The most effective album packaging offers artists the chance to reinforce the story instructed all through their music or inform a brand new one completely — and all of the artists on our record of Album Cowl Easter Eggs took full benefit of the medium.
A number of of the albums covers on this record — resembling Rush and Iron Maiden — are self-referential, giving longtime followers loads of sight gags and inside jokes to find. Others embrace references to totally different artists, though the precise which means of those nods is not at all times clear. (You may see what we imply once you get to the Nirvana entry.)
Some artists used their album art work as a strategy to handle their present standing. Harry Nilsson and John Lennon poked enjoyable at their naughty status on the quilt of Nilsson’s Pussy Cats, whereas Led Zeppelin might have impressed — deliberately or in any other case — extra chatter about their alleged occult dabblings.
Whereas among the album cowl Easter eggs on our record are lighthearted and irreverent, others carried a way of gravitas that underscored the magnitude of their albums. When David Bowie launched his swan track, Blackstar, two days earlier than his demise, it turned clear to followers that he used his music as a vessel to usher him from one airplane to a different — and he used the packaging of his ultimate album to convey a poignant message about mortality.
Examine all of those examples and extra in our under record of Album Cowl Easter Eggs.
Album Cowl Easter Eggs
There’s greater than meets the attention.
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