Fun Stuff > BAND

Album Artwork.

(1/47) > >>

Invammocon:
I've been shopping at this CD website, they have a 5 dollar per CD sale but there are so many for sale that I just choose which ones to give a chance (they provide samples like iTunes) based on the album artwork, not the band name or the album name, I've got pretty decent results. How important is the artwork as far as getting you interested in an album?

valley_parade:
The only time album art has ever made me check out a band was when I stumbled upon a Bye Bye Blackbirds album in Ameoba Berkeley.

rynne:
On one hand, I don’t particularly buy albums because of artwork.  I can remember one or two times doing it with not-very-good results.  More often I use album art as a way of quickly determining which albums don’t require a second look---for example, any album with people in generic r&b, country, etc., artwork usually gets glanced at at best.

On the other hand, I am a big fan of the way good albums use artwork to enhance and/or augment the themes of the music.  I consider artwork an integral, though not necessarily essential, part of an album.

In other words, the good artwork always enhances a good album, but good artwork is not strictly indicative of a good album.  And cliched artwork is almost always indicative of cliched album.

pat101:
The artwork for the album Electronic Frank by Lee Jones directly led me to finding a copy to listen to. I was happy I did.





awsome.

spoon_of_grimbo:
any band who really put effort into their releases will only use artwork that fits the mood and feel of the music, so yeah, if i see an album with really cool artwork, i'd be more likely to check it out.  but that said, the only album i've actually bought on that basis, without ever actually listening to it (normally, i'd download a couple of songs, or ask the guy in the shop if he'll put the cd on), was "The Answer is Never" by Howards Alias.  I'd heard a much older song of theirs and it was alright, but the artwork for this I found intriguing:



Turns out, the album is a kinda ska-punk meets emo meets prog-rock, but I'd been intrigued by the artwork as I'd previously thought them to be a straight-up ska band, and the cover art (as well as the beautiful chalk drawings on every page of the liner notes) seemed kinda dark and moody in comparison.  Needless to say the album is still one of my favourites, five years later!  I'm pretty sure I upped this in the mediaf!re thread a while back if you're interested btw.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page