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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

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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.





This is easily one of the BEST album covers I've ever seen! You have to laugh that anything that isn't immediately consumable by the average person is deemed pretentious and artsy. The same could be said for those very same people's attitudes in general regarding what constitutes artistic integrity (there's some pretentiousness for you).


This is on my favorite album cover list as well. Pretentious is another word for "not getting it."


Nope. I'm not getting this Amorphis cover either, yet I don't find it pretentious.



As for the Deep Purple cover, photographic technics were NOT the same in the past. It is quite well made for a 70s one. It is very impressive. I guess were are -not literally- living in different worlds haha.
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^ i agree with that Amorphis. Blah

While the Deep Purple one isn't horrible, it's the color choices which make it rather ineffective.

They should've used various shades of purple!

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

They should've used various shades of purple!


That would be TOO predictable, haha. Star
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This one won't win any album cover awards!

ABLUTION

Ablution

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Ablution Ablution album cover

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Cheesy AF

TIEFENRAUSCH 

ACI

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ACI Tiefenrausch album cover

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This is not appealing in the least

VIVO TECNÓPOLIS

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Gramonautus Vivo Tecnópolis album cover

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This is pretty bad too IMHO

AR4 [AKA: A. R. IV]

A.R. & Machines

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A.R. &amp; Machines AR4 [Aka: A. R. IV] album cover

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This band had a bad name and a very uninteresting album cover for the music contained within

CARGO

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Heavy Prog


Cargo Cargo album cover

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^^ I like it. It strikes visually and not in a bad way.

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Obvious why this one is hideious

THE STRANDS OF THE FUTURE

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Pulsar The Strands Of The Future album cover

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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

^^ I like it. It strikes visually and not in a bad way.

For a prog album cover though? It would make a better industrial ambient album cover.

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

^^ I like it. It strikes visually and not in a bad way.

For a prog album cover though? It would make a better industrial ambient album cover.
I was talking about A.R & Machines, I think it suits the music fine. It's still their best cover after the debut's.
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^ to me it looks cheap. I want it to be artier!

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^ At least it looks/sounds better than Can's album with a similar cover :P
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Obvious why this one is hideious

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Somewhat cheeze-heavy, but I like it!
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Haha siLLy puPPy why don't you create a poll of your worst album cover choices and ask which people like most?
For me still the Echolyn cover stands out as really good, most others I agree are unattractive if not abysmal.
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Personally i love many KC covers but this one is just hideous for being generic after the brillianta covers like Larks Tongue and Lizard (Starless is a great album though)

King Crimson Starless And Bible Black album cover


I've always quite liked this cover. I can't give any particular reason for it. I don't think it's an outstanding cover; it just has an agreeable effect on me.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Haha siLLy puPPy why don't you create a poll of your worst album cover choices and ask which people like most?
For me still the Echolyn cover stands out as really good, most others I agree are unattractive if not abysmal.


Great idea! I'm surprised others like some of the ones i thing are hideous! It does seem that according to everyone's reactions so far that the Brainstorm album would win the Worst Album Cover award at PA :D

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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

^ At least it looks/sounds better than Can's album with a similar cover :P


Yeah, Can's covers aren't spectacular either but i don't find any of them horrible enough to post here. OK, the Cargo cover isn't horrible but it seems wrong for a heavy prog cover. Call me finnicky :D

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as to Can's album covers being bad: I think the cover of "Unlimited Edition" is brilliant


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