Dont care for the pic, however. but i'm still getting it!

It still looks like it has been photoshopped...

the one of Moz leaning against a street lamppost, I believe. Much better than this one.

Not a fan of that font for Morrissey. Just doesn't fit to me.

Still prefer the original cover for Bona Drag.
Got a feeling Moz had his finger in the pie on this one. He did awesome Smiths covers but i aint sure about his solo ones. Should have left it to a designer.

Looks like a 14 year old, wanna be MOZ KREW kid did it. O_o

-Ready With Ready-Wit

I think it would have been better to leave the blue sky natural to avoid the Photoshopped look... but maybe this was done to distinguish from the original sleeve. The overall neutral tones look cool. I love, *love* the black shirt... I always wondered why it was colored red in the original release... even as a kid I wanted it to be black on the cover.

Typeface: initially, I hated it. It might grow on me. It does seem like a less stylized typeface would have been more tasteful.

EMI, please don't use that horrible font!!! The whole thing looks subpar.

Ooh. He's all gangster and shit. Damn, for real though. Like, I could picture that writing (or "font" WHATEVER, fools!) on my uncle Rondo's arm, like right over the crying clown. That's the shit. I would kill for this fool.

really is so poor and not is more atractive than the first version of art

Beautiful!

The gayest shirt from the gayest video ever made. Absolutely horrid - unless you like really, really gay things. Can't believe I was still in doubt about him at that point.

Can't help but wonder how his 'November' moves might have impressed the So You Think You Can Dance judges.

What an awful font!

Fake

Love the pic, love the video it is taken from - a gloriously camp performance that is the highlight of the Hulmerist compilation. Am I the only one though that thinks the font clashes terribly with that blouse...they do say that black goes with anything but that font is just too butch!

I dig the cholo writing. :-)

I'm totally excited for this reissue, the Sunday singles (beeeauuutiful cover for that and chills in anticipation of the 91' Pacific Amphitheatre show's track) and possibly Viva Hate on the way.

My 2 pence on the Bona remaster/anniversary cover... comparing with my cassette of the original release, it is a treat to see more of Moz, very much 'on top' of his game ;). Might just need some sort of light framing to balance out the negative space with the boldness of so much more of his image here (now bolder with the black mesh top). The photo seems to have never been totally sharp, maybe due to it being a grab of the image from the video footage. That's alright, though.

Re. the titling, Gothic font is alright, maybe the kerning is a bit squished and crowded. Or maybe it just needs milder serifs or not all be bolded. Maybe the "M" would stand out if it was just a little bigger than the rest of Moz's name, given all the spacing was also adjusted. Imho, "Bona Drag" should be in a different but complementary font (maybe even without serifs but the original font was very nice as well), just so the two lines don't flatten each other out.

Well that's just all mho. If it's all already printed, I'll still be excited to buy it for the remastering and new tracks.

Cheers,

i'm not happy with lettertype

40-45

nuff said

The figure she cuts in a chiffon négligée!

What's going on there, his chest looks Photoshopped out. Whole sleeve looks very cheap and amateurish. You can even spot traces of the previous background blue in his hair. Ugh.

and the font doesn't fit the visual style. Tasteless.

this looks absolutely terrible

Rapepackage Rapepackage

Just awful. I was never a fan of the cover art for the original but could live with it, but this just hurts my eyes. His chest is so white it looks like a t-shirt, the blue is still in his hair from the sky being photoshopped out, and it just doesn't even look like him. I never thought it did. The parted lips, the angle, it's so homo-erotic that it's just pure silliness and the poor quality just brings it out more. I'm sorry, there is just no artistic eye in any of it. And the font?! I mean, at least have some scrawling and messy font to detract the eyes in a humane way. There are SO many pics to choose from during this time period. I would have liked to see the single artwork from the Everyday Is Like Sunday single. Really, anything else at all would be better.

I can made a better front cover.

and I Will.

We'll buy the new version of Drag won't we cos we're that daft regardless of what's happening on the cover.
Reckon the original Southpaw was the worst one for me...ever. Went by it about three times before i spotted it on the shelf. just did'nt associate it with Moz at all.

How come no one is talking about the music?
Oh that's right...
The picture,the fonts,the sleeves,the blah blah blah...
Shit people,41 posts /as of right now/ and not 1 about the music!
Why?
No need to actually respond,so you know?

Doesn't Moz have the internet? The only way these songs are unheard is by the deaf or those of us who have been living on the moon. 2 of my fave sleeves of all time have now been redesigned to look worse. Are you done now Mozzer or will you be ruining all of them?

I'm a fan. UK issue only or U.S. too?

It's Preston!

He hasn't cared about his artwork in years, it seems. Everyone can't be so blind.

It's quite strange that next month there will be a remastered Bona Drag and no good version of The Queen Is Dead.