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Gandalff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 07 2007 Location: Middle-Earth Status: Offline Points: 4214 |
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
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Gandalff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 07 2007 Location: Middle-Earth Status: Offline Points: 4214 |
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Notice: only studio albums.
My vote, without order:
Nicest, most tasteful covers:
Black Sabbath
Technical Ecstasy
Heaven And Hell
The Eternal Idol
Ugliest covers:
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Born Again
Dehumanizer
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
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The best covers: Black Sabbath, Vol. 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
The worst covers: Paranoid, Sabotage ( ![]() |
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Pekka ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 03 2006 Location: Espoo, Finland Status: Offline Points: 6442 |
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Well, Born Again of course
![]() Sabbath have some very very ugly ones indeed, mostly Seventh Star and Technical Ecstacy, and some that really don't really move me in any way. I really do like Born Again, but the debut is my favourite, along with Heaven and Hell and perhaps even Master of Reality. It's not really a great looking cover, but I like the simplicity, and for some reason seeing that always makes me want to listen to the album.
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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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Nicest.
Technical Ecstasy Vol 4 Sabbath Bloody sabbath heaven and Hell Ugliest Born Again Paranoid Master Of Reality Sabotage Seventh Star Forbidden
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WatcherOfTheSkies88 ![]() Forum Groupie ![]() Joined: February 22 2010 Location: Hawaii Status: Offline Points: 79 |
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The cover art for the debut album for Black Sabbath remains my favorite cover art of all time. It's just... perfect.
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lazland ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: October 28 2008 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 13719 |
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Heaven & Hell remains my favourite piece of Sabbs art and work of art to boot. Close second in both is Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
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akamaisondufromage ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: May 16 2009 Location: Blighty Status: Offline Points: 6797 |
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The cover to Paranoid is a travesty. Although, a funny one! A pink man wavin his shield in the air and a shaky camera. You could almost imagine it being shown to the band Spinal Tap.
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Snow Dog ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
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It's not a shaky camera it's a long exposure.
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akamaisondufromage ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: May 16 2009 Location: Blighty Status: Offline Points: 6797 |
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Ooops. Sorry. In which case I am mistaken Snowy. It is a work of genious. How could I have not seen that?
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Gandalff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 07 2007 Location: Middle-Earth Status: Offline Points: 4214 |
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Oh, Forbidden cover is ugly too. It looks like a very bad comics. The same about Mob Rules.
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
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No its still sh*t.
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Conor Fynes ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 11 2009 Location: Vancouver, CA Status: Offline Points: 3196 |
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I like the debut album art... very metal!
BORN AGAIN's album art looks frankly horrible... along with some others!
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Matthew T ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: February 01 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 5291 |
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The debut is the best ............Awful covers . They should have shoot the designers for some of them. Surprisling I like Paranoid too but it is sentimental
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The Quiet One ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745 |
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Greatest: the debut, no doubt. Though I've always liked the norse-inspired Tyr.
Worst: Dehumanizer and Forbidden, both seem like covers from sh*tty metal bands.
The Heaven & Hell cover is iconic, though.
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Finnforest ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 03 2007 Location: The Heartland Status: Offline Points: 16914 |
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Never thought about it, but looking at those, the debut is the only one that doesn't seem silly and/or cheesy and/or just plain poor.
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Cactus Choir ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 26 2008 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 1043 |
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The debut is their best cover IMHO, the perfectly suited combination of visuals with the music on the record. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Heaven & Hell are also great.
Paranoid truly is an unbelievably bad album cover that makes Love Beach look like the work of Rembrandt. As you say, the 'concept' appears to involve a fat, bearded bloke in a motorcycle crash helmet, wearing purple underpants over a pair of pink tights, waving a toy sword while hopping around in a forest at midnight. The concept this communicates to me is 'Sad Perv' rather than the 'Paranoid' idea which was presumably intended! Hard to believe that Marcus Keef, who did the sublime cover for the first album (and lots of other great covers on the Vertigo label), was also responsible for this atrocity just a few months later. |
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Gandalff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 07 2007 Location: Middle-Earth Status: Offline Points: 4214 |
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What the hell is on Sabotage cover? Another kind of travesty? Especially Ozzy and Bill are straightly awful here. Despite of this, the music on Sabotage is one of the best Black Sabbath stuff ever.
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
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seventhsojourn ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 11 2009 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 4006 |
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Ugliest - Sabotage... did we really use to dress like that?!
Nicest - Black Sabbath... reminds me of my missus.
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40footwolf ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 08 2010 Status: Offline Points: 651 |
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Best-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
Worst-Tyr. Incredibly dated, and not in an endearing way either.
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