Analyzing album covers: Tusk

[TheWILDheart]

I don't like or dislike the Tusk cover really - I don't get it. Love the rest of the artwork for the album though. I also really like the idea of somebody finding a discarded photo left on a sandy beach (which is kind of the impression I get from the cover), but I just don't get the dog thing - maybe it would've been better if it had a photo of the band instead of the dog? Almost like a kind of accidental re-discovering of the band after the Rumours hype had faded as though the listener were stumbling across the album by accident like somebody finding this old photograph in the sand? But the dog totally ruins that theory.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

I don't like or dislike the Tusk cover really - I don't get it. Love the rest of the artwork for the album though. I also really like the idea of somebody finding a discarded photo left on a sandy beach (which is kind of the impression I get from the cover), but I just don't get the dog thing - maybe it would've been better if it had a photo of the band instead of the dog? Almost like a kind of accidental re-discovering of the band after the Rumours hype had faded as though the listener were stumbling across the album by accident like somebody finding this old photograph in the sand?

That would have been a good idea and it wouldn't even have to be a posed, illuminating shot either. It could have been a "candid" where parts of them are obscured, they're turned away from the camera. That would have added to the sense that you're catching this glimpse of them by accident.

Michele