Analyzing album covers: Live in Boston
 

It's a good collage, not big deal to me. I do like the blue color. But I don't know why they included a sunset, cause it makes me recall the sun over Pacific Ocean.. California. But hello.. you said is Live in BOSTON :rolleyes: .

A good cover anyway. Fine.

Who looks best? Lindsey and John, IMHO.
Of course, and it's more than obvious, but I want to mention anyway.. I miss Christine there. ;)

http://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/album...ges/lib-cd.jpg

every time i look at this cover i'm thinking - huh, what is this? they threw in bunch of disparate photos together and decided to call it a cover.

I would like this cover so much better if they were all the same proportion - but it always looks like a giant Stevie looming over the guys. Weird!

The photoshopping is laughable.

It's also not spaced very well - everything is crowded to the right, and there's that random empty left corner.

And what? They just threw in a setting sun for kicks?

They used this picture to promote the tour. I remember taking this full page FM ad out of my newspaper (back when I still got a paper newspaper) and saving it, but I wasn't happy about the photo.

Michele

I like it, it seems fitting and realistic (albeit the giant Stevie) just glimpses of the band in action...makes sense.

Yeah, I can see why the dispreportioning of members would irratate some, and the rising/setting sun. Never really noticed/thought about sun until now.

I like the giant Stevie...but not the full cover!

Duh.... Listen to The wind blow...watch the Sun RISE

I don't have a problem with the concept, I just think it was terribly executed. :lol:

Ha haaa.. you know I DID see that coming. After posting I thought..oh oh.. why I'm sure is sunset and not sunrise??

Well in my defense.... the CD is Live in Boston, not recordings from different cities (like 1980 Live). So yes.. it could be watching the sunrise over Atlantic ocean. But HEY! concerts are at evening.. not at dawn!!! :D

Yes.. I'm just rambling ;)

I suppose it's OK for a live album, but not creative in any way. Did an intern prepare this cover art? I'd bet the band wasn't even involved. They were probably given proofs and just waved a hand in approval.

For what it's worth, I don't own this album. Never heard it. Not interested. There could have been a studio album immediately after this tour instead of another live album. Just how many live albums does a band lineup with only 6 studio albums over a 38 year period need?

Lamest most thoughtless cover ever. Goes hand in hand with the tourbook. Lets just cash in as opposed to giving it any real thought. It's not even arty. I would say I think that's what they were going for...but no.no one was thinking here. I'll stop harping on it now. I always forget about it, til I pull the cd out or there's a thread about it. lol

well, we are referring to the CD right?

I always think of LIB as a DVD, which is good and well worth the purchase. and yes, I hardly ever (mb twice) listened to the CD with it.

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Hell, I have seen bootlegs that are better packaged than an official release..."Live in Boston" looks like a Jr.High art student pieced it together.

It isn't a setting sun, it's a light that was half lit above the speaker behind John. It's clear if you watch shots of John on the DVD.

If I had the original images they used for this cover, I could make something more professional in less than 10 minutes.

Did they actually pay someone to do this?

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I know many a fan who took pictures that would have been a superior cover to the actual artwork used....

Knowing Mick, he payed someone half a quadrillion dollars in Monopoly money for the artwork used :thumbsup:

It's pretty poorly pieced together if you ask me, it is a live album though so i'll cut 'em some slack.

Not a fan of this album cover. I never liked the giant "Cousin It" Stevie.

Today, I passed the Staples center and they had Fleetwood Mac on the Billboard for this summer. They used the same band photo from the SYW tour. I guess the members have decided they want SYW photos etched on their graves.

Anyway, it was good to see that towering picture of them as I passed, but then when the Billboard image changed, it was Taylor Swift and she will be playing Staples for four dates in August. So, I felt jealous and a little sad.

Michele

I would imagine the proportions of the pics of the various members were not accidental but very carefully negotiated by managers. It establishes Stevie's dominance/prominence/drawing power. Lindsey seems far too diminished however. And really, the two guys whose NAMES are the band's name are teeny.

Yes, and if we get a new picture for this tour, it's going to be the same way. Lindsey's name came first and the only way that happened is if they bargained for her to have picture prominence on something else.

For the Staples commercial (which has been airing every night here during AC360), Stevie comes first and Lindsey is last, the anchor position.

Michele

That's very funny - the Cousin It reference! I wonder how many people caught the Addams Family reference.

I agree with the comments made by other Ledgies. The design quality is at the level of a high-school amateur or Chris Nicks. The disparate proportions of the band members is a huge graphic flaw. It's just a thrown together mess. I don't understand why a band of their stature puts out product that is so visually inferior. Their tour programs (along with Stevie's solo tour programs) are also really embarrassingly bad.

I see so many other artists who give much more care and attention to their packaging, with really beautifully inspired and innovative, professional quality graphics. It's a huge shame that they (Fleetwood Mac/Stevie/Lindsey) seem totally clueless and careless about that. They just defer to talentless hacks. Any number of Ledgies here could produce exceptional and stunning designs, and we'd do it for free!

I worked for a design firm and Fleetwood Mac was brought in to design this album artwork and tweak their logo. Sadly, it was scrapped as the band was being SUPER cheap, cheap, cheap. Lindsey was the one who thought it all was a waste of money and was a pain to deal with.

The cover is awful, I've seen nicer bootleg art. That light spot is absolutely the worst.