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

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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

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link

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

Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link

It comes out next week!

OLD SOCK!!!

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:39 (eleven years ago) link

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, 8 March 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link

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

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link

hahahahaha for real?

it sounds true, so let's say yes

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link

>:)

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link

SEE? PLAUSIBLE. THEREFORE = LOSES.

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link

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!

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link

stop it right now

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link

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

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

what is that against neil's door anyway

goole, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

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.

cwkiii, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

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

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

what is that against neil's door anyway

a dalek

Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link

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.

christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link

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.

goole, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link

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

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link

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

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link

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

tylerw, Friday, 8 March 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link

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

mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link

Clapton :P

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 8 March 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link

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

Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 March 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link

hahah

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link

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.

Tuomas, Friday, 8 March 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link

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

christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link

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

C: (crüt), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link

crut knows what's up

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link

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

today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link

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

today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link

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?"

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 9 March 2013 06:27 (eleven years ago) link

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-

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 9 March 2013 06:41 (eleven years ago) link

Neil's cover precisely nails that found-object outsider art mystique that chillwavers and underground noise artists have been fetishizing for 10+ years

STILL showing up the kids at their own game in your fifth decade & counting = swag as fuuuuuuuuck

Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 March 2013 07:51 (eleven years ago) link

Project high living yacht rock fantasies onto Eric all you want; his cover looks as swag as Stephen Stills

Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 March 2013 07:53 (eleven years ago) link

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/c/crosby-stills-nash/album-csn.jpg

"I'm on a boat motherfucker take a look at me"

earlnash, Saturday, 9 March 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xogiUUMy_RU

i apologize if it's already been acknowledged but neil's cover is a screencap from the title track's video, in which he plugs headphones into an apple and shakes it at us while lip syncing.

Neil by a mile.

da croupier, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link

I feel like this cover is just more of Clapton wishing he was as cool as JJ Cale

brimstead, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link

Clapton's cover just looks like an old rich dude that wants to make a point to the folks that have picked up the album that he is rich, and you aren't.

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link

I GOT A HAT FOR MY BIRTHDAY = Clapton

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link

I feel like the older generation is taking a "well the kids obviously aren't even trying anymore so why should we" stand with these moronic album covers

sleepingbag, Saturday, 9 March 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link

Old Sock is a great title. Looks like he's on a vast expanse of private property.

your fretless ways (Eazy), Saturday, 9 March 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link

Still the ultimate Old Man Swag album cover

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/CloudNineCover.jpg

Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Sunday, 10 March 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link

o.t. original troppo

balls, Sunday, 10 March 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago) link

wow @ george harrison

Lucky Money BUddha (Matt P), Sunday, 10 March 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago) link

Slothfingers and Can’t

calstars, Sunday, 12 September 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link

three months pass...
eleven months pass...
four months pass...

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

but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 17 April 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link


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