― morris pavilion (samjeff), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link
― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Saturday, 6 March 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link
― maypang (maypang), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Bjorn Kipling, Sunday, 7 March 2004 05:07 (twenty years ago) link
Worst - David Sylvian's Everything and Nothing comp. Four-panel digipak: disc 1, bonus disc 3 in very snug slide-in slipcase, artwork, disc 2. Getting bonus CD out means folding pack back on itself or digging around in slip panel with fingernails. Yes, it's ripped.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
Second most ambitiously worst packaging ever was a (drum roll) Flaming Lips single... again. This time, the "This Here Giraffe" part 2 CD-single.. the CD was cut into a star-shape.. so only top loading CD players can (maybe) play it. What makes it more frustrating is that the B-sides are one of the rare B-sides for the Lips that are GOOD! (Peel session versions of "Hit To Death" era songs)
― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
My Spectrum gel-pack is still nice and gooey. Slayer put out a nice blood-gel pack once.
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link
Now that I've finally got at the disc I feel more like playing Hüsker Dü than I do Múm.
― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
My current buggabear is the metal Fabriclive cases.
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
bottleskup flenkenkenmike sucked... like the aluminum tunes packaging but worse... which, the LP copy of AT was ace. no sweat at all.
i hate all those cheap cases were the teeth break easily and cd shakes around inside. lame.
lot's of noise bands think it's just peachy to release stuff in weird packaging... it's a real scourge to deal with. i've got a whole shelf full of over-sized and oddly shaped cd packages. new faggot cunts put theirs in a cloth sleeve with a button. it's actually kind of nice, but still unweildy.
warp's use of book-style jackets is neat, but annoying to pay for. i remember the first one being gallo's record and it fit his 50s crooner thing and the old style LP jackets, but to see broadcast and boards of canada do it sort of lost the point to me.
was it aphex twin who had that odd 1.5-2 12" LPs wide monster lp thingy? it was like 12.5 x 25 inches or something. ugh.
odd shaped cds like the chinese stars annoy me too. if you don't have center-locked cd player, you have to hope you centered it in your computer's cd tray... and in general it's just gonna bitch and send it back out.
why don't bands go cheap and spend the extra on a dinner and a movie. really! treat yourself!m.
― msp, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― JC (JC A.), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link
DAMN YOU EDDIE VEDDER!!!!!! DAMN YOOOOOOU!!!
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link
But it's the Fall! What are you expecting?
What pisses me off (while not a bad design) is Rykodisc's re-issues of the Mission of Burma back catalogue. It has a section saying 'The green tinted jewel case is trademarked' or something. How can you trademark colouring something green!?
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link
Aesthetically, it's digipaks all the way. They're simply more gorgeous, almost every time. I have more problems with jewel cases breaking (those horrible tabs that hold the cover onto the bottom) than I do with any cardboard cases.
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 4 February 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link
-- cutty (holler@thegod.com ), March 5th, 2004. (2 trackbacks)
cd or vinyl? i quite like the cd packaging... refried ectoplasm is pretty similar
― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link
This is one of the rarer times I got the Japanese version of a release by a band that's not Japanese. No unglued holes. No complaints! And I got "Freestyle Dumpling", the best damn cover of The Fall's "Slates, Slags, etc" ever! (though minus "Seeperbold")
― donut christ (donut), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought the point of those was that they did break the CDs. Was it not BC/CR being all precious about vinyl?
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 4 February 2005 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 4 February 2005 09:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Still a fun lil album, though.
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Monday, 24 July 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 24 July 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Monday, 24 July 2006 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link
-- bill stevens (bscrubbin...), March 5th, 2004.
Ha ha. I actually went to school with the son of the guy who designed the hot side hot/cool side cool packaging and became a millionaire off of it. Son was an alcoholic, of course.
― cracktivity1 (cracktivity1), Monday, 24 July 2006 04:43 (eighteen years ago) link