siLLy puPPy wrote: Frenetic Zetetic wrote: Odvin Draoi wrote: Worst covers are (nearly) always pseudo-intellectual, vainly plugged away ones for me. In Turkish culture, there is a general tendency to respect and make people respect "the effort", notwithstanding the product/outcome or/and what you think about it. I ferociously oppose that. It is far worse to see an excessively worked on crap. Especially when one is faking smartness. Leprous, overall, what a crap altogether. This is easily one of the BEST album covers I've ever seen! You have to laugh that anything that isn't immediately consumable by the average person is deemed pretentious and artsy. The same could be said for those very same people's attitudes in general regarding what constitutes artistic integrity (there's some pretentiousness for you). This is on my favorite album cover list as well. Pretentious is another word for "not getting it."

Nope. I'm not getting this Amorphis cover either, yet I don't find it pretentious.



As for the Deep Purple cover, photographic technics were NOT the same in the past. It is quite well made for a 70s one. It is very impressive. I guess were are -not literally- living in different worlds haha.

WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE

Deep Purple

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Proto-Prog

I think this shouldn't have turned into an argument. I expressed solely that this cover is a "work o' fart" for me, and called Leprous crap altogether. My only focus was the product(s). 

Frenetic Zetetic wrote: Odvin Draoi wrote: Worst covers are (nearly) always pseudo-intellectual, vainly plugged away ones for me. In Turkish culture, there is a general tendency to respect and make people respect "the effort", notwithstanding the product/outcome or/and what you think about it. I ferociously oppose that. It is far worse to see an excessively worked on crap. Especially when one is faking smartness. Leprous, overall, what a crap altogether. This is easily one of the BEST album covers I've ever seen! You have to laugh that anything that isn't immediately consumable by the average person is deemed pretentious and artsy. The same could be said for those very same people's attitudes in general regarding what constitutes artistic integrity (there's some pretentiousness for you).

Opinions differ, yet this is the second "pretentious" judgment I received here, such as, as if I despised everything similar. I gave few examples, you're the second person acting like you know that it is some sort of generalization made by me. It is not, I assure you.

Should I do likewise for people who jump to sudden conclusions with VERY limited evidence, if that is evidence at all? I prefer not to. 

Yet, you can try to explain me what is the thing that makes this cover "fart" being one of the best cover arts for you. Thus I might apologize and delete the "f" letter I put in fron of the word "art"(?) You can save me from analyzing the lyrics and such, considering that you know the integrity of this art and how it is related to the album overall.

My opinions do change sometimes, albeit highly unlikely on such things.

I would vote for the Picture of BIG FAT MAMMA on the original cover of PFM's Chocolate Kings

@Imperial Zeppelin:- I totally agree with you - Gong's Acid Motherhood has to be one of the worst - if not THEE worst - Prog album covers of all time, and it's so goddamned awful that I dare not even post the image here.   Just to give you an idea of how truly awful the album cover is though, it features a pregnant and naked picture of Gong member Daevid Allen on the cover. To say it's not a pretty sight would be the understatement of the year!

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - September 29 2019 at 11:23

siLLy puPPy wrote: I know some like this one but i find it cheap and rather drab compared to the bounty inside

siLLy puPPy wrote: Another album that i love the music but someone was on the same wavelength as Birth Control

I know some like this one but i find it cheap and rather drab compared to the bounty inside