They went off the boil rapidly when Sleazy wasn't involved.
― Resident Papist (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 March 2022 12:13 (two years ago) link
XP - Hipgnosis *ugh*
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 3 March 2022 13:13 (two years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipgnosis_Songs_Fund
buyingit all up
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Hipgnosis the IP holding company is named after the design studio, but there's no relationship otherwise.
Ironic example of IP infringement
― theo, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
here's a question for you though: how many acts in the hipgnosis songs fund portfolio had record sleeves designed by hipgnosis?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
We need that data.
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
TVMNIC = no lixor has yet pointed out that the couple in the image in that first post are sleazy's colleagues genesis p.orridge and cosey fanny tutti
― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
i say lixor
― mark s, Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OYQNAk_krQ
― MaresNest, Friday, 12 May 2023 16:58 (ten months ago) link
Looks promising. The recent Through The Prism book was great but seeing actual footage of some of those photo shoots would be priceless.
― henry s, Friday, 12 May 2023 17:11 (ten months ago) link
i like that it's called "Squaring the Circle" right next to an image of a triangle
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 12 May 2023 18:25 (ten months ago) link
although it looks like most of the promo materials have that same picture with the Atom Heart Mother art, not Dark Side... so nvm carry on
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 12 May 2023 18:27 (ten months ago) link
Saw that trailer last night, plays here in a couple of weeks, really looking forward to it. (I think the theatre's program guide says it's Corbijn's first film, which isn't really even close.) Art-rock fan in high school, when all these albums were new, long since moved on, but they do seem to be a foundational part of the decade.
― clemenza, Monday, 29 May 2023 16:06 (ten months ago) link
it's kind of his first documentary i think (if you don't count depeche mode live concert vids)
― mark s, Monday, 29 May 2023 18:19 (ten months ago) link
Documentary was pretty good, although honestly, many of those covers look as silly as the caricature would have it. (And I don't think they ever designed a cover as great as Neil Young's Time Fades Away or On the Beach, or many, many other personal favourites.) Corbijn does something interesting at the end: Powell and Thorgerson have their falling out, which seems to be in the mid-'90s, Powell says they didn't talk for another 12 years, then the film ends with Thorgerson's death in 2013. Which means they did talk and maybe even reconcile at some point. But he skips that for the sadder ending.
A lot of Noel Gallagher.
― clemenza, Saturday, 17 June 2023 03:34 (nine months ago) link
The documentary is well worth catching (it’s on streaming services in the Uk). Some lovely archival stuff from the 60’s and 70’s…most of the Storm interviews have been shown elsewhere but it’s worth watching for the ‘Animals’ anecdote alone…I agree too much Noel Gallagher (not sure he needed to be involved??) and possibly produced more shit covers than great but quite moving in the end…quite candid about Sleazy too…all I’ll say is he enjoyed working in a mortuary probably more somebody should…
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 11 August 2023 23:27 (seven months ago) link
Gallagher kinda ruined this for me. I think I was wanting a different kind of documentary - certainly a lot more of Roger Dean and Peter Saville.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 12 August 2023 01:10 (seven months ago) link
I guess he was there to give the ‘man in the street’ angle but probably just a ‘man in the street’ (a Hipgnosis fan) would of been more illuminating
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 12 August 2023 01:17 (seven months ago) link
Old interview footage, and who has the rights to use them, is always an issue in these things. There's a great interview with Richard Wright from the Classic Album episode on DSOTM where he talks at length about the cover and articulates what pulled him in - whereas here, it's "Rick Wright first noticed it"
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 12 August 2023 02:20 (seven months ago) link