David Bowie: The next thread and the next thread... - Page 8

IWasBored · 11-03-2013, 11:04 PM

Wow, that's not real, is it? That's bad by the standards of fan created ms paint job from the days when people made geocities sites.

lazarus · 11-04-2013, 02:38 AM

I'm not sure Best Of collections likely compiled by record company execs should have their album covers judged on artistic merit and blamed on the artist.

IWasBored · 11-04-2013, 02:50 AM

Maybe not the artist's, but surely a label executive could just get their 5 year old to fingerprint something less awful than that.

bono_212 · 11-04-2013, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by lazarus

I'm not sure Best Of collections likely compiled by record company execs should have their album covers judged on artistic merit and blamed on the artist.

This is ChangesBowie, though. It's like the Best of 1980-90 of his career. I gotta think that he at least signed off on this at some point.

patternshirt170 · 11-04-2013, 12:23 PM

yeah... if it ain't broke...

bono_212 · 11-04-2013, 08:08 PM

I thought those covers were rereleases and the awful cover was the original, was I incorrect?

cobl04 · 11-04-2013, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by bono_212

I was just putting together a playlist of random music, when I came across a stark reminder of something: The man has certainly been guilty of horrible album covers before.

Still miles better than The Next Day. And for the record I've never seen this Changesbowie cover.

Danny Boy · 11-04-2013, 08:15 PM

I bought ChangesBowie on CD in 1990 when it was released. It has that collage cover Ashley posted.

It didn't really bother me at the time, but that was the pre-GeoCities world.

LemonMelon · 11-04-2013, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by bono_212

I thought those covers were rereleases and the awful cover was the original, was I incorrect?

There's:

ChangesBowie
ChangesONEBowie
ChangesTWOBowie

You posted the cover to ChangesBowie

cobl04 · 11-04-2013, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by LemonMelon

You posted the cover to ChangesBowie

Too bad they didn't make any late Changes to that cover, amirite??

bono_212 · 11-04-2013, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by LemonMelon

There's:

ChangesBowie
ChangesONEBowie
ChangesTWOBowie

You posted the cover to ChangesBowie

So ChangesBowie predates those other two, because the second version didn't exist yet, right?

Anyways, my cassette tape copy is the horrible collage.

And it's funny, it didn't bother me at all until I saw it yesterday and really looked at it. Then I couldn't stop laughing.

LemonMelon · 11-04-2013, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by bono_212

So ChangesBowie predates those other two, because the second version didn't exist yet, right?

ChangesBowie was a later compilation that covered tracks from One and Two.

bono_212 · 11-04-2013, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by LemonMelon

ChangesBowie was a later compilation that covered tracks from One and Two.

So the cover is even more egregious.

Jive Turkey · 11-04-2013, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Danny Boy

I bought ChangesBowie on CD in 1990 when it was released. It has that collage cover Ashley posted.

It didn't really bother me at the time, but that was the pre-GeoCities world.

I've got it from back then too. Hadn't really thought about how bad the cover was. Funny how that works

cobl04 · 11-10-2013, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by LMP

Finally got around to listening this. Hearing Bowie jammed to the back of the mix in every track broke my heart.

You know when you read something, and it makes you notice something that you didn't before, and then you can't un-notice it? Yeah...

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IWasBored Blue Crack Supplier Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 36,667 Local Time: 04:22 PM	Maybe not the artist's, but surely a label executive could just get their 5 year old to fingerprint something less awful than that.

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Danny Boy Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Harvard Supermodel Activist of the Decade Runner-Up Posts: 9,358 Local Time: 01:22 PM	I bought ChangesBowie on CD in 1990 when it was released. It has that collage cover Ashley posted. It didn't really bother me at the time, but that was the pre-GeoCities world.