petethechopp
The Fly
I like this better than the front picture
U2_Guy said:I believe the back cover will be like the back cover of the vertigo single (very much Violator style) with the straps and names of the songs.
ramblin rose said:
Maybe in the back they're standing up and there's a bus in the picture?
mofo82 said:Ok i was one who has not cared for the front cover art and i dont particularly care for the back cover art either, fake or not. Knowing how deep this album is and that we know the interpretation of the album can't be literally about the atomic bomb, why must a picture of a bomb that looks like it was shot in a history museum be used? HTDAAB is such a deep imaginative and lyrically challenging album with complicated layering, yet it's still the sound of four guys making their music, but to put a simple picture of them sitting down for no apparent reason does nothing for me in relation to any song or any lyric on the album.
Someone said this goes perfect with ABOY-how? The sound, cus its U2 rocking?- ok but this picture is stale; no rocking going on there.
Here's an idea- if this bomb thing is supposed to be a metaphor and they are in the middle of it, couldnt they be looking up or something as if they are the target, like in the video. Speaking of the video, there are some major errors there that really dont make sense, like, 'why would they be in the middle of a blast, in the middle of a target, but the blast seems to be coming from whereever the camera is? The dust trails seem to say that the bomb landed somewhere outside of the target, like it missed. This kind of thinking kills me. And a performance video on top of that
If this album would have gone the punk stripped down route, I would have agreed with the album cover, but it didn't. The cover feels rushed for an album that took 4 years to imagine, write, record and promote, and irrevelant to the work. I guess that's rock and roll.