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Topic: Post alternate prog lp cover arts here
Posted By: Knobby
Subject: Post alternate prog lp cover arts here
Date Posted: June 06 2013 at 10:08
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I did a massive one of these at another forum.
Lets see what you fellows can come up with.
Prog,fusion.
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 06 2013 at 10:51
Not sure what you mean, like this could have been Dark Side Of The Moon? |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 06 2013 at 13:05
Van der Graaf Generator - Prawn Hearts ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Knobby
Date Posted: June 06 2013 at 17:45
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Lps pressed in countries other than the country of origion often used different coverart on the jackets.
Also reissues may have had different art.
THAT is what this thread is concerned with.
Lps only.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 08:16
I had this album cover for Moonmadness growing up. Pretty corny, really. I think these were the original American versions of the Camel albums. As well as this cover for Mirage.  ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Knobby
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 08:28
| You mean there is another cover for "Moonmadness"? (I never saw the orig UK) |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 08:34
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Knobby wrote:Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 09:22
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These ones are well known but OK here they go: Gentle Giant's Three Friends USA cover was actually the cover of their debut album, with the problem that the drummer in the picture (Martin Smith) had been replaced by Malcolm Mortimore but they did not notice or did not care to adjust the picture USA cover  UK cover  And the cover of Octopus was different too USA Edition  UK Edition  |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 10:38
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The alternative Mirage posted is so awful aha ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 11:36
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^not sure how it is worse than a replica of a cigarette logo.
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Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 11:52
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^ I think it's worse. The ciggy cover isn't great either, but I thought it was it was kinda clever at the time. I have a certain disdain for bad airbrush art. There was so much of it back in the '70's. Today's equivalent is bad Photoshop art, of which there is also an abundance. I found that Mirage LP at my local library when I was about 14 and even then I thought it was awful. Never heard of them at the time. But I checked it out and was amazed. |
Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 12:02
Italy  UK  I have this Italian release of Earthbound. What a bizarre cover. The picture is obviously the wrong lineup. The cutouts around their heads is so wrong. And the graphic design in general is just about as bad as it gets. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 12:25
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^^ That Earthbound cover (the top one) is the first one I remember seeing. Makes it look like a budget-line cheapo label release like K-Tel or something.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 12:32
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 12:46
 
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 12:51
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I always wished there was a Yes cover band named "No".
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 13:01
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 13:13
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Maybe the original Earthbound cover was not very attactive but that Italian one is dreadful Of course we have also the well known cases of Hendrix Electric Ladyland, Scorpions Virgin Killer, or Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World, I guess they are well enough known so I'm not bothering to paste pictures.
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 13:19
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And Bowie's Diamond Dogs, the original showing the dogs genitals and later editions just dark shadow Original
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Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: June 07 2013 at 21:43
| John Wetton on Earthbound has David Bowie's haircut. |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: June 08 2013 at 05:59
Why did the Italian Earthbound have Wetton and Bruford on the cover when didn't play on the album?  -------------  
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 08 2013 at 06:45
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Not really Prog but a famous case of censored cover was Mom's Apple Pie self-titled album. The original cover depicted an apparently innocent farmer woman showing a pie missing a slice and licking her lip. Close inspection though revealed that the inside of the pie clearly resembled female genitalia, and furthermore dripping white juice. The cover was banned and an alternative was released, in which the missing slice was sealed with bricks and barbed wire, topped with an American flag and two policemen watching from the window. Original cover  Original cover close-up  Revised cover  Revised cover close-up  |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 08 2013 at 13:44
Concerning Cig Mirage vs Airbrush Mirage. Pretty much this.
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 12:21
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My Spanish pressing LP of The Nice Ars Longa Vita Brevis has a different cover than the one shown in the PA page: PA cover  My LP  |
Posted By: Knobby
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 12:43
| There is a Roger Deanish The Nice coverart that none of you know. |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 15:13
We don't play hide and seek here, if you want to share something post it, otherwise keep it for yourself
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Posted By: Knobby
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 15:17
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I cannot find a piccy using google image search.
I COULD scan my personal copy and post here, but I won't till the response to my thread becomes something other than the current pathetic.
You guys really don't know vinyl, do you.
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Posted By: Knobby
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 15:22
To use google image search you have to have the image alrerady, right?
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Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 15:58
 keep it for yourself please |
Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: June 10 2013 at 10:03
http://www.google.nl/search?q=the+nice+ars+longa+vita+brevis&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47534661,d.d2k&biw=1366&bih=667&pdl=300&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=nl&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=IOu1Uf-5AoOg0wWy2IGgDw" rel="nofollow - http://www.google.nl/search?q=the+nice+ars+longa+vita+brevis&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47534661,d.d2k&biw=1366&bih=667&pdl=300&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=nl&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=IOu1Uf-5AoOg0wWy2IGgDw try this
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Posted By: Knobby
Date Posted: June 10 2013 at 13:45
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As you can see Twseel, the Dean-ish Nice foldout coverart which I mention is not shown there. There are some secrets still kept from search engines.
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Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: June 10 2013 at 13:48
| It must be very rare then... |
Posted By: Knobby
Date Posted: June 10 2013 at 14:20
| Ive only seen the one copy here in Canada, but I imagine it was rather common back in the day in England. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: June 10 2013 at 18:03
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No, it wasn't, since it was banned from most of record stores: the Tories found the cover "offending and disgraceful". Then, all of the original covers were burnt. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 10 2013 at 18:12
The only one I have ever seen is the skeletons one. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Knobby
Date Posted: June 10 2013 at 18:52
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Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: June 10 2013 at 23:49
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I found this on eBay as a Canadian cover: 
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Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: June 10 2013 at 23:52
And there is also this one: |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: June 11 2013 at 00:06
How would I dare? |
Posted By: Knobby
Date Posted: June 11 2013 at 08:01
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The silver foil one with the Beardsly-style drawing is a difficult one to find. I only found a copy finally this year. The same dealer had two copies ,so I have a trade copy now as well.
The silverfoil series on Canadian Daffodil label is real collectable in my opinion:
1/ because they are all foil, so its a bit of a challange to find copies with least ringwear
2/ the are unified by having this art-nouveau/Beardsly artwork
3/ at least half in the series are prog/proggish - 2 or 3 Nice titles,Duncan Brown "Give Me ,Take You". I forget the rest. (Small Faces "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake")
Daffodil got the rights from UK Immediate Label to reissue these in the 70s.
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: June 12 2013 at 11:11
If I had seen Mirage with the ciggy cover I never would have bought it. I love the airbrush camel  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: June 12 2013 at 11:15
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Surprised no one has yet shown the original v US cover of Islands... Original  US Release - mine came with the track list sticker but not the promo copy one...  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |