Check out this Shidooobee thread. Looks good.
[p081.ezboard.com]

JumpingKentFlash

Awful...

It's already being offered on Ebay:

ROLLING STONES - A BIGGER BANG/CD+DVD Objectnumber: 4791209937

Someone likes fiddling in photoshop!.....

greedy bunch of stones!I'm not buying it i don't have enough so i'll buy only the "rarities"

looks horrible- whats the black blob, in the centre of the tongue?
(not, that it looks much like a tongue)

I like it way better than the original cover.

Cold, metallic, mutating--dissolving?

I guess if the tounge is suggesting anything about the state of the Stones, its disturbing. But I still like the image...

I like the cover of ABB, but this cover is horrible!

clearly the Stones are diverting profits into their lavish stage design at the cost of their Virgin artwork dept budget....

-



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-12-22 05:02 by cirrhosis.

I like this way better than the photo on the regular version--it brings them into the present and it's simple, something you can pick off from across the store.

When I saw the thumbnail of the original on Amazon I was sure it was a plaeholder until they had the real artwork--that photo is the dumbest cover ever for the Stones--I almost embarrassed to take it to the front counter at the store.

I hope the special edition has more going on with the booklet--the original sucked there, too--it's like they called it a day before they even started. I would like to see recording session photos ala Exile as opposed to the goofy posed stuff they've been doing on the last few.

This album deserves a great package--the music is so good!

Oh yeah, I do agree that the color tongue would have been better.

yeah chas i'm with you. they need a great package to be perfect! the limited edition cover is very similar to the street of love single one. not bad at all, but i mean they can do better than that! and the original booklet is poor!

Garbage!

Looks like I'm back in high school looking through a microscope at paramecium.

llaushin Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> greedy bunch of stones!I'm not buying


really? I can´t wait for that DVD with the 2 new songs...lit´s almost like Christmas

I must say, I really like it...it's more eye-catching than the original cover artwork. I really like the original cover, but it is just too small for a CD. It would have looked wonderful on a full-sized vinyl cover in, say, 1968. Definitely gets lost, though, on a CD cover.

I was under the impression that the 2 new songs were going to be on the CD as well as on the DVD, but that doesn't appear to be the case. Did I miss something?

About the booklet for ABB:

The album is supposed to be "back to roots". Check the early Stones albums. The artwork is usually dreadful. As with the ABB book (I like it though. Simplistic).

JumpingKentFlash