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    Posted: June 06 2013 at 10:08
I did a massive one of these at another forum.
 
Lets see what you fellows can come up with.
 
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Points: 5154 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2013 at 10:51
Not sure what you mean, like this could have been Dark Side Of The Moon?
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Points: 490 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2013 at 17:45
Lps pressed in  countries other than the country of origion often used different coverart on the jackets.
Also reissues may have had different art.
 
THAT  is what this thread is concerned with.
 
Lps only.
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I had this album cover for Moonmadness growing up.  Pretty corny, really.  I think these were the original American versions of the Camel albums.



As well as this cover for Mirage.
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Points: 490 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2013 at 08:28
You mean there is another cover for "Moonmadness"? (I never saw the orig UK)
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Originally posted by Knobby Knobby wrote:

You mean there is another cover for "Moonmadness"? (I never saw the orig UK)
Yeah, the one commonly available now on CD is a kind of soft blue/white design.  I don't see the one with the Camel space suit very often any more.
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These ones are well known but OK here they go:

Gentle Giant's Three Friends USA cover was actually the cover of their debut album, with the problem that the drummer in the picture (Martin Smith) had been replaced by Malcolm Mortimore but they did not notice or did not care to adjust the picture

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UK cover




And the cover of Octopus was different too

USA Edition



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The alternative Mirage posted is so awful aha
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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^not sure how it is worse than a replica of a cigarette logo.

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^ I think it's worse. The ciggy cover isn't great either, but I thought it was it was kinda clever at the time. I have a certain disdain for bad airbrush art. There was so much of it back in the '70's. Today's equivalent is bad Photoshop art, of which there is also an abundance.

I found that Mirage LP at my local library when I was about 14 and even then I thought it was awful. Never heard of them at the time. But I checked it out and was amazed.
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Italy

 

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I have this Italian release of Earthbound. What a bizarre cover. The picture is obviously the wrong lineup. The cutouts around their heads is so wrong. And the graphic design in general is just about as bad as it gets.


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^^ That Earthbound cover (the top one) is the first one I remember seeing.  Makes it look like a budget-line cheapo label release like K-Tel or something.
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I always wished there was a Yes cover band named "No".  LOL
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Maybe the original Earthbound cover was not very attactive but that Italian one is dreadful LOL

Of course we have also the well known cases of Hendrix Electric Ladyland, Scorpions Virgin Killer, or Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World, I guess they are well enough known so I'm not bothering to paste pictures.
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Points: 5154 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2013 at 13:19
And Bowie's Diamond Dogs, the original showing the dogs genitals and later editions just dark shadow

Original



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Points: 2035 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2013 at 21:43
John Wetton on Earthbound has David Bowie's haircut.
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