Viewing Thread:
"what's the key to good music?"

1) Does a CD cover have any influence on your wish to purchase or sample a music CD?

2) What appeals to you most about a CD cover:
layout
colour
images
fonts
logos
enigma
other (please state)

I preferred the teletubby.

Darwock wrote:
> HAHA! That cover for Paranoid is terrible. So bad it deserves to win.

The one for Born Again is worse.

http://www.rock-pop-tipps.de/
images/black-sabbath-born-again.jpg

Bright colour
Original art design
Clear band and album name

why do you rekon you walk up to a cd on the shelf and buy it? what attracts you?

HAHA! That cover for Paranoid is terrible. So bad it deserves to win.

I haven't even looked at those cos they all sound like generic goth "scary things" covers which will suck. But a Space Teletubby wins by default, although it's still not as good as the pic of Morris Day that I posted.

No it doesn't. The space teletubbie looks so much better.

Bob_The_Moose wrote:
> By far the best cover ever is Black Sabbath's Paranoid. Oooh, scary
> space age warrior teletubbie thing.
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005RFI/
> ref=sr_aps_music_1_1/202-2373699-7229446

It's a Samauri thingy. Big deal. The reaper killing some guy with lightning on Dehumanizer looks far more impressive.

Don't give a toss what the CD cover is to be honest, mostly I'll have listened to a song on the album on the radio or on realplayer hence I know I like it, or I'll buy it because it is the same style as some other music I like.

Pish and posh.

Best CD cover ist ummmm...

Probably a Pumpkins one, of course.

Adore or Machina.

Machina. The art work/writing is wonderful.