The Cover og 'Say You Will'
 

Read: The cover OF 'Say You Will'..

I'm sure I've read somewhere that it has a special meaning or background story. But I've completely forgotten it. Can anybody help...?

I don't know, I've never heard of any...

All I know is that I like it and that those trousers look damn good on Lindsey. :o

It's modeled after some japanese movie, their positions. I forgot why. I'm sure David will come along soon to help us answer that question. :wavey:

http://www.cine-east.com/catalog/images/double

Someone very astutely noticed that it looks like a copy of the cover for this film, and was probably a play on words referring to the whole conflict about whether to make SYW a double or single album, due to sales concerns.

Wow. Good find there.:thumbsup:

Love the cover- probably my favourite (Lindsey looks freakin sexy!) but Stevie is so touched up, she doesn't look like herself :shrug:

Has she ever really looked like herself on any of the album covers? :confused:

Lol. They are all touched up to some degree Im sure, but the SYW cover is ridiculous - If somebody just enlarged her head and showed it to me - I wouldn't even think it was her. I mean, look at the pictures in the booklet, then look at the cover...

Thank you...that is very interesting. Even the typing looks the same..

I've wondered what message they were trying to send about the cover as well. That picture bears a remarkable resemblance to their cover.

Has anyone tried to figure out which hands are whose on the picture behind the CD tray?

Thanks, but I'm just reposting... I'm not sure who made the initial discovery.

At first I thought they were the band members', but then I realized none of them had neatly manicured French tips ;). It's actually a stock photo by someone named Keith Carter: http://creative.gettyimages.com/sour...RoyaltyFree=on

Really? I think Stevie looks like Stevie on SYW. Now, if we're talking The Dance or TOSOTM, that's another story. :laugh:


I never knew that. Thanks! :wavey:

I could barely contain my excitement on that day back in 1989 when I bought the new Leeza Gibbons album!

I'm sorry, Brian.:lol:

That's fascinating. And no, Stevie doesn't look like herself. Yes, Lindsey looks damn good.

I think Stevie looks more herself on the SYW cover than the Dance cover. Her face, close up, on the Dance cover looks like a man or something.

Ya mean, she doesn't look like a red-haired Geisha girl in real life? And Christine McVie doesn't look like a butch lesbian, either? :laugh:

Frankly, the Say You Will cover sucks. I much prefer the simpler Limited Edition CD version of Say You Will album. The photo cover makes them look dead and not a great image to put out there regardless of the Double Suicide connection (although interesting).

I have to admit, I seem to prefer all the album covers that do not feature the band in them.

Oooh I totally disagree. SYW cover just has a classic look. Their best album cover since Mirage I think.

Best cover since Mirage? No way. Tango In The Night is a hot cover. Lush and depicts the music to be found inside.

I even prefer the Behind The Mask and Time covers over Say You Will.

John McVie even hated the cover where they were "floating." Which is either Say You Will or The Dance. I vote the former since they really do not appear to be floating on The Dance cover. But maybe.

My fave covers are Rumours and Mirage. The Dance and SYW are cool too, but I think SYW could have been better. Something, I don't know, but something is missing

I actually thought he was talking about some of the inner sleeve pics on Tusk...? :shrug:

-Lis

Very well could be. But then the question and answer seemed focused on album covers. Who knows? Yet another question to be asked...

lol.

The cover where they were "floating" is on the back of the Tango in the Night album where they are all floating in a room. As for the covers of Mirage and Tango, I have always thought they should be switched. The Say You Will cover is my all-time favorite (2nd place goes to The Dance) and I like the modern/eclectic approch they took with it!

*incorrect buzzer noise*....they arent floating on the back of the Tango album...they're lying on the floor.

*incorrect buzzer noise*
The back cover of Tango is of them standing, a black & white photo.

The lying on the floor was a sleeve insert.


http://www.stuff-4-sale.co.uk/vinyl-...night2_jpg.jpg

They used the inner sleeve photo also for the Seven Wonders 7" Single
http://www.geocities.com/shacker33/SevenWonders45.jpg

HA! ok well I wasn't ENTIRELY wrong...the picture of them "on the floor" I was referring to is on the back of the CD jewel case.

So true.

I actually have always loved that photo. I like it when they're not so serious sometimes.

Ugh. I hate the Tango cover...talk about cheesy 80's! Well, I guess you're correct then about the cover depicting what was to be found inside :p

I think The Dance (besides Rumours of course) is F.M.'s best album cover. I think Stevie and Christine look especially smoldering there, and I love all the chaos going on around them with the collapsing furniture and the general "disheveledness" of the entire shot; it's all very swirly and surreal.

pfft! :lol:

I love CM - but she looks odd on the cover of The Dance to me. Like she has been stretched or something.

Oooh me too. They are all excessively photoshopped. We all know they were inspired by the Matisse painting: The Dance, which is nice. But I never was fond of this album cover. Christine and Stevie look the weirdest. I also think they cropped some hips off Stevie as well.

And here we are back to FM's fondness for art. It's such a nice homage to Rousseau. Not sure how you even think it's 80's cheese? Perhaps you just think that since it was released in 1987. It's great and really works with the album title.

Actually, I think the covers of Mirage & Tango In The Night, if switched, would actually be more appropriate with the other title.

ha! I never thought about that, but it's true.

I actually like The Dance cover. I do think they are all edited, but I don't blame them. if I was having a big reunion special and receive that much attention, I'd have been photoshopped so much my mammy wouldn't recognize me.

mammy:laugh: :laugh:

Because it is :laugh:

The cover is cheesy, it's all tropical with funny, airbrushed looking colors (which is VERY 80's btw)...it makes me think of Florida, and since it was released in the 80's it then makes me think of Miami Vice! I've never seen the original painting that inspired it, it can't be the same thing, is it? If so, Rousseau sure was a visionary for what would become cheesilicious 1980's looking art!

Preach it.

I cannot fault them for wanting to be touched up after all that time away from the spotlight. I also love Chris's hair extension! I think she looks smokin' hot on that cover and not at all stretched! I love Stevie's pose too. The only thing I might change is to take that golf club out of Lindsey's hand :laugh: but other than that :shrug:

The next time someone calls it a golf club, so help me God .... !!!

It's a cane!!

Aaaaaargh!!!!!!







*deep breaths* Rant over. Tis a cane.

foxyluva...who's the girl on the left in your signature? She's hot..

Just to add my opinion.. I think both the TITN and SYW covers are great, I think maybe I've looked at them so many times that I can't imagine them any different..

:laugh: I know! I was being a bit absurd because of course he's not holding a golf club in this photo, but to the casual onlooker it looks like it, so when I glance at that cover that is what I see! Also, It looks like he's sneaking up on Stevie to give her a good klonk on the head with that golf club too! :laugh: