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Abstrakt

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Topic: best cover art
Posted: April 30 2006 at 06:25

Nektar's first album cover is great

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Posted: April 29 2006 at 15:09

My favorites:

Especially the paintings inside:

last.fm

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Posted: April 29 2006 at 14:34

^I like the "Gun" cover Smile

It was Roger Dean's first.

Edited by The Miracle - April 29 2006 at 15:09

last.fm

freebird

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Posted: April 29 2006 at 14:10

Space Chief wrote:

But seriously...

I hate to ask where those first 8 came from. Cover art from from hell?

Abstrakt

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Posted: April 29 2006 at 06:27

LED ZEPPELIN - Presence

Gentle Giant - Octopus

BLACK SABBATH - heaven and hell, black sabbath, sabbath bloody sabbath

Yes - Fragile

Klaus Schulze - Timewind

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra, Rubycon

Pink Floyd - Animals, Dsotm, Division Bell

cobb

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Posted: April 28 2006 at 20:00

Joolz wrote:

Wow, yeah! Brilliant book with some OK music.

I agree with the music. What a stunning idea it was. If only Dave Greenslade could have shown the same brilliance with his music as Woodroffe did with the artwork

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Posted: April 28 2006 at 17:15

I really like Paul Whitheads work (vdgg, Genesis).

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Posted: April 28 2006 at 11:40

two of the most stunning covers i have seen.....

the eye follows you round the room!! Confused

...less is more!! LOL

Supersexy Swingin' Sounds -- album cover

...and even less is a lot more!!

Edited by mystic fred - April 28 2006 at 12:08

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Joolz

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Posted: April 28 2006 at 05:36

cobb wrote:

No Patrick Woodroffe... hmmmm

Nobody remember this?

and many other brilliant fantasy works for books and albums

Wow, yeah! Brilliant book with some OK music. I read once (probably in Record Collector magazine 10 or more years ago) that a mint copy of the LP was worth over £120 (UK pounds) - presumably a lot more now! I reckon my book is mint but the vinyl possibly not.

Rodney Matthews is another favourite of mine.

I think maybe my all time favourite cover is Bedside Manners Are Extra (Greenslade) by Roger Dean

Zoso

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Posted: April 27 2006 at 23:42

Fragile, Relayer and Tales by Yes. Thank god for Roger Dean.

cobb

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Posted: April 27 2006 at 23:07

No Patrick Woodroffe... hmmmm

Nobody remember this?

and many other brilliant fantasy works for books and albums

Edited by cobb - April 27 2006 at 23:17

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Posted: April 27 2006 at 22:59

"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence"
- Robert Fripp

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Posted: April 27 2006 at 21:53

I'll add Genesis's "Selling England by the Pound", Yes "Tales..." and some Pendragon are excellent too ("The masquerade Overture", "The widow of life")

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Posted: April 27 2006 at 19:09

My favourite record sleeve art work includes:

Art Zoyd - Generations sans futur

Stormy Six - Macchina Maccheronica

Stormy Six - Al Volo

Magma - 1001 degrees centigrades (the orange, not the grey one)

Magma - Magma

King Crimson - In the wake of Poseidon

King Crimson - Lizard

Weather Report - Weather Report

Weather Report - I sing the body electric

Weather Report - Procession

Gong - You

Art Bears - Hopes and Fears

Can - Soon over Babaluma

Pere Ubu - New Picnic time

The music I enjoy is complex; varied; deep and well played.

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Posted: April 15 2006 at 09:36

Andrea Cortese wrote:

1)The best cover is Time Honoured Ghosts, by Barclay James Harvest (1975). Tongue

Well at least you're consistent

Dr4Wazo

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Posted: April 14 2006 at 18:50

"Mëem Otsilennhetëe Dros Sun Surra Steuhn Do Nansei"

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Posted: April 14 2006 at 18:45

But seriously...

GPFR

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Posted: April 14 2006 at 18:39

Selling England By the Pound, Wish You Were Here, Frances the Mute, Deadwing, etc.

www.myspace.com/hail_peter

freebird

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Posted: April 14 2006 at 18:36

floyd68 wrote:

my top ten:

spocks - beard v
dream theater - octavarium
pink floyd - wish you were here
genesis - lamb
asia - asia; at least the cover rocks ;-)
yes - fragile, relayer
camel - moonmadness
elp - brain salad surgery
bjh - octoberon
flower kings -retropolis

IMO: in most cases good packaging for good music...

My Top 10: (all from my collection)

Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans

Mike Oldfield - Songs of a Distant Earth

Asia - Alpha (all Asia cover art great, albums mostly blah)

King Crimson - Lizard

Weather Report - Black Market

Pendragon - Window of Life

Camel - The Snow Goose

Ash Ra Tempel - self titled (first album)

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

Tangerine Dream - Tournado

Angeldust

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Posted: September 19 2005 at 17:47

Mirage ?

Anyway ,propably Permanent Waves from Rush

and Division Bell is a great too.

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