kingart wrote:

"Arts and graphics freaks?" As a graphic designer and artist, I don't care for
your tone. A designer laid out the album cover picking a font, colors,
and possibly picked the art or hired an illustrator or artist for the
image. As for the choice of image, who knows? Maybe there was a line in one of the songs on the record that suggested it. Or the band liked the image. The approach is often something evocative/symbolic/suggestive and not literal.
 

kingart wrote: 
That imagery seems pretty clear and self-explanatory, if not decidedly cromulent.  What fun would it be "just do a photograph" anyhow?

Like the song. 
My question is: what arts and graphics freaks conjure the cover art on this and a slew of other collections? What syllogism aphorism decodism pretensionism am I to analyze with such an image? Can't they just do a photograph or something?  

Long time since any comments.  I kinda like this one.  Giving it a 6

Here we go Sweden, love it, great!

sarah_mae wrote:  

In high school one of my English teachers told us the story of a kid who had to write a 500-word story so he wrote:
"I got into the boat and started the engine and it went putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt putt
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Love it, go Sweden.

fredriley wrote: 
I would imagine that there isn't much else to do when it's dark for 976 hours straight...

Why is the album name "Once Upon a Time" when the cover art shows "FireSoul?"

nalle wrote: 
Another Swedish artist? You guys sure do produce some great bands and singers, at least going by what I hear on RP. Not to mention some great authors such as Henning Mankell. I wonder if your cultural creativity comes from those long winter nights when the daylight hours can be counted on one hand and time must lay heavy upon you. Whatever the cause, keep 'em coming :)

Quite likey

And we row my friends. Like this, great and they are from Sweden.

Giddy up!

Great tune. Reminds me of The Alarm (in a good way).

Perhaps a segue to T Waits -"Misery's the River of the World"? (everybody row!) or is that too obvious

jagdriver wrote: 
Funny....that's what I though!

Hmm, had to check to see what I was listening too - I thought it was Midnight Oil, and then Midnight Oil pops up as the next band!  Guess Bill thinks they sound similar enough to go together, too

Nice! Where were they when i was growing up in Gothenburg? Oh, yeah, they weren't born yet!