Showing posts with label EFFRONTERY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EFFRONTERY. Show all posts

Monday, May 5, 2025

the other Bitches Brew

 Well this is some nerve of the Carpets if you ask me




















Completely missed this at the time - didn't even see the advert

The Egyptian artwork even seems to nod slightly to the artwork of the Miles album






















I mean, not quite, but the Mati Klarwein artwork is a bit Nubian, ancient-to-the-future, mythscience vibed. 















Plus Miles did an album titled Nefertiti and "Pharoah's Dance" is the opening track of Bitches Brew.

So what other examples are there of bands heisting iconic titles and dragging them through the mire of their own mediocrity? 

I suppose there's "Wonderwall" but the original is not all that in the first place... 




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