From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V3 #28 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, January 29 1998 Volume 03 : Number 028 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] My Dinner With Bryan [John Fohrman ] [none] [John Colquhoun ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:50:51 -0500 From: John Fohrman Subject: Re: [AVALON] My Dinner With Bryan Actually, I've already had Dinner with Bryan. And it was truly wonderful. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:51:39 -0500 (EST) From: John Colquhoun Subject: [none] This is a reprint of a Rolling Stone Mag. article which has been substantially edited for Avlonian purposes. the article rekindled moments of studying analyzing the groups/artists concepts via their canvas of a 12 inch album cover. malheureusement, the cd cover is not the same (but i'm sure it has nothing to do with the bifocals!! Read on Avlonians......i am in agreement with the rolling stone(eek) ........are you??????...for me the memories of buying an album wrapped in vinyl covering gave me such a strong feeling of deja vu....like when i bought my plain wrapper baby.... 100 CLASSIC ALBUM COVERS ------------------------ THE LETTERS CD are not only an abbreviation for Compact Disc. They also stand for the Certain Death of the twelve-inch album cover. With the forced retirement of the long-playing vinyl record has come the end of a dynamic era in rock art, in which the marketing needs of the record industry and the renegade aesthetics of rock & roll came together in a remarkable, often spectacular visual marriage that was part collision, part collusion. The aggressive marketing of the CD, along with the popularity of the cassette, has meant that the square-foot canvas on which visionary designers, artists and photographers -- many of them refugees from art school and Madison Avenue -- endeavored to create a new music for the eyes has been shrunk to about the size of a beer coaster. COUNTRY LIFE Roxy Music Atco, 1974 Designer: Bryan Ferry Photographer: Eric Boman I knew that pictures of pretty girls had been used to sell cars, soap and just about everything else,'' says Bryan Ferry. ``So why not rock music?'' As a student at Newcastle University, Ferry studied under the pop-art painter and theorist Richard Hamilton, who created the cover of the Beatles' White Album. ``A product,'' Hamilton wrote, ``must aim to project an image of desirability as strong as any Hollywood star'' -- a credo that had an enduring impact on Ferry. Whereas most LP covers of the day ``had the group standing in an alleyway, looking very sullen and moody,'' he says, Roxy covers are enigmatic scenarios involving glamorous women. While recording Country Life, Ferry went to Portugal to write lyrics. There he met two German fans, Constanze Karoli and Eveline Grunwald. Ferry had already decided to call the album Country Life -- after the British magazine for the gentry -- and he wanted the cover to contrast with ``the usual Country Life magazine photography, where you normally have characters shooting ducks or jumping over fences in top hats.'' When he suggested a half-nude photo session on the beach, he says, the women ``were very keen to do the job.'' They later translated the lyrics to ``Bitter-Sweet'' into German, which Ferry sings on the record. Perhaps aided by the cover, Country Life was the first penetrate the American Top Forty. But the indelicate position of Karoli's and Grunwald's fingers annoyed many retailers, who refused to stock the album. So Atlantic Records disguised some LPs with green shrink-wrap and pressed an alternative cover that removed the women altogether, showing only the Portuguese foliage. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V3 #28 *************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to avalon-digest-owner@smoe.org