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Points: 4252 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 11:22
the early RARE BIRD albums have awful covers, also ARGENT, but the music is absolutely brilliant! all i can think of for now...except QUEEN's were pretty gruesome for a while, oh, and COLOSSEUM, and MAY BLITZ...and...and....!
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Points: 871 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 17:22
Meatloaf-Bat Out Of Hell. Bought it for the cover-nothing else.
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 17:38
I like the Godbluff cover!

I don't know if I like the Van der Graaf logo so much though (I mean Van der Graaf, not Van der Graaf Generator - the logo for the classic lineup is a classic logo).

Some might say:

The Silent Corner and The Empty Stage by Peter Hammill.

Get A Whiff Of This by Juicy Lucy:



The Original Electric Ladyland cover, which I am not showing here!


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Points: 1494 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 20:18
Originally posted by Zoso Zoso wrote:

Originally posted by MattNYR 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.
From what I've heard, it's because they were pissed at Capitol for "butchering" their albums; often Capitol would add or remove trackis from the original album for the US version. BUt it was recalled very quickly (as you might imagine), so I'm not sure it really counts.
 
I despise the cover of Three Friends; I can't comment on the music, but I assume that it's pretty good as Gentle Giant seems to be well-liked on here; however, I will never buy that album because I could not stand having to look at that cover on a regular basis.
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Points: 1148 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 21:05
More's cover doesn't do justice to the wonderful music inside.
 
Again with Going For the One love the songs confused by the cover, what were they thinking? Dead
 
U.S. version of Time and A Word cover is preety boring, but I love the music.
 
For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night, like the album but the cover is a little perverted, not what I look forward to in prog.
 
Moonmadness is a boring cover as well but the album rocks!
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Points: 2822 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 21:27
Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:


The Original Electric Ladyland cover, which I am not showing here!
 
Wasn't the U.S. cover the original?  I know Hendrix didn't care for the U.K. sleeve.....
 
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2006 at 23:23
Yes, I meant the UK sleeve, not the US sleeve.

I quite like Hendrix' decision on that actually, to dislike the UK cover.
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