skywalker said:

Same here, the font is horrendous! Don't 'get' the branches either. The musicology tour book cover would have been better.

it's like a rebuke/rebuttal to The Hits The B-Sides. Similar pose, affiliation with plants, but with a homemade car boot/trunk distribution ethos.

Oh well.

novabrkr said:

you forgot the distribution ethos. Oh, wait...
[Edited 2/16/10 13:02pm]

I have not liked any of his covers after Lovesexy. They all look kinda cheap, kitschy. Just as the creativity slowly went out of the music, so did the quality of the covers went down.

I do, those eyes and lips, r soooo intoxicating

BorisFishpaw said:

agree with all the above

the FONT is horrible and small
the background is a snap of the outside of Paisley where the Ivy was growing
nothing 2 do with anything.

7

Amerigo said:

Hello dear Amerigo,

had you associated the appearance with the MUSIC,
or you doubt his musically ability.

HORRIBLE ARTWORK!

One of his worst IMHO.

3121 was a great cover

squirrelgrease said:

that's the one very nice

Thibaut said:

i liked that cover too. it was much better than musicology or planet earth.

LUV IT

I appreciated it a lot. Good music

skywalker said:

These are not branches, they are nerves.

Amerigo said:

All of the artwork is about sound and the interworkings of the brain.

Tame said:

Well it doesn't work.

Horrible artwork and I don't like the album. Its the only album by Prince I cant listen 2 anymore

nope, it's total garbage and like the CD is just a lazy, disposable effort with no sense of pride. Likewise the cover for 3121 and Planet Earth. LF was a bit of an improvement but not much better.

squirrelgrease said:

See, the inside of the booklet looks great. I love the color and feel of it.
Plus the use of diagrams and illustrations to do with sound in the background.

It's just a shame the cover image wasn't up to the same standard.
[Edited 2/18/10 8:10am]

wow, some people actually saying that they didn't like any covers since lovesexy - like lovesexy was a good cover? Gotta love the org! each to their own I guess (that cover could get you beaten up at school).

novabrkr said:

this bunny is cute, peter funkin tale

Veej said:

I'm guessing you got beaten up at school.

The cover was almost as boring as the music on the album...

As an artist and painter, I would love to do a cover for a Prince album.

In fact, Prince actually has the opportunity to utilize the subscribers on lotusflow3r.com. Make them listen to 4-5 streamed songs online. Give 'em a month to upload an idea or finished concept to a new cover. Have a vote, smack it on the package of the new record, and boom - everybody's happy. Prince would build himself a community, where the fans feel special, rather than hunted down, and he'd made up for some of the dissapointment over lotusflow3r.com, and any debate about the resulting cover could be answered with: "If ya didn't vote you can't complain".

Anyway .. I know, Prince ain't big on fan involvement. It could just be cool if he took notes from NIN and Radiohead (and do THEY have critcal, cynical fans? You bet!).

Cravens said:

nothing special imo

That cover is awful... The pic, the fonts/typography...

People often suggest Prince made better albums when on a major label (WB), with some quality control and professional A&R-assistance. IMO that theory would definetly apply to the album artwork as well...

BorisFishpaw said:

Yeah, and 3121 also had a great media package with it also. Planet Earth was OK. Lotus..... fell off the bed and broke da head... it sux.

I think for Prince, the Sucky album covers come with good music, and the over elaborate covers mean the album will suck.

I think we could almost make this a standard rule of thumb.

(sott is the exception to this of course)