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splyu 
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Posted: September 10 2008 at 04:26 |
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Come to think of it, though I hold Roger Dean in high regard, the only Yes covers I'm seriously into are Tales and Relayer, as well as Yesterdays and Classic Yes among the compilations. The other ones are nice but not, I feel, among his best work. Drama gets a lot of praise, but I don't find it that great myself.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: September 10 2008 at 04:12 |
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Woa, holy batman ancient thread revival.
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npjnpj
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Posted: September 10 2008 at 04:07 |
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I specifically didn't vote for Tormato, because that cover makes me grin, and not many covers do that. I mean come on, it shows one of the few moments they didn't take themselves seriously.
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Posted: September 09 2008 at 20:36 |
Beleive it or not, I think that "Close to the Edge" is an absolutely beautiful album cover. I don't know, it's just simple enough to calm me down I guess, it's just a feel good album.
As opposed to another minimalistic album cover, "Big Generator", which just gets on my nerves for some reason. 90125 is a close second.
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: September 09 2008 at 20:20 |
My Vote Al the options are ART, this poll S*cks 
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Luke. J
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Posted: July 11 2008 at 09:35 |
 darksideof wrote:
What??¡¡. This poll is stupid. Every single cover is art
My vote!!  |
Art can be beautiful and ugly.
The debut cover is really bad, in the meaning of too simple. Going for the One is bad because it is just ugly. If it was included in this poll, I would have voted Talk, almost as great as Abacab..
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boo boo
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Posted: July 11 2008 at 08:25 |
SAY WHA?
Fragile is an awesome album cover.
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ghost_of_morphy
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Posted: July 11 2008 at 03:45 |
Apologies to Mr. Banks, but the British cover of Yes is easily the worst. Awards for the Best Non-Dean Cover go to the British version of Time and a Word. The Best Dean Cover Award I hereby give to Keys to Ascension II, while the Worst Dean Cover Award goes to Drama (in a close race with Fragile.)
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boo boo
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Posted: July 11 2008 at 03:18 |
Going for the One is not a bad cover, it just looks....... like it should be a Rush album.
Most of the Roger Dean ones are great. Big Generator is their worst, that one is so incredibly plain and tacky.
Edited by boo boo - July 11 2008 at 03:23
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The Quiet One
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Posted: July 10 2008 at 17:51 |
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Jozef
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Posted: July 10 2008 at 16:45 |
In my opinion, the debut album. It's just so...plain...compared to what their other album covers would look like. Well "Close to the Edge" is plain too but that has a nice green color, so I can't complain. Oh well. It doesn't really matter, as long as the music makes up for it. 
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alanerc
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Posted: July 10 2008 at 16:32 |
memowakeman wrote:
FOR THIS ALBUMS THE WORST FOR ME IS GOING FOR THE ONE BUT... BIG GENERATOR IS THE WORST COVER... |
 A huevo memo
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crimhead
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Posted: July 09 2008 at 14:19 |
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Big Generator and Tormato are absolutely terrible. Seriously, the Big Generator cover is so bad it ranks among Manowar's album covers as the worst album covers ever...
Well, forget the claim I made earlier. I don't think Big Generator could go as low as this:
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You know this album was strictly marketed to go after the women that go to Chippendale shows.
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spookytooth
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Posted: July 09 2008 at 10:44 |
Big Generator and Tormato are absolutely terrible. Seriously, the Big Generator cover is so bad it ranks among Manowar's album covers as the worst album covers ever... Well, forget the claim I made earlier. I don't think Big Generator could go as low as this:
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Would you like some Bailey's?
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Roj
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Posted: July 09 2008 at 10:11 |
It has to be "Yes", a truly dire album cover.
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darksideof
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Posted: July 08 2008 at 02:24 |
What??¡¡. This poll is stupid. Every single cover is art
My vote!!
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Statutory-Mike
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Posted: July 07 2008 at 20:29 |
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This poll is the worst
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Posted: July 07 2008 at 20:27 |
crimhead wrote:
peskypesky wrote:
crimhead wrote:
Is the story of the Tormato cover true? Did Wakeman really throw a tomato at the cover? Just curious.
I really don't dislike any of them. Roger Dean is a talented artist. |
And now of course, I have to mention the album title and cover. Originally, the album was slated to be called Yestor, in honor of Yes Tor, a rocky hill "two-and-a-half miles from Okehampton, Devon in England. On a clear day, from the top, you can see far away places with strange sounding names" as the liner notes say. The original cover (by Hipgnosis, not Roger Dean) featured a man holding a dowsing rod, standing on said hill. The (by all accounts true) rumor says Rick Wakeman was so unimpressed by the cover art that he threw a tomato at it during a lunchtime meeting. The link between Tor and tomato was just too good to pass up, so they called the album Tormato instead. To make matters worse, they added a splattered tomato to the front and back cover photos as well. History does not record Hipgnosis' reaction to this, though they still have credit for the cover.
-Grzcyrgba
http://everything2.com/e2node/Tormato
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I did see that somewhere I was just wondering if it was the real deal or just an urban myth. |
All of the stories about the tomato.sandwich throwing incident are uncredited. Does anyone know if this is mentioned in one of Storm's books? (none of the ones I have mention this cover).
Personally I think it is very unlikely that in the 70s Yes would have even contemplated using a cover they didn't like, so I find it difficult to believe that they'd use a cover they didn't like enough to throw vegetables at.
My guess is that they really thought the cover was a great idea, but when the public/press reaction to it was negative, Wakeman made a sarcastic comment about throwing the tomato at it.
From an artistic point of view the red tomato on a blue background is common colour-contrast effect as the blue adds vibrancy to the red, and is one that Hipgnosis used many times (Wish You Were Here (veil picture), The flags picture on The Division Bell, Nice Elegy and Frances the Mute being the most obvious examples that spring to mind).
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crimhead
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Posted: July 07 2008 at 19:38 |
peskypesky wrote:
crimhead wrote:
Is the story of the Tormato cover true? Did Wakeman really throw a tomato at the cover? Just curious.
I really don't dislike any of them. Roger Dean is a talented artist. |
And now of course, I have to mention the album title and cover. Originally, the album was slated to be called Yestor, in honor of Yes Tor, a rocky hill "two-and-a-half miles from Okehampton, Devon in England. On a clear day, from the top, you can see far away places with strange sounding names" as the liner notes say. The original cover (by Hipgnosis, not Roger Dean) featured a man holding a dowsing rod, standing on said hill. The (by all accounts true) rumor says Rick Wakeman was so unimpressed by the cover art that he threw a tomato at it during a lunchtime meeting. The link between Tor and tomato was just too good to pass up, so they called the album Tormato instead. To make matters worse, they added a splattered tomato to the front and back cover photos as well. History does not record Hipgnosis' reaction to this, though they still have credit for the cover.
-Grzcyrgba
http://everything2.com/e2node/Tormato
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I did see that somewhere I was just wondering if it was the real deal or just an urban myth.
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peskypesky
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Posted: July 07 2008 at 19:15 |
crimhead wrote:
Is the story of the Tormato cover true? Did Wakeman really throw a tomato at the cover? Just curious.
I really don't dislike any of them. Roger Dean is a talented artist. |
And now of course, I have to mention the album title and cover. Originally, the album was slated to be called Yestor, in honor of Yes Tor, a rocky hill "two-and-a-half miles from Okehampton, Devon in England. On a clear day, from the top, you can see far away places with strange sounding names" as the liner notes say. The original cover (by Hipgnosis, not Roger Dean) featured a man holding a dowsing rod, standing on said hill. The (by all accounts true) rumor says Rick Wakeman was so unimpressed by the cover art that he threw a tomato at it during a lunchtime meeting. The link between Tor and tomato was just too good to pass up, so they called the album Tormato instead. To make matters worse, they added a splattered tomato to the front and back cover photos as well. History does not record Hipgnosis' reaction to this, though they still have credit for the cover.
-Grzcyrgba
http://everything2.com/e2node/Tormato
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