BECKS - MY BLOODY VALENTINE
Here's my rework of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless album art for the Beck's 100 Cover Project; a re-interpretation of the 25 most influential records of each the last 4 decades, as selected by Pitchfork.
Where to begin on this one? This was kind of a tricky one for me since A) it's one of my all time faves, B) the original album art is so iconic, C) and fits the music perfectly. When I told friends who were huge MBV fans what I was doing for this Beck's project, their first response was pretty much, "don't ____ it up."
There's a number of stories behind this album -- the half-million plus recording 'budget' (read: rolling tab) they burned through that eventually nearly bankrupted Creation records; Kevin Shields' single-minded, borderline madman devotion to making a perfect album; those 5 dozen layers of guitar jet wash on every track; the band's intimidating, dizzying, tinnitus-inducing live presence...
There's also the strong duality of the album -- the whole disarmingly pretty/terrifyingly noisy side of it; the fact that hearing these songs live, stripped of their production renders them completely different; or the 'flawed masterpiece' aspect of it. A million different directions to go on this one, thankfully the consensus from Becks was that I nailed it...
Where to begin on this one? This was kind of a tricky one for me since A) it's one of my all time faves, B) the original album art is so iconic, C) and fits the music perfectly. When I told friends who were huge MBV fans what I was doing for this Beck's project, their first response was pretty much, "don't ____ it up."
There's a number of stories behind this album -- the half-million plus recording 'budget' (read: rolling tab) they burned through that eventually nearly bankrupted Creation records; Kevin Shields' single-minded, borderline madman devotion to making a perfect album; those 5 dozen layers of guitar jet wash on every track; the band's intimidating, dizzying, tinnitus-inducing live presence...
There's also the strong duality of the album -- the whole disarmingly pretty/terrifyingly noisy side of it; the fact that hearing these songs live, stripped of their production renders them completely different; or the 'flawed masterpiece' aspect of it. A million different directions to go on this one, thankfully the consensus from Becks was that I nailed it...