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javajeff 
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Joined: September 01 2009 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 467 |
 Topic: Strangest Album Cover contest!Posted: August 24 2013 at 16:28 |
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I love Abominog, in a strange way!
 Let the strangeness begin! |
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 20883 |
Posted: August 24 2013 at 16:52 |
 
Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - August 24 2013 at 16:53 |
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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javajeff
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Joined: September 01 2009 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 467 |
Posted: August 24 2013 at 18:57 |
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Those are good choices.
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TheGazzardian
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Joined: August 11 2009 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8703 |
Posted: August 24 2013 at 19:38 |
I found out recently the story behind that Simon Steensland one ... that's actual a legitimate photograph, slightly modified to have a stick removed. Here's the original:  Supposedly it was supposed to be a picture of an unknown primate in South America but that theory has been debunked. http://www.bigfootencounters.com/images/de%20Loys%20Ape2.jpg Anyways, fantastic album, it was my first RIO/Avant (I know, odd starting point), and remains one of my favorites.
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Garlop
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Posted: August 24 2013 at 20:07 |
  
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Time has no name and regret has no meaning
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javajeff
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Posted: August 24 2013 at 21:01 |
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I never thought of any Beardfish album cover as strange, but that Pain of Salvation cover is creepy. The Mars Volta Cover is just bizarre.
This new Bowie cover is just strange.  Edited by javajeff - August 24 2013 at 21:16 |
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Garlop
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Posted: August 24 2013 at 21:30 |
 Unexpect?
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Time has no name and regret has no meaning
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ole-the-first
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Posted: August 24 2013 at 21:59 |
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^That uneXpect cover is really great and enigmatic.
Edited by ole-the-first - August 24 2013 at 21:59 |
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This night wounds time.
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Progosopher
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Posted: August 25 2013 at 00:28 |
Great album but I hate the cover - it's lazy and unimaginative, like appropriation art (such as passing off photos of other photos as art). |
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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twseel
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Posted: August 25 2013 at 02:52 |
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Listened to this yesterday:
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: August 25 2013 at 08:54 |
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I can guess how that meeting discussing album art went. "Guys I have this really great idea for the cover....."
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Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
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ole-the-first
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Posted: August 25 2013 at 09:05 |
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Guys I have this really great idea for the cover. There is a very surrealist/fantasy atmosphere with strange vignettes, flying islands and castles, weird herbs and animals appearing here and there, giant rocks, ice caves. I believe no-one ever came up with such a new thing to do
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This night wounds time.
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progbethyname
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Joined: July 30 2012 Location: HiFi Headmania Status: Offline Points: 7849 |
Posted: August 25 2013 at 12:19 |
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Looking pretty good. On a non Prog note, I'd Say cannibal Corpse has some very extream album covers.
I can't post any images with the device I'm using at the moment, but look into those. Wow. ;) |
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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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tszirmay
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Posted: August 25 2013 at 13:25 |
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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stegor
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Joined: March 23 2013 Location: Minnesota Status: Offline Points: 2030 |
Posted: August 25 2013 at 21:31 |
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Is there a prize?
There are so many flavors of Strange. Strange - Disturbing/Gruesome (Cannibal Corpse and the like) Strange - Conceptual (Hypgnosis and the like) Strange - Otherworldly/Surrealist (Roger Dean and the like) Strange - Creepy Strange - Out of Context Those are just a few I can think of at the moment. I think album covers should have their own genres, just as the music does. A browse through the Album Cover Chain Game thread is highly recommended! http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=68436 Here's one I would put in the Otherworldly/Surrealist category. I just picked this up at a used record shop. It's orchestral music, which makes the cover even stranger. Music's not great, but I got it for the cover.  BTW, this thread seems to be in the wrong place - ? |
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prog4evr
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Joined: September 22 2005 Location: Wuhan, China Status: Offline Points: 1455 |
Posted: August 25 2013 at 22:07 |
This TMV album is a great contender for 'strangest album cover'...
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Barbu
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Posted: August 26 2013 at 02:03 |
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: August 26 2013 at 02:11 |
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No contest really....
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Barbu
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Posted: August 26 2013 at 02:29 |
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^ I can't see the image but i'm guessing it's the bearded guy paint in black.
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twseel
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Posted: August 26 2013 at 02:35 |
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I can't see it either and the guy paint in black is Don Bradshaw-Leather methinks.
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