http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:01:57 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/132228.php#comment-36435 welcome my fotolog..........ok 36435@blogcritics.org Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:01:57 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/132228.php#comment-22562 Tom covered it... both here in the comments and in the previous Blogcritics post which I linked in the review.... 22562@blogcritics.org Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:52:48 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/132228.php#comment-22401 (cue Beavis voice) Naked chicks rule! It is indeed a first for Maiden, but Adrian Smith's former band (post Iron Maiden, late-80s), ASAP, had an album (Silver And Gold, now long, LONG out of print and worth many a pretty penny on Ebay) that had many photos of topless Asian ladies inside. Very classily done, I might add (not being facetious, really!) Wish I'd kept my copy of that album . . . and not just for the purty ladies inside. 22401@blogcritics.org Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:22:10 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/132228.php#comment-22398 Hey, but there is nudity inside! Ok, well, very obscured nudity on the lyric pages, but I don't recall any other Maiden albums where they went for obscured nudity anywhere. Someone more in the know on this, feel free to correct me. 22398@blogcritics.org Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:15:17 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/132228.php#comment-22385 Extremely poorly executed 3D figures (stock figures straight outta Poser, in fact) with 3D masks created by a company that makes stock-3D masks for Poser figures. All over top of very well hand-painted artwork. The band apparently had an artist create Eddie and the background, then were, for some unfathomable reason, dissatisfied with it, and had someone who had absolutely no idea what they were doing paste these figures in on top of the original artwork. The original artist is not credited in the artwork, and band and management aren't talking about this issue at all. Worse still than the very cheesy 3D figures is the fact that many of them defy the laws of physics: a baby (in a bikini?!) floats over a wolf, but has one foot somehow buried deep in its side; the woman at the right side of the artwork has a giraffe-like neck capable of humanly-impossible bends and turns; not to mention that many of the figures are colored very oddly and all have shadows that go at odds with the apparent ambient lighting of the 'room' in the artwork. This is, by far, the worst cover artwork I've ever seen from a band that is as established as Iron Maiden. I've seen higher-quality 3D work executed on local bands' CDs. This is abominable, and it's a shame because it does not represent the music inside, which is, generally, very good (if nothing new.) To me, this is a sign of a band that is out of touch - they don't seem to realize the importance of their artwork to both fans and the public in general. The result is something that receives more laughter than interest on first impression. 22385@blogcritics.org Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:10:54 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/132228.php#comment-22365 Jim, what exactly IS the issue with the cover? 22365@blogcritics.org Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:04:51 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/132228.php#comment-22363 That is definately the cover. Trust me... I bought the CD the day it came out, a month ago.... 22363@blogcritics.org Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:55:27 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/06/132228.php#comment-22339 That album cover is definitely a joke. There is no way. I've always liked Irom Maiden especially Piece of Mind and Powerslave. There will be a backlash if it's the cover! 22339@blogcritics.org Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:18:04 EDT