I'm using the Microsoft app 'Copilot,' which can use Chatgpt-4. I give pretty elaborate commands to it and it has come up with some amazing results. Especially if the command starts with "a vinyl album cover with a logo saying '______' above a scene with ________."

Starting the command with "a vinyl album cover" gets it to provide results that look genuinely like a vinyl product in the hand.

Some of the results are amazing. But I'd love to see what anyone else can come up with.

I'll start us off. Here are some imaginary lost Genesis album covers with the classic Gabriel line-up, for an album I imagine was the album after Foxtrot. What do you think it would sound like? What topics would be covered in the songs?

Fun!

I like the art, but the subject matter is sad ... why do we have to continue doing this "hero" thing all the time? None of the progressive music was really about the "hero" until one guy in one band who thinks he is the book's thumper! 

I would like to see any Gentle Giant 'lost' album covers! 

So true. Great post! 

moshkito wrote: Hi, I like the art, but the subject matter is sad ... why do we have to continue doing this "hero" thing all the time? None of the progressive music was really about the "hero" until one guy in one band who thinks he is the book's thumper!

Yep I find these enjoyable too. They look very real. However damesels in distress and noble knights are more of a vintage pulp fiction genre. The twelve year old me would have been intrigued by such covers, I suppose. Still these are typically the Genesis covers someone who's only heard about what Progressive Rock supposedly means (as in all the misconseptions), but never actually listened to it - would make. Which I guess is exactly why these AI generated covers ended up looking like they do. That said all three covers would have been an improvement of actual covers I've seen by bands such as Fruup, Fates Warning, Fantasy, Magnum mm...

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Nice work! I'd buy those three Genesis albums just on the strength of the album covers alone. After all, they're a big improvement over any of the album covers that came after Foxtrot.

Really? You'd rather have full blown Thomas Kinkade-level kitsch covers art over Trick of the Tail?

Enters thread that he knows he will dislike, tells everyone how offensive he finds it all. 

moshkito wrote: Hi, I like the art, but the subject matter is sad ... why do we have to continue doing this "hero" thing all the time? None of the progressive music was really about the "hero" until one guy in one band who thinks he is the book's thumper!

My thinking behind these was not about a hero. It poses a question... why is a knight visiting a woman in a poor village. What for? There could be many potentials stories to the image.

Ok, do one for...

ELP, titled "The Risk of Reaching Higher Ground"

some death metal covers maybe 

Pink Floyd meets Death Metal. Almost ok 

I like your AI generated covers espcially the Greenslade series.

Any ideas for King Crimson covers....?

Yes, of course. Like I said, I have yet to see a good AI-made album cover. 

I wasn't expecting this when I typed in "lots of pants"

I'd be tempted to buy the first album but definitely not the second. 

That's just pants. 

Those covers have some thing in common: One refers to the most significant song on such an album: Dancing with the Sunlit Knight. But I don't even think that Gabriel-era Genesis was altogether capable of such copycat behaviour.

Those covers are reminiscent of a 21st century Neo or Crossover band rather than a lost Genesis album from early 1973. Nevertheless they look fine.

I don't use AI, but I imagine a somewhat darker cover art for such an album, with a pub and that knight pouring some beer from a mug through the opening of his combat helmet, but I cannot tell why...

Ok, give me some ideas for it and I'll give it a try.

Remember, it doesn't have to resemble any of their past covers. Some people here have been like "well that doesn't look like it's an album from _____" and I'm thinking why does it have to be a copy of a past album? My Greenslade ones are different, because their covers had a theme of the multi armed green dude.

I actually already did an ELP one, here below.

The AI is not good enough to reproduce so much text, which is why I'm not adding album titles. It's better to have a short word as a logo, and even then it gets it wrong. Sometimes it produces an amazing picture but the logo is all wonky.

Again, I'm not trying to make it look like past albums, so don't tell me it doesn't look like an ELP album. Just try to play along and imagine what it might possibly sound like!

I think this one is actually really cool.

I type in something along the lines of the following when trying to generate an album cover:

a vinyl album cover with a logo saying '_____' above a scene with __________ in _________ , in a 70s art style/60s art style/Roger Dean art style (etc.)

Here are the results of a command for a Uriah Heep album

That's probably down to me and my tastes. I'm sure you could generate all manor of styles. I'll show some Yes ones later that are totally different from these and from any actual Yes albums.

The Love album cover is quite possibly the most beautiful I've generated. It doesn't fit with any of their previous album covers but I just think it's sublime.

I imagine this Rush album came out in the 90s where Rush decided to totally go back to their prog roots.

I gave it a try

I imagine this album being called "Dropping By for Lunch." It screwed up the text, though 

Playing with the madman theme of their first.

The first one here is the best one, imo. Sadly, AI screwed up the logo, but the image is top knotch.

I think Astra is a good album, I've always liked it. The cover is very sci-fi. 

This one has an awesome logo, in my opinion:

I think it's one of the best album covers Roger Dean ever did. It has such a story to it.

Shame it got this Ozrics logo wrong...

And two Samurai albums:

Why not?

Also, it wouldn't be the first time? Relayer?

Anyway, that's all for now. I just wanted to get them all out there. Might add more later.

AI's got preconceived ideas. 

What can I say? 

In any case, if you took away the pentagram, it would be a pretty cool cover. Especially because the central character looks a lot like Ozzy.