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dude.

i know you're unemployed, but shouldn't you spend your money on something besides malt liquor? it makes you post teh suck.

Disagree on both, especially IORR which I hate: creepy neo-Nazi imagery is not my cup.

For the Stones, Sticky Fingers or Stripped. For Dylan, BIABH or Desire is much better than that.

Greatest ever: King Crimson 21st Century Schizoid Man comes to mind, Pink Floyd Animals, the Dead American Beauty, The Who Sell Out . . . Zepplein IV fascinated me as a child looking through my older sister's record collection. The peasant with the sticks on his back against the wall of a crumbling tenement.

IORR is cool. I know it was inspired by some Nazi painting but it's not evident just looking at it on its own. Geez, it's been a long time since there was a cool CD cover. Revenge of the SD?

Starbuck, yes, TTM is dull & insipid but if he actually starts a thread that is about music & doesn't include some wacky poll, I'm all for giving him a pass.

Can't you find a nice truckstop & get some "work"?

"Their Satantic Majestics Request" comes to mind, "Diamond Dogs" (same guy who did IORR, Guy Peellaert Rock Dreams) also Sgt. Pepper, Absolutely Free, We're only in it for the money, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street, Odgen's Nut Gone (small Faces) Cheech & Chong Album covers (they always were creative) 2 Alice Cooper albums-School's Out & Billion Dollar Babies, I know there's others but can't think of them right now.

Nirvana's Teen Spirit, some early Dylans, Oasis's Morning glory...

Sorry, Rodge but that's ghastly. Simply ghastly.

IORR is my favorite

but Sticky Fingers is, in a nutshell, all that is Sex Drugs & Rock N Roll

(excuse the pun)

Doesn't get much better then their second Decca LP - and, no writing on the sleeve: the imagery says it all.

Honky Tonk Man wrote on Apr 30^th, 2009 at 1:49pm:

Doesn't get much better then their second Decca LP - and, no writing on the sleeve: the imagery says it all.

Amen. Beautiful and snotty at the same time... 8-)

Well, I'm partial to Sticky Fingers or Let It Bleed myself.

LIB was the first Stones vinyl I bought when I was 13. So, LIB is the winner for the bizarro cake cover.

the Flowers album cover has long been a favorite of mine.

non stones?

probably....bob marley's Uprising.

:wtf1

I always thought Let It Bleed was a terrible cover.

The first album that HTM posted above is great. I think it was the first album to NOT have the title or artist's name on it. Pretty groundbreaking for a band issuing their debut album. Sticky Fingers, Exile and Some Girls are amongst the Stones best ones - coincidentally, its their three best albums as well IMO. Most of the recent Stones album covers have been poor - especially the live albums. In the post-vinyl age, it seems to be a lost art (no pun intended)

Odd choice of Infidels for a good Dylan album cover. The early ones are mostly great - especially Freewheelin', , Highway 61 etc.

My fave Dylan ones though are these three :

(two very different moods there!)

For me its not even close...The original with the working zipper..And the new open G sound of Brown Sugar to kick it off......

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Cheers - I wondered why the 'Decca' logo on the front looked unfamiliar!

'Black and Blue' is a great cover as well. They've rarely looked more threatening. Especially Keith and Charlie, who resembles an east end gangster.

Roxy Music has the best covers....

I swear, that looks like a Brady Bunch kid...

Stefan Sagmeister's the man for Rolling Stones covers

May 04, 2009 12:00am
new.com.au
HeraldSun

MICK Jagger knew he had the perfect man to design the next Rolling Stones album. Stefan Sagmeister had the band covered, as seen in his design for Sticky Fingers.

The year was 1997 and Stefan Sagmeister's impressive track record included poster and cover art for Lou Reed and David "Talking Heads" Byrne.

But when the award-winning graphic designer met Jagger and the band in London to discuss concepts for Bridges to Babylon, he found there was a completely new brief.

"I had to come up with an idea for that new brief in time for another meeting that same day," he says.

Jagger encouraged Sagmeister to visit the British Museum and check out the Babylonian collection. Inspired by the sculptures, he devised a rampant Assyrian lion on its hind legs and parlayed this memorable image into Rolling Stone posters, stage designs and tour merchandise.

"It's quite a machine," he says of the Stones, "with Mick Jagger as the CEO."

Sagmeister, visiting Melbourne for agIdeas international design week, is bigger than the sum of his music-packaging parts.

His eponymous New York-based company takes pride in designing "all things printed" -- posters, postcards and perfume packages, books, billboards and annual reports.

And if London's renowned Design Museum is right, Sagmeister Inc. has the ability to "come up with potent, original, stunningly appropriate ideas" almost every time.

"That is our strong suit," the 47-year-old designer says. "If clients come with a concept which they visualise already, we are normally not the right designers for them."

Sagmeister grew up in the Austrian Alps, studied graphic design in Vienna and established a studio in New York in 1993 (which is his base when he's not living in Bali).

Some of his early "hand-made" images were amusing -- bare bums, wagging tongues, a headless chook. Others alarmed viewers. In 1999, he slashed his own torso with text and photographed the result for a design conference graphic.

Three years earlier, Sagmeister "tattooed" Lou Reed's face with lyrics for an album poster.

"We always meet with the band," he says. "We always talk about the history of songs: who wrote them, why they wrote them, why they think it's necessary to make another album. Often, we get unfinished songs and listen to those songs over and over while designing."

Does he have a favourite record cover?

Sagmeister nominates Sticky Fingers, the 1971 Rolling Stones album designed by pop artist Andy Warhol. Teasing and subversive, "that album has so many associations with it", he says.

"Jagger and I talked about Sticky Fingers at our (London) meeting and as we are talking, it turns out (drummer) Charlie Watts has no idea what the cover looks like.

"So Jagger tells him, 'You know, the one that Andy did. The one with the zipper'. And then I think Charlie got a clue.

"He was not playing a game or anything. Charlie seems to be uninterested in things that don't have anything to do directly with the music."

Sagmeister won a Grammy award for designing a 2003 Talking Heads box set called Once in a Lifetime.

Now, when music can easily be downloaded, he thinks the "high time" of art-directed CD covers is over.

"I am personally not nostalgic about it," he says. "There are so many other things to do."

Like designing furniture, teaching, writing books, and "designing something that induces happiness from the point of view of the designer and the consumer".

Sagmeister is instinctively democratic. He wants good design to reach as wide an audience as possible and this is a key message as he fronts forums at agIdeas.

"Designing things that lift people's lives . . . that's what was in my mind when I wanted to become a designer. Still is."

Stefan Sagmeister is the creative virtuoso behind the Rolling Stones design for Bridges to Babylon.

The coolest
Sticky Fingers :areyoufuckingserious
Most Interesting
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band :blankfriggingstare1
IMO Best Art :funny
Animals

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Check out the similarity between London Calling and this:

Funny they used such an unflattering image of a teen heartthrob (among other things).

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I also these were novel and pretty cool...a great album from PiL...a different "no-frills", generic cover for each format:

Getting back to something earlier in this thread where someone said they didn't like the IORR cover due to its quasi-Nazi imagery, where did that come from? What's the story behind the cover?

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