Least favorite album cover

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I actually don't like any of the Early Years album, except for Bare Trees (not a favorite anyway).




You busted me! . Well, actually I didn't buy the vinyl. It just came with the Deluxe package, and since I don't have a turntable, I just hang it on my wall. It's something I've done since I got my first Rumours CD. I had the longbox hanging on my wall. Oh those 90s days.

I still have my long boxes from Rumours, Tusk, Bella Donna, and Law and Order. I can't bear to throw them away. I've literally held them above the dumpster, and can't make my fingers release them.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I actually don't like any of the Early Years album, except for Bare Trees (not a favorite anyway).

We like what we like.

Kiln House and Bare Trees are classic Fleetwood Mac pop albums, but I also gravitate towards Welch’s quasi-prog stuff if I listen to Fleetwood Mac, anymore. (I’ve played everything to death to the point of never needing to listen to an album, again.)

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I actually don't like any of the Early Years album, except for Bare Trees (not a favorite anyway).
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I just realized I missed a word. I meant I don't like any of the Early Years album covers.

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I just realized I missed a word. I meant I don't like any of the Early Years album covers.

Weirdly, even then, Christine sketched the Kiln House cover and John took the Bare Trees cover

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by Villavic

I actually don't like any of the Early Years album, except for Bare Trees (not a favorite anyway).

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Albums themselves or covers?

Covers….
Kiln house 7/10
Future games 5/10
Bare trees 6/10
Penguin 7/10
Mystery to me 7/10
Heroes are hard to find 2/10

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Albums themselves or covers?

Covers….
Kiln house 7/10
Future games 5/10
Bare trees 6/10
Penguin 7/10
Mystery to me 7/10
Heroes are hard to find 2/10

Covers….
Kiln house 9/10
Future games 2/10
Bare trees 9/10
Penguin 7/10
Mystery to me 8.5/10
Heroes are hard to find 7/10

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Covers….
Kiln house 9/10
Future games 2/10
Bare trees 9/10
Penguin 7/10
Mystery to me 8.5/10
Heroes are hard to find 7/10

I appreciate we all have differences of taste. But that last one….7/10….wtf…pass what you’re smoking along to the left. I need to understand : )

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

I appreciate we all have differences of taste. But that last one….7/10….wtf…pass what you’re smoking along to the left. I need to understand : )

Ha! good weed is hard to find.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

Fleetwood Mac cover was so weird. But, strangely it worked.

It’s my favorite one.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

I appreciate we all have differences of taste. But that last one….7/10….wtf…pass what you’re smoking along to the left. I need to understand : )

Amen! That HAHTF cover is just wrong. Weirdest cover of all, regardless of era or lineup. But at least it’s interesting. The Dance is one of the blandest, most generic covers I’ve ever seen. And Tango…well it seems rather…impersonal.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

Weirdly, even then, Christine sketched the Kiln House cover and John took the Bare Trees cover

And based on a drawing that made the rounds here a couple years back, it seems Christine did some unused artwork for the Bare Trees record, too. Personally, I think they were right to go with John’s photo instead.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Amen! That HAHTF cover is just wrong. Weirdest cover of all, regardless of era or lineup. But at least it’s interesting. The Dance is one of the blandest, most generic covers I’ve ever seen. And Tango…well it seems rather…impersonal.

You're back!!!

I think The Dance needed to show that the Tumours lineup was back

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by aleuzzi

And based on a drawing that made the rounds here a couple years back, it seems Christine did some unused artwork for the Bare Trees record, too. Personally, I think they were right to go with John’s photo instead.

Talking about artworks, since Lindsey was the author of this one, I wonder if he still has the original, and if it's hanging in his living room. Perhaps he painted some more recent ones; I don't want to imagine how they look like if he did any in 2018.

[FuzzyPlum]

Is this really Lindsey? Or ‘painting on cover photograph- Mac James’?
I don’t really see any other evidence of ‘painting’ on the cover

[FuzzyPlum]

PS- though I felt it bland at the time, I’ve come to really appreciate the Rumours-esque qualities of the SYW cover. Not exactly a classic, but as a representation of the essence of the band and history of the band, I think it’s pretty good.