The Untold History of the ‘Take This to Your Grave’ Artwork

this was pretty neat

 

Agreed! This was an fun read.

 

crazy that the artist was just sitting on these gems all these years.

i think 'to my favourite liar' would've been a great title for the album, as iconic as 'take this to your grave' is.

 

I think this is one of my favorite things I've ever read about a classic album's cover. What a series this could be.

 

This is extremely my shit

 

Thank you so much for pushing this, @Jason Tate! I grew up reading AbsolutePunk every single day after school, so to have something I wrote shared here has a ton of sentimental value to me. And thank you to all for your time and the kind words so far!

 

I agree this would've been such a good album title

 

Wow, I never knew Patrick Sthump had an “h” in his name until today.

 

What’s interesting is that the h is at the end of his name, Stumph. It’s silent. Not sure if he’s had it legally changed, but my guess is Stump is strictly for professional usage. I wanna say he’s Irish?

Also his mother is named Patricia, and he’s often said he doesn’t like being called “Pat” because that’s already her name.

 

What timing :) happy anniversary indeed

 

I was just making a shitty joke. My bad.

 

and we both have folie avatars? Iconic

 

Enjoyed this read a lot. Very interesting.

 

this was great. i agree that posts like this would make a great series.

 

Agreed let's keep these going for our favorite albums!

 

Great writeup. I really enjoyed learning about the process here.

 

that’s what the podcast is all about :)

 

The last of the real ones :)

 

Loved to be able to walk through the process and the cover of Pete's bedroom is pretty interesting to look into as well. Though "To my favorite liar" falls really short as the album title for me, both of those ideas for the artwork are much weaker too - especially the second one. But I do admire the persistence hahh - of course I admit the end result is just the best and it seems it came to be quite natural.

First time seeing they've changed it for later releases - I hate it that it stopped showing their names in the order of appearance for a while too.