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moshkito 
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 Posted: March 27 2016 at 10:38 |
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Scorpions had great covers, some I cannot post here (family friendly forum  )...but these two I am always like what is it and why??????...
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I do not know the veracity of the 2nd Scorpions album, but the title song (Fly to the Rainbow) seems to be a double take on Amon Duul 2's "Apocaliptyc Bore" in the Vive La Trance album, and both songs end with a very nice guitar duel to close the song, with AD2's being a guitar/violin blow out.
There is also a bit about the songs ... I think that AD2's is about the drugs are dead and boring now, and Scorpions is about ... let's party and fly! AD2's song, might also be a take on the romantic notion about the communes coming to an end, or the folks growing up enough to have kids and the partying ... slow down considerably.
The cover itself, is more a take on the end of the fascination with all things "stellar" and "space", which by that time was becoming boring and taken to the cleaners by many artists. "... taken all the skybites, and we're leaving for the big bear ... " kinda says it all ... enough dope. I quit almost all of it at that time, as well.
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 10:18 |
This might take the cake though although this is a comedy album so not sure if it counts
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 10:15 |
I always thought Tarkus had a super cheesy cover. Still do
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 10:13 |
EULENSPYGEL 2
Edited by siLLy puPPy - March 27 2016 at 10:14
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 10:11 |
Not prog, but WTF? Dude was trippin with this one Swamp Dogg - Rat On!
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 10:04 |
The Handsome Beasts had this lame little cover on Beastiality
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 10:01 |
Brainstorm's debut Smile A While is notably cringe worthy
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 09:59 |
The first Dream THeater - When Dream And Day Unite is pretty horrific
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 09:57 |
Perhaps one of the lamest album covers AND band names in all of history
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 09:24 |
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I've never understood why ELP didn't re-do the cover when the album had future releases. It's not an unheard of thing to do. Believe me, If I ever obtained the rights to the ELP library...I'd update it in a heart beat.
I've always found this one to be a WTF? cover for ASIA
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Ugh, that's just awful. I hadn't seen it before and quite frankly I would have been glad if no one had ever brought it to my attention.
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 09:13 |
Bouc Emissaire from Canada
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 09:03 |
This thread obviously needs some Ya Ho Wa 13: 
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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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Posted: March 27 2016 at 09:03 |
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pfff... red tights.. like none of us have worn those out in public before.
I am more put off by Iommi's trim man... he actually looks more sinister there
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 07:56 |
Mascodagama wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
[QUOTE=Mascodagama] [QUOTE=Pastmaster][QUOTE=Mascodagama]
Love the album, but if you had to choose one image to answer the question "what went wrong in the seventies?"... I see Bill Ward's bulging red trousers (are they trousers, or a pair of tights?) and shirtless, leather-jacketed torso in nightmares.
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I was listening to a podcast about Black Sabbath, and I believe they said that Bill Ward was wearing his sisters pants there. |
Actually the tights were his wife's. I understand they are an improvement over what he had. I suppose album cover photo shoots were a surprise way back when. Ah well, at least it all backs up the title.
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 07:54 |
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Gong's Acid Motherhood, anyone? |
No. Beyond hideous. And naturally, a serious contender for winning this thread. That is not a compliment.
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 07:48 |
I've never understood why ELP didn't re-do the cover when the album had future releases. It's not an unheard of thing to do. Believe me, If I ever obtained the rights to the ELP library...I'd update it in a heart beat. I've always found this one to be a WTF? cover for ASIA
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 07:39 |
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As for Guru Guru's Hinten album...........FANTASTIC music, freaky cover-art. |
I think this one beats most covers mentioned here
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 06:48 |
Tom Ozric wrote:
Mascodagama wrote:
Pastmaster wrote:
Mascodagama wrote:
Love the album, but if you had to choose one image to answer the question "what went wrong in the seventies?"... I see Bill Ward's bulging red trousers (are they trousers, or a pair of tights?) and shirtless, leather-jacketed torso in nightmares.
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I was listening to a podcast about Black Sabbath, and I believe they said that Bill Ward was wearing his sisters pants there. |
You just added a whole new layer of WRONG to something that was wrong enough already  |
Call me 'wrong' (probs am) but, I have a silk Kimono I bought in Thailand with a Dragon design on the back. I love to get around in it 
I thought Alzzy was dressed the coolest ❄️
Now I edit Sarn spellcheck - OZZY came out as Alzzy  - Yay Spellcheck 
Now 'darn' may have been a typo........... |
You only get maximum Alzzy points if you have the suede platform boots to go with it 
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Posted: March 27 2016 at 06:45 |
Son.of.Tiresias wrote:
The Dark Elf wrote:
There have been other threads dwelling on hideous album covers, usually by some unknown German theramin player or some 60s gospel singers with bouffants, but the real WTF were they thinking of moments come with important bands who sold millions of albums:
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"Love Beach" front cover is OK. Lake & Palmer are very handsome, as bold and beautiful as Bee Gees, at least. Obviously this was against pop music´s banality and this time (again) ELP succeeded. It was middle finger to punk BS using its anti thesis, bold & beautiful look as weapon against it. And to fill the contract they just recorded some stuff and this is how the album came about, obviously not the best material... but what the hell. And it´s much better than "Works 2", their rock bottom. I see the irony of it all. How many of the rock superstars had the guts to posing like this and made joke about themselves? Not so many. |
^ I can agree with some comments here - BUT - Works Vol II has a wonderful Side 1 - patchy Side 2. You could break it down to a 'condensed' version of Volume I : EMERSON - Barrelhouse Shakedown, Maple Leaf Rag and Honky Tonk Train Blues LAKE - Watching Over You, I Believe In Father Christmas and Show Me The Way To Go Home. PALMER - Bullfrog and Close But Not Touching EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - Tiger In A Spotlight, When The Apple Blossoms Bloom......., Brain Salad Surgery and So Far To Fall. Overall, not a bad album then - not as special as Vol I though, and on-par with Love Beach.
Edited by Tom Ozric - March 27 2016 at 06:50
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