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
Ben:
Great album!
# 28 Nov 08 at 3:40 pm
Chris Edwards:
Fat Head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 22 Apr 09 at 10:57 pm
ceasebreath:
Jesse Keeler is also color blind, hence the use of simple colors probably came into play.
The Romantic Rights single, is actually done by an artist of the name of Dennis Chow, who modified and redesigned the image.
I really dig the simplicity of the original as much as the modified version.
# 01 May 09 at 3:52 am
sigh:
this is stupid if it aint broke dont fix it
# 18 Dec 09 at 4:50 am
sigh:
this is stupid if it aint broke dont fix it
# 18 Dec 09 at 12:50 pm
Father:
“If it ain't broke, don't fix it.” belongs in the world of IT and software development. Boring.
If it ain't broke, break it.
# 11 Jul 10 at 9:40 am