Art Work

We the release of the Hammersmith DVD many of us are not happy with the art work.

Sub standard or predictable and even boring seem to be the ingredients that make up much of Queen's product art work. Of late.

So the question is what is the best, album, CD DVD video art work on a Queen release. The last really good ones I think were Innuendo and NOTW. Some since then have been good but haven't aged well.

NOTW obviously. Great concept - classic 70s rock album cover. At The Beeb (original UK sleeve) is great too.

A soft spot for Hot Space. Cool graphics.

I like The Works as it looks like a sunday night and they've all just had a bath and are getting ready for bed.

"Innuendo" is a classy one in my opinion.

"The Game" comes to my mind when you like to have the ROCK-Band on the Cover.
Not their best Cover, but somehow I like the "Biker- Attitude"on that one.

QII is classic as well.

Actually, I love Queen (first album). Very dramatic! Simple, but dramatic!

NOTW is my favourite Queen album cover, it's very strange and striking. Innuendo's pretty cool too.

The Miracle for me. At the time, it was striking, and Quantel Paintbox had just come to light. Fantastic cover.

Queen, hands off their best cover.

Oh, I just realize that is a "freddie only" cover too... but well, it´s nice anyway.

Violet Shadows... and an Harlequin man stand on a rock with his hands raised to a dark and cloudy sky...

what more could i ask for?

Man, they're all great.
'Many of us are not happy with the artwork ', are you a member of the Queen team Vocal Harmony?, you sound as if you feel you had the right to have some input. They release stuff, buy it if you fancy it, if you don't, don't buy! They owe you precisely NOTHING.
Stop bleating on about nowt!

stevelondon20 wrote:

The Miracle for me. At the time, it was striking, and Quantel Paintbox had just come to light. Fantastic cover.

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They still use that program at QP...only the free trial version. didn't you noticed??

The Rainbow '74 was okay; if you copy the artwork from the Original tour program/flyer.

I like a lot of the Queen sleeves....Queen II, NOTW, Innuendo, MIH...even AKOM and The Miracle. Rainbow '74 artwork is lovely imo (even IF it's only Freddie). Back to the regal purple/gold and lovely picture. I'd say Innuendo is the best of the lot.

They are all very much of their time. I like The Miracle and AKOM for what they are.

The back cover of the miracle makes me queasy tho.

The cover of TCR had the band intentionally ' small ' as per the song title. Doesn't hide the fact that the album cover pretty much sucked. I initially thought it was a negative micro image of Paul Rodgers' hair plugs, but that was before I noticed the band.

A mention for SHA too. Again VERY 1974 but good with it. A step away from their first two design concepts, which of course went out the door for the next 2 albums :)

Best art work: ANATO/ADATR
Worst art work: The other ANATO. The new one.