Alright you crazy Aussies aka Men at Work, what the hell is this? It's an offensive color (except that it DOES stand out in your stack if you happen to be looking for it quickly in the midst of a dj set), it's ugly type that is just thrown on the top of the cover. I appreciate the designer trying to make the title type work with the illustrated amp and stuff, i get it, but then the top just blows the whole design. I feel like the placement of the name of the band could have been executed much better.
Secondly, and another canary yellow (???) is Sam Cooke. I LOVE Sam Cooke. His music is wonderful, and it makes me nostalgic for a time that there is no way I would have ever even lived through. So, watever I say here has no bearing on his actual music. It's just that I feel that so much more could have been done to this cover. I mean there is nothing "soulful" about this. Just a bunch of type thrown on there. I'm not impressed.
Finally, this one is so bad it's almost good; almost. Jonathan Richman is great. He's funny, he's been on Something About Mary, his lyrics are simple and inconsequential, but he could have done SO much more with this cover. It's still impressive that they produced this cover on a serious budget and without the help of computers, but still, it's pretty bad.
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