OLD SOCK VS. FORK IN THE ROAD: Which Album Cover Has The Most IDGAF Old Dude Swag

Neil - Yr weird deadbeat uncle trying to figure out how a polaroid camera works
Clapton - VP of yr office on a weekend vacation

do the math

or what al said

neil looks like he got too close to the camera after setting the timer and then just said fuck it and used the photo anyway
clapton looks like the kind of disgusting old men my former roommate used to sleep with

advantage: neil

Love Neil, don't care for Clapton but gotta vote for the latter cause Neil's artwork here feels far more affectedly shitty. Clapton's is just a lapse in taste.

Which is to say, lazy enough to be TRULY IDGAF

Clapton one reminds me of
http://www.manrecordings.com/manrecorder/wp-content/uploads2/2010/11/caetano-veloso_araca-azul1.jpg

Interestingly, Old Sock was originally titled Racist Fucking Piece of Shit.

all these arguments against clapton ironically add to the evidence that he gives less of a fuck. young's cover is somewhat calculated while clapton is effortlessly and repulsively lame.

chilli & chr1s are winning me over i think

To be fair I am peppering yr work email with supporting claims.

We've already put in twice the work the Shakey or Slow-Hand put into their respective album covers

DON'T LISTEN TO THEM m@tt

Clapton's effortlessly says Hi I'm a Right Bloody C--t and whether he did it on purpose or not he's still Eric Clapton therefore he loses

aka the Don Henley equation

it's really the 'swag' part of the equation, being a cunt is often an important part of swag

it's really the 'swag' part of the equation, being a cunt is often an important part of swag

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 8, 2013 2:35 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM OTM OTM OTM

Also we all need to step back and think on one thing:

Eric Clapton has a new album. That album is called OLD SOCK. OLD SOCK! SERIOUSLY

This is new?! I had just figured that it was some forgotten thing from the 90s or the 00s.

It comes out next week!

OLD SOCK!!!

Clapton GIVES A FUCK that's why he's a cunt his whole persona is this fake laid back slowhand bullshit and it's a LIE

point:

Clapton GIVES A FUCK that's why he's a cunt his whole persona is this fake laid back slowhand bullshit and it's a LIE

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, March 8, 2013 2:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

counterpoint:

OLD SOCK!!!

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, March 8, 2013 2:39 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IT'S THE NAME OF HIS YACHT

hahahahaha for real?

it sounds true, so let's say yes

>:)

SEE? PLAUSIBLE. THEREFORE = LOSES.

If OLD SOCK is the name of his yacht then I'm selling all my Neil records. THAT IS SWAG AS HELL. THAT'S SOME DRAKE SHIT!

stop it right now

So long "On The Beach"! Hello "461 Ocean Boulevard"!

what is that against neil's door anyway

The reason I think Neil wins this is that I really don't think he took that picture with the intention of it being his album cover, whereas I think the concept behind the OLD SOCK cover was brainstormed in a conference room around a very, very expensive table.

See you in hell "Rust Never Sleeps"! "E.C. Was Here" is my new jam!

what is that against neil's door anyway

a dalek

i can't tell if whatever is against neil's door is leaning or affixed to it. like maybe it's some 2x4's he nailed to the door after he kicked it in the previous night and made a hole.

is that a dog against the door?

a stuffed dog maybe?

see, i get the feeling neil thought this crazy old man photo would be a great cover for his crazy old man music, really set it off, get people looking at it, no mistake

i get the feeling it never occurred to clapton that anyone would object to title old sock in goofball font with vacay pic

careful consideration is not very swag.

Plus, Neil already did the IDGAF SWAG album cover with the cover of "Silver & Gold" taken with a damn Game Boy

we need to talk about Clapton's Jimmy Buffet vibe ie THIS IS WHY HE LOSES

fork in the road cover is a youtube screenshot right? #swag

jimmy buffet has mad swag tho; he's commodified an entire way of life

Clapton :P

Clapton had his pic taken on Tanned Penis Island shortly before Sting's house burned.

hahah

Neil wins on handwritten font alone

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), 8. maaliskuuta 2013 20:34

neil does have the most iconic handwriting...

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), 8. maaliskuuta 2013 20:4

someone should turn neil's handwriting into an actual font.

― fact checking cuz, 8. maaliskuuta 2013 20:57

I think the writing on the cover already is a font. They try to hide it by putting a different "n" in the word "Young", but other than that, all the recurring letters are identical.

yeah yr right
actually hiring some designer to make him his own font would be a TOTAL neil move

scroll down to the bottom here for a couple downloadable neil fonts:

http://www.thesongdog.de/rust.php?cont=art

I voted Clapton because he looks like the bigger cock. I hate him.

crut knows what's up

Clapton missed a golden opportunity to make the "L"s in the title little pictures of old socks. He still would suck to death.

Unless that font is actually crusty, stiffened old socks nailed together. He would then suck slightly less to death.

Re: Old Sock - If I remember correctly, when Clapton released the Journeyman album, the review in Musician Magazine was "Well he wasn't going to call it Hack, was he?"

Xgau, actually:

Journeyman [Duck/Reprise, 1989]
What did you expect him to call it--Hack? Layla and 461 Ocean Boulevard were clearly flukes: he has no record-making knack. So he farms out the songs, sings them competently enough, and marks them with his guitar. Which sounds kind of like Mark Knopfler's. B-

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYLYsvHVAAMLsNW.jpg

Lyme disease - era Neil

-max Realness achieved-

dgaf swag on:

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Jimmy-Wes.jpg

comic sans swag

https://imgur.com/5lQSGqi

https://i.imgur.com/5lQSGqi.jpg

not nearly enough old dude swag to pull that off imo

kinda cool/amazing that jim kweskin is still releasing albums though

also amazing that Mel Lyman's cult/commune is still going strong 50+ years after its inception (albeit with less murder and mayhem these days). afaik Kweskin still makes a living with the construction company that grew out of it

Dave Gilmour's Spotify pic

https://i.scdn.co/image/e0f9457be19be371905ea704c9fa67614e00fe82

that pic exudes "figured out how to live" energy (the piles of money helped with that I'm sure)

but the eyes say "syd knows i betrayed the true psych vibes"

I wonder if he calls that guitar, "Precious".

ehhh

https://img.discogs.com/QYetJ3f-TIYmqoQcXL0H3B18CwA=/fit-in/600x589/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-20180788-1631274263-6408.jpeg.jpg

https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/study-after-velazquez-s-portrait-of-of-pope-innocent-x-c-1953_u-l-f2hviy0.jpg?artHeight=550&artPerspective=n&artWidth=550&background=fbfbfb

Slothfingers and Can’t

Joni bringing the Old Dudette Swag

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_640,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F__ss-rehost__IG-CX6rJCvFFyH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uO3OVrS.jpg

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/556621337/photo/portrait-of-from-left-american-blues-musicians-bb-king-john-lee-hooker-and-willie-dixon-at-the.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=_LIgv3L5cn1Bm0P5tZyCa72gSG1U1lmr9pIh62nzuFE=

The cover photo to the new Graham Nash album looks like it was taken during a court-mandated wellness check.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ft8CD6sWcCE1le7.jpg