Album covers: WTF were they thinking of?

Mascodagama wrote: BarryGlibb wrote: Karthago have been put up previously for addition on PA but were promptly and appropriately given the short shrift. See here.... http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=66753 Bizarrely it looks as though there have actually been TWO bands called Karthago. The one nominated (and rejected) for PA in your link was a German outfit featuring pre-Kraan Ingo Bischof. But the elephant-obsessed nut jobs whose album covers we've been enjoying hailed from Hungary.

I'll have to correct you on that. Yep, there were two Karthagos; the early Karthago was from Germany and the other later one from Hungary. BUT both of these bands were in fact "elephant-obsessed nut jobs" as you say.

I have done a little research and found out that Karthago is Latin for Carthage and Carthage was the capital city of the Carthage civilization, whose army included "mounted troops on North African elephants (now extinct), trained for war, which, among other uses, were commonly used for frontal assaults or as anticavalry protection. An army could field up to several hundred of these animals,......The riders of these elephants were armed with a spike and hammer to kill the elephants, in case they charged toward their own army."

So there you have it; two bands named Karthago, both of which had an album cover obsession with elephants because of the Carthage (Karthago) army elephants!

BarryGlibb wrote: Mascodagama wrote: BarryGlibb wrote: Karthago have been put up previously for addition on PA but were promptly and appropriately given the short shrift. See here.... http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=66753 Bizarrely it looks as though there have actually been TWO bands called Karthago. The one nominated (and rejected) for PA in your link was a German outfit featuring pre-Kraan Ingo Bischof. But the elephant-obsessed nut jobs whose album covers we've been enjoying hailed from Hungary. I'll have to correct you on that. Yep, there were two Karthagos; the early Karthago was from Germany and the other later one from Hungary. BUT both of these bands were in fact "elephant-obsessed nut jobs" as you say. I have done a little research and found out that Karthago is Latin for Carthage and Carthage was the capital city of the Carthage civilization, whose army included "mounted troops on North African elephants (now extinct), trained for war, which, among other uses, were commonly used for frontal assaults or as anticavalry protection. An army could field up to several hundred of these animals,......The riders of these elephants were armed with a spike and hammer to kill the elephants, in case they charged toward their own army." So there you have it; two bands named Karthago, both of which had an album cover obsession with elephants because of the Carthage (Karthago) army elephants!

lazland wrote: Modrigue wrote: Why this obsession for men's bums? It's anal..........man......

You had to go there.

Mascodagama wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Hmmm...interesting.....many of the 'bad covers' posted are naked or scantily clad men. Is there something Freudian going on here with these postings...?       I don't know...I'm straight as an arrow and I'm looking at those Prince covers thinking `Man, that mutha f**ker is smouldering!' (all great albums actually!)   I'm not going to tell you Prince isn't hot, only a fool would say that.   But you know who is really smoking?   Herbie Mann.   Why this didn't reach #1 will always be a mystery to me.

Some more gems (most of which may be satire but who knows):

Edited by siLLy puPPy - March 28 2016 at 19:11