Lost Covers, Vol. 2

HQCovers recently surpassed 100,000 views and I thought I’d take this opportunity to have a little resume and see where I’m from, where I’m at and where I’m going. The Past I started creating soundtrack covers in 2006 after I bought the iPod Video, the first one to handle cover artworks. High quality scans were a rarity back then, so I began making them myself in glorious 500×500 pixels! And because I’m a kind person I shared them via the now defunct Amazon customer image galleries. Some of them are still online, for example here’s a nice one that shows my early typewriting skills. After some time I had…

“Looper” by Nathan Johnson

January 12, 2015December 27, 2016 Categories: Custom Covers · Deluxe Edition · Original Covers · Singles/EPs · Vinyl CoversTags: Looper · Nathan Johnson2 Comments

Ever since Brick I’m a Rian Johnson fan. I was delighted to see him being catapulted into Hollywood’s writer/director A-list with the success of his Sci-Fi-Brainer Looper. I think the film is a classic grower, that gets better and better with every viewing. Oddly enough, as often as I have seen it already, I’ve never really noticed Nathan Johnson’s score for it. And I still can’t recall any piece of music from the film to this date (unlike Brick which I love listening to). To be honest, my main motivation for doing this series, was the original cover artwork (#1) which looks really fantastic! I love…

“Nightcrawler” by James Newton Howard

December 23, 2014April 25, 2017 Categories: Alternates/Rejected Covers · Custom Covers · Digital Booklets · Original Covers · Singles/EPs · Vinyl CoversTags: James Newton Howard · Nightcrawler1 Comment

I love the fact that James Newton Howard can write scores like Maleficent and Nightcrawler within the same year. Compare the lush and romantic beauty of the former with the strange yet oddly efficient combination of electronica and woodwinds of the latter and you couldn’t go further apart. This one wasn’t on my to-do list at all, but once the original artwork (#1) popped up on the net, I changed my mind all of a sudden. Who wouldn’t want to have a picture full of awesomeness on his website? This series started off fairly easy with a custom cover based on the official…

“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” by Howard Shore

December 8, 2014January 16, 2017 Categories: Alternates/Rejected Covers · Custom Covers · Digital Booklets · Original Covers · Singles/EPsTags: Hobbit · Howard Shore · Lord of the Rings · The Battle of the Five Armies4 Comments

Day in, day out there are always two specific entries in my page ranks, that stand out from the crowd. My two cover series for An Unexpected Journey and The Desolation of Smaug. They generate by far the most traffic on my site. Strictly speaking they rule out everything else when it comes to site stats, as the following screenshots impressively prove: Posts Clicks Search terms So one could say that Howard Shore’s Middle Earth music dominates my little blog right from its beginning. I wonder what movie/score is going to fill that spot by the end of next year? Probably Star Wars. Or my old Lord of the…

“Gone Girl” by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

September 30, 2014January 16, 2017 Categories: Alternates/Rejected Covers · Custom Covers · Digital Booklets · Original Covers · Singles/EPsTags: Atticus Ross · Gone Girl · Trent Reznor5 Comments

The official announcement for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ soundtrack album to Gone Girl came quite late in the game. It was merely a good week before release that the Null Corporation announced a tracklist and the official artwork. But because I started working on this series in early September I had no knowledge of the design direction the label would follow. That fact made these custom covers really challenging. It almost felt like an official assignment to me and I approached it with appropriate care. Retrospectively my early draft (#2) for the primary cover artwork came pretty close to the official one (#1). Yet, opposed to its two predecessors, this time the label added an extra Soundtrack From The Motion Picture…