i like all of the group photos of them from that period. BUT...i don't think any of them work as an album cover. My favorite is that one where Stevie's off to the side, lower than the rest of them and they're all serious looking.

Any group shots are just too boring. There's nothing intriguing about them.

I think a cool idea would have been to use that crystal ball again somehow. It was the center piece on the first two albums. It represented a common thread musically.

"Tusk" was such a departure musically - it's a cohesive album but it's so fragmented. You've got Lindsey's oddball bang-on-a-tissue box ditties, stevie's ultimate ethereal personal diaries, and Christine's balancing act between the two. They could have represented this departure with the crystal ball. Since this album was Lindsey's brainchild you could have Lindsey trying to destroy it - He could be carelessly dropping it from his hand with an almost sinister look on his face, thereby cutting the link to the former records...and have one or two other members in the shot that have a shocked look and maybe even have one trying to grab the ball before it crashes on the ground. Maybe one of them - John perhaps - is trying to save the ball but trips over a tusk or something african. Essentially, we don't want to show the ball breaking because we'll need that for Mirage (how they went back to the "Rumours" sound).

I don't know. Maybe this is kooky. But it's an idea.

Oh i just thought of another scenario....you could have one of the elephants about to stomp on the ball - thereby marrying the two concepts together.