Tusk album cover? What would you like?

[Villavic]

So weeks ago I posted a poll about your favorite album cover. Tusk got few votes. I agree, it's not one of the best covers I have seen in a mac album.

But what would you have liked, considering that period, for a cool TUSK album cover?

I'd think in a cool photo of them, since their looked gorgeous those days. Specially Stevie and Lindsey (with his new haircut).
And Mick not shaved, he looks cool bearded.

Or a cool artwork.

just if you want to see the poll:
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=15827

[golddustwoman77]

I think the inside of the gatefold for the Tusk album is way cooler than the outside picture with the dog. I think they should have put the inside on the outside (so to speak). The artwork and the interesting pictures are really unique and different. It has everything you need: (1) It would have suited the album. (2) It has candid pictures of the band. (3) It has unique artwork. It would have been perfect, in my humble opinion.

[Lala]

I have always loved this group photo of them. It would have been cool but it seems like a lot of FM albums don't have all of the members if any on them.

[tynan88]

Rrrgh I need to get these LP's just for the art work, it ain't on the CD's. Unforunately the CD has killed off a great artform now.

Tynan

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.