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The leading vote getter was Trouble and now we move on to Round 11.
6 - Trouble At The Henhouse
7 - Road Apples
8 - Live Between Us
9 - World Container
10 - Yer Favourites/Hipeponymous
11 - Now For Plan A
12 - We Are The Same
13 - Up To Here
14 - Man Machine Poem
15 - EP and Music at Work
Vote for the album cover that you think has the weakest artwork. After 24 hours we will eliminate the album art with the most votes. In the event of a tie, we will eliminate both (or more) albums.
Voting will end on Wednesday 9:09am Eastern.
Happy voting,
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Sad to see TATH go. Always had fuzzy feelings for the that artwork. I remember sitting by my radio listening to the album premier interview with Gord and hearing him talk about that photo (which I believe Rob had found) and the other photo inside the album of the lightning striking the horizon. I remember he said that photo was titled "Traveler's Omen." Both by a guy named Avery Crounse.
This round it's IBE for me. Very cool artwork, indeed, but I have the least emotional attachment to it of the remaining bunch.
(Aside, it would be cool to see a list of the album covers and who the artist was for each. For the remainder, I know FC was commissioned for the album -- and includes some of their input (and photocopied faces), DFN -- I'm not sure, PP is a photo of a piece of equipment Johnny found, IVL is Rob Baker original, and IBE is an original by Kingston artist Cameron Tomsett.)
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TATH was top two for me. I wonder which came first, the title or the cover? I'm assuming the latter...and I kind of love the idea that they liked the picture so much that they chose the album title based on it.
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TATH has great artwork, but the packaging was awful. I originally went through 2 copies of the CD because the disc would get scratched all to hell from taking it out of the cardboard sleeve all the time. I was overjoyed when they eventually released those enhanced versions that came in the old fashioned jewel case, which is the version I still own (along with the recent vinyl reissue).
That being said, I appreciate that they were trying to be environmentally conscious at the time.
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IVL is good art, but it's really just a pretty picture between two black bars. Day for night does a much better job of framing the image.
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I can't look at the IVL cover without singing to myself: "There's a heron outside, in violet light." Gets bonus points for that.
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as eco-friendly as the TATH cd was....admit it.....everyone's copy is in shambles.... beautiful shambles
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robbroncs Wrote:as eco-friendly as the TATH cd was....admit it.....everyone's copy is in shambles.... beautiful shambles
How many times did I pick up the case and the CD went flying across the room.....
"We're forced to bed, but we're free to dream"
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Pretty sure used stores stopped taking them because either the case was too frayed or the CD had too many scratches. I had (at least) 3 copies at various times. Probably needed a bit more workshopping in the design phase.
