Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Do talk back
User avatar
Thesiger
Posts: 20156
Joined: 08 Aug 2003, 17:12
Location: Old Meadow

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Thesiger » 23 Jun 2012, 06:32

Dylan's Planet Waves CD Release

Richard Manual (sic) on piano (bottom of right column).

Image
BCB Cup - R.U. 2010: W 2012

User avatar
Owllady
Posts: 90
Joined: 01 Jun 2012, 02:09
Location: USA

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Owllady » 23 Jun 2012, 17:13

bobzilla77 wrote:Not an album cover but...

There is a memorial plaque for John Entwistle in the halls of the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas that reads "1950-2001" at the bottom of it.

1. Entwistle was born in 1944
2. He died in 2002
3. His 2002 death occurred IN THAT HOTEL.

One Who fan that wrote to them about it received a response that said someone had already alerted them and "it is great to know so many people are paying attention." :cry:

this IS disgraceful!! Those dates were very easily checked. Is this a case of rushing to get something up that they thought would add some fame to their hotel?

User avatar
Thesiger
Posts: 20156
Joined: 08 Aug 2003, 17:12
Location: Old Meadow

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Thesiger » 08 Aug 2012, 13:50

I've just bought the 2003 Demon reissue of Loudon Wainwright's More Love Songs.
The track Expatriate is misspelt as Expatriot four times on the cover/booklet and again on the label.

Image
BCB Cup - R.U. 2010: W 2012

User avatar
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Postman
Posts: 17966
Joined: 17 Oct 2010, 14:10
Location: Unrecognized Genius, Me.

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Your Friendly Neighbourhood Postman » 08 Aug 2012, 14:07

Charlie O. wrote:
Guy E wrote:Image

Usually when I take a subway train in a southerly direction through Manhattan I'm heading DOWNTOWN. :roll:

:lol: I can't believe I never caught that!


Is this a matter of the artist having been so concentrated that he lost track of the proper lettering itself (the sequencing etc.)? It happens in tattooing, in street lettering... IIRC there are some funny results on Google to be found. It happened to this person on a few occasions (in drawing gift paper for surprises for birthdays, and so on). At one point you've come too far to start again qua sheer effort, or a new attempt is too costly or simply not possible for time reasons, paint has dried, whatever... and you hope no one notices.
On the whole, I'd rather be in Wallenpaupack.

User avatar
atomic loonybin
ready for the house
Posts: 15326
Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 20:09

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby atomic loonybin » 08 Aug 2012, 14:58

This one drove me mad when I was a kid - it was one of the posters that you got with Dark Side of the Moon.

Image

The photos are reversed, making Gilmour and Waters left handed.

User avatar
Neige
Alpine Numpty
Posts: 18116
Joined: 17 Jul 2003, 11:11
Location: On 2 oz of plastic with a hole in the middle (of nowhere)

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Neige » 08 Aug 2012, 15:28

Thesiger wrote:I've just bought the 2003 Demon reissue of Loudon Wainwright's More Love Songs.
The track Expatriate is misspelt as Expatriot four times on the cover/booklet and again on the label.

Image


Truth be told, the song was never called "Expatriate", so maybe it's deliberate.
Thumpety-thump beats plinkety-plonk every time. - Rayge

User avatar
Phenomenal Cat
death on four legs
Posts: 10464
Joined: 07 Sep 2004, 16:52
Location: Presently Shattering the Illusion of Integrity
Contact:

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Phenomenal Cat » 08 Aug 2012, 15:46

"Phenominal Cat"
kath wrote:i will make it my mission to nail you.


But somehow when you smile, I can brave bad weather.

User avatar
Charlie O.
Posts: 44848
Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 19:53
Location: In-A-Badda-La-Wadda, bay-beh

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Charlie O. » 12 May 2013, 21:43

Image
Image

User avatar
harvey k-tel
Long Player
Posts: 40893
Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 23:20
Location: 1220 on your AM dial

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby harvey k-tel » 12 May 2013, 22:53

:lol:
Tempora mutatur et nos mutamur in illis

User avatar
Muskrat
World's Foremost Authority
Posts: 21397
Joined: 17 Jul 2003, 01:05
Location: Next to the park; across the street from the college; and the freeway at my back
Contact:

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Muskrat » 13 May 2013, 01:07

Remember (Quaco) wrote:Things that are just typos should be fixed, but something that is so wrong yet such a part of the art of the album... I don't know if there are any other such examples, but I'd love to come up with some.


"Creedence Clearwater Revival"
Things that a fella can't forget...

Lord Rother wrote: I’m with Googs.

User avatar
C
Robust
Posts: 78995
Joined: 22 Jul 2003, 19:06

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby C » 15 May 2013, 09:57

The two most recent National Health remasters both have the eponymous debut title on the spines!!





.
Lord Rother wrote:And there was me thinking you'd say "Fair enough, you have a point Bob".

User avatar
ConnyOlivetti
Probing The Sonic Heritage
Posts: 10587
Joined: 06 Nov 2003, 07:14
Location: Below The North Pole
Contact:

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby ConnyOlivetti » 15 May 2013, 18:23

C wrote:The two most recent National Health remasters both have the eponymous debut title on the spines!!





.


the Esoteric ones?
Charlie O. wrote:I think Coan and Googa are right.


Un enfant dans electronica!
Je suis!

User avatar
Charlie O.
Posts: 44848
Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 19:53
Location: In-A-Badda-La-Wadda, bay-beh

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Charlie O. » 13 Jul 2013, 20:42

Don't know if this counts as a "typo," but the booklet for the Repertoire Records double-CD reissue of Odessey And Oracle compounds the original mistake by lopping off the final "E" of the title... not to mention the first two letters of "Colin"!

Image
Image

User avatar
Short Goalie
Posts: 499
Joined: 08 Nov 2006, 11:12
Location: Ooh I dunno... you choose...somewhere nice.

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Short Goalie » 14 Jul 2013, 22:26

"Are graphic designers just chronically bad spellers?"

Enough already...

Graphic designers are... designers, they're not copywriters. They don't do 'words', they put all the elements together, they don't write the text, that's the writer, y'know... the person who 'DOES THE WORDS'.

The word 'typo' is the disingenuous. It's not a typographical error, it's not the wrong typeface, it's not Italic when it should be Roman, it's a LITERAL error. It's spelt wrongly... that's not the fault of the 'designer, it's the person who wrote it.
No!

User avatar
bobzilla77
Posts: 16280
Joined: 23 Jun 2006, 02:56
Location: Dilute! Dilute! OK!

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby bobzilla77 » 16 Jul 2013, 21:29

Charlie O. wrote:Don't know if this counts as a "typo," but the booklet for the Repertoire Records double-CD reissue of Odessey And Oracle compounds the original mistake by lopping off the final "E" of the title... not to mention the first two letters of "Colin"!

Image



Someone told the designer "there's an extra E in the title" and he didn't think to check which one was the "extra".
Jimbo wrote:I guess I am over Graham Nash's politics. Hopelessly naive by the standards I've molded for myself these days.

User avatar
Charlie O.
Posts: 44848
Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 19:53
Location: In-A-Badda-La-Wadda, bay-beh

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Charlie O. » 16 Jul 2013, 22:26

:lol:
Image

User avatar
Quaco
F R double E
Posts: 47382
Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 19:41

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Quaco » 16 Jul 2013, 22:37

:) Also, the colors have been changed. The flower under the "d" is orange instead of green.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

User avatar
Charlie O.
Posts: 44848
Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 19:53
Location: In-A-Badda-La-Wadda, bay-beh

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Charlie O. » 16 Jul 2013, 22:45

That's an anomaly of the jpeg - the actual booklet looks truer to the original.
Image

User avatar
pcqgod
Posts: 19948
Joined: 11 Apr 2010, 07:23
Location: Ohio

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby pcqgod » 06 Oct 2013, 02:54

Image


Saw this one posted today on Facebook. I think they said it was a Turkish pressing of this album.


Image
Where would rock 'n' roll be without feedback?

User avatar
Charlie O.
Posts: 44848
Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 19:53
Location: In-A-Badda-La-Wadda, bay-beh

Re: Egregious typos and mistakes on album covers

Postby Charlie O. » 06 Oct 2013, 05:28

:D
Image


Return to “Yakety Yak”