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Moi , j'adore les pochettes d'Iron Maiden , vu que j'etais un veritable fan quand j'etais plus jeune, j'ai toujours aimé Eddie.
Tenez d'ailleurs hop un compil des pochettes avec le mort-vivant le plus célebre du Heavy Metal

The Sharks - "Jab It In Yore Eye" (1974)

L'album a beau être ultra culte, la pochette n'en reste pas moins d'un kitsch incroyable :

Le débat est relancé !
Je classerais "Pet Sounds" dans cette catégorie

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Après avoir hésité entre kitsch et hideux... assez hideux !

Le débat est relancé !
Je classerais "Pet Sounds" dans cette catégorie

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Oups, je n'avais pas connaissance de la catégorie en question. Kitsch en effet.

Clepsydra - Alone
L'album est sorti avec 3 pochettes différentes représentant un poisson, un poulpe ou un poulet.
J'ai commandé l'album sur Internet et j'ai hérité du poulet.

Dans le genre hideux (mais kitsch également), il y a les pochettes d'Osibisa, par exemple:

Et sinon, dans le même genre que cosmo's factory je trouve, il y a ça :



L'album est une tuerie, mais alors la pochette...

Quand même assez limite...

'S.F. Sorrow' est un album mythique des Pretty Things, fabuleux.
Mais, Dieu que la pochette est vilaine.

En même temps, ça se comprend : ils étaient tellement fauchés que c'est Phil May lui-même qui a dû la dessiner ^^ Dans le genre laid, celle de Parachute se défend pas mal aussi, et pourtant c'est une production Hipgnosis, gage de qualité en général.

Quand on me dit « pochette laide », je pense instantanément à Born Again de Black Sabbath (l'album avec Ian Gillian). Beurk beurk beurk. Cette pochette me débecte tellement que j'ai même pas envie de coller d'image.

Quand on me dit « pochette laide », je pense instantanément à Born Again de Black Sabbath (l'album avec Ian Gillian). Beurk beurk beurk. Cette pochette me débecte tellement que j'ai même pas envie de coller d'image.
Ah ouais ! Un vrai bon exemple ! C'est le bon goût "train fantôme"

Le pochette de "SF Sorrow" n'est pas d'une grande beauté, c'est sûr, mais il y a une sorte de "caractère" qui s'en dégage, un esthétisme discutable, certes mais pas digne du cloaque. C'est une école.

Justement ... une anecdote au sujet de cette pochette de l'album BORN AGAIN du Sabb' avec Gillan

Un certain Steve Joule en est le créateur.

Voilà ce qu'il en disait dans une interview en 2004 (désolé, pas le temps de traduire)

The Black Sabbath 'Born Again' album sleeve was designed under extraordinary circumstances; basically what had happened was that Sharon and Ozzy had split very acrimoniously from her fathers (Don Arden) management and record label. He subsequently decided that he would wreak his revenge by making Black Sabbath (whom he managed) the best heavy metal band in the world, which, of course they are but back then in the early '80's they weren't quite the International megastars that they had been in the '70's.

His plans included recruiting Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan, getting Bill Ward back in on drums and stealing as many of Sharon and Ozzy's team as possible and as I was designing Ozzys sleeves at the time I of course got asked to submit some rough designs. As I didn't want to lose my gig with the Osbourne's I thought the best thing to do would be to put some ridiculous and obvious designs down on paper, submit them and then get the beers in with the rejection fee, but oh no, life ain't that easy. In all I think there were four rough ideas that were given to the management and band to peruse (unfortunately I no longer have the roughs as I would love to see just how bad the other three were as sadly my booze and drug addled brain no longer remembers that far back), anyway one of the ideas was of course the baby and the first image of a baby that I found was from the front cover of a 1968 magazine called 'Mind Alive' that my parents has bought me as a child in order to further my education, so in reality I say blame my parents for the whole sorry mess. I then took some black and white photocopies of the image (the picture is credited to 'Rizzoli Press') that I overexposed, stuck the horns, nails, fangs into the equation, used the most outrageous colour combination that acid could buy, bastardised a bit of the Olde English typeface and sat back, shook my head and chuckled.

The story goes that at the meeting Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler were present but no Ian Gillan or Bill Ward. Tony loved it and Geezer, so I'm reliably informed, looked at it and in his best Brummie accent said, "It's shit. but it's fucking great!" Don not only loved it but had already decided that a Born Again baby costume was to be made for a suitable midget who was going to wear it and be part of the now infamous 'Born Again Tour'. So suddenly I find myself having to do the bloody thing. I was also offered a ridiculous amount of money (about twice as much as I was being paid for an Ozzy sleeve design) if I could deliver finished artwork for front, back and inner sleeve by a certain date. As the dreaded day drew nearer and nearer I kept putting off doing it again and again until finally the day before I sprang into action with the help of a neighbour, (Steve 'Fingers' Barrett) a bottle of Jack Daniels and the filthiest speed that money could buy on the streets of South East London and we bashed the whole thing out in a night, including hand lettering all the lyrics, delivered it the next day where upon I received my financial reward. But that wasn't the end of it oh no, when Gillan finally got to see a finished sleeve he hated it with a vengeance and hence the now famous quote "I looked at the cover and puked!" Not wanting to sound bitchy but over the years I've said the same thing about most of Gillan's album sleeves. He also allegedly threw a box of 25 copies of the album out of his window. Gillan might have hated it but Max Cavelera (Sepultura, Soulfly) and Glen Benton (Deicide) have both gone on record saying that it is their favourite album sleeve.

Voici la photo d'origine qui a servi de modèle



Voici la pochette de l'album de Black Sabbath



et plus étonnant, voici la pochette d'un single de DEPECHE MODE

Ça explique bien des choses !