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  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,459
    Ten
    We should get @MedozK to do an Album Cover weakest link.
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,986
    Lightning bolt
    PJ_Soul said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    Pearl Jam is visual disaster. Sort of. Just so weird how they come to the decision to go with that art direction.

    Backspacer doesn't have an illustration-style I really dig. The digital coloring and the gradients looks cheap. It is also weird having the cover split up in 9 tiles like that. Maybe should have been 9 variants instead.

    Lightning bolt looks like "adobe illustrator tutorial for beginners No1". Not a fan of that clean look. Didn't work at all printed and on t-shirts and such. 

    Riot Act, Vitalogy and No Code are the champs.
    I am not in love with the cover (I don't hate it either - I mean, it's a halved avocado. How is that THAT bad? ;) ). But the inner gatefold art on that album is super duper cool IMO. I find it impossible to separate that from the front of it.
    excellent point. 
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  • riley540riley540 Denver Colorado Posts: 1,132
    No Code
    HesCalledDyer said:
    We should get @MedozK to do an Album Cover weakest link.
    That would be sweet. @MedozK is more than welcome to use these results and a conclusion to round 1. 
  • evsgjammevsgjamm Posts: 2,108
    Pearl Jam
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Who said Vitalogy?  Get a rope...
    Votes for No Code and Vitalogy are rare cases that violate freedom of speech.
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  • riley540riley540 Denver Colorado Posts: 1,132
    No Code
    evsgjamm said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Who said Vitalogy?  Get a rope...
    Votes for No Code and Vitalogy are rare cases that violate freedom of speech.
    There's a set of lips on No Code that I just don't like very much. It's an an annoying set of lips to me. 
  • evsgjammevsgjamm Posts: 2,108
    Pearl Jam
    hahaha. Just laughing over here. Fair enough to the odd set of lips.
    That cover, when I first saw it in my early teen years, was all kinds of confusing to me too. Creepy in ways. Probably because of those damn lips! hahah.
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  • whoanelly15whoanelly15 Posts: 742
    Backspacer
    riley540 said:
    evsgjamm said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Who said Vitalogy?  Get a rope...
    Votes for No Code and Vitalogy are rare cases that violate freedom of speech.
    There's a set of lips on No Code that I just don't like very much. It's an an annoying set of lips to me. 

    This gave me the giggles. Never heard lips described as "annoying" before.
  • DW139059DW139059 Posts: 365
    Vitalogy

    I don't like letters with swirls...

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  • evsgjammevsgjamm Posts: 2,108
    Pearl Jam
    haha. ahhhhhh too funny. 
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  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,196
    edited September 2017
    Pearl Jam
    DW139059 said:

    I don't like letters with swirls...

    riley540 said:
    evsgjamm said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Who said Vitalogy?  Get a rope...
    Votes for No Code and Vitalogy are rare cases that violate freedom of speech.
    There's a set of lips on No Code that I just don't like very much. It's an an annoying set of lips to me. 


    Yeah, that must really make it worse than this...


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  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    No Code
    An avocado on a blue background is fine, it's a neutral sort of thing, a take on still fruit.

    No Code cover is an abomination.  A random mishmash of ugly photos.  It may be artistic (MAY, it's a bit 7th grade-ish) but it's ugly as sin.
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  • OnWis97OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,471
    No Code
    I like the self-titled cover...love the shade of blue...the cover is (for lack of a better term) crisp.  

    For me me it was among Vs, No Code, and  Backspacer.  Overall, covers are not great. 
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,986
    Lightning bolt
    OnWis97 said:
    I like the self-titled cover...love the shade of blue...the cover is (for lack of a better term) crisp.  

    For me me it was among Vs, No Code, and  Backspacer.  Overall, covers are not great. 
    I like Vs. It has meaning to how they were feeling at the time. 
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,986
    Lightning bolt
    rgambs said:
    An avocado on a blue background is fine, it's a neutral sort of thing, a take on still fruit.

    No Code cover is an abomination.  A random mishmash of ugly photos.  It may be artistic (MAY, it's a bit 7th grade-ish) but it's ugly as sin.
    but that was the point of it, wasn't it? full of code/no code at all?
    "every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"




  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,352
    Backspacer
    DW139059 said:

    I don't like letters with swirls...

    I don't like that cover because it's not original. It's a direct copy of a book PJ had nothing to do with. I have no clue why anyone would give the band credit for it at all.
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    Pearl Jam
    The self titled album by a country mile. I don't get how No Code through Riot Act would have any votes. Same for Vitalogy. 

    Binaural is my favorite complete package with it being my favorite musically and with artwork. 

    On the flip side, Pearl Jam is the virtual opposite. Least favorite music and art. 
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  • reesdogreesdog Auckland, NZ. Posts: 1,981
    Lightning bolt
    Lightning Bolt is hideously bland, the artwork and the music, I sold my vinyl copy, good riddance I say..
    A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom.
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