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MattNYR 
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 Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:17 |
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Yesterday and Today by the Beatles has a picture of the four beatles with dead babies and raw meat or something. I have no idea what the hell is going on, except that it's a terrible album cover. And since it's by the Beatles, I'm assuming the music is pretty good.
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Igha
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:23 |
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Focus - Moving Waves (Excellent album, with a very lame cover)
Maybe it's one of the "prog icons", and it's everywhere...but the In The Court cover, I just don't like it, for me is horrible
Hey Acquiring The Taste cover is Great... :(
Love the double-sense humour
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lightbulb_son
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:36 |
 memowakeman wrote:
Opeth - Orchid.. i like the cover.. but the album dont |
same here
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Cheesecakemouse
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:38 |
King Crimson In the wake of Poseiden great cover, not so great album
Starless and Bible Black, lousy cover great album; maybe they should swap.
The great thing about Genesis was when their music went downhill so did the covers, while their early covers and music are both great.
But with Going for the One I always liked the cover,but sure who wants to see a guys rear end?  for me its the whole musical city thing in the backround which is awesome, maybe if Mr G. For the One wore some jeans it would be a better cover, the same goes for Hemispheres  .
Edited by Cheesecakemouse - April 23 2006 at 21:40
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Man With Hat
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:50 |
Bern wrote:
^So is VDGG - Godbluff |
Personally i like the Godbluff cover. Really simplistic but still  Tho i love the album as well. So i have nothing to contribute to this thread 
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Man With Hat
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:51 |
Cheesecakemouse wrote:
King Crimson In the wake of Poseiden great cover, not so great album
Starless and Bible Black, lousy cover great album; maybe they should swap.
The great thing about Genesis was when their music went downhill so did the covers, while their early covers and music are both great.
But with Going for the One I always liked the cover,but sure who wants to see a guys rear end? for me its the whole musical city thing in the backround which is awesome, maybe if Mr G. For the One wore some jeans it would be a better cover, the same goes for Hemispheres . |
Its better then the other side 
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Logan
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:56 |
Igha wrote:
Hey Acquiring The Taste cover is Great... :(
Love the double-sense humour |
If I'd just seen that cover in a store and not known the band, I might
have thought that acquiring the taste for this music is akin to
acquiring the taste of a$$. A$$ is not a taste I'd wish to
acquire. It sends a crappy message. What would Cartman say?
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lightbulb_son
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:03 |
My pick is
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
I love the album but very bad cover in my opinion
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The Miracle
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:11 |
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I can't really think of anything outside of those mentioned... usually great album = great cover.
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Cheesecakemouse
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:36 |
Man With Hat wrote:
Cheesecakemouse wrote:
King Crimson In the wake of Poseiden great cover, not so great album
Starless and Bible Black, lousy cover great album; maybe they should swap.
The great thing about Genesis was when their music went downhill so did the covers, while their early covers and music are both great.
But with Going for the One I always liked the cover,but sure who wants to see a guys rear end? for me its the whole musical city thing in the backround which is awesome, maybe if Mr G. For the One wore some jeans it would be a better cover, the same goes for Hemispheres . |
Its better then the other side |
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dagrush
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:44 |
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- I'm not a big fan of any of Genesis's covers (except Trespass), but fantastic music was contained within many of them
- The obvious GFTO. I don't mind the naked guy so much, but the rest of it is weak too
- Deep Purple's Fireball has a pretty cool cover, but I think the album is fairly weak
- The already mentioned Moving Waves
- The already mentioned Godbluff
- The Yes Album's boring cover
- The overly bright and annoying LTIA cover
- The cool Obscued by Clouds cover
- Not prog, but Iron Maiden's Virtual XI has a fantastic cover and the album is horrifying
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soundspectrum
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:49 |
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demons and wizards....awesome cover...album aint so good!!
love salisbury though
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valravennz
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:52 |
King Crimson started off with some great album covers then we got some lame ones:
"Earthbound" - awful cover and not a great recording.
"Starless and Bible Black" - bland cover but great music
"Red" - another unimaginative cover - but imo the best KC album.
Perhaps in general the covers do reflect the music. I disagree with those members who don't like the covers for Rush - Hemispheres, Yes - Going For The One, Jethro Tull - Broadsword and The Beast - they are brilliant works of art and both the Yes album and JT's album have great music. Unfortunately, I never did get into Rush.
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NotAProghead
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Posted: April 23 2006 at 23:32 |
soundspectrum wrote:
demons and wizards....awesome cover...album aint so good!!
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Not a bad album at all! Considered by many as HEEP's best.
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Raff
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 02:05 |
Bern wrote:
Now that I think of it :
King Crimson - Red : This album cover is pretty lame but the music is the exact opposite of lame 
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I'm in total agreement. The music is out of this world, shame about the cover. The same applies to an album featuring two-thirds of the Red lineup, i.e. UK's debut album. Insignificant cover, fantastic music.
As to great covers vs. not-so-great music, the first example that comes to my mind is Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans. I won't say it's a bad album (it's not) - it just does nothing for me, I'm afraid.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 02:25 |
I don't know... I dont like the cover to "Sabotage" of Black sabbath very much...
maybe you should make a thread about "Bad cover, wonderful music"
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avestin
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 03:51 |
Inferno by Metamorfosi is an excellent album with a rather ugly looking cover which does not give any indication of the magnificent content of the album.
But I have grown used to it.
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The Wizard
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 17:01 |
A good album with a bad cover is Jefferson Airplane, Crown of Creation.
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Zoso
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Posted: April 24 2006 at 23:23 |
MattNYR wrote:
Yesterday and Today by the Beatles has a picture of the
four beatles with dead babies and raw meat or something. I have no idea
what the hell is going on, except that it's a terrible album cover. And
since it's by the Beatles, I'm assuming the music is pretty
good. |
Yeah, God knows why they did that.
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sleeper
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Posted: April 25 2006 at 05:31 |
Asia, most of their albums have really good Roger Dean covers. I dont think we have to soil this page by talking about the music though.
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Wonderful cover - Bad album
