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here's one from my album collection... great album Thumbs%20Up.. the cover?... well... let's just say photobucket hates it.... they keep on removing it.. saying it violates the agreement I agreed to...pffff... those pansies need an education in art.... not all art is beautiful hahahha
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^ oh my, now thats BAD
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THRAK by King Crimson. Love the music but the cover is just weird.
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Mike Oldfield's - QE2 is very poor!!
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Birth Control had some awful covers, but the winner comes from the deep vaults of early 70's hard rock/"heavy prog", a band called Buffalo....if you'd like to see an absolutely tasteless album cover, track down their second album, "Volcanic Rock"
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                Smell the Glove by Spinal Tap, to their credit they didn't draw it up that way!
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Points: 27 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2007 at 04:59
I'd have to say the cover of 1000 Degrees Centigrades by Magma's sort of a let down, considering the coolness of the music.

Solid gray with black text? Man, that's innovation.
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Points: 9455 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2007 at 06:18
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

here's one from my album collection... great album Thumbs%20Up.. the cover?... well... let's just say photobucket hates it.... they keep on removing it.. saying it violates the agreement I agreed to...pffff... those pansies need an education in art.... not all art is beautiful hahahha




 
There is just something just a little creepy about this cover ... top music, though Thumbs%20Up
 
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Here's a whole website devoted to some real masterpieces:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers

I think Heino's gets my vote.
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Good music poor cover:
 
Gentle Giant :Acquring the Taste
Porcupine :In Absentia
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Worst Cover -  Yes - Time and a Word; Do boobs and prog really go together?Confused
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I generally dislike the kind of artwork you find on the INSIDE OUT label. STARDUST WE ARE by the Flower Kings is a pretty good album, but the cover (like most of the band's) looks hideous. Same with the Tangent. The band themselves seemed pretty pleased with A PLACE IN THE QUEUE (apparently its design reminded them of Roger Dean) but I think it's third-rate surrealism, just like THE MUSIC THAT DIED ALONE and THE WORLD WE DRIVE THROUGH. (The music's MUCH better than the packaging.) It's all just conveyor belt, mass-production "fantasy" imagery, just like most of the prog metal covers I've ever seen! Give us a break.
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how about Steve Hackett's Wild Orchids with a pic of his face and a female body. Hackett with boobs just looks disturbing.

Well, musically I don't like the album much, but most people do.

other albums:
_Yes - The Yes Album : just a band pic, sooooo cheap.
_Serú Girán - Bicicleta: such an inspired work but again a band pic.
_Roine Stolt: The Flower King : *shudders*, thank god the music is excellent.
_Iron Maiden - Dance of Death: totally different, in a terrible terrible way. What were they thinking?
_Flower Kings - Stardust We Are is pretty bad, but Paradox Hotel is cartoony silliness that doesn't fit as this is their darkest album.



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Originally posted by proggy proggy wrote:

Worst Cover -  Yes - Time and a Word; Do boobs and prog really go together?Confused
 
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I get surreal: a goldfish morphed intio VW camper van I get, the Taj Mahal in a fishbowl I get, artisitcally it's pretty well done and I even get the title. What I don't get is why does it look so bad? Confused
 
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Originally posted by fuxi fuxi wrote:

I generally dislike the kind of artwork you find on the INSIDE OUT label. STARDUST WE ARE by the Flower Kings is a pretty good album, but the cover (like most of the band's) looks hideous. Same with the Tangent. The band themselves seemed pretty pleased with A PLACE IN THE QUEUE (apparently its design reminded them of Roger Dean) but I think it's third-rate surrealism, just like THE MUSIC THAT DIED ALONE and THE WORLD WE DRIVE THROUGH. (The music's MUCH better than the packaging.) It's all just conveyor belt, mass-production "fantasy" imagery, just like most of the prog metal covers I've ever seen! Give us a break.

I know exactly what you're talking about and I completely agree. Computer-generated, super slick, glossy, ultra colorful albums are a pet peeve of mine.
Whoooaa, mindblowing!!!!DeadDead Makes me roll my eyes every time I see one.
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Hmm....
 
I think this cover is cool, personally!


Edited by Chameleon - November 08 2007 at 10:12
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Points: 507 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2007 at 09:41
If this thread has never been done before, it really needed to be. Maybe some of these artists will realize that we as prog fans actually don't like archetypal-prog-rock Wannabe Roger Dean covers.

Edited by explodingjosh - November 08 2007 at 09:42
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Is there anyone here who prefers it to the original cover?



I mean, the new one looks like an advertisement for blank CDs.
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^ I don't mind it, I think it looks fine, as is the original cover.
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