This means that the sleeve - and the images in the inner booklet - perfectly sum up the grimy, quirky and strange world of the singer. The slices of lemon - along with the title - are a reference to the student riots in Paris in 1968.ĤAD label designer Vaughan Oliver had established a special working relationship with photographer Simon Larbalestier over the course of the Boston band's previous released, but for the band's second full-length album, they had an advance look at Black Francis's lyrics for the first time. For their debut album, a piece of art called Bye Bye Badman was pressed into service, with its Jackson Pollock-esque paint splatters forming a backdrop to the album's title. Roses guitarist John Squire was a talented artist and his paintings adorned the band's singles. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses album cover. Each letter then linked to a letter or a number, allowing the buyer to decipher the title and the band name - the cover blocks say "FACT 75", for example. To this end, he took the 1890 painting A Basket Of Roses by Henri Fantin-Latour and created a colour wheel that featured every tone in the artwork. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies album cover.įactory Records' in-house designer Peter Saville had gone for a Futurist look for the Manchester band's debut album Movement, but for the follow-up, he wanted to combine the classical beauty of the music with the up to the date technology used to create it. It was the decade when CD-sized covers began to take over, but the 80s still had some amazing sleeves.
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