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Phil Good
ENGLAND'S NEWEST HITMAKERS
THE ROLLING STONES
The cover of their first LP always was and still is the best to me.
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Phil Good
ENGLAND'S NEWEST HITMAKERS
THE ROLLING STONES
The cover of their first LP always was and still is the best to me.
Agreed. However, I do really feel that the 'England's Newest Hitmakers' text ruins the image.
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Phil Good
ENGLAND'S NEWEST HITMAKERS
THE ROLLING STONES
The cover of their first LP always was and still is the best to me.
Agreed. However, I do really feel that the 'England's Newest Hitmakers' text ruins the image.
+ 1 Al
It's the photo I love.
It totally fits and shows their attitude from back then.
Interesting to learn that the UK version left the text out.
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Rockman
Blue and Lonesome (how lazy can you be.....just the tongue?)
What did you expect.... the Kiss emblem ????
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Rockman
Blue and Lonesome (how lazy can you be.....just the tongue?)
What did you expect.... the Kiss emblem ????
Yes, the KISS emblem. That's what I expected. Come on, man. It's lazy. They could have had a smattering of old blues albums on a table or something. Just putting your logo on there lacks imagination.
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treaclefingers
Blue & Lonesome is elegant in it's simplicity and use of the iconic logo.
Compare that to the Sucking in the 70s cover, where the tongue was affixed to the plastic wrap. Ridiculous.
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Rockman
Bullshit .... It's their logo ....
and that cover stands out ....
smattering of old blues albums on a table...
Geeeezzz man how many times that one been done ....
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Rockman
Blue and Lonesome (how lazy can you be.....just the tongue?)
What did you expect.... the Kiss emblem ????
Yes, the KISS emblem. That's what I expected. Come on, man. It's lazy. They could have had a smattering of old blues albums on a table or something. Just putting your logo on there lacks imagination.
It's their least inventive LP cover. It makes DIRTY WORK, as horrific as it is, look smart - at least they were being trendy modern.
I thought blues album = blue! Obviously. So then (the record company) sent me a blue, and it was all kind of grey and wishy washy. I said No, it's got to be bright, really blue, electric blue. So that's why we came up with that color. I think it works.
- Mick Jagger, October 2016
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It's fair to say, based on that quote, that Jagger is mostly responsible for the album cover but UMe had an asleep at the wheel hand in it. Something like Keith playing Little Walter's Blue And Lonesome from UNDER THE INFLUENCE would've been much more appropriate. Or something like this even.
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Rockman
....I'm easy man .... watch the bends ... merry xmas