Brian and Kerry announce new album

That cover! Ahahahahahaha

Golden shower. Hahaha

Better than nothing...

bucsateflon wrote:

Better than nothing...

I pick nothing. :D

Brian had good taste & artistic sense once. What happened? Perhaps Freddie & his graphic design sensibility helped keep the group on track in terms of visual presentation, back in the day. Still, I guess Queen had one or two cringeworthy album covers in their time too (The Miracle).

None of that accounts for the exceptionally cheesy choices of cover songs...

I'm eager to hear any new writing from him, anyway.

Benn Kempster wrote:

It'll sell about 38 copies........ Utter. Rubbish.

Being a Brian-related project, it makes more sense for it to sell 39!

That may quite possibly be one of the worst, most amateurish album covers in history. Mind bogglingly horrible.

Sheer Brass Neck wrote:

That may quite possibly be one of the worst, most amateurish album covers in history. Mind bogglingly horrible.

Well it's become a firm Queen tradition of late!

Sheer Brass Neck wrote:

That may quite possibly be one of the worst, most amateurish album covers in history. Mind bogglingly horrible.

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Of course ; It's Richard Gray with Windows Paint Pro.

Cover looks like it was made in Microsoft Word '97 using Word Art.

Cover art doesn't matter in the same way it used to when vinyl was king. That may explain why recent releases haven't had the same care taken over them as in the past. It's hardly an excuse though for the dreadful Hammersmith cover art. I don't mind the cover art for this Brian & Kerry album. It reminds me a bit of ELO's Eldorado (which was of course inspired by the Wizard of Oz). It's a bit naff maybe, but not as bad as some say. There's only so many ways you can tart up/present a man in his 60s: maybe though the Johnny Cash approach would've been better ('Brian in Black') :) And while I won't be buying it, the art at least isn't as bad as the Cosmos Rocks.

Wow, a lot of negativity. Bless Brian for still trying something new in stead of repeating the good old greatest hits.
I'll give it a listen.

Never cared much for album covers. I liked the News of the world artwork.

Ivo-1976 wrote:

Wow, a lot of negativity. Bless Brian for still trying something new in stead of repeating the good old greatest hits.
I'll give it a listen.

Never cared much for album covers. I liked the News of the world artwork.

Yeah, but they couldn't go wrong hiring a PROFESSIONAL ILLUSTRATOR (Frank Kelly Freas) who'd done some ungodly number of pulp/anthology covers to recreate something from Astounding Science Fiction.

I'm in the minority as one who loves the AKOM artwork. only one that's really lacking is The Miracle, .... is IS an eyesore.

especially the back. pretty disastrous looking track list reverse artwork. the front is still iconic. ... but a bit gnarly.

not as bad as TCR (*crap artwork) and the atrocious Hammersmith artwork. ... contrary directions, horrible colors, shite arrangement

matt z wrote:

Ivo-1976 wrote:

Wow, a lot of negativity. Bless Brian for still trying something new in stead of repeating the good old greatest hits.
I'll give it a listen.

Never cared much for album covers. I liked the News of the world artwork.

Yeah, but they couldn't go wrong hiring a PROFESSIONAL ILLUSTRATOR (Frank Kelly Freas) who'd done some ungodly number of pulp/anthology covers to recreate something from Astounding Science Fiction.

I'm in the minority as one who loves the AKOM artwork. only one that's really lacking is The Miracle, .... is IS an eyesore.

especially the back. pretty disastrous looking track list reverse artwork. the front is still iconic. ... but a bit gnarly.

not as bad as TCR (*crap artwork) and the atrocious Hammersmith artwork. ... contrary directions, horrible colors, shite arrangement

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The negativity keeps going on because of lack of interest of the QP team

It seems one guy or team is reponsible for all these crap artwork releases latest years.I'm not answering the choice of pictures, but the quality and graphic ideas and profession are way below average.

From queenfan perspective this thread started when on the Dvd's QP started with only Freddie on the cover, which is these days more rule than exception.

Queen is 4 persons right?! Seen the latest project of Brian May- Queen 3D is only one person: Freddie.

Only exception is the Rainbow DVD, but the idea using purple and yellow and was copied of the orginal poster layout.

"Queen is 4 persons right?! Seen the latest project of Brian May- Queen 3D is only one person: Freddie. "

I totally agree, says a lot about how much they care about the fans past comments, they never will