favorite album cover

[David]

Originally Posted by Silver Springs

And I appreciate you taking the time to convey yourself, rather than simply dismiss me as somebody who doesn't know what they're talking about. It's easy enough to do that.

I would never dismiss you. I've been crazy about you for a few months.

[David]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Oh, the piano player you could have been.

Michele

My fingers are so stubby that it's difficult for me to pull off the runs in the Allegretto of the 17th Piano Sonata (the Tempest). It's a personal handicap that prevents me from being all I can be. I'll never be good, really good.

[David]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

All the other crap around her looks like a cheap spa ad to me.

Jake, you guys are killin' me!

[sorcerer999]

Originally Posted by petep9000

Oh absolutely. I love that whole trip, and she sort of did it again in the inner sleave for The Wild Heart; the pseudo-Sapphic lounging on the shag rug, with wine glasses, tambourines and potted palms.

I've always wanted a HUGE poster of that image to put on the wall above my piano. I think it is absolutely gorgeous!

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by David

Has there been another album? I don't think so, right? No more covers to judge ... yet.

Crystal Visions and Soundstage...

[jellyman10]

I don't like any of her covers all that much.

For the new album, I think it would be really good if she used something that symbolized her but wasn't actually Stevie herself. I think portraiture is just a bit dated, generally.

But I have a vote and I'm a gonna use it - Rock A Little!

[Christopher]

I voted for Wild Heart. If not only for the wonderful dripping calligraphy logo, but that cover fascinated me to no end when it was released. I would stare at it and daze in wonder and fascination, and why did it represented her "wild heart"?? It was crazy & cool and inspired by one of her favorite artists Sulamith Wulfing. Also the original album layout, the sleeve pictures and dedications, along with the lyric insert page were truly inspired, and to me every album after paled in comparison. She could never top this package. The marketing posters on parchment paper of her with the feathers in her hair, hand tinted by Nicks herself were also mysterious and had that personal Stevie touch that no other recording artist ever came close to. Though I do have to give credit to TISL because it was a tremendous return to form.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by David

My fingers are so stubby that it's difficult for me to pull off the runs in the Allegretto of the 17th Piano Sonata (the Tempest). It's a personal handicap that prevents me from being all I can be. I'll never be good, really good.

Now you make me wonder what Paganini would have been capable of, had he favored the piano and not the violin.


I wonder if the OSOTM cover would have been better, had Kenny G posed on it with Stevie.

Michele

[starshine]

I picked WH cause I really like the 3 Stevie's on the cover. (the outtakes I've seen are really nice too) BD is right after that just because its BD and the crytal tamborine and the white roses. I love the calligraphy writing. RAL is ok but I like some of the outtakes better. Mirror LP cover could be better. I haven't seen too many outtakes but what I have those might have been a better choice. TS not liking at all. Her head is just too big and not liking her hair at all. SA outtakes are better than whats used and not liking the font type for her name either. I think a better choice could've been made. Enchanted horrible feather. Should've been Stevie on the acutal cover. No TISL love from me. Outtakes are better. I'd rather see Stevie's face than her back side. CV is nice but I think a collage photo would've been better or a more current photo shoot. Live in Chicago isn't bad at least its a head to toe Stevie shot. Well, thats IMO.

[CreepingDeath]

Originally Posted by David

I don't go in for the pink-powder-puff mysticism on Stevie. I go for the hard-rawkin' mysticism of her younger days. So I like the Bella Donna front cover because that's the gal who rawks it. The only problem is the back cover, where Stevie looks Mongoloid. But redemption comes on the inside sleeve photo, with the rich woods & tapestries & the three hip ladies draping their thin, sleek bodies over the furniture & beckoning all to enter their dark realm.

On the second album, it looks like "Dumb & Dumber & Dumbest." Bad photography on her ol' face there--she looks like a psych ward patient. Plus, you can't even see the cool black cape with the hood because the backdrop is so dark. That was dumb--look at how beautifully lighted Worthington's covers are for Fleetwood Mac. The backdrops are bright & nondescript. You don't even notice them; your gaze is drawn right to the figures up front. Inside sleeve photos are quite nice, but it's a shame Sandy Stewart is in them. She doesn't get it. She probably thought that if you just look pouty & stupid, you can capture Stevie's or Sharon's aura.

On the third album, Stevie looks like a kewpie doll on a stick on the front cover. I really miss not having that chilling black cradle & its matching rocking chair. I don't even remember what's on the back cover.

The fourth album is grotesque. Did Worthington consult with a 12-year-old Stevie Nicks fan? Did he ask some poetic-minded but illiterate young chit in junior high school, "How do you see Stevie?"?

But I guess it goes with the crap on the album. It may be Stevie's most perfect amalgamation of shlock form & shlock content--true shlock art.

The fifth album--which one is that? I don't even remember. Timespace? Garish & female impersonatorish. These were Stevie's tackiest years. She seemed to be punishing herself for having grown so big & stodgy. She wallowed in her grotesquerie. (Think of the stupidly zonked way she replied to Jim Ladd backstage at the Whiskey in 1991: "Let me go--let me GO--LET ME GO!!" What a far cry from the totally hip rock babe of 1977.)

The sixth album . . . I'm lost. Street Angel? Powder-puff shlock all around. Bummer, too, because the music was back to being pretty good, & the live singing was certainly a hundred times better than it had been for about eight years.

The seventh album, Trouble in Shangri-La. Dumb dumb dumb, but at least it was carefully produced, with a hint of the old professionalism. Still, the ass is too fat on the front cover, & there is just too much of that calligraphy & all those dragons & twirlies & doilies & ****. Stevie's fans wouldn't know true mysticism (like the great German Romantic Novalis) if it bit them in the ass. But that's neither here nor there.

Has there been another album? I don't think so, right? No more covers to judge ... yet.

You have such a way with words, David.

[iamnotafraid]

Originally Posted by David

I like the Bella Donna front cover because that's the gal who rawks it. The only problem is the back cover, where Stevie looks Mongoloid.

On the second album, it looks like "Dumb & Dumber & Dumbest." Bad photography on her ol' face there--she looks like a psych ward patient.

On the third album, Stevie looks like a kewpie doll on a stick on the front cover.

The fourth album is grotesque.

Timespace? Garish & female impersonatorish. These were Stevie's tackiest years.

Street Angel? Powder-puff shlock all around.

Trouble in Shangri-La... the ass is too fat on the front cover...

Well, well...The Great Danton speaks.
We need more truth on the Ledge, and
this guy brings it.

[jellyman10]

Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

Well, well...The Great Danton speaks.
We need more truth on the Ledge, and
this guy brings it.

The day the truth takes over from opinion on the Ledge, we're all finished.

[cliffdweller]

Bella Donna. It's simple and beautiful and I think it made a bold statement for her first solo album. Love the back cover too.