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First three Yes album covers and also 90125 and Big Generator. YMMV.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Good record...bad cover.
The man v. civilization theme works, but what the hell does it have to do with the music in Going for the One?
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I just feel very inadequate looking at that.

I suppose the theme is 'oh sh*t punk is happening and we aren't going to get away with another Roger Dean cover'
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Originally posted by ForestFriend ForestFriend wrote:

Steve Howe Trio - The Haunted Melody

Is this real? As in, you DIDN'T just make this in MS Paint as a joke for this thread...?

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I remember a lot of folks hating on the Rush Power Windows album cover
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I'm not keen on Birth Control's "Hoodoo Man" cover although it does fit the title track.



Edited by 2dogs - July 13 2019 at 09:14
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At least they spared us on this one Wink.
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nice thread
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

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Meddle - Pink Floyd
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Hi,

Careful ... you might be told you don't listen!

(It's a close up on an ear under water ... a take on a line about not listening according to the Hipgnosis book! You can see it better on the English LP setting as it is clean ... the American version is badly reproduced and the cover is more difficult to figure out.)


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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

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Meddle - Pink Floyd
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Hi,

Careful ... you might be told you don't listen!

(It's a close up on an ear under water ... a take on a line about not listening according to the Hipgnosis book! You can see it better on the English LP setting as it is clean ... the American version is badly reproduced and the cover is more difficult to figure out.)
He never said he didn't know what it was.
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I've been in the middle of a Gong marathon over the last two weeks, so there's this one. I think it could do with a better background and the title in a different font. 
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

for some reason I always think the guy on the Hawklords cover is supposed to be a swashbuckler. why he is holding a glowing neon tube is beyond me though. maybe he is the space age equivalent of a swashbuckler, an intergalactic pirate, and that neon tube is a kind of laser sword. I don't know, but he is a swashbuckler for sure


Just goes to show that our imaginations sometimes take over and lead us to either like something or not. It's hardly the worst album cover out there. An album like Close To The Edge deserves a better album cover for instance. In fact it would look much better with the Kansas album cover for Point Of Know Return!

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Oh My God!! That dreadful Gong album cover has to be the worst album cover ever! Pinch

I just hope the godawful Gong album cover was Saved by the Music. Smile
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Originally posted by ForestFriend ForestFriend wrote:


The worst album cover I have ever seen, although the music is fantastic.
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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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Edited by Crane - March 17 2021 at 11:57
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The final Flash studio LP, "Out of our Hands," would easily qualify.  






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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 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.


Edited by Progishness - March 18 2021 at 02:30
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