Top 3 EC album cover

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Top 3 EC album cover

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EC always got a great art-work on the front sleeve of an album, these 3 a better than the others though.

1. Almost Blue

2. Armed Forces (the elephant one)

3. Blood and Chocolate

They are all a perfect match with the songs and the titles are nicely connected to the cover.

Punch the Clock gotta be an all time low (cover-wise only :D )
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Post by daybreaker »

I would have to go with:

1. King of America
2. Trust
3. Imperial Bedroom
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Post by Branst »

1. Imperial Bedroom
2. Blood & Chocolate
3. Get Happy!!
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Post by Danny »

The best ones for me are:

This Year's Model (classic, iconic image of Elvis, which also really sums up the new-wave look, and the punk/post-punk obsession with fashion)

King Of America (serious yet hilarious portrait - can't read that expression at all! The cropping/lighting is perfect.)

Spike (great joke - his first record for Warners, and he's hung on the boardroom wall, as though they've 'bagged' him. And it's a "what's all this about?" image that really draws you in)

The worst ones for me are:

Imperial Bedroom (boring, 80s looking Picasso rip-off)

Punch The Clock (Apallingly dated 80s design - like a 1983 cover of Smash Hits)

Armed Forces (such a terrible painting - but maybe that's the point, and I'm too literal to see it!)

Juliet Letters (Worthy tableau that sums up a worthy, though valiant, effort)
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Post by Bob And Charlotte »

01. Armed Forces (the original one. the other is just a bad painting)
02. This Years Model (Classic Costello 'pose')
03. Trust


Worst ones:

01. Punch the clock
02. Goodbye cruel world
03. Spike
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Post by norman brain »

MY AIM IS TRUE- A classic and you can spot it from a mile- the pigeon-toed stance and "Elvis is King" checkered backdrop-instant history!

GET HAPPY!! - Bright orange and blue, '60s party album design, and the "pre-worn" label ring on the cover to represent the record's aging through use was a brilliant idea.

ARMED FORCES- I actually favor the U.S. cover, the "splattered paint" look is kinda psychedelic!
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Post by migdd »

KING OF AMERICA - Can't beat that great photo!

MIGHTY LIKE A ROSE - Great color scheme with bearded EC protruding from the darkness!

NORTH - Even if you're not a fan of the album you have to admit NORTH has a beautifully composed cover. Back cover leaves a lot to be desired, though!

WORST- Punch the Clock, Goodbye Cruel World, Out of Our Idiot (does this one count since it's a compilation?)
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Post by Danny »

Oh gawd, if we're counting compilations, then Out Of Our Idiot takes the biscuit!

And, yeah, North is a beautiful cover, you're right!
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Haha, oh man, I just mentioned this in another thread.

001. Goodbye Cruel World
002. This Year's Model
003. Imperial Bedroom

EDIT: I always thought Punch The Clock would be his best album cover if it had the picture that they put on the RYKODISC CD. Such a great image.

I always hated the Get Happy!! cover, until I realized it is the laying-down-wearing-the-classic-peacoat image of him flipped upside down. I love that picture, it should have just been the cover.
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Aw, I wish I thought of that.
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Post by Jackson Monk »

Yep SLL........the Trust cover wins hands down.....sooooo cool.

2.Spike
3.MLAR
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This Year's Model
Trust
My Aim Is True
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n°1: (a tie) this year´s model-brutal youth
n°2: almost blue
n°3: kojak variety
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My favorite soulseek friend!

brutal youth! classic.

Kojak Variety is unexpected, it is a clever cover though.
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Post by clairequilty »

1. Hands down This Years Model.

2. Trust

3. Get Happy (Elvis lying in a gutter)


When I was Cruel was also interesting.

Blood and Chocolate one of my least favorite. When I think of the wonderful content of the album, I NEVER think of the cover.
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Post by wehitandrun »

Trust is probably my least favorite. I'm surprised at how many people have chosen it as their favorite.

I agree on Blood and Chocolate, claire.
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Post by clairequilty »

Trust was kind of "knee jerk" on my part.

It does though, somehow, represent the EC iconoclastic vison of Elvis as the post modern punk, in all his infinite glory.

I think that the cover of GCW is, in a strange drunken way (only because I'm drunk), revealing. Whereas Who's Next (the obvious homage here) was a territorial pissing on the monolith of society, I somehow think that the Attractions were pissing on their own album with GCW, while dispersing quietly.

Don't get me wrong, though, I thoroughly embrace GCW, in spite of sniffing Daryll Halls big hair.
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I really didn't even get its references to Who's Next.

I just thought it was really really cool.
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wehitandrun wrote:I really didn't even get its references to Who's Next.

I just thought it was really really cool.
Neither did I, WHAR. I make this shit up as I go along. For all I know he was referencing Cheech aand Chong.

I still like the record though.
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Post by King Hoarse »

Top:
1. Trust
2. All This Useless Beauty
3. My Aim Is True

Bottom:
For The Stars
Cruel Smile
The Best Of Elvis Costello - The Man (funniest title, though)
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King Hoarse wrote:...
The Best Of Elvis Costello - The Man (funniest title, though)
"The Man" was a necessary Copyright addition, if I recall, to distinguish the singer from "Elvis Costello - The Chewing Gum", which is awful by the way.
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I know you didn't just call "Chewing Gum" awful!!!!!
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cq, that made me laugh out loud in my cubicle, thanks.
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wehitandrun wrote:I know you didn't just call "Chewing Gum" awful!!!!!
It depends on what you're referring to.

Chewing Gum - The Song? Chewing Gum - The Man? or Chewing Gum, the rubbery saliva-layden substance that ultimate ends up on our shoes.

As for the song, I love it. One of my favorite guitar solos in a Costello composition!
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