When album covers collide with real life
Last night/this morning, I stayed up watching Mythbusters on DVD until about 7 am. In Australian summer time, that’s well after sunrise.
At around 6 am, the sky looked really similar to the current Low album, The Great Destroyer… actually, the colours reminded me of the cover. I wasn’t really paying any attention to the cloud shapes.
Are there any album covers that have resembled things you’ve seen in reality?
Obviously, I don’t mean when a band just poses when you meet them and do the Hall of Douchebags thing. I mean more original and artistic things. I even more interesting non-wall things like The Clash’s London Calling.
On another personal note, my only other interesting cover-related story occurred in 1998 when Van Halen made their only Australian tour. I was so excited that I spoke too fast to be understood. I asked Eddie Van Halen why Live: Right Here, Right Now had two different covers (boring version).
If I recall correctly, he said he wasn’t aware there were two different versions but told me that the Jesus one was a photo of a real house.
I always thought that cover was pretty cool. I bet the people with the Jesus in front of their house copped a lot of abuse, eggings and toilet papering for it over the years… yet they get the last laugh.
PS: I won’t complete the hat-trick by having another Van Halen related post next.
