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=== Music === |
=== Music === |
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* The [http://www.perrific.com/cds/covers/beck.jpg badass mechanical thing with the horned animal skull with glowing eyes and a fiery red background] on the cover of Beck's ''Mellow Gold'' looks awesome, but is a bit misleading considering most of the music is more folksy than the cover would imply... |
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20160214220857/http://www.perrific.com/cds/covers/beck.jpg badass mechanical thing with the horned animal skull with glowing eyes and a fiery red background] on the cover of Beck's ''Mellow Gold'' looks awesome, but is a bit misleading considering most of the music is more folksy than the cover would imply... |
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** On the other hand, some moments of the album are trippy (if not heavy) enough to fit the cover. listen to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lec_hUZ6dIM Sweet Sunshine] and see if you can't imagine that thing clanking around to the beat. |
** On the other hand, some moments of the album are trippy (if not heavy) enough to fit the cover. listen to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lec_hUZ6dIM Sweet Sunshine] and see if you can't imagine that thing clanking around to the beat. |
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* Gary Numan's backing band put out one largely forgotten [[The Band Minus the Face]] album entitled ''For Future Reference'' under the name Dramatis. While the initial release had [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__ZenZ_-dWB0/SNcx0Fm0ZRI/AAAAAAAABRw/g3G6-svdUnk/s200/fro.jpeg a cover just featuring a photograph of the band], in 2000 it would be re-released with a cover with [http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e241/e24162qwjlu.jpg one ambiguously shadowy face on it that might or might not be Gary Numan], and billed as an album called ''The Dramatis Project'' by Tubeway Army Featuring Gary Numan. In fact Numan only contributed guest vocals for one song, and no members of Tubeway Army, the band that initially brought Numan fame, were involved. |
* Gary Numan's backing band put out one largely forgotten [[The Band Minus the Face]] album entitled ''For Future Reference'' under the name Dramatis. While the initial release had [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__ZenZ_-dWB0/SNcx0Fm0ZRI/AAAAAAAABRw/g3G6-svdUnk/s200/fro.jpeg a cover just featuring a photograph of the band], in 2000 it would be re-released with a cover with [http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e241/e24162qwjlu.jpg one ambiguously shadowy face on it that might or might not be Gary Numan], and billed as an album called ''The Dramatis Project'' by Tubeway Army Featuring Gary Numan. In fact Numan only contributed guest vocals for one song, and no members of Tubeway Army, the band that initially brought Numan fame, were involved. |
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