What do you think of naked men on album covers?
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Topic: What do you think of naked men on album covers?
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Subject: What do you think of naked men on album covers?
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 08:50
| I was thinking about how Going for the One might have sold more albums if there wasn't a naked man on the cover. Rush did it too for Hemispheres and the inside cover (I think) of 2112. |
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 09:04
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If its art, its art, so It might distract some or atract others. If its well proportioned or in right angles its no less a wortht feature ss a female body on a cover art. -------------  
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 09:09
I never really took much notice of the naked man on the cover of Going for the One, although I would've much-preferred to see a naked woman on there instead. 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 09:11
Well, if you're not into men you probably won't be staring at it but it's pretty hard(no pun intended)not to see it.
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 09:30
| It didn't stop me buying either album. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 09:47
| Who buys albums released 45 years ago? |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 09:53
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You forgot to add "It's OK as long as they have animal heads." -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 09:54
I've got it on CD, so it's only a small picture.
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 09:59
| Certainly it doesn't matter to me, either man or woman, from an artistic perspective. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 10:33
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Two of my first (and favourite) albums have naked men: Moontan and Grave New world (OK - it's a painting, but.....). What's the problem? ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 10:42
Or this:  ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 12:07
Going for the One isn't a 'soft porn' discussion (just an arse) so we don't need to enter into that. Oh wait.... ------------- 
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Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 12:09
Helium Horse Fly are a great band, and this is their greatest album. 🖤 ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 12:13
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No issue with it here, but I find it striking that the poll is only about naked men, and not naked people in general. Whether one likes the individual cover or not is a different story, and it is partly due to aesthetic aspects. I have absolutely no problems with Going For the One, but on the other hand I find it hard to look at Herbie Mann - Push Push...
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 12:22
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It could be worse - it could be men dressed in ladies underwear.   |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 12:25
Ok, I think a little clarification might be in order here. I chose the topic naked men because it seems the majority of prog fans are men and it seemed to me the issue wasn't naked people but naked men. You can see even one person's vote indicates he's homophobic. I'm glad most on here aren't but I have heard complaints in the past about the naked men. After all, what male prog fan(even if he's gay) is going to complain about a naked female? Lol.
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 12:28
I think it depends on how the nudity is carried out. If it has sexist undertones like - say - Lovehunter by Whitesnake, I would definitely feel uneasy about it.
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 12:51
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Or the original cover of Smell the Glove. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 14:48
| In my teens naked ladies on covers would have embarrassed me if whilst playing aforesaid album my mum or other female relative would have seen the album. Now I'm all for it but unfortunately the modern world isn't. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 23 2021 at 15:03
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You can never see enough of the penis. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: September 28 2022 at 00:12
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I have no problem with it ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: September 28 2022 at 13:58
| I view it as art so not a big issue for me |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 28 2022 at 18:15
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Hi, And no Guru Guru listed? Many loves being naked! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: September 28 2022 at 21:16
| Ars gratia artis. Art's end is nothing else but art itself. No artist needs to compromise with any standard of political correctness or moral majority. That's the last resort for a free conscience. |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: September 29 2022 at 00:01
| I view it as art so not a big issue for me |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 29 2022 at 01:07
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bum bum ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |