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Points: 4095 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2014 at 18:01
Originally posted by notesworth notesworth wrote:

Kraftwerk's visual aesthetic always appealed to me. I don't know why.

didn't think of them but it appeals to me too---of course Yes and Dean--but I love Genesis covers particularly SEBTP, Lamb, Trick, W&W
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Kraftwerk's visual aesthetic always appealed to me. I don't know why.
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Tool... shame about the music.
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Like: Grizzly Bear, Swans, post-Meddle Pink Floyd, maudlin of the Well
Dislike: Different strokes for different folks sure, but I would rather not stroke or be stroked by late-70s prog naked-man-butts.
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Black Sabbath with their first two albums. It's like a twisted cross between a Marvel comic and an episode of The Twilight Zone.
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Points: 171 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2014 at 16:18
Yes circa 71-74 with those incredible Roger Dean album covers. 
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Opeth. Generally very dark album covers (not in the typical death metal sense of guts and gore) but still very organic even if there's nothing living on the album art itself thanks to their stylized name.
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Mastodon's artwork up to and including CtS is simply brilliant. Unfortunately the artist died and The Hunter received a different artist.
The love the usage of the same style throughout their discog and the detail put into them. They aren't the cliche metal artwork.
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For me Yes had that going with Fragile, CTTE, TFTO and Relayer with the Roger Dean logo and artwork.
The first 3 Crimson had that with their lyrical and artwork ideas and Genesis with Trespass, Foxtrot, and Nursery Cryme had a mystical old English  'feel' that seemed to be consistent.
 
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Not sure how exclusively visual their aesthetic, but the band concept of Jethro Tull is indeed one of my favourite things about the band: The entire collison between traditional and modernity, specifically the rather witty commentary in the lyrics and how you see it reflected in the songwriting's combination of folk music and progressive rock.
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Points: 18064 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2014 at 10:01
Hi,
 
I think you want NEKTAR in this list. The 5th member was the lighting person setting up their "light theater" on the stage, which was on all sides, in the early days. If I'm not mistaken, he was also a part of the writing team for the music.
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There are some music groups where the entire set of visual symbolism they surround themselves with (band photos, cover art, stage shows etc) are as integral to the entire "band concept" as the music, at the very least really adding something to the entire music experience.

My picks so far are:

  • Blue Öyster Cult: At least the first three LPs, with the cryptic M. C. Escher-like black/white/red cover art. Sinister and trippy in a subtle understated way implying something disturbing yet wondrous on a larger cosmic scale, perfectly fits the content's totally distinct take on making complex and dark psychedelic rock music.
  • Hawkwind: The entire trippy mystically-oriented New Wave science-fiction vibe taken to its utmost extreme. Basically, I like listening to Hawkwind for the same reason I like reading experimental SF literature and books about the occult/paranormal contemporary to their vintage.
  • Voivod: To 1980s/1990s cyberpunk what Hawkwind are to 1960s/1970s New Wave SF. Angular, spiked and messy in a very punky way (to this day their cover art has a "handdrawn flyer for local punk shows in abandoned factory" feel) yet also very ambitious and inventive with an insane attention to detail. Again, just like their music.


Will add some more when I can think of them. What are your picks?
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