately doesn't work, it deserves a nod.
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...and if it was OK for Man Ray
(http://www.surrealists.co.uk/artistsimages/ManRay-Ingres%27violin.jpg)
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My favorite of these was from someone here (can't remember who): "Fuckin'er to Bruckner" ;D
I'm pretty sure that was Sarge...
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My favorite of these was from someone here (can't remember who): "Fuckin'er to Bruckner" ;D
Put on Celibidache and it becomes tantric. ;D
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;D
You're crackin' me up, folks.
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Was searching for recordings by Alexis Weissenberg (honest) when I saw this. And thought of this thread, its last pages in particular, for obvious reasons. It contains Karajan, Stokowski and others, apparently. Dirty old men, clearly...
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"Earotic" :-X
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Ah, Placido!
(http://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/0094635317350.jpg)
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This must be music when you are feeling crabby:
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I like the crabs.
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Roots? In your hair, Paavo? Because it's about to fall out. You suave motha-fu***.
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Roots? In your hair, Paavo? Because it's about to fall out. You suave motha-fu***.
Can't stand this guy's pose either.... that vain look in his face.
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Can't stand this guy's pose either.... that vain look in his face.
I've seen PLENTY worse, Herbert von K and Lenny being amongst the most notable offenders.
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Can't stand this guy's pose either.... that vain look in his face.
I've saw several Cincinnati SO concerts a few years ago, and when Paavo was conducting there was a 4-5 minute video called. "Paavo's First Notes" and it was an introduction of sorts to the pieces being performed, it was just Paavo talking in close ups, as if in an 20/20 interview, shot from different angles, even in black & white (ooo, stylish)..It was ridiculous.
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I've seen PLENTY worse, Herbert von K and Lenny being amongst the most notable offenders.
Here's a personal favorite of Herbert.
(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/20/3a/2571828fd7a036edde1a5110.L.jpg)
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Okay, I'm driving myself crazy, because I can't think of the name of the TV comedy actor/stand up comic who looks exactly like Jarvi on that cover.
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Speaking of comedians...these look more like Roger Norrington's stand-up comedy CDs rather than his Bruckner recordings.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Tt2IZUXtL._SS400_.jpg)
Roots? In your hair, Paavo? Because it's about to fall out. You suave motha-fu***.
I've seen worse...a lot worse. Like this one:
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I've seen worse...a lot worse. Like this one:
Only difference is that Paavo is trying really, really hard to look that way.
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Speaking of comedians...these look more like Roger Norrington's stand-up comedy CDs rather than his Bruckner recordings.
At the very least, Sir Roger definitely wasn't aiming for the glamour look like Paavo.
Coincidently, my order from Arkiv contianing Norrington's Bruckner 4, 6 and 7 landed today.
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Only difference is that Paavo is trying really, really hard to look that way.
Honestly, any cover with the conductor on the front cover is a bad cover IMHO.
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At the very least, Sir Roger definitely wasn't aiming for the glamour look like Paavo.
Coincidently, my order from Arkiv contianing Norrington's Bruckner 4, 6 and 7 landed today.
Very nice, Jeff. I have many Norrington recordings that I really enjoy, his Bruckner is next, specifically the 6th.
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Honestly, any cover with the conductor on the front cover is a bad cover IMHO.
Are you telling me this Levine, super-imposed close-up is bad? ;D
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61pjb8d3hYL.jpg)
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Only difference is that Paavo is trying really, really hard to look that way.
No, I think that's actually what he looks like.
Here's a personal favorite of Herbert.
(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/20/3a/2571828fd7a036edde1a5110.L.jpg)
It's FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER meets THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI! :o
(http://www.clipartpal.com/_thumbs/pd/holiday/halloween/Frankenstein_4.png) (http://rookery.s3.amazonaws.com/1147000/1147452_9620_625x1000.jpg)
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Very nice, Jeff. I have many Norrington recordings that I really enjoy, his Bruckner is next, specifically the 6th.
Why is it Norrington has such a bad reputation amongst classical critics and fans? What is so appalling about his performances?
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Honestly, any cover with the conductor on the front cover is a bad cover IMHO.
Agree with this hundred percent! I'd prefer the pictures of the composers, or no picture at all. Couldn't care less about a conductor glamor-shot. Most conductors are full of sh*t anyway... No other profession in the music world gives a person such undeserved confidence.
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Agree with this hundred percent! I'd prefer the pictures of the composers, or no picture at all. Couldn't care less about a conductor glamor-shot. Most conductors are full of sh*t anyway... No other profession in the music world gives a person such undeserved confidence.
I think too often conductors are spotlighted when the real stars are the musicians in the orchestras. I'm not degrading the conductor's job, but I think too much emphasis has been placed on their role when the orchestra are responsible for producing the sounds we hear. The conductor tries to keep the balances right in the orchestra and may offer the orchestra, specifically in rehearsal, a little background information on the piece they're performing, but ultimately a good performance rests in the orchestra's hands.
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In the interest of fairness, I've seen Norrington do these little theatrical flourishes in concert, too, after the last note.
So that's what he looks like, too, in context. Whereas that Karajan is definitely not his best moment.
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If a conductor pic is going to grace the front cover, then they should at least be conducting, here's a good one...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4127RBCYPGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Here's a bad one, Masur, the party-crasher...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RI2u4FLFL._SS400_.jpg)
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Okay, I'm driving myself crazy, because I can't think of the name of the TV comedy actor/stand up comic who looks exactly like Jarvi on that cover.
Major Winchester from M*A*S*H?
Honestly, any cover with the conductor on the front cover is a bad cover IMHO.
Nah. There are good conductor covers. They're very rare, I'll grant you that, and they're usually my least favorite covers, but there are good conductor covers. Greg found one with Boulez, a really good one. In fact, black and white is usually the best conductor-cover tone, I think. Here are some of my favorites, three of them b&w...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2552731874_dd52f8f57b.jpg) (http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/001/483/0000148399_350.jpg)
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Honestly, any cover with the conductor on the front cover is a bad cover IMHO.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3039/2551724283_0a608981ae.jpg)
What are you saying, MI? ;D
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Nah. There are good conductor covers. They're very rare, I'll grant you that, and they're usually my least favorite covers, but there are good conductor covers. Greg found one with Boulez, a really good one. In fact, black and white is usually the best conductor-cover tone, I think. Here are some of my favorites, three of them b&w...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2552731874_dd52f8f57b.jpg) (http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/001/483/0000148399_350.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61l0AY4NL2L._SL500_AA300_.jpg) (http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00336/clarevdvorak_336355t.jpg)
Well perhaps I should elaborate, I think conductor covers aren't very creative.
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Another conductor who is too posed for anyone's good
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514TwfHeeuL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Are you telling me this Levine, super-imposed close-up is bad? ;D
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61pjb8d3hYL.jpg)
Well, it does have a sort of Frankenstein's Bride look to it. But in this case, it's simply the photo of Levine they chose, and not the basic concept.
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Is it "two ducks humping", Pierre?
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Well perhaps I should elaborate, I think conductor covers aren't very creative.
Oh undoubtedly so, unless they are creative in a bad way.
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Oh undoubtedly so, unless they are creative in a bad way.
Yes, there's nothing worse than a piece of cover art that has NOTHING do with the music or remotely even hints at it.
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Is it "two ducks humping", Pierre?
;D
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I have pretty few Karajan discs. One of the reason is that I hate the vain, selfglorifying covers. Put them in plain, brown wrapping paper and I would probably buy them.
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I have pretty few Karajan discs. One of the reason is that I hate the vain, selfglorifying covers. Put them in plain, brown wrapping paper and I would probably buy them.
Do you own his recordings of the Second Viennese School?
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Do you own his recordings of the Second Viennese School?
Some of them. I'm not saying he's a bad conductor, just that I would have had more discs if it weren't for some of those horrifying covers.
This for example is both very good and nice to look at:
(http://www.mdt.co.uk/public/pictures/products/standard/4577212.jpg)
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In his defense, I understand he personally preferred the abstract/artsy covers, many of which he selected, over his face.
The Karajan Gold (TM) look-at-me rebranding of his 80s work, for example, is definitely post-mortem.
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Last page we had HvK wandering about in his pajamas right after waking up. Here's Chailly brushing his teeth:
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Put the seven veils back on, quick! :o
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"Jeffrey! What the hell did you eat for lunch?" :'(
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I'm not saying he's a bad conductor.
HvK, like Bernstein, was hyped to the hills by the media (still is). I do think highly of both of these conductors, but I don't put them up on some kind of pedestal as some people do. I generally like the repertoire Bernstein chose to perform more than HvK, but HvK has done some interesting recordings like those of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, which Bernstein never bothered with. Does anybody know the history of why Bernstein didn't record these composers or maybe what his opinion of them happened to be?
Edit: I see Bernstein conducted Isaac Stern's performance of the Berg's Violin Concerto, but this is all I could find.
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Perhaps this calls for a separate thread, but I find it very difficult to be a fan of a conductor, any conductor... Unless you play in an orchestra, the conductor's real work (running rehearsals) is hidden from your view.
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the conductor's real work (running rehearsals) is hidden from your view.
Exactly, but that carries over to the actual performance.
Thread duty...
Great disc, but sort of an awkward photo.
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Exactly, but that carries over to the actual performance.
Thread duty...
Great disc, but sort of an awkward photo.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51f2k9ajypL._SS500_.jpg)
"Dude,... I'm hammered..."
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"Dude,... I'm hammered..."
Perfect caption! ;D
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Okay, I'm driving myself crazy, because I can't think of the name of the TV comedy actor/stand up comic who looks exactly like Jarvi on that cover.
Bill Pullman? meets Jeff Daniels?? :-\
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Here's a bad one, Masur, the party-crasher...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RI2u4FLFL._SS400_.jpg)
"Stay thirsty, my friends."
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Can anyone show HvK on The Originals Honegger 2/3 (w/Stravinsky)? This is an awesome pic, down to what looks like the sweater draped over his shoulders,... and that look of meditation as he rests his hand on his chin...
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Crap, amazon sticky fail.
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Can someone also show the Xenakis Orchestral Works Vol.4 (Timpani), where it looks like his hair's on fire?
Also, how bout them thar Segerstam pics? Anyone?
Personally, being vain, I gotta dig some of those classic covers that are floating through my head right now. How bout Lenny trying to look suave with that closeup of his craterous, pock marked face,... looking like a bad Richard Burton (haha, that's a... oh, what do you call it?).
Was that Babbitt cover shown yet? 'The One'? :o :o The Bridge label has a cache of some of the worst covers ever.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41E7R2MDE8L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
"Jeffrey! What the hell did you eat for lunch?" :'(
The above reminded me of this cover with Uchida:
(http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/p/pierre-boulez/2428072-pierre-boulez-schoenberg-piano-concerto--berg--webern.jpg)
"Pierre! I think they're looking at us!"
"Oui! They want to see me! Get out of the way!"
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Crap, amazon sticky fail.
That's some spectacular color in that picture.
btw- what is UP with those annoying amazon gift stickers?? >:Darrrgh?? like the sand around here!! ???
btw 2- please post as many covers as you like. Laughing feels good!! ;) ;D
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Can someone also show the Xenakis Orchestral Works Vol.4 (Timpani), where it looks like his hair's on fire?
Ask and ye shall receive!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KGxvTSnp3Dw/SaR9V5DFonI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/uukLO1GUjDs/s320/orchestralworksiv.jpg)
Actually, I think his hair is on fire..and since he is Xenakis, he likes it that way!
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(http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/p/pierre-boulez/2428072-pierre-boulez-schoenberg-piano-concerto--berg--webern.jpg)
"Oui! They want to see me! Get out of the way!"
;D
"Sacre bleu! Why isn't my name in the biggest and boldest fonts, like on all my other recordings, as it SHOULD be! I'm da superstar, not da com-poser. I don't even need a stick to conduct, god damit I'm so good!"
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ltduOQO0L._SS500_.jpg)
Exactly the image in my head when I listen to RVW's Fantasia
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eptsVCnyL._SS500_.jpg)
The creepy Uncle.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eptsVCnyL._SS500_.jpg)
The creepy Uncle.
"Hi there, little girl! Would you like some ice cream?" $:)
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I would caption it: "Ladies!"
Watch this to get the right tone (Demitri Martin):
http://www.youtube.com/v/Kl48-eI7ETI
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"Hi there, little girl! Would you like some ice cream?" $:)
since I succeded with the Eleanor Rigby reference in another thread, this is more like the Stones' Spider to the Fly; "step right ahead and you're dead".
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ltduOQO0L._SS500_.jpg)
Exactly the image in my head when I listen to RVW's Fantasia
Looks like a rejected cover shot for a Hee Haw album!
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Ask and ye shall receive!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KGxvTSnp3Dw/SaR9V5DFonI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/uukLO1GUjDs/s320/orchestralworksiv.jpg)
Actually, I think his hair is on fire..and since he is Xenakis, he likes it that way!
Looks more like he's underwater, as if some angry traditionalist threw him in the Aegean.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ltduOQO0L._SS500_.jpg)
Exactly the image in my head when I listen to RVW's Fantasia
Is she wearing an artichoke?
Or is the artichoke wearing her?
The '60's and '70's! Nothing like 'em!!!
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The '60's and '70's! Nothing like 'em!!!
Ahhhhh!!!!!! ;)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eptsVCnyL._SS500_.jpg)
The creepy Uncle.
Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you!
(http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Davnes007/emporer-throne.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eptsVCnyL._SS500_.jpg)
The creepy Uncle.
The guy on SNL who plays Vincent Price,... what's his name...
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I think I've mentioned that this is my fav album cover:
http://www.amazon.com/Aequalis-Martin-Davidovsky-Steiger-Chinary/dp/B0000030H3/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1314845241&sr=1-1
Can someone get the pic up please!!
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I think I've mentioned that this is my fav album cover:
http://www.amazon.com/Aequalis-Martin-Davidovsky-Steiger-Chinary/dp/B0000030H3/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1314845241&sr=1-1
Can someone get the pic up please!!
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415HJC1EKAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
I don't even know what to say.
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I don't mind this one at all. The message it sends to me is that Herbie took the music seriously.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41eptsVCnyL._SS500_.jpg)
I am feelink zo fery Cherman at zis moment, ja?
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Perhaps this calls for a separate thread, but I find it very difficult to be a fan of a conductor, any conductor... Unless you play in an orchestra, the conductor's real work (running rehearsals) is hidden from your view.
Well, you should be able to HEAR it....
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I don't mind this one at all. The message it sends to me is that Herbie took the music seriously.
I am feelink zo fery Cherman at zis moment, ja?
Plus, Karajan's hair is AWESOME!!! :-* AWESOME
The other guy does have the Dr. Strangelove look, ja!
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Beethoven piano transcriptions? It would not be difficult, mein Fuhrer!
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Plus, Karajan's hair is AWESOME!!! :-* AWESOME
I credit HvK for not having crazy "classical hair". We could run a long thread on the bizarre head-toppings of various conductors and musicians.
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Karajan's image in an alternate universe:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514w254AgCL._SS500_.jpg)
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I credit HvK for not having crazy "classical hair". We could run a long thread on the bizarre head-toppings of various conductors and musicians.
(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/cc/0e/17d5c060ada05d2c6bb2a110.L.jpg)
Sigiswald Kuijken doing Blue Steel
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Tamas Vasary conducting the 4th symphony was my favourite part of that Vaughan Williams doco, but I couldn't help thinking he looked like one of the Three Stooges.
(http://pmpif.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pmp_vasary_featured-290x290.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61A1FF1-mJL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
80's New Wave star decides to have a go at classical music.
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Karajan's image in an alternate universe:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514w254AgCL._SS500_.jpg)
What!? I like that. much better than all of those stupid ones with Karajan actually on the cover! >:D
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What!? I like that. much better than all of those stupid ones with Karajan actually on the cover! >:D
You can like it all you want! Just DON'T make it your avatar anytime soon! ;D
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What about blatant copycat covers?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NK6XcNqnL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VnDaXIv1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FK1H5jSXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Looks like he just saw Bernstein in the building.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FK1H5jSXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Looks like he just saw Bernstein in the building.
"take that Voldemort!" ;D
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What!? I like that. much better than all of those stupid ones with Karajan actually on the cover! >:D
That's Rover, isn't it? I am not a number! I am a free man!
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Complain about Karajan all you want, but I find this series of Mravinsky covers downright scary!
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MM2HAP59L._SL500_AA300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4100XXQ34DL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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The face in focus, but the neckwear all ablur? I see whaht you mean . . . .
; )
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FK1H5jSXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Electricians' motto: "ALWAYS turn the power off FIRST!"
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Complain about Karajan all you want, but I find this series of Mravinsky covers downright scary!
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MM2HAP59L._SL500_AA300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4100XXQ34DL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Starring John Carradine as The Mummy!
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Starring John Carradine as The Mummy!
Almost what I thought! (Boris Karloff came to mind!)
"The Nubian!"
"The ancient blood!"
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Tamas Vasary conducting the 4th symphony was my favourite part of that Vaughan Williams doco, but I couldn't help thinking he looked like one of the Three Stooges.
(http://pmpif.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pmp_vasary_featured-290x290.jpg)
Sadly, this guy looks like my friend going through chemo.
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Sadly, this guy looks like my friend going through chemo.
Well, that's depressing :(
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Complain about Karajan all you want, but I find this series of Mravinsky covers downright scary!
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MM2HAP59L._SL500_AA300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4100XXQ34DL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Is this what the Grim Reaper really looks like? :D
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Scary but true - as opposed to Karajan's glitzy and faky - which I find far more scary.
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Is this what the Grim Reaper really looks like? :D
Really looks like someone out of a NineInchNails video.
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That doesn't really qualify for this thread. The pictorial element isn't so bad. It's the title concept that fails. Although Rossini certainly knew his food...
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LOL
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Mr. K must not be a big fan of the first two symphonies.
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I hope Stevie Nicks is getting royalties for this one:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513UYEvCrSL._SS500_.jpg)
(http://blog.needsupply.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/stevie-nicks-436x600.jpg)
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I like that cover as well Don jeez. All of the genuinely bad ones are taken so you're just posting decent ones. :D
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That is awesomely bad!! Good find! ;D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pEgfd3aHL._SS400_.jpg)
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Mr. K must not be a big fan of the first two symphonies.
Why is this a bad cover? It seems rather contemplative to me.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pEgfd3aHL._SS400_.jpg)
Yeah that looks like a five minute photoshop job! ;D
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Why is this a bad cover? It seems rather contemplative to me.
It was more for his expression, he just looks upset at someone.
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It was more for his expression, he just looks upset at someone.
Right you are. Almost like K is saying "Uggh, do I really have to record these first two? I want to move on to the big guns." ;) ;D
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Tamas Vasary conducting the 4th symphony was my favourite part of that Vaughan Williams doco, but I couldn't help thinking he looked like one of the Three Stooges.
(http://pmpif.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pmp_vasary_featured-290x290.jpg)
Of all the photos I have of him, this has to be the prettiest.
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(http://www.ivoryclassics.com/releases/70701/jackets/l.jpg)
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(http://www.ivoryclassics.com/releases/70701/jackets/l.jpg)
He's the Row-mantic master.
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He's the Row-mantic master.
;D
You know, this wouldn't be such a terrible cover if he just wasn't wearing a tuxedo, but perhaps some sportsmen attire, and fishing hat. And it was actually on a real lake or river, not just a fake photoshop image of a canoe on lake. ;D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pEgfd3aHL._SS400_.jpg)
Yes, a bad cover. And in this case, you can safely judge the disc by the cover.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jUgtOMmfL._SS400_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iD9DPX-vL._SS400_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418mhD7mVYL._SS500_.jpg)
I'm having too much fun with this thread.
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These last three are like in those boxing films, where the protagonist delivers a one-two punch, and then some kind of uppercut at the end, launching the primary antagonist into the air to win the big fight. And this is EMI and Profil and, er...
EMI and Profil!
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(http://www.ivoryclassics.com/releases/70701/jackets/l.jpg)
They must have mistaken the Nocturnes for Barcarolles.
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He's the Row-mantic master.
*diiiieeeessss*
;D
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I like that cover as well Don jeez.
You must be kidding.
All of the genuinely bad ones are taken so you're just posting decent ones. :D
You must be kidding.
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He's the Row-mantic master
yeah, that extr-oar-dinary piano music is soo my-steer-rious ...
They must have mistaken the Nocturnes for Barcarolles.
- or perhaps it is a rather sentimental recording of the Raindrop Prelude ??
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jUgtOMmfL._SS400_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iD9DPX-vL._SS400_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418mhD7mVYL._SS500_.jpg)
I'm having too much fun with this thread.
:o :o :o
I'm having moooooore fun!! Yes, this is lots of funny!! ;) ;D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jUgtOMmfL._SS400_.jpg)
(http://gordonandthewhale.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/x-men-origins-wolverine-450x337.jpg)
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That doesn't really qualify for this thread. The pictorial element isn't so bad. It's the title concept that fails. Although Rossini certainly knew his food...
There are probably hundreds of such themed collections. Australian Eloquence, to their lasting shame, put out a series of "Aromatherapy" collections.
(http://www.ivoryclassics.com/releases/70701/jackets/l.jpg)
Up a certain creek...
I didn't think the last ones GSMoeller posted were so bad - not compared to this:
ANTHEMS FOR THE GAYEST TIMES OF YOUR LIFE!
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Looks pretty good to me. What it has to do with the music is questionable.
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Looks pretty good to me. What it has to do with the music is questionable.
You don't think there's anything suspicious about this super-muscular oiled-up chap with silver body paint?
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You don't think there's anything suspicious about this super-muscular oiled-up chap with silver body paint?
Maybe he's Romeo.
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Maybe he's Romeo.
As long as he's not Cinderella.
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"How could this happen? We started out like Romeo and Juliet, but it ended up in tragedy!" - Milhouse Van Houten
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This one:
Not very creative and almost as bad as Spinal Tap's infamous black album cover.
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Looks fine to me.
This one has some doozies, though the cover for Abbado in Mozart's Requiem looks fine to me.
http://gramilano.com/2011/04/worst-classical-music-album-covers-ever/
(http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-05.jpg)
UUUuuuuurrrrghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
(http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-10.jpg)
UUUuuuuurrrrghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
(http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-18.jpg)
What.
(http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-16.jpg)
WTF?
(http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-22.jpg) (http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-17.jpg)
(http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-11.jpg) (http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-03.jpg)
This one is not bad so much as irrelevant - plus makes my arteries ache:
(http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-07.jpg)
ALSO: Pretty much everything Westminster Gold put out.
http://www.westminstergold.com/
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Looks fine to me.
It doesn't to me, that's why I pointed it out. Looks like people in the marketing department went to sleep behind the wheel. Zero creativity. Let's just put letters on a black backdrop and call it a day. Bloody brilliant!
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MI, that's part of a series of Philharmonia recordings all based on that concept. That is the only black background in the series, so I don't think it's bad because I come from the point of view of having already purchased the green and blue volumes. :D
Now, this: (http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-03.jpg)
Initially I thought, "Hey, now, that's not bad."
...then I saw the dog.
;D
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I am also concerned about the child-sized man in the bottom left...
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(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album14/cover142.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album14/cover147.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album12/cover125.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album12/cover126.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album11/cover112.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album10/cover101.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album10/cover109.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album9/cover95.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album9/cover99.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album6/covers61.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album5/covers53.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album5/covers55.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album4/cover45.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album4/cover46.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album2/cencic.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album2/strausswindensemble.jpg) (http://bp1.blogger.com/_j6tJqjGiGDs/RsckouZSkiI/AAAAAAAAADo/ekEEmB-pHOQ/s200/larastjohn.jpg) (http://bp3.blogger.com/_j6tJqjGiGDs/Rsck3OZSkkI/AAAAAAAAAD4/KViGrl0w8cE/s200/maazelstraussspace.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/albumtwofer/twofer52.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/albumtwofer/twofer12.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album14/cover141.jpg) (http://toomanytristans.blogspot.com/search/label/Greatest%20Classical%20CD%20Covers%20EVER)
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(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album14/cover141.jpg)[/url]
Some of those are just really strange, but I actually like this one (with Stravinsky and MTT). The caricatures are well done. Makes me smile.
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Some of those are just really strange, but I actually like this one (with Stravinsky and MTT). The caricatures are well done. Makes me smile.
Fair enough. I think it makes them look like utter tools. And the whole thing has a lurid nightmare feel. Fear and Loathing in San Francisco LA!
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Fair enough. I think it makes them look like utter tools. And the whole thing has a lurid nightmare feel. Fear and Loathing in San Francisco!
I think the absurdity of it is a factor in its favor. But I can see how you might not like it.
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(http://gramilano.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Worst-Covers-16.jpg)
WTF?
I'd totally dig a 'black Rambo' staging of Parsifal like that! ;D
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I'd totally dig a 'black Rambo' staging of Parsifal like that! ;D
Erm, I think it would be more like Tom of Finland. :-\
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I'd totally dig a 'black Rambo' staging of Parsifal like that! ;D
... to be followed by the "Bruce Lee" staging...
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This one:
Not very creative and almost as bad as Spinal Tap's infamous black album cover.
It's simple. I don't mind it.
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I think the absurdity of it is a factor in its favor. But I can see how you might not like it.
I like that cover too. Now, this:
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album9/cover99.jpg)
WHAT
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(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album2/strausswindensemble.jpg)(http://bp1.blogger.com/_j6tJqjGiGDs/RsckouZSkiI/AAAAAAAAADo/ekEEmB-pHOQ/s200/larastjohn.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/albumtwofer/twofer12.jpg)
Love the battle of the conductors!
Hello, Ms. St John!
And I own that Bach album! Bought it for my wife while she was pregnant, which is odd because I could have just made her the same compilation with my own library :-\.
Here's one that is puzzling, I'll be shocked, shocked if it gets positive remarks :o :) ;D
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MFGKDxxtL._SS500_.jpg)
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Here's one that is puzzling, I'll be shocked, shocked if it gets positive remarks :o :) ;D
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MFGKDxxtL._SS500_.jpg)
I've seen that series — he looks like he's having a tantrum. :D
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I've seen that series — he looks like he's having a tantrum. :D
You have to admire his torso control during a tantrum.
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You have to admire his torso control during a tantrum.
He's very well-balanced, you're correct.
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Every time I see this cover, it reminds me of one of the old, original covers for Stephen King's first set of short stories 'Night Shift'. :D
(http://bp3.blogger.com/_j6tJqjGiGDs/Rsck3OZSkkI/AAAAAAAAAD4/KViGrl0w8cE/s200/maazelstraussspace.jpg)
(http://retrobookshop.com/images/products/detail/103575.jpg)
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(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album14/cover142.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album14/cover147.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album12/cover125.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album12/cover126.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album11/cover112.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album10/cover101.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album10/cover109.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album9/cover95.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album9/cover99.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album6/covers61.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album5/covers53.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album5/covers55.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album4/cover45.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album4/cover46.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album2/cencic.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album2/strausswindensemble.jpg) (http://bp1.blogger.com/_j6tJqjGiGDs/RsckouZSkiI/AAAAAAAAADo/ekEEmB-pHOQ/s200/larastjohn.jpg) (http://bp3.blogger.com/_j6tJqjGiGDs/Rsck3OZSkkI/AAAAAAAAAD4/KViGrl0w8cE/s200/maazelstraussspace.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/albumtwofer/twofer52.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/albumtwofer/twofer12.jpg) (http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album14/cover141.jpg) (http://toomanytristans.blogspot.com/search/label/Greatest%20Classical%20CD%20Covers%20EVER)
You need to have a lawn sale!!! :o
The Lara St. John cover is definitely The Worst. I remember when that came out. And also that Parsifal. There waaas a time in the'90s...I think this is when they were actively seeking the gay bucks.
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Some incredible stuff here, thanks !
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I love the Richard Strauss cover where the old Richard Strauss is pointing to the young Richard. 'Hey, look how handsome I was when I was a young man. The ladies really loved my curly hair, you know? Dah! ;D
Still trying to figure out what 'Fat Albert' has to do with Strauss' Four Last Songs? ???
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You have to admire his torso control during a tantrum.
I can imagine he's yelling at a bunch of non-plussed movers: "No, no, NO — the single chair was supposed to go over HERE"
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MFGKDxxtL._SS500_.jpg)
I've seen that series — he looks like he's having a tantrum. :D
I get a different feeling: he was a "special" child, grown now but of course still living with his parents who indulge his conductorial fantasies.
Sarge
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(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album10/cover109.jpg)
That may be the most puzzling cover I've ever seen. Not only is the picture nonsensical, but what the hell is a golden flute of life??? :D
Sarge
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That may be the most puzzling cover I've ever seen. Not only is the picture nonsensical, but what the hell is a golden flute of life??? :D
Sarge
This doesn't even look like an authorized recording. Doesn't even say what company produced it. If you're gonna create a fake CD, at least make up some recording company name to make it look legit, right? :D
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(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/album14/cover141.jpg)
I don't mind this one either. Not a bad cover at all. I like the drawings. It's at least tasteful and doesn't use sex as a selling point.
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Still trying to figure out what 'Fat Albert' has to do with Strauss' Four Last Songs? ???
I'm not sure, but I think the blog I took this from may have sometimes posted a made-up cover at the end of some of the entries. But I thought this one was too good not to include...
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I have the Daniel Hope CD. The cover ties in with the album's concept, and there's a follow up photo inside to make the relationship clearer. In isolation, the photo may look nonsensical, but in context it's rather appropriate.
All of that Opera D'oro series has very strange cover art, and it seems to relate to the actual opera only by sheer chance.
And Placido trying to look very spiritual has a frisson all its own.
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And Placido trying to look very spiritual has a frisson all its own.
With the Pope watching in the background, I can't blame him.
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Heavy Classix, no kidding.
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Doing a little Kagel-searching on Amazon just now, found this:
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High-serious repertoire on this disc includes Kagel, Tormis, Kokkonen, Penderecki, Schoenberg, Reger and others....
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And don't you give me any rubbish about "a tastefully done" photograph. ;D
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And don't you give me any rubbish about "a tastefully done" photograph. ;D
The picture is of course stupid. But the "comforting music" part disgusts me even more. So many undereducated people out there think of classical music as nothing but white noise.
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There is just something very wrong with this one...
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The picture is of course stupid. But the "comforting music" part disgusts me even more. So many undereducated people out there think of classical music as nothing but white noise.
Yes Sandra. That really, really annoys me too. I'll be talking to a stranger, or a new friend, and mention that I love classical music, and am very passionate about it. They will respond with something like: "Oh, I love classical music too. I often have it in the background when I'm cooking in the kitchen, or when I need to relax or meditate."
People just do not understand that classical music encompasses everything in music. Everything! My ex-wife used to say: "Well, I like classical music sometimes, but sometimes I just need something more energetic, with more beat and rhythm." ::)
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My ex-wife used to say: "Well, I like classical music sometimes, but sometimes I just need something more energetic, with more beat and rhythm." ::)
Is that the reason why she's your EX-wife now? ;D
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Is that the reason why she's your EX-wife now? ;D
:D No.
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My ex-wife used to say: "Well, I like classical music sometimes, but sometimes I just need something more energetic, with more beat and rhythm." ::)
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU- I have friends like that too. Just get a bloody metronome if you insist it be accompanied by a click-track >:D It's especially rotten because if it wasn't for this drum-tapping fetish pop has given people, several of those friends would probably really like the music. Everything in their pop tastes hit towards things that classical could do better.
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Fast draw showdown...
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Eek, he looks like he's wearing his girlfriend's clothes.
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Eek, he looks like he's wearing his girlfriend's clothes.
Thooper!! ;D
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People just do not understand that classical music encompasses everything in music. Everything! My ex-wife used to say: "Well, I like classical music sometimes, but sometimes I just need something more energetic, with more beat and rhythm." ::)
Well, not perhaps everything but a lot nevertheless. While classical music can be extremely energetic, it only has certain ways to be that. tracks by The Prodigy (just one example) are energetic in ways I have never encountered with classical music.
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"Well, I like classical music sometimes, but sometimes I just need something more energetic, with more beat and rhythm." ::)
"I've got your beat right here!" *smack* ;D
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People just do not understand that classical music encompasses everything in music. Everything!
Surely you don't seriously mean that :o Classical music might touch on elements found in other musics--and vice versa--but it hardly replicates them all in their unique combinations. We wouldn't even be able to intelligently discuss different styles and genres if they were in reality all subsumed by some overarching, all-encompassing music. But we know that significant differences do exist, that each genre has its own history, sources, expectations, instrumentation, and emphases.
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU- I have friends like that too. Just get a bloody metronome if you insist it be accompanied by a click-track >:D It's especially rotten because if it wasn't for this drum-tapping fetish pop has given people, several of those friends would probably really like the music. Everything in their pop tastes hit towards things that classical could do better.
That's quite presumptuous. Why do you assume pop has given people a "drum-tapping fetish," when percussion forms a key element in numerous musical styles, both classical/courtly and popular, across geography and history? Western classical music is, if anything, an odd man out for largely jettisoning constant percussion accompaniment.
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I don't know about anyone else, but somehow I find this cover unnecessarily disturbing;
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/Gurn_Blanston/HaydnBruggen90_92cover.jpg)
Wonder what that's about? :-\
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Maybe they were channeling Grace Jones?
(http://paris-la.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/grace-jones-slave-to-the-rhyt-18664-1.jpg)
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I don't know about anyone else, but somehow I find this cover unnecessarily disturbing;
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/Gurn_Blanston/HaydnBruggen90_92cover.jpg)
Wonder what that's about? :-\
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Haydn dimultisected, after a cup of coffee.
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Maybe they were channeling Grace Jones?
(http://paris-la.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/grace-jones-slave-to-the-rhyt-18664-1.jpg)
Yikes! :o :o Grace can be disturbing even without the artsy stuff! :-X
Haydn dimultisected, after a cup of coffee.
Well, I'm down with the coffee part of the equation anyway... :)
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That's quite presumptuous. Why do you assume pop has given people a "drum-tapping fetish," when percussion forms a key element in numerous musical styles, both classical/courtly and popular, across geography and history? Western classical music is, if anything, an odd man out for largely jettisoning constant percussion accompaniment.
Drums may be nice, but if you require them even to enjoy music then it's a sign of laziness. It's the same as people who whine about "boring instrumental music".
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Drums may be nice, but if you require them even to enjoy music then it's a sign of laziness. It's the same as people who whine about "boring instrumental music".
Theme from 'A Man & A Woman' ;D
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I'd argue it's simply a clash of paradigms, rather than inherently a lack of listener sophistication.
Consider how we (broadly speaking) apply our own musical norms to much of pop music, when we decide we dislike it. For a classical listener, structural and harmonic sophistication is paramount. For a pop listener, it's not a primary concern - tunes are.
Invention is a mark of good music that carries over between most (all?) genres; but otherwise, of course someone with pop-musical criteria, who wants music to grab them by its sheer élan, will enjoy classical music as - at best - a benign anaesthetic.
Edit: To elaborate that point a little, I mean that they will enjoy 'light' classical, and won't listen at all to the rest.
I wouldn't call them stupid or lazy, though. :)
I don't call people who don't worry about things like metaphysics and formal semantics stupid or lazy, even if I could make a pretty convincing case for why it's more 'sophisticated' to worry about them - but not to want to do so, which is often the real issue.
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Drums may be nice, but if you require them even to enjoy music then it's a sign of laziness. It's the same as people who whine about "boring instrumental music".
Yes. And even the simplest classical music has more "rhythm" than most pop music that is supposedly more rhythmic — but if there isn't a constant thud behind every gesture then it's "rhythmless".
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Drums may be nice, but if you require them even to enjoy music then it's a sign of laziness. It's the same as people who whine about "boring instrumental music".
I would posit rather that percussion (or at least percussiveness or a very prominent beat) satisfies a widespread, deeply rooted musical desire across time and cultures. It is surely no coincidence that these things feature so prominently in so many diverse musics--and in the most (literally) popular musical forms.
Along the same lines, song is another deeply rooted musical fundamental: look at classical music's harmonic ancestry in a cappella religious chant and song. Vocal music was granted primacy of status in the Baroque as well. It's hardly lazy for people to desire to hear (and join in with) the human voice.
Yes. And even the simplest classical music has more "rhythm" than most pop music that is supposedly more rhythmic — but if there isn't a constant thud behind every gesture then it's "rhythmless".
How do you mean "more rhythm"? The vast majority of both classical and pop music has fixed rhythms. Ad libitum sections are comparatively rare. Your average baroque piece chugs along at a steady tempo in one time signature. How is that more rhythmic than your typical Western pop song? And of course, you can find rock/pop songs in shifting meters, using hemiola and other metrical "tricks." If you broaden "pop music" to include jazz (questionable in its current incarnation, but some do), then odd meters and polyrhythms become relatively common.
And then if you use "popular music" in the broadest sense of non-scholarly, unwritten music of the people:
http://www.youtube.com/v/He4qVF-AZxQhttp://www.youtube.com/v/9btCyYdsVSEhttp://www.youtube.com/v/p6cByvRheZw
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I would posit rather that percussion (or at least percussiveness or a very prominent beat) satisfies a widespread, deeply rooted musical desire across time and cultures. It is surely no coincidence that these things feature so prominently in so many diverse musics--and in the most (literally) popular musical forms.
Along the same lines, song is another deeply rooted musical fundamental: look at classical music's harmonic ancestry in a cappella religious chant and song. Vocal music was granted primacy of status in the Baroque as well. It's hardly lazy for people to desire to hear (and join in with) the human voice.
How do you mean "more rhythm"? The vast majority of both classical and pop music has fixed rhythms. Ad libitum sections are comparatively rare. Your average baroque piece chugs along at a steady tempo in one time signature. How is that more rhythmic than your typical Western pop song? And of course, you can find rock/pop songs in shifting meters, using hemiola and other metrical "tricks." If you broaden "pop music" to include jazz (questionable in its current incarnation, but some do), then odd meters and polyrhythms become relatively common.
And then if you use "popular music" in the broadest sense of non-scholarly, unwritten music of the people:
http://www.youtube.com/v/He4qVF-AZxQhttp://www.youtube.com/v/9btCyYdsVSEhttp://www.youtube.com/v/p6cByvRheZw
+1. Gimme some Elvin Jones, baby!
Graz, you're the most indefatigably sensible forumite I've ever come across. :)
Now, what d'y'all say about the plague of chest-beating among classical music fans? Harumph!
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the forest God, known as Paavo Jarvi, is afraid this thread is in danger of losing it's humor, don't force him to turn and look at you :o
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I'd argue it's simply a clash of paradigms, rather than inherently a lack of listener sophistication.
Consider how we (broadly speaking) apply our own musical norms to much of pop music, when we decide we dislike it. For a classical listener, structural and harmonic sophistication is paramount. For a pop listener, it's not a primary concern - tunes are.
Invention is a mark of good music that carries over between most (all?) genres; but otherwise, of course someone with pop-musical criteria, who wants music to grab them by its sheer élan, will enjoy classical music as - at best - a benign anaesthetic.
Edit: To elaborate that point a little, I mean that they will enjoy 'light' classical, and won't listen at all to the rest.
I wouldn't call them stupid or lazy, though. :)
I don't call people who don't worry about things like metaphysics and formal semantics stupid or lazy, even if I could make a pretty convincing case for why it's more 'sophisticated' to worry about them - but not to want to do so, which is often the real issue.
Well said. I do wonder about the sentence I bolded above. We like to think that's case, but is it? How many classical listeners are cognizant of and can articulate the structures they're exposed to in the music? How many could tell you what a C chord is, let alone perceive and explain the procedures a piece uses to modulate? How many "merely" enjoy the melodies or the drama or the sounds of an orchestra or a piano?
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Well said. I do wonder about the sentence I bolded above. We like to think that's case, but is it? How many classical listeners are cognizant of and can articulate the structures they're exposed to in the music? How many could tell you what a C chord is, let alone perceive and explain the procedures a piece uses to modulate? How many "merely" enjoy the melodies or the drama or the sounds of an orchestra or a piano?
Being able to enjoy the structure and harmonic depth of a piece does not require in-depth knowledge. You don't need to know that composer x is modulating into a distant key via a diminished seventh followed by a minor fourth and then restating the second subject in the new key as a canon in augmentation* because your ears are telling you in their own way what the music is doing. If it where otherwise, we wouldn't need recordings or live performances; we'd just need copies of the full score. But it is that structural and harmonic depth that makes 'classical' music what it is. Melody and beat are important, but ultimately they serve the structure and harmony, not vice versa.
Whereas pop music's focus lies on the melody. There can be structural and harmonic depth--except that the commercial pressures seem to continually suppress it--but the key always seems to be melody, which was after all the original germ of human music making. A popular "pop" song seems to always have a recognizable melody from the very first bar, and focuses on that melody.
I'd say the beat is important but not as important as melody. (And often enough "light' classics are popular because people hook onto their melodies).
*example made up as I typed this. And honestly, if I were sitting in a concert hall, I probably wouldn't be able to identify a diminished seventh or minor fourth, or know if the canon I was hearing was in augmentation or diminution, if my life depended on it.
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I think the argument was that for many listeners pre-recorded, repetitive drum beats are more than satisfactory as the most prominent feature of the music they like. For us (classical music lovers), it's intolerable. We require more sophistication and creativity in the music we enjoy. If admitting this makes us elitists, then so be it.
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But as you no doubt know, you can actually do pretty sophisticated things with a repetitive beat. And even the pop-like overbearing pre-recorded beats are often derived from electronica, where they can be part of fairly sophisticated counterpoint.
(Not Bach-sophisticated, but sophisticated.)
Point being, it's not the beat, it's how you use it. Though I grant you that uncreative use of drum beats is just that: uncreative.
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Greg trying to Paavojärvi us back on topic... ;D
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Greg trying to Paavojärvi us back on topic... ;D
Don't get me wrong, it's actually an interesting conversation you are all having, I'm just having fun...so is Paavo. ;D
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Look, I am far more handsome than Dad!
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Antoine posted this in a comment on the Purchases Today thread, but I think it deserves a place here
(http://image.allmusic.com/00/acg/cov200/cm200/m258/m25845nmgoh.jpg)
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I think the argument was that for many listeners pre-recorded, repetitive drum beats are more than satisfactory as the most prominent feature of the music they like. For us (classical music lovers), it's intolerable. We require more sophistication and creativity in the music we enjoy. If admitting this makes us elitists, then so be it.
You're not in a position to speak for all of us. You're certainly not speaking for me, a hardcore classical music fan for many years.
Being able to enjoy the structure and harmonic depth of a piece does not require in-depth knowledge. You don't need to know that composer x is modulating into a distant key via a diminished seventh followed by a minor fourth and then restating the second subject in the new key as a canon in augmentation* because your ears are telling you in their own way what the music is doing. If it where otherwise, we wouldn't need recordings or live performances; we'd just need copies of the full score. But it is that structural and harmonic depth that makes 'classical' music what it is. Melody and beat are important, but ultimately they serve the structure and harmony, not vice versa.
My signature speaks to the sentence I bolded above. If someone can't consciously recognize and articulate those details, it remains to be seen whether or not he or she is really picking up on them, even subconsciously, and whether he or she understands their import, cleverness, or originality.
I'm not saying one must be a musicologist or musician to enjoy classical music, but precisely because music can be complex and sophisticated, it's dangerous to assume that just listening, without knowing specifically what to listen for, will tell the whole story. It's one thing to enjoy, another to really hear and understand.
Ask your average person to step outside for a few minutes with their eyes closed. Then ask them what they heard. Provided they were even paying attention and not daydreaming, they may say, "I heard some birds and a plane." A skilled birder is going to be able to catalog by sound alone all the audible species heard during the experiment, and suggest what the birds were likely doing. An aviation enthusiast might be able to tell you the general type of plane and approximate airspeed and altitude. It all depends on if a) they're paying attention b) they've trained themselves to notice certain things and c) they can articulate them. Because of their interests and focuses, their emotional reactions are likely to be different, too.
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Ask your average person to step outside for a few minutes with their eyes closed. Then ask them what they heard. Provided they were even paying attention and not daydreaming, they may say, "I heard some birds and a plane." A skilled birder is going to be able to catalog by sound alone all the audible species heard during the experiment, and suggest what the birds were likely doing. An aviation enthusiast might be able to tell you the general type of plane and approximate airspeed and altitude. It all depends on if a) they're paying attention b) they've trained themselves to notice certain things and c) they can articulate them. Because of their interests and focuses, their emotional reactions are likely to be different, too.
This is a very persuasive argument, that requires some effort on my part to contest.
But I will anyway, as I've a strong feeling that what Jeffrey is saying (and I'd also posit) may have substance: namely, that our subconscious, intuitive capacity to grasp structure may outstrip our conscious ability to codify and express it.
(In which case we may well notice sophistication, even in terms of its form, but not be able to describe it.)
However, I cannot but grant you that (self-)consciously codified acquaintance with a given structure, as in the examples you provide, may qualitatively alter one's experience of that structure. There's certainly experimental evidence backing this. :)
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This is a very persuasive argument, that requires some effort on my part to contest.
But I will anyway, as I've a strong feeling that what Jeffrey is saying (and I'd also posit) may have substance: namely, that our subconscious, intuitive capacity to grasp structure may outstrip our conscious ability to codify and express it.
(In which case we may well notice sophistication, even in terms of its form, but not be able to describe it.)
However, I cannot but grant you that (self-)consciously codified acquaintance with a given structure, as in the examples you provide, may qualitatively alter one's experience of that structure. There's certainly experimental evidence backing this. :)
I was wondering about the same possibility. We process stimuli all the time without necessarily being aware of them consciously or being able to conceptualize/verbalize them. The heart knows things the mind doesn't, so to speak. And, to stay with the example of music, I know from experience that once you become cognizant, through practice, of certain musical elements or devices, you start to note them with less and less conscious effort, processing them rather matter-of-factly, just as you process the feeling of the pull of gravity. (I know also from experience how easy it is to miss things in music unless you've been trained to pick them out.)
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You're not in a position to speak for all of us.
Your distasteful tone aside, why waste an entire sentence like this? How could I, or anyone else, possibly be "in a position" to speak for everyone?
I don't need your consent to make a point that those who love classical music would find music based on synthesizer drum beats (house, techno, etc) a bit more unpalatable.
It's really hard to understand why some people find it so easy to be rude on the internet. Would you really respond like that to people you were having a discussion with around a dinner table?
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Your distasteful tone aside, why waste an entire sentence like this? How could I, or anyone else, possibly be "in a position" to speak for everyone?
Because that's exactly what you tried to do:
"For us (classical music lovers), it's intolerable. We require more sophistication and creativity in the music we enjoy. If admitting this makes us elitists, then so be it."
I don't need your consent to make a point that those who love classical music would find music based on synthesizer drum beats (house, techno, etc) a bit more unpalatable.
You have changed the point you made: "intolerable" is now "a bit more unpalatable."
It's really hard to understand why some people find it so easy to be rude on the internet. Would you really respond like that to people you were having a discussion with around a dinner table?
I was not being rude, and I'm sorry if you interpreted it that way. On the contrary, I found your statement to be rude, snobby, and inconsiderate of people who like other things in music than you and of classical music fans: we are not all snobs, we do not all hold the sames views on music, we do not all happily consider ourselves elitists.
When making such statements, it would be more respectful to speak for yourself only.
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Antoine posted this in a comment on the Purchases Today thread, but I think it deserves a place here
(http://image.allmusic.com/00/acg/cov200/cm200/m258/m25845nmgoh.jpg)
Reminds me a bit of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
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"I love you, Antonin."
"I love you too, Nikolaus."
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"Don't move Nikolaus, I can see it, it's right at the tip of your nose."
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"Shhh, Nikolaus, don't tell them I'm here."
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Yeah, Greg, those are some bad looking covers.
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another one in that vein (not sure if this has been done already)
(http://www.urtextonline.com/images/cHAVEZ.jpg)
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another one in that vein (not sure if this has been done already)
(http://www.urtextonline.com/images/cHAVEZ.jpg)
Man on the right, lookout for the cactus!!
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Because that's exactly what you tried to do:
"For us (classical music lovers), it's intolerable. We require more sophistication and creativity in the music we enjoy. If admitting this makes us elitists, then so be it."
People generally don't speak in absolutist terms. If someone says something like "the people in Mexico like to eat tacos", would you hurry to tell her that she is not in a position to speak for all Mexicans? Do you think anyone would be stupid enough to make such a statement thinking a full one hundred percent of the population of Mexico likes to eat tacos?
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People generally don't speak in absolutist terms. If someone says something like "the people in Mexico like to eat tacos", would you hurry to tell her that she is not in a position to speak for all Mexicans? Do you think anyone would be stupid enough to make such a statement thinking a full one hundred percent of the population of Mexico likes to eat tacos?
If I knew such a statement to be both false/misleading and inflammatory or derisive, yes, I would speak up. Particularly if I was one of the people being misrepresented by the statement.
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People generally don't speak in absolutist terms. If someone says something like "the people in Mexico like to eat tacos", would you hurry to tell her that she is not in a position to speak for all Mexicans? Do you think anyone would be stupid enough to make such a statement thinking a full one hundred percent of the population of Mexico likes to eat tacos?
What!?!?!?!?! Mexicans don't like tacos?!?!?!? :P >:D
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another one in that vein (not sure if this has been done already)
(http://www.urtextonline.com/images/cHAVEZ.jpg)
I have that one. The picture of Chavez is superimposed onto the picture of the group. What is up with that?
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I have that one. The picture of Chavez is superimposed onto the picture of the group. What is up with that?
Chavez missed the photo-shoot?
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"...ninety-nine red balloons go by..."
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Chavez missed the photo-shoot?
By what, thirty years, haha?
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"...ninety-nine red balloons go by..."
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Actually, it looks like one really big balloon is about to come down and crush that poor person who's just minding their own business.
BTW--what was the orchestra? Or did Kubelik play all the instruments by himself?
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BTW--what was the orchestra? Or did Kubelik play all the instruments by himself?
It's a combination of hums and whistles.
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Actually, it looks like one really big balloon is about to come down and crush that poor person who's just minding their own business.
:)
The converse of red balloons simply going by...
BTW--what was the orchestra? Or did Kubelik play all the instruments by himself?
It's apparently part of a cycle Kubelik recorded with the Vienna Philharmonic. I had no idea the set even existed!
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Grandpa Munster!
In its own way, that photo is scarier than the Monster Balloon.
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Grandpa Munster!
In its own way, that photo is scarier than the Monster Balloon.
Poor Kubelik. Without KarajanHair® he hasn't got a chance...
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He can use his head to polish his cello.
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He can use his head to polish his cello.
Only after he polishes the conductor's shoes.
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Yes, what a horrible and generic looking cover. I'd be ashamed to have released such a monstrosity.
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"Someday... Love. Will. Find youuuuu."
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"Someday... Love. Will. Find youuuuu."
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Classic, Coco. Classic. ;D
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Wow, that is just........random?!?!?!? *chortle*
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"The Crying Game", starring Ceclia Bartoli
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I see a razor and some shaving cream. Could come in handy as a cover for some Rossini.
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"The Crying Game", starring Ceclia Bartoli
Looks like a new, utterly wrong superhero: Naked Marble Opera Diva with a Penis
"Someday... Love. Will. Find youuuuu."
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Are they all pissed at Steve Perry? :o Journey's album covers were actually cool :)
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It looks like the ibis crapped all over the cover :D
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Trouble is, it is a gorgeous CD, for the ears and mind if not the eyes. I play it often and just try not to look.
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Trouble is, it is a gorgeous CD, for the ears and mind if not the eyes. I play it often and just try not to look.
Oh, I agree, Luke, but that's the case with some of the recordings here. In fact here is another goody from phantasm that could've used a little help from the art department, but again some beautiful performances.
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Oh, I agree, Luke, but that's the case with some of the recordings here. In fact here is another goody from phantasm that could've used a little help from the art department, but again some beautiful performances.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HxoB3vtkL._SS500_.jpg)
Bad Photoshopping seems to have replaced real graphic design these days :(
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Bad Photoshopping seems to have replaced real graphic design these days :(
Add terrible puns and a lack of imagination to that.
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"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned...."
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Add terrible puns and a lack of imagination to that.
I look at those classic Reid Miles covers for Blue Note and lament the loss of the good old days of album art.
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Looks like a new, utterly wrong superhero: Naked Marble Opera Diva with a Penis
At least it's small...
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Bad Photoshopping seems to have replaced real graphic design these days :(
Probably the lesser of two evils with a photo-shoot like that: either be photoshopped in or be sitting ducks in real life for bird poop bomb-arama!
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Besides that--aren't those seagulls? If you're going to have birds on an album cover with that name, at least show birds usually associated with singing? You know, nightingales and robins and skylarks and avians of that ilk...
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Besides that--aren't those seagulls? If you're going to have birds on an album cover with that name, at least show birds usually associated with singing? You know, nightingales and robins and skylarks and avians of that ilk...
I can't understand why people won't open their minds up a little. It's always those "greats" -- the cuckoos, the nightingalres et al. Why don't you explore other bird songs? I say give gull-iard a try. If you don't like, take a break and go to the beach a couple of weeks later and listen again.
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I can't understand why people won't open their minds up a little. It's always those "greats" -- the cuckoos, the nightingalres et al. Why don't you explore other bird songs? I say give gull-iard a try. If you don't like, take a break and go to the beach a couple of weeks later and listen again.
The raucous, atonal cries of gulls circling a garbage dump are in fact very similar to the modernist experimentation of... ;)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51e-7ZaMAAL._SS400_.jpg)
"Oh wait, everyone! Come back, we forgot to get a photo for the Dvorak disc." -photographer
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d60pI6MVL._SS400_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51e-7ZaMAAL._SS400_.jpg)
"Oh wait, everyone! Come back, we forgot to get a photo for the Dvorak disc." -photographer
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d60pI6MVL._SS400_.jpg)
They're smart: they're wearing white in case the birds in the photo shoot next door poop on their clothes.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Lim-J%2BWSL._SS400_.jpg)
I'm glad to see you're taking this Thread seriously. I must commend you. ;)
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"Oh wait, everyone! Come back, we forgot to get a photo for the Dvorak disc." -photographer
Or project manager to the art director: "Oh, we have these stills from the last CD still hanging around. Let's use one of them. Be a lot cheaper."
Harmonia Mundi did a similar thing with the first three CDs they released for the Jerusalem Quartet.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M77PN63ML._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5168m-llfxL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vWfEfn1VL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
although apparently they did allow one of the musicians to change his shirt to match the others before the final shot.
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although apparently they did allow one of the musicians to change his shirt to match the others before the final shot.
There's always that one bad apple to ruin everything!!
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I'm glad to see you're taking this Thread seriously. I must commend you. ;)
If the record companies would ask us first there wouldn't be these problems!
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Or project manager to the art director: "Oh, we have these stills from the last CD still hanging around. Let's use one of them. Be a lot cheaper."
The title of Most Notorious Use of Photos from a Single Shoot is awarded to the series of boxes from Warner for their Barenboim boxes (Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and more recently, Wagner).
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The title of Most Notorious Use of Photos from a Single Shoot is awarded to the series of boxes from Warner for their Barenboim boxes (Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and more recently, Wagner).
Don't forget Liszt!!! :D
(http://image.betamonline.com/sdimages/upc12/825646744039.jpg)
And Mozart!!! ;)
(http://boxset.ru/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/barenboim_mozart_the_piano_concertos.jpg)
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Don't forget Liszt!!! :D
And Mozart!!! ;)
Ah, yes. It's like they worked towards winning the award.
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Whoa....
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Ah, yes. It's like they worked towards winning the award.
They won the award already my friend. :)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VowFd3jZL._SS500_.jpg)
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That one raises more questions than answers. Is "Ik!" a title unrelated to the image, does it refer to the situation in the image, or is "ik" the sound the Dutch apply to what English-speakers call the sheep's "baah" sound, used like a speech bubble.
I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW. I MUST KNOW.
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:D
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ik
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VowFd3jZL._SS500_.jpg)
Sheep May Not Safely Graze! ;D
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It's spelled "ick!" and it's what I say to that cover art :D
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I thought "ik" in Dutch meant "me"
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They sure look like a rather woollen blazer ensemble.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QdUzhfmcL._SS500_.jpg)
The photos of the man are available, you know! ::)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QdUzhfmcL._SS500_.jpg)
The photos of the man are available, you know! ::)
Wow, that's just sad. Looks like a series, there must be others.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QdUzhfmcL._SS500_.jpg)
The photos of the man are available, you know! ::)
*chuckle* Looks more like someone portraying the role of Johannes Brahms in a Lord of the Rings film. ;D
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Wow, that's just sad. Looks like a series, there must be others.
Good call. Google was all too eager to offer me suggestions on this. Here's an all-in-one group shot.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61LaSEWKBVL._SS400_.jpg)
All hail the Canon Meisters.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tyanXbKkL._SS500_.jpg)
Hello, Claude.
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Good call. Google was all to eager to offer me suggestions on this. Here's an all-in-one group shot.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61LaSEWKBVL._SS400_.jpg)
All hail the Canon Meisters.
The only one I can't quite make out is the dude on the far right? ???
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The only one I can't quite make out is the dude on the far right? ???
It's Vivaldi
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It's Vivaldi
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sSfs384DL._SS500_.jpg)
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The only one I can't quite make out is the dude on the far right? ???
Egad! That's Il Prete Rosso! :o
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61y7uIudN2L._SS500_.jpg)
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It's Vivaldi
Ok, that actually was my hunch, but just wasn't 100% sure. :D
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They have a whole -- and fairly modern-looking, if I may add -- website: http://www.riseofthemasters.com/composers/
Go forth and waste time.
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As these images are posted here, I wouldn't doubt that there are people who bought these recordings because of their love for the cover art!
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They have a whole -- and fairly modern-looking, if I may add -- website: http://www.riseofthemasters.com/composers/
Go forth and waste time.
When is this epic movie being released?
Bach is the Godfather, while Beethoven is the mastermind of the gang. Debussy is the smart but goofy genius.
Schubert and Schumann are the young, but out of control guns hired for action.
Then there's Vivaldi, some call him the silent assassin.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61y7uIudN2L._SS500_.jpg)
No, that must be wrong. Grieg was so short (1,55 m) that only the crown of his hair would have been vsible if that had been an actual photo.
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As these images are posted here, I wouldn't doubt that there are people who bought these recordings because of their love for the cover art!
*cancels purchase* jk ;)
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Schubert and Schumann are the young, but out of control guns hired for action.
Schubert and "hired for action"? Nah. The love-sick, slightly effeminate son of the boss, maybe. :D
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Schubert and "hired for action"? Nah. The love-sick, slightly effeminate son of the boss, maybe. :D
Good call. :D
Handel so looks like the bad guy in this film.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61y7uIudN2L._SS500_.jpg)
...starring Gary Oldman... or is it Marjoe Gortner?...
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Kudos for digging that schlock up! Some things are bad, and some things are amazing! ??? :o :-\
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QdUzhfmcL._SS500_.jpg)
The photos of the man are available, you know! ::)
...starring Matthew Modine as Brahms...
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I'm not sure which is the better line: Mozart is making an opera you can't refuse or Bach is making a 1079 you can't refuse.
And this line from the website suggest a horror movie, not a mob movie:
Our most well know classical composers are alive again and they are stronger than ever!
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(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/a2/ba/3f8c024128a00909874be010.L.jpg)
This one is in dire need of a caption.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61lLFnLdHIL._SS400_.jpg)
Gag me with a spoon!
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Talk to the hand.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/311lShjB7KL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/a2/ba/3f8c024128a00909874be010.L.jpg)
(http://www.generalentertainment.com/artists/turtles.jpg)
Was Levine a turtle in an earlier life?
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61lLFnLdHIL._SS400_.jpg)
Gag me with a spoon!
I erased everything I said. It's that bad. :(
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(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/a2/ba/3f8c024128a00909874be010.L.jpg)
This one is in dire need of a caption.
...Hi...
...no, no...please, call me Jimmy...
...oh, really? Me too!... more bubbly?...
...ahh, James Levine,... for when a night has to be,...must be... sexxxy!!!...
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...Hi...
...no, no...please, call me Jimmy...
...oh, really? Me too!... more bubbly?...
...ahh, James Levine,... for when a night has to be,...must be... sexxxy!!!...
;D ;D
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(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/a2/ba/3f8c024128a00909874be010.L.jpg)
This one is in dire need of a caption.
It's cold out, innit?
Mike
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P6iZtXKcL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ok8zqI%2BjL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
The Yankee version, I assume.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ok8zqI%2BjL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
The Yankee version, I assume.
Hehe, that one is quite clever - the reference (amongst others):
(http://i.imgur.com/1dBHp.jpg)
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Should be the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for the Yankee edition, to be sure.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71%2B71qEvnoL.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/p2gaJ.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71%2B71qEvnoL.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/p2gaJ.jpg)
:o :o :o
:'( :'( :'(
Beavis: It's..huh huh... it's bulging!, huh huh...
Butthead: Bulging cor...
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VehEKvLqL._SS500_.jpg)
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Why.
Why.
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:o
DUDE!!!
Don't do that ever again! >:(
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VehEKvLqL._SS500_.jpg)
Wasn't Demeter some horribly bitchy Greek Goddess?
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Pardon me if any of these have been run before--
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BaxMlnoKZyY/SowtqGu8W1I/AAAAAAAABnQ/XzDXEAG8V7c/s400/antonin-dvorak-funny-covers.jpg)
(http://www.rockonchicago.com/tristan/albumtwofer/twofer21.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0xItbPYwPwI/TM9RLg1Dh5I/AAAAAAAAAiM/OLv-lD76eXg/s1600/Worst+Album+Cover+Ever.jpg)
(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3456/miaskovskyass.jpg)
(http://musicology.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/10/stravinsky.jpg)
Outside of teh classical realm, there are many sites dedicated to the most horrific assaults on the eyes possible.
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oh boy.....
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-TyR-vyLL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Some like it long... ;D ;D ;D
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Imagine the poses they rejected from that shoot. Probably took a whole day to capture that image.
Mike
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-TyR-vyLL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Some like it long... ;D ;D ;D
She's wearing...jeans! :o
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I really don't like this cover:
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B004OZRP5U.01.L.jpg)
I mean what does this have to do with anything?
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I really don't like this cover:
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B004OZRP5U.01.L.jpg)
I mean what does this have to do with anything?
Galatasaray is the top football (soccer) club in Turkey, much like Manchester United, Barcelona or Real Madrid, thus the football.
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Galatasaray is the top football (soccer) club in Turkey, much like Manchester United, Barcelona or Real Madrid, thus the football.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification, spriterite. Oh, and I still don't like the cover. :)
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Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification, spriterite. Oh, and I still don't like the cover. :)
I am sure you would excuse the cover had the music been Koechlin.
Well, OK, you still wouldn't like the cover. Just switch to the back of the cover and it'd look better. Galatasaray isn't worth it anyway.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51t3lvA47FL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Not sure if this has been posted before. It's unpleasant.
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I suspect the above cover to be a hoax.
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(http://i.imgur.com/2SHyD.jpg)
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Sarge will likely disagree. ;)
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(http://i.imgur.com/2SHyD.jpg)
That's just appalling....and of course I love it ;D
Sarge
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(http://i.imgur.com/2SHyD.jpg)
I would have this one for ironic wall art, right alongside the notorious Boult Planets also on Westminster. And this movie poster (http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-f/fly_me_poster_01.jpg).
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(http://i.imgur.com/Y4cLl.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/Y4cLl.jpg)
I'd love to talk to the "creative designer" behind that one. (Of course, how long we talk will be limited by the asylum's visiting hours. :()
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I absolutely love the Fey/Haydn performances, but this cover is too much, too much Fey.
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There is this site at http://lpcoverlover.com/ (http://lpcoverlover.com/), and among them I found this:
(http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01.resized/a409498fe960ade0ec1fd578c30088bc_image_document_large.jpg)
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There is this site at http://lpcoverlover.com/ (http://lpcoverlover.com/), and among them I found this:
(http://i.imgur.com/tq6fT.jpg)
Eek ;D
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There is this site at http://lpcoverlover.com/ (http://lpcoverlover.com/), and among them I found this:
(http://lpcoverlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01.resized/a409498fe960ade0ec1fd578c30088bc_image_document_large.jpg)
Thanks for the link, those were some great covers! ;D
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He's violating poodles as well.
(http://ring.cdandlp.com/lerayonvert/photo_grande/114754420.jpg)
Would have loved a Frank Zappa tune about this.
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another classic from ABC/WESTMINSTER
seeking a crossover audience for Norman Treigle?
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(http://i.imgur.com/DFzZV.jpg)
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THIS... is the worst one ever:
http://www.amazon.com/Music-Stefan-Wolpe-Volume-5/dp/B002RS7MZ4/ref=sr_1_14?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1333223530&sr=1-14
UN-BE-LEEEEEV-ABLE!!!! :o Wolpe???
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(http://i.imgur.com/DFzZV.jpg)(http://mimg.ugo.com/201003/38921/cuts/wayne-knight-seinfeld_480x270.jpg)
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Music about nothing I assume.
Mike
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This one just attacked me from the GMG-screen´s upper bar:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514kjAQCqfL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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This one just attacked me from the GMG-screen´s upper bar:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514kjAQCqfL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
:D >:D
When Sadko posted that to the Listening thread, I immediately called it as a good one for this thread.
Of course, our own interchange here probably means it will keep attacking GMGers for a little while longer.
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:D >:D
When Sadko posted that to the Listening thread, I immediately called it as a good one for this thread.
Of course, our own interchange here probably means it will keep attacking GMGers for a little while longer.
.......... and it´s only "Volume 1", he´s just getting started ...
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What is it with aging big hair 'rock star' types from the '70s (obviously our friend here) who continue to insist on 'rockin'' the 'do well into the onset of actual hair 'problems'?
See: David Lee Roth, all '80s hair metal, I don't know, you tell me...
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Crocodile Dundee does furries.
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Crocodile Dundee does furries.
Somehow I don´t think Igor Markevitch would have approved of that one ...
(http://blog.codaex.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Igor-Markevitch.jpg)
STOP THAT; PLEASE !
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Not saying this really is an "awful" cover, but I love that the left hand gets in on the photo op.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/4c61fab9-89da-31dd.jpg)
I don't think this looks bad. Having the people in various costumes is colourful and appealing. I'm sure it sounded pretty wretched though.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/4c61fab9-9ce4-47da.jpg)
Not saying this really is an "awful" cover, but I love that the left hand gets in on the photo op.
Haha, that's good. I was taken aback as I scrolled and only saw the top and said, awww, I love that album! :'( Yes, a lot of these could be a lot lot worse.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lv5j3H-oL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ywLJBZWOL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
I'm not entirely convinced that's the same guy.
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I guess getting one's right hand nailed to the wall tends to age one.
Mike
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I guess getting one's right hand nailed to the wall tends to age one.
Mike
Not to mention listening to the harpsichord.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/4c61fab9-9ce4-47da.jpg)
Not saying this really is an "awful" cover, but I love that the left hand gets in on the photo op.
That picture makes Seiji Ozawa looks like one of the Ladies Who Lunch.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lv5j3H-oL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ywLJBZWOL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
I'm not entirely convinced that's the same guy.
Hey, the guy on the right is that actor from 'Scream'!
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lv5j3H-oL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ywLJBZWOL._SL500_AA300_.jpg) (http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcReQysquwld9D4iFgSu3CEhil4x1C1CLydlpjV0P3HDTOSMOv0NVA)
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Not to mention listening to the harpsichord.
:D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lv5j3H-oL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ywLJBZWOL._SL500_AA300_.jpg) (http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcReQysquwld9D4iFgSu3CEhil4x1C1CLydlpjV0P3HDTOSMOv0NVA)
NO!! The OTHER guy from 'Scream',... Matthew Lillard(?),... 'rubber face'
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Damn, I really screwed that one up.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/4c61fab9-9ce4-47da.jpg)
Not saying this really is an "awful" cover, but I love that the left hand gets in on the photo op.
(http://img.tapatalk.com/4c61fab9-d579-a9da.jpg)
The many faces of Ozawa.
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He didn't even change shirts between sessions? ???
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Just found the following beauty, the most hilariously awful CD cover I've ever seen. I challenge anybody to beat this!
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kH9xlEd0L._SS500_.jpg)
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Just found the following beauty, the most hilariously awful CD cover I've ever seen. I challenge anybody to beat this!
Freud would have a field day with that image. :o
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Very cheesy...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Djt7WbjtL._SS400_.jpg)
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Just found the following beauty, the most hilariously awful CD cover I've ever seen. I challenge anybody to beat this!
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kH9xlEd0L._SS500_.jpg)
Haha :o it MUST be from the '70s ;)!! At least 'inspired' by it,... gwaaack :-\...
Been watching to much Pekinpah ::)...
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(http://i.prs.to/t_200/emi6447012.jpg)
Downright scandalous - unbelievable ...
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(http://i.prs.to/t_200/emi6447012.jpg)
Downright scandalous - unbelievable ...
Now, if they title the CD "Witch of the Piano"... maybe, just maybe it'd be less inappropriate, for some. But I agree this is awful!
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This is what happens when people age. I see it as honest and truthful.
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It´s not the element of age I oppose against, there are many great photos of the elderly Argerich - it´s the combination of the sunset colours and the grey portrait that is surreal and extremely unattractive, making her look like a ghost IMO.
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It´s not the element of age I oppose against, there are many great photos of the elderly Argerich - it´s the combination of the sunset colours and the grey portrait that is surreal and extremely unattractive, making her look like a ghost IMO.
Yes, it's a horrible photo.
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It's a bad photo, photoshopped onto a blurry background, I see that. That in itself doesn't qualify it as horrible, for many labels that seems to be the norm.
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It's a bad photo, photoshopped onto a blurry background, I see that. That in itself doesn't qualify it as horrible, for many labels that seems to be the norm.
I'm looking at it and find it horribly bad. :P
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(http://i.prs.to/t_200/miraremir168.jpg)
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(http://i.prs.to/t_200/miraremir168.jpg)
Hehe... I was thinking the same about a day ago, while going through the list of Future Releases at Presto.
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Hehe... I was thinking the same about a day ago, while going through the list of Future Releases at Presto.
Exactly where I saw it!
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Exactly where I saw it!
Um... I knew that. That's why I mentioned it! ;D
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(http://i.prs.to/t_200/miraremir168.jpg)
Given the CD title, I suspect we have a concept that wasn't completely thought through.
That, or a failed attempted synchronized leaping, and lack of synchronization in a string quartet does not bode well.
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They are probabaly punk fans doing some pogo jumping.
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ttp://www.amazon.com/Liszt-Opera-Paraphrases-F/dp/B000005GLS/ref=sr_1_13?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1338735939&sr=1-13
Can someone open this?
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ttp://www.amazon.com/Liszt-Opera-Paraphrases-F/dp/B000005GLS/ref=sr_1_13?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1338735939&sr=1-13
Can someone open this?
As soon as you add an "h" it opens. A miracle!
http://www.amazon.com/Liszt-Opera-Paraphrases-F/dp/B000005GLS/ref=sr_1_13?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1338735939&sr=1-13
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No artwork, but some unusual spelling!
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1862565/concherto.jpg)
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(http://www.sequenza21.com/cdreviews/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/616F8RZBsXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Now, number 110 on this one could truly be called a "concherto".
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(http://www.sequenza21.com/cdreviews/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/616F8RZBsXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Now, number 110 on this one could truly be called a "concherto".
That CD is probably popular in Key West (aka "the Conch Republic").
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I saw this on vinyl at the used bookshop and decided that it is an absolutely essential part of my future art collection.
(http://991.com/newGallery/The-Firehouse-Five-Plus-Crashes-A-Party-466641.jpg)
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I saw this on vinyl at the used bookshop and decided that it is an absolutely essential part of my future art collection.
(http://991.com/newGallery/The-Firehouse-Five-Plus-Crashes-A-Party-466641.jpg)
As bad as this may be, I give it high points for creativity.
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(http://991.com/newGallery/The-Firehouse-Five-Plus-Crashes-A-Party-466641.jpg)
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
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(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/f8/34/774fc060ada0164e5b4cf110.L._AA350_.jpg)
It's a Bernstein Man-wich! On white bread it seems.
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Man-tastic!
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Something nauseating about that one.....
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I would be pissed if I were Schubert, definitely not a good angle.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/4c61fab9-a4a2-afc6.jpg)
Did Mehta guest host the Lawrence Welk show
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I actually have that LP. The first Berlioz recording I ever bought, so help me God.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/a693799f-9016-9ea9.jpg)
Worse than the Eye of Sauron, it's the Head of Richard.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/a693799f-9016-9ea9.jpg)
Worse than the Eye of Sauron, it's the Head of Richard.
Holy shit! We've seen some bad ones, but this really takes the cake for total lack of taste and judgement.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/a693799f-9016-9ea9.jpg)
Worse than the Eye of Sauron, it's the Head of Richard.
Yeah, that's just...ah...well....bad.
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http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Details.aspx?CatalogueNumber=I7%200352
Chandos is kindly offering this for half-price this hour.
(http://i.imgur.com/abGQW.jpg)
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http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Details.aspx?CatalogueNumber=I7%200352
Chandos is kindly offering this for half-price this hour.
(http://i.imgur.com/abGQW.jpg)
As a well known and fitting Romanian joke goes: dude, your wife has run away! ;D
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Come on Jeff, play it cool... 8)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61YqKTxqd6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Come on Jeff, play it cool... 8)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61YqKTxqd6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
All he's missing is a sifter of brandy.
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well, they're happy...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61wufFSGjEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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well, they're happy...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61wufFSGjEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Oh my, and I always loved Sarah Walker's Dejanira on the Gardiner recording.
I will try to not to link this image with her great singing :-X
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how many pictures of myself can I squeeze on a cover I wonder... let's try 10, shall we....
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41171Q9E9BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
that's where searching amazon classical CD for £0.50 to £ 0.70 takes you, people.... be warned... :-X
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Merry christmas....time to be jolly and all that... ;D
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Q2yVDtI2L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Merry christmas....time to be jolly and all that... ;D
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41aPxCvHHVL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61sPLg05hAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
I am scared, I am scarred... both...not sure any more.... ;D
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ok... try dapper...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5174WJ7F4HL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61sPLg05hAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
I am scared, I am scarred... both...not sure any more.... ;D
I sure would like to hear that: yodelling Mozart and Strauss :-X
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errr.....
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61nRn0b2PqL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZHCCNPjgL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ZHCCNPjgL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Cleaning out the closet, eh papy? You've Got Gold in them thar crawlspace boxes! ;) ;D
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how many pictures of myself can I squeeze on a cover I wonder... let's try 10, shall we....
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41171Q9E9BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
that's where searching amazon classical CD for £0.50 to £ 0.70 takes you, people.... be warned... :-X
10?? What about 20?
(http://classicvinyl.com/files/images/1234e_0.jpg)
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:-*
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Here, let me take care of that itch for you.
(http://i.prs.to/t_200/sony82876873822.jpg)
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ok... try dapper...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5174WJ7F4HL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
His (failed) audition photo for Cutthroat Island?
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FPpiWNARTt4/THN42681qOI/AAAAAAAAMA8/MC1mym9jKnc/s400/Muti1.jpg)
Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
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10?? What about 20?
(http://classicvinyl.com/files/images/1234e_0.jpg)
touché.
;D
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FPpiWNARTt4/THN42681qOI/AAAAAAAAMA8/MC1mym9jKnc/s400/Muti1.jpg)
Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
An orchestra you can't refuse.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/4c61fab9-7e24-ad50.jpg)
"I'm sorry, what did you say?"
"Yeah, yeah, but what are their names?"
"I'm also huge fan of Breastein."
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/4c61fab9-7e24-ad50.jpg)
"I'm sorry, what did you say?"
"Yeah, yeah, but what are their names?"
"I'm also huge fan of Breastein."
In addition to Breastein, I'm also a fan of Boober.
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In addition to Breastein, I'm also a fan of Boober.
Samuel Boober, Leonard Breastein, Benjamin Titten, Aaron Copfeel, Charles T. Boobies, Roger Milfer.
...I'm rather fond of "Benjamin Titten."
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ok... try dapper...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5174WJ7F4HL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
All he needs is a patch over his eye, a parrot on his shoulder, a bandana around his head, and he'll be ready to say "Shiver me timbers." :D
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xjd8gzOqL._SL500_AA350_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51prKxymxxL._SL500_AA350_.jpg)
Goerne is very mad, then he's just worn out and has a headache from yelling. The whole time Brendel couldn't give a shit.
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And if you notice, the Brendel images were all from the same photo shoot (unless he wore that sweater and shirt a heck of a lot).
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51462ttuUKL._SL500_AA350_.jpg)
Yep, still angry.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xjd8gzOqL._SL500_AA350_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51prKxymxxL._SL500_AA350_.jpg)
Goerne is very mad, then he's just worn out and has a headache from yelling. The whole time Brendel couldn't give a shit.
Indeed, the covers are amusing. I have the disk on the right and it is among my favorites. Not even PI.... :)
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Here's one that doesn't really work well.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Djl6ezSQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Here's one that doesn't really work well.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Djl6ezSQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
If his name was Graham Casket the imagery might work better.
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Here's one that doesn't really work well.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Djl6ezSQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Lemme guess - artist's own label?
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This must be a serious contender:
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a serious contender of what?
(http://www.eyeballpress.com/Henry/RichardMiller.jpg)
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This must be a serious contender:
a serious contender of what?
(http://www.eyeballpress.com/Henry/RichardMiller.jpg)
HAHAHAHAHA!!! :D :D :D
SERIOUSLY!,... oh, just sitting there at the organ,... ahhh,...
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Back of Little Richard Miller album:
(http://media.sdreader.com/img/blogs/entry_img/2011/May/25/wtfz51_t620.jpg?fbf2daa044e08a86b24c9c38cd7501865a0e2373)
Not sure if this one was already posted:
(http://media.sdreader.com/img/blogs/entry_img/2011/May/25/wtfz85_t620.jpg?fbf2daa044e08a86b24c9c38cd7501865a0e2373)
Lots of great album covers here:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session/2011/may/25/worst-album-covers-of-all-time/ (http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/jam-session/2011/may/25/worst-album-covers-of-all-time/)
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a serious contender of what?
(http://www.eyeballpress.com/Henry/RichardMiller.jpg)
Back in my Southern Baptist churchgoing days (late 60s-early 70s) he (or someone like him) once played at our church.
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Haw. Disabled people are funny.
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Haw. Disabled people are funny.
well you know, if they are in a car park with an organ under the title "jesus uses me" and an oval with the face of jesus they could be funny too.
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I LOVE that cover. The colors are so '70s,... it reminds me of the 'simpler' times,... ahhhh,...
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:D
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FPpiWNARTt4/SPdW-ZHg4-I/AAAAAAAAFV8/PiKKF9m55Cc/s400/innocentear.jpg)
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(Were only it real.)
(http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/ministers-quartet-let-me-touch-him.jpg)
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:D
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FPpiWNARTt4/SPdW-ZHg4-I/AAAAAAAAFV8/PiKKF9m55Cc/s400/innocentear.jpg)
Breaking news!
Research has confirmed that Beethoven's head was a D-cup!
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The last two are hilarious - thank you. :D
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Tony, you're an animal!
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Okay, one can't do anything about it if the opera itself was staged this way. Still, I can't help reeling back with disgust when this pops up every now and then at the top banner. Was there a mention or discussion about this recording recently?
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Where did they get that picture of me?
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Where did they get that picture of me?
In The Shed, of course.
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What happens in The Shed is supposed to stay in The Shed.
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What happens in The Shed is supposed to stay in The Shed.
And all the clothes that you shed for that shot are still there, apparently.
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If that little donkey says anything it's a damn lie!
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What happens in The Shed is supposed to stay in The Shed.
The Shed contains All; so, yes: it has stayed in the Shed : )
Where did they get that picture of me?
Roz, white courtesy telephone, please . . . .
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(http://gregscottmoeller.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/orpheus-white.jpg?w=500&h=500)
How lame, Paavo has to get his face everywhere these days, as if his mug on every CSO disc wasn't enough, now he's on Orpheus CO covers.
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(http://gregscottmoeller.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/orpheus-white.jpg?w=500&h=500)
How lame, Paavo has to get his face everywhere these days, as if his mug on every CSO disc wasn't enough, now he's on Orpheus CO covers.
Am I the only one who thinks it's weird how the shirt is cutoff?
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Am I the only one who thinks it's weird how the shirt is cutoff?
You are all too precise on this forum.
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You are all too precise on this forum.
I'm just saying......there's nothing else on that cover, they could have stretched the photo, or even put a border up.
EDIT: That's not a real CD cover?
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If that little donkey says anything it's a damn lie!
Welcome to Minnesota, where men are men and sheep are terrified!
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EDIT: That's not a real CD cover?
Incredibly, the real cover is ALSO a portrait of Paavo Jarvi.
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Incredibly, the real cover is ALSO a portrait of Paavo Jarvi.
Haha!
I'm just saying......there's nothing else on that cover, they could have stretched the photo, or even put a border up.
they = me ;D
just a quick little patch job for shits & giggles
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Haha!
they = me ;D
just a quick little patch job for shits & giggles
That went right over my head. ha (way to look stupid Paul!)
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Paul, the give-away was a conductor, for the conductor-less Orpheus Ch Orch ; )
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Paul, the give-away was a conductor, for the conductor-less Orpheus Ch Orch ; )
BINGO!
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EDIT: That's not a real CD cover?
Welcome to GMG; the place "where nothing is real". Nothing to get hung about.
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Welcome to GMG; the place "where nothing is real". Nothing to get hung about.
Amazon spending forever.
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(http://gregscottmoeller.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/orpheus-white.jpg?w=500&h=500)
How lame, Paavo has to get his face everywhere these days, as if his mug on every CSO disc wasn't enough, now he's on Orpheus CO covers.
"The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a top-notch group of talented musicians that can convey the emotion and passion behind any work they perform. Unfortunately, the only thing this group lacks is, me. And that's a damn shame." -Paavo Jarvi, quoted sometime at some bar.
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Okay, one can't do anything about it if the opera itself was staged this way. Still, I can't help reeling back with disgust when this pops up every now and then at the top banner. Was there a mention or discussion about this recording recently?
Lis (uffeviking) has it, but didn't like it much. She didn't write about it here, as far as I can find, but did write about it at my forum (http://operafriendsinexile.yuku.com/reply/20297/Electrifying-Trovatore-in-Brussels#reply-20297). Yes, the thread's about a Trovatore in Brussels, but that's where she wrote about the Don Giovanni.
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"Hey! You wanna shut up while I'm playin'?"
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VehEKvLqL._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-6VjwFRHL.jpg)
Rather looks like he was preparing to perform the hammer in the Sixth himself.
But now I'll go hunt it up, since it seems interesting. I can always paste a pretty picture on the cover...
ETA: ordered it off Amazon. I wonder how often this thread produces a purchase!
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I quite like the Mitropoulos one.
OTOH, I know that divas can be high maintenance, but this chick takes it into Courtney Love territory.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VehEKvLqL._SS500_.jpg)
"If you betray me, I will CUT YOUR BALLS OFF!!!"
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I quite like the Mitropoulos one.
OTOH, I know that divas can be high maintenance, but this chick takes it into Courtney Love territory.
"If you betray me, I will CUT YOUR BALLS OFF!!!"
The many faces of Ms. Deneterova...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Zy5xY512L._SS350_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jZ5dFB1-L._SL600_AA400_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519cKuGBL3L.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VehEKvLqL._SS350_.jpg)
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The many faces of Ms. Deneterova...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Zy5xY512L._SS350_.jpg)
I actually have this, picked up from a bargain bin, but have never actually listened to it. Just can't work up the interest.
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"Hey! You wanna shut up while I'm playin'?"
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VehEKvLqL._SS500_.jpg)
Caption is spot-on. I don't know what it is doing in this thread. I think it is the best album cover I have seen in a long time.
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What were they thinking?
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What were they thinking?
Eight
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Eight
This is probably on the back cover for String Symphony No. 10.
(http://thirdwayliving.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/two-hands.jpg)
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Yes. On the same kind of opaque reference to numbers on covers, here is the cover for the next album I have made for my friend Hans Rott. >:D
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XJ2EmSPmQo8/UBXxpcKS50I/AAAAAAAAAF8/uPSAJiq4jS0/s512/Publication3.jpg)
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Yep, it's her.
The power of Cecilia compels you to buy this album.
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Yep, it's her.
The power of Cecilia compels you to buy this album.
Vade retro, Satanas ! ;D
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Yep, it's her.
The power of Cecilia compels you to buy this album.
How is this anyone's idea of "crossover"?
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How is this anyone's idea of "crossover"?
Is it?
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Yep, it's her.
The power of Cecilia compels you to buy this album.
If I order it, I will order it in a plain, brown wrapper.
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Is it?
Interesting question, one which may be answered by the description at Amazon (depending on your view of what crossover is):
Autumn 2012 marks the release of Mission, a sensational release from the world s best-selling classical artist Cecilia Bartoli and a project with international politics, religious conflict, diplomatic secrecy, spying and sensational music at its heart.
Following the exceptional artistic and commercial success of 2009 s Sacrificium (which earned Cecilia her fifth Grammy award), Cecilia Bartoli now turns to the early baroque period for the first time in her recording career and uncovers a treasure of beautiful music in an album almost entirely composed of world premiere recordings.
Limited-edition 25K
Hardcover book presentation
172 page booklet (which will not be reproduced when the jewel version comes out later) including historical essay and complete album notes and libretto
The album showcases the music of little-known Italian composer Agostino Steffani (1654 1728), and will include solo arias of various moods and styles, several duets, solo numbers with chorus - all sung in Italian - and instrumental interludes that create an organic transition from one piece to the next and an arc that reaches from the beginning to the end of the album.
Steffani s story is mysterious at the very least; his name is largely absent from studies of Italian music despite holding senior court positions during his lifetime and contemporary accounts acknowledging him as one of the greatest opera composers of the period and the acknowledged master of the vocal duet (Colin Timms, author of the booklet note).
Such was the appeal of the project that longtime Bartoli admirer and global best-selling author Donna Leon decided to write a mystery novel - Jewels of Paradise - to accompany Cecilia s album, which uses the mystery surrounding the composer s story as the centre of its plot. Jewels of Paradise will be released simultaneously with Cecilia Bartoli s album in English (UK and USA), German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan.
Among the distinguished names appearing on Mission is star French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky who features in a first-time collaboration with Cecilia on a selection of duets, alongside the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, the period orchestra I Barocchisti from Lugano, Switzerland, and conductor Diego Fasolis.
A cinematographic vision of the album directed by Olivier Simonnet and filmed in the historic Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and in the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles will be available on DVD and for TV broadcast later in the year.
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Interesting question, one which may be answered by the description at Amazon (depending on your view of what crossover is):
I'm so happy this new disc is about mystery, not about music. Saves me some money. And an ugly cover to scare me.
It seems the music industry is continually reaching new lows.
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I'm so happy this new disc is about mystery, not about music.
The fact that much of this early music hasn't been recorded before is certainly of interest. The fact that a Da Vinci Code-style tie-in was thought a good idea is another matter - though in the end I think it's all harmless fun.
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Interesting question, one which may be answered by the description at Amazon (depending on your view of what crossover is):
The cover was weird enough that I read all that before posting the image. This recording just has a few hefty add-ons, that's all; the music is still "regular" classical, from what I can gauge.
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The fact that much of this early music hasn't been recorded before is certainly of interest.
Yes, but unfortunately I'm one of those put off purchasing stuff if the marketing is too stupid.
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Yes, but unfortunately I'm one of those put off purchasing stuff if the marketing is too stupid.
Sometimes terrible marketing can results in, after a couple of months, very cheap CDs! You just need to have a strong stomach regarding the covers.
Reminds me of that book Lebrecht wrote about the death of the record industry, in which he named the Worst Record of All Time as being "Mahler for Dummies". The thing is, I actually have that CD (it was a cutout in a bargain bin) and as a newcomer to Mahler I actually found it quite valuable. It contained complete movements in creditable performances. There was some "multimedia" content, but I didn't bother with that. But as I recall Lebrecht's chief objection was in fact not to the content, or the purpose, of the CD but to its title. It was the Worst Record of All Time because of its title.
Gee, can we all spend a few minutes ranting about what an idiot that Lebrecht is? >:D ;)
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... It seems the music industry is continually reaching new lows.
Dude, you're forgetting the abysmal old lows!
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Gee, can we all spend a few minutes ranting about what an idiot that Lebrecht is? >:D ;)
He's utterly not worth the time.
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Yep, it's her.
The power of Cecilia compels you to buy this album.
Oh... I... did... not... NEEEEEEED to see that!! :o :'(
Aye, and after the 'Matrix' guy,... I mean, girl,... aye :-\
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It seems the intention is attract Bartoli fans to Donna Leon, and vice versa. I don't see a problem with that.
And the cover is not half as scary as the one on Sacrificium.
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It seems the intention is attract Bartoli fans to Donna Leon, and vice versa. I don't see a problem with that.
And the cover is not half as scary as the one on Sacrificium.
No, she looks like the overtaken priest in 'The Exorcist VII: The Transgender Nun',... I mean,... really!! ::)
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It seems the intention is attract Bartoli fans to Donna Leon,
Good books. I prefer Brunetti to Bartoli.
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This poor man.
(http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Aug12/Antony%20Hopkins_A%20Portrait%20Divine%20Art_dda21217.jpg)
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I just saw these on the Recently Discussed banner:
Stephen Hawking plays Bach???
The stuff of nightmares....
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This poor man.
(http://musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Aug12/Antony%20Hopkins_A%20Portrait%20Divine%20Art_dda21217.jpg)
yumpin' yimminy!! :o
I love those old Laurel cds which look like they were made with cardboard. This one looks like a school project, haha!! Poor guy.
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Yep, it's her.
The power of Cecilia compels you to buy this album.
Aye! :-X Just this morning, on the way to work, the French CBC classical music station played a piece by Steffani, with Bartoli singing. The music and singing was lovely.
Although this ridiculous cover alone would put me off of purchasing it. My word! ???
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Perhaps this one was posted already, but it is worth reposting! :-\
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Not pretty:
(http://media.mdt.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/O/C/OC858.jpg)
but the blurb on mdt's new releases page is much, much worse:
Alexander Maria Wagner, piano
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra / Alexei Kornienko,
Wagner has composed the most amazing work that say this heaven-storming adolescents and write fourteen years, his first symphony for full orchestra titled "Power Plant". This young man to predict a great future is almost an understatement and that the pianist Alexander M. Wagner the composer in no way inferior to prove this, in February rehearsed piano recordings of the now sixteen.
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What's it all about, Alfie?
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Wagner has composed the most amazing work that say this heaven-storming adolescents and write fourteen years, his first symphony for full orchestra titled "Power Plant". This young man to predict a great future is almost an understatement and that the pianist Alexander M. Wagner the composer in no way inferior to prove this, in February rehearsed piano recordings of the now sixteen.
It's easy to guess where that came from (http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/Das%20erstaunlichste%20Werk%2C%20das%20dieser%20himmelst%C3%BCrmende%20Jugendliche%20mit%20sage%20und%20schreibe%20vierzehn%20Jahren%20komponiert%20hat%2C%20ist%20seine%20erste%20Sinfonie%20f%C3%BCr%20gro%C3%9Fes%20Orchester%20mit%20dem%20Titel%20%E2%80%9EKraftwerk%E2%80%9C.%20Diesem%20jungen%20Mann%20eine%20gro%C3%9Fe%20Zukunft%20zu%20prophezeien%2C%20ist%20schon%20fast%20ein%20Understatement%20und%20dass%20der%20Pianist%20Alexander%20M.%20Wagner%20dem%20Komponisten%20in%20nichts%20nachsteht%2C%20beweisen%20die%20vorliegenden%2C%20im%20Februar%20eingespielten%20Klavieraufnahmen%20des%20inzwischen%20Sechzehnj%C3%A4hrigen.). ;)
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Oh yes, and so I did, but why in God's name didn't Oehms take the trouble to provide the disc with a correctly translated threeliner for international release? it's not that it would take more than two minutes to provide it.
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The above blurb was composed using the methods of John Cage :P
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The above blurb was composed using the methods of John Cage :P
I would have preferred 4'33'' of silence. Or the printed equivalent.
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Oh yes, and so I did, but why in God's name didn't Oehms take the trouble to provide the disc with a correctly translated threeliner for international release? it's not that it would take more than two minutes to provide it.
Oehms is not to blame for this.
http://www.oehmsclassics.de/cd.php?formatid=572&sprache=eng
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Very brave of Uchida to use her mug shots as album covers.
I actually don't think these are awful at all, just made me laugh this morning going through some of my Uchida discs and noticing the "now turn your head for the next cover."
And I adore her Schubert.
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Very brave of Uchida to use her mug shots as album covers.
Ha! Your post reminds me of these, which I happened on while seeking a copy of Dohnanyi's M5 this morning:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61qhM5hf3AL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2B3EIMXnUL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BHrkj0Z9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61bJMuMWBrL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Ha! Your post reminds me of these, which I happened on while seeking a copy of Dohnanyi's M5 this morning:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61qhM5hf3AL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2B3EIMXnUL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BHrkj0Z9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61bJMuMWBrL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Just a touch of photoshop to change the suit color a little, distort the background, and bam! New cover.
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Ha! Your post reminds me of these, which I happened on while seeking a copy of Dohnanyi's M5 this morning:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61qhM5hf3AL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2B3EIMXnUL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BHrkj0Z9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61bJMuMWBrL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
I think it is a shame that often conductors appear as the main feature on front covers. It completely gives the wrong impression of the music within and does nothing to entice Classical newbies to listen to them. Niether does it say anything about the actual composer. It is as ludicrous as a photo of Stephen Kings publishing editor on the front of 'Carrie'...
Carrie yesterday
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mpBGa4P5jUo/Sqo8dyYq27I/AAAAAAAADsU/0yNSAQdWULc/s400/carrie1.jpg)
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The Classical Music Industry is full of... uh,... non-photogenic people! How do they figure?,... I mean, the whole Pop Music Industry is built on photogenicisms (woah now!!),... they would NEVER put an Uchida, Dohnayni, or Levine on an album cover. NO WONDER Classical Music sales are low! Who wants to see a dogface on their Mahler, LvB, or whatever? Especially since the classical folks seem prone to ridiculous expressions,... oy!! ::)
I always thought it humorous that the album says 'MAHLER' (or whatever) in big huge letters, but then it is (say) Levine's ridiculous jewfro that we are given... kind of Pavlovian, no?
I want breasts! Big breasts! And lots of 'em!! ;) Breasts will sell Shostakovich's 7th,... I'm sure of it! ::)
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[Spit drink out at jewfro]
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Not strictly the topic . . . not the worst-looking, probably, but certainly the wrong cover artwork:
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Not strictly the topic . . . not the worst-looking, probably, but certainly the wrong cover artwork:
Vivaldi has never looked so good.
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Not strictly the topic . . . not the worst-looking, probably, but certainly the wrong cover artwork:
Girlfight? I donno...Vivaldi probably waded into more than a few girlfights at the orphanage!
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I want breasts! Big breasts! And lots of 'em!! ;) Breasts will sell Shostakovich's 7th,... I'm sure of it! ::)
No.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-bdtlSj4sj-0/UFi4OuOZEPI/AAAAAAAAALY/VqRgL6KGfhk/s512/Publication3.jpg)
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"Dinsdale!" . . .
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He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks: dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and ... satire. He was vicious. Vicious, but fair.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61A1FF1-mJL._SL550_AA350_.jpg)
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The problem here is subtle, but as a cellist it makes me feel queasy. Puts me off listening to the discs, which is a shame. I managed to get past that today and actually listen to the music inside, for which I am thankful as
Daniel Shafran narfahS leinaD is just superb.
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I want breasts! Big breasts! And lots of 'em!! ;) Breasts will sell Shostakovich's 7th,... I'm sure of it! ::)
If I wasn't at work right now I would so be using MS Paint to make this album cover.
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...Levine's ridiculous jewfro...
What about Rattle's Anglofro?
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I want breasts! Big breasts! And lots of 'em!! ;) Breasts will sell Shostakovich's 7th,... I'm sure of it! ::)
If I wasn't at work right now I would so be using MS Paint to make this album cover.
Here you go:
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Sarge
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And they're real. 8)
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And they're real. 8)
Indeed. The photographer is known for using only natural models.
Sarge
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We want each breast tattooed with the opening marking for the respective movement: Allegretto, Moderato (poco allegretto), Adagio, and Allegro non troppo.
The idea of a breast marked Cheerful, but not too much . . . .
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What about Rattle's Anglofro?
My step brother had a most ridiculous anglofro in the '70s... who's that guy on The Simpsons?
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Here you go:
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ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE!! :D :D :D
You know,... you... know...
...ah, what... was... I saying? ???
I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!!
(finally... it worked. Bwa-ha-ha-ha,... soon I'll get them to Post pics of...)
Wow, I need a nurse! :o
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Here you go:
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Sarge
By far the breast version I've ever heard, or seen.
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The liberated Soviet female! Down with capitalism!
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Wow, I need a nurse! :o
That outfit would be appropriate for a cover of Shosty's 7th, too.
Idle wondering: why exactly are there so few women on this forum ?
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The problem here is subtle, but as a cellist it makes me feel queasy. Puts me off listening to the discs, which is a shame. I managed to get past that today and actually listen to the music inside, for which I am thankful as Daniel Shafran narfahS leinaD is just superb.
Problem, schroblem. He's merely a nice Jewish boy who learned to play 'cello in Hebrew.
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(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/VICTORIA-LOOSELEAF-Harpnosis-LP-Godess-GO-001-/00/$(KGrHqUOKikE3HdbyVp8BNynyeECM!~~_35.JPG)
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(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/VICTORIA-LOOSELEAF-Harpnosis-LP-Godess-GO-001-/00/$(KGrHqUOKikE3HdbyVp8BNynyeECM!~~_35.JPG)
Seemed a good idea at the time . . . .
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Idle wondering: why exactly are there so few women on this forum ?
The only coherent theory on that belongs to Josquin des Prez (the poster, not the composer)... but as someone once put it, coherence leads to madness. ;D
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Problem, schroblem. He's merely a nice Jewish boy who learned to play 'cello in Hebrew.
;D
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(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/VICTORIA-LOOSELEAF-Harpnosis-LP-Godess-GO-001-/00/$(KGrHqUOKikE3HdbyVp8BNynyeECM!~~_35.JPG)
Looks like an assignment from high school art class.
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The only coherent theory on that belongs to Josquin des Prez (the poster, not the composer)... but as someone once put it, coherence leads to madness. ;D
I was referring to the new Shosty artwork :P
JdP isn't around anymore, though - something we can always be grateful of, I suppose. Perhaps JdP is/was not part of the solution, but of the problem, though.
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I was referring to the new Shosty artwork :P
JdP isn't around anymore, though - something we can always be grateful of, I suppose. Perhaps JdP is/was not part of the solution, but of the problem, though.
Why there aren't more women? Mouth breathers.
As to the disappearance of JdP, I sincerely doubt grateful is a term I'd use.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UJ0nQZIZL._SL550_AA350_.jpg)
This was listed at the Amazon.com new releases here on GMG, it startled me, made me cry.
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As to the disappearance of JdP, I sincerely doubt grateful is a term I'd use.
When he wrote about music, he was worthwhile.
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When he wrote about music, he was worthwhile.
I think he was worthwhile as a whole. He was articulated in expression, firm in convictions and always polite even when his opponents were burying him under a heap of insults and ridicule. Sometimes I really miss him.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UJ0nQZIZL._SL550_AA350_.jpg)
This was listed at the Amazon.com new releases here on GMG, it startled me, made me cry.
Jeremy Renner as the famous male ballerina, Caputchik.
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I think he was worthwhile as a whole. He was articulated in expression, firm in convictions and always polite even when his opponents were burying him under a heap of insults and ridicule. Sometimes I really miss him.
He was never polite, and I have a feeling that even he would take issue with that sort of characterization.
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Jeremy Renner as the famous male ballerina, Caputchik.
I was thinking more, Chris Kattan.
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He was never polite, and I have a feeling that even he would take issue with that sort of characterization.
As if you'd know what being polite means...
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Mouth breathers.
What is this expression? 'Mouth breathers?' It is as strange as a shining coal. What does it mean? It has the air of offence in it, but I can't figure it. I've seen you use it more than once, so I hope you can quell my curiosity over its meaning. :-\ I may be mouth breathing myself, I just want to check. :P
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As if you'd know what being polite means...
You would be correct in your assertion of my understanding when it comes to matters of decorum.
What is this expression? 'Mouth breathers?' It is as strange as a shining coal. What does it mean? It has the air of offence in it, but I can't figure it. I've seen you use it more than once, so I hope you can quell my curiosity over its meaning. :-\ I may be mouth breathing myself, I just want to check. :P
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mouthbreather
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Women tend to find being smug know-it-alls considerably less satisfying than men do.
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Re the word Mouthbreathers. I was right. "It IS offensive!" he breathed.
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Women tend to find being smug know-it-alls considerably less satisfying than men do.
No they don't...
8)
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So you're a ladies man, Gurn? ;)
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So you're a ladies man, Gurn? ;)
No, I'm a smug know-it-all. Generally speaking, however, the ladies are rather more fond of me than not. 0:)
8)
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No, I'm a smug know-it-all. Generally speaking, however, the ladies are rather more fond of me than not. 0:)
8)
If that was remark was in reference to me, I have to also say that the women and men are quite fond of me as well.
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Friends, bad cover art, that's all, just bad cover art. ;D
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(http://images.thegauntlet.com/pics/abruptum-band.gif)
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No they don't...
8)
Ah. Sorry. On reflection, perhaps I should have said they much prefer to do it in person.
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And this one:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618Dgxwoj7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Terrible.
Just terrible.
(Maybe I can find a larger image so we can study it more closely.)
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And this one:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618Dgxwoj7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Terrible.
Just terrible.
(Maybe I can find a larger image so we can study it more closely.)
If this is a Josephine Baker tribute (which I think it is); it lacks a banana.
That would be right up........the alley for this site.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618Dgxwoj7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mC%2BYqE4UL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Better?
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Unfortunately, this caught my eye in the new releases ribbon.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zExzpCxWL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Some guys really need to be told the '80s are over.
He also needs to be told that casting for rejected semi-evil elves in Lord of the Rings is over.
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Unfortunately, this caught my eye in the new releases ribbon.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zExzpCxWL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Some guys really need to be told the '80s are over.
Give the guy a break. He just got disqualified from the Einstein lookalike competition by the judge standing next to him for not having a moustache.
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And this one:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618Dgxwoj7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Terrible.
Just terrible.
(Maybe I can find a larger image so we can study it more closely.)
These photos you are posting are unquestionably the most offensive pictures I have ever seen on GMG. To prove my point, I purchased a magnifying glass from a Taiwan importer to examine the picture in higher resolution and detail, covering it all over a deliberately long time, thereby being able to asses the psychological frustrations you have placed before your fellow GMG'ers.
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Heterosexual men. ::)
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These photos you are posting are unquestionably the most offensive pictures I have ever seen on GMG. To prove my point, I purchased a magnifying glass from a Taiwan importer to examine the picture in higher resolution and detail, covering it all over a deliberately long time, thereby being able to asses the psychological frustrations you have placed before your fellow GMG'ers.
Hi John - I posted a LARGER image of this cover art in another thread; unfortunately, the clothing obscures the underlying anatomic details - RATS! Dave ;D
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Hi John - I posted a LARGER image of this cover art in another thread; unfortunately, the clothing obscures the underlying anatomic details - RATS! Dave ;D
As a physician your interest is doubtless purely professional.
I'm still wondering how the record company got hold of that photo of my wife...?
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As a physician your interest is doubtless purely professional.
Well, despite being a radiologist, I don't have xray vision unfortunately! :( ;D
I'm still wondering how the record company got hold of that photo of my wife...?
Lucky man! :D Dave
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He also needs to be told that casting for rejected semi-evil elves in Lord of the Rings is over.
No, he looks like a wet puppy from a Sarah MacLacklan(sic) video, HA HA ;D
He's playing the girl poodle in the Broadway version of 'Dogs'.
An old metal friend of mine used to talk about metal players, and say, if the metal player was losing his hair (say, David lee Roth), he would say, Boy, he's got PROBLEMS. Haha,... not about the music sucking,... but that IS what these guys HAVE TO be conscious of, and eventually get a haircut, or they risk looking like this guy, who really is channelling Klaus Meine(sic?) of the Scorpions.
Hair is very, very important!!
Currently, the genes on the 'hair' side of the family, and 'bald' side, have been duking it out. I have the two 'solar panels' on either side, with a nice 'landing strip' in the middle (no, not THAT kind, haha). I can not really wear my hair in rock star fashion any longer and am trying to come up with a style that will work FOR me, haha. Work it, work it!!
God smote with with no side burns, so my options are limited.
http://menwholooklikeoldlesbians.blogspot.com/
I can only pray I don't end up here.
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And this one:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/618Dgxwoj7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Terrible.
Just terrible.
(Maybe I can find a larger image so we can study it more closely.)
Errrmmm... what's wrong with that? ???
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Errrmmm... what's wrong with that? ???
I have spent hours scrutinizing it with high resolution equipment Andre, and I find nothing wrong with it. :P
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The gentleman (?) at the piano is probably not Edith Farnaby (who is the pianist playing on the disc), nor is the lady (singer?) standing in front. There is a cover credit for the candelabra, however.
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The gentleman (?) at the piano is probably not Edith Farnaby (who is the pianist playing on the disc), nor is the lady (singer?) standing in front. There is a cover credit for the candelabra, however.
Well, should be a 'guy' @ the piano staring at that buxom gal, but the one who comes to mind w/ a candelabra doesn't fit the role! ;) ;D
(http://content8.flixster.com/photo/12/98/53/12985342_ori.jpg)
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Sorry - server issue w/ my post duplicated - UGHH!
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Well, should be a 'guy' @ the piano staring at that buxom gal, but the one who comes to mind w/ a candelabra doesn't fit the role! ;) ;D
A quite
... which is why I put the ? A quite mystifying combination which I won't dwell on. vide Hans Conreid's attire* in my avatar.
*from Dr. Seuss' Dr.T
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The gentleman (?) at the piano is probably not Edith Farnaby (who is the pianist playing on the disc), nor is the lady (singer?) standing in front. There is a cover credit for the candelabra, however.
Is she at least Hungarian?
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Is she at least Hungarian?
Edith Farnadi born in Budapest, started her studies at the age of seven at the Budapest Academy with Arnold Szekely, graduated at the age of seventeen, and became a professor there. The cover babe is unidentified. The candelabra is courtesy of Plummer Inc.
I don't have the other two discs of the set.
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Ah. I meant the 'cover babe'.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cMKXrlAlL._SL550_AA350_.jpg)
Here's a good caption-filler cover...
"Guess what magic I hold in my hands?" -spoken in his Gandalf-voice impression
"My hands stink of onions."
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cMKXrlAlL._SL550_AA350_.jpg)
Here's a good caption-filler cover...
"Guess what magic I hold in my hands?" -spoken in his Gandalf-voice impression
"My hands stink of onions."
Hmmm...I thought his hands stunk of a new moisturizer that he purchased from a Mary Kay saleswoman? :-\
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cMKXrlAlL._SL550_AA350_.jpg)
Here's a good caption-filler cover...
"Guess what magic I hold in my hands?" -spoken in his Gandalf-voice impression
"My hands stink of onions."
She kinda pretty, but needs to let her hair grow out. 8)
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BIS makes some really beautiful covers, a few of the very best, which makes it all the weirder when they poop out something like this:
(http://i.prs.to/t_200/bisbis1773.jpg)
Heck, check out their new releases gallery (http://bis.se/index.php) and this sticks out like a fat kid in husky jeans at a black tie cocktail reception.
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BIS makes some really beautiful covers, a few of the very best, which makes it all the weirder when they poop out something like this:
(http://i.prs.to/t_200/bisbis1773.jpg)
Heck, check out their new releases gallery (http://bis.se/index.php) and this sticks out like a fat kid in husky jeans at a black tie cocktail reception.
Haha, all that's missing is a burning cigarette dangling from his fingers. ???
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BIS makes some really beautiful covers, a few of the very best, which makes it all the weirder when they poop out something like this:
(http://i.prs.to/t_200/bisbis1773.jpg)
Heck, check out their new releases gallery (http://bis.se/index.php) and this sticks out like a fat kid in husky jeans at a black tie cocktail reception.
I find the real creativity of this cover to be in the fading letters of "Pavane", suggesting that the viewer, perhaps similar to the cover's subject, will doze off during the performance.
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Asleep? Looks more like "dead".
As in Pavane for a dead prince(ss).
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Headless...torso-less...arms in limbo...I guess there's a dream there somewhere...
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Asleep? Looks more like "dead".
Sequel to Weekend at Bernie's, Weekend at Maxim's, culminating in a performance of Cage 4'33.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/11/07/equdy5ed.jpg)
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I've been having a pain in my shoulder for some time now...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iNsM-lyNL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
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I like that one!
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I like that one!
I agree with Scarpia. It suggests to me a nice civilized 21st century start of the day--checking email and Facebook and GMG while drinking the morning coffee and listening to good music.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/11/14/3asu2uvu.jpg).
"Surprise! Guess who?!"
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/11/14/eja7e7ub.jpg).
"You know who."
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/11/14/abu7ehuv.jpg).
"I love column."
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/11/14/3asu2uvu.jpg).
"Surprise! Guess who?!"
Or: ”Are you tired of string sections that play with a vibrato this wide?”
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I agree with Scarpia. It suggests to me a nice civilized 21st century start of the day--checking email and Facebook and GMG while drinking the morning coffee and listening to good music.
The design is not horrible, but it looks like what it is: a stock photograph with a picture of C.P.E. Bach photoshopped onto the computer screen. I just think as a rule it's not a good idea to incorporate recent technology into a design for something that will be purchased several years from now. It dates.
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The design is not horrible, but it looks like what it is: a stock photograph with a picture of C.P.E. Bach photoshopped onto the computer screen. I just think as a rule it's not a good idea to incorporate recent technology into a design for something that will be purchased several years from now. It dates.
Guess what! Volume 2 is on the way and it replaces that oldfangled computer with an iPad.
(http://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/CD98.653.jpg)
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Either that is a tiny iPad, or those earphones are massive!
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The design is not horrible, but it looks like what it is: a stock photograph with a picture of C.P.E. Bach photoshopped onto the computer screen. I just think as a rule it's not a good idea to incorporate recent technology into a design for something that will be purchased several years from now. It dates.
Exactly, that's why JSB didn't put a picture of a Harpsichord on the cover of the clavierubung.
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Exactly, that's why JSB didn't put a picture of a Harpsichord on the cover of the clavierubung.
There's a difference in that people are still using and restoring harpsichords, while computers made only 10 years ago (or less!) are lying in a scrap heap.
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There's a difference in that people are still using and restoring harpsichords, while computers made only 10 years ago (or less!) are lying in a scrap heap.
Maybe in 300 years historically informed gamers will be restoring IBM XT's to play Super Mario Brothers.
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Maybe in 300 years historically informed gamers will be restoring IBM XT's to play Super Mario Brothers.
The period computer movement has already begun! (http://www.vintage-computer.com/)
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I loves me some Norrington, but the man looks more like a wacky comedian in most of his covers rather than a conductor.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61NQDiiD3vL._AA300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518WQfik6PL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
I loves me some Norrington, but the man looks more like a wacky comedian in most of his covers rather than a conductor.
Thanks for tuning in ladies and gentlemen to the Laugh Hour starring Roger Norrington and this man:
(http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/10/SimonRattle021008_450x371.jpg)
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Maybe in 300 years historically informed gamers will be restoring IBM XT's to play Super Mario Brothers.
Stop presenting counter-examples and just admit I'm right!!
;D
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Happy times at the undertakers convention...
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That is a really good recording - maybe my favorite recording of the Bartok sonata for two pianos and percussion.
I believe you that the recording is good...the cover design however........
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Here you go:
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This is great. As much as I like the one on the left, I'd probably choose the one on the right if given the choice.
Probably because she reminds me of Mikuru:
(http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/15600000/Mikuru-Asahina-mikuru-asahina-fan-club-15680368-960-540.jpg)
Speaking of Jewfros on p.57...
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRHcBtoEx48enBJTCvg4BWo88gMNDRZvX2d7g0RB7fh02CDD1iJYkKs0DnicA)
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That is a really good recording - maybe my favorite recording of the Bartok sonata for two pianos and percussion.
I really wish for a Kontarsky DG Box, no? :P
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BAM!
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BAM!
Wow. Front runner for worst EVER.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513u%2BM0iPHL._SL650_AA450_.jpg)
"Psst. Hey, I'm over here."
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RAZGdYimL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
Elgar's essentials, in outer space!
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RAZGdYimL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
Elgar's essentials, in outer space!
I don't have a problem with the combination of space and Elgar but the execution of this cover "art" is extremely amateurish. A colourful stardust background and a cut-out black and white portrait photograph just don't go together not to mention the dull "Elgar - Essentials" texts and the the overall layout. The cover says: "Please, keep left Sir Elgar so people can see the stars."
::)
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I don't have a problem with the combination of space and Elgar but the execution of this cover "art" is extremely amateurish. A colourful stardust background and a cut-out black and white portrait photograph just don't go together not to mention the dull "Elgar - Essentials" texts and the the overall layout. The cover says: "Please, keep left Sir Elgar so people can see the stars."
::)
I don't believe this is an actual CD/LP cover, just an image for a digital download. I'm more inclined to cut them some slack for slapping something together that doesn't actually exist as printed matter.
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It is a digital download, in fact their are other ones from this series with the same cover but different composer. And digital albums present some of the most creatively bad, but entertaining covers.
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It is a digital download, in fact their are other ones from this series with the same cover but different composer.
A different astronomical object, too, my classical music-listening toy simian friend. Let's not forget that. 0:)
Elgar gets the Orion Nebula. RVW has a mirror image of the 'Baja' region of the North American nebula. (There's aren't enough clues to identify Handel's background. :() And I've only managed to locate these two apart from Elgar.
Ooh, some more!:
Beethoven - Trifid Nebula
Bach - Storm clouds over choppy waters :-\
Mozart - Seems like the rim of the Andromeda galaxy
Tchaikovsky - seems purely CG stuff; although "Essential Works" has the Orion and the Running Man complex.
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A different astronomical object, too, my classical music-listening toy simian friend. Let's not forget that. 0:)
Elgar gets the Orion Nebula. RVW has a mirror image of the 'Baja' region of the North American nebula. (There's aren't enough clues to identify Handel's background. :() And I've only managed to locate these two apart from Elgar.
Ooh, some more!:
Beethoven - Trifid Nebula
Bach - Storm clouds over choppy waters :-\
Mozart - Seems like the rim of the Andromeda galaxy
Tchaikovsky - seems purely CG stuff; although "Essential Works" has the Orion and the Running Man complex.
Then someone did put some thought into these covers, well done. 8) (You can tell I didn't inspect more than the thumnails of the rest of them, I passed them up as slapping something together covers)
Now lets solve the mystery of what connects these astronomical images to their respective composers.
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Then someone did put some thought into these covers, well done. 8)
I didn't imply that. I was simply playing Identify that Nebula. ;D
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BIS makes some really beautiful covers, a few of the very best, which makes it all the weirder when they poop out something like this:
(http://i.prs.to/t_200/bisbis1773.jpg)
I just ordered this SACD--I hope that isn't my response to it!
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RAZGdYimL._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
Elgar's essentials, in outer space!
Take two stock images, and a tube of glue...
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S7P0nFTCL._SS500_.jpg)
Seiji Ozawa in rehearsal alongside his lesser known twin, Seiji.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S7P0nFTCL._SS500_.jpg)
Seiji Ozawa in rehearsal alongside his lesser known twin, Seiji.
Ha! I was also thinking "Will the real Seiji Ozawa please stand?"
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I thought this cover was pretty horrible:
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00080LEHK.01.L.jpg)
Another GMG member posted this cover in the listening thread and I thought was so awful that it would perfectly suit this thread.
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Well, it partly goes with the completely bizarre title...
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Well, it partly goes with the completely bizarre title...
Yeah, but it's still an ugly, unappealing cover to say the least.
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Just in, thanks to: http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/11/ghastliest-classical-cover-of-2012.html (http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/11/ghastliest-classical-cover-of-2012.html)
(http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/arthausmusik1003891-550x784.jpg)
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Just in, thanks to: http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/11/ghastliest-classical-cover-of-2012.html (http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/11/ghastliest-classical-cover-of-2012.html)
(http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/arthausmusik1003891-550x784.jpg)
Even better when you HAVE to scroll from the top, slowly revealing the bottom half, haha!!
I thought this cover was pretty horrible:
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00080LEHK.01.L.jpg)
Another GMG member posted this cover in the listening thread and I thought was so awful that it would perfectly suit this thread.
And I thought Bridge had a lock on that type of cover.
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Just in, thanks to: http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/11/ghastliest-classical-cover-of-2012.html (http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/11/ghastliest-classical-cover-of-2012.html)
Haha! I was just about to post the same having seen it in Naxos' recent newsletter. ;D
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Helikopter-Streichquartett (1992-93) 31:20
Studioproduktion 1996
Irvine Arditti, David Alberman, violins
Garth Knox, viola; Rohan de Saram, cello
"The Grasshoppers" (helicopter acrobatic team)
(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/066/MI0001066230.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)
http://www.stockhausencds.com/Stockhausen_Edition_CD53.htm
I nearly started Apart from the inset photo which does not flatter the composer . . . only the unattractive appearance was probably deliberate, as the cover looks to me an obvious knock-off of this choice artifact from the '60s:
<<Image removed by Admin>>
. . . reinforcing the composer's "If you're a hippie, I'm your classical man!" image ; )
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WTF? ???
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Exactly. The cover of the debut album for a group you almost have to be a rock music nerd to have heard anything about: Blind Faith.
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Exactly. The cover of the debut album for a group you almost have to be a rock music nerd to have heard anything about: Blind Faith.
I reckon it should be a very sought after memorabilia amongst rock music pedophiles audiophiles... ;D ;D ;D
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Exactly. The cover of the debut album for a group you almost have to be a rock music nerd to have heard anything about: Blind Faith.
You have to be blind or have incredible faith to love that picture. Thus the cover is appropriate.
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I reckon it should be a very sought after memorabilia amongst rock music pedophiles audiophiles... ;D ;D ;D
Some might have been, say, 11 when that came out? hmmm? ;)
no? I'm just sayin' ::),...
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I reckon it should be a very sought after memorabilia amongst rock music pedophiles audiophiles... ;D ;D ;D
Some might have been, say, 11 when that came out? hmmm? ;)
no? I'm just sayin' ::),...
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Wow! A rare double Post!! OOoooOOOO,... it's like a double rainbow. :'(... so... :'(beautiful...
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Wow! A rare double Post!! OOoooOOOO,... it's like a double rainbow. :'(... so... :'(beautiful...
Could be worth something someday.
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Exactly. The cover of the debut album for a group you almost have to be a rock music nerd to have heard anything about: Blind Faith.
... which is amazing for a band made up of two-thirds of Cream (Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker) and Steve Windwood.
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(http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/arthausmusik1003891-550x784.jpg)
This hurts, you know.
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Exactly. The cover of the debut album for a group you almost have to be a rock music nerd to have heard anything about: Blind Faith.
A rock music nerd...or, simply of a certain age ;) Actually, Blind Faith was HUGE in its brief life (about a year in existence, 1968-69). Their only album went to Number 1 in both the UK and US; sold over half a million copies in its first month. But the egos involved couldn't sustain the band.
Sarge
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A rock music nerd...or, simply of a certain age ;) Actually, Blind Faith was HUGE in its brief life (about a year in existence, 1968-69). Their only album went to Number 1 in both the UK and US; sold over half a million copies in its first month. But the egos involved couldn't sustain the band.
Sarge
I also remember Blind Faith as being huge. However, I asked my wife if she remembered the group; she said no though we were living together even back then. So Karl might be correct on this one.
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/10/e9uqa5en.jpg)
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Take that, Georg Phillip!
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A rock music nerd...or, simply of a certain age ;) Actually, Blind Faith was HUGE in its brief life (about a year in existence, 1968-69). Their only album went to Number 1 in both the UK and US; sold over half a million copies in its first month. But the egos involved couldn't sustain the band.
Sarge
I also remember Blind Faith as being huge. However, I asked my wife if she remembered the group; she said no though we were living together even back then. So Karl might be correct on this one.
FWIW (just one chap's perspective), I don't think I should have known of them, if I hadn't read of them in (something much like) The Rolling Stone Guide to Rock Music & Musicians back in the late '70s . . . .
(The big upside from that book, whatever its actual title and provenance, is that reading the respective articles on King Crimson and the Bonzo Dog Band revolutionized my listening experience.)
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FWIW (just one chap's perspective), I don't think I should have known of them, if I hadn't read of them in (something much like) The Rolling Stone Guide to Rock Music & Musicians back in the late '70s . . . .
(The big upside from that book, whatever its actual title and provenance, is that reading the respective articles on King Crimson and the Bonzo Dog Band revolutionized my listening experience.)
Believe my they were BIG. They included Rich Gretch from one of my favorite bands at the time, Family. Why don't anyone mention him?
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Believe my they were BIG. They included Rich Gretch from one of my favorite bands at the time, Family. Why don't anyone mention him?
I did...in the non-classical listening thread.
Sarge
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I'm sure they were big, but not Abba big, no way ; )
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I did...in the non-classical listening thread.
Sarge
I noticed - should have said "nobody except the bazooka slinger".
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Ahh!!! :o
*Shudders!*
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How about this one from Trane; the music is great, but its cover: YIKES! :o
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61JyJJqIJuL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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How about this one from Trane; the music is great, but its cover: YIKES! :o
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61JyJJqIJuL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
A candidate for the ugliest ever indeed.
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Makes Peter Gabriel's "Melt" cover look artistic in comparison!
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Os43xbFHL._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/10/e9uqa5en.jpg)
That is truly lovely....
Perhaps even a bit more than my little guy;
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/Gurn_Blanston/middlefingervx6.jpg)
8)
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/10/e9uqa5en.jpg)
"I'm firing my agent!"
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So, is he for or against The Mission?
(http://i.prs.to/t_200/aparteap048.jpg)
(I'm not calling it ugly, mind you; it simply reminds me of an ugly cover. ;))
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So, is he for or against The Mission?
(http://i.prs.to/t_200/aparteap048.jpg)
(I'm not calling it ugly, mind you; it simply reminds me of an ugly cover. ;))
Slayer 'does' Handel
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Slayer 'does' Handel
How's your memory doing? (or eyesight...)
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So, is he for or against The Mission?
(http://i.prs.to/t_200/aparteap048.jpg)
(I'm not calling it ugly, mind you; it simply reminds me of an ugly cover. ;))
Hmmm - at first, I thought the lower description was Bald Guys - :D
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Hmmm - at first, I thought the lower description was Bald Guys - :D
;D
Sort of like this fellow?
(http://www.cooperpiano.com/Portals/99598/images/handel-piano.jpg)
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Mon amour, will you not come up and see my musical scores?
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/sep2012/trompeteng_ttlerpommer.jpg)
(Come on, you knew it was only a matter of time before that cover migrated to this thread....)
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"Have I shown you my mechanical eraser?"
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Mon amour, will you not come up and see my musical scores?
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/sep2012/trompeteng_ttlerpommer.jpg)
(Come on, you knew it was only a matter of time before that cover migrated to this thread....)
Totally crossed my noggin when I laid eyes on this bad-boy. You beat me to it, Jeffrey.
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(Come on, you knew it was only a matter of time before that cover migrated to this thread....)
Totally crossed my noggin when I laid eyes on this bad-boy. You beat me to it, Jeffrey.
I'm happy I could contribute something worthwhile to this thread.
Sarge
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UDHujnahL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Mon amour, will you not come up and see my musical scores?
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/sep2012/trompeteng_ttlerpommer.jpg)
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQRqJ5Y_zbw5dOGj6tpuD7QtT7nvRb4gUcBMdvXaHlnwQIf9Ljw1Q)
... or some varm milk... perhaps?
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UDHujnahL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
???
Is that a sheep costume...? ???
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UDHujnahL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
ARE THOSE BREAST IMPLANTS :o?
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Quote from: snyprrr on Today at 07:56:49 AM (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?topic=239.msg684032#msg684032)
ARE THOSE BREAST IMPLANTS :o ?
:'(
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(http://www.arkivmusic.com/graphics/covers/AMG/covers/large/242/2424757.jpg)
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It's a fair cop.
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(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/72/93/4bcd024128a0d273a26a1010.L._AA300_.jpg)
Jazz Hands!!
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(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/72/93/4bcd024128a0d273a26a1010.L._AA300_.jpg)
Jazz Hands!!
"Press button here and instantly play the harmonica!"
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Either that's a really short CD, or a really long harmonica concerto.
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(http://www.arkivmusic.com/graphics/covers/AMG/covers/large/242/2424757.jpg)
"let me show you where I touched her."
:o :o :o
:o :o :o
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I believe this cover has been posted on this thread before, but recent reference on the LvB 9 thread demanded it be seen here as well. ;D
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51h56OI2N-L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/72/93/4bcd024128a0d273a26a1010.L._AA300_.jpg)
Jazz Hands!!
Is it possible to have a tasteful cover for a classical harmonica album?
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Is it possible to have a tasteful cover for a classical harmonica album?
Oh, not only tasteful, but downright classy.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61zS3oVoSLL._SL550_AA350_.jpg)
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Oh, not only tasteful, but downright classy.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61zS3oVoSLL._SL550_AA350_.jpg)
:D The "Harmonicats". :D
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:D The "Harmonicats". :D
(http://themixtressonline.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/harmonicats.jpg)
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(http://themixtressonline.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/harmonicats.jpg)
Ha!!
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Oh, not only tasteful, but downright classy.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61zS3oVoSLL._SL550_AA350_.jpg)
Without the tuxes ...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TL9EdjIYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Without the tuxes ...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TL9EdjIYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
It just keeps getting better!! LOL!!!
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sHoSr-jhL._SS550_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41T183KAP3L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41T183KAP3L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
That's a scary photo for me.
Scary because I just realized I remember when he the next big new guy in the conducting world.
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Without the tuxes ...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TL9EdjIYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Wondering if the shape of harmonicas are meant to represent something... ::)
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sHoSr-jhL._SS550_.jpg)
That's just terrible...ly funny haha!! Photoshop, right?
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Not bad
(http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Pic-Bio-BIG/Barrio-Isidro-03.jpg)
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I'll double post this
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I see Sir Simon's homage to Spinal Tap went over like a uranium soap bubble.
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41T183KAP3L._SL500_AA300_.jpg) (http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003214343/1330429650_obama_afro_answer_4_xlarge.jpeg)
Yep, those 'afros' were quite popular! ;D
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Hmm....
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NEPD0MNJL.jpg)
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Hmm....
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NEPD0MNJL.jpg)
I can almost see some boobie in the water's reflection!! HA!!
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VpOpfkHqL._SY450_.jpg)
Bloomin Onion made a recording.
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(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2035/diefrau.jpg)
More here:
http://www.kusc.org/Blog/kusc/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10312566 (http://www.kusc.org/Blog/kusc/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10312566)
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"The photographs of Bartoli commissioned to accompany "Sacrificium" are as striking as the music on the CD. Playing with the theme of gender confusion inherent in the topic, the photographer Uli Weber placed Bartoli's head, her face whitened with makeup, atop various marble statues of men."
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/12144_208587322422_2050591_n.jpg)
(http://media.npr.org/assets/music/firstlisten/2009/ceciliabartoli/bartoli-321d1395c7cd542b07f4f418083cefe513e71a9f-s6-c10.jpg)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RN2XNr6CWF8/S1BYfa7oqmI/AAAAAAAACNA/Ey7MDq1UFQY/s320/bartoli_sacri_rev_header.jpg)
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/03/05/y3e6y8eh.jpg)
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(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2035/diefrau.jpg)
More here:
http://www.kusc.org/Blog/kusc/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10312566 (http://www.kusc.org/Blog/kusc/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10312566)
Our Thread's much better!! ;)
This is most certainly, STILL, one of the Top3 most startling Classical CD Covers. Can someone 'open' it?:
http://www.amazon.com/Rameau-Suites-Platée-Dardanus-McGegan/dp/B000006O5V/ref=sr_1_7?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1362502589&sr=1-7&keywords=rameau+opera
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Our Thread's much better!! ;)
This is most certainly, STILL, one of the Top3 most startling Classical CD Covers. Can someone 'open' it?:
http://www.amazon.com/Rameau-Suites-Platée-Dardanus-McGegan/dp/B000006O5V/ref=sr_1_7?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1362502589&sr=1-7&keywords=rameau+opera
It's a great disc! And the cover is the main character from the opera, Platée.
Still frightening, yes. But not as egnimatic as the celestial deer peeing on a naked women. :)
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Still frightening, yes. But not as egnimatic as the celestial deer peeing on a naked women. :)
Peeing from an eye. On a naked pregnant woman.
These little details matter, dear Sock Monkey. ;D
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Peeing from an eye. On a naked pregnant woman.
These little details matter, dear Sock Monkey. ;D
I know, I was short on time. Thought I at least hit the important details. :D
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Peeing from an eye. On a naked pregnant woman.
These little details matter, dear Sock Monkey. ;D
:laugh: :'( :laugh: :'( :laugh: :'( :laugh: :'(
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Courtesy of Awkward Classical Music Photos (http://awkwardclassicalmusicphotos.com/category/singers/)
More photos than cover art, but definitely worth a look or three.
(http://awkwardclassicalmusicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/brodsky-quartet-otter2.jpg?w=590)
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Doesn't get any worse than this:
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I'll double post this
Gov. Blagojevich made a disc?
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VpOpfkHqL._SY450_.jpg)
Bloomin Onion made a recording.
This actually was a fad for a while among German orchestras to take group pictures from the pooping pigeon perspective. Aachen is just about 7 years late in catching on.
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Doesn't get any worse than this:
What's wrong with that? This might actually be the first cover featuring Dudamel that I sort of like!
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What's wrong with that? This might actually be the first cover featuring Dudamel that I sort of like!
"Fiesta" has a perfectly good cover.
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What's wrong with that? This might actually be the first cover featuring Dudamel that I sort of like!
It's a fine cover if you like to watch people puke. :)
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How about a thread for cool looking covers? Why all the negativity with bad covers? We know they're in abundance when classical music is concerned.
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How about a thread for cool looking covers? Why all the negativity with bad covers? We know they're in abundance when classical music is concerned.
Perhaps this one (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19.0.html)?
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What's wrong with that? This might actually be the first cover featuring Dudamel that I sort of like!
speaking as someone who actually has the recording--it's a very nice effect of photograph combined with water color or ink wash. The water color effect is carried through on the interior labeling. The colors are rather mellow--nothing harsh about them.
BTW, I've posted about this CD when I first played it: it's a very good recording, definitely Dudamel's best Mahler, and one of his best overall, and a very good recording of M9 from any conductor. If you don't like the cover, download it and print out your own CD cover.
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Some serious attitude on the violin and cello players here.
(http://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/UP0146-2.jpg)
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Some serious attitude on the violin and cello players here.
(http://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/UP0146-2.jpg)
Go ahead, just tryyyy to knock my sun glasses off!
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:'(
Go ahead, just tryyyy to knock my sun glasses off!
Must be one or those Antonio Banderas type cello cases.
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oooh boy.... ???
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This would fit my description of an over-produced cover.
(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/25/33/52ad81b0c8a02351affa9110.L._SX350_.jpg)
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Some serious attitude on the violin and cello players here.
(http://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/UP0146-2.jpg)
It would have probably helped if they had stood in front of a real building, and not a photograph of one.
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(http://cdn.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/UP0146-2.jpg)
It would have probably helped if they had stood in front of a real building, and not a photograph of one.
I don't think this cover can be helped at all.
Cool timing, though - I was going past this building (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_House) about half an hour ago.
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Go ahead, just tryyyy to knock my sun glasses off!
You mean, "hey sexy young lady, come backstage after the show and try to knock my sun glasses off".
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This would fit my description of an over-produced cover.
(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/25/33/52ad81b0c8a02351affa9110.L._SX350_.jpg)
Frankly I was more disturbed by the title, because it took a while to realise it said "lips". It looked like "tips". The girl with orange tips would rank as a pretty bizarre title.
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Frankly I was more disturbed by the title,
This question might belong more to Cato's Grammar Grumble than here, but here it is nevertheless: why are you, guys, that disturbed by anything? I mean, one can be disturbed by a sudden unpleasant noise when reading in the quiet late at night, or by the entrance of the chamber maid when making love to a gorgeosu babe in a hotel room --- but being disturbed by a title, or CD cover? What am I missing?
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This question might belong more to Cato's Grammar Grumble than here, but here it is nevertheless: why are you, guys, that disturbed by anything? I mean, one can be disturbed by a sudden unpleasant noise when reading in the quiet late at night, or by the entrance of the chamber maid when making love to a gorgeosu babe in a hotel room --- but being disturbed by a title, or CD cover? What am I missing?
Perhaps it's just a question of usage. At any rate, Webster's lists "breaking or destroying tranquility or composure" as one of the meanings of "disturb", even though the sense of interrupting something is the word's primary meaning.
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Perhaps it's just a question of usage. At any rate, Webster's lists "breaking or destroying tranquility or composure" as one of the meanings of "disturb"
Even so, I can't imagine anyone losing their sleep because of a CD cover, or a CD title. ;D
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Even so, I can't imagine anyone losing their sleep because of a CD cover, or a CD title. ;D
Oh, I can. I very much can.
(http://i50.tinypic.com/33xc8km.jpg)
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Oh, I can. I very much can.
(http://i50.tinypic.com/33xc8km.jpg)
OK, you win! :o
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Oh, I can. I very much can.
Ooops, I forgot to qualify: I can't imagine any sane person etc. ;D
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Oh, I can. I very much can.
(http://i50.tinypic.com/33xc8km.jpg)
Thank goodness that she's covering up her knee caps.
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This would fit my description of an over-produced cover.
(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/25/33/52ad81b0c8a02351affa9110.L._SX350_.jpg)
Now that's a cover I've always liked a lot - tranquil and mysterious at the same time.
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Now that's a cover I've always liked a lot - tranquil and mysterious at the same time.
I have no problem with the cover.
Internet bullying! :o
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I have no problem with the cover.
Neither have I.
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Not only that, but it is a very good recital recording; wonderfully paced and collecting some great songs from a nice variety of composers.
Indeed, thanks to this thread and then seeing the tracklisting/reading reviews on Amazon, I'm quite interested!
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(http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/000/226/0000022651_500.jpg)
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Well, someone will say it eventually, so I might as well ask...
is that what is referred to as a "foxy lady?" :-X
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It looks perfectly reasonable given the topic.
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Is that even Debussy?
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Is that even Debussy?
Dvorak. Pretty sure. Well, they both start with D.....
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Is that even Debussy?
Anyone else find the unintentional disturbing quality in this one?
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Anyone else find the unintentional disturbing quality in this one?
Not so much disturbing as vertigo-inducing.
What I'd like to know is, which side of the CD is Debussy and which is Ravel?
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Anyone else find the unintentional disturbing quality in this one?
Not at all, it's just two dudes playing a serious game of Twister.
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Is that even Debussy?
Yes, that one doesn't look like Debussy at all......
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Is that even Debussy?
and: Yes, that one doesn't look like Debussy at all......
Thats a Russian composer, surely. Unless Debussy had some kind of facial morphing thing going on...I wouldn't even sniff at such a release for such nonsense. Is it really a release? Or a schoolboy paste-up? Here is the real Debussy:
(http://quintessentialpublications.com/twyman/wp-content/uploads/debussy.jpg)
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and:
Thats a Russian composer, surely. Unless Debussy had some kind of facial morphing thing going on...I wouldn't even sniff at such a release for such nonsense. Is it really a release? Or a schoolboy paste-up? Here is the real Debussy:
Maybe I got it, that man looks like Eduoard Manet. It would explain why I think I've already seen him.....
(http://images2.informazione.it/OO2o4kTgOElXZx88CZ0u81Em2NS-zzrdlOV+lUCGVXVzGih2QeHy2b+Xa35V5zuu)
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Maybe I got it, that man looks like Eduoard Manet. It would explain why I think I've already seen him.....
(http://images2.informazione.it/OO2o4kTgOElXZx88CZ0u81Em2NS-zzrdlOV+lUCGVXVzGih2QeHy2b+Xa35V5zuu)
Superb work, thanks for that. It annoyed the hell out of me. ;D
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From Grunge Rock to Baroque, perhaps that's what this epiphany he's having on a rooftop is all about.
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From Grunge Rock to Baroque, perhaps that's what this epiphany he's having on a rooftop is all about.
I hope he falls off.
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From Grunge Rock to Baroque, perhaps that's what this epiphany he's having on a rooftop is all about.
I'm Danielle, I'm Danielle, I'm...
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This would fit my description of an over-produced cover.
(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/25/33/52ad81b0c8a02351affa9110.L._SX350_.jpg)
Orange Tips
The latest release by Nelly Furtado (or Sade)
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Came across this one recently (apologies if it's been posted before)! :o
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5178E7HlY%2BL._SX300_.jpg)
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Came across this one recently (apologies if it's been posted before)! :o
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5178E7HlY%2BL._SX300_.jpg)
No, that's not where you put a clarinet.
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Came across this one recently (apologies if it's been posted before)! :o
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5178E7HlY%2BL._SX300_.jpg)
Yeah, don't give this guy a gun. He looks a little...hmmmm....how shall I put this, crazy?
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That's what happens when you listen to and perform too much Bartok.
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So many things are wrong with this one.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sf9pXZN3L.Image._AA500_.jpg)
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That's what happens when you listen to and perform too much Bartok.
No, when you're expecting Bartók, and they play Delius instead . . . .
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and they play Delius instead . . . .[/font]
4... 3... 2...
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4... 3... 2...
C'mon, who needs Porky's on blu-ray? ; )
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C'mon, who needs Porky's on blu-ray? ; )
VHS it is, then!
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That's our Paul, spearheading the Authentic Appliances movement!
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No, that's not where you put a clarinet.
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There are places where I expect to read that kind of strange rant. [Edit: Which has now been deleted.]
Good Music Guide was not, until now, one of them.
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not bad looking as such...but...
Sales are gonna go through the woof I guess....
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31o30Im48bL.jpg)
I had to look at the chest to determine if this was a guy or a girl. I'd guess girl, though I can't say that with 100% confidence. ???
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I had to look at the chest to determine if this was a guy or a girl. I'd guess girl, though I can't say that with 100% confidence. ???
As I have seen the covers from their other recordings, I knew she must be a woman because she is wearing a top. The men are bare-chested.
This definitely belongs in here, too:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LRNyU%2BnQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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As I have seen the covers from their other recordings, I knew she must be a woman because she is wearing a top. The men are bare-chested.
This definitely belongs in here, too:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LRNyU%2BnQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
uh boy :( I... I... I... ??? ??? ???
but... I... uh...
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This definitely belongs in here, too:
Yes it does. Just wtf.
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That surely takes some sort of prize, randomness for sure, but just plain odd too.
Mike
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As I have seen the covers from their other recordings, I knew she must be a woman because she is wearing a top. The men are bare-chested.
This definitely belongs in here, too:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LRNyU%2BnQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Ha, if girls looked like that we'd all be in trouble!
Wait a minute... come to thi...
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As I have seen the covers from their other recordings, I knew she must be a woman because she is wearing a top. The men are bare-chested.
This definitely belongs in here, too:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LRNyU%2BnQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
A pathetic attempt to make the artist seem "cool" I suppose. Actually I recall reading that this album got some traction in mainstream music just because of the compelling cover art.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GAKW5TZFL.jpg)
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A pathetic attempt to make the artist seem "cool" I suppose. Actually I recall reading that this album got some traction in mainstream music just because of the compelling cover art.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GAKW5TZFL.jpg)
Looks like an emo.
"Mom, I'm trying to play Chopin in the dark in my room! Leave me alone!"
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A pathetic attempt to make the artist seem "cool" I suppose. Actually I recall reading that this album got some traction in mainstream music just because of the compelling cover art.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GAKW5TZFL.jpg)
I don't see what's wrong with this one, it's nothing forced - that was his haircut back then and unlike most of the atrocities of that era, it still looks kinda cool. Who cares if it made a bunch of Flock of Seagulls fans listen to some Chopin..
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I don't see what's wrong with this one, it's nothing forced - that was his haircut back then and unlike most of the atrocities of that era, it still looks kinda cool. Who cares if it made a bunch of Flock of Seagulls fans listen to some Chopin..
I did not intend to criticize this cover. My point was that it achieves what the other cover tries to achieve, making the artist look "cool."
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Oj6QLKT%2BL._SY300_.jpg)
sMeLL tHe gLoVe
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Oj6QLKT%2BL._SY300_.jpg)
sMeLL tHe gLoVe
he's sitting on a cucumber
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Never mind the photo, what about that font? ::)
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Never mind the photo, what about that font? ::)
That's what I thought too... Bach's middle name stylishly blends with the glare on the man's forehead. )))
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Afv8%2B8bDL._SS300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514%2BQWP0%2B-L._SS300_.jpg)
Really? Did Hanssler lose all of its cover art budget?
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Looks like the photo shoot took so long that he caught the sun. I agree, those covers look casual in several ways.
Mike
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(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Afv8%2B8bDL._SS300_.jpg) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514%2BQWP0%2B-L._SS300_.jpg)
Really? Did Hanssler lose all of its cover art budget?
Why don't classical people EVER get a little hair trim for their photo shoot????
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Really all he needs is a red nose and white makeup round the mouth.
Mike
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Really all he needs is a red nose and white makeup round the mouth.
Mike
His mother was a Bozo-ette in University.... :)
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Why don't classical people EVER get a little hair trim for their photo shoot????
WHo says he didn't?!?! :)
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WHo says he didn't?!?! :)
Classical Hair is such a joke, haha!
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Hold your calls, ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! :P
You've hurt me, DD.... :'(
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You've hurt me, DD.... :'(
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I hate that I've hurt your eyes, Gurn, but remember I had to look at it first! 8)
(Now on to some of Haydn's great string quartets to help right my wrong...)
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What time is it? Ask Haydn, he nose. ;D
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What time is it? Ask Haydn, he nose. ;D
Ha!!
Luckily Haydn is greater than any hack graphic designer!
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I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time.
That sort of punishment should have been reserved for the person who designed the cover.
And just be glad they didn't carry the concept over to some of the other symphonies with nicknames. We could have suffered Haydn with a bear or a hen or a queen on his head.
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I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Yeah, but now it just ticks me off.
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Yes, that Haydn cover is a lulu. I guess it is lucky The Hen was not on there.
Mike
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I think a pair of clock-hands attached to an appropriate anatomical feature would improve this cover.
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I think a pair of clock-hands attached to an appropriate anatomical feature would improve this cover.
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