Worst Genesis Album Cover

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   So many to choose from...
As the music of post-Hackett Genesis took a dive, so did the band's album covers. Ouch! Rough on the eyes. Pick the ugliest.
Personally I thought Calling All Stations had a pretty cool cover

Poll Question: Duke
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Abacab	5	[17.24%]
Three Sides Live	5	[17.24%]
Genesis	5	[17.24%]
Invisible Touch	7	[24.14%]
We Can’t Dance	4	[13.79%]
Live The Way We Walk	2	[6.90%]
Calling All Stations	1	[3.45%]
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kirklott Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 01 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 623	Topic: Worst Genesis Album Cover Posted: June 17 2005 at 00:02
	So many to choose from... As the music of post-Hackett Genesis took a dive, so did the band's album covers. Ouch! Rough on the eyes. Pick the ugliest. Personally I thought Calling All Stations had a pretty cool cover
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nousommedusolei Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 26 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 233	Posted: June 17 2005 at 00:55
	The cover of "Genesis" looks like several blocks of cheese falling from the sky. I wonder what this suggests... cough cough Cheesy music! cough cough
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Lachrymous Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: June 12 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 24	Posted: June 17 2005 at 02:04
	"Duke" seems like a pretty bad cover too. Peter's departure DID bring a departure of cool album covers too...there must be a correlation between cool album covers and Peter Gabriel...just look at the covers of Peter Gabriel 1-4!

BEING Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: June 17 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 9	Posted: June 17 2005 at 02:19
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Blacksword Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130	Posted: June 17 2005 at 03:00
	Voted Invisible Touch. The cover is equally sh!t as Duke, but I like the Duke album, so gace IT the vote. Both covers look like the work of a depressed 4 year old.
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Jared Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Offline Points: 19400	Posted: June 17 2005 at 09:11
	Like Blacksword (again!)... I voted for Invisible Touch, which now looks dated as well as crass, unlike Abacab, which while not being a great cover, has a simplistic style which has stood the test of time better. Invisible Touch = 80's cheese, both inside and out!
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Moogtron III Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616	Posted: June 17 2005 at 12:55
	Three Sides Live. They could just as easily have put the album in a brown paper bag. I don't like any of the covers mentioned above, except Abacab. I thought that one was pretty cool.

Zargus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 08 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 3491	Posted: June 17 2005 at 13:21
	They are all crap all of em, bothe the music and the covers, but Invisible Touch is the worst for me, i cant even describe how bad it is...


salmacis Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Content Addition Joined: April 10 2005 Status: Offline Points: 3928	Posted: June 17 2005 at 13:26
	Definitely 'Three Sides Live' for me; the cover shows a total lack of effort, yet ironically it's the best album here- though that wouldn't be hard...

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	they are all so shiny and bright I hate it!


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	I don't like any of the above covers, but I voted for We Can't Dance. My fave one of all was Nursery Chryme.
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kirklott Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 01 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 623	Posted: June 17 2005 at 18:30
	>The cover of "Genesis" looks like several blocks of cheese falling from the sky. I wonder what this suggests... >cough cough Cheesy music! cough cough
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kirklott Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 01 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 623	Posted: June 17 2005 at 18:32
	>there must be a correlation between cool album covers and Peter Gabriel...just look at the covers of Peter Gabriel 1-4! I though #1 was pretty lame. #2 was cool #3 was AWESOME, but btw pretty easy to do yourself if you own a Polaroid camera. Take a picture, then while it's developing use your fingers to push around the emulsion. An easy way to enjoy an acid trip without the brain damage.
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kirklott Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 01 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 623	Posted: June 17 2005 at 18:34
	>Voted Invisible Touch. The cover is equally sh!t as Duke, but I like the Duke album, so gace IT the vote. Both covers look like the work of a depressed 4 year old. Invisible Touch looks like a template for a Public Health Service pamphlet or something.
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kirklott Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 01 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 623	Posted: June 17 2005 at 18:36
	>Three Sides Live. They could just as easily have put the album in a brown paper bag. That one is just f**king stupid. I mean, did they have really have a group meeting and say "Wow, great cover!" The album name was about as inspired. While I hate "The Way We Walk" even more, "Three Sides Live" gets the "F for effort" vote of any album - or any book or record or video - cover of all time, in the history of this world or any other anywhere in this vast universe.
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kirklott Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 01 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 623	Posted: June 17 2005 at 18:39
	>Definitely 'Three Sides Live' for me; the cover shows a total lack of effort, yet ironically it's the best album here- though that wouldn't be hard... It definitely is the best album on the list, but only after they got rid of that stupid fourth side of b-sides, and made it "Four Sides Live." Man that version of "Fountains" as well as some other tracks - like Dodo Lurker - makes Three Sides Live a pretty darn good album.
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kirklott Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 01 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 623	Posted: June 17 2005 at 18:42
	Well, my vote is "The Way We Walk." It just summarizes how Phil Collins and unbelievable garbage like Illegal Alien changed Genesis from these really cool prog musicians to the British equivalent of ZZ Top/really lame stand up comics.
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	Three sides live
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