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verslibre 
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 Posted: November 09 2007 at 02:03 |
The Emerson Lake and Powell album cover is pretty lame and unimaginative (in the same way 90125 and Big Generator are). Plus, many people think it reads "666" when you turn it upside-down. Now it makes perfect sense: Emo is the Beast!  Going back to Yes, I've always hated the cover of Talk, too.
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b_olariu
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 11:28 |
Their is some covers that i don't like at all, but the albums are trully great:
Albatros - Garden od eden - 1978
Focus - Hamburger concerto - 1974
Jean Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean - 1977, and maybe others i can't remember now.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 11:37 |
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Nil Recurring. Awesome music, but the cover seems more like a photograph, than an album cover.
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darkmatter
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 11:40 |
 verslibre wrote:
Going back to Yes, I've always hated the cover of Talk, too.
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I've never heard this album, but I've looked at the artwork before and it's one of the worst covers I've ever seen. It looks like a third grader did it in MS Paint....
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Philéas
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 15:36 |
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The American cover for Time and a Word was really ugly.
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tambermelon
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 16:49 |
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The Doctor
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 16:55 |
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Living Colour - Vivid
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I almost had a seizure after viewing that. 
What happened? Did a can of paint explode on the album cover? 
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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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sheeves
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 16:57 |
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Wow, Living Colour. Vivid is very good. I kind of like the artwork. It's a punk, graffiti New York styled cover, if that's a term. Cult of Personality is great.
And for my album, I'll go with The Enid's In The Region of the Summer Stars. I don't know, I just don't like that cover. Great album though.
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micky
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 16:57 |
dralan wrote:
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. |
to be honest..... it suited the music quite well
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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The Lost Chord
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Posted: November 09 2007 at 22:58 |
micky wrote:
dralan wrote:
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. |
to be honest..... it suited the music quite well
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Somewhat agree with this...I do think the artwork was pretty "amateurish"...I tend to love the album cover if the album is great, anyway.
This topic is tough for me, because of that reason. A few people said "Aquiring the Taste" is a gross cover, but the music is so brilliant I just can't help but find the cover brilliant as well. Bias becomes me when I hear the music...I love every album cover for every great album.
A bad album on the other hand...well, ofcourse thats not 90124 by YES I would be referring, that album has a brilliant cover and amazing musicianship.
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Sckxyss
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Posted: November 10 2007 at 00:20 |
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What exactly is on the cover of Acquiring the Taste? The only thing I can think of is a tongue licking someone's bottom, but that seems too gross to be possible! (for an album cover)
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ten years after
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Posted: November 10 2007 at 00:45 |
Sckxyss wrote:
What exactly is on the cover of Acquiring the Taste? The only thing I can think of is a tongue licking someone's bottom, but that seems too gross to be possible! (for an album cover) |
Nonetheless that's what i've always assumed it to be.
The Beatles Yesterday and Today "Butcher Album" cover in the US would take some beating for grossness. Mind you there have been a few pretty gross covers over tghe years.
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The Doctor
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Posted: November 10 2007 at 00:59 |
Hmmm...I'm not sure what album cover you guys have for Acquiring the Taste, but it sure looks like an apple to me.
Grow up and get your minds out of the gutter. 
It is an open mouth, tongue hanging out and drool coming down over an apple.
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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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ten years after
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Posted: November 10 2007 at 02:18 |
The Doctor wrote:
Hmmm...I'm not sure what album cover you guys have for Acquiring the Taste, but it sure looks like an apple to me.
Grow up and get your minds out of the gutter.
It is an open mouth, tongue hanging out and drool coming down over an apple. |
I'm far too old to grow up i'm afraid. 
The cover has looked that way to me for 35 years and looking at it again now it still looks like that.
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Nowhere Man
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Posted: November 10 2007 at 11:02 |
Well, if you open up the album cover....  It was probably meant to be ambiguous, though.
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Rottenhat
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Posted: November 10 2007 at 12:11 |
Guru Guru - Hinten
Wish I could post a picture. A picture of a man's behind and some zooming effects.
Haven't heard the album., but I quite like the 2 other Guru Guru albums I have.
Rottenhat
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: November 10 2007 at 13:32 |
The early 80s reissue of Crucis' debut is ever so lame:  Lame! Compare it to the original 76 release's cover: 
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Odyssey
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Posted: November 10 2007 at 13:47 |
micky wrote:
Atavachron wrote:
hey I love the Tarkus cover.. it's a perfect fit for the music and period
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I know.... it's a great cover... ELP haters just can't stop with
music.. or the personalities... but they even have to stoop to the
level of f**king with the Armadillo "Tarkus'... some people are
never satisfied and have to go after our sacred cows of prog.
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Hey,I love ELP.Just because I don't like cover doesn't mean that I don't like music. Sorry if I offended someone.
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NecroManiac
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Posted: November 10 2007 at 15:47 |
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What's yer faovrite album? =^_^=
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steve j
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Posted: November 10 2007 at 16:04 |
explodingjosh wrote:
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. |
Don't like Roger Dean? Just listen to Eloy Colours while looking at Roger Dean artwork and it transports you to another world. Don't like Roger Dean, good heavens, what will you guys come up with next. Prog and Roger Dean go hand in hand.
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