BOC, OFF: Blues music, Iron Maiden, BOC lyrics, album covers

[Goran Janicijevic]

John A. Swartz wrote in <37FB4D28.E27EC204 at mitre.org>:


>Ever heard the expression "Never judge a book by it's cover"?

And a man by his clothes? ;-)

Anyway, BOC adherence taught me to judge the album by its cover.
Examples: average RBN and HF, faceless Mirrors, or cheesy Ninja covers
reflect the contents of the albums.

>that means) by their album covers?  A lot of BOC fans hate the cover of
>Heaven Forbid, calling it, among other things, "Cheezy" - does that make
>BOC less "serious"?  Metallica sold millions of copies of an album

I am the one that doesn't like too much the HF, unless the first two
numbers. Anyway, the european blond goddess, offering to choose
between the word and the sword is much better as a cover. And the bra
peeping out of her silk gown makes me laugh. Much better than the eye
popping fellow (that is printed on the disk in the euro version).

>Sorry if that seemed like a rant, but to me, album covers are just
>artwork that often have little to do with the musical content contained
>within.  Not always of course, but often enough.

As I said, the BOC experience taught me to think that way.
--
Goran