Vomilicious lyrics booklets!

Well I seemed to have skipped a week in doing my post. Well I've got a few good excuses. A bunch of new toys! An MP3 player for my parents, a new guitar AND a new laptop which I am busy using right now (got Ubuntu Studio Linux on it, just got the screen resolution working, wireless with wpa aint >:[. Anyways enough faffing, while my shiny new laptop looks good the same cannot be said for some album lyric booklets I have seen. Well lets look at Whoracle by In Flames. While it's album cover looks quite good



One thing to note though, the (literally) faceless woman always cracks me up because it reminds me of Spitting Image ( remmember the bloke who had a question mark for a face instead of a nose and eyes? I've tried hunting for a picture of him on the net but I'll be buggered if I can find him. If anyone has/can get a picture please contact me and I'll update the post with it.) While the front cover looks kinda cool it's a different story for the lyrics booklet, just look at it!



EEEWWW... makes me vomit. Some freaky looking green marbled background and a horrible font for the text. It's seriously nasty, just take a closer look at some excerpt in it.



DOUBLE YEW TEE EFF DOES THAT SAY? inverting the fjord, imade the ny Lylinets? I really don't understand it what so ever. It just makes no sense, what a torturous font! Did nobody proof read it to check it was.... errr well, legible? It's just like that all the way through the booklet.

Well lets look at an example which does it right, something a little more pleasing and quirky. Darkane make some absolutely mad metal and it seems to be translated into the booklet design in Expanding Senses.



Already completely mad, JUST LOOK AT IT! Blokes in concrete! You think that's mad just look at the band pictures.



Looking mad in their white garb already, but wait there's an even more looney and amusing band picture inside with each separate member and they (somehow) manage to look even more fruity looped than on the back of the lyric booklet.



Good grief the're off their rocker. Looks like they should be in the asylum rather than keeping it. Would you let your mad friends and relatives be looked after by this lot? Just imaging the first day you leave your relatives there.

Yes... we WILL take good care of your relatives and no... we aren't patients like most people ask. People assume we are patients just because we are Darkane
OH BALLS... OK we're more mad than any of the patients so sue me!

Hope they keep making those records, the last one Layers of lies is also plain mad and Insanity is perfectly appropriately named. Oh yeah those two mad geezers on the left and right hand sides each have their own websites.

http://www.ChristoferMalmstrom.se/.

Don't be fooled by it's 1990's look it's full of good stuff including Darkane guitar tabs tabbed by Christofer Malmström himself and he's giving them away for FREE! ( my god what's this? Artists giving away tabs for free instead of shutting down websites like METALTABS.COM ? If that doesn't get him interned in the asylum then nothing will.
So Mr Malmström, what brings you here?
I errr.... created guitar tabs for songs from my band and.... gave them away for free.
WHAT! OMFG You ARE sick! QUICK, bring the straight jacket and prepare the padded cell! An artist giving away his own tabs away for free, what has the world come to?).

http://www.PeterWildoer.com/

This site has a few videos oh him performing some mad stuff. For example a bit of Darkane madness here.



And some more Avant Garde madness ( Avant Garde? what a weird term. Before being on on guard? Before standing to attention? Before watching? I dunno.. ) here with Peter Wildoer and Christofer Malmström performing some obscure mix of Jazz, Classical and subtle hints of ... errr ... Thrash/Death Metal



Hmm that's point. I've noticed that the band is actually on the front cover. Yep you've read that right, Darkane is on the front cover of Expanding Senses. The only album in Darkane's collection to feature the band themselves. Just look at this zoom up image below.





Talking of madness few are as mad as Devin Townsend and one of his many bands Strapping Young Lad. You though Whoracle's lyrics were unintelligible! Wait till you get a load of Strapping young lad's City album.



While Whoracle had a torturously nasty font that was unreadable City's font is just plain far too small! Just look at the first page!



See those white specs? Those are the words! It isn't dust! Here's a section zoomed up.



Can you read that? To me it's just blobs. This is as good as I can get it, any more and you just see the colour divering into little spots.

It certainly doesn't make a good impression when people cannot even read your lyrics book. Just make life easy and double check the average person can read the lyrics and doesn't throw up at the site of the inside.