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What about them?

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Stay with me flagrantly and we'll have ecstasy for all eternity.

you're welcome.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

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That is just awesome.

Definitely the original "We're Only in it for the Money" album cover, the one that was put together in the wrong order.

BWS

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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
(An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side)

freak out!

Uncle Meat

Either UM or BWS, I always thought those collages were very original. I think the UM mock-up which became the cover isstill in the basement of Gail's house.

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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
(An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side)

I love Waka Jawaka.
A certain type of cartoon imagery that I love about it.

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"drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in"

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I love the music, but I think the cover is only marginally better than Sleep Dirt, Orchestral Favorites or Studio Tan.

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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
(An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side)

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A wann et päift, da fiert den Zuch!

I don't think FZ had any really unattractive album covers until after Tinseltown Rebellion, the final instalment in the first era of Schenkel.

When they appeared in the shops, I thought SUNPYG and YAWYI looked too glossy, too commercial/established. Now I quite like them.

The covers throughout the Eighties were a mixed bunch, with Broadway the Hard Way as the nadir, and the entire YCDTOSA concept an almost equally horrible waste of space.

FZ album covers picked up a good, consistent estehetic again in the Nineties, with Make A Jazz Noise Here, Playground Psychotics, Ahead of Their Time, The Yellow Shark and Civilization Phaze III.

I don't mind the design profile of the posthumous releases, and quite like the minimalism of FZ:OZ and Buffalo.

I even like the Bat Chain Puller cover, but then again I also love the designs of the Panter trilogy (also released by a different record company than the artist's preferred choice)... I deplore the lost opportunity of using Schenkel's Apes-Ma design for the cover of BCP, though. But am still hopeful for a possible vinyl release

But wouldn't it be great if Gail could make amends and hire Gary Panter for some appropriate Zappa assignment?

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We make a special art in an environment hostile to dreamers. Frank Zappa, 1971

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We make a special art in an environment hostile to dreamers. Frank Zappa, 1971

For some reason I allways fancied the German album sleeve

WOIIFTM
AF
FO
LG
BWS
UM
HR

love em all

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Bobby

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

I have always loved the Sgt Pepper cover for We're Only In It For the Money!

I love the concept of these albums, individually and as a collective, and the covers and their relation to each other add to the sense of mystery and darkness that I feel the albums exude. Amazing!

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Hi-ho Silver!

Not a lot to add here, just blethering and this stuff probably won't show up anyway, at least not until I've got ten posts. Right? If it does show up, for the record (if anyone's counting) I'm with the guy upthread who said BWS/Uncle Meat, anyway.

I always liked the back cover for the I Don't Wanna Get Drafted single... It's tinged with nostalgia for me, since Schenkel's illustration was also used on the back of the spring 1980 tour book. Ah, memories...

Only a few days ago I realized that the slogan was from WWII, when I saw this Woody Woodpecker film with my little son--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXHvmcHZ3v0

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If I'm not alone... How long have I been asleep?

This should have been a gatefold release - why wasn't it? Most of the others from that period were

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"drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in"

I think that's slime being mischievous with his photoshop program again... You can't tell when he's posting the truth

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If I'm not alone... How long have I been asleep?