Analyzing album covers: Fleetwood Mac (1975)

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Speaking of hands, remember inside the SYW booklet, there was a picture of four outstretched hands. Very nice message.

Michele

It was a beautiful picture, but none of the hands could shake hands. I wonder if the band was saying something about themselves... or just that it had to do with the song itself.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

It was a beautiful picture, but none of the hands could shake hands. I wonder if the band was saying something about themselves... or just that it had to do with the song itself.

No, I think it is a statement about them. You're reaching out. It's the same elusiveness you get in the Hold Me video. Trying to break through, the glass, the sand, the heat. I mean, you are trying for something and you may not attain it, searching for a connection that you may not always find, but, um, maybe the reward is in the search, not the discovery.

Yearning, stretching, trying to find each other.

Michele

[FierySequences]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

It was a beautiful picture, but none of the hands could shake hands. I wonder if the band was saying something about themselves... or just that it had to do with the song itself.

That's a very inciteful approach, one I didn't think about it. I think, yes for the Peacekeeper single cover, the none shaking of hands makes sense.

(this was not my original post) I went searching online for the Legacy Tribute album of 98 to find the image(I'm sure Michelle can find it quickly) and lost my original thought here.

Anyway, I was thinking that a new single cover to fit the continuity of the hands (for Miss Fantasy or other) would be similar to the above mentioned cover with the hands (or fingertips) barely touching.

[michelej1]

Also, is it just me or is it a little hard to count the hands?

Is it a slight optical illusion? There's something about the positioning where, when I first saw the picture, I thought it was 5 hands and I actually had to touch them all as I counted to see there were only four.

Michele

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

It was a beautiful picture, but none of the hands could shake hands. I wonder if the band was saying something about themselves... or just that it had to do with the song itself.

It would be about themselves if it was about the 70s and 80s. I think actually if was about the world situation during that year (and even now!)

[KarmaContestant]

The 1975 FM cover...

So, funny story. I recently bought a vinyl remaster; the double LP 45 RPM one. The gatefold cover is glorious. Anyway, my boyfriend saw it this past weekend and asked me why they were making fun of little people. He found it very distasteful.

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

The 1975 FM cover...

So, funny story. I recently bought a vinyl remaster; the double LP 45 RPM one. The gatefold cover is glorious. Anyway, my boyfriend saw it this past weekend and asked me why they were making fun of little people. He found it very distasteful.

I suppose he is no fan of Tim Conway either!