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Post by vectisfabber on Sept 22, 2011 3:25:04 GMT -5
HELP! (or, as I like to call it, NUJV!) - gone. Deservedly so, perhaps. Play on, chaps.
Please Please Me With The Beatles (and Meet The Beatles US) A Hard Day’s Night (UK) Beatles For Sale Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Abbey Road Let It Be 1967-70
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Sept 22, 2011 6:31:47 GMT -5
I'll vote to ax LET IT BE at this point. (I want 67-70 to remain because it was really a nice idea having the Beatles reprising their original album in their late years).
Of what's left, LIB is just the least interesting looking to me.
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Post by coachbk on Sept 22, 2011 8:55:30 GMT -5
Hard Day's Night (UK)
They are all good now. Perhaps looks too much like a movie promo rather than the cover to a groundbreaking album of music.
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Post by vectisfabber on Sept 22, 2011 10:39:43 GMT -5
I'll join you on Let It Be, Joe, for the same reasons as in the last round. All the remaining sleeves are good.
Except Let It Be.
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Post by JCV on Sept 22, 2011 12:02:45 GMT -5
1967-70 I'm going with the blue. JCV
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 22, 2011 21:28:18 GMT -5
Here are the remaining covers for Round Sweet 16! Please Please Me With The Beatles (and Meet The Beatles US) A Hard Day’s Night (UK) Beatles For Sale Rubber Soul or Revolver Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Abbey Road Let It Be 1967-70
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 22, 2011 21:39:03 GMT -5
Please Please Me
I don't like the haircuts, they don't look like The Moptops yet. I don't like the cheesy writing on the cover.
I like the isolation vibe in the LIB cover.
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Post by wooltonian on Sept 23, 2011 3:13:58 GMT -5
'A hard day's night' and 'Let it be' are the weakest here -- the two 'movie' covers. It's almost as if because the albums were associated with films their design was more conservative...less experimental. I'm going to vote off 'Let it be'. At least AHDN has an element of fun about it and attempts to capture the vibe of the film. 'Let it be' is nondescript.
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Post by scousette on Sept 23, 2011 19:53:00 GMT -5
LET IT BE
I've never really liked this cover. There's something cold and bleak about it. The four portraits hardly capture them at their best.
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 23, 2011 21:08:14 GMT -5
This may belong on the other page but Let it Be was the only release after the Paul is Dead rumor. If you look at the cover as a clock, Wednesday morning at 5:00 you have George smiling, he hasn't heard the news. Ringo at 7:00 o'clock has heard about the accident. He's looking pretty somber. At 11:00, John has heard Paul is dead. He looks like he is in a state of shock. At 1:00, half of Paul face is in shadows and covered by the microphone, hidden as if maybe disfigured. The background is blood red. The black and white pictures on the back are the same, except Paul's eyes are closed.
Let it Be is one of my favorite albums. I remember getting to stay home from church to see the Beatles on Sullivan. Hell the Beatles were more popular than Christ with me. After seeing them the first time, I would not go to church again, if the Beatles were going to be on Sullivan.
My sister bought Let it Be and I was surprised how different they looked. (Maybe that's not the same guy who sang Yesterday, not noticing that they all looked different.)
I think they all looked pretty cool on the cover, even Ringo. I'd have to go with Please, Please Me.
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Post by Blackguard on Sept 23, 2011 23:16:17 GMT -5
Again I say A Hard Days Night must go. It's very dated and just plain bland.
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Post by joeyself on Sept 24, 2011 8:43:48 GMT -5
I'll go with LET IT BE this time. The design is OK, but there had to be better photos to put in it than what was used.
JcS
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 24, 2011 12:01:55 GMT -5
LET IT BE I've never really liked this cover. There's something cold and bleak about it. The four portraits hardly capture them at their best. I totally agree with your description of the LIB cover as cold and bleak but that is its appeal to me! It was a cold and bleak period(January 1969) with the band coming together too soon after the arduous White album sessions.
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Post by theman on Sept 25, 2011 13:29:53 GMT -5
Please Please Me
Other than the retro feel, nothing about it is particularly interesting or artistic.
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 25, 2011 23:08:25 GMT -5
Please Please Me Other than the retro feel, nothing about it is particularly interesting or artistic. Well said and the The Beatles all look like freaking Goobers.
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Post by Snookeroo on Sept 26, 2011 0:51:54 GMT -5
Let It Be
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Post by wooltonian on Sept 26, 2011 3:35:35 GMT -5
The one thing I do like about 'Let it be' is the lack of usual uniformity in their facial expressions. In all the other sleeves the four Beatles are uniformly solemn (Beatles for sale, With the Beatles, Rubber Soul, Pepper) or happy and smiling (AHDN, PPM) like they're performing under orders. At least the photos used for 'Let it be' show the individual Beatles occupying their own space in varying moods, so in that sense it's less contrived. Good choice of photos as well.
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Post by vectisfabber on Sept 26, 2011 5:21:49 GMT -5
Round over.
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