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Post by vectisfabber on Jun 6, 2011 12:06:10 GMT -5
Last round saw us lose, with 3 votes each: Love Songs Rarities (UK) From Then To You (UK) For fear of causing offence, I will relax my rules and see how it goes - I will no longer insist on a rationale for your choice which exceeds two words, but I will politely request same. I won't disregard your vote, though. This what's called democracy at work, even though running your own Survivor ought to be a flippin' dictatorship. Good job I'm such a peaceable cover or won't there wouldn't half be trouble. Please Please Me With The Beatles (and Meet The Beatles US) A Hard Day’s Night (UK) A Hard Day’s Night (US) Beatles For Sale Something New Beatles 65 Help! The Early Beatles Beatles VI Rubber Soul Yesterday... And Today Revolver Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Hey Jude (The Beatles Again) Let It Be From Then To You (US) 1962-66 1967-70 Live At The Hollywood Bowl Rarities (US) The Beatles Ballads The Beatles Box (World Records box set) 20 Greatest Hits Live At The BBC Anthology 1 Anthology 2 Anthology 3 Yellow Submarine Songtrack 1 Let It Be... Naked Love Remastered (trade dress) Read more: abbeyrd.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=2762&page=1#ixzz1OW4JZKE5
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Post by joeyself on Jun 6, 2011 12:29:35 GMT -5
THE BEATLES BALLADS for me again this time. The cover reminds me of something else; I think it may have been a Gerry Rafferty cover for CAN I HAVE MY MONEY BACK.
JcS
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Post by scousette on Jun 6, 2011 12:59:59 GMT -5
Yesterday...And Today
The Beatles look totally bored. The lighting is horrendous. John is wearing white socks. The idea of Paul stuffed into a steamer trunk is tantalizing but he looks like he would rather be scrubbing toilets.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 6, 2011 14:11:25 GMT -5
Here are the remaining album covers left for Round 3! Please Please Me With The Beatles (and Meet The Beatles US) A Hard Day’s Night (UK) A Hard Day’s Night (US) Beatles For Sale Something New Beatles 65 Help! or The Early Beatles Beatles VI Rubber Soul or Yesterday... And Today Revolver Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Hey Jude (The Beatles Again) Let It Be From Then To You (US) 1962-66 1967-70 Live At The Hollywood Bowl Rarities (US) The Beatles Ballads The Beatles Box (World Records box set) 20 Greatest Hits Live At The BBC Anthology 1 Anthology 2 Anthology 3 Yellow Submarine Songtrack 1 Let It Be... Naked Love Remastered (trade dress) or
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Jun 6, 2011 14:37:29 GMT -5
I'll vote for the Beatles Box, probably the blandest cover in existence.
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Post by glenn1966 on Jun 6, 2011 15:00:20 GMT -5
Yesterday...And Today The Beatles look totally bored. The lighting is horrendous. John is wearing white socks. The idea of Paul stuffed into a steamer trunk is tantalizing but he looks like he would rather be scrubbing toilets. And, the image is wrong way 'round too.
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Post by glenn1966 on Jun 6, 2011 15:06:04 GMT -5
Let It Be... Naked My vote, STILL, is for Let It Be...Naked. The Beatles look scary and/or indistinguishable.
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Post by coachbk on Jun 6, 2011 16:38:36 GMT -5
Rarities (US)
I would think a bunch of rare photos would have made since. And how about a listing of tracks? (oh yeah because they really were not that rare)
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 6, 2011 20:58:03 GMT -5
The Beatles Box (World Records box set)
I join Steve on this vote. A wood crate with a small, unexciting photo of the band doesn't help convey the excitement of the music within. If a fan was to shell out huge bucks for this box, they should get better cover art.
We are getting to harder choices. I was looking carefully at the early American covers and they suddenly seem better to me than I remember. I am not saying better than the U.K. covers but I was pleasantly surprised by things like Beatles 65 and Beatles VI.
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Post by wooltonian on Jun 7, 2011 2:31:26 GMT -5
Beatles VIWhat can I say? This is generic, uninspired, corporate hackwork, thrown together with absoutely zero imagination. The lettering font is straight out of a third-rate business manual -- where does any of it relate to the the Beatles' logo, identity or even spirit? It's stodgy, boring, insipid, dull, dull, dull -- tossed of with no love whatsoever by a shed-load of men in grey suits with their gaze firmly fixed upon the 'bottom line'. It is a piece of product. Quite literally, Beatles for sale. Complete dross... ...oh, and the photo is corny too.
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Post by vectisfabber on Jun 7, 2011 4:37:30 GMT -5
I would argue contrariwise about The Beatles Box, but only because I've seen the entire package. This was an 8-LP compilation. Each LP had its own sleeve, completely different to the regular albums, and there was a sprinkling of rare tracks throughout it (the hi-hat intro All My Loving, the trumpet coda Penny Lane etc.). The individual album sleeve designs each featured a photo from the era represented peeking through wrapping, as if each album was a parcel/gift in the process of being unwrapped, and the box was designed as a packing case in which the individual items were being shipped (hence the full title The Beatles Box From Liverpool). So the 8 albums and the box were a thematic whole, and a moderate amount of effort had gone into the design. Uninspired it might be - slipshod and slapped together with no thought it wasn't. Just my two penn'orth, and votes cast are votes cast! www.bassdivision.com/the-beatles-box-from-liverpool-world-records-ltd-990-p.aspIncidentally, following on from Joe's comment in the previous round, it's interesting to note that the long T Beatles trademark logo never appeared on an album in The Beatles active lifetime. The first album it appeared on was 20 Greatest Hits, and it has subseqently featured on EVERY album except let It Be...Naked.
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Post by Blackguard on Jun 7, 2011 9:11:55 GMT -5
From the choices in this round: From Then To You. It is too busy, it's just not well concieved. A similar idea of faces in cubes was used on Bachman-Turner Overdrive's second album to much better advantage.
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Post by JCV on Jun 7, 2011 11:59:26 GMT -5
Rarities (US)I'm going with this one 'cause I agree with coach, they should have some RARE photos on the cover, not just the one! JCV
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Jun 7, 2011 12:55:38 GMT -5
I would argue contrariwise about The Beatles Box, but only because I've seen the entire package. This was an 8-LP compilation. Each LP had its own sleeve, completely different to the regular albums, and there was a sprinkling of rare tracks throughout it (the hi-hat intro All My Loving, the trumpet coda Penny Lane etc.). The individual album sleeve designs each featured a photo from the era represented peeking through wrapping, as if each album was a parcel/gift in the process of being unwrapped, and the box was designed as a packing case in which the individual items were being shipped (hence the full title The Beatles Box From Liverpool). So the 8 albums and the box were a thematic whole, and a moderate amount of effort had gone into the design. Uninspired it might be - slipshod and slapped together with no thought it wasn't. Just my two penn'orth, and votes cast are votes cast! www.bassdivision.com/the-beatles-box-from-liverpool-world-records-ltd-990-p.aspIncidentally, following on from Joe's comment in the previous round, it's interesting to note that the long T Beatles trademark logo never appeared on an album in The Beatles active lifetime. The first album it appeared on was 20 Greatest Hits, and it has subseqently featured on EVERY album except let It Be...Naked. Oh, I've seen the Beatles Box inside, too. I have one. But still, the outside is not very inviting. I have to partially agree about the Rarities cover with coach, but they really weren't trying to do anything there. So nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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Post by vectisfabber on Jun 10, 2011 5:08:20 GMT -5
I'll go with Ballads. I don't care for Alan Aldridge's Beatles illustrations - they are mannered and fairly grotesque and, in my view, they don't suit a Beatles album.
And that's it for this round.
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