Best Genesis album cover

And Then There Were Three, although the atmospheric cover didn't tempt me to buy the album. 

^It also was dipped in honey to give it that yellow-tinted look.

jude111 wrote: I had to be honest: "None are very good." I love this band, but none of their covers are iconic, none describe their music or their sound, none says to the buyer, "You need to buy this just to see what it sounds like." I don't know what the story is, who made the decisions regarding the covers, or why they're all so uniformly bad. This is therapeutic. It feels good to finally get this off my chest.

Sean Trane wrote: AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Tail does the Trick for me. 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.  not my case. I mean all three Genesis artworks are OK (I mean they come in right after my top 3 and I happen to like their innerfold artworks and the mad-hatter logo), but H To He is quite clumsy and PH is a near-failure (IMHO) and Fool's Mate is so-so. And I don't think his work with Italian bands was that good either. I got a book of Whitehead's works signed by him (he had a stand at a TMB concert), so I think it had everything he'd done until 2003. He was quite pushy about selling reprints of his album artworks and got a bit upset when I suggested that if I wanted to, I could hand the vinyl sleeves, which he claimed were of lesser quality (it could be so). I did consider buying his 3 scenes in Kent (combing the three Genesis album artworks), but never regretted not doing so: nothing from him I would hang on my walls.

^^^ Mine too!

cstack3 wrote: BaldFriede wrote: I like the picture on the first live album very much. When I first saw it (I had already heard "Foxtrot" and "Nursery Cryme") I immediately associated the front cover picture with the "Apocalypse in 9/8" section of "Supper's Ready" and the photo with the bat wings on the back cover with "Watcher of the Skies", though I had never seen them live. I agree, "Live" would get my immediate vote!

I agree. I love that album cover. I first saw it before I really knew anything about Genesis. I thought of Genesis as Collin's band. I used to leaf through my neighbours record collection every now and then. I was about 13, he was about 16. His collection was all Sabbath, Zeppelin, Purple, Floyd and this band called Genesis; all Gabriel era. I was intrigued by that album cover. The ultra violet light, the costume. My tastes stopped at heavy metal at that point. I found the picture absurd, unsettling, and intriguing equally. Why were they all sitting down?? But it engaged my interest, and love of the weird and less than two years later, I was the owner of many a Genesis album.

BaldFriede wrote: I like the picture on the first live album very much. When I first saw it (I had already heard "Foxtrot" and "Nursery Cryme") I immediately associated the front cover picture with the "Apocalypse in 9/8" section of "Supper's Ready" and the photo with the bat wings on the back cover with "Watcher of the Skies", though I had never seen them live.

Voted for Duke. I like that cartoony surreal vibe to it.

^ I honestly think it’s because these album covers visually represent the music within. And I suspect the reason that Foxtrot is beating Cryme is a combination of the fact that there is more going on in the artwork (with more of the songs represented), giving a kind of Where’s Wally experience; and because of the Fox on the Rocks - which is somewhat of a definitive Genesis image.

Blacksword wrote: nick_h_nz wrote: I’m really surprised by all the people who don’t like the Whitehead covers! 😳 Foxtrot is winning the poll. I'm quite surprised at the number of people who like those covers. I don't really get what's so good about them, but then I'm no art expert I suppose. Each to their own.