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08-18-2002, 10:44 AM
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 Alternative Dark Side cover? If that prism had not been selected as the cover for Dark Side, what do you think would have been chosen instead? I personally think a moon at solar eclipse, about halfway through the cycle, would have been very effective. It would have tallied with the end of the album very nicely.  |
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08-18-2002, 05:16 PM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? the eclipse one is good. I would guess something to do with the pyramids. |
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08-18-2002, 05:37 PM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? That's what's said in Storm Thorgerson site about TDSOTM cover: Pink Floyd in their infinite wisdom perused our 7 complex detailed roughs for this cover in a drab basement room at Abbey Road - submissions over which we at Hipgnosis had toiled for weeks - but managed to decide within 3 minutes which one they liked. No amount of cajoling would get them to consider any other contender, nor endure further explanation of the prism, or how exactly it might look. That's it, they said in unison, we got to get back to real work, and returned forthwith to the studio upstairs. Appropriateness was the key. The refracting glass prism referred to Floyd light shows - consummate use of light in the concert setting. Its outline is triangular and triangles are symbols of ambition, and are redolent of pyramids, both cosmic and mad in equal measure, all these ideas touching on themes in the lyrics. The joining of the spectrum extending round the back cover and across the gatefold inside was seamless like the seguing tracks on the album, whilst the opening heartbeat was represented by a repeating blip in one of the colours. But to look back now and reflect upon how the actual artwork itself had no colour, being just a tint lay, and how the spectrum was missing a colour anyway, and how the whole design was only cobbled from a standard physics textbook diagram (albeit cunningly), and how there was another album called DSOM only a year previously, all of this just goes to show how such matters pale if a design feels 'appropriate'. How fitting it is to be fitting! i'd like to see which were the other contenders...
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08-18-2002, 07:30 PM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? i certainly hope it wasn't another cow or some other farm animal. |
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08-18-2002, 10:14 PM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? a duck would be cool |
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08-18-2002, 10:52 PM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? A real one or the rubber one? The Duck Side Of The Moon.  Last edited by what_rog_wants : 08-18-2002 at 10:55 PM. |
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08-19-2002, 01:26 AM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? I think they should of had them each biting rubber duckies. Then on the back cover or something, have a bunch of live ducks biting them. Duck Side of the Moon indeed. |
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08-19-2002, 11:01 PM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? What about the rejected cover for Meddle? |
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08-20-2002, 06:01 AM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? what was that one? cheers
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08-20-2002, 10:57 AM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? It was a close-up of a baboon's rear end. Dark Side of the Moon.  |
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08-20-2002, 12:19 PM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? ive read about the other designs, but i dont remember what they all were. i know one of them was the silver surfer flying through space. --- hey, what_rog_wants.....who are you? do i know you from another (nin) site?
__________________ "Exterminate all rational thought...that is the conclusion I have come to." - William S. Burroughs 'NAKED LUNCH' |
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08-20-2002, 12:40 PM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? That's interesting... I don't think I've posted anything at any NIN sites. Sorry. |
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08-20-2002, 02:06 PM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? ah. ok. you should come www.digitalnoise.org , its a great nothing records site. its my fav forum, you can talk about anything there. give it a try, i tell ya.
__________________ "Exterminate all rational thought...that is the conclusion I have come to." - William S. Burroughs 'NAKED LUNCH' |
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08-20-2002, 02:09 PM
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| Re: Alternative Dark Side cover? OK, I'll check it out. Thanks. |
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