What is your favourite EC album sleeve?

Stripped Jack Naked · Post by **Stripped Jack Naked** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 3:17 pm

This Years Model with all variations.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 4:56 pm

tokyo vogue wrote:i recently bought the vinyl version of Spike and the cover scares me a little bit.

The cover of 'Spike' has always scared the crap out of me, too. I was so relieved when Gillibeanz changed her avatar.

I like 'Trust', and there's also something appealing about the 'Taking Liberties' cover--faded jeans, dark glasses, the hair thing, I don't know...

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:13 pm

what about the other pics of EC w/ his made-up head stuck thru the WB shield, available on the re-issue in the booklet? EWWWWWW! very scary!!! items to frighten small children.

why do the british have such awful dental care???

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:23 am

The 'Spike' cover didn't scare me when I ripped an advert for it out of a magazine and stuck it up on my bedroom wall when I was 10!

My fave is TYM with the camera and all. I had the coolest hallway. A framed poster for the film 'Blow Up' hung opposite a framed poster of TYM. That was until a rather heated argument with my ex ended up with the TYM one being shoved out of a window. I'm still looking for a replacement.

Also love 'All This Useless Beauty'.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:54 am

PlaythingOrPet wrote: That was until a rather heated argument with my ex ended up with the TYM one being shoved out of a window. I'm still looking for a replacement.

Replacement boyfriend or poster?

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 11:04 am

Goody2Shoes wrote:PlaythingOrPet wrote:
That was until a rather heated argument with my ex ended up with the TYM one being shoved out of a window. I'm still looking for a replacement.

Replacement boyfriend or poster?

If both came along at the same time I'd take the poster first. But it must be framed, mind...

HolyCoatAndHat · Post by **HolyCoatAndHat** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 10:59 am

I have to go with Imperial Bedroom on this one. I would buy this album on the cover art even if I had never heard of Elvis Costello!

lipstickvogue · Post by **lipstickvogue** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 2:04 am

Without question KoA is one of my favorite actual covers but I too flip the booklets around a bit so that my cds feature different visuals regularly. I'm also quite fond of TYM; I have an analog clock in my bedroom with TYM on the face (my boyfriend just loves that!)

My favorite would have to be the black and white photo of himself in the 2001 Very Best of ... the pic with the tortoiseshell specks. It has become the cover (booket flipping again) and I rarely am able to put the cd back on the rack because I am so fond of occasionally seeing it here or there in my apartment. (Yeah, the boyfriend loves that too.)

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 5:25 am

What I want to know is what are you doing letting your boyfriend in your bedroom young lady!

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 5:39 am

If you carry on booklet flipping you'll knacker the whole thing.

Does your boyfriend love Elvis more than he loves you?

lipstickvogue · Post by **lipstickvogue** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 12:18 pm

Altough he claims only a mild favor for EC, I did catch him reading my copy of Sheppard's Kill Your Idols paperback a few days ago. So, there is hope.

And, of course, he only pops into my bedroom now and again to say 'hello' to my kitten.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 12:51 pm

lipstickvogue wrote:And, of course, he only pops into my bedroom now and again to say 'hello' to my kitten.

That reminds me of a song I know... "Hello kitten, I don't miss sex, it's just the feeling of skin against skin that I want..." Oh, songs about masturbation, what an underappreciated sub-genre.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 2:52 pm

Pictures of Lily....made me feel so wonderful...

absolutnut · Post by **absolutnut** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:16 am

This Year's Model, but not the US Version! Or maybe, POSSIBLY, King Of America. Nah, TYM.

Jackson Doofster · Post by **Jackson Doofster** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 1:50 pm

Oh Trust!!!!!! ...easily!!

sulkygirl · Post by **sulkygirl** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 12:27 am

I could've SWORN I'd finally posted here...

Does "Elvis Costello -- An Overview" (bonus disc w/ Ryko's KOA) count?

If not, toss up between "Trust: and "This Year's Model"...