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Posted by djdodger on Jan-24-2007 14:37:

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Originally posted by paulandrews

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
wtf
is the stae of todays
trance cd covers

Posted by pvdAngel on Jan-24-2007 14:46:

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Originally posted by trancepunkk
all pvd, tiesto and avb covers deserve mention in this thread really...

I don't agree that all their album artwork should be classified as poor. What's wrong with the design for PoD1, Reflections, or AvB's 76 (the coloured one)? I know Tiesto's are a bit minimal and this one:

... definatly creeps me out!

Posted by Dj O'Callaghan on Jan-24-2007 15:05:

Makes me glad I'm not from the West Country...

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Jan-24-2007 15:33:

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Originally posted by Prototrance
But if you look at the superb artwork on FSOL albums since (apart from ISDN maybe), its a bit of a rubbish cover.

Muh? To me, The FSOL's artwork has always looked crap. Most of it looks like exactly what it is: painfully dated computer-generated bollocks. Seriously, the guy's head leering out of Dead Cities? Or the badly-inserted anemone on the front of Lifeforms?

However, I will say that the artwork for their singles/EPs was very good, because most of it didn't try and do a visual recapture of their hugely effective sonic collages. The head thing on the front of Papua New Guinea is awesome, there's that bacterial spore thing on the front of Cascade, and then there's the nice little man-inside-a-man on We Have Explosive.

Compare...

Albums:

Singles:

Posted by DJ Cinos on Jan-25-2007 15:55:

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Muh? To me, The FSOL's artwork has always looked crap. Most of it looks like exactly what it is: painfully dated computer-generated bollocks. Seriously, the guy's head leering out of Dead Cities? Or the badly-inserted anemone on the front of Lifeforms?

The Dead Cities artwork as a whole is bloody genius. It reflects the mood of the album perfectly.

Posted by trancepunkk on Jan-25-2007 16:44:

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Originally posted by pvdAngel
I don't agree that all their album artwork should be classified as poor. What's wrong with the design for PoD1, Reflections, or AvB's 76 (the coloured one)? I know Tiesto's are a bit minimal and this one:

... definatly creeps me out!

yea true i think its a bit of a generalisation but still u can c where im coming from. tiesto's i think can be true although maybe some of the isos series covers were okay..

Posted by lateforwork on Jan-30-2007 17:57:

man those are some bad ones. I just picked up the new Shins "Wincing The Night Away" and as much as I love the record I can't dig the cover. Oh well. I've been listening to Mew's "And The Glass Handed Kites" alot lately and I keep falling in love with it every time I hear it. I just make sure not to look at the cover too much because it is just weeeeeird dude. check it out...

Posted by Sykonee on Jan-30-2007 18:00:

A new one!

And some still try and claim AvB isn't commercial!? This is the type of cover you find on something titled like Ultra Dance Hits 2006 or Ibiza Dance Heaven '05.

Posted by Nayil on Jan-30-2007 18:22:

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Originally posted by DJ Patski

Where's the effort..

The autograph " Just Be"

Posted by KilldaDJ on Jan-30-2007 18:26:

when i saw the title of this thread, i just couldnt resist reading it

some of the covers posted = total lollage

Posted by montana on Jan-30-2007 18:49:

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Originally posted by pvdAngel

q magazine listed this at #7 when it came to the worst albums ever

Posted by sherifyosti on Jan-30-2007 18:49:

Posted by Ted Promo on Jan-30-2007 18:51:

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Originally posted by sherifyosti
beside useing too effort to become in this

um. What?

Posted by Spartan on Jan-30-2007 21:02:

any of tiesto's forbidden paradise albums. looked like something from the Nature Company

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