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Post by Sloan on Jul 10, 2015 7:01:49 GMT -5
I was wondering, out of all the albums Linda has recorded/released, which one is you favorite album cover and which one is your least favorite album cover? My favorite is:  ![]() Least favorite: ![]() Just curious. |
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Post by Sloan on Jul 10, 2015 7:06:19 GMT -5
Oops, sorry Favorite:  Least favorite:  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 8:02:16 GMT -5
Favorite: Heart Like a Wheel; minimalist beauty...
Least Favorite; We Ran; depressing for some reason, maybe it reminds me of mid winter...
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Post by ronstadtcovers on Jul 10, 2015 8:48:59 GMT -5
My fave is Get Closer. Vibrant, striking, modern. As a vinyl LP it was great how the photo continued on the back with her legs.
Runner up for fave: The hat box coolness of Lush Life which involved you removing the lid and she's sitting in there. But this only worked with the vinyl LP version.
My least fave is the blah cover for a wonderful album Adieu False Heart. The Japanese version is different with Linda and Ann on the cover and that one's much, much better.
Runner up for least fave: The Different Drum compilation LP with a cover has s muddy creepy illustration of 2 Linda's on the front. WTF? This is also the case with the icky cover for a another compilation called Stoney End
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jul 10, 2015 10:22:30 GMT -5
Are we sticking with official studio releases? I would suggest those and only quote official compilations done by her label or authorized by her. My favorite would be Hasten Down the Wind. My least favorite too would be AFH. There should have been some more contrast in the coloring as it is even kind of hard to read all of the words on the cover. The photo of the 2 for the cover as in the Japanese version was very nice. They both look quite happy. Always thought it cool that they used a scrapbook motif for the ghits albums. I love the Lush Life concept. Way cool. Just not my fav as Linda is not technically on the cover. eddiejinnj
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Post by Mr. Kaplansky on Jul 10, 2015 11:12:33 GMT -5
This is one of my very favorite pictures of Linda, and Should have been an album cover: ![]() My favorite album cover(s) are: #1 What's New I also like: Canciones De Mi Padre Silk Purse Don't Cry Now Get Closer Adeiu False Heart Lush Life Feels Like Home Winter Light Mas Canciones I also like the original album cover for the aborted album: Keeping Out Of Mischief. ---------------------------------- Least favorites: #1 (5 way tie) Heart Like A Wheel, Prisoner In Disguise, Living In The USA, Mad Love, We Ran I also don't like: Hand Sewn, Home Grown Linda Ronstadt Hasten Down The Wind For Sentimental Reasons Frenesi Dedicated To The One I Love Hummin To Myself |
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Post by Mr. Kaplansky on Jul 10, 2015 11:16:43 GMT -5
I couldn't get the picture to post even though it showed up before I pressed create post (one of my favorite pics that should have been an album cover. Here is a link to see it. I've never seen a link this long! www.google.com/search?q=linda+Ronstadt,+san+francisco+magazine&espv=2&biw=911&bih=429&tbm=isch&imgil=HnIaKk6586u4SM%253A%253B1fPE7En3a6IySM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.ronstadt-linda.com%25252Fbooks.htm&source=iu&pf=m&fir=HnIaKk6586u4SM%253A%252C1fPE7En3a6IySM%252C_&usg=__K5K6mskaHYNnB7KJAIsHpKUeh_Q%3D&ved=0CCsQyjc&ei=e--fVdzgMceMNrmTgogK#imgrc=HnIaKk6586u4SM%3A&usg=__K5K6mskaHYNnB7KJAIsHpKUeh_Q%3D |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 12:02:19 GMT -5
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Post by JasonKlose on Jul 10, 2015 19:05:01 GMT -5
My favorite album cover: Hasten Down the Wind (1976)  I think a lot of men would pick this one for obvious reasons.  Such a beautiful woman and beautiful scenery! But there are so many others that I like, it was hard to choose. Least favorite: This was even harder to choose. Any album cover with Linda's face on it is beautiful to me. So I would pick one that doesn't have Linda on it......LOL. Adieu False Heart (2006)  |
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Post by sliderocker on Jul 10, 2015 19:07:04 GMT -5
My favorite is: Hand Sown, Home Grown (Linda is sexy and yummy in that front album cover photo)
Least favorites: (tie) Heart Like A Wheel; Cry Like The Wind, Howl Like The Wind; Winter Light; Frenesi
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jul 10, 2015 19:50:26 GMT -5
On Frenesi, she looks like a retro hottie. eddiejinnj
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Post by erik on Jul 10, 2015 21:24:25 GMT -5
My favorite (because this is where it started for me):  Least:  I consider the Trio II cover to be a very bogus attempt by Linda, Dolly, and Emmylou to be cute by having pictures of them as young children on the cover, instead of the three of them together as they were at the time of its release. And no, I will not change my mind on this; don't even pretend otherwise. |
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Post by Partridge on Jul 10, 2015 21:58:20 GMT -5
FAVORITE COVER: Heart Like a Wheel (and the album is a solid A)
LEAST FAVORITE COVER: Feels Like Home (but the album is a solid A)
LIKE THE COVER:
Hand Sown... Home Grown
Silk Purse
Linda Ronstadt
Don't Cry Now
Heart Like a Wheel
Hasten Down the Wind
Get Closer
Trio
Hummin' to Myself
Stone Poneys II
AMBIVALENT:
Prisoner in Disguise
Simple Dreams
Mad Love
What's New
Lush Life
For Sentimental Reasons
Canciones de mi Padre
Cry Like a Rainstorm Howl Like the Wind
Mas Canciones
Frenesi
Winter Light
Adieu False Heart
Trio II
Western Wall
Stone Poneys
DISLIKE THE COVER:
Living in the USA
Feels Like Home
Dedicated to the One I Love
We Ran
A Merry Little Christmas (dislike so much I used the back cover in my rotating collage of album covers on the homepage)
CRIMINAL OFFENSES:
Stone Poneys III
Different Drum
Stoney End
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Post by fabtastique on Jul 11, 2015 0:33:42 GMT -5
Tony ..... You are virtually the opposite of my choices!
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Post by fabtastique on Jul 11, 2015 0:37:20 GMT -5
Love :
Frenesi
Winter Light
CdmP
Trio
Mad Love
CLAR - the vinyl not the CD
Don't like :
Any of the early ones !
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Post by Pete on Jul 11, 2015 6:29:24 GMT -5
My favourite album covers are 'Simple Dreams,' 'We Ran' and 'Hummin' To Myself'.
'Dedicated To The One I Love' is my least favourite album cover.
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Post by Partridge on Jul 11, 2015 20:40:16 GMT -5
Tony ..... You are virtually the opposite of my choices! The ones I am ambivalent about are good. I just always wanted a great cover to go with a great album, and WE RAN and FEELS LIKE HOME just did not do the trick. I wish they could be re-released with amateur fan-created covers. |
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Post by linda on Jul 11, 2015 21:04:42 GMT -5
My favorite album cover: Hasten Down the Wind (1976) I think a lot of men would pick this one for obvious reasons. Such a beautiful woman and beautiful scenery! But there are so many others that I like, it was hard to choose. Least favorite: This was even harder to choose. Any album cover with Linda's face on it is beautiful to me. So I would pick one that doesn't have Linda on it......LOL. Adieu False Heart (2006) |
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Post by linda on Jul 11, 2015 21:05:41 GMT -5
My favorite album cover: Hasten Down the Wind (1976) I think a lot of men would pick this one for obvious reasons. Such a beautiful woman and beautiful scenery! But there are so many others that I like, it was hard to choose. Least favorite: This was even harder to choose. Any album cover with Linda's face on it is beautiful to me. So I would pick one that doesn't have Linda on it......LOL. Adieu False Heart (2006) |
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Post by linda on Jul 11, 2015 21:15:33 GMT -5
Okay gentleman . Let me ask you a question. Is my dear friend, Jason the only one to honestly say that Hasten Down the Wind is his favorite album cover? Did the other men not say it was their favorite because their wife was in the room  ?. Come on. |
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Post by sliderocker on Jul 11, 2015 21:55:14 GMT -5
On Frenesi, she looks like a retro hottie. eddiejinnj She does look like a retro hottie but I still never much cared for Linda's shorter hairstyles in the 80s. It didn't suit that beautiful face of her's. There was one photo, probably from the photo sessions for the Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind album where she just looks either very intense or extremely angry or maybe both. Even the image conveyed on the cover of CLARHLTW conveys a distinct look of boredom, disinterest and unhappiness, which is one reason I didn't like that particular cover. She just didn't look happy during that time, even though that album was a huge seller for her. |
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Post by sliderocker on Jul 11, 2015 22:04:59 GMT -5
Okay gentleman . Let me ask you a question. Is my dear friend, Jason the only one to honestly say that Hasten Down the Wind is his favorite album cover? Did the other men not say it was their favorite because their wife was in the room ?. Come on. As a single man, the front album cover for Hasten Down the Wind is a favorite photo of mine. But, I still prefer the front cover photo for Hand Sown, Home Grown. Linda just radiates her beauty in that photo. She looks like an angel and impossibly younger than what she actually was (22 going on 23 then). But, HDTW runs a very close second for favorite album cover photo. |
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Post by Belle on Jul 12, 2015 3:37:44 GMT -5
My Favorite: Greatest Hits Volume II - It's nice to see her full face, without bangs. She has bangs in most every other picture ever taken of her...  Least Favorite: Silk Purse. I never understood this...  |
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jul 12, 2015 7:46:16 GMT -5
Silk Purse is a great cover. It probably is her most symbolic choice for an album title. She may be trying to refute the old saying "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear". Kind of like saying "you can't polish a t**d". Sorry, hate the word enough that I can't spell it out. She is the beauty that comes shining through even in a pigsty. Quite dramatic huh? lol!!!! eddiejiinj
PS: I like the Christmas album cover as it is very bright and holiday-like but the pic inside of her is gorgeous so it should have been the cover
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Post by eddiejinnj on Jul 12, 2015 7:50:33 GMT -5
The GH Vol 2 cover from the Mad Love era is gorgeous. Stunning photo. For those that don't know, in the larger pic she is wearing denim and pearls. looks cool. also, while I am in an analytical mood, it reflects Linda to its viewers. She is as polished and beautiful as a person, singer etc but very down home and unassuming. eddiejinnj
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Post by PoP80 on Jul 12, 2015 8:29:47 GMT -5
The entire layout of the Simple Dreams album is beautifully done with the grainy quality and feminine motif. I especially like the photo of Linda sitting on the trunk on the inside cover.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2015 9:16:00 GMT -5
GH vol. 2 is gorgeous, the pearls and the hairstyle are quite elegant..
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Post by lizawithab on Jul 12, 2015 11:21:45 GMT -5
Favorite:
Canciones de Mi Padre and Trio
Least Favorite:
A Merry Little Christmas (I just can't!)
Does anyone else find her Greatest Hits album covers to be beautiful? I love both covers.. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2!!!
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Post by linda on Jul 12, 2015 13:23:12 GMT -5
My favorite album cover is Lush Life. I guess because I don't see things as a competition. I don't have a least favorite. I think they all hold their own as pieces of artwork.
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Post by sliderocker on Jul 12, 2015 16:02:08 GMT -5
Does anyone else find her Greatest Hits album covers to be beautiful? I love both covers.. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2!!! I wasn't crazy about the album covers except for the photos, which I thought could've been larger. Thought the background color on both were rather atrocious. And didn't they reissue and merge the two albums as a double album with a third cover whose background color was a hideous green? Still, in comparison to other great hits/best of/gold album reissues, they were better than others, save for that hideous green reissue. |
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Such a beautiful woman and beautiful scenery! 
?. Come on. 
