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    Posted: September 09 2005 at 12:54
long time ago in '60 and '70 cover sheets were big and created by famous artist like e.g. Roslav Shaybo.
Which in your opinion is the best?
my favourite is GENESIS' "Wind and wuthering"

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hmm

Yes - Fragile ( roger dean)
Pink Floyd - Animals ( exellent ! )
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

etc..
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laterallus from tool is amazing, not my favorite, but amazing
you and whose army?
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Hipgnosis/ Magnetic Storm/ Storm Thorgerson was /is awesome...........

10cc, Alan Parsons, Black Sabbath, Brand X, Dream Theater, Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield,
Nice, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Quartermass, Rick Wright, The Mars Volta, Yes..............phewwwwwwww


Roger Dean, Phil Travers (Moodies), Paul Whitehead, Walter Mac Mazzieri (Le Orme)


          


   a wonderful website devoted to Mazzieri at http://www.macmazzieri.com/
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Mark Wilkinson (Marillion albums of Fish era)
yet you still have time!
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porcupine tree - in absentia

pink floyd - animals, wish you were here

all of mark wilkinson's work for marillion

and king crimson's in the court of the crimson king.
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Paul Whitehead!! Half of Genesis albums in Gabriel era (tresspass, nursery cryme and foxtrot) 
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1)The best cover is Time Honoured Ghosts, by Barclay James Harvest (1975).TongueClap

2) the first album by Blue Oyster Cult (1972)Tongue

3) A Passion Play, by Jethro Tull (1973)Tongue
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"The Kids Are Alright" (The Who) - beautiful cover art, an amazing booklet and engraved record bags - one of the greatest cover arts of all time, in all dimensions.
"He's a man of the past and one of the present"
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my top ten:

spocks - beard v
dream theater - octavarium
pink floyd - wish you were here
genesis - lamb
asia - asia; at least the cover rocks ;-)
yes - fragile, relayer
camel - moonmadness
elp - brain salad surgery
bjh - octoberon
flower kings -retropolis

IMO: in most cases good packaging for good music...
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i love VDGG's "Still Life"
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I like some of the cover art from Symphony X.Rodney Matthews is better than Roger Dean in my opinion also.
Originally posted by darkshade:

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black sabbath - black sabbath

pink floyd - animals

hawkwind - space bandits

amon duul - wolf city

the doors - strange days

celtic frost - into the pandemonium

tangerine dream - rubycon

 
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hard to pick a favourite. I love the obvious ones: Paul Whitehead
(Genesis, VDGG, Hammill and High Tide's Sea Shanties), Roger Dean
(Yes, Uriah Heep, Greenslade, Gentle Giant) but also Marcus Keef
(Colosseum, Black Sabbath, Affinity, many Neon artists) and Peter
Cross (Anthony Phillips). Since the cover for The geese and the ghost
has been my screensaver for months, i'll choose this one

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Originally posted by floyd68 floyd68 wrote:

my top ten:

spocks - beard v
dream theater - octavarium
pink floyd - wish you were here
genesis - lamb
asia - asia; at least the cover rocks ;-)
yes - fragile, relayer
camel - moonmadness
elp - brain salad surgery
bjh - octoberon
flower kings -retropolis

IMO: in most cases good packaging for good music...

Octoberon is really very good one!!
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...of course I forgot to mention BJH! and Hipgnosis, Amon Düül II, T
Dream etc...
King Crimson's Lizard has a stunning cover
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King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Tool - Lateralus (the proper one)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Other very good ones:

Sikth - The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild
Ulver - Blood Inside
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  • Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene, Equinoxe, Rendez-Vous
  • Supertramp - Supertramp, Crime of The Century, Even In The Quietest Moments, ...Famous Last Words...
  • Pink Floyd - Ummagumma, Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall
  • Genesis - Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Wind & Wuthering
  • Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant, Octopus (Roger Dean), In a Glass House, Playing The Fool
  • King Crimson - In The Court of The Crimson King, Lark's Tongues In Aspic, Starless And Bible Black
  • Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery, Welcome Back My Friends...
  • Yes - Fragile, Close To The Edge, Yessongs, Tales From Topographic Oceans, Relayer, and other Roger Dean Yes covers
  • Dream Theater - Live at the Marquee, Awake, Falling Into Infinity, Train of Thought
  • Symphony X - Damnation Game, V: The New Mythology Suite
  • Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts, Godbluff, World Record
  • Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Thick as a Brick

 
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Well done -
and how do you like RUSH-" Power Windows" cover?

And don't you think covers of CD are not the same masterpieces than LP?
Projects of LP covers were more addicted to recordings than now and expressed spirit of music inside.
I could put a cover, looked at , and listen, imagine...
Good times, bad times
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roger dean is my favorite
"my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III")
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