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    Posted: August 26 2006 at 10:20
which album cover do you think best expresses the artists struggle with selling their soul to become legend and having it all!
 
such as
Yes - Relayer
album cover
snake along the road, may get ya Sir Galahad!
 
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
album cover
pure LSD 25(windowpane), lets see inside or outside
 
Kansas - Leftoverture 
album cover
afterglow man, did I think what I thought I thunk?
 
 Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
album cover
didnt think twice, the goner look
 
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
album cover
hello, oh by the way your on fire, tuck your tail in and hide the horns
 
Atila = Reviure
album cover
I know that guy on top!
 
Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe
album cover
were waiting for your response
 
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
album cover
theres a visitor in my head, I think I swallowed him about an hour ago!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 10:29
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 10:35
I can't really see the images listed...


You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 10:36
The only one I can see is Relayer.


You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 10:49
waiting for the sun, waiting for you to come along, waiting for you to sing our song, waiting, waiting, waiting, waitingEvil Smile
 
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
album cover


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 10:50

DallasBryan,

Did you know that most of the images you post in the various ProgArchives forums appear as darkish grey boxes?

Now, it is possible for a Web site to stop people hot-linking to images on that Web site (often called 'bandwidth theft') and instead display another image of the Webmaster's choosing on the other site, often a JPG displaying words along the lines of "This images is stolen from www.anotherwebsite.com". This is achieved by the Webmaster using a special file called .htaccess if the Web site is hosted on computer using the Apache Web server software.

By right-clicking on some of the images in your post above I see that they are hot-linked to the rateyourmusic.com Web site. Now, I am just wondering if rateyourmusic.com is using such a technique to stop bandwidth theft, which could explain why all the image files you hot-link to are displayed as darkish grey boxes instead of the original image. You might want to bear this in mind and try hot-linking to another source of images in future. Amazon, for example, does not block hot-linking.

Hope this helps.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 10:53
I have had responses that people cant see images, Im pretty sure what your describing is whats happening. I will stop using album cover images as references in the future.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 11:00
There is already a topic like this one somewhere on the forum.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 11:13
Originally posted by DallasBryan DallasBryan wrote:

which album cover do you think best expresses the artists struggle with selling their soul to become legend and having it all!
 
such as
Yes - Relayer
album cover
snake along the road, may get ya Sir Galahad!
 
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
album cover
pure LSD 25(windowpane), lets see inside or outside
 
Kansas - Leftoverture 
album cover
afterglow man, did I think what I thought I thunk?
 
 Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
album cover
didnt think twice, the goner look
 
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
album cover
hello, oh by the way your on fire, tuck your tail in and hide the horns
 
Atila = Reviure
album cover
I know that guy on top!
 
Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe
album cover
were waiting for your response
 
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
album cover
theres a visitor in my head, I think I swallowed him about an hour ago!


Amazing - before I opened this thread, I was going to go with Relayer and ITCOTCK. But you've already posted them! Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 11:28
Originally posted by DallasBryan DallasBryan wrote:

I have had responses that people cant see images, Im pretty sure what your describing is whats happening. I will stop using album cover images as references in the future.
 
No need to be so drastic, but try to use sites that would not appear to have a strong reason to block hot-linking of images. Most sites don't block hot-linking of images, actually, but some sites are hot-linked to *a lot* and it can have a big impact on their bandwidth if they don't discourage hot-linking by using the technique I described above. Try looking at your posts on a different computer -- at work, say -- and if you can see the original images that you have hot-linked to then that's fine; if not, experiment hot-linking to another site. As I said, Amazon (and its various sister sites in other countries) does not block hot-linking. I suspect that is because a) they have loads of bandwidth, and b) linking to a commercial site helps with search engine ratings for that site, and c) it may help sales a little if people look at the site (both to find the image and because of the link).
 
Music Web sites and forums are legion, and I suspect that some of the popular music reference sites that are not commercial organisations or that are run on a tight budget have to do something to discourage 'bandwidth theft', as it's called, if it grows too large and affects the site's bills.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 11:42
I think all of them can represent that concept. And others. Those yellow squares are very avant-garde.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 12:13
DallasBryan,
 
Actually, I've looked on the rateyourmusic.com Web site and some -- but not all -- of the original images you hot-linked to in this thread appear as grey boxes on that site, so in this case it would not appear to be a hot-linking blocker but rather a problem with rateyourmusic.com itself. In any case, my advice above still stands as the technique I described is used by some sites. In any case, if rateyourmusic.com is an unreliable source for hot-linkiing of images, try some others.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 13:45



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2006 at 13:56
You can save the images to your hard drive, then upload them to an image-hosting site like villagephotos or photobucket, and hotlink to them there.
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