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Rocktiludrop
Best = Black & Blue
Worst = Dirty Work. Looks like Keith knee to Mick's nuts
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Rocktiludrop
Best = Black & Blue
Worst = Dirty Work. Looks like Keith knee to Mick's nuts
Well...as they say, it is one hit to the body, one straight to the nuts.
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loog droog
Sticky Fingers (with an actual zipper) and the original die-cut cover of Some Girls with pics of Lucy, etc., before it was "under construction" are standouts from a conceptual standpoint. Exile on Main St. is also great and works well as a reflection of the the music inside.
But I really like the covers with pictures of the Stones on them: Through The Past Darkly captures the spirit of the Stones, as does Brian's wasted face on Between the Buttons. How many discussions did that inspire back in the day?
Sure, Black and Blue has some beautiful wide-screen shots of them, but I don't think they reflect the music. Here they were recording some gritty down-to-the basics music, and they package it with a jet-set rock star on vacation cover.
At the time I felt that they put more effort into shooting the photos than they did on recording the album!
I never liked the conceits behind Goat's Head Soup and Tattoo You, where Mick and Keith appear on the front and back. In retrospect, the lack of information on Tattoo You was done on purpose, but representing the work of the band as "the Mick and Keith show" was infuriating.
At least Charlie, Bill and Mick T. made the inside gatefold of GHS. But that cover could have been a lot better if they had used the goat soup image that was included inside (or the pic that put that image on a can of soup) on the front, and a group shot from those David Bailey sessions on the back. What probably killed the concept of the actual goat head on the cover was when "Angie" was picked as a single.
Among the worst would be that one with the gorilla and Emotional Rescue, which I think was designed that way just to hide Mick's beard. There's nothing emotional about it. It's blah.
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saltoftheearth
I always considered the cover of It's Only Rock'n Roll to be excellent. It's irony, sure, and it fits into the mid-12970s perfectly!