Yeah,I remember back in the day there was a rumour that Bill was wearing his wife’s thights…but he confirmed the other story in a recent short vid that is on youtube…he is signing some autographs and he talks about it…
I love the Sabotage cover. It just makes no sense whatsoever, and that’s what’s great about it. You just no that none of them gave one lick of concern to it.
“What’s that? We’re wearing the thrift store clothes we found in the dumpster behind the studio and there’s random fog and a giant mirror and it says “Sabotage”? Yeah, whatever. Sounds good to us!”
He looks fucking ridiculous. If he had nothing “good” to wear before putting those red tights on, damn… the hell was he wearing when he showed up? Fucking yellow fishnets?
Is he even wearing a shirt? I love how he’s awkwardly tugging at his jacket, kind of trying to looks nonchalant. Like, yeah, this is what I wear all the time!
And Geezer and Tony must have been scammin’ on chicks at the disco club a few hours earlier. They are straight Saturday Night Fever, Baby!!
He looks like a 50 year old stern woman who probably makes amazing pasta. Geezer looks like a malnourished Frank Zappa and Iommi can apparently float.
Ozzy is just Ozzy. He could wear diapers as elbow and kneepads and pose wearing blackface and it wouldn’t be at all surprising or weird to me because it’s Ozzy. I expect nothing less.
I love the Sabotage cover to…it just screams 70s drug trip…I love Geezer’s cane,such a nice touch…and Iommi looks like a disco Pablo Escobar meets Dr.Strange type sorcerer…Bill is so clumsy and awkward and delightful and Ozzy well,what can you sat really…the guy who did the cover was also their drum tech…
I love Geezer’s cane,such a nice touch
Whoa! I never even noticed it before.
Thanks! One more reason the cover rules.
He probably really did need it to stand up at the time, haha!
The 70’s were awesome because EVERYONE was on drugs. People would do really stupid and nonsensical crap and no one would call them on it because everyone else was on drugs too. Just look at EVERYTHING from the 70’s. The TV shows, the furniture, the clothes, the cars . . . all of it.
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I love Geezer’s cane,such a nice touch
Whoa! I never even noticed it before.
Thanks! One more reason the cover rules.
He probably really did need it to stand up at the time, haha!
The 70’s were awesome because EVERYONE was on drugs. People would do really stupid and nonsensical crap and no one would call them on it because everyone else was on drugs too. Just look at EVERYTHING from the 70’s. The TV shows, the furniture, the clothes, the cars . . . all of it.[/reply]
Hahahahaha yeah I never thought about the cane outside of it being for aesthetic effect…maybe as you say,he actually needed the cane to stand up from the massive chemical intake…functionality over aesthetics hahaha…
and yeah,accurate take on the 70s…I loved the fucking 70s man…great time to be a kid…I saw my first concert in the 70’s,I told a joke on the Howdy Doody show(as it was nearing it’s end),I went to the short-lived Sid and Marty Krofft theme park in Atlanta,I rode in the Goodyear blimp,I took a pee in a plant at the mall(an infamous mall where Adam Walsh was abducted and later killed…you may remember his father,John Walsh, started the tv show America’s most wanted),I went to the Serpentarium,dressed up as Ace Frehely at a Kiss contest…and all types of other ill shit…70s ruled…
In California we had the ALLIGATOR FARM and LION COUNTRY SAFARI.
At Lion Country you just drove your crappy Pinto wagon or Nova or whatever hideous 70’s family car through a large field of acreage populated by lions and tigers and rhinos and ostriches and baboons.
I still remember screaming in terror as the ostriches flailed their beaks at our car windows.
There’s no way they would have something so insane in 2013. But in 1977 it was perfectly normal and no one gave it a care in the world.
And Sid and Marty Kroft . . . yowza! My wife gives me crap for still watching Land of the Lost when it comes on (it is HORRIBLE, by the way).
Sitcoms in the 70’s and even 80’s were awesome because everybody looked and felt real and actually had something to say.
Noawadays everybody just looks perfect and walks around saying and doing stuff. Same goes for pop music. Don’t believe me? Youtube a 70’s act performing their hit song on some pop show and look at just how plain and unattractive most of them are. Boofy, frizzy hairstyles, pale skin, skinny arms, big noses, big chins, weird looking faces, turtleneck sweaters. But the songs are timeless.
Fast forward 30 years and it’s a bunch of sexy, tanned people wearing sexy revealing clothes and grinding away to some nondescript beat and forgettable lyrics.
Bring back ugly I say.
Record Store Day. Let’s keep this train a rollin’
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Found this outside among countless boxes for $1. I still didn’t buy it but it elicited a huge laugh around me. Just…what.
Sitcoms in the 70’s and even 80’s were awesome because everybody looked and felt real and actually had something to say.
Noawadays everybody just looks perfect and walks around saying and doing stuff. Same goes for pop music. Don’t believe me? Youtube a 70’s act performing their hit song on some pop show and look at just how plain and unattractive most of them are. Boofy, frizzy hairstyles, pale skin, skinny arms, big noses, big chins, weird looking faces, turtleneck sweaters. But the songs are timeless.
Fast forward 30 years and it’s a bunch of sexy, tanned people wearing sexy revealing clothes and grinding away to some nondescript beat and forgettable lyrics.
Bring back ugly I say.
Goddamn, Philosopher!
I feel a little closer to Peligro after reading this.
Not often, but enough to notice, every now and again Peligro has a post that is so succinct it fills me full of warm fuzzies, like our bio rhythms are in perfect harmony.
Next round is on me buddy.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Pete Swanson - I Don’t Rock At All
It’s just hideous. Wouldn’t mind but it’s a decent EP
^ That is fucking terrible.
Pete Swanson - I Don’t Rock At All
It’s just hideous. Wouldn’t mind but it’s a decent EP
I had to google this to see if you were just fucking with us. This makes 13 look way better. This is the worst album cover I’ve ever seen. So bad that I’D TAKE RELAPSE OVER THIS!!!
I’m guessing, with respect to the title, that it was his intent to make “the most un-rock-and-roll, uncool album cover ever” and really, if that was his goal . . . Holy crap, did he nail it, or what? It’s not even one of those cases of “so bad it’s good” where you enjoy an album cover’s retardedness because there’s some antihero nerdy coolness or something. Heck no . . . This one just transcends all levels of crappiness and is just impossible to appreciate on ANY level. Well, I guess maybe that is an accomplishment in itself. Either way, it is certainly, in my opinion, the new GOLD STANDARD of awful album covers.
I like Moby’s music, but come on, this album art is horrifying. He should have at least shaved his chest.
I like Moby’s music, but come on, this album art is horrifying. He should have at least shaved his chest.
i like that cover. why would he shave his chest?!
Hey look. He’s blurry!
Easily the worst Crimson album.