Cover Art Blakey
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Topic: Cover Art Blakey
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Subject: Cover Art Blakey
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 07:40
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Pick your favourite cover art out of these  ......and yes the music on offer is completely irrelevant.          ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 07:55
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The Atoll one is pretty cool. How long before you run out of Arts?
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:00
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Kind of like them all in one way or another (except perhaps the Santana). Both Atoll's albums got some genuinely lovely psychedelic fantasy drawings which makes me want to reinvestigate the band. While Zeit's always been a favorite and a perfect package for the music within. I'm certain I enjoy the Kansas-cover a lot more than I would enjoy the album (based on having heard other stuff by them). Death May be your Santa Claus isn't a favorite but atleast succeeds in being a similar fun mess on the outside as on the inside. Vision Creation Newsun comes across as a little cheapish compared to the rest. I also think Guldbamsen is more fond of yellow, blue and purple in combination than I am. |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:11
| I like the Kansas cover. Love it. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:12
Death May Be Your Sanity Clause is possibly the worse pre-Photoshop cover of all time, I mean, what the 'ecky-thump are those two flaming lipsticks doing firing out of the carburettor air intakes of a V8 engine... I can't not vote for it  ------------- What? |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:18
| 10 CC for me, but it's hard to reject the Second Hand's cover because of the music inside that I love so much. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:39
I haven't thought about that, but I guess I'll start bending reality like I usually do. BTW There are two Atoll options in the poll, but i take it you voted for Musicien-Magiciens as the other one still is without any votes ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
chopper wrote:Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:41
You have no idea  you should see my wardrobe... The Atoll ones, musically, are a bit misleading. Not nearly as psychedelically influenced as the cover arts portray....but they're some fine 70s symph prog albums nonetheless. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:42
Oh yes. There's just something about an Indian chief wearing a buffalo space helmet. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:45
My thoughts exactly. This is so much better than 90% of what I've come across in today's photoshop trend. I'm very close to voting for it myself. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:47
Nice pick my dear canard. Storm Thorgerson all the way!!! Btw Pierre, did you accidentally vote for Santana instead?
 ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:49
Yes, Dean description is closer to what I actually mean than what I wrote myself.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 08:56
There is another one I've been meaning to use in these polls, Hapshash & the coloured Goat, which reminds me a lot of that Second Hand cover, but they don't really look that similar. Maybe it's the composition? I'm not sure. Definitely featuring in my next poll though. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 09:12
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I love that one.And no, I voted the Ten CC
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 09:22
Ahh now I see it.  ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 09:46
| First vote for Birth Control! Though I think being infectiously inlove with that album is affecting my good judgment. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 09:47
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I have a strong emotional reaction to the Boredoms album cover. It's a fairly simple cover, probably didn't take a whole lot of effort to make, though the idea behind it is what really connects. It's very reflective of the music inside - an almost overwhelming brightness that would and should be blinding and unbearable to look at, but - and this may be key - the cover CAN be stared at indefinitely without pain or retinal damage. Not only that, but it allows you to see a human figure partially obscured by the blinding light, but who acts as a consoling figure as if to say, "you are in very dangerous territory here, but don't worry - we are people like you, and you're going to be okay." Likewise, as bold and daring and strange as the music inside is, it is never strident or repellent. At least I don't think it is. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:02
This post is so ridiculously filled with win sauce, it's insane. Cheerio Captain Katjing! ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:05
I think it's their best album. According to my tastes then it probably shouldn't be, but life is fickle in that way. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:25
| After a couple of minutes streaming Atoll I ended up voting for Zeit. You can say the music is copmpletely irrelevant as much as you like, but if the visuals don't correlate with the sounds I like the cover less (or I find it less succesful). |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:28
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Makes sense to me. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:33
| ZEIT easily |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:41
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Just a quick peak at the options again for the peeps who are too lazy to flip the page
------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: bloodnarfer
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:48
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Wow I actually like all the album art this time! It's a tough choice, I'll try not to be biased toward tangerine dream. I really dig the art style of Atoll - Magiciens, so I'll vote for that. I kind of feel inspired to try a painting in that style now  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ramza1316" rel="nofollow - www.last.fm/user/ramza1316 https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845" rel="nofollow - https://open.spotify.com/user/1211221845 |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 10:50
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Score! ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 11:50
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Zeit's cover is exactly what I always wanted my first album cover to be, but it seriously fits that music. Love it
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 12:11
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What no love for Osanna's strange skeleton like space whale?
Edit: at least in the comments - hadn't noticed they'd received two votes. Just goes to show how little I care about the actual 'tournament'
 ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 12:55
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Deceptive Bends. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 14:37
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Hmmm...
Not completely in love with any as I've been in the past. There are parts to most that I like (like the random pope in Plastic People) though. In the end it comes down to Zeit and Monolith. I'll go the big indian this time. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 14:54
I have always appreciated the crazy intensity of Santana 3 but it is Kansas' Monolith that moves me to the most, what with my environmentalist tendencies and predilection towards almost all things Native American. Trivia: Did you know that the state, and hence the band, got its name from a Native American tribe, the Kansa? And that the name means 'people of the south wind?'  ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 15:11
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Like those Atoll ones. Musicien - Magiciens gets my vote.
Zeit and Monolith are cool too. -------------  
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 15:15
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Zeit, i mean, goddamn. i heard that it has "scary music" in it, so.....oh boy. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 17:43
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Some excellent choices, went with Kansas here but plenty of others look excellent. As for the music, I don't think I've heard any of them. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 18:08
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It has to be Atoll - Musicien - Magiciens for me. The second i saw it posted there (even though i've never seen it before), i knew i'd prolly vote for it. I'll check out the band just for those artworks Love 'em all except the Death May Be.. and the 10cc one. Woo ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 18:52
| Zeit swallows me up. Both the music and the art. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 18:54
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Some great picks here David, I really like them all in one way or another. I went with Zeit just over Kansas. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 30 2014 at 23:30
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The internal picture of Zeit is better than the front ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |