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« on: December 23, 2012, 09:56:25 PM » |
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OK, I've been a fan since 1991, and Friends has been my favorite album probably since 1992.
I was showing my roommates the album cover on my laptop and standing above it, looking down at it (it was upside down from my vantage point).
Instantly I saw something I had NEVER seen before (but probably most of you have).
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« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2012, 10:57:17 PM » |
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OK. I'm going to go look now.
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« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2012, 11:00:07 PM » |
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I was trying to post an upside down picture to make it easy, but kept getting an error message.
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« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2012, 11:51:14 PM » |
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There's another painting of the five of them if you turn the cover upside down.
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« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2012, 11:53:17 PM » |
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Is that what you were refering too, the 'reflection'-type painting beneath them? I was hoping for some kind of grand revelation here...
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« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2012, 12:22:55 AM » |
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I actually never noticed that, cool.
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« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2012, 12:34:25 AM » |
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If you "think outside the box", you can kind of make out what looks like John Lennon. Or some Beatle.
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« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2012, 01:42:35 AM » |
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The face left of the painting has always looked like Macca to me
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« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2012, 02:26:24 AM » |
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It took me long years before I even thought of holding the 'Holland' sleeve upside down...  |
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« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2012, 09:41:32 AM » |
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Me too Don!
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« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2012, 10:00:08 AM » |
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Paul is dead?
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« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2012, 10:08:43 AM » |
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It took me long years before I even thought of holding the 'Holland' sleeve upside down... Me too! But not as long as it took for me to look at Friends upside down! And yes, no grand revelation for most here...it was the faces that I hadn't noticed before. |
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« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2012, 10:32:33 AM » |
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I saw that reflection the first time I looked at the FRIENDS cover years ago, but found it a bit odd that only five faces are there, when there are six in the clouds, and of course we see six Beach Boys in the center. And then we've got what appears to be 1/2 of the Beatles as trees! Obviously Paul on the left, and I'm guessing George(?) on the right.
What a very cool cover! The photo on the back is great too!
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« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2012, 10:36:49 AM » |
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Paul is dead?
The clouds form into the shape of a phone number, and if you call it, you find out that Bruce does not exist. |
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« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2012, 10:36:54 AM » |
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It took me long years before I even thought of holding the 'Holland' sleeve upside down... Took me about five years to realise the damn thing was printed upside down !  Oddly, the Australian version has the cover photo the correct way up. Very few people are aware of this... ... mainly because it's a complete lie !  |
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« Reply #15 on: December 24, 2012, 10:38:24 AM » |
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[brain fart]
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« Reply #16 on: December 24, 2012, 10:47:25 AM » |
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It took me long years before I even thought of holding the 'Holland' sleeve upside down... Took me about five years to realise the damn thing was printed upside down ! Oddly, the Australian version has the cover photo the correct way up. Very few people are aware of this... ... mainly because it's a complete lie ! Ahh, But the second issue fo the USA cassette does have it right side up! |
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« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2012, 01:38:21 PM » |
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It took me long years before I even thought of holding the 'Holland' sleeve upside down... Took me about five years to realise the damn thing was printed upside down ! Oddly, the Australian version has the cover photo the correct way up. Very few people are aware of this... ... mainly because it's a complete lie ! Memo to myself: Always read AGD's posts in full before racing off at speed to record collection... |
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« Reply #18 on: December 24, 2012, 01:57:26 PM » |
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Despite owning the albums for years, I only just noticed that the Australian World Record Club editions of Friends substituted Diamond Head with Good Vibrations  |
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« Reply #19 on: December 24, 2012, 02:12:53 PM » |
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[brain fart]
What about a Brian fart? |
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« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2012, 02:27:51 PM » |
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I saw that reflection the first time I looked at the FRIENDS cover years ago, but found it a bit odd that only five faces are there, when there are six in the clouds, and of course we see six Beach Boys in the center. And then we've got what appears to be 1/2 of the Beatles as trees! Obviously Paul on the left, and I'm guessing George(?) on the right.
What a very cool cover! The photo on the back is great too!
Not only that, the Paul to the left of Bruce seems to be in his early young rocker phase..   |
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« Reply #21 on: December 24, 2012, 04:46:38 PM » |
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Thanks for posting the Holland Cassette insert. Very interesting! The picture itself is pretty mundane when it's right side up and doesn't have the title on it. Also, the track order is very interesting.
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« Reply #22 on: December 24, 2012, 06:09:14 PM » |
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I'd love to know who all the faces in the clouds and trees are supposed to be.
Looks like Al and definitely Carl in the clouds to the right. What about the face with sunglasses... Spector?
I think the tree on the right is actually Bruce (for some reason) and the tree on the left certainly looks like Paul.
who did the cover art anyway? I'm away from my collection.
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« Reply #23 on: December 24, 2012, 06:30:25 PM » |
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 speaking of album covers, who's who on the Endless Summer cover? my guess is (left to right) Dennis, Carl, Brian, Mike, Al. but Mike doesn't really look anything like Mike and Carl doesn't really look anything like Carl. also, what a creepy cover. I can't believe this is one of the best-selling Beach Boys albums of all time. You'd think a lot of people would've been turned off by this cover. |
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« Reply #24 on: December 24, 2012, 06:47:47 PM » |
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I was definitely turned off by the Endless Summer cover when I heard it at age 8 or 9. Maybe even a little frightened. Those bearded faces did not match the voices on the songs.
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