I've always wondered exactly what is being depicted in the 2vN cover art. Is that an overgrown golf course? A beach? Is Donald's shadow on a cell phone?
Who came up with the art concept and where was the photo taken?
One of the coolest parts of this forum is the look behind the curtain. I'd love to give the 2vN cover that treatment here.
Just guesswork here... Amen Corner is part of the famous Augusta golf course, and "I'm in the amen corner now" is a line in Almost Gothic, so I'm assuming that's a connection there.
Speaking of Two Against Nature, back in the day, the photo below was released with 13 working titles of songs for the album/CD. As we all know, only 9 tracks ended-up on the CD. I wonder what became of the other 4 (Someone, Sharon, Tigers, Things) and if we'll ever get to hear them. Could 'Things' actually be 'Things I Miss The Most', which appeared later on 'Everything Must Go'? Perhaps D-Mod could share some insight into these tunes.
Hi All -- sure there's a story behind that cover. Living in a causal universe as we do — or as most people think we do — there's always an attribution for an outcome. Unfortunately the story of this one is pretty boring.
Nobody we know cast the shadows. We do not know the terrain and it is no place special or significant (I’d think endless rural U.S. roads could look like this). We did try to fool around with the sky, at the horizon, a bit. Fool with the color, deepen it or try to add a tiny glow of sickly purple just above the bushes….as though there might be something not-good happening over there, something that our watchful heroes should know about. But — try as we might, we never came up with anything that showed much of a difference. There just wasn’t enough sky to work with. So we used a purplish shadow between the grass and gravel, sharpened up all the colors a bit, Carol Boboltz did the typography and package and…Bob’s Yer Uncle. Funky colors or not, our 2 were on watch.
See? boring.
Maybe more on the rest sometime later
hourstuff -- sorry, Qs on SD tunes are out of my lane at present