I think the coloring of this image might be a little off I got it from someone's web site and recropped and resized it. ![]() This cover, Nursery Cryme and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway are actually from scans I made of my own CD inserts.īetty Swanwick painted this image. ![]() 1972, was after this album was released)-so in this case the band was influenced by the artwork, not the other way around. This one has a bunch of imagery from various songs on the album if you look closely enough, plus even a nod to the previous album (see left detail)! The female fox/human creature on the front is not actually a reference to Pete's first venture into costumes on stage, but became an inspiration for him (his first appearance in the costume, 28 Sept. These Whitehead covers are really among my favorite album covers, because there's so much in them, and it all has so much to do with the music. One of the things the Genesis albums of the '70s had going for them was all the extra incidental characters and imagery on the inside of the packaging, which many of the more recent releases have ignored. Incidentally, it's a shame that CDs have made LP-size artwork and big liner-note interior images a thing of the past. It's the most visual song and (I think) the most important track on the album. It's still the perfect image to convey the dark, twisted, English humour behind all the lyrics on this album, and I think it's quite fair that "The Musical Box" is the only song visually represented on the front. Here we have a classic album cover from the 70s, a very memorable image that you'd expect to belong on the front of a heavy metal record. But, no big loss the blue puts a sort of melancholy into the whole thing that is very appropriate. They were unable to get the effect to work, however, as the interior kept coming out very bluish. I remember hearing that the original concept was to have the inside of the room be black and white, and only the exterior in color, so that the contrast would bring out the color even more and provide a neat, surreal effect. In a more specific sense, he could incorporate lyrical elements from the songs on the album, such as the angel and the knife and (possibly) the mountains on this cover. I think Paul was really excellent at capturing the romanticism and other-worldly quality of Genesis music of the early 70s. I showed the whole cover of this album above because I love the image of the knife cutting all the way across the cover. It's either a credit to the artist for accurately reproducing their music visually, or a good indication of how much my artistic taste is affected by association. It's funny how my favorite period of the band musically also features my favorite album covers. It reminded me of fantasy illustrations and I thought it was very pretty and romantic, and very reminiscent of the feel of the album itself. It looked sort of Japanese in style, and washed out in color. The middle was an illustration of a path leading over a grassy hill, with an open wood fence on one side. ![]() The cover had a sort of letterbox shot, with black bars on the top and bottom. There was one newer release of the CD that I thought was cool, but couldn't find an image of on the web. There were so many different versions and releases of this album that it's hard to see them all, but I think that most of them were fairly second rate, as the rights to this album are owned by second rate record companies. I picked out all the covers here that I thought were worth talking about most of them are from the early days, because my taste in the covers seems to pretty closely parallel my taste in the music. Having designed a few of those in my time, and having taken introductory college courses in art history, I feel totally authorized to jump into the fray. When fans run out of music lists to discuss, they usually resort to talking about album covers. Best Album Covers A Pictorial List: Best Album Covers
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