Smuggest album cover?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (138 of them)

View Previous Page...

I agree with Jody-- we're looking for something on the order of

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d823/d82325o478c.jpg

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre100/e134/e134682wo3n.jpg

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm learning in researching this vital topic, that there is a thin line between smug and goofy.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

that Buster Poindexter cover is like the best thing ever!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think Robbie is ahead in terms of pure smugitude, but Lenny gets points for probably not being aware of just how smug he appears.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

I read "smug" as overly self-satisfied and brimming with an oversupply of not necessarily justified self-confidence.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Like so.....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000067O2U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not to be outdone by....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000031XCS.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

Pretty much any album featuring the "upwards from the crotch" shot falls under the "smug" banner, I feel (see Nelly).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

And as dead cool as these gents are, they look like some awfully smug motherfuckers (`specially Dave Alexander in the back):

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005IU1.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Robbie Williams seems to be looking ultra-smug on purpose, which is cheating.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2001/img/001201_clinton_cover.jpg

― KFC (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Robbie Williams seems to be looking ultra-smug on purpose, which is cheating.

Exactly, ditto the Poindexter example. But I guess we're not allowed to guess at intentions.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.demon.com/momus/darrylred.gif

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 10 January 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002UBF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 11 January 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

that is to say,

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002UBF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

lazy.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 11 January 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004RHZU.01._PE21_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000066NW0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001AMF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Either of these two:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d573/d57313gmg32.jpg

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre100/e163/e16316voek6.jpg

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Saturday, 11 January 2003 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f194/f1942812u80.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f613/f61364wfiaq.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c477/c47768wul5t.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love this album......but......

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f331/f33140o0dkv.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Part of their joke is their over-the-top smugness, obviously but...

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e354/e354483h3dn.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

That Paul Weller album looks like a mannequin or a robot. Creepy.
also...
Subthread: The Upper Crust, Classical or Dud?

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f307/f30712z6234.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 02:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Okay...now that guy in the middle with tinted aviator *IS* definitely a mannequin.

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Saturday, 11 January 2003 03:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

You losers have way too much time on your hands. Especially that Alex in NYC. Get a life for gods sake.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Flattery will get you nowhere.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thank god.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Some truely sad individuals in this world

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

As I said on the Iggy/Corrs thread, how do you expect anyone to take you seriously if you lack the courage to put down an e-mail address?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://webpages.charter.net/cmvenuti/images/justified.jpg

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry, Ned. It had to be done. :)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

As someone replied in the Iggy/Corrs thread freaks like you will continually send loads of shitless, brainless crap into their clean inbox.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, I don't have the time to waste on shit like that. I'd just respect you a bit more for having the moxy to stand by your bile. But, fair enough.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

How old are you anyway? You're probably only ten trying to pick up another sad and lonely loser.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Look, if you're not even giving a proper name nor e-mail address, why should I bother divulging anything? All you need to know is available via the search mechanism. Get a life.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

You are telling me to get a life? Right...

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yawn.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Your use of female sarcasm tells me that you're a poof.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Didn't know sarcasm came with gender signifiers. Moreover, it wasn't sarcasm, it was genuine fatigue.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

You needed to write your "genuine fatigue" down? Your digging a bigger hole for yourself loser.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Isn't it your bedtime yet?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh god it is! 3:30pm, shit i'm half an hour late.

― Hmmm, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Best thread ever.

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 11 January 2003 04:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

So everyone looking straight into the camera earnestly or half smiling, especially from above, appears to be smug. Did I get this straight?

― jot eff pe, Saturday, 11 January 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is it too late to go "oh no!!! FITE!!! oh no!!!" now?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 11 January 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

It wasn't even a proper fight! Hmmm was basically dissing himself with Alex standing next to him nodding politely.

― jot eff pe, Saturday, 11 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is Ned Raggett's "Neducated" out on a limited edition 24-bit mastered gold audiophile ultradisk yet?

― Lord Custos Omega (Lord Custos Omega), Saturday, 11 January 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like the Alanis one

― dave q, Saturday, 11 January 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like the Pink one. What's she doing looking so smug -- she's been marked down!

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 11 January 2003 21:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Skipping 38 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Yeah, most musicians don't fall into the trap of looking really smug on an album cover, it's nagl (e.g. self-satisfied and with a cheesy grin). Usually they pick a photo that's 'serious' or just smiling slightly - a music photographer could give plenty of actual insights into that!

― sbahnhof, Saturday, 2 February 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link

Anyway,

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/562/MI0001562253.jpg

Cliff Richard – 40th Anniversary Complete Volume Five 1983–98: The Smug Years

― sbahnhof, Saturday, 2 February 2019 06:59 (five years ago) link

"It's Hard to Be Humble" is a joke one, as is the song

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mYKWch_MNY0/hqdefault.jpg

― sbahnhof, Saturday, 2 February 2019 07:00 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

No albums in his day but nevertheless...

http://operetta-research-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/71XqaXy2d8L.jpg

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link

... more amused than smug tbf.

― Freddie Starr (Hitler in shorts) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:37 (five years ago) link

i'm amazed that so many img links from 16 years ago still work itt

― andrew m., Tuesday, 23 April 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0000/645/MI0000645873.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

https://i.imgur.com/j3zhGlH.jpg

― soref, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link

When I was younger I thought that Sting and Annie Lennox always looked smug, middle class, middle aged. so I googled their album covers for this thread. but in every picture they both look so unsure, vulnerable... and young. damn.

― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/jJkSsUhNoOvdrzLvI_dVx9uGpgo=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1326435-1352488740-5488.jpeg.jpg

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link

That’s actually one of the better pics I’ve seen of Billy Joel...

― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link

I don't think he looks smug he looks cute

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 02:55 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

https://img.discogs.com/MR1kyCJ01eytMxHYGCCd26Cm5Nc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1837691-1462544823-6703.jpeg.jpg

― enochroot, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/MR1kyCJ01eytMxHYGCCd26Cm5Nc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1837691-1462544823-6703.jpeg.jpg

― enochroot, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link

Buns on the Balcony

― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link

seven months pass...

Bono had several names: first, he was "Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbang", then just "Huyseman", followed by "Houseman", "Bon Murray", "Bono Vox of O'Connell Street", and finally just "Bono". "Bono Vox" is an alteration of Bonavox, a Latin phrase which translates to "good voice".

With Bono covers, I had to make a kind of Champions-League system to get it down to 50

note: some qualified via the "Ridiculous" path

https://img.discogs.com/BhF4EIC6wZAKGBNt4QNu_EtT1OM=/fit-in/598x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1498786-1277492132.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/0EQmf9kwXDGIM6UTDTh_ULTIOrU=/fit-in/600x608/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1503398-1486665201-9241.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/soR3biQdHCfKObw1yW0eX7lmxLY=/fit-in/600x609/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1388881-1433417060-9205.jpeg.jpg

― sbahnhof, Friday, 10 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/m75Ht_5JyhK7spezGU_zMyX9GKs=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-27731-1433423468-5389.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/8nh5mOK4HKzK9edcUynbj_eZlkE=/fit-in/600x526/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-194940-1402923990-4834.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/YCQyPr7RDx2WBOnFdrHg_SdkkC4=/fit-in/600x841/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-14173970-1569244632-5928.jpeg.jpg

― sbahnhof, Friday, 10 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link

https://img.discogs.com/-pqGB4tZq4VrUvA0COZJyRAaT1s=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-439834-1229986617.jpeg.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/reMFUvC5GcLlnm2IvUXLlvFKVKQ=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-3665037-1433429519-7247.jpeg.jpg