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Post by vectisfabber on Jun 29, 2011 7:42:14 GMT -5
By virtue of a little judicious cheating on my part (yes I know, it's the Beatles white album, shoot oop) we lose 3 this time - 20 Greatest Hits, Yesterday & Today, and Beatles VI. Vote quickly, I'll update on Friday.
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 Rubber Soul 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 Live At The BBC Anthology 1 Anthology 2 Anthology 3 Yellow Submarine Songtrack Love
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Post by wooltonian on Jun 29, 2011 8:13:54 GMT -5
Beatles '65. What was it with the Capitol sleeves? The EMI UK covers, for the most part, were iconic, original, imaginitive and ground-breaking. Conversely, photos of the Beatles gooning around self-consciously like performing chimps, topped with a mindlessly uninteresting, generic desktop font does not a cover make. This is really terrible by any standards and it deserves to be booted out immediately!
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Post by scousette on Jun 29, 2011 10:47:16 GMT -5
Capitol HELP!
I think it's tacky and ugly because of the way the song titles are laid out on the cover. Very commercial and pedestrian. Especially compared with the UK cover, the US version lacks artistic merit.
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Post by JCV on Jun 29, 2011 11:34:24 GMT -5
Live At The Hollywood BowlJCV
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 29, 2011 11:55:14 GMT -5
Here are the remaining album covers in play for Round 7! 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 Rubber Soul or 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 Live At The BBC Anthology 1 Anthology 2 Anthology 3 Yellow Submarine Songtrack Love
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 29, 2011 11:59:17 GMT -5
Live At The Hollywood Bowl
There might have been a good germ of an idea here but it wasn't followed through. Need a magnafying glass to see The Beatles on the cover. When I quickly scroll the covers from above, my "dial" stops at Hollywood Bowl for just being so boring.
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Post by coachbk on Jun 29, 2011 13:50:21 GMT -5
I'll go with SOMETHING NEW
First off, this wasn't "something new" as most of the material had been released on the United Artists A HARD DAY'S NIGHT soundtrack in the US. A listing of a few songs and a standard performance pic-nothing iconic about this one!
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Post by joeyself on Jun 29, 2011 13:55:21 GMT -5
Gotta agree with JSD, HOLLYWOOD BOWL just looks like it was unfinished or rushed. It's a bit like a mock-up that became the finished product by mistake.
JcS
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Post by wooltonian on Jun 29, 2011 14:07:27 GMT -5
I think 'Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl' suffers from the fact that the sleeve depicted is very faded and dark. C'mon, the original wasn't that colour -- it's a really poor (and small!) image!
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 29, 2011 14:53:22 GMT -5
I think 'Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl' suffers from the fact that the sleeve depicted is very faded and dark. C'mon, the original wasn't that colour -- it's a really poor (and small!) image! You got me Woolie! I confess. I deliberately placed the worst image of Hollywood Bowl I could find to sway the votes here. Not really. ;D I did have trouble finding a good image of that cover but I agree with Woolie that this one is beat up although it appears to have autographs on it. I wonder whose? Still it gives us the cover to look at, albeit well-worn, when voting here.
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Post by glenn1966 on Jun 30, 2011 0:44:22 GMT -5
My vote is for "Something New". Love the photo, and have no problem with the font selection. However, all the elements are scrunched in at the top as if they covers rolled off the press more than slightly "off". Also the duplicated type with the LP's title comes off as a lame attempt by hacks to come across as hip.
On the whole, it looks slipshod in execution.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 30, 2011 11:15:12 GMT -5
The Early Beatles album cover has a better photo from the same photo session as Beatles For Sale. Every critic including Tyler & Carr comment how tired The Beatles look on Beatles For Sale(implying that the music is tired too) but the lads don't look so tired on The Early Beatles taken the very same day, same setting.
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Post by glenn1966 on Jun 30, 2011 13:13:32 GMT -5
My vote is for "Something New". Love the photo, and have no problem with the font selection. However, all the elements are scrunched in at the top as if they covers rolled off the press more than slightly "off". Also the duplicated type with the LP's title comes off as a lame attempt by hacks to come across as hip. On the whole, it looks slipshod in execution. I just noticed that my previous criticism re: looking "off" doesn't apply to the stereo version and I didn't realize it until I pulled my own copy (80's purple label). I still think it's one level below Capitol hackwork.
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Post by wooltonian on Jul 1, 2011 6:05:50 GMT -5
Every critic including Tyler & Carr comment how tired The Beatles look on Beatles For Sale(implying that the music is tired too) but the lads don't look so tired on The Early Beatles taken the very same day, same setting. I remember that Carr and Tyler quote and recall, even at the tender age of twelve or thirteen, thinking - how can you read so much into a photograph? In the case of the BFS cover, their expressions are obviously posed...maybe they wanted a more 'grown up' contrast to the light-hearted goofing around on the 'Hard day's night cover' -- who knows? In a similar vein, critics are often equally guilty about over analysing song lyrics and meaning. Much as I love his book, I think Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the head falls into this category.
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Post by wooltonian on Jul 2, 2011 3:46:02 GMT -5
Vote quickly, I'll update on Friday. Ahem.
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Post by joeyself on Jul 2, 2011 7:41:35 GMT -5
Vote quickly, I'll update on Friday. Ahem. He didn't say WHICH Friday, now did he? JcS
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Post by wooltonian on Jul 2, 2011 9:20:25 GMT -5
Ahem. He didn't say WHICH Friday, now did he?JcS Don't you just love it when Vectis cranks the pace up?
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Post by vectisfabber on Jul 2, 2011 14:36:45 GMT -5
It's not Friday is it?
Sorry folks, it's been a bit hectic. I'll do it as soon as I can, night not be till Weds.
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Post by vectisfabber on Jul 4, 2011 5:01:52 GMT -5
I'll go for Something New. The End.
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