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Falling Into Infinity...what the hell?

HAHAHA yeah. I believe their best and worst came out of that record...it wasn't bad at all though.

heyitsthatguy wrote:

/\ I actually quite enjoy that album's artwork, which is more than I can say for the majority of the songs on it Ouch

That album has some good stuff on it :O

The artwork really annoys me to.

I hate the artwork on When Dream and Day Unite, but that album is crap so I didn't mention it.

I don't like Moonmadness. The U.S. release is much worse, but the original looks like the printer ran out of ink and it should probably smell bad.

Most of my tech metal cd's

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Both of the Liquid Tension Experiment album covers...

Doesn't seem like any thought went into them whatsoever

I really like the music though... don't love it, but i really like it

1 Chronicles 13:7-9

Then David and all Israel played music before God with all their might, with singing, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on cymbals, and with trumpets.

jimmy_row wrote:

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"

Buffalo have some cracking covers!

Here is the Buffalo album output, though not in chronological order...

This is Jimmy Row's favourite: Volcanic Rock...

...that could be seen as just a little controversial!

Then there is this inspired effort: Mother's Choice...

Then a cheesy cover: Average Rock 'n' Roller...

This one is a little better ... but still kinda ordinary: Dead Forever...

...and always reminds me of Uriah Heep's Very 'eavy, Very 'umble.

But this one was Buffalo's most controversial cover: Only Want You For Your Body...

Some words from www.aztecmusic.net ~ "The wildly tasteless cover design featured an obese, screaming, semi-naked woman shackled to a torture rack. On the back cover, the band revelled in their role as leering, lascivious Aussie yob rockers, with Tice wearing a devilish grin while clad in his black leather strides ‘n’ braces and brandishing a bullwhip. It was just a bit of harmless fun, yet outraged record store managers across the land refused to stock the record, some eventually placing it in a brown paper bag to hide the offending images."

Edited by T.Rox - November 28 2007 at 10:09

"Without prog, life would be a mistake."

...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche

@ T.Rox: I've never seen that last one, it rivals Volcanic Rock - btw, that's just the top of the gatefold...the bottom is even worse. In classic rock circles, this band seems to be remembered far more for their sleeves than for their music, so perhaps they knew what they were doing.

Signature Writers Guild on strike

The only thing I don't care for on the GFTO cover is the George Hardie line graphics, which had gotten a bit repetitive after they had appeared on WYWH, Alan Parsons and Led Zepp covers. A bit of non-pornographic nudity doesn't bother me (male or female).

What?

I am SO glad I do not live in the UK....seriously. The guy's dead, so it's very disturbing, but of course at the time they were just trying to be funny. Disturbing or not, I've always preferred the US cover. The US Uriah Heap covers had some of the best album artwork of the 70s IMO, kinda seemed ahead of its time.

Edited by Teh_Slippermenz - December 06 2007 at 02:32