Placeholder Contributions Welcome! If you'd like to participate in the *ahem* rapidly growing field of LP-sleeve Analysis, just click here to email your post. The format of contributions is pretty much self-evident from the posts below. Tip: It pays to take your time and contemplate your chosen sleeve for a while - try and resist the urge to just 'burst into print' as it were - it's better to let it ferment (or should that be fester ;) for a while, then fine-tune your submission until it 'reads' just right!
We'll begin with a well-known sleeve that introduces the concept of subliminal messages rather nicely ... and by way of introduction I've included the 'rationale' for my interpretations in parentheses.
But typically, if an interpretation has to be 'explained' like this then it is almost certainly wrong ... but this sleeve lends itself rather well to such an approach, so it's a darned good one to start with!
Beatles - Let It Be
The Beatles are splitting up, isn't that sad boo-hoo ... (a black background, and separate photos)
... and it's all Paul's fault (the others are turned away from him)
... and we're splitting cos we've all become way too cerebral for this stupid pop music lark ... (hairy intellectual heads only, no body shots)
... so, get over it girls (in other words, Let It Be)
This blog takes a light-hearted look at album sleeves. Some sleeves reveal far more about an artist than their music ever does - and yet, they don't even realise - THEY DON'T EVEN REALISE! Other sleeves turn out to have unexpected, or even startling, messages embedded within their artwork.
But aside from some light relief, this blog illustrates that images often contain subliminal messages that even the creator is oblivious to, and that insights can arise through the application of intuition combined with lateral thinking.
So, next time you receive a birthday or Christmas card, try meditating upon the image for a while ... you may well discover that the message it conveys speaks far more about the sender's true perceptions of you than any amount of platitudes within!
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