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    Posted: June 01 2004 at 22:30

I think my favorite is Mark Wilkinson's illustration cover for "Fugazi". Fish actually contributed as well with the concept for that cover. But what I like the most is that besides containing the characteristics every Marillion Fish's era's album got, it also holds such powerful 80's images perfectly scattered all across the hotel room where it takes place (the furniture, the pictures on the wall by Julie Hazelwood, the TV set...), and of course, as in "Script for a Jester's Tear"; the hidden album covers on the floor, this time featuring Mr. Peter Hammill's "Over" and "Fools Mate" album covers I believe and the others I can't recognize...  

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I like the artwork for King Crimson > Lizard. Lots of detail.
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i like Yes' Relayer

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Originally posted by moonchild moonchild wrote:

I like the artwork for King Crimson > Lizard. Lots of detail.

Yeah, most of KC's front covers are quite intriguing...

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Grobschnitt Rockpommell's Land and Solar Music Live. Gentle Giant In A Glass House and The Roger Dean Octopus Cover as well as Demons And Wizards by Uriah Heep. His cover for the Danish band Midnight Sun album Walking Circles is also great. Check it out on my web-site. I tis a mega rare album and is worth $ to collectors. I have mint copy which I do not even play. I burned it on to a CD.Even though I am not to fond of the record, Focus' Mother Focus album artwork is quite remarkable.Guru Guru Dance Of The Flames, also check that out on my web-site, amazing photography. Another very rare album. Omega, 200 Years After The Last War as well as Hall Of Floaters In The Sky.
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Originally posted by landberkdoten landberkdoten wrote:

Originally posted by moonchild moonchild wrote:

I like the artwork for King Crimson > Lizard. Lots of detail.

Yeah, most of KC's front covers are quite intriguing...

Except for Earthbound, the black cover. What the freak was that? 
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Originally posted by landberkdoten landberkdoten wrote:

Originally posted by moonchild moonchild wrote:

I like the artwork for King Crimson > Lizard. Lots of detail.

Yeah, most of KC's front covers are quite intriguing...

Except for Earthbound, the black cover. What the freak was that? 

Still, it's KC we're talking 'bout here, so I think we can let that one slip, huh?  
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Grobschnitt Rockpommell's Land and Solar Music Live.

Great couple of selections and great albums BTW  

"Jumbo" is also one of those album covers to remember, a very eclectic yet funny one

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Originally posted by landberkdoten landberkdoten wrote:

Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Originally posted by landberkdoten landberkdoten wrote:

Originally posted by moonchild moonchild wrote:

I like the artwork for King Crimson > Lizard. Lots of detail.

Yeah, most of KC's front covers are quite intriguing...

Except for Earthbound, the black cover. What the freak was that? 

Still, it's KC we're talking 'bout here, so I think we can let that one slip, huh?  

OK we'll let that one slip.
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Hmmm I really like the Foxtrot Cover, it's really funny I think...
but there are lots of really cool cover-artworks just like Lizard, Brain Salad Surgery, In a glass house or Pawn Hearts by VdGG. I also like Travis Smith, he did artwork for Opeth or Anathema.
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The 1st Renaissance sleeve - "The Fall of Icarus" for relative sublety - but you need the the original 12" cover to appreciate it.

Man's "Be Good To Yourself At Least Twice A Day" (but the original 12" sleeve, for an amazing foldout map/cartoon of Wales.

Touch (again the 12") for the insert poster
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The best cover i've ever seen is that of Jaz Coleman - Kashmir: Symphonic Led Zeppelin i spent more than an hour looking at it, the drawings were making averything in life out of books, buildings of books, fountain of books. it was very artistic actually. though it is not prog. i cant think of a specified prog album right now, maybe i should go take a look again
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HI, THIS IS CÉSAR INCA.

How about a cover in the shape of a massively satyrical newspaper? Yes, I'm talking about JETHRO TULL'S 'Thick as a Brick'.

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i've seen this post previously... and i think that over the years and over the "tastes" we must achive a certain degree of respect, because the artwork is "the face" of the record, so, i think that most of the covers of Strom Thorgerson, and Bill Smith studio are worth talking about, also, i know that so many people in here admire Roger dean, but to my point of view, those drawings are excellent but to "dated", anyway, is my point of view, to me one of the must impresive covers i've seen is the "in absentia" record from Porcupine tree, a very raw and dramatic cover, or the cover for Peter gabriel's "up", cheers

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Anything by Roger Dean does it for me, I've even in the past taken the fact that he designed the cover as a recommendation of the music.

Cesar, you're absolutely right about TAAB, it must be the only sleeve which lasts longer than the album when you sit down and read it!Big smile

It's intersting how with the demise of LPs, sleeve designs had to change. With the restricted area of a CD cover, would the likes of the covers Roger Dean designed for Yes have had nearly the same impact today? Nowadays, it's more about close ups, and less about landscapes.

I notice some of Spock's Beard and the Flower Kings earlier works have been released on CD in limited edition 7 inch covers, which look like small LP sleeves which show off the artwork much better. Hopefully this is something record companies will do more often. How about re-releasing "Yessongs" in remastered format on CD, but packaged in the original LP sized double gatefold sleeve?
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If you let me consider Rhapsody as a prog band, "Legendary Tales" art work is stunning! 
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I like very much this cover artwork, but nonetheless I don't know who painted it.

But I like also the following artists :

Roger Dean (the red dragon, Steve Howe's cover art for "Not necessarily acoustic" is awesome)

Paul Whitehead (Peter Hammill's "Fool's mate" has a sublime cover, see also Le Orme's last LP : "Elementi")

Kim Poor

Peter Cross (the painter for Anthony Phillips)

Mark Wilkinson (see my avatar)

Peter Woodroffe (Pallas' "The sentinel") 

J. B. Mathingly (Jordan Rudess'"Feeding the wheel")

 
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Originally posted by landberkdoten landberkdoten wrote:

I think my favorite is Mark Wilkinson's illustration cover for "Fugazi".

Great cover and great album, as were the two following.
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