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For the record, I like Ridley Scott's cuts. I guess I'm specifically alluding to Blade Runner here, as another example. Second note: I'm noticing already other

For the record, I like Ridley Scott's cuts. I guess I'm specifically alluding to Blade Runner here, as another example. Second note: I'm noticing already other comments focusing on how much knowledge we have outside of Alien, almost like punk rock posturing. It's okay to like something that's popular and beautiful! Watch Alien! This is not an underground punk band guys, a great genius has just died. =)

negativity 12y ago
Speaking of punk rock, Mr. Giger can claim some significant cultural influence in that sphere too. Klaus Flouride, the bassist for the Dead Kennedys had mentioned in an interview from 2003 that personal differences between band members, regarding the "Work 219: Landscape XX (penis landscape)" painting, were the breaking point determining the band's breakup: ...the Frankenchrist thing was, say, a final straw as far as [Jello Biafra] going in a different direction than what we wanted to do. I felt that the poster itself was shock for the sake of shock value. We'd shocked people before, but we'd always tried to have a point behind it. I didn't see the point he was making. But we didn't quit after the lawsuit happened. We quit when he decided that that poster was gonna be in there one way or the other, and we could take a hike if we wanted to. So we said, "Well, why don't we call it 'Jello Biafra and Dead Kennedys?,'" since that's what it was becoming anyway at that point. [1] [1] http://www.markprindle.com/flouride-i.htm http://www.markprindle.com/flouride-i.htm And then... The poster was printed and inserted in the Frankenchrist album with an additional sticker on the outside shrinkwrap, warning buyers of the contents. The resulting trial for obscenity nearly drove the label into bankruptcy. [2] The artwork caused a furor with the newly formed Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). In December 1985 a teenage girl purchased the album at the Wherehouse Records store in Los Angeles County. The girl's mother wrote letters of complaint to the California Attorney General and to Los Angeles prosecutors. In 1986 members of the band, along with other parties involved in the distribution of Frankenchrist, were charged criminally with distribution of harmful matter to minors. [3] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_and_obscenity_trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_an... ...it provoked a legal offensive against the band beginning in April 1986. As well as having his flat torn apart by the police, Biafra was charged with "distributing harmful matter to minors," a charge which he repulsed on the basis of the First Amendment right to free speech and which was dismissed the following year. [4] [4] http://www.deadkennedys.com/history.html http://www.deadkennedys.com/history.html But there were lots of album covers, and not everybody who chose Giger's work stirred up quite the same shitstorm as the Dead Kennedys. Some of the other album covers Giger's artwork has graced, include the likes of Glenn Danzig, Debbie Harry, Carcass and Celtic Frost.

negativity 12y ago

Speaking of punk rock, Mr. Giger can claim some significant cultural influence in that sphere too. Klaus Flouride, the bassist for the Dead Kennedys had mentioned in an interview from 2003 that personal differences between band members, regarding the "Work 219: Landscape XX (penis landscape)" painting, were the breaking point determining the band's breakup: ...the Frankenchrist thing was, say, a final straw as far as [Jello Biafra] going in a different direction than what we wanted to do. I felt that the poster itself was shock for the sake of shock value. We'd shocked people before, but we'd always tried to have a point behind it. I didn't see the point he was making. But we didn't quit after the lawsuit happened. We quit when he decided that that poster was gonna be in there one way or the other, and we could take a hike if we wanted to. So we said, "Well, why don't we call it 'Jello Biafra and Dead Kennedys?,'" since that's what it was becoming anyway at that point. [1] [1] http://www.markprindle.com/flouride-i.htm http://www.markprindle.com/flouride-i.htm And then... The poster was printed and inserted in the Frankenchrist album with an additional sticker on the outside shrinkwrap, warning buyers of the contents. The resulting trial for obscenity nearly drove the label into bankruptcy. [2] The artwork caused a furor with the newly formed Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). In December 1985 a teenage girl purchased the album at the Wherehouse Records store in Los Angeles County. The girl's mother wrote letters of complaint to the California Attorney General and to Los Angeles prosecutors. In 1986 members of the band, along with other parties involved in the distribution of Frankenchrist, were charged criminally with distribution of harmful matter to minors. [3] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_and_obscenity_trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_an... ...it provoked a legal offensive against the band beginning in April 1986. As well as having his flat torn apart by the police, Biafra was charged with "distributing harmful matter to minors," a charge which he repulsed on the basis of the First Amendment right to free speech and which was dismissed the following year. [4] [4] http://www.deadkennedys.com/history.html http://www.deadkennedys.com/history.html But there were lots of album covers, and not everybody who chose Giger's work stirred up quite the same shitstorm as the Dead Kennedys. Some of the other album covers Giger's artwork has graced, include the likes of Glenn Danzig, Debbie Harry, Carcass and Celtic Frost.