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Post by vectisfabber on Jun 20, 2011 7:44:38 GMT -5
We only lost 1 last time, Rarities (US). A rather classy, tasteful sleeve, I thought, but there you go. I'll try to do the next one a bit quicker otherwise we'll be here for years.
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 20 Greatest Hits Live At The BBC Anthology 1 Anthology 2 Anthology 3 Yellow Submarine Songtrack 1 Love Remastered (trade dress)
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 20, 2011 8:14:18 GMT -5
Here are the remaining album covers in play for Round 5! 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 20 Greatest Hits Live At The BBC Anthology 1 Anthology 2 Anthology 3 Yellow Submarine Songtrack 1 Love Remastered (trade dress) or
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 20, 2011 8:26:30 GMT -5
20 Greatest Hits
I vote for this again for the boring, easy way out approach of the suits. Like the cover art, this album inspired precious few people in the 1980's. For better or for worse, music was evolving in the 1980's and The Beatles weren't really that relevant on the surface at least. We know that their influence though is always lurking even if under the surface often above.
JoeKarlosi was right in that The Beatles have suffered disproportionately post-break-up with bad album covers as this fun tourney is showing.
I must say the BBC album cover is looking pretty darn good for a post-break-up album.
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Post by JCV on Jun 20, 2011 12:00:28 GMT -5
Remastered (trade dress)I'm going with the remastered covers. Boring... JCV
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Post by coachbk on Jun 20, 2011 14:39:25 GMT -5
I'll also go with the Remastered covers-not much imagination going into those at all. Once the original White Album (THE BEATLES)was done all these other "minimalist" type covers were really redundant.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 20, 2011 16:19:36 GMT -5
I've complained about the Anthology covers as looking cheap or making The Beatles look like yesterday's news(the idea of the worn and torn wall posters) but I think Hollywood Bowl could have been better with a better photo of the lads on stage.
As is, it is two tickets and a tiny photo of the Hollywood "Bowl" where one can't see the band.
The excitement and sheer rock and roll of that album is amazing but the cover art induces me to sleep.
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Post by scousette on Jun 20, 2011 17:47:38 GMT -5
Yesterday...And Today
Come on, John Lennon in white socks is horrifying.
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Post by lowbasso on Jun 20, 2011 19:18:32 GMT -5
Yesterday...And Today Come on, John Lennon in white socks is horrifying. The Beatles intended the Butcher cover for this album, so can't blame them for the paste over picture. That was Capitol's decision.
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Post by joeyself on Jun 20, 2011 20:06:11 GMT -5
I'll go with 1 this time. It reminds me of some of Mark Rothko's art work, and that's not a good thing.
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Post by wooltonian on Jun 21, 2011 2:26:11 GMT -5
Beatles VI.
I suspect I'm going to be banging a drum for this cover for some time, so can I condense my comments to the fact that it is stunningly unimaginative and desperately cheesy. We'll leave it at that.
I agree with JSD's point about the Anthology covers. The main problem with all three of them is that they are far too cluttered -- too many images fighting for attention. They are too busy and fail to create a strong overall impression. The basic idea was quite clever, but the execution was off the mark. Not terrible but could have been far better.
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Post by vectisfabber on Jun 21, 2011 4:10:18 GMT -5
I'll go for Beatles VI too on the basis that, if you're going to use a generic group publicity shot, there are only about 150 million of them which are more attractive and eye catching than this one.
In praise of Anthology - a clever concept, well put together, and the full vista of all 3 sleeves together is impressive. Less pleasing is the way Pete Best's head is ripped off the leather Beatles shot on A1 and clumsily substituted with Ringo's from the PPM sleeve.
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Post by wooltonian on Jun 21, 2011 4:47:52 GMT -5
Less pleasing is the way Pete Best's head is ripped off the leather Beatles shot on A1 and clumsily substituted with Ringo's from the PPM sleeve. Wow! You're right -- I'd never looked that closely at it. That is terrible. I can see there is a sort of visual joke going on there, but what a slight! The only picture we get of Pete Best is removed to the bottom left hand corner and even that has a very poor likeness. Shabby.
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Post by nine on Jun 21, 2011 6:22:14 GMT -5
I'll go for Beatles VI too on the basis that, if you're going to use a generic group publicity shot, there are only about 150 million of them which are more attractive and eye catching than this one. In praise of Anthology - a clever concept, well put together, and the full vista of all 3 sleeves together is impressive. Less pleasing is the way Pete Best's head is ripped off the leather Beatles shot on A1 and clumsily substituted with Ringo's from the PPM sleeve. Two thoughts on the covers.... 1. Nice to see Klaus (inner circle) Voorman back. 2. Not great album covers. Also... I've heard he wasn't first pick to do tse covers and also that the deadline was so tight he had to employ an underling to meet the deadline. As an aside, it would have been nice to have Jurgen Vollmer or Astrid take some snaps of The Threetles.
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Post by glenn1966 on Jun 21, 2011 8:03:22 GMT -5
Once again, for the very same reasons given in Round 4, I cast my vote for "1".
BTW: "1" is one of a few Beatles titles that I never bought. I passed on it, because I had everything on it, and there were no new mixes or variations.
I also never bought The Beatles Ballads, and The Beatles Box. Other than those, I've owned every UK and US title in at least one format.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 21, 2011 9:19:29 GMT -5
Once again, for the very same reasons given in Round 4, I cast my vote for "1". BTW: "1" is one of a few Beatles titles that I never bought. I passed on it, because I had everything on it, and there were no new mixes or variations. I also never bought The Beatles Ballads, and The Beatles Box. Other than those, I've owned every UK and US title in at least one format. Glenn, your post reminded me of how many times I held The Beatles Ballad in my hands at Hegewisch Records & Tapes in Merrillville, Indiana and had huge internal debates over buying it. I think it was an Import so it was twice or three times the price of a regular record. The little angel JSD on my right shoulder urged me to buy it, counseling me, "The Beatles have given you such pleasure, support them again with this thoughtful, tender collection of ballads. Besides, you'll otherwise use the money for your sinful vices that you are too young for." The little devil JSD on my left side was, "No, The Beatles' members are trying to screw you, take more of your money for songs you already own one or two times over. Use that money for beer, reefer and hot babes!" I never bought the album but neither did my little bit of money go to beer, reefer or hot babes. I probably bought the red and blue vinyl versions of the Red and Blue Albums instead. My point is, for a budding Beatles completest like me, it was hard to walk away from some of these crap compilations. I think Ballads was the only one I was able to.
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Post by glenn1966 on Jun 21, 2011 13:03:28 GMT -5
Once again, for the very same reasons given in Round 4, I cast my vote for "1". BTW: "1" is one of a few Beatles titles that I never bought. I passed on it, because I had everything on it, and there were no new mixes or variations. I also never bought The Beatles Ballads, and The Beatles Box. Other than those, I've owned every UK and US title in at least one format. Glenn, your post reminded me of how many times I held The Beatles Ballad in my hands at Hegewisch Records & Tapes in Merrillville, Indiana and had huge internal debates over buying it. I think it was an Import so it was twice or three times the price of a regular record. The little angel JSD on my right shoulder urged me to buy it, counseling me, "The Beatles have given you such pleasure, support them again with this thoughtful, tender collection of ballads. Besides, you'll otherwise use the money for your sinful vices that you are too young for." The little devil JSD on my left side was, "No, The Beatles' members are trying to screw you, take more of your money for songs you already own one or two times over. Use that money for beer, reefer and hot babes!" I never bought the album but neither did my little bit of money go to beer, reefer or hot babes. I probably bought the red and blue vinyl versions of the Red and Blue Albums instead. My point is, for a budding Beatles completest like me, it was hard to walk away from some of these crap compilations. I think Ballads was the only one I was able to. John, my completist days are over, though I can easily envision shelling out cash for The Capitol Box Set No. 3
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Post by joeyself on Jun 21, 2011 14:34:57 GMT -5
Once again, for the very same reasons given in Round 4, I cast my vote for "1". BTW: "1" is one of a few Beatles titles that I never bought. I passed on it, because I had everything on it, and there were no new mixes or variations. I also never bought The Beatles Ballads, and The Beatles Box. Other than those, I've owned every UK and US title in at least one format. I think REEL MUSIC is the only one I own, and that's because I got it cheaply when a store near me was going out of business. I don't have Red or Blue, ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC, LOVE SONGS, 1, BALLADS, or any of the others. I did give ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC to my then 9 year old brother in 1981 when the collections were split and sold in the cut-out racks. I also gave 1967-70 to an old girlfriend in 1975, but never owned one myself. JcS
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2011 7:54:37 GMT -5
Reel music i had on cassette......i've since binned it...i no longer possess a cassette player....
In fact, i binned about 300 cassettes......maybe more.....
I'd love to bin my vinyl but i'd need a fairly large bin ;D
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Post by wooltonian on Jun 23, 2011 10:42:28 GMT -5
Reel music i had on cassette......i've since binned it...i no longer possess a cassette player.... In fact, i binned about 300 cassettes......maybe more..... I'd love to bin my vinyl but i'd need a fairly large bin ;D I sold all my vinyl to a bloke I met in a pub for ten quid. Thirty years of dedicated collecting gone in an instant. I don't miss the albums -- you can buy virtually anything on CD or download these days without all the vinyl crackly bits, but I do miss some of my early punk singles: 'Orgasm addict', 'What do I get?',' Bowi E.P'., 'Less than zero'. Products of their time and part of my growing up -- irreplaceable.
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Post by joeyself on Jun 23, 2011 13:07:20 GMT -5
I sold all my vinyl to a bloke I met in a pub for ten quid. Thirty years of dedicated collecting gone in an instant. I don't miss the albums -- you can buy virtually anything on CD or download these days without all the vinyl crackly bits, but I do miss some of my early punk singles: 'Orgasm addict', 'What do I get?',' Bowi E.P'., 'Less than zero'. Products of their time and part of my growing up -- irreplaceable. How many pints into the evening were you when you made that deal? I have about 1200 albums, and my turntable barely works these days--I have a hard time getting it to run at exactly 33 1/3 or 45--but wouldn't think of selling them (much to my wife's chargin) for a pittance. Which is just about what used (and abused) vinyl will bring these days... JcS
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Post by wooltonian on Jun 23, 2011 14:11:51 GMT -5
I sold all my vinyl to a bloke I met in a pub for ten quid. Thirty years of dedicated collecting gone in an instant. I don't miss the albums -- you can buy virtually anything on CD or download these days without all the vinyl crackly bits, but I do miss some of my early punk singles: 'Orgasm addict', 'What do I get?',' Bowi E.P'., 'Less than zero'. Products of their time and part of my growing up -- irreplaceable. How many pints into the evening were you when you made that deal? I have about 1200 albums, and my turntable barely works these days--I have a hard time getting it to run at exactly 33 1/3 or 45--but wouldn't think of selling them (much to my wife's chargin) for a pittance. Which is just about what used (and abused) vinyl will bring these days... JcS I was actually relatively lucid and rational, which is unusual. The thing about vinyl is gradually over time you play it less and less and it gets harder and harder to justify the acres of room-space it consumes in the house. Either that or the whole collection gets shifted into the garage. At the time I thought I would bitterly regret my hasty decision to sell, but actually I haven't. All I need to do now is work out what to do with my box-loads of CDs!
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Post by joeyself on Jun 23, 2011 21:51:50 GMT -5
I was actually relatively lucid and rational, which is unusual. The thing about vinyl is gradually over time you play it less and less and it gets harder and harder to justify the acres of room-space it consumes in the house. Either that or the whole collection gets shifted into the garage. At the time I thought I would bitterly regret my hasty decision to sell, but actually I haven't. All I need to do now is work out what to do with my box-loads of CDs! It certainly is true for me about playing the vinyl less and less; it's downstairs in the basement area, and I'm often upstairs on the computer. That's where I listen to most of my music these days. Space considerations isn't an issue for me, though; we have about 1000 sq. ft. of storage space--heated and cooled, finished walls up but--and I have my albums in a bookcase there. It's probably 4 feet wide and 3 1/2 feet high, so it really doesn't eat up a lot of that area. Were we in an apartment or small house (our first one was only slightly larger than the storage area in this one!), then yeah, I'd have to consider moving it out. JcS
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 23, 2011 22:12:05 GMT -5
My record collection was banished from our house by my wife. I have them in cold storage at my office. Some were damaged when an air conditioning line broke, sending some water on the floor.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jun 24, 2011 7:44:05 GMT -5
My record collection was banished from our house by my wife. I have them in cold storage at my office. Some were damaged when an air conditioning line broke, sending some water on the floor. John, you frequently mention this kind of abuse. Why on Earth do you tolerate it? Or is it just some kind of gag you're pretending?
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Post by vectisfabber on Jun 24, 2011 8:07:03 GMT -5
I'll go with Y&T - I never did like that luggage shot, particularly cropped out of its actual background and dropped onto white. Having said that, it does actually suit the album, being cit from the same cloth.
And with that, on to round 6.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 24, 2011 9:27:17 GMT -5
My record collection was banished from our house by my wife. I have them in cold storage at my office. Some were damaged when an air conditioning line broke, sending some water on the floor. John, you frequently mention this kind of abuse. Why on Earth do you tolerate it? Or is it just some kind of gag you're pretending? It is true and I was joining the discussion here on the problem of storing vinyl records especially when they are not oftened played. My wife made it easier for me not to play the vinyl records because she ordered them out of the house. Truth be told she is gunning now for my c.d.'s to be removed saying they are unneccesary in this era of downloads and I-Pods.
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Post by wooltonian on Jun 24, 2011 9:51:09 GMT -5
I'll go with Y&T - I never did like that luggage shot, particularly cropped out of its actual background and dropped onto white. Having said that, it does actually suit the album, being cit from the same cloth. And with that, on to round 6. Vectis, you already voted for Beatles VI in this round and the Abbey Road law of natural justice would dictate that we have to count your first vote and discount all further contradictory pronouncements. Recount?
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Post by vectisfabber on Jun 24, 2011 11:21:11 GMT -5
Oh bollocks. I was just trying to get rid of another title. OK, Y&T stays in.
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