The very best album packaging provides artists the chance to reinforce the story informed all through their music or inform a brand new one completely — and all of the artists on our record of Album Cowl Easter Eggs took full benefit of the medium.
A number of of the albums covers on this record — akin to Rush and Iron Maiden — are self-referential, giving longtime followers loads of sight gags and inside jokes to find. Others embody references to totally different artists, though the precise which means of those nods is not at all times clear. (You may see what we imply if you get to the Nirvana entry.)
Some artists used their album art work as a strategy to tackle their present standing. Harry Nilsson and John Lennon poked enjoyable at their naughty repute on the duvet of Nilsson’s Pussy Cats, whereas Led Zeppelin could have impressed — deliberately or in any other case — extra chatter about their alleged occult dabblings.
Whereas among the album cowl Easter eggs on our record are lighthearted and irreverent, others carried a way of gravitas that underscored the magnitude of their albums. When David Bowie launched his swan music, Blackstar, two days earlier than his loss of life, it turned clear to followers that he used his music as a vessel to usher him from one airplane to a different — and he used the packaging of his ultimate album to convey a poignant message about mortality.
Examine all of those examples and extra in our under record of Album Cowl Easter Eggs.
Album Cowl Easter Eggs
There’s greater than meets the attention.
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