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What did you think of Stevie Wonder's "Songs In The Key Of Life" album cover From the first day I bought this album, I've always wanted 2 know what the album cover was about. I mean, it shows a drawing with Stevie inside some clouds, I think. I don't get this drawing. I just need someone to explain that cover to me? The album cover is beautiful, but it's absoulutely strange. Check me out and add me on:
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silverchild said: From the first day I bought this album, I've always wanted 2 know what the album cover was about. I mean, it shows a drawing with Stevie inside some clouds, I think. I don't get this drawing. I just need someone to explain that cover to me? The album cover is beautiful, but it's absoulutely strange.
It doesnt make no sense 2 me. I like the picture and all but....i dont get it either...maybe it's not supposed make sense... Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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He was on a streak with Innversions and Fullfillingness' First Finale. I got those two framed.  'SITKOL' is kinda blah. | |
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It's supposed to be a rose, isn't it?  | |
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Cloudbuster said: It's supposed to be a rose, isn't it?
It sure doesn't look like a rose..... Check me out and add me on:
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Looks like a cigarette hole burn. Wow, never gave it too much thought, it just is what is? tA probably knows.  | |
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UptownDeb said: Looks like a cigarette hole burn. Wow, never gave it too much thought, it just is what is? tA probably knows.
I remember reading that it was supposed to be a keyhole...all I can say is that's one fucked up looking keyhole!! Matt "Because when you say annihilation my friends, you've said all there is to say" - Henry Rollins | |
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chaos96 said: UptownDeb said: Looks like a cigarette hole burn. Wow, never gave it too much thought, it just is what is? tA probably knows.
I remember reading that it was supposed to be a keyhole...all I can say is that's one fucked up looking keyhole!! Matt Maybe it's how Stevie invisions a keyhole to look like, but I agree, I always thought of it as fire catching to some paper and burning it. | |
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UptownDeb said: Looks like a cigarette hole burn. Wow, never gave it too much thought, it just is what is? tA probably knows.
Deb you're giving me way too much credit but i'll give it a shot. I have no clue as to the real meaning. Looking at it now, could possibly represent a birth canal (using the genteel term)? Songs In The Key Of LIFE. That's my shot (probably aimed at my foot). 
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theAudience said: UptownDeb said: Looks like a cigarette hole burn. Wow, never gave it too much thought, it just is what is? tA probably knows.
Deb you're giving me way too much credit but i'll give it a shot. I have no clue as to the real meaning. Looking at it now, could possibly represent a birth canal (using the genteel term)? Songs In The Key Of LIFE. That's my shot (probably aimed at my foot).
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http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm [This message was edited Fri Jul 30 14:25:03 2004 by theAudience] Cool! 
Sugar Walls! 
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psykosoul said: He was on a streak with Innversions and Fullfillingness' First Finale. I got those two framed.
'SITKOL' is kinda blah.maybe he painted SITKOL himself? Vanglorious... this is protected by the red, the black, and the green. With a key... sissy! | |
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maybe he painted SITKOL himself?[/quote]
HOW COULD HE HE DO THAT????? THE MAN IS BLIND....  [This message was edited Fri Jul 30 15:34:12 2004 by silverchild] Check me out and add me on:
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silverchild said: Dancelot sqaid: maybe he painted SITKOL himself?
HOW COULD HE HE DO THAT????? THE MAN IS BLIND....
ehhh... that's the point  Vanglorious... this is protected by the red, the black, and the green. With a key... sissy! | |
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okaypimpn said: theAudience said: Deb you're giving me way too much credit but i'll give it a shot. I have no clue as to the real meaning. Looking at it now, could possibly represent a birth canal (using the genteel term)? Songs In The Key Of LIFE. That's my shot (probably aimed at my foot).
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http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm [This message was edited Fri Jul 30 14:25:03 2004 by theAudience] Cool!
Sugar Walls!
tA that's not a stretch (no pun intended). As I was looking at the cover again, and before I saw your response, I was thinking perhaps it's supposed to represent a womb. I love "looking" finding the unexpected in the ordinary, but I've never thought too deeply on this one. I like this post. "Sugar Walls!" Oh, no!  | |
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okaypimpn said: Sugar Walls!
UptownDeb said: tA that's not a stretch (no pun intended). As I was looking at the cover again, and before I saw your response, I was thinking perhaps it's supposed to represent a womb. I love "looking" finding the unexpected in the ordinary, but I've never thought too deeply on this one.
SEE THERE, I KNEW IT ALL ALONG. (yeah, right) 
Many times we try to see more than may actually be there. Other times we don't look deeply enough. Aye, there's the rub. Cool! tA Tribal Disorder
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theAudience said: SEE THERE, I KNEW IT ALL ALONG. (yeah, right)
Many times we try to see more than may actually be there. Other times we don't look deeply enough. Aye, there's the rub. Cool! tA Tribal Disorder
http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm True. Like I never used to get how people would look at art and see something very profound when all I'd see was scribble. And like, how I never understood that thread about Prince's influence on house music.  | |
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I always thought of it as "Tree lines/rings"...
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A simple abstraction of soundwaves or thoughts resonating/radiating from him perhaps? Or (this is far fetched) a reference to a birth canal? I don't think it was meant to be looked at literally.
It's always kind of reminded me of what I see when I stare right into the sun, the perimiter shimmers with black rings. That also fits in with the overexposed look of his head. | |
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Tom said: A simple abstraction of soundwaves or thoughts resonating/radiating from him perhaps? Or (this is far fetched) a reference to a birth canal? I don't think it was meant to be looked at literally.
It's always kind of reminded me of what I see when I stare right into the sun, the perimiter shimmers with black rings. That also fits in with the overexposed look of his head. What do you mean "the overexposed look of his head"? Check me out and add me on:
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silverchild said: Tom said: A simple abstraction of soundwaves or thoughts resonating/radiating from him perhaps? Or (this is far fetched) a reference to a birth canal? I don't think it was meant to be looked at literally.
It's always kind of reminded me of what I see when I stare right into the sun, the perimiter shimmers with black rings. That also fits in with the overexposed look of his head. What do you mean "the overexposed look of his head"? ...As in an overexposed photograph. When a photo is overexposed, the highlights are blasted out. | |
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i always that it looks a bit like that tunnel to hell in 'Poltergeist'. |
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Maybe I'm arse-fixated, but I always imagined it's similar to what a proctologist sees on their monitor, when they shove a miniature camera up your rectum.
I just did a quick Google, found an image and I really wasn't far off the mark! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [image snipped, come on now... -Tom] | |
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Oh dear... I think I killed another thread!
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BinaryJustin said: Oh dear... I think I killed another thread!
Nah, there's always room for a rectum photo! | |
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theVelvetRoper said: Nah, there's always room for a rectum photo!Bend over baby and say 'cheese'!!! | |
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BinaryJustin said: theVelvetRoper said: Nah, there's always room for a rectum photo!Bend over baby and say 'cheese'!!! Oh, there's already one of my rectum shot posted in General Discussion! | |
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It's just your typical 70's graphic nightmare | |
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That is hideous!
Stevie's lucky he's blind! I never thought about what it meant, but perhaps it is about getting past layer after layer to the essence of stevieness in the center Check this song out at:
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I just went on www.rollingstone.com and I just heard that the cover design was a vertex, and I think that's what the design is. A Rolling Stones magazine reviewer once said that back in '76 when this came out. The design is more thicker than a vertex. What do you think of that?
And that design does look like that: [img]http://www.planetdiablo.com/beteigeuze/jpg/vertex.jpg/image_url [This message was edited Sat Aug 7 21:51:49 2004 by silverchild] Check me out and add me on:
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