DAVID BOWIE Interview with Brett, says he looks like a young Jimmy Page. The Low album cover could be seen a lot with Brett. KATE BUSH Hounds Of Love was the main inspiration musically for, and some of the dances quite possibly influenced Brett as well. THE SMITHS Dance moves, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side. LITERARY:
Is said to be influenced by J.G. Ballard a lot: Wiki entry on the writer:
James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009)[3] was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Born in an international settlement in Shanghai to British parents before his family emigrated to the UK, Ballard began writing in the 1950s, becoming associated with the New Wave of science fiction with post-apocalyptic novels such as The Wind from Nowhere (1961) and The Drowned World (1962). In the late 1960s, Ballard produced a variety of experimental short stories (or "condensed novels"), such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition(1970). In the mid 1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash (1973), a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism, and High-Rise (1975), a depiction of a luxury apartment building's descent into violent chaos, paralleling the descent of 'western civilization' into medieval authoritarianism and proletarian chaos. While much of Ballard's fiction would prove thematically and stylistically provocative,[4] he became best known for his relatively conventional war novel, Empire of the Sun (1984), a semi-autobiographical account of a young British boy's experiences in Shanghai during Japanese occupation. Described by The Guardian as "the best British novel about the Second World War",[5] the story was adapted into a 1987 film by Steven Spielberg starring Christian Bale. In the following decades until his death in 2009, Ballard's work shifted toward the form of the traditional crime novel. Several of his earlier works have been adapted into films, including David Cronenberg's controversial 1996 adaptation of Crash and Ben Wheatley's 2015 adaptation of High-Rise. The literary distinctiveness of Ballard's fiction has given rise to the adjective "Ballardian", defined by the Collins English Dictionary as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopianmodernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments".[6] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry describes Ballard's work as being occupied with "eros, thanatos, mass media and emergent technologies".[2]
And while "Ballardian music" is outwardly anti-blues/anti-rockist, more conventional artists couldn't help but be inspired too. Suede's sound might have been a retro-leaning Bowie/Smiths homage, but their lyrics depicting high rises, asphalt underpasses and dysfunctional lovers adrift in the city are unashamedly Ballardian.
The early ‘90s saw Ballard’s brutalism become adopted by Suede, who tipped their hat on “High Rising”, the last single from their self-titled debut album.
Google entry on Suede JG Ballard: .... ELECTRONIC PHASE In a NME article it states that it had been reported the electronic sound of the album Head Music was influenced by these acts:
He has previously said the album was influenced by Asian Dub Foundation, Audioweb, Tricky, Prince and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and he told NME this influence is most evident on ‘Crack…’: “There’s a lot of rage in those sorts of bands, a sense that what people loved about punk those people have got hold of, because they feel like they’ve been mistreated. There’s a definite sense of disillusionment there. You can’t bandy words like ‘Union Jack’ around and it not be a political statement of some kind. I was aware of that. It’s meant to be a simple metaphor for people who hide behind nationalism, these pockets of dull existence hiding behind a jingoistic front
ACT: The Smiths TRACK: The Queen Is Dead/Panic/ There Is A Light That Never Goes Out ALBUM: The Queen Is Dead YEAR: 19 GENRE: Indie rock DIRECTOR: Derek Jarman LABEL: (owned by UMG) SINGLE?: Yes
BACKGROUND/CONTEXT
An rare example of multiple full tracks being used for a video, a bit prophetic of what their disciples Suede would do with Night Thoughts
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PERFORMANCE, NARRATIVE OR CONCEPT?
... Andrew Goodwin's Notion of Looking?
EXTRA SOUND:
.. TITLES:
All in one, white on black in the middle. Signifying this maybe more a short film than a music video, convergence and the director becoming an auteur.
NARRATIVE ENIGMA:
Withholding information from the audience. Do we get the full body of the singer in the opening shot. No, and often not the face immediately either.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LYRICS AND VISUALS: Influence on Editing even like in Depeche Mode's I Feel You.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOUND AND VISUALS: EDITING MISE-EN-SCÈNE
GENRE SIGNIFIERS:
INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES: ... OTHER NARRATIVE THEORY: Not a clear, linear narrative. BRANDING: Do we see the album sleeve hi REPRESENTATION: Morrissey as sex Symbol?
AUDIENCE REPRESENTED/TARGETED:
Arthouse Target Audience, similar to an independent short film?
The unreleased material of David Bowie, could have the bonus tracks be unreleased songs from Suede's dystopian sophemore effort due to similar themes of my video
An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product, or album.
Origin of the name:
The name “album” comes from a pre-war era when it literally referred to the album that contained the 78rpm shellac disc, held in a drab heavy paper sleeve with only a title embossed on the front and spine. Sometimes the discs were contained in a leather book, similar to a photographic album.
Alex Steinweiss, the inventor of the album cover artwork?
From wiki:
In 1938, Columbia Records hired Alex Steinweiss as its first art director. He is credited with inventing the concept of album covers and cover art, replacing the plain covers used before. After his initial efforts at Columbia, other record companies followed his lead. By the late 1940s, record albums for all the major companies featured their own colorful paper covers in both 10- and 12-inch sizes. Some featured reproductions of classic art while others utilized original designs.
Alex Steinweiss, who has died aged 94, pioneered the concept of record album covers, when music was still released on 78rpm shellac, and was the inventor of the LP record sleeve. In 1939, while designing ads for Columbia Records, Steinweiss suggested adding art to the company's 78 releases, which were then generally sold in heavy paper and, for multiple-record sets, packaged in plain, book-like binding. His first cover featured the title of a collection of Rodgers and Hart show tunes up in lights on a theatre marquee. A Bruno Walter recording of Beethoven's Eroica showed a huge increase in sales with its new sleeve, and Steinweiss became Columbia's art director.
The first signs of change came in the 30s, from pioneering designers such as Alex Steinweiss, whose illustrated covers – for singers such as Paul Robeson, or the classical records of Beethoven – led to huge increases in sales. However, it was the advent of the long-playing 33⅓rpm record that changed everything. The heavy paper used for 78s damaged the delicate grooves on LPs, and record companies started using a folded-over board format sleeve. The format was ripe for artistic experimentation and ultimately led to covers such as The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers – something unimaginable in more conservative times.
Has digital disruption killed the album?
Peter Saville, designer behind album artwork for bands such as New Order, Rosy Music and Sir Peter Blake, album designer for acts such as The Beatles seem to think so in this article:
Saville blamed technological advances, such as iPods, for the decline in popularity of cover art.And he also singled out Britain’s changing youth culture, saying that the country faces a “social disaster”."The things that pop music was there to do for us have all been done... there's nothing to rail against now,” he told the Independent on Sunday."When I was 15, in the North-west of England.... the record cover to me was like a picture window to another world. “Seeing an Andy Warhol illustration on a Velvet Underground album was a revelation.... It was the art of your generation... true pop art."Sir Peter Blake, who designed the pioneering cover for the Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, also expressed his concern about decline in popularity of the CD."It [album art] survived from the LP to the CD, but... if that becomes obsolete then I guess album art won't exist. I think it would be a big loss,” he said.
This is from the time when the iPhone was just being introduced, long before the digital disruption of Spotify and YouTube posting whole albums just for free, when now you don't even have a digital copy, you're just streaming it.
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However, the comeback of vinyl might prove to be countering that disruption.
Tony Bennett said of the marvellous album covers of the 50s that, when you bought a record, “you felt like you were taking home your very own work of art”. Indeed, artwork can be as much a part of the identity of a record as the sound. Billions of music fans over the past century have taken pleasure from looking again and again at old album covers.
Famed musician Phil Collins began reissuing some of his most loved albums in November of 2015 as part of a collection called “Take a look at me now…” But keen-eyed fans of Mr. Collins noticed something curious about the reissues: the Phil Collins on the new album covers looks quite a bit older. And that’s exactly what Mr. Collins was going for. The title “Take a look at me now…” is meant to be taken literally, and so in addition to some musical extras thrown in for his fans, Collins also had some fun recreating each one of the six albums’ covers:
As previously reported, reunited Britpop leading lights Suede will release expanded editions of their five studio albums in May and June, via Demon Records. Each of the records has been remastered and expanded to include B-sides, demos, and previously unreleased songs, as well booklets and bonus DVDs featuring recent interviews with the band members and more. The entire band, including once-estranged original guitarist Bernard Butler, worked on the reissue project. The expanded edition of the band's 1993 self-titled debut is due May 30, with 1994's Dog Man Starfollowing June 6, 1996's Coming Up out June 13, 1999's Head Music arriving June 20, and 2002's A New Morning due June 22. On Record Store Day, April 16, Suede will release a limited edition single featuring demo versions of their first single, 1992's "The Drowners" b/w "To the Birds". In addition, The Best of Suede, which came out last year in the UK, will be released digitally in the U.S. on March 22. Over the next few months, the band will also play shows in Europe, North America, and Asia, including a set at Coachella and a couple of three-night stands where they'll play a classic album in full each night. Below, we've got the tracklists for each of the reissues, as well as the band's tour dates and their video for "The Drowners".
Even if the act is still disbandedor deceased, they are still able to market to an audience. THE SMITHS NME article:
One for the die-hards:
The Smiths have announced a ‘Super Deluxe Edition’ of their iconic album ‘The Queen Is Dead’.
The iconic Manchester band teased the release last month, after the official Smiths Facebook page posted an archive image of a coffin being carried, along with the caption: “#TQID16.06.17″ As Stereogum points out via Morrissey fan-forum Morrissey-Solo, the re-issue was available to pre-order via Amazon’s UK store, but has since been taken down. Available as both a two CD box set and a CD/DVD set, the first disc of the release features a fully-restored version of ‘The Queen Is Dead’, while the second features a number of b-sides and rarities.
In the wake of artist's death their work becomes very lucrative, a recent example being David Bowie's final album Blackstar which in the year 2016 which started with his death saw his parting gift become a vinyl bestseller. (Sky News, NME)
Since there have there was a posthumous collection collections:
There was always a huge Japanese market for Bowie's music
Unreleased material is a huge attraction to fans, especially if there is a gap between the passing of the artist and the release, not releasing it immediately after the death can increase the appetite and appeal. This consisted of his own recordings of songs written especially for a Broadway musical (Lazarus) he was working on, until then only the recordings with the actors had been released.
For April 2018 there are to be special releases for Record Store Day.
Three rare David Bowie records are set to be released for Record Store Day 2018, including an iconic London live performance. Record Store Day, which takes place on April 21, will see Bowie’s ‘Welcome To The Blackout (Live London ’78)’ album be released as a 3xLP set. The record features recordings from Bowie’s ‘Isolar II’ tour performances at London’s now-demolished Earls Court on June 30 and July 1 1978. Elsewhere, eagled-eyed Bowie fans will be able to nab a 12″ single which features the first full-length of ‘Let’s Dance’, along with a live version on the b-side. Finally, ‘Bowie Now’ – a rare 1977 US only promotional-only LP, featuring tracks from ‘Heroes’ and ‘Low’ – will get its first commercial release.
And magazines take in on the release connected with Record Store Day: such as Uncut, having exclusive interviews with multiple artist's including my artist Suede's frontman Brett Anderson:
TRACK:The Drowners ALBUM:Suede YEAR: 1993 GENRE: DIRECTOR: .. LABEL: Nude Records SINGLE?: Yes, very first one
CURRENT SITUATION
A huge media frenzy had surrounded this band
This is before the band settled on their all-black look
PERFORMANCE, NARRATIVE OR CONCEPT?
Performance and concept mix. The characters in the concept join in with singing.
EXTRA SOUND:
Track is exactly the same TITLES: No titles, of the time when there weren't any, instead they were listed on TV.
NARRATIVE ENIGMA:
We as usual don't get the full body of the performers in longshot or ELS in the first shot
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LYRICS AND VISUALS: The lyric "Do You Believe In Love There" is literally represented in the mise-en-sèene through, a make-up effect.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOUND AND VISUALS:
GENRE SIGNIFIERS: The glam rock aspects of the band are set up through the costume and dance moves, many critics picked up it was a simulacrum of a David Bowie INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES: The writing on "Do You Believe In Love There" could have come from Morrissey's "Marry ME" written on his chest during his live stage performances. OTHER NARRATIVE THEORY: The other character Brett plays is something of anti-hero maybe with his strangling at the end, morally dubious. An equilibrium is not quite clear, does the disruption happen when we see the girl with the male figure together, or when he starts strangling her?. BRANDING: The classic image of the band in black hasn't been set down yet, their image is still being developed, they have not set down a permanent brand. This would still be the case for the video of their second singleMetal Mickey. REPRESENTATION:
GENDER: ... Brett's androgynous image is not as fully developped as it will be in Animal Nitrate and So Young. ETHNICITY: All white Caucasians. SEXUALITY: All lyrics are supposed to be sexually ambiguous as, however due the couple below it gives the apparent anchoring of a heterosexual relationship. CLASS: ...
ABILITY/DISABILITY: ...
AUDIENCE REPRESENTED/TARGETED: The woman fits quite neatly in with the target audience, even looking similar to the girl in a 1993 documentary:
PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY STAY CLEAR OF THE IVY LEVAN VIDEOS
VERY SHORT TAKES
SUEDE FILMSTAR Mainly a performance video set in a live gig, then a series of short takes edited to the music With white flashes IVY LEVAN After the title appearing for a second, we get nine seconds of numerous short takes:, including a flash forwards. of the severed hand and burying the body parts.
A SINGLE LONG TAKE SPED UP SUEDE ANIMAL NITRATE Using a handheld camera presumably, now you'd use a GoPro. DEPECHE MODE STRANGELOVE THE SMITHS THE QUEEN IS DEAD SHORT FILM FILM EXAMPLES A Clockwork Orange, Alex takes the two girls home. FLASHING
