From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #520 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Monday, July 7 2003 Volume 02 : Number 520 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:47:39 +0400 From: "Peter John Burnand" Subject: seven-seas Album Title / Cover Art Henry wrote: "A connection just came to me. i know in the past we had a small discussion about the Album relationship between the first four albums and the current four albums, but in greater detail these are the connections I came up with: Crocodiles & Evergreen = Tree Motif Heaven Up Here & WAYGTDWYL = Looking Out Into the Distance Motif Porcupine & Avalanche = Animals: Porcupine (title) & Bunnygod (Cover) Nature: Iceland (cover) & Avalanche (title) Ocean Rain & Flowers = Boat Motif..." - --- Heaven Up Here is without question the most beautiful and powerful album sleeve ever. Love to know how he arranged it so there were no footprints in the sand. Brian Griffin is a genius. Great idea for the Evergreen sleeve but sadly (to me anyway) it was shot a little carelessly; they should have got Griffin to do it. It's still very nice but could have been magnificent. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:13:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas Album Title / Cover Art > Crocodiles & Evergreen = Tree Motif > Heaven Up Here & WAYGTDWYL = Looking Out Into the Distance Motif > Porcupine & Avalanche = Animals: Porcupine (title) & Bunnygod (Cover) > Nature: Iceland (cover) & Avalanche (title) > Ocean Rain & Flowers = Boat Motif..." Ocean Rain and Heaven Up Here both have connections with the clouds.... clouds produce rain, and Heaven is often thought to exist among or above the clouds. The Jacob's Ladder phenomena is lovely to see, and is caused by sunbeams piercing through thick cloud. Flowers has almost a retro Sgt Pepper's / Victorian look to the cover -- where Reverberation has a retro groovy 60s look to its artwork. The Grey Album could fit into the Ocean Rain / Heaven Up Here motif -- only this time the clouds are not beautiful, they simply obscure, and the fact that the band members are looking in different directions is prophetic, whereas in HUH they are all staring at the same beautiful vision. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 08:57:32 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas Album Title / Cover Art At 12:47 PM 7/7/03 +0400, you wrote: >Heaven Up Here is without question the most beautiful and powerful album >sleeve ever. Love to know how he arranged it so there were no footprints >in the sand. Brian Griffin is a genius. Lowered by helicopter?? hehehhee Nah...it looks to me like they were standing in a very shallow layer of water at low tide, because you can see the ripples behind them. The water can wash up pretty far sometimes at low tide...and it only takes one good pass to wash away footprints. Two at most. They were probably standing there for a while for the photo session anyways till the photographer got what he was after, so there would have been plenty of good passes to wash them away judging by the amount of water that's behind them. (My favourite thing about the beach is watching the waves. But it was so cold this year on our holiday that I never even saw low tide the whole week I was there. argh!) :-( Red ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:01:04 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas Album Title / Cover Art At 04:13 AM 7/7/03 -0500, you wrote: >Ocean Rain and Heaven Up Here both have connections with the clouds.... Where do you get any clouds on Ocean Rain? They're inside a cave! Red ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:08:12 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas Album Title / Cover Art >At 04:13 AM 7/7/03 -0500, you wrote: > >>Ocean Rain and Heaven Up Here both have connections with the clouds.... > >Where do you get any clouds on Ocean Rain? >They're inside a cave! oh nevermind, I was strictly thinking cover art. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:10:56 -0600 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: Re: seven-seas Album Title / Cover Art Didn't Drummond have some grand scheme in mind for the first five album covers?....something about seeking the knowledge of the Bunnygod or some such. I don't recall the details, but each cover was supposed to symbolize a stage in the quest. Very Tennysonian. I remember he said one can see the shadow or aura or whatnot of the BG on the cover of Crocodiles -- in the tree, I think, but I am not the best person to judge the veracity of that statement. - - K :) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:34:21 +0100 From: "Shaz" Subject: Re: seven-seas Album Title / Cover Art yeah, strangely enough if you look at the tree that Mac is leaning on it does look like a giant rabbit head!! Shaz - ----- Original Message ----- From: "K. F. Smith" To: Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:10 PM Subject: Re: seven-seas Album Title / Cover Art > Didn't Drummond have some grand scheme in mind for the first five album > covers?....something about seeking the knowledge of the Bunnygod or some such. > I don't recall the details, but each cover was supposed to symbolize a stage > in the quest. Very Tennysonian. I remember he said one can see the shadow or > aura or whatnot of the BG on the cover of Crocodiles -- in the tree, I think, > but I am not the best person to judge the veracity of that statement. > > - K :) > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #520 ********************************