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ive listen to your review john and gave the album a couple of spins as i have played it for a long time one thing for me what lets the album done is that female singer popping up on some of the tracks especially on side 2 other than that a fine low key clapton album

Thankyou for the review John

Thankyou for the review John

Sign Language is indeed an overlooked classic! I never get tired of it.

Eric and The Band’s Richard Manuel used to drink heavily together during the making of this album. Some good tunes on that record.

the bootleg series 91 i think thats the first time they realised outtakes boxsets so bob must been the first

Funny timing aha. Saw this one going for cheap in a record store earlier in Hertfordshire. Perhaps I should've picked it up.

Sorry John heaton, but get your coughing out the way before you attempt another review. Not a great noise through my speakers, but I do like respect your opinion on all things clapton and beatles. 😉

Sadly, album popularity is often times measured by the popularity of the singles from the album. This album is an example of why that does a great disservice to an otherwise solid album. The two singles, "Hello Old Friend" and "Carnival", were wonderful recordings, but not commercial enough to match the success of "I Shot The Sheriff". There are only two tracks I skip when I listen to this album: "All Our Pastimes" and "Innocent Times".

Thanks for the review.I agree with your comment about same old blues. It was certainly not his best. I disagree though with you on Double Trouble I think it is a great blues song although better on the live album just one night and on the live album he did with Steview so wood recorded at Madison Square Garden. However there are some great versions from the 1995 tour which include a horn section which is what the song needs

The first Cure album had a different cover in the US. It was drawings or paper cutouts of three Palm Trees. They were in the desert so I always just connected them to Fire in Cairo and the Arab song. I like the heavily saturated colors on the Paul Simon cover. Reminds me of the heavily saturated colors on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Probably a reflection of emerging video technology at the time, just like the Rolling Stones cover and the Talking Heads cover you mentioned were reflections of emerging infrared photography at the time.

Live Peace In Toronto by The Plastic Ono Band. Tears For Fears The Hurting, Paul McCartney- Cherries!!!

The "Pet Sounds" cover is really not good. Such a groundbreaking innovative album really should have had a more exciting cover. The main problem for me isn't the photo; it's all that text that destroys it. The only text allowed on an album cover should be the name of the band and the title of the album.

Bruce Springsteen The Ghost of Tom Joad The Rising Both are great albums with poor covers.

A fridge, a lamp and a Hoover, hahahaha

I love Double Albums,The Best 💯

The Best Elton John Album Ever, Classic

Elton John Is The Best 💯

The Ramones - 'It's Alive'.

the Tug of War cover is one of McCartney's best

I used to have the 3D cover of The Raven be the Stranglers but sadly sold it , needed the cash at the time , though l still have the traditional version . I think the first 5 albums by the Stranglers are the best after that l went off them . When the Raven came out it was one of the first gigs l went to though with my mate . I really like the album

There Are Good Album Covers & There Are Some Bad Cover's

It was the Crosby If Only I could Remember My Name that was on the Rolling Stone list that got me, it's a great cover, and I don't ever care for the music.

Radio Kaos is a dreadful album cover - but I’ve always loved the album, even if Roger Waters doesn’t!

Look at the covers of the Scorpions: one more dreadful than the other. I‘m not shy, but that was pornography! „Virgin Killers“ just criminal.

The Pet Sounds photo shoot was an after thought by someone at the record company. Great list John, thanks for sharing.

Yep, this is a great album. Definitely in my Top 3 from ELO.

Need a Venus and Mars revisited

I quite like Radio Kaos which shows a morse code message which I think goes with the overall Radio idea of the album and the morse code at the end of The Tide is Turning. Also the latest Roger Waters album depicts redacted text which again matches the political theme of the album. Probably the worst covers (in my view) are ELP's Love Beach and Jon Anderson's latest album True. Jon Anderson's album is particularly disappointing as he has been involved in some great covers.

Top 25 1: School 2: Crime Of The Century 3: Fool’s Overture 4: Hide In Your Shell 5: Goodbye Stranger 6: Two Of Us 7: Child Of Vision 8: Rudy 9: Just Another Nervous Wreck 10: Another Mans Woman 11: Asylum 12: A Soapbox Opera 13: Waiting So Long 14: Breakfast In America 15: From Now On 16: Downstream 17: Don’t Leave Me Now 18: Take The Long Way Home 19: Bloody Well Right 20: Gone Hollywood 21: Brother Where You Bound 22: Dreamer 23: Logical Song 24: Ain’t Nobody But Me 25: If Everyone Was Listening

I've never thought the Revolver album cover was so hot myself. Line drawings of the Beatles with other tiny "photo-Beatles" living inside their ramen noodle hair? If one of the tape loops from "Tomorrow Never Knows" got sick and vomited out an album cover, it might have looked something like that. And a hard disagree on the Cure album cover. It's right in line with the subversion of rock cliches that punk and new wave was all about. What's the polar opposite of some sexy dudes holding guitars? Three appliances sitting in a corner.

I like that Saved album cover better than the version that just has a drawing of Dylan on stage.

15. Young Americans...it was the times. Bowie was always shuffling through the deck of his imagery and not every card is an ace. 14. Stones...with one notable exception (Sticky Fingers) they didn't have a lot of good album covers in my opinion. 13. Planet Waves...suits the homemade feel of the album, whatever else one might say about it. 12. Presence...Yeah, Zep had done better. Despite a possible homage to 2001 A Space Odyssey, the phallic reference just seemed limp. 11. SuperTramp...not the worst I've ever seen. I think the textural aspect is kinda cool. 10. High Voltage...I think we had a different cover in the USA, or am I misremembering? 9. Fate for Breakfast...it reflects the decor of the time very viscerally for me. AND thanks for giving me a song to listen to today. 8. Pet Sounds...I cannot divorce the cover from the content of the album, which for me, from the first time my older sisters put the needle down on side one to this very day, I have considered the greatest album of all time, bar none. Pepper is a close second, but it is second. Come to think of it, the Beach Boys never had a killer album cover. Some good ones but nothing overly artsy or groundbreaking. Their appeal was the simple mix of sunshine and sadness. They understood the world they lived in and portrayed it extremely well. To the rest of the world it was the California Dream; to us, in California back then, it was our reality as we grew up. So in that sense, the album cover was what the songs were, another day in California, life presented as it was. Yeah, going to the Zoo on a sunny day would have been a thing back then and still today. I went to a Zoo in London. Totally different experience. Not to slag it but it was a much more claustrophobic experience. 7. Madmen Across the Water, I have 4 words...."Seamstress for the band." 6. Harry Nillson...appropriate if nothing else, though I don't disagree about the cover. 5. The Cure...I like the surrealism. It suits the album title, don't you think? 4. Paul Simon...Kinda interesting and kinda underwhelming. 3. McCartney...Reminds me of Springsteen's "The Rising." It is an OK cover not out of line with some of his others of the time, but when you compare it with the first album you showed which was "Revolver" it pales in comparison. McCartney has always put artists in the forefront, they've done set designs for him even. Oh well, It's McCartney soI'll take it! Great song, I'm listening to it now. Thanks for always getting me queuing up some great songs, man! Always happens when I view your posts. 2. Blind Faith...yeah, that cover always bugged me. It seemed disrespectful. I was 11 back then. I agree with you, the artist statement you quoted was a load of bull, man. 1. Denny Laine...YOU GOT TO MEET DENNY LAINE, MAN! That is great! He actually thought about you as a fan when you came to see him, and signed your record. Would have been interesting to know what he was thinking with the cover. I remember reading a tell-all book by his wife and thinking "uh oh, he isn't in the driver seat and that ain't good!" Well...at least he made number one on the list, if not in the charts. Yeah, not so good cover but a decent song. Seemed like the verses were too cerebral and couldn't quite mesh with the catchy chorus.

I think personally Nirvana Nevermind cover is horrible and Primal Scream, Screamadelica is absolute rubbish.

We are not on the same boat with Young Americans John 🤣 Top choices otherwise , always enjoy these sort of videos

steel wheels by the Stones is pretty poor by their standards

Reading some of the comments, I ask myself, how some people are raised. What would their parents say, if they would read these disrespectful answers? Keep up the good work, Mr. Heaton! Never let yourself getting discouraged!

1. Ebony And Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder (This is so cheap and clumsy. Otherwise Tug of War is pure perfection.) 2. Your Own Special Way - Genesis (from Wind & Wuthering - the weakest song on an otherwise superb album) 3. Obla-Di-Obla-Da (At least it was a single here in Germany. I really hate that song.) 4. Leaving New York - R.E.M. ( The most boring song from a very boring album.) 5. Teardrops - George Harrison 6. The Sensual World - Kate Bush (Never gave me anything. Otherwise it's a brilliant album.) 7. Nikita - Elton John (Yawn!) 8. Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac 9. It's Raining Again - Supertramp (Famous Last Words was weaker than the four albums before, but the snooze-fest that Raining is, is unbearable.) 10. The Winner Takes It all - ABBA (I can't stand it. There I wrote it. The lyrics are German Schlager. Agnetha kinda saves it, but still ...)

Agree on most, but I've always been fond of the "Fate For Breakfast" cover. Something charming about Art just in his kitchen in a bathrobe. I can't defend the back cover as much though. Ha!

I think ABBA had some very good lyrics on ST and The Visitors. Problem is, they aren't very happy. The Piper about fascism, Me And I about schizophrenia, The Visitors about an authoritarian society and Soldiers about some post-apocalyptic scenery. Even Happy New Year is a wolf in the fold as it closes on a pretty dark note.

Interesting that album covers followed the artistic trend and became more adventurous after the mid-sixties, prior to which they were usually pictures of the artists themselves and not much else. Some groups were slower to catch on to the change or had less of a say, hence the Beach Boys visit to a zoo. Note sure about keeping goats as pets, but to each their own. Keep up the good work.

KooKoo by Deborah Harry. Spikes through her head? Why?

Pet Sounds!!!! Amazingly awful. Super weird. The opposite to art. Hearts and Bones is a fine cover 😊

McCartney III Reimagined. Wildlife. Driving Rain. These aren’t great but there are many hilariously awful Macca picture sleeves created for many of his 45rpm singles.

ELO have some great album covers and i think Secret Messages was the last great one.

Unhalfbricking FAIRPORT convention check it out As for RS talking about revolver..utter stupidity

Art Garfunkel's "Fate For Breakfast" was released with 6 different covers. I suppose all equally bad since they focus on him around the breakfast table at various stages of his meal. But you have to give him some credit for the concept that was repeated by Led Zeppelin later in the year. Also, "Bright Eyes" was not on the US version of the album.

love your take jh!

You have to understand the composition of the people behind the Rolling Stone magazine to understand why they would place a spiritual album on the list that has absolutely no business being on the list. I just wish you would stop referencing them in videos as if they have any merit or value. They became obsolete after the 70s.

I was going to mention 'Pet Sounds', but then you showed it. How about the album 'My Beauty'' by Kevin Rowland, now that is awful. I quite like the 'Hearts and Bones' album by Paul Simon; if the problem is that the photo is blurred, that puts it in the same category as 'Blonde on Blonde -Bob Dylan'