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Post by baz on Jun 3, 2020 15:12:18 GMT
I wonder why so many of these hits collections don't feature a picture of the Hollies on the front? This seems to be a trend in recent years, though famously started with that utterly hideous cover for '20 Golden Greats'. It obviously shifted so many copies on the strength of the music, because the cover was awful. Allan lamented it at the time in an interview somewhere. But they weren't with EMI at that point and probably had no leverage on it. Bad covers and The Hollies have gone hand in hand for a very long time! That one discussed with clouds, then that green 1993 one - with a tree? Awful! "20 Golden Greats", my comments on that are unprintable, except maybe on a Twitter feed of a certain person! |
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Post by sandy on Jun 3, 2020 15:35:59 GMT
I wonder why so many of these hits collections don't feature a picture of the Hollies on the front? This seems to be a trend in recent years, though famously started with that utterly hideous cover for '20 Golden Greats'. It obviously shifted so many copies on the strength of the music, because the cover was awful. Allan lamented it at the time in an interview somewhere. But they weren't with EMI at that point and probably had no leverage on it. Bad covers and The Hollies have gone hand in hand for a very long time! That one discussed with clouds, then that green 1993 one - with a tree? Awful! "20 Golden Greats", my comments on that are unprintable, except maybe on a Twitter feed of a certain person! I think their visual image at the time was not considered ' cool', so record companies avoided using current pics, and had done the old pics to death by then. Also fitted with their rather anonymous thing, of only real fans knowing their individual names and faces, which carries on to this day! |
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Jun 3, 2020 15:48:19 GMT
Bad covers and The Hollies have gone hand in hand for a very long time! That one discussed with clouds, then that green 1993 one - with a tree? Awful! "20 Golden Greats", my comments on that are unprintable, except maybe on a Twitter feed of a certain person! I think their visual image at the time was not considered ' cool', so record companies avoided using current pics, and had done the old pics to death by then. Also fitted with their rather anonymous thing, of only real fans knowing their individual names and faces, which carries on to this day! Like I had no idea who was whom until 2003. The TeeVee records collection had a photo on the cover but I hadn't a clue who the singer was (although interestingly I did guess correctly in the end. You can look like your voice apparently!) |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 16:29:27 GMT
I knew the '20 Golden Greats' LP so well that when I first saw the band in 1987, I mentally ticked off each song as they played it! They performed 19 of the songs that night (oddly 'On A Carousel' was missing, a staple of many of their 80s concerts), albeit some songsl merely as part of medleys. So, despite the horrible cover, this album was the one that more or less introduced me to the band. Following that I bought 'Not the Hits Again', quickly followed by 'Evolution' and 'For Certain Because', and then within a couple of years, all the other Nash-era albums and the 'Dylan' LP + 'Another Night' (which I thought was so weak that it put me off the post-Nash era for decades!).
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Post by gee on Jun 3, 2020 17:23:02 GMT
To me they veered from The Good having some excellent covers such as In The Hollies Style, the 'burnt arty' look of 'Hollies' 1965, Jennifer Sebley's fine pencil sketch likeness (good re all except a 'Chinese' looking Bobby) on'Would You Believe' then Henry Diltz's New York shot on 'For Certain Because...', Karl Ferris stylish cover shot on 'Evolution' that Jimi Hendrix loved, the stylish if rather pigeon holing re pop 'Greatest',the equally stylish white 'Sing Dylan' cover...later the excellent early seventies group posed 'Hollies Greatest vol 2' shot...then the superb Colin Elgie summer and winter woodland scenes of 'Distant Light' / 'Romany' plus the city scene covers of 'Out On The Road' / 'Another Night' and the interesting if rather at odds with the music cover of '5317704' The Average to the bland black cover of 'Confessions of The Mind', the white of 'Write On' and strange cocktail black cover of 'Russian Roulette'- either dull or stylish depending on your view.... The poor ....to the cardigans and jumpers image first album cover, the perhaps too identityless 'Butterfly' cover, the twee lacey shirts / brown trousers image group shot of them posed like a group of children on 'Hollies Sing Hollies', the not completely flattering close up posed shot on 'Hollies' 1974...and the 'weeping' Buddy Holly specs that probably put people off the 1980 album ...while 'What Goes Around' tried to make them look like a boy band ! and the utterly abyssmal !! 'A Crazy Steal' - honestly just what was that all about  compilation albums had both interesting covers like the striking pattern if vague re the music 'Reflection' released in 1969 and the laughable 1971 'Stop Stop Stop' re-issue of stereo FCB on Starline with a red STOP traffic light on the cover (wonder how long it took EMI to think of that ?) while MFP's 'Long Cool Woman in A Black Dress' had a disgracefully sexist cover of a beautiful woman in a black dress with a split going practically right up to her thigh... I really must get around to taking one of my twenty or so copies of the album out and playing it one day ... however a later 1978 'Butterfly' re-issue had a beautiful new cover of butterflies plus a later 'Confessions of The Mind' had a rising or setting desert sun pic that while no more relevant than the original 1970 album cover was at least a good photo |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 17:47:29 GMT
while MFP's 'Long Cool Woman in A Black Dress' had a disgracefully sexist cover of a beautiful woman in a black dress with a split going practically right up to her thigh...Surely no less "sexist" than the song? There appears to be at least two different photos of this (in my opinion OK) cover: :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2375206-1280388515.jpeg.jpg) :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2046085-1516555447-7302.jpeg.jpg) Certainly nowhere near as cheeky as the '70s 'Top Of The Pops' albums (which I also admire!).
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