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Post by jaicee on Dec 11, 2014 0:54:22 GMT -5
I wouldn't call it a great album cover...those graphics and background texture are rather cheesy. Although still not as bad as the inside of the Rock Animals booklet!! That was a disaster!
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Post by tangerinesun on Dec 11, 2014 4:06:01 GMT -5
I wouldn't call it a great album cover...those graphics and background texture are rather cheesy. Although still not as bad as the inside of the Rock Animals booklet!! That was a disaster! I quite agree with that jaicee, art on the Virgin releases is amazingly cruddy overall, considering the resources they had. Creative departments of that era were drunk on the promise and the frustration of digital design and production, and there were a lot of embarrassing mornings-after. Basically, many of the best in the business couldn't really get their heads around the new tools; while the adventurous ones were really just doing whatever, because suddenly they could, and it was the new hotness, and now we laugh. To compound it, there was a vogue for deliberate, nudge-nudge, knowing cheesiness in support of wacky toy novelty attractions. It appears to me as if that's what Virgin thought they had in Shonen Knife -- windup vinyl sushi on wheels. Numbskulls.
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Dec 11, 2014 12:07:51 GMT -5
I wouldn't call it a great album cover...those graphics and background texture are rather cheesy. Although still not as bad as the inside of the Rock Animals booklet!! That was a disaster! Well, to me the cheeziness is needed for that whole 60's psychedelic look that they were trying to achieve (And did so beautifully*) * Don't forget, I was a child at the time and remember it well
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Post by tangerinesun on Dec 18, 2014 22:35:10 GMT -5
You know what they say, if you remember it you weren't there. You're telling me psychedelia has to be cheesy, what about Roger Dean? Huh? Dragons, nymphs, runic thingammies? See? No cheese in that sandwich!! He just... that is, I don't... I mean you can't simply... Never mind. (=_=)
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