Which is the Worst Eddie?

Vaenyr said:
Unpopular opinion: I like the 98 debut Eddie more than the original. Not because it is particularly great, but because I never liked the original design.
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I actually quite like the 1998 re designed Eddie for the debut.

Never cared for the original much either to be honest. Now when you look back over all the eddies decades later the original doesn’t really even resemble Eddie much.

Eddies iconic look really started with Killers where he had his face redesigned from the original and then every incarnation had the same shape nose and mouth. The 1998 version made him look more like the Eddie we all know.
 
Spambot said:
People don't shit enough on these covers, those red-eyed Eddie should've been processed to Hague for crimes against humanity.
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I think it suits No Prayer Eddie. The original debut Eddie is just too good, I like both though. Eddie's eyes changed with FOTD and I guess they wanted something different for the remastered covers. Not sure why they did it for the debut. Killers Eddie is probably more iconic...
AncientMariner_Essex said:
The worst Eddie for me was ed hunter Eddie. The obsession around this time with crappy CGI was awful.
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Ed Hunter Eddie is just another version of POM Eddie, more or less. CGI really didn't help metal covers.
srfc said:
I get the impression most people cringing about the football pitch are just triggered by football, not necessarily anything to do with the image. Probably if it was wrestling or dungeons and dragons instead it would have been ok.
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Well said. I think for metal, landscapes are usually the best choice (like in the original cover). VXI cover is still cool and interesting imo.
 
AncientMariner_Essex said:
Don’t know why so many have mentioned VXI. Apart from the cringe fest football stuff inside the booklet the album cover itself I think looks great, even with football pitch in the background.
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Totally agree--I've always loved the Virtual XI art apart from the football pitch (fair point by @srfc, since I don't like football either) and the fact nobody plays a game with the console sitting on their lap. That album had a lot of great art around it, too, I thought. The Riggs Futureal art that's more than a little evocative of a futuristic version of Powerslave, as well as The Angel and the Gambler single art with Tophat Eddie. Any of the lazy Ed Hunter tie-in stuff, though...yeah, no thanks.
 
CA Bryers said:
Totally agree--I've always loved the Virtual XI art apart from the football pitch (fair point by @srfc, since I don't like football either) and the fact nobody plays a game with the console sitting on their lap. That album had a lot of great art around it, too, I thought. The Riggs Futureal art that's more than a little evocative of a futuristic version of Powerslave, as well as The Angel and the Gambler single art with Tophat Eddie. Any of the lazy Ed Hunter tie-in stuff, though...yeah, no thanks.
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yeah, the riverboat Eddie is great
 
Ironically, while the Dance of Death artwork is one of the worst artworks in Metal, Eddie himself doesnt look that bad on that album.
To me, sorted by type, the worst Eddies are:

Albums: Final Frontier
Singles: Futureal and Gambler
Walk on: Ed Hunter
Big Eddie:Final Frontier
Video: The Early years

Also bad Eddies (but not as bad as above): BYDTTS, Senjutsu, VXI Big Eddie, Piece of Mind walk on Eddie, Death On The Road.
 
If they had used the tour poster for Dance of Death it would have been fine.
 
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