Death From Above 1979: You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
This is one of those iconic covers that I have seen everywhere but never knew the band name or any of their songs. After checking the Wikipedia entry for DFA1979 I see that kept this elephant nosed motif throughout all their releases. While this makes sense in terms of having people instantly recognise the singles it looks lazy. Below is the 4 other Singles and EP’s they release all using the same artwork.
This might have been to save money (hey 2 colour print jobs are cheap) or fear of not being able to do something as good? The pressure must have gotten to them to produce a new piece of art as they haven’t released a follow up up album and eventually lead to them splitting as a band in 2006.
Posted by Ash on 8 July, 2007
statts:
Great band. I happen to like the art a lot. If it works…
# 06 Sep 07 at 7:27 am
Kevin Moore:
the logo created here was actually created by Jesse Keeler, the bands Bassist. So, I doubt they never changed the art as a way to save money because Jesse probably did the work for free anyways! I love it.
# 29 Nov 07 at 3:05 pm
Blake:
Actually they created the elephant nose logo because they wanted their music to be like “an elephant in your room.” it was a message, not just art.
# 19 Mar 08 at 1:31 pm
Julien:
Hey you haven’t mentioned the Romantic Rights single, which cover is as follows: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/df/DFA1979-romanticrights.jpg/200px-DFA1979-romanticrights.jpg
Different and very good as well :)
# 25 Mar 08 at 10:38 pm
Danielbyday:
If only the MSTRKRFT hockey masks were as awesome as the elephants.
# 20 Jul 08 at 7:07 pm