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Yep, the Bare Trees pic is beautiful...
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Just perusing some old threads...
I do love the Bare Trees cover. I'd list it number 4 of all pre-75 covers; 1) Kiln House 2) Then Play On 3) Mystery To Me 4) Bare Trees 5) PG's Fleetwood Mac 6) Penguin 7) Pious Bird of Good Omen 8) Future Games =9) English Rose =9) Mr Wonderful =9) Heroes Are Hard to Find Mick really doesn't mind putting himself out there in less than flattering pictures. Those last three covers are seriously disturbing. I wonder whether more people were put off buying those albums due to the strange covers or whether more people bought them out of curiosity. Was it common place for bands to release such strange covered albums back in those days? |
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Check out the old King Crimson album covers (especially their first album In The Court Of The Crimson King from 1969) . Jethro Tull's first few album covers were a bit odd. There were a few bands who used Hieronymous Bosch paintings/drawings on their covers. (Pearls Before Swine, Deep Purple). One of his paintings, "Garden Of Earthly Delights" spawned a couple of album covers...the band using different sections of the very large tryptich. Plus, some other album covers done by other artists were very much influenced by Bosch (Alan Aldridge's cover for Elton John's Captain Fantastic... album & whoever did the cover for Frank Zappa's Overnight Sensation album. )
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King Crimson- In The Wake of Poseidon Looks equally or more freaky. Would you recommend In The Court of... as an album to listen to? Frank Zappa- now that you mention FZ I've just remembered I own Trout Mask Replica from that period- that's pretty out there (in all ways). |
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I'd like to hear Chili's Zappa recommendations (end of thread hijack). John |
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I love EVERYTHING about "Bare Trees". It's actually my all time favorite Fleetwood Mac album! It's beautiful! Just beautiful! So beautiful!
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I remember a review of Pious Bird's cover being described as a nun holding a dead albatross in a quarry.
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Probably starting with stuff released around 1969: Crusin' With Ruben & The Jets Uncle Meat Hot Rats Burnt Weeny Sandwich Weasels Ripped My Flesh Chunga's Revenge Just Another Band From LA Waka/Jawaka The Grand Wazoo Overnite Sensation Apostrophe Roxy & Elsewhere While I thought the Mothers' Live At The Fillmore 1971 was ok, I wasn't that enthralled with it, but when I later discovered that one side of the live material that John & Yoko released on their Sometime In New York City album was the encore from the show that was released by Zappa, it gave it a whole new perspective. Sometimes, Zappa's gross-out humor gets a bit much, the instrumental portions of his albums are what I listen to the most; although I do like a few of his lyrics, too.
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After his injury (when he was thrown off a stage by an irate fan in London in 1971; leaving Frank wheelchair bound for quite some time), a majority of those subsequent albums between '72-'73 are largely instrumental albums (made up of work that had already been recorded & left off earlier albums). There's really not much of Frank Zappa's work that IS "family friendly" (he was pretty much public enemy #1 of Tipper Gore's wanting to have rating system for album lyrical content) Ok, now back to Fleetwood Mac.
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Bare Trees has a beautiful cover. Even when you can say "but looks really pale", it's original...blue...grey...you know.
I also like the covers of Penguin and Mystery to Me. That furious penguin in the front is so cute, and the rare monkey at the beach with the cake maybe looks rare, and weird, but the colors make the difference. The back is nice too! And for me, except for the first first first cover of a FM album, I don't think the rest are great. Well, maybe Then Play On looks good too! Regards! |
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Consider the tight, restrictive standards still in place in the mid-sixties. The Mamas and Papas released their debut album in 1966. The cover featured all four members (clothed) in a bathtub. To the right of them you see a toilet. Only a few of those made it to the market before the censors deemed it inappropriate, so all future pressings have the "offensive" toilet covered with a listing of some of the songs. (I was able to obtain the toilet cover album, which is quite a rarity). I wish I could reference my album collection (about 500+) to list some bizarre, as well as creative and beautiful album covers. Alas, they are all in storage on the other side of the country.
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On reflection perhaps its better then I give it credit. It looks like a still image from a Vincent Price film.
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