Be it Album or Single whats your favourite Sleeve design? — Forum Archive

31 Oct 2005, 08:20

After finally getting the Singles poster from HM F'ing V, i've had a quick scan over it and was wondering which sleeve design people liked best?

I Like True faith the best, simple yet elegant.

31 Oct 2005, 08:32

PCL

31 Oct 2005, 08:35

Yup, True Faith is untouchable really but I've always loved the Republic-era artwork best. Ruined in a day, Regret and the blue Spooky (Sadly not on the HMV poster) are fantastic bits of Saville. I remember seeing the Republic exhibits at the Design Museum a couple of years ago and being very impressed.

Next in line for me would be the 12" yellow Fine Time sleeve; the pills and the colours are like a logo for Acid House! :D

31 Oct 2005, 08:37

BLT although Unknown Pleasures, Murder, and the 1981-1982 EP were all a close second.

31 Oct 2005, 09:12

PC&L for album, Fine Time for single, Movement wins special mention for typography.

31 Oct 2005, 09:19

PC&L for album, regret for single.

31 Oct 2005, 09:27

I thought the cover to Spooky was pretty cool.

31 Oct 2005, 10:43

My fave single is missing from the poster, murder, it just looks cooler TLU with the number border in black.

Fave album has to be best of, the question mark or whatever it is, I've said this before on here but, at a time when I didn't know of any NO release, I was walking past HMV blackpool and saw the poster for the album, without even seeing the text I could just tell it was NO, it just shouts it, fantastic peice of work.

I thought the get ready stuff was a bit lame, the girl doing a bit of a teasing strip, but had the cover for 24HPP been the money shot I would have been made up

31 Oct 2005, 12:10

True Faith.

31 Oct 2005, 13:36

Brotherhood & Get Ready Ceremony & 1963

31 Oct 2005, 14:14

true faith

31 Oct 2005, 14:42

I'm simple for my enjoyment of the photos that make up Low Life.

31 Oct 2005, 15:09

Procession and the 1981–1982 EP.

31 Oct 2005, 16:51

the blue cover of the Fine Time Remix 12"

31 Oct 2005, 17:58

Murder

31 Oct 2005, 18:42

LP--Low-Life Gillian EP--FACTUS 8 Single--Murder

31 Oct 2005, 19:19

E's ARE GOOD E'S ARE GOOD!! Got to be the very trippy yellow Fine Time sleeve. :clap:

31 Oct 2005, 20:07

As a whole, I like the WFTSC LP. Yep the orange letters on white. Of course, at first I hated it. But after I bought the double LP, I got it.

It comes off as simple and lazy. Just like No. But then you open the gatefold sleeve and you get this explosion of color. And you take out each of the sleeves and the sights continue. Its just like the band; they look like one thing.... and then you listen to them and you get this rich colorful sound.

The fact that people are so quick to blow it off makes the art even better. The fact it made so many people pissed is evidence of its genius.

31 Oct 2005, 20:09

Fave sleeve is no easier than fave song is it?

I suppose based on the ones that always seem to end up put up on my wall, it'd be PCL and TBTHOG.

I wonder if the rumours are tru that 100,000 sleeves for WIFM were printed up with the track title listed as "E for England"

1 Nov 2005, 03:23

Republic; Good representation of the collapse of Factory, The Hac and nearly NO.

Although I like Retro best- The image of a Hawk attacking a Disco Ball is brilliant- implies that they don't want to be categorised as either a rock or a dance band, but maybe they want to be seen as Kings of a hybrid of the two...

1 Nov 2005, 03:38

Unknown Pleasures hooked me as soon as I saw the cover, even though I knew what I was looking for, I was as much attracted by the sleeve as I was by the prospect of what was contained within it.

For New Order record sleeves, True Faith takes some beating.

1 Nov 2005, 03:58

I like the austere simplicity of the early designs - Procession 7", EGG 12" and Ceremony/ Movement. real classics which befitted the music.

Also like the Low Life sleeve, and from that era the simplicity of the Perfect Kiss 12". Thieves Like Us and it's darker alter ego Murder have nice themes.

1 Nov 2005, 06:19

Green Ceremony and Perfect Kiss.

Gone off the Republic era sleeves.

1 Nov 2005, 06:39

By format:

7":Procession 12": TBTHOG CD-single:Regret Cassette: PCL LP:Low-life CD: Republic VHS: PFD DVD: Item

Was there ever a DAT release? :wink:

1 Nov 2005, 06:44

Still adore this, still don't know why but . . .

1 Nov 2005, 06:46

FLYING TEAPOT by GONG

1 Nov 2005, 10:56

Not NO but electronic, the sleve for getting away with it, both mixes, black back drop and whiskey and white back drop with the drink a very strange blue colour, both great, mind you hookys stuff with tarts all over it was good too, for different reasons.

The other two's first album (the other two & you), with steve looking like a retard and gill looking quite frumpy has to be one of the worst.

best t-shirt has to be round and round which just had two ampersands, one flourescent yellow, the other flourescent green, slightly overlapping, looking quite blurred and instantly confusing anyone not in the know, the number of people asking "and what?" was unbeleivable, (it could have just been one, but I was so out of it it seemed like thousands):beer2:

1 Nov 2005, 11:13

True Faith - no question about it. My favorite piece of visual art in the world.

2 Nov 2005, 03:28

I'm still amazingly fond of Get Ready. There's something about it. (remember also, it was around that era I started to really learn about New Order..)

Unknown Pleasures, especially the 12", is also absolutely gorgeous. The thing is, it means so much. I believe it's what, the readout of a supernova or something? If you think about it, it really represents everything JD were, came out of nowhere, and disappeared just as fast, yet were so very important..

Okay, i'll shut up now.

2 Nov 2005, 12:43

Steve Campbell wrote: Fave sleeve is no easier than fave song is it?

I suppose based on the ones that always seem to end up put up on my wall, it'd be PCL and TBTHOG.

excellent point, in fact pc&l is up on my wall, along with a picture of barney in shorts and kate bush in a tutu. a nice combination!