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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:



Duke - Genesis
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
Foxtrot - Genesis
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
PXR5 - Hawkwind
Trilogy - ELP
Queen - A kind of Magic
Fugazi - Marillion (sorry, I think it's awful)


I don't find these albums cover you mention bad, they never bothered me in any way. Confused


All down to personal taste. Some folk hate the cover to And then there were three, I think it's beautiful.
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Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Of course, we cannot forget Spinal Tap's "Smell the Glove!"

 

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Bless your heart, you remembered!!  

I once played in a Spinal Tap tribute/satire band, sort of a Mobius strip of bad....It was an amazing experience! 

The ultimate cover selected was, of course, the "black" cover....Spinal Tap confronted Metallica over their appropriation of the concept!!  

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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

I have to remind myself, this is about great albums with bad covers, not bad albums also with bad covers, for example, Abacab or Love Beach..

So..

I concur with regard to Yes GFTO, Rush Presto/Hemispheres,

Then there's..

Duke - Genesis
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
Foxtrot - Genesis
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
PXR5 - Hawkwind
Trilogy - ELP
Queen - A kind of Magic
Fugazi - Marillion (sorry, I think it's awful)



point well madeLOL, but "great" is all IMHO, right? Wink


I really don't understand the deal with male nudity on Hemispheres and GFTOConfused. Both are good covers (better than 2112 , also with male buttocks in the innergatefoldTongue and the kimonos on the back coverEvil Smile), though neither would be in my top 50 artworks.

No major problems with the Whitehead (incl VdGG and Le Orme) artworks either, even with the strange sense of perspectives , but the oddest Whitehead is Pawh Hearts, IMHO.


Duke & Trilogy are indeed poor (though there is a direction in Duke's gatefold art), Sabotage is awful Deadand Fugazi is semi-sordidOuch (but it isn't a good album, let alone great).


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I've always found H to HE to be Whitehead's strangest, most intriguing piece. 

I still see it as a pair of lungs with a pocket watch attached, lol.

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Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

I have to remind myself, this is about great albums with bad covers, not bad albums also with bad covers, for example, Abacab or Love Beach..

So..

I concur with regard to Yes GFTO, Rush Presto/Hemispheres,

Then there's..

Duke - Genesis
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
Foxtrot - Genesis
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
PXR5 - Hawkwind
Trilogy - ELP
Queen - A kind of Magic
Fugazi - Marillion (sorry, I think it's awful)


This thread sure is interesting, because I personally consider Foxtrot to have an exemplary prog rock artwork!

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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

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<div style="line-height: 18.2px;">"What's wrong with being sexy?" Cool


I was never bowled over by those early Genesis album covers. I'm not sure why. They were just not to my taste I guess. That said, they are better than Duke, which was just a lazy failed attempt to appear 'modern' and minimalist. IMO.
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

I have to remind myself, this is about great albums with bad covers, not bad albums also with bad covers, for example, Abacab or Love Beach..

So..

I concur with regard to Yes GFTO, Rush Presto/Hemispheres,

Then there's..

Duke - Genesis
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
Foxtrot - Genesis
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
PXR5 - Hawkwind
Trilogy - ELP
Queen - A kind of Magic
Fugazi - Marillion (sorry, I think it's awful)



point well madeLOL, but "great" is all IMHO, right? Wink


I really don't understand the deal with male nudity on Hemispheres and GFTOConfused. Both are good covers (better than 2112 , also with male buttocks in the innergatefoldTongue and the kimonos on the back coverEvil Smile), though neither would be in my top 50 artworks.

No major problems with the Whitehead (incl VdGG and Le Orme) artworks either, even with the strange sense of perspectives , but the oddest Whitehead is Pawh Hearts, IMHO.


Duke & Trilogy are indeed poor (though there is a direction in Duke's gatefold art), Sabotage is awful Deadand Fugazi is semi-sordidOuch (but it isn't a good album, let alone great).


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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:



Duke - Genesis
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
Foxtrot - Genesis
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
PXR5 - Hawkwind
Trilogy - ELP
Queen - A kind of Magic
Fugazi - Marillion (sorry, I think it's awful)

I don't find these albums cover you mention bad, they never bothered me in any way. Confused
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

I have to remind myself, this is about great albums with bad covers, not bad albums also with bad covers, for example, Abacab or Love Beach..

So..

I concur with regard to Yes GFTO, Rush Presto/Hemispheres,

Then there's..

Duke - Genesis
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
Foxtrot - Genesis
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
PXR5 - Hawkwind
Trilogy - ELP
Queen - A kind of Magic
Fugazi - Marillion (sorry, I think it's awful)

This thread sure is interesting, because I personally consider Foxtrot to have an exemplary prog rock artwork!

Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

Of course, we cannot forget Spinal Tap's "Smell the Glove!"

 

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I have to remind myself, this is about great albums with bad covers, not bad albums also with bad covers, for example, Abacab or Love Beach..

So..

I concur with regard to Yes GFTO, Rush Presto/Hemispheres,

Then there's..

Duke - Genesis
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
Foxtrot - Genesis
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
PXR5 - Hawkwind
Trilogy - ELP
Queen - A kind of Magic
Fugazi - Marillion (sorry, I think it's awful)
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Of course, we cannot forget Spinal Tap's "Smell the Glove!"
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The Beatles "White Album".



That's one of my favourite album covers :)
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ELP - Tarkus 

That's about all I can think of off the top of my head.
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The Beatles "White Album".
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Originally posted by dwill123 dwill123 wrote:

I actually think this album cover is great, but I know a lot of folks don't agree.

Review of Todd Rundgrens &amp;amp;quot;A Wizard, A True Star&amp;amp;quot; album (1973) - YouTube

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The Final Cut - Roger Waters thought he could take total artistic control over the band, even down to designing the cover. [Not to mention putting his own name above 'Pink Floyd'.] Whilst I love the album, aesthetically it more resembled a GCSE art project rather than being up to the standard of some of the Hipgnosis designed sleeves, e.g. DSotM, WYWH, Ummagumma, Animals etc.


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I actually think this album cover is great, but I know a lot of folks don't agree.

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The final Flash studio LP, "Out of our Hands," would easily qualify.  






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I think "Tormato" cover was a disaster  (being a good album musicaly) barely saved by Rick throwing a tomato at it, making sort of conceptual art self-joke out of it. 

Other one that makes me cringe: 
It's a reissue, but still. The original cover at the size of post stamp complete with arctic landscape, fancy 80s car, Star Wars' stormtrooper,  the Moon and Michelangelo's David above it all Ouch
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