Years of Refusal typography

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leastlikelyto

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Doesn't the typograhy on Years of Refusal remind alot of this old one:

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... besides Morrissey confirms it very much by letting mr Tobias display it well in the Paris inner sleeve. This is off course nothing new, since it quite obvious that Moz likes to copy/reuse album artworks. E.g the new southpaw grammar.

Read more about Herb Alpert here.
 
i have those Herb Alpert records in my basement...no record player, but i got the records :)

i've noticed the sleeves have been listing Boz and Jesse as "guitarists" Solomon and "bassist" and Moz as Vocalist...then Matt as "drummer." why not "percussionist?"
 
isn't this one of the albums Moz's band are holding on the pictures from the Paris single?
 
when it comes to his name, do the British pronounce it Herb and the Americans pronounce it Erb?
 
Flax said:
when it comes to his name, do the British pronounce it Herb and the Americans pronounce it Erb?
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Herb. Definitely.

I cannot listen to Herb Alpert without thinking of cheesy 70's German Porn. But that's just me.

Bullfighting, eh?



Redeemed somewhat by a bit of Bacharach...



Petr
 
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I think that the latter is a really great and beautiful song.

In the days before CDs when I was still in my 20s I was often ridiculed by friends for having a Burt Bacharach collection cassette - "sitting at home with your pipe + slippers again tonight, with your Val Doonican sweater on" kind of thing.

Sorry, the trail's moved away from the original question, but Bacharach was a fantastic song-writer/tune-smith. He did an album years ago with another of my old faves, Elvis Costello - that was excellent too.

BTW Pete - just spotted you on the front row at the Radio 2 gig on the Beeb website. Excellent viewing position - looks like you were practically on-stage.
 
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Wild Oscar said:
I think that the latter is a really great and beautiful song.

In the days before CDs when I was still in my 20s I was often ridiculed by friends for having a Burt Bacharach collection cassette - "sitting at home with your pipe + slippers again tonight, with your Val Doonican sweater on" kind of thing.

Sorry, the trail's moved away from the original question, but Bacharach was a fantastic song-writer/tune-smith. He did an album years ago with another of my old faves, Elvis Costello - that was excellent too.

BTW Pete - just spotted you on the front row at the Radio 2 gig on the Beeb website. Excellent viewing position - looks like you were practically on-stage.
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You and I are alike. Many years when I did more travelling than I do now, I drove around with a Bacharach compilation in the car. I stayed in a hotel in Crieff, Scotland, and the music in the restaurant was appalling musak. So I went out to the car, got the Bacharach tape, and gave it to the landlord and said "Here, if you put this on, I'll buy the most expensive bottle of wine you have". So he did. And I got nicely squiffy while listening to Dionne Warwick, Bobby Gentry, Herb Alpert, Walker Bros and so on. And when I got my bill the next day, the wine wasn't on it. I asked why, and the Landlord said that he'd enjoyed the music too much.:)

As for the BBC - yes, a night like no other. Fantabulous.

Fancy a pint, then?

Peter
 
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Uncleskinny said:
You and I are alike. Many years when I did more travelling than I do now, I drove around with a Bacharach compilation in the car. I stayed in a hotel in Crieff, Scotland, and the music in the restaurant was appalling musak. So I went out to the car, got the Bacharach tape, and gave it to the landlord and said "Here, if you put this on, I'll buy the most expensive bottle of wine you have". So he did. And I got nicely squiffy while listening to Dionne Warwick, Bobby Gentry, Herb Alpert, Walker Bros and so on. And when I got my bill the next day, the wine wasn't on it. I asked why, and the Landlord said that he'd enjoyed the music too much.:)

As for the BBC - yes, a night like no other. Fantabulous.

Fancy a pint, then?

Peter
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Yes, deffo - I'll call your mobile soon.
 
That album cover, particularly its style of typography, has inspired a lot of other covers and parodies over the years. There is a web page about it, but I can't find it.
 
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