band photos where the guys are standing in random spots looking in various directions

Del Amitri say hi

https://chords.cloud/images/artists/640/del-amitri.jpg
https://www.delamitri.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/promo06.png
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yA2Kqfbn_oY/hqdefault.jpg

It Bites, this is definitely an 80s thing

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/944FHSxpP4EuqxvdHvPBAN-320-80.jpg

I feel like the Joshua Tree photoshoot really codified this
https://www.cactushugs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/u2artwork2.jpg

I knew there was one in the desert like that, but couldn't dredge it up.

Black clothes and glum faces are recommended.

Oozing sobriety is optional, but recommended.

Anton Corbijn's into this, based on the U2/Metallica ones ^^.

and the R.E.M. one

You can almost predict what bands are going to do this.

https://miro.medium.com/max/471/0*_YcTdWCkDbiz2-yC.png

LOL @ this one...

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/peel/images/d/d6/Radiohead-1995-portrait.jpeg

... why so small?

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/peel/images/d/d6/Radiohead-1995-portrait.jpeg/revision/latest?cb=20130508194252

such a stupid photo, who made them pose like that?

... damn it.

http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/blog/252/2887d425.jpeg

My prediction is more shit 80s-era Celtic rock acts

Runrig
https://www.whfp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Run-Rig-1977-ADJUST-e1534430676612.jpg

Zerra One
http://images.45cat.com/zerra-one-stronger-tonight-mercury.jpg

Hothouse Flowers
https://i2.wp.com/vancouversignaturesounds.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/image-16.jpeg

https://files.list.co.uk/images/2019/02/04/the-specials-2019-LST330608.jpg

https://ezgif.com/jpg-to-webp/ezgif-3-dd6842b987f1.jpg

Difficult to do with three people but these cornball twats managed it...

https://www.musicweek.com/cimages/ba79f8aa7de48ba4f8253829e153b615.jpg

https://img.discogs.com/ydNm25gGYT8e2kgEk8YcXNA63uw=/fit-in/600x589/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-9709888-1485127423-5017.jpeg.jpg

Good one! I kind of associate this with a particular breed of pompous and self-important rock bands, usually British.

https://i2-prod.chroniclelive.co.uk/incoming/article10709229.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/JS79900993.jpg

I surmise this is very much the photographer thinking, "how can we make these dullards look a little more exciting?"

Simple Minds (not all standing, but)

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/f_9.png

Diesel Park West

https://www.xsnoize.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DPW2019byDavidTongelowres.jpghttps://www.xsnoize.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DPW2019byDavidTongelowres.jpg

https://www.xsnoize.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DPW2019byDavidTongelowres.jpg

Brian Griffin's cover photos for the first two Echo and the Bunnymen albums are kind of a more artfully done version of this kind of thing?

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/echoalbums.jpg

he took these pictures of Ultravox as well

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41KBCkzS1zL._AC_.jpg

https://media.internazionale.it/images/2017/12/04/140869-sd.jpg

Some of these made me laugh out loud well done everyone. While a tight group photo where everyone’s looking at something different is good, the best ones are where everyone is spaced out more, ideally on different depth planes

is this a big thing in christian rock? I don't know much about christian rock, just remember the episode of South Park with this album cover:

https://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/781471/82491919.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/ZbsNhYni8ibEKavZ3KNTIGplXfAWTbqXD77sQicC32jld_Yva9ob33Q9XIEO8fh2SLNQfPviy1oEK6kGYYKgZfrWF59o1EnFo2WIRdk0jRDFduA

https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/270x205/78d2b6d63e31d0c463f80f802979398d.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/c3/a1/a6/c3a1a647734760f1b0aaa13f5b9d0275.jpg

So Chris (and his brother before him) lived in I-5 Shores - a house on Melrose - around this time. Here is a photo of Soundgarden on Melrose right by the house. pic.twitter.com/AH07PhS48M

— Linda Corets (@linder_seattle) January 20, 2022

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc09fd06f68656c5aff3caa/1572905287759-3O5KUHNQNJFRS94JG4W1/SJ+2019+Press+Photo.jpg

Nick McCabe not-so-subtlely thinks "fuck this band"

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/The-Verve-Urban-Humns-Album-Cover-web-optimised-820-1000x600.jpg

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5ebbfb03d7b4ffbd26509896/2:1/w_2560%2Cc_limit/Joy-Division.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/5jSGqw4.jpg

Got the treatment it deserved, honestly: not a band; half of them are looking in the same direction; Tom/Tuomas won't know who half of them are (and, to be fair, I don't, really).

so that isn't Belle and Sebastian?

Lol