Bane wrote:I'm with you 100%. I wish more labels, small or large, would take a leaf out of the likes of Miskatonic. Although that would require them to make some fucking effort. I mean, will we ever see anything nowadays to rival the Vio-lence vomit pack? EVER?

TCME will release their Relapse Records debut, Olidous Operettas, January/23/2007 The CD, which took them more than a year and a half to write and record, since all three bandmembers live in different states, will feature eight tracks, including "Morgagnic Anatomics," "The Virchow Postmortem Procedure" and "Maturating Decompositional Gas." Dr. Fairbanks described the effort as "somewhere between Symphonies of Sickness and Necroticism-era Carcass" and "not something you would want to put on before church." What makes the disc even more unique, beyond TCME's odd approach to making music is "It will be a scented-face CD, which essentially means it will be scratch-'n'-sniff-able," he said. "Our CD will smell like rotten meat."

The CD packaging for 10,000 Days consists of a thick cardboard-bound booklet partly covered by a flap holding a pair of stereoscopic eyeglasses, which can be used to view a series of images inside (including, for the first time since Undertow, an individual portrait of each band member). Viewed with the glasses, the artwork produces an illusion of depth and three-dimensionality.

Most artists want the artwork on their CDs to represent the musical contents, but Adrienne Young is obsessive about it. As a singer and banjo player with a contemporary slant on old-time string-band music, Young envisioned a cover for her debut album, Plow to the End of the Row, that resembled the graphic content of The Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Foxfire series of journals and books.

The elaborate CD cover, which included a package of seeds in every sleeve, drew enough notice to pull off a near-impossible feat, earning Young, who is still an emerging artist, a Grammy nomination for best packaging. “It’s unbelievable,” she says. “I first heard it and thought it was a rumor that probably wasn’t true.”

MartinC wrote:

Most artists want the artwork on their CDs to represent the musical contents, but Adrienne Young is obsessive about it. As a singer and banjo player with a contemporary slant on old-time string-band music, Young envisioned a cover for her debut album, Plow to the End of the Row, that resembled the graphic content of The Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Foxfire series of journals and books.

The elaborate CD cover, which included a package of seeds in every sleeve, drew enough notice to pull off a near-impossible feat, earning Young, who is still an emerging artist, a Grammy nomination for best packaging. “It’s unbelievable,” she says. “I first heard it and thought it was a rumor that probably wasn’t true.”

That's about Adrienne Young's album. It won a Grammy for 'Best Album Package'. There is a Grammy award for elaborate and creative packaging for an album.

You say it still doesn't rival the Vomit pack, but you also said no labels are making the effort these days. I've just given you three separate examples as well as told you there's an actual Grammy award for it.

terrorizer wrote:

MartinC wrote:

Most artists want the artwork on their CDs to represent the musical contents, but Adrienne Young is obsessive about it. As a singer and banjo player with a contemporary slant on old-time string-band music, Young envisioned a cover for her debut album, Plow to the End of the Row, that resembled the graphic content of The Old Farmer’s Almanac and the Foxfire series of journals and books.

The elaborate CD cover, which included a package of seeds in every sleeve, drew enough notice to pull off a near-impossible feat, earning Young, who is still an emerging artist, a Grammy nomination for best packaging. “It’s unbelievable,” she says. “I first heard it and thought it was a rumor that probably wasn’t true.”

That's about Adrienne Young's album. It won a Grammy for 'Best Album Package'. There is a Grammy award for elaborate and creative packaging for an album.

You say it still doesn't rival the Vomit pack, but you also said no labels are making the effort these days. I've just given you three separate examples as well as told you there's an actual Grammy award for it.

He appears in Terrorizer and suddenly he's a smart cunt!

MartinC wrote:Just goes to show you don't pay attention to any other types of music.

Metal Iain wrote:I don't really give a shit about collecting hard copies of music or anything rare. I really don't see the point in it.