Your favorite cover art...

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:50 am

I was just perusing the latest volumes of Andy Partridge's Fuzzy Warbles series and the terrific postage-stamp themed artwork (which you can see below) got me thnking about other great examples of cover art. Which are your favorites?

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:06 am

WSS:

What the heck is the image on the cover of Waspstar - Apple Venus record? Looks like a cross-section of the vertebral column.

For some odd reason, I like the stark simplicity and ambiguous nature of that cover.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:23 am

Mr. Average wrote:WSS:

What the heck is the image on the cover of Waspstar - Apple Venus record? Looks like a cross-section of the vertebral column.

For some odd reason, I like the stark simplicity and ambiguous nature of that cover.

According to Andy, the Wasp Star cover art is a "solarized" version(whatever that means) of the peacock feather that features on Apple Venus, Vol. 1. There's a great feature on an XTC fan site where Andy talks about the cover art concepts for all of the XTC albums. You can see it here:

http://www.optimismsflames.com/1nonanim.html

Click on ""Big Box Of Paint" on the menu in the middle and it should take you there.

battered old bird · Post by **battered old bird** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:33 am

The FW artwork is impressive, I was hoping that 7 & 8 would have been out by now, I think it's been over a year since 5 & 6.

I love XTC's Go2 album (the one that explains the concept of album artwork, even if it was rejected by many people)

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:36 am

battered old bird wrote:The FW artwork is impressive, I was hoping that 7 & 8 would have been out by now, I think it's been over a year since 5 & 6.

I love XTC's Go2 album (the one that explains the concept of album artwork, even if it was rejected by many people)

In that XTC interview I posted, Andy says Vols. 7-8 will be the last ones. They should be out soon. Andy talks about the Go2 artwork in the link I provided above.

battered old bird · Post by **battered old bird** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:45 am

Thanks for the info.

Who Shot Sam? wrote: In that XTC interview I posted, Andy says Vols. 7-8 will be the last ones. They should be out soon. Andy talks about the Go2 artwork in the link I provided above.

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:40 pm

I like this cover art!!

P.S BOB DYLAN MOVIE COMING SOON!!!