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    Posted: September 24 2019 at 14:14
What's the worst album cover you've ever seen for a Prog-Rock band?
 
My vote goes to the German band Brainstorm for their 1972 album "Smile a While" Smile
 


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Worst covers are (nearly) always pseudo-intellectual, vainly plugged away ones for me.

In Turkish culture, there is a general tendency to respect and make people respect "the effort", notwithstanding the product/outcome or/and what you think about it. I ferociously oppose that. It is far worse to see an excessively worked on crap. Especially when one is faking smartness.

Leprous, overall, what a crap altogether.






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^ I'm just trying to figure out what the hell that's suppose to be?! Confused

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Leprous thing? It should mean lots of things to lots of people. I prefer my plain lemon tea with melissa leaves. LOL

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If that Brainstorm had women in it instead of men nobody would think it was bad. Lol. Even though I won't suggest anyone is homophobic because they hate it I do think it would be better if the album was called bra storm(regardless if men or women were on it)since that would make more sense.
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Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

^ I'm just trying to figure out what the hell that's suppose to be?! Confused


Hey I figured it out. The vehicle seems to be PROGRESSING. That should mean it is progressive haha.
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It sounds like a bra storm in a D-cup. Wink
 
If the Brainstorm album cover had featured women instead of men, I probably would have bought the album just on the strength of the album cover alone. Smile 
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

What's the worst album cover you've ever seen for a Prog-Rock band?
 
My vote goes to the German band Brainstorm for their 1972 album "Smile a While" Smile
 
This one is really bad, so much so it makes me laugh. 
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I know exactly what you mean, Manuel. The album cover is both dreadful and funny at the same time. Smile
 
It makes Queen's cross-dressing video for "I Want To Break Free" look relatively tame by comparison. Wink
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I'm going for another German band with two of the worst album covers ever, Missus Beastly...
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LOL. I made a whole list of bad album covers on Rate Your Music. 
Anyone who wants to torture themselves can find it here

Prog only, huh?

That Brainstorm is definately on my list. I actually like the Leprous one. It's surreal!

Hunka Munka Dedicato A Giovanna G. album cover
Death Spiritual Healing album cover
Spring Spring album cover
Beggars Opera Get Your Dog Off Me ! album cover
Atomic Rooster Atomic Roooster album cover
Dream Theater When Dream And Day Unite album cover

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

I actually like the Leprous one. It's surreal!


A cover doesn't have to "make sense". Leprous cover is just like their music. Forced creativity, which is actually faking intellectuality. It can be seen as "surreal", like after consuming magic mushrooms haha. I respect your perception, yet as I said everything about Leprous seems pretentious to me.

I think Death - Spiritual Healing is an impactful portrayal of extreme religiousness. Very American and very Stephen King-esque.
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^ personally i view the Leprous cover as playful. Forced creativity? How do you define such a thing?

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

^ personally i view the Leprous cover as playful. Forced creativity? How do you define such a thing?


My definition is related to their works, albeit not excluding how the majority sees them as "groundbreaking", "creative", "progressive" or even "the best and most sophisticated prog metal band of the 2000s".

Edit: Or to be more clear, they perhaps "had to" force it, to make a difference in the genre; just like Mastodon. Otherwise they had had no chance of "breaking the majority's ground" with their theoretical musical (in)competence and dysfunctional ideas. Sorry but, without integrity, I refuse to be impressed.

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All creativity is forced. That's what makes something new otherwise it's called "repeating what's been done." Personally i love Leprous but then again i dig avant-prog and other so-called forced creative efforts. I prefer to view it as explorative :)

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If a change or progression(?) is lacking integrity, it is better not to produce anything. That is my philosophy. I'm not generalizing all the avant-garde, experimental stuff. I was just talking about Leprous and Mastodon. Wink

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So why do you deem what they do as lacking integrity? A very subjective term. Just because you don't personally like them doesn't mean they killed a thousand people and drank their blood in order to come up with some new ideas. It's just not your taste. Simple as that. 

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It's not my taste, and those mentioned are my ideas and grounds for my dislike. Should I add "IMO" while saying they lack integrity and such all the time? These are my views, simple as that.
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