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Hrychu 
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 Topic: Great Albums With Bad Album CoversPosted: July 07 2024 at 15:56 |
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I hate this cover art not because it's bad or ugly but because it's so effective.
 It makes me feel like I actually have double vision and it's so annoying! 🤣 Which is exactly what the designers wanted to achieve I guess. It's a neat novelty thing but its appeal wears off extremely quick. |
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Posted: June 26 2024 at 02:19 |
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Ed Unitsky's photobashing-based style didn't age very well imo.
  His covers might've been a novelty for their time but nowadays they look like early 2000's tech demos. |
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Posted: June 25 2024 at 20:31 |
fantastic album but a horrible album cover.
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Posted: June 25 2024 at 20:30 |
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The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking Roger Waters. The worst of them all!. Great album but terrible album cover. |
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Cristi
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Posted: June 08 2024 at 23:47 |
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Posted: September 07 2023 at 13:06 |
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Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free Not repulsive in any way, just pretty bland by Zappa's standards.
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A lot of retro prog like Flower Kings, Spock's Beard, and Echolyn have some fantastic albums, but their albums covers usually look quite bad.
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Posted: August 04 2023 at 10:59 |
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The Death Spiritual Healing album cover is epic! It's so full of wit and charm... always puts a smile on my face!
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![Focus - "Moving Waves" | Decibel Magazine](https://www.decibelmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/focusmovingwaves.jpg "Focus - "Moving Waves" | Decibel Magazine")
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Posted: April 03 2021 at 23:27 |
As someone in the psych and philosophy fields, I love, love, LOVE hearing people's interpretations of why they like or dislike art. Is there something about the "hard to look at" aspect present in other paintings for you? I'm a nerd so I'm curious LOL. I love surrealist art BTW.
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Not prog, and from what I've heard, not particularly engaging, but I can't stomach the collective Bill Bruford Earthworks covers. Like Leroy Neiman paintings, hard to look at.
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Posted: April 01 2021 at 06:24 |
I actually would've agreed with you at one point, but I think the style of this cover fits well with songs like Misunderstood, the title track and disappear. I think they have far worse covers out there, but not all of them are good albums in my opinion so they might not fit the thread. I think Falling Into Infinity is a pretty awful cover for an album that I actually dig quite a bit, especially considering it came from the same guy who did Dark Side of the Moon, Peter Gabriel 3, Animals to name a few
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This cover is quite ugly, but the songs sound like this: |
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Also: David Bowie - Diamond Dogs The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds. Advanced, sophisticated pop and feeding goats? The Beatles - Rubber Soul. Never really been a fan of that photo actually. The close-up seems almost a bit agressive, and it is a bad representation of the music.
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Not Prog but a pretty good live album (the cover speaks for itself).
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Posted: March 31 2021 at 02:35 |
No arguing with tastes, is there?!
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A Crimson Mellotron wrote:
