Comments on: New Order: Waiting for the Sirens’ Call http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/ Sleevage: The worlds best album cover design blog. Showcasing interesting album covers from the past and present. Updated daily with details on designers, artists and their studios. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jesse http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/comment-page-1/#comment-23734 Jesse Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:59:05 +0000 http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/#comment-23734 I actually made a "periodic table of music genres" a few years ago, you should totally check it out. http://dj-glass.deviantart.com/art/Periodic-Table-of-Music-Genres-12372231 And by the way, sleevage is like, my favorite new site! I've spent so much time here, it's really nice to see album design get such great respect and analysis. I actually made a “periodic table of music genres” a few years ago, you should totally check it out.

http://dj-glass.deviantart.com/art/Periodic-Table-of-Music-Genres-12372231

And by the way, sleevage is like, my favorite new site! I’ve spent so much time here, it’s really nice to see album design get such great respect and analysis.

]]> By: Gavin http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/comment-page-1/#comment-6840 Gavin Sat, 10 May 2008 23:04:44 +0000 http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/#comment-6840 The best thing about this cover was the effect on the shelves of record shops when it first came out. I was in HMV and amongst all the CD covers and Photoshop-happy DVDs was this series just saying No No No No No No No along the rack. The best thing about this cover was the effect on the shelves of record shops when it first came out.

I was in HMV and amongst all the CD covers and Photoshop-happy DVDs was this series just saying No No No No No No No along the rack.

]]> By: mark reed http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/comment-page-1/#comment-6838 mark reed Sat, 10 May 2008 21:38:22 +0000 http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/#comment-6838 ... you may be interested to know that this is not the first sleeve Bernard has designed : he lead the designs for "Unknown Pleasures" and "Get Ready". The Saville design originally proposed became the 'opaque' 7" sleeve, and was hastily shelved a few days before it went to print following the Boxing Day tsunami disaster. The current design is interesting as it reflects a 'negative' of the first New order LP "Movement" … you may be interested to know that this is not the first sleeve Bernard has designed : he lead the designs for “Unknown Pleasures” and “Get Ready”. The Saville design originally proposed became the ‘opaque’ 7″ sleeve, and was hastily shelved a few days before it went to print following the Boxing Day tsunami disaster. The current design is interesting as it reflects a ‘negative’ of the first New order LP “Movement”

]]> By: djrigby1969 http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/comment-page-1/#comment-6569 djrigby1969 Thu, 01 May 2008 15:56:18 +0000 http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/#comment-6569 Great site. My recollection from around the time of the album's release was that the single image of the woman was to be the album cover image but someone somewhere at the record company got cold feet after the Boxing Day tsunami disaster, hence the nondescript "No" image we got instead. I'm as baffled as you probably are. Great site.

My recollection from around the time of the album’s release was that the single image of the woman was to be the album cover image but someone somewhere at the record company got cold feet after the Boxing Day tsunami disaster, hence the nondescript “No” image we got instead. I’m as baffled as you probably are.

]]> By: Martin O'Gorman http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/comment-page-1/#comment-2633 Martin O'Gorman Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:59:52 +0000 http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/#comment-2633 Thought you might like this... I interviewed Peter Saville for MOJO magazine about the JD/NO covers and he said that he wasn't really involved in Waiting For The Siren's Call - he delegated it to Howard Wakefield of PSA. So Rufus's story is spot on... Here's some of the interview that didn't get published for ya - amazing to think what the cover would have been like if he'd got his own way... "[Doing the new New Order cover] is like family, so it is like going home for Christmas. I think the same thing applies on both sides. The situation that was crystallising around Get Ready is now an impenetrable force [ie Bernard Sumner wasn't keen on any of PS's ideas]. So I stepped down from the new cover. I've left Christmas lunch before the pudding. I didn't have anything to suggest, nor did they. So it's Bernard's cover. I've played a part in certain meetings, but things have now happened which have no connection with me whatsoever. Bernard is doing the cover and Howard is looking after it. One of the things I wanted to do with the new album was to reconstruct Power Corruption And Lies - I wanted to redo the flowers, but I wanted to do it with real flowers. I wanted to make that bunch of roses and shoot it. I wanted to refabricate New Order. I wanted to quote this moment from history - my history and their history and the commodity's history, which is - you could say - relevant to their music now. The other idea was that I sign so many covers now, at lectures and exhibitions, people turn up with things to sign. And whenever I sit down, I think, I didn't leave anywhere to sign when I was designing it. I said to my girlfriend, the next fucking New Order cover I'm going to do is going to have a signing space on it! And that was my idea for the cover - there would be a cover and I would sign it. Bernard was just flabbergasted about that." Power Corruption And Lies with real flowers? How post-modern is that? Thought you might like this… I interviewed Peter Saville for MOJO magazine about the JD/NO covers and he said that he wasn’t really involved in Waiting For The Siren’s Call – he delegated it to Howard Wakefield of PSA. So Rufus’s story is spot on…

Here’s some of the interview that didn’t get published for ya – amazing to think what the cover would have been like if he’d got his own way…

“[Doing the new New Order cover] is like family, so it is like going home for Christmas. I think the same thing applies on both sides. The situation that was crystallising around Get Ready is now an impenetrable force [ie Bernard Sumner wasn't keen on any of PS's ideas]. So I stepped down from the new cover. I’ve left Christmas lunch before the pudding. I didn’t have anything to suggest, nor did they. So it’s Bernard’s cover. I’ve played a part in certain meetings, but things have now happened which have no connection with me whatsoever. Bernard is doing the cover and Howard is looking after it.

One of the things I wanted to do with the new album was to reconstruct Power Corruption And Lies – I wanted to redo the flowers, but I wanted to do it with real flowers. I wanted to make that bunch of roses and shoot it. I wanted to refabricate New Order. I wanted to quote this moment from history – my history and their history and the commodity’s history, which is – you could say – relevant to their music now.

The other idea was that I sign so many covers now, at lectures and exhibitions, people turn up with things to sign. And whenever I sit down, I think, I didn’t leave anywhere to sign when I was designing it. I said to my girlfriend, the next fucking New Order cover I’m going to do is going to have a signing space on it! And that was my idea for the cover – there would be a cover and I would sign it. Bernard was just flabbergasted about that.”

Power Corruption And Lies with real flowers? How post-modern is that?

]]> By: medinloo http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/comment-page-1/#comment-2631 medinloo Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:10:31 +0000 http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/#comment-2631 I don't like how Saville works with Photoshop filters, but in terms of concepts and ideas he's the man! I don’t like how Saville works with Photoshop filters, but in terms of concepts and ideas he’s the man!

]]> By: Rufus Spiller http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/comment-page-1/#comment-2529 Rufus Spiller Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:21:46 +0000 http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/#comment-2529 This might sound s bit w*nky but... I am one of the founders of LongLunch (www.longlunch.com) which is a design talks forum kinda thing in Scotland. Anyway... We had Peter Saville up to do a talk (really really nice guy) and he commented on this piece for New Order. As I remember it he said: 'This is what I said when the guys (New Order) called me up and asked me to do another cover for them.' I still think that is quite funny. It goes without saying Mr Saville is a great great designer. This might sound s bit w*nky but…

I am one of the founders of LongLunch (www.longlunch.com) which is a design talks forum kinda thing in Scotland. Anyway…

We had Peter Saville up to do a talk (really really nice guy) and he commented on this piece for New Order. As I remember it he said:

‘This is what I said when the guys (New Order) called me up and asked me to do another cover for them.’

I still think that is quite funny. It goes without saying Mr Saville is a great great designer.

]]> By: Andrew kelsall http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/comment-page-1/#comment-2450 Andrew kelsall Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:12:54 +0000 http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/#comment-2450 What I have found interesting about the NO design, is that Neville Brody has designed Hard-Fi's new album utilising the SAME type of graphical style - just using text as in-your-face as possible. I think it;s amazing how simple typography can gain so much visual momentum in the viewers' eye. Pribably why he used it again... What I have found interesting about the NO design, is that Neville Brody has designed Hard-Fi’s new album utilising the SAME type of graphical style – just using text as in-your-face as possible. I think it;s amazing how simple typography can gain so much visual momentum in the viewers’ eye. Pribably why he used it again…

]]> By: Robbie Powell http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/comment-page-1/#comment-2281 Robbie Powell Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:29:25 +0000 http://sleevage.com/new-order-waiting-for-the-sirens-call/#comment-2281 Im amazed Saville still has it in him, and his style fully intaked. What a legend! Im amazed Saville still has it in him, and his style fully intaked. What a legend!

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