And I also think it may come out officially one way or the other one day.
I hope so.
And I also think it may come out officially one way or the other one day.
I hope so.
We live in an era where owning physical music is not really a thing, except for maybe vinyl and for us crotchety old dinosaurs. Most people stream and aren't looking to own CDs
I'm not even 35 and I'm keen on owning physical music. I love having my own CDs. They are a reliable format.
Phil Collins is not a marginal act by any means. Talent apart, far less successful acts have already entered the Hall of Fame. And if this private enterprise self-proclaims the Rock Hall of Fame, it should act as such and not like the Cool and Consented-to-Be-Played Music Board.
Better not throw the first stone on this one.
But the great difference is that Genesis told from the very first moment that 3x3's artwork was a nod to the Beatles, they never hid it.
Quote"When we released the 'Three By Three' EP, we did a Beatles parody, with a nice glossy cover photograph of us all jumping off a Wall"
Phil Collins ("Interview with Johnny Waller" Melody Maker 25th Dec. 1982)
The same with Land of Confussion, another nod to the Four-Headed Monster boyband that was stated by Genesis at the time.
Regarding The Way We Walk 2, its cover is based on that of The Way We Walk Tour poster where the band re-enacted the I Can't Dance choreography with their profiles copied several times in a sequence of black and white photos and coloured outlines, with The Way We Walk 1 showing the b+w photos. I think I Can't Dance choreography (also seen in the Invisible Touch video) is based on the green man of the (crosswalk) traffic lights, hence the coloured outlines.
There have been many such close-up b&w cover shots before and since FV.
There aren't many with handwriting on the forehead. None that I recall apart from Collins' and Madge's.
Regarding the other examples I think there are some parallelisms. I thought commenting on artworks and covers would be funny.
PS: I'm not angry.
Except they're not.
You really believe FV was the first album cover to feature this sort of image so everything else is a copy of it. It wasn't.
Sorry, I cannot recall any other album cover between Face Value (1981) and Finally Enough Love (2022) featuring this sort of image with handwriting on the singer's forehead. For me it is an obvious copycat. It is my perception. That's all.
What do you mean by 'defiant pose'? They are closeups of their faces.
I meant a defiant look. Their faces were posing defiantly.
At least Phil managed to learn joined-up writing at school.
Ar least Mr Collins knows how to write.
What about crowdfunding?
I'm interested in the idea. Kudos.
Gosh, it's true! This is what I was looking for.
Regardless of the handwriting, specifically calling the Madonna one "blatant plagiarism" is absurd and could even be potentially actionable if anyone in her organisation saw this thread and was bothered enough to respond.
In the same way that Philip Collins Ltd could sue Madge.
Exactly right, the monochrome close-up face portrait has been used many times for album covers. Regardless of the handwriting, specifically calling the Madonna one "blatant plagiarism" is absurd
There aren't many album covers featuring a monochrome close-up face portrait of the singer with his/her name on the forehead in a handwritten way.
It is pretty daft to base it on what you started saying very dogmatically is "blatant plagiarism" which you've now amended to "clear pastiche" (it's neither).
For me it is blatant plagiarism, I switched to clear pastiche in order as a goodwill gesture.
There has been other threads on covers and artworks. So, I don't see how it's ludicrous.