Best Genesis album cover - Progressive Rock Music Forum

A Trick of the Tail

nick_h_nz wrote:

I can’t remember what the cover art for Abacab looks like, but as it’s the only album without a vote yet, it must be bad! 😜😄

Not necessarily bad but too artsy and abstract for what Genesis were at the time, in my opinion.

I’m really surprised by all the people who don’t like the Whitehead covers! 😳

Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect

I can’t remember what the cover art for Abacab looks like, but as it’s the only album without a vote yet, it must be bad! 😜😄

Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect

Sean Trane wrote:

Tail does the Trick for me. Big smile

W&W and SEBTP are next

(I'm not that big on the Whitehead artworks)

Same here. I think his VDGG covers might be better.

^ I’m convinced about that, though going by other polls in the past, it’s definitely a distinct possibility. However usually when people are voting for their favourite album rather than answering the question asked, the question being asked still refers to the music.

In this case, given the question is clearly about the cover art, I would like to put my cynicism aside and believe that more people than usual are actually voting for the cover they like, rather than the music they like.

I personally think that the We Can’t Dance cover isn’t particularly inspiring. I prefer both the Invisible Touch and Calling All Stations covers to it.

But, from my own point of view, I like the cover art of Trespass, Cryme, Foxtrot, Lamb, Wind, Duke and Shapes - which are all albums others have voted for. I’m not such a fan of Selling England, but I can understand why others like it. I’m not sure what the attraction is for Three, either.

I think the Foxtrot cover looks far better than any other Genesis cover art, and because I like that style, it kind of goes without saying that Cryme is my second favourite.

I do think their better cover art does seem to coincide with their more prog albums, and I say that as someone who likes the cover art of Wind, Duke and Shapes, even though I’m not such a fan of the music from those albums. (I own only Trespass to Lamb.)

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First and second place cover art looks fairly assured. More of a competition for the bronze medal, though.

It’s interesting to me that the cover art that people like tends to fit also with which albums tend to be considered “more” prog. (NB, I’m not trying to drag that tired old topic up to be flogged like another dead horse. It’s just an observation...)

Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect

Nursery Cryme > Foxtrot > SEBTP

Songs cast a light on you

Tail does the Trick for me. Big smile

W&W and SEBTP are next

(I'm not that big on the Whitehead artworks)

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Trespass for me

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Poll Question: What is the best Genesis album cover?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
From Genesis to Revelation	2	[1.04%]
Trespass	16	[8.29%]
Nursery Cryme	27	[13.99%]
Foxtrot	32	[16.58%]
Selling England by the Pound	21	[10.88%]
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway	23	[11.92%]
A Trick of the Tail	26	[13.47%]
Wind and Wuthering	15	[7.77%]
And Then There Were Three	4	[2.07%]
Duke	10	[5.18%]
Abacab	1	[0.52%]
Genesis (shapes)	5	[2.59%]
Invisible Touch	2	[1.04%]
We Can't Dance	2	[1.04%]
Calling All Stations	1	[0.52%]
None are very good	6	[3.11%]
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