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Post by vectisfabber on Aug 12, 2011 8:32:58 GMT -5
Again, 3 sleeves leave us - the US A Hard Day's Night, the minimalist White album, and Anthology - there have been votes which haven't differentiated between the different Anthology sleeves and, given that they all join up into a single illustration, I guess that's fair enough. So Anthology is out. This is what's left:
Please Please Me With The Beatles (and Meet The Beatles US) A Hard Day’s Night (UK) Beatles For Sale Help! Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Let It Be 1962-66 1967-70 Live At The BBC
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Post by coachbk on Aug 12, 2011 9:26:46 GMT -5
Time for YELLOW SUBMARINE to sink.
A nice little cartoon, but I'll take the real Beatles on the cover from here on out!
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Post by Blackguard on Aug 12, 2011 10:05:36 GMT -5
From The Choices Left I Agree With coachbk, Yellow Submarine Is A Goner. Artist Conception Of The Beatles, Not The Actual Beatles.
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Post by scousette on Aug 12, 2011 10:49:15 GMT -5
YELLOW SUBMARINE -- cutesy and playful but inconsequential as far as I'm concerned. Be gone!
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Post by John S. Damm on Aug 12, 2011 11:10:28 GMT -5
Here are the remaining covers for lucky Round 13! Please Please Me With The Beatles (and Meet The Beatles US) A Hard Day’s Night (UK) Beatles For Sale Help! Rubber Soul or Revolver Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Let It Be 1962-66 1967-70 Live At The BBC
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Post by John S. Damm on Aug 12, 2011 11:14:03 GMT -5
Man, how does the White Album get nuked and not Magical Mystery Tour or even the rather spartan Let It Be?
My vote this Round is:
Magical Mystery Tour
Garish, amateur, outdated and cheap graphics, and it has dorky stars sprinkled all about. I don't like stars on my album covers.
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Post by JCV on Aug 12, 2011 11:30:35 GMT -5
Live At The BBCI don't understand why you guys like this album cover? Can you explain? JCV
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Post by Snookeroo on Aug 12, 2011 12:07:01 GMT -5
Live At The BBCI don't understand why you guys like this album cover? Can you explain? JCV Sure - It's a great image of this band that, only a short time before would probably have not gotten past the front door of the BBC in their leather jackets. Now they are going in the front door as honored guests. Visually, I like how they used the BBC name on the building, adding the bands name above it. It was a nice touch to use a whole different font style for the albums title. The final touch that makes it work is the sepia tone used on the cover. It gives it a certain classic look. If they had colorized it instead it would have ruined it. OK - my vote goes to the red 1962-1966 album. It's only a copy of the PPM album, and the ONLY reason it works is when you have it next to the blue album - but by itself, it's just a copy.
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Post by scousette on Aug 12, 2011 12:38:26 GMT -5
Live At The BBCI don't understand why you guys like this album cover? Can you explain? JCV I like it because it's a great shot of vintage Beatles, casuallly walking down the sidewalk in London, no Beatlemania to ruin the scene, and they are so young and dare I say -- cute. There is an innocence captured in that photo that speaks to me. I think it's a great album or CD cover. I'm glad it's still in the running.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Aug 13, 2011 7:12:55 GMT -5
OK - my vote goes to the red 1962-1966 album. It's only a copy of the PPM album, and the ONLY reason it works is when you have it next to the blue album - but by itself, it's just a copy. This logic sounds good to me. I will now vote to eliminate THE RED 1962-1966 ALBUM too. Only thing I want to mention is -- at the time this cover was issued in the United States, at least, we had not routinely seen the PLEASE PLEASE ME LP cover already. So in 1973, the 1962-1966 cover was actually kinda new.
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Post by wooltonian on Aug 13, 2011 10:49:32 GMT -5
My vote goes to 'Yellow submarine'. It's OK (I actually preferred the simpler and visually more striking 'YS soundtrack' sleeve) but it's in with some big hitters.
I'm astonished that the White Album has gone. It didn't deserve to win, being kinda simple, but I would have thought that for sheer audacity and brave minimalism it deserved a better fate.
If the three different 'Anthology' covers are being treated as one (which I agree with) then shouldn't we just have one Rubber Soul sleeve. The two are near identical and it hardly seems worth voting one off against the other. Just a thought. Makes life simpler.
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Post by anyoneanyhow on Aug 13, 2011 14:08:00 GMT -5
Magical Mystery Tour. JOhn's right, it is garish. Its also an unprofessional cut and paste at a time when record sleeves were considered art. Yellow Sub, on the other hand, is a good piece of wrok, it has the key elements of a move, which you'd want for a movie soundtrack, too bad it's being voted off before the far inferior MMT. I suspect album content may be entering into this vote.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Aug 13, 2011 14:49:38 GMT -5
I suspect album content may be entering into this vote. I suspect album content may have been entering into the votes from the very beginning! You'll notice how all the original UK Beatles covers just "happen" to still be left in the running, right?
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Post by anyoneanyhow on Aug 13, 2011 18:06:31 GMT -5
I suspect album content may be entering into this vote. I suspect album content may have been entering into the votes from the very beginning! You'll notice how all the original UK Beatles covers just "happen" to still be left in the running, right? well, now that you mention it...help and let it be should be gone now, at least...
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Post by joeyself on Aug 23, 2011 17:33:17 GMT -5
Hello? (Hello?) Echo! (Echo!)
JcS
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Post by vectisfabber on Aug 23, 2011 17:42:15 GMT -5
Sorry, dropped of my radar again! I'll update tomorrow if my office computer is online (my wife cleaned the cables at the back and I suspect she's messed up my ethernet cable. Whatever that is).
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Post by vectisfabber on Aug 24, 2011 5:30:05 GMT -5
Thankfully, cables not messed up, she simply clonked the on/off button on the router.
Roll on Round 14!
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