(08-13-2010 09:00 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  

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(07-26-2010 06:37 AM)Cabbage Love Wrote:  I have a soft spot for Delicate Sound Of Thunder, but I think Ummagumma is my fav cover. Very surrealistic.

I love the DSOT cover, especially when you know what Storm was trying to communicate with it. The Floyd were always about light and sound, a balance between the visual elements of their show and the musical ones. So you have one guy covered in light bulbs and another covered in what appear to be birds and the two look like they're going to duel or battle.

Very interesting. The title is even great -- Delicate Sound of Thunder. I think that's a great way to describe Pink Floyd's music.

I must get a proper version of Delicate Sound of Thunder. I only have a Soviet pressing with 2/3 of the art work missing...

I got mine from Ebay. Still in shrink wrap -- I think it cost me a little under $20, including shipping.

I'm sure I can find it at a fairly reasonable price when I actually start looking for it. I saw it in a store a few weeks ago in good condition for 120 SKR (maybe 15 USD?). No shrink wrap though... :-)

$15 seems like a good price for the record, provided it's in great condition. That much for an album that is scuffed/scratched or where the jacket looks beat to hell is not a rip-off. If it's not in shrink, ask if you can take the vinyl out and look at it. That's what I always do.

Floyd actual album is an iconic figure with those of their retail / jacket covers. It is part of the young generation, but a great album to go along with it may be good, It's a shame.

I hate when spammers make you think there's interest in a thread. *sigh*

Thats a tough one to answer, but I'd have to say that I'm a fan of the Atom Heart Mother art. For some reason it fits that album perfectly , but in an off way...

Definitely DSOTM.

I would add that the symbolism inherent in the Wish You Were Here artwork is not just very clever, but very well done.

What is the symbolism inherent in the Wish You Were Here artwork?

A man getting "burned" in a deal, according to Wikipedia. It's probably most relevant to Have A Cigar, I guess..

(01-23-2011 04:01 PM)Arno Sluismans Wrote:  A man getting "burned" in a deal, according to Wikipedia. It's probably most relevant to Have A Cigar, I guess..

I think its more than that though; think of the title. Well... I think of it this way, the one man is watching the other die before him saying "Wish You Were Here", but at the same time he is not frantic, trying to help the man burning. Its like the band saying to Syd, "We wish you were here to play music with us, but there is nothing we can do to help the situation. We must leave you the way you are, and we are sorry for that"...

Wow, talk about over-thinking things. That's not what the album title or artwork is about at all. Also, the artwork for the album is not just what's on the cover. There's also the back cover, and then the sleeve design as well. Back to the cover for a moment, though:

The cover is picturing two businessmen shaking hands. One is calm and composed, looking confident that the deal being made is to his benefit; the other looking submissively downwards, almost groveling. Also, he's on fire. It's not that subtle. The album is all about the anger and unease the band felt about the music business at the time, and the pressure they were under from their label to basically produce The Dark Side of the Moon pt. 2. While Shine On and the title track are about Syd.....the rest of it ain't. It's basically a barb fired directly at the heart of greedy music industry executives, something they knew a bit about.

The rest of the album's art design is about things that are missing, which ties into the other theme of the album -- absence. A diver without a splash, a businessman without a soul, a swimmer without water, a woman without form......like I said, the symbolism was very, very well done by Storm & Co.