Episode 5: Undercover

Yeah, that's a good point, and I think this one will.

You're feeding off me.

Maybe the glory days of album art are over.

Listening to music on a streaming app, it's easy to ignore a thumbnail.

But the Stones believe in maximum effort all the time.

It used to be a huge thing.

An album cover was a big thing.

Now it's, I think it's really that as like it used to be.

You know? Like, of, of course some people buy vinyl, which is great.

They do.

And we're obviously catering to that market 'cause the vinyl of it's very important to us.

But CDs sell more than vinyl, believe it or not, and so that's the physical part of it.

I mean, I think back to things like Sticky Fingers and even, um, Beggars Banquet, you know, like just the white cover, but inside you had all kinds of treasures like postcards and posters and stuff, you know?

But anyway, it still has to be done.

So you still want it to be good.

You're still in a tradition of trying to make it good and interesting, in some way shocking perhaps, in some way grabbing your attention.

You know, that's why I used that background color.

I did research on their previous album covers, and one cover that stuck out to me was called Some Girls, the album that came out in 1978, and I like the colors, um, palette of that album cover.

And so I used that as a reference, you know, to help me make the work.

For the most part, Quinn avoided leaning on the Stones' past to inspire this image.