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Poll Question: Which of these do you like the best?
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    Posted: October 18 2007 at 13:20
Ok, here's a chance to vote on the works of iconic progressive rock artist, Roger Dean.
 
If you are not familiar with all of these, or if you don't recognize the titles for some of these covers, you can check them all out at
 
 
before you cast your vote.
 
Arches gets my vote.
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He is such a wonderful artist. If I had to choose one, it would be Tales.
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DRAGON'S GARDEN for me!

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hard to choose of course, but out of the ones there, I guess "Floating Jungle" is the most beautiful picture. Lots of subtle naunce.
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Points: 327 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2007 at 14:35
Relayer. I used it for a backdrop on a 20gallon tank the I kept a tarantula in in the late 70's, very cool.
Vinyl just sounds better!!

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Relayer is so subtle, yet technically detailed, the coluring especially mesmerizing. But all his stuff is superb.
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Floating Jungle is wonderful, with those shades of blue and green I find so relaxing, as well as aesthetically beautiful. For the same reason I love "Close to the Edge"'s inner sleeve, which is probably my favourite Dean cover.
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      Blue Desert, for sure. It's simply breathtaking!
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Woah!! They're great!! I vote Relayer... but also Green Towers is fantastic!
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It seems that I cannot vote in this poll - can't find the reason why!!! Anyway: I'd pick the floating islands (you refer to the "Yessongs" cover artwork, don't you?). But I can also remember an artwork by Roger Dean showing the cusp of a gothic bell-tower taking off as if it were a rocket. I really find it genial!
 
... in the meanwhile, the poll has unblocked and I could vote. The Net is a mystery to me.


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Originally posted by paolo.beenees paolo.beenees wrote:

It seems that I cannot vote in this poll - can't find the reason why!!! Anyway: I'd pick the floating islands (you refer to the "Yessongs" cover artwork, don't you?). But I can also remember an artwork by Roger Dean showing the cusp of a gothic bell-tower taking off as if it were a rocket. I really find it genial!
 
... in the meanwhile, the poll has unblocked and I could vote. The Net is a mystery to me.
 
The Floating Islands referred to is not the Yessongs cover.   I can't remember which album it was the cover to at the moment.  There are a lot of good works by Dean that aren't listed in the poll because I limited myself to album covers that you could view on the Up Close section of Dean's site, giving everybody a chance to see them all before they voted.
 
Dean's covers are like albums that Wakeman has done session work on.   Finding a comprehensive list is pretty darn hard.
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Floating Jungle Clap
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i like Floating Jungle from that list.

 
 
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Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

........For the same reason I love "Close to the Edge"'s inner sleeve, which is probably my favourite Dean cover.
 
CTTE inner sleeve is my fav too...
btw, i never feel this kind of a succesfull connection between the images on the album jackets and some bandīs music than in Roger Dean and Yes relation, so Roger Dean is something like a member of Yes to me.Smile


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Relayer, but Bedside Manners Are Extra is a very close second for me:
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Originally posted by darqdean darqdean wrote:

Relayer, but Bedside Manners Are Extra is a very close second for me:
i like that one, awesome work, and i like Cactus Choir too.
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2007 at 01:12
I do wish that whoever moved this poll would move it back to prog polls where it belongs.   If that person's ignorance of prog music is such that you are unaware of Roger Dean's  status in prog, here is a quote from this site's on definition of progressive rock:
 
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  • An aesthetic linking the music with visual art, a trend started by The Beatles with Sgt. Pepper's and enthusiastically embraced during the prog heyday. Some bands became as well-known for the art direction of their albums as for their sound, with the "look" integrated into the band's overall musical identity. This led to fame for particular artists and design studios, most notably Roger Dean, whose paintings and logo design for Yes are so essential to the band's identity they could be said to serve the same function as corporate branding. Hipgnosis became equally famous for their unusual sleeves for Pink Floyd, often featuring experimental photography quite innovative for the time (two men shaking hands, one of whom is in flames, on the cover of Wish You Were Here). H.R. Giger's painting for Emerson Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery is one of the most famous album sleeves ever produced. >>
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    Points: 65541     		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2007 at 01:26
    I doubt it's due to "ignorance of prog music", our Admins are quite well-versed.. it's probably because the subject is an illustrator's work, not a musician's
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    Points: 2755     		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2007 at 02:21
    More probably due to ignorance that the relationship between visual and musical was part of the definition that the site uses for prog.
     
    Which of course does not take away from the fact that the admins are generally well versed in prog.   I consider this an unfortunate lapse only.


    Edited by ghost_of_morphy - October 22 2007 at 02:23
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    Points: 402     		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 22 2007 at 20:43

    Tales From Topographic Oceans' cover from these. But if Asia's Alpha was included, I would definitely vote for them. 
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