AllBum.Art - Alternative Art-Work for Album and Single Covers

We had an email from Timothy Blenkinsop-Smithe of Olde England who said:

Your web-site is replete with alternative artwork for very low-brow songs that should be in the gutter. You need to add some high-brow content to your site through classical music and opera.

Timothy sent us this remix for the soundtrack album of The Phantom Of The Opera as an illustration of what he called 'a more aesthetically blended visualization'. Whatever floats your boat Timothy!

When we said that yesterday's remix of the Gym Class Heroes song Clothes Off had cover art that was gagging for a remix, we hadn't spotted the song Bikini Girls With Machine Guns by The Cramps. This song goes on the 'needs a remix' list too. That said, the original cover does very well on the AllBum.Art score card in that it pictures a member of the band, who is a girl, and is holding a machine gun. There are only two faults. One is the lack of a bikini and the other is that the title says 'girls' and not girl. The remix solves this latter problem but wouldn't you know it, still no bikini. Nothing is perfect!

Girls is a topic we are very fond of here at AllBum.Art so when we found this single by Moments And Whatnauts, there was no question that it should be remixed, especially as the original cover has no girls on it. In fact it has no picture on it at all, just the name of the band and the title of the song. On the remix are three girls who are standing by a derelict building wearing nothing but their shoes (though one wonders whether they might be carrying her clothes in her handbag). Do you care that the building is derelict, or just that the remix has girls on it? Meh!

If ever there was a song whose title screamed for a remix of the cover it is Clothes Off!!! by Gym Class Heroes. The original cover shows the band eating popcorn (and in one case eating the box that the popcorn is in). What this has to do with the song's title is not explained. What is explained in the remixed cover is what a gym class where clothes are off looks exactly like, which is to say loads of naked babes undertaking physical activity. Why? Does there have to be a reason?

An entry from the semi-eponymous Josh Macintosh of Scotland. Messing About On The River apparently tells the tale of heady summer days spent down by the banks of a river. The original cover of the Josh Macrae single shows a tranquil scene of 'punting' (apparently) but Josh reckons that the reality of the situation is better reflected in his remixed cover which shows some summertime babes messing about by a river. Couldn't agree with you more there Josh (or Josh)!

Another submission from an apparently disgruntled Duran Duran fan (who wishes to remain anonymous) who was disgusted by the week of remixed covers that appeared previously on AllBum.Art. This one is, apparently, much classier. The original cover of Perfect Day shows an ice-cream sundae. The remix shows a topless babe swimming in the sea off a tropical island. Classier, maybe? Splishy, definitely.

What do we learn from the original cover of Cool by Gwen Stefani? Very little. The picture of Ms Stefani is taken from the video for the song. And the title of the song is Cool. And it is in stereo with some kind of fidelity, whatever that means in an age of digitally delivered audio clarity. The remixed cover tells a different story. Whilst the fidelity may still be there, it may not last if the girl shown, who is unquestionably very cool, is to be helped out by some warm blooded male. Melting!

You may have noticed a theme over the past few days here at AllBum.Art - the theme being 'songs with the word Feel in the title'. Today's remix comes from The Jacksons and is the 1970s classic Can You Feel It. On the original cover we see The Jacksons but they look bored, and what it is they are feeling (even if it's the music) is not that obvious. On the remix we see a babe with another babe resting her high heeled, stocking clad leg on her bare chest. The obvious question of 'can you feel it' seems to need no explanation here. Sharp!

Following yesterday's track entitled 'Feel So Real', today's remix comes from rapper Mase (or should that be Ma$e) and is called Feel So Good. The theme of the remix is similar but in this case instead of feeling real but being false, it appears that what is being felt is probably real, and is also good - if you define good as bouncy which some do and some don't. Hopefully Ma$e would. And would enjoy feeling to check the level of goodness. Would you?

Hmm... Now what is it that Steve Arrington could be singing about in his song Feel So Real? It cannot possibly be something that is actually real, because if it was, there would not be a need to declare that it feels real. By deduction, therefore, it must be something (or somethings) that is (are) unreal, or in other words false. And nothing is so false than the boobs displayed on the babe shown in the remix. She appears to be feeling them herself and whilst they may feel real, they almost certainly aren't. We hope that has cleared it up for you.