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mellors 
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 Posted: November 08 2007 at 12:05 |
Difficult to beat Iron Maiden's Dance of Death, especially considering the legacy of the other covers. Doubt any cover has had quite so much stick. 
Edited by mellors - November 08 2007 at 12:07
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jimmy_row
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 11:07 |
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I'll have to agree about The Snow Goose, it's way too forced and mechanical. That album needed something pastoral and evokative to fit the music...the cover of Moonmadness or along those lines would have been much better.
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andu
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:57 |
I've just looked over the top 100 and the albums who would really need better covers are imo Depois do Fim (Bacamarte) Live Scenes From New-York (DT) Playing the Fool (GG) In A Glass House (GG) The Human Equation (Ayreon) Made In Japan (Deep Purple) Script For A Jester's Tear Hot Rats (Zappa) You Cant Do That On Stage Any More (Zappa) The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway A Live Record (Camel) Lateralus (Tool) Valentybe Suite (Colosseum) Snowgoose (Camel) Second Life Syndrome (Riverside) Free Hand (Gentle Giant) Barclay James Harvest Live Last Epic (ACT) Different Stages (Rush) Kronologia (Crucis) and there are a couple more of dubious ones. 
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dralan
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:53 |
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I was never a big fan of Paul Whitehead's artwork for the early Genesis albums. I always thought it looked very amateurish and thought they could have come up with something better.
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andu
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:23 |
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I think both are quite... err, simplistic? ...
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darkmatter
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:19 |
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^ I don't mind it, I think it looks fine, as is the original cover.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 10:14 |
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explodingjosh
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 09:41 |
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If this thread has never been done before, it really needed to be. Maybe some of these artists will realize that we as prog fans actually don't like archetypal-prog-rock Wannabe Roger Dean covers.
Edited by explodingjosh - November 08 2007 at 09:42
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Leningrad
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 09:37 |
Hmm....
I think this cover is cool, personally!
Edited by Chameleon - November 08 2007 at 10:12
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explodingjosh
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 09:37 |
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Dean
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 09:34 |
I get surreal: a goldfish morphed intio VW camper van I get, the Taj Mahal in a fishbowl I get, artisitcally it's pretty well done and I even get the title. What I don't get is why does it look so bad? 
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The Doctor
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 09:23 |
 proggy wrote:
Worst Cover - Yes - Time and a Word; Do boobs and prog really go together? |
YES! 
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Zitro
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 08:49 |
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how about Steve Hackett's Wild Orchids with a pic of his face and a female body. Hackett with boobs just looks disturbing.
Well, musically I don't like the album much, but most people do.
other albums:
_Yes - The Yes Album : just a band pic, sooooo cheap.
_Serú Girán - Bicicleta: such an inspired work but again a band pic.
_Roine Stolt: The Flower King : *shudders*, thank god the music is excellent.
_Iron Maiden - Dance of Death: totally different, in a terrible terrible way. What were they thinking?
_Flower Kings - Stardust We Are is pretty bad, but Paradox Hotel is cartoony silliness that doesn't fit as this is their darkest album.
Edited by Zitro - November 08 2007 at 09:13
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fuxi
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 08:44 |
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I generally dislike the kind of artwork you find on the INSIDE OUT label. STARDUST WE ARE by the Flower Kings is a pretty good album, but the cover (like most of the band's) looks hideous. Same with the Tangent. The band themselves seemed pretty pleased with A PLACE IN THE QUEUE (apparently its design reminded them of Roger Dean) but I think it's third-rate surrealism, just like THE MUSIC THAT DIED ALONE and THE WORLD WE DRIVE THROUGH. (The music's MUCH better than the packaging.) It's all just conveyor belt, mass-production "fantasy" imagery, just like most of the prog metal covers I've ever seen! Give us a break.
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proggy
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 08:39 |
Favorite Cover - Egg - The Polite Force and Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
Worst Cover - Yes - Time and a Word; Do boobs and prog really go together? |
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Norbert
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 08:20 |
Good music poor cover:
Gentle Giant :Acquring the Taste
Porcupine :In Absentia
Fates Warning:No Exit
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RoyalJelly
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 06:37 |
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Here's a whole website devoted to some real masterpieces:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers
I think Heino's gets my vote.
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T.Rox
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 06:18 |
micky wrote:
here's one from my album collection... great album  .. the cover?... well... let's just say photobucket hates it.... they keep on removing it.. saying it violates the agreement I agreed to...pffff... those pansies need an education in art.... not all art is beautiful hahahha
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There is just something just a little creepy about this cover ... top music, though 
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...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche
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UltimaPrime
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 04:59 |
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I'd have to say the cover of 1000 Degrees Centigrades by Magma's sort of a let down, considering the coolness of the music.
Solid gray with black text? Man, that's innovation.
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kenmartree
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Posted: November 08 2007 at 01:44 |
Smell the Glove by Spinal Tap, to their credit they didn't draw it up that way!
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