the surrender period is unquestionably the best period for art work. push the button art work is cool but the jury is still out for galvanize. strangly enough Q magazine had a book out on the top 100 album covers of all time. surrender was featured in there somewhere with the original photo of some music gig in the olympia centre, london 1975. which was used for the screen prints of the cover!!!



so Q magazine is not all bad, just in the 21st century

Yes it has to be Surrender era for me i think. I was ready to hate the new artwork, i certanly did'nt like the initial cover artwork posted for galvanize but the album art work i really like, although i still wish the words were purple instead of grey/light blue }:-) Saying that i recently saw a new cover for galvanize with the words making up a wrecking ball and that was cool. oh and before i forget i created a very similar effect to the singles cover in cg i'll post it up once i finish it or i'll just post up some rough images.

i personally preffer the anvil logo to the wrecking ball, but who cares?? its all about the music!!! they could put all their music out in a black sleeve and i wouldn't give a shit. cover art is the icing on the cake, but who needs cake??

Yes i agree, i think the way i put it to my friend was they could sell Push the button in a brown paper bag covered in a hint of skunk stench and i would still buy it (same for the rest of there albums) X-D

I think I personally may leave the brown paper bag in the shop ;)

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Yes it has to be Surrender era for me i think. I was ready to hate the new artwork, i certanly did'nt like the initial cover artwork posted for galvanize but the album art work i really like, although i still wish the words were purple instead of grey/light blue }:-) Saying that i recently saw a new cover for galvanize with the words making up a wrecking ball and that was cool. oh and before i forget i created a very similar effect to the singles cover in cg i'll post it up once i finish it or i'll just post up some rough images.

Indeed, another post about our favourite Q magazine... and yet another issue i have managed to lay my hands on! i know it's a little off topic but obviously you own the issue right? would you agree that a good 60% of those covers in that mag were reasonably worthless and , dare i say it... a tad crap? I mean... "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack in the top 100 of ALL TIME... EVER? And no sign of "You've Come A Long Way Baby" - definately in MY top 5 record covers ever! I'm sorry, just venting some long restrained frustration.

Sorry to jump on a bandwagon here but I have to go with the Surrender covers, love the colours they have used. Even the promo cds look good.



Can't say theres any Single / Album covers I dislike, love all the different 'eras' for different reasons. I love the randomness of the epd / dyoh covers, and I like the meanings of the Come with us covers - all are kinda relevant to the music.

Must admit, i did like that orange in the DYOH covers.....

It Began In Africa is great,

Surrender, Starguitar, Come With Us (LP & CDS), Block Rockin' Beats and Music: Response are my favourite

Just my thoughts about those posting in this thread about artwork not making a diff as long as the music matters..... well, then I believe a poster's signature aint required either!



(ie. annoying!)

Sorry, to clarify, I meant "artwork" signatures.

I'm interested in that original photo used for Surrender.....can you post it on the forum or can I find it somewhere on the internet?

a magazine (Q???) once had a booklet made for surrender with additional info (about surrender singles as well) and new artwork. the original photo is shown on there. quite cool. *needs a scanner. please donate :) *

Also EPD and DYOH were cool. I didn't quite like Surrender and CWU era artwork (I found them boring).



At first I wasn't very fond of PDB artwork, but since I have put PDB wallpaper from www.thechemicalbrothers.com on my desktop, I like it more every single day. Cream, Black and Blue seem to work just fine.

About this discussion of whether artwork actually matters:



Yes and No.



I definitely see the point of those who say that it's the music that matters, in the end, and artwork really just complements the music and makes into an entire artistic package. So I don't really understand the annoyance of rijh, unless he misunderstood the previous comments as saying that the artwork really doesn't matter at all and that it doesn't make a difference. I think what they mean to say is that it's not the most important part of the package, but that they would buy the music if there was no artwork. I don't think you would say, rijh, that you wouldn't by a Chemical Brothers album if there was no artwork, so just a little miscommunication (as is all too common in this medium..), and it's all good.



What I really have to say, though, is that the Surrender artwork is practically what got me into the Chemical Brothers. I'd heard Block Rockin' Beats (of course) and stuff from Surrender and loved it, but never really got up the motivation to buy an album.. except that every time I went into the shops and looked at that Surrender cover, I was just mesmerized and I knew there was a feeling of utter elation in their music...

oh, another point I meant to make (blah blah blah ;))



about the importance of artwork, and this comes up a lot these days, is of course that it's possibly the biggest reason that people still buy albums instead of downloading is for the artwork - but then it's also the feeling of holding the 'official' product in your hands (but then that includes the artwork) and then, perhaps more important to me, having the highest quality version aside from the original master! The way things are going, though, we basically have the technology to duplicate all of these things and CDs can be (as they often are here in Asia) fully pirated, the complete package. So when it comes down to it, the only real issues are legality (and how many of you never do anything illegal? hah) and supporting the artists so they can continue to make music and this kind of support tends to come almost exclusively from hardcore fans such as ourselves.. I think..



what is the future of the music industry? only time will tell.

my fav surrender era

I definitely see the point of those who say that it's the music that matters, in the end, and artwork really just complements the music and makes into an entire artistic package. So I don't really understand the annoyance of rijh, unless he misunderstood the previous comments as saying that the artwork really doesn't matter at all and that it doesn't make a difference. I think what they mean to say is that it's not the most important part of the package, but that they would buy the music if there was no artwork. I don't think you would say, rijh, that you wouldn't by a Chemical Brothers album if there was no artwork, so just a little miscommunication (as is all too common in this medium..), and it's all good.

Look at AEs Tri Repeate and LP5. Both covers leave nothing to the imagination, but shows that there is no real need to have covers and song names only for the fact that they just seperate songs so we can recognize them with a name or symbol. But I am a big fan of cool cover art, you always need something to attrach your eye :D . Half the reason I bought Draft 7.30 was because of the wicked digtal design.