Top 10 Roger Dean Album Covers
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Topic: Top 10 Roger Dean Album Covers
Posted By: mathman0806
Subject: Top 10 Roger Dean Album Covers
Date Posted: March 11 2023 at 20:16
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His work his strongly associated with prog, most notably Yes. There was a comment in the thread on the upcoming new Yes album that cover was not particularly good in the eyes of the commentator. So what are your faves? For me, they tend to be the one that associate well with the music of the album as well as the anesthetics of the art. 1. Yes - Fragile 2. Yes - Drama 3. Yes - Relayer 4. Gentle Giant - Octopus 5. Uriah Heap - The Magician's Birthday 6. Asia - Asia 7. Yes - Tales from the Topographic Ocean 8. Osibisa - Osibisa 9. Third Ear Band - Music from Macbeth 10. Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 04:32
Hard for me to say but I would probably go with Asia - Asia and then Relayer followed by Topographic Oceans |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 05:44
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My list could be quite similar, although I would prefer Demons and Wizards over the Magician's Birthday. I'm not that convinced by the ABWH album cover and prefer, for example, the Steve Howe Album one, and Close to the Edge (inner gatefold painting, but the green outside cover is quite exceptional too). And I would mention Greenslade's self-titled album - great album and great cover! ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 07:35
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I'd say , in no order, Yessongs, Yesshows, Tales, CTTE, Badger and the two Ossibisa =================== Not a fans of Heep artworks (Dean or others) and Greenslade artworks (includes solo), and actually dislike Asia's (Aria is OK and Arena is just "interesting", though)------------- 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 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 08:13
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Top 10 in alphabetical order with one favourite album cover per artist:- Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Asia - Alpha Budgie - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend Steve Howe - The Grand Scheme of Things John Lodge - Natural Avenue Magna Carta - Tomorrow Never Comes (Anthology) Osibisa - Woyaya Ramases - Space Hymns Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards YES - Mirror in the Sky |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 09:08
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I like much the two Osibisa covers (from their first two albums), and the one of Assagai's album Zimbabwe. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 09:13
Woyaya - as they say in Geordieland.
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David_D wrote:Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 13:41
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Now, I'm ready for a little list of my faves, both concerning the music and the artwork, as I can't really separate them - but not necessarily artwork seen in relation to the music (unranked): Osibisa - Osibisa (1970) Osibisa - Woyaya (1971) Assagai - Zimbabwe (1971, not on PA) Greenslade - Bedside Manners.. (1973) Budgie - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend (1973)
------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 14:43
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Top 5      ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 15:38
Good to be reminded about these ones.  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 15:39
Two of my Dean favorites are Drama and Classic Yes.  ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: March 12 2023 at 16:40
    ------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 06:15
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 06:38
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Hi, You folks want to get THE ALBUM COVER BOOK for its pictures .... and lots of Roger Dean. Hard to believe that it is something like 30 years old already, that book! But, goodness, does it ever have covers in it! ------------- 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: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 06:49
I feel a bit sheepish to admit I don't recognise that album cover or have any idea who the artist is.   |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 07:06
a much bigger image of that album cover from above |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 07:15
------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 07:36
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^^ Thanks Cristi! I didn't even notice the badgers on the smaller image. That would've given me a big clue as to who the album's by.
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Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 07:40
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Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 07:43
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Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 07:47
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Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 07:50
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 08:27
a Uriah Heep live album cover |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 09:45
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This reminded me of the thread I once made about Roger Dean's artwork. Many favourite ones, but one would be Blue Desert (ABWH cover).
https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=93938" rel="nofollow - https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=93938 |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 09:46
 ------------- 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 |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 12:27
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Hi, The one thing that is most important about these covers, just like the ones from HIPGNOSIS, made you want to go check the music out ... these days, that is something that most fans never saw or experienced, and folks end up falling for a name/title that does not have one third the impression that this art showed so many folks. It is one thing that is sad for me these days, that rock music disdains almost all art, and at least seeing another cover on a YES album is something ... but, in general, a lot of the stuff in the past 20 years, does not have as much "artistic" ideas and designs, as so much of the music did between 55 and 40 years ago. The cassette days, started killing the art, and then the CD completely wiped it out, and because the CD's were really cheap to make, many folks didn't bother wasting money ... a few bands did some nice stuff, but I can not really name you one or two that showed their "music" and "meddle/metal" in the art itself ... and to be honest with you, it's sad. Everything from the days of Hipgnosis and Roger Dean, and many others in California, pretty much told you it was all AN ART Scene ... and here we are 50 some years later, and we still don't think of it ... as the pure, true art that it was! ------------- 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: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 16:34
Then there are the books of Roger Dean artwork:   ------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: March 13 2023 at 17:09
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I bought this album strictly because of the cover.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: March 20 2023 at 05:28
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My user name is a giveaway as to my favourite Roger Dean cover.  ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 20 2023 at 05:45
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Something like this Ramases - Space Hymns Yes - YessongsEarth & Fire - Earth & Fire Yes - Relayer Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans Badger - One Live Assagai - Zimbabwe Paladin - Charge! Third Ear Band - Music From Macbeth
Gentle Giant - Octopus |