Celebrating my least favorite kid #TheTippingPoint (ok lemme rephrase that) 2004 was a really tough year. But I can’t be all “celebrate Buck Moon/turn new leaf” & then stick to old narratives of “failure” & “meh”——so there ALOT of lessons to learn.
Most of our records have alt covers. For 2004s TTP we had 15 covers to choose once we got a rejection from the Ali estate to use his photo (also prevented of using the Malcolm X photo on the explicit version of the lp) designed by our longtime designer since #ThingsFallApart @gravillisinc ——I remember we wanted a disjointed cover where @TheRoots (or the title) was cut off.
(@geffenrecords was NOT with it)—-I gotta find the remaining covers but yeah—-happy 18th! 7/13/04 The Tipping Point.
4. "Yep exactly." In response to Reply # 3 Thu Jul-14-22 03:41 PM by Brew
>These definitely reference the TFA covers. But I also like >that the band went with a different aesthetic. > >I think the TFA covers are so unique and iconic (to me) that >going back to that well would take away their impact.
For better and worse, Tipping Point (and every album, Roots or otherwise) needs/needed to have its own aesthetic to stand on its own. And you nailed it, the impact of the TFA cover would be, however slightly, diminished by copycatting it for what most of us view as the far lesser album. (Though I'm in the camp that really likes TTP, while simultaneously recognizing and acknowledging its obvious and well-documented flaws).
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