Bella Donna - Should Stevie have flipped the artwork?

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

This is a little uneven because I couldn't find good copies of either picture, buuuut.

wow. the composition is definitely more engaging but the original cover is so iconic, i can't imagine the pictures being flipped.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

This is a little uneven because I couldn't find good copies of either picture, buuuut.

I like this better as the back cover because in 1981 and 2010 we are starved to see a full body shot of Stevie. Especially back then, we loved seeing the leg warmers over the platform boots. You did a nice job though, Lisa.

[Nikolaj]

[QUOTE=Dodfather;901596]Hi guys,

I'm just listening to my copy of the new Sheryl Crow record and I immediately thought that the picture on the back cover is far better than the one she chose for the front! It's a really nice picture of her that i think sums up the positive mood of the album...


Oh, how is the Crow cd, 'front to back, back to front'? I'll admit my favorite cd of hers was 'C'mon C'mon' w 'The Globe Sessions' or her debut as my second favorite. Does she rock a little on this new release? Sorry to use the 'RAL' line in a non-Stevie way, but I don't like me any folky Sheryl. Though, I really did like someone's story and imagery within it about driving through the mountains and having either Detours or Wildflower(s?) being stunning to listen to in that setting, and I believe it.
While writing of Sheryl, isn't 'Safe and Sound' just amazing? LOVE that song, the cd version is very good, but there was some early version of it she did on a 9/11 benefit telethon put together by George Clooney and a late-night (awards show?) version that both topped the version on the cd. Love that song. Think I'll buy the new Sheryl tomorrow, and maybe the Cyndi Lauper blues cd. Seems they might make nice bookends to each other.
Dodfather, has any new Duffy cd been released in the UK yet? I keep hearing about new music from her, but in the States, anyway, it seems to be delayed. Duffy's a girl with some real potential, I think. Or, perhaps, it's an already realized potential, that first cd was good.
But I think she can really go further. In your opinion, has she peaked? Couldn't be, could it, yet?

[fringed n fab]

I like the cover left as is. Even with the legwarmers she was wearing at the time. I actually prefer the boots without them and glad they were put away. It shows off the boots more without them, why cover them up? Suede or velvet has a natural crease effect up the leg anyway.

[Phil]

I've always loved the back cover of Bella Donna but does anybody else agree with me that she looks like a white Donna Summer in this shot?
Speaking of reversing front/back shots, I definitely think this should have been the case for The Other Side Of The Mirror cover. The back shot is gorgeous whilst the front shot is just plain weird with all the re-touching. The face doesn't even resemble Stevie.

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

This is a little uneven because I couldn't find good copies of either picture, buuuut.

Yes - I love this! Well done!

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by Nikolaj

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Oh, how is the Crow cd, 'front to back, back to front'?

has any new Duffy cd been released in the UK yet?

I'll post a review of the Sheryl album in the Chit Chat room later. I really quite like it, but NOT the bonus track... I prefer rocking Sheryl too, by quite some margin. My favourite album is The Globe Sessions followed by Sheryl Crow. As for C'mon C'mon I think the title track may be my favourite on there...


No new Duffy album yet. Although her first album did get one of those really, rreally annoying re-releases with an extra track (Rain On My Parade - it's good) on it. I hate that. I just bought that one song off itunes. The problem was that there was major over-exposure of Duffy in the UK. She was everywhere and you couldnt get away from the album. She also did a Diet Coke ad.

I do like her first album but had to put it away because I got sick of it. She needs to stay away for a little bit and come back (maybe next year) with aother good album, then she might have some longevity and not just be someone with one giood album and a lot of hype.

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by Nikolaj

Nice job, goldustsongbird!
Can her handwritten 'come in out of the darkness' go to the right of her image?
I can just imagine it, I bet it would be too hard to photoshop it.

I scanned my album sleeve to try it, but it didn't look right when I added it. Too crowded.

[skuncles]

Well they did sort of already do this, the Italian sleeve for "Edge Of Seventeen" did just what you've suggested.

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by skuncles

Well they did sort of already do this, the Italian sleeve for "Edge Of Seventeen" did just what you've suggested.

Mine's better.

[Maxd9]

I ADORE the tambourine picture of Stevie, but I do think it works better as a back cover - especially on vinyl. The front cover is just so iconic.

In my opinion, the only album artwork that should definately have been flipped was 'The Other Side of The Mirror.' I think the back cover for this album is far more interesting...

[jeffd8382]

I actually did a version of the cover like this a couple months ago, as I planned on making a special Bella Donna CD for my sister w/ alternate versions and outtakes... I wondered the same thing, how the back cover would look as the front. I used the "Bella Donna" text from the original cover & the "Stevie Nicks" from a foreign (outside U.S.) single (I can't remember which one).

I was never completely satisfied with it, but here it is:

[cactusjack]

at least this 'cheesy' version wasn't used on the cover though...

[GypsySorcerer]

I like the cover as is. I love how it's a full-length shot. I've never liked the tambo picture on the back. Even though she seems to aim for "doe-eyed" in most of her photos, that one's just too deer-in-the-headlights.

[starshine]

Originally Posted by Nikolaj

Fascinating to me that others have 'flipped' the photos in the cd to make a cover they prefer. I did it 8 years ago with 'TISL' making the inside pic of her in the black dress with the Asian writing my 'cover' photo of the cd, and never changed it back, I like it much better! Though, I 'get' the essence of 'running away' or 'escaping' Shangri La, and that's why she chose the cover shot that she did.
I LIKE dodfather's idea about the back of 'BD' being the front cover, I think it would work really well.
The REALLY bad mistake (worst ever?) made was the cover of 'Enchanted'-- granted, it was about her writing and her voice, but to have such an iconic star's box set have an effing feather on the cover was just too lame. I always thought 'Enchanted' would have sold even better than it had, if a killer shot of Stevie had been on the cover of the box set. It was such a missed opportunity, but I think maybe it may have been that Stevie was trying to distance her image from her 'prettiness' so she put the plain feather on the cover, or quill, with her signature.
At the time, I thought she must have wanted the emphasis to be on all of the music she'd written inside the box set... but a freakin' feather for the cover?! Then, 'Sable On Blonde' wasn't even included, which, at least, has a freakin' feather mentioned in the song!!
Madness. Just madness. If people like your physical presentation and had been buying it for decades- Use what ya got!
Yes, I know CN was the 'art director' of that cd, but SN approved the cover.
Besides, I think all the brother bashing wouldn't go over with Her Stevieness
Not a bit.
Nice brother, good brother, uhh... talented brother. But what a bad cover for the boxset!!

I so agree with you about the Enchanted Box set. It really should've been Stevie's picture on it. I do love the Blue Lamp picture inside but if not that than some beautiful outtake photo. She's got tons of them. How could not ONE of those outtakes not made the cut so to speak. I'll not ever understand really. I myself like BD like it is.....I also think they (the pictures) front & back covers that it was meant to be that way. Personally, I don't like the Shangri-la LP cover. The outtakes are more beautifu.....esp the one with all the flowers. That should've been the LP /Cd cover....same with the outtakes for Street Angel.....more beautiful......but we all like what we like and there's nothing wrong with that either. I also think the Timespace photo could've been better as well. Another outtake or something.....anyway.....its all good......