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Author Topic: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD  (Read 15461 times)

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #150 on: September 16, 2024, 06:33:51 PM »
Awesome question about album covers. Also, I think M is not a fan of having faces on album covers, and this made it even worse from the get-go. So many iconic album covers, like 90% of them, have faces or at least pictures of faces on them... Or other approximations of living beings.

It rarely happens when an album with an amazing album cover (which can be considered true ART) has equally amazing music. You need to pick your poison, either a great cover with music that sucks or vice versa. Nearly all my favourite album art is simply someone else's work (a photo, a collage or a painting) and not an original creation.

BIA album cover is a perfect happy accident as it captures the vibes of Montserrat so well you feel like you visited the place. I can imagine the magnitude of the "aha" moment when this picture was taken, it's impossible to come up with anything better than this.

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #151 on: September 16, 2024, 06:58:39 PM »
Going true some answers from Ed
Reading some of his replay on why he and MK broke up. (page 2 Q&A thread)

What he said at that last professional meeting was grossly insulting, patronising, bewildering and deeply hurtful.

What the hell happend??
Someone has some more info on this??
« Last Edit: September 16, 2024, 07:27:34 PM by cannibals »

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #152 on: September 16, 2024, 07:44:22 PM »
Ed's answers are hilarious, I'm so glad he's indulged us! I'll be glum when it's all wrapped up.

Seriously, he needs to write a book. It'll balance out the universe after the JI autobiography.

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #153 on: September 16, 2024, 07:53:25 PM »
Just me be qurious. Perhaps dusty or Julio can help me out?

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #154 on: September 16, 2024, 09:14:32 PM »
Just me be qurious. Perhaps dusty or Julio can help me out?

With what?
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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #155 on: September 16, 2024, 09:23:37 PM »
Just me be qurious. Perhaps dusty or Julio can help me out?

With what?

With the answer to his question a couple of posts prior, I think
Talk soft, carry a big stick, and pack the biggest gun.

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #156 on: September 16, 2024, 10:20:46 PM »
Indeed. What happened between Ed and MK??
See my post a few hours ago....

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #157 on: September 16, 2024, 11:12:40 PM »
Well I can’t speak for Julio but I don’t have any idea. How would I? Ed said he didn’t want to elaborate on it.
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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #158 on: September 17, 2024, 05:56:03 AM »
Indeed. What happened between Ed and MK??
See my post a few hours ago....

Ed mentioned a last meeting that went bad and MK didn't treat him well, he was quite descriptive about that, don't have time to copy and paste all the description of it he gave, but that last meeting was the end of it as far as I understood. He also mentioned that after Mandela's show more or less the relationship was changed very subtled and my guess is that was erasing the personal and professional relationship until that last meeting that I guess was the last drop.

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #159 on: September 17, 2024, 09:47:54 AM »
Ed's answers are hilarious, I'm so glad he's indulged us! I'll be glum when it's all wrapped up.

Seriously, he needs to write a book. It'll balance out the universe after the JI autobiography.
dude...you are SOOOOO right...
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #160 on: September 17, 2024, 11:14:08 AM »
They had a design team for the early album artwork!! What for Making Movies too? a team for that cover? really? I have to say I like the On Every Street cover, it matches the Blues nature of some of the songs.
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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #161 on: September 17, 2024, 12:03:37 PM »
Message from Mimmo with 4 photos in attachment:

Dear Ed,
english is not my language. Hard for me to understand if yours it's just british humour or something different. But I am not neither a dreamer nor a liar, see the 4 attached photos.  I was happy to get in touch again with you after so many years, at least just to say hello, but I wish I'd never posted that message. I'll stay with my happy memories of 25 years ago. All the best .

Lol. Funny how Ed's style of answering hasn't changed over 25 years.

Langugae barrier at play again here I would suggest, Ed once more "taking the piss" rather than calling anyone a dreamer or a liar...
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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #162 on: September 17, 2024, 12:47:57 PM »
Message from Mimmo with 4 photos in attachment:

Dear Ed,
english is not my language. Hard for me to understand if yours it's just british humour or something different. But I am not neither a dreamer nor a liar, see the 4 attached photos.  I was happy to get in touch again with you after so many years, at least just to say hello, but I wish I'd never posted that message. I'll stay with my happy memories of 25 years ago. All the best .

Lol. Funny how Ed's style of answering hasn't changed over 25 years.

Langugae barrier at play again here I would suggest, Ed once more "taking the piss" rather than calling anyone a dreamer or a liar...

Or "breaking balls" Scorsese/Sopranos style if you're a movie nerd. Ed has the makings of a great mafioso!

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #163 on: September 17, 2024, 02:29:30 PM »
They had a design team for the early album artwork!! What for Making Movies too? a team for that cover? really? I have to say I like the On Every Street cover, it matches the Blues nature of some of the songs.

Design teams are normal for most labels, especially big ones. It's not just the cover, it's the back artwork, lyric sheet, spine, typefaces, supporting multiple formats etc. And they're designing multiple releases for different artists in parallel.

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Re: Special Q & A with Ed Bicknell - DISCUSSION THREAD
« Reply #164 on: September 17, 2024, 04:11:18 PM »
The cover of the first album corresponds wonderfully with the content of the songs. Cover Communique is very important to me and Love Over Gold is the first one I saw in a small music store. I am a dreamer  :)
I know the way I can see by the moonlight
Clear as the day
Now come on woman, come follow me home

 

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