Worst Bob Dylan Clbum Cover artwork/design
Dennis J Green
If you can't come up with something good, give me a current photo of
Bob, is my way of thinking
The Saved album cover was just a little too over the top (and was
replaced for a while) the CD release brought back the original cover (I
think) Was there any other album cover changed besides Saved. Just
inquiring.
A discussion of album cover art/graphics/subjects/etc would be
interesting and different on rmd.
Epic1934
here today gone tomorrow liner notes by Peter Hamill-on-Trial..
DerekKTR
1 Shot of Love
2 Oh Mercy
3 Knocked out Loaded
followed by...
4 Empire Burlesque
5 Down in the Groove
- Dylan and the Dead
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John W. Leys
DerekKTR wrote:
> The worst 3 are standout, and I reckon they'll be everyones top, or bottom 3.
You reckon wrong =)
> 2 Oh Mercy
I've always loved the cover for "Oh Mercy". Great artwork, in my opinion.
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Seth Kulick
DerekKTR <dere...@aol.com> wrote:
>The worst 3 are standout, and I reckon they'll be everyones top, or bottom 3.
>
>2 Oh Mercy
>3 Knocked out Loaded
what?????? Oh Mercy is a great cover - one of my favorites of the Dylan
covers. I also really like the Shot of Love cover. I think Paul
Williams comments that it matches the idea of the album as containing
more "pop" songs. I still remember when I bought it immediately upon
its release (8/15/81, I think), walking into the record store and asking
for the new Dylan album. It's down the aisle, the guy said - "it's the one
that looks like a cartoon".
Knocked out Loaded, though - ugh. Dylan the Dead - horrible!! But what's
wrong with Down in the Groove or Empire Burlesque?
>
>followed by...
>4 Empire Burlesque
>5 Down in the Groove
>- Dylan and the Dead
>
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Eric Bloom
the world's most ardent Dylan fanatic. I live, eat, drink, and dream
(DREAMING OF DYLAN: You Can't Play A Rubber Guitar)
Bob Dylan. But I'm no sychophant. Of all the photos taken of the great
one, they picked that piece of drecchh for EMPIRE? I just don't get it.
Never have, never will.
Photo sucks, pose sucks, jacket sucks, lighting sucks. Cool hair,
though.
CELEBRATING ART AS A WAY OF LIFE!
Rontem
Shakedwn98
though I LOOOVE this album, "New Morning" because it is just so bland and
"traditional looking", it belongs on a mantle or bookshelf, not an album cover.
Also, for sheer tackiness "John Wesley Harding"...BLAH.
As for the best, World Gone Wrong, TOOM, Oh Mercy, Infidels, Greatest Hits 3
vol...@my-dejanews.com
> The Saved album cover was just a little too over the top (and was
> replaced for a while) the CD release brought back the original cover (I
> think)
What was the replacement art? I'm thinking maybe a photo of a piggy-bank.
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Alan Fraser
> Dennis J Green <deng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> The Saved album cover was just a little too over the top (and was
>> replaced for a while) the CD release brought back the original cover (I
>> think)
>
>What was the replacement art? I'm thinking maybe a photo of a piggy-bank.
The article Looking Up Dylan's Sleeves Part 4 by Rod MacBeath in
Telegraph 53 is where to look, both sleeves are illustrated. The first
was the pastel hands drawing by Tony Wright, the second was a pastel
drawing by Tony Wright of Bob and the band taken from a photograph he
took in Montreal in April 1980, which originally appeared on the inner
sleeve. I thought too that the CD release restored the original cover,
but apparently the earliest CDs have the band picture.
Saved was Bob's attempt to work out songs on the road and then
recreate them in the studio with the road band. Not entirely
successful, but undeserving of your piggy bank crack.
Alan
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alan....@cwcom.net wrote:
> Saved was Bob's attempt to work out songs on the road and then
> recreate them in the studio with the road band. Not entirely
> successful, but undeserving of your piggy bank crack.
Undeserving? It was just a visual pun on the title 'saved'. I don't have an
opinion on the artistic merits of the album. I don't think I've ever listened
to it.
Lloyd Fonvielle
Alan Fraser wrote:
> Saved was Bob's attempt to work out songs on the road and then
> recreate them in the studio with the road band. Not entirely
> successful, but undeserving of your piggy bank crack.
When "Saved" came out I listened to it maybe once, instantly wrote it off as
more of that Christian stuff. I wasn't offended by this, just thought it was
a Dylan quirk that could be dismissed until he got back on track. Since then
I've read a lot of critical writing that dismisses "Saved" as an attempt to
recreate the tour sound, which the musicians were too worn out to accomplish.
I recently listened to "Saved" again and found it terrific. It's a
really great album. The sound of the ensemble is very powerful, with some
genuine funk to it. To me it gets across more of a live feel than "Hard
Rain", ironically, which has a kind of programmed spontaneity to it -- like
those fake live albums groups used to put out, with overdubbed audience
sounds and scripted interjections. (To me, the whole Rolling Thunder
enterprise was more about the idea of the tour than about the music.)
"Saved" also has some of Dylan's sweetest and most emotional singing.
The preaching is kept to a minimum -- it's a testifying album, with Dylan's
psyche very close to the surface. I think this quality made it hard to
accept at the time, not the Christian content per se. We are uncomfortable
in this society addressing issues of faith, any faith, so intimately -- it
violates our sense of decorum, like discussing bathroom habits in public.
I hear Dylan very exposed in this album -- the pain he's coming out of,
or trying to come out of, just as wrenching as it was on "Blood On the
Tracks" . . . the hopefulness more touching and convincing than on any other
Dylan album I can think of.
If anybody has avoided "Saved" because of its general dismissal by
critics, take another listen. There's some great stuff on it.
Alan Fraser
>In article <365fdb4...@news.cwcom.net>,
> alan....@cwcom.net wrote:
>
>> Saved was Bob's attempt to work out songs on the road and then
>> recreate them in the studio with the road band. Not entirely
>> successful, but undeserving of your piggy bank crack.
>
>Undeserving? It was just a visual pun on the title 'saved'. I don't have an
>opinion on the artistic merits of the album. I don't think I've ever listened
>to it.
Fair enough. I read your comment as meaning Bob had just done it for
the money.
Alan