Musings on the byways of popular culture
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A short time ago Craig Fortnam asked if I would be willing to make a piece of artwork to adorn the cover of his latest musical outpourings. I of course said I’d be delighted and honoured to contribute. So here it is. It will be available for pre-order on Bandcamp from tomorrow Craig informs me.
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OK, there are lots of album covers that are crap for various reasons: lazy, stock photos; awkward-looking “family album” photos of the artiste in question; scruffy scrawled “minimalist” typography… all the usual reasons. But what about those covers which are just so spectacularly inappropriate that your dropped jaw can only articulate the words “what … the … hell … were they thinking?”
I was prompted to write this post by my recent rediscovery of the back-catalogue of the wonderful and not-long-departed Chick Corea. And … this! Smurfs? What the…? (etc.)
So – any more favourite (if that’s the right word) examples of this sub-sub-category?
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I hope the dodgy Imgur link works, because I have taken delivery of my very own Pencilsqueezer artwork, entitled Red Planet. Apologies for the reflections in the photo – I’m still moving it around the house to find a final hanging place, which will show it off to best advantage.
Have to say, I’m very happy with it – it looked good on Pencil’s website, but orders of magnitude better in real life.
