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el böthy 
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 14:26 |
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This two bands have the best, or at elast my favorite album covers. On one hand you have Roger Dean´s fanatasy and on the other Hypnosis (among others) excellent photography.
My vote goes for Pink Floyd, all their covers between Atom heart mother till The division bell are faboulous!!!
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 14:44 |
Yes : I love Dean´s work, love Relayer cover and TFTTO
But my vote goes to Pink Floyd too... i love Darkside, Wish you and Atom Covers...
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Dr. Occulator
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 14:55 |
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Love Roger Dean's work however Hipnosis seemed to have a more
thoughtful doubled-meaning approach to their covers with alot of
humour, psychedelia and hidden messages so I'll go
for the Floyd covers.
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 14:57 |
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Hmm a tough one. Maybe Yes a bit. But DSOTM and Animals are stunning.
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 15:03 |
hipgnosis and dean,
both are great,
but for my taste it is
'Roger Dean'.
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 15:22 |
 Dr. Occulator wrote:
Love Roger Dean's work however Hipnosis seemed to have a more thoughtful doubled-meaning approach to their covers with alot of humour, psychedelia and hidden messages so I'll go
for the Floyd covers.
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My thoughts exactly.
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 15:26 |
oh man.. no matter how trippy or cool Floyd's covers were.. they simply
don't compare to the terrible twosome of Tales and Relayer by
themselves. Art... that's what they were. 
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Ghandi 2
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 16:49 |
Pink Floyd because not only are the covers great, but the pictures that accompany the lyrics are also great. Storm Thurgeson is a genius. I also prefer creative pictures over a drawing; I think that getting a great picture requires more work. (Not that Dean had easy job.)
I think CTTE's cover is incredibly lazy. Relayer is good, but CTTE drags the rest of Yes.
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 17:05 |
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I voted Yes and Roger Dean i like drawings much more then photo covers.
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 17:07 |
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Both of them are absolutly stunning and they each fit the music so
well, I mean you couldn't have the cover for Fragile on the CD of DSOTM
it just wouldnt work. As for the quality i personally have to go for
Yes, it's just so original and basically looks damn cool.
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FragileDT
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 17:13 |
Ghandi 2 wrote:
Pink Floyd because not only are the covers great, but
the pictures that accompany the lyrics are also great. Storm Thurgeson is a
genius. I also prefer creative pictures over a drawing; I think that getting a
great picture requires more work. (Not that Dean had easy job.)
I think CTTE's cover is incredibly lazy. Relayer is good, but CTTE drags the
rest of Yes. |
You think that taking a picture requires much more work than one of Dean's
pieces? I'd like to think not.
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ProgFan
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 17:22 |
I go for Pink Floyd covers
They are "better" than the covers of the albums of Yes
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Ghandi 2
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 18:42 |
FragileDT wrote:
You think that taking a picture requires much more work than one of Dean's
pieces? I'd like to think not. |
Taking the picture, no. But thinking of the cover, setting it all up, and then manipulating it some, I think so. Besides that there are also the inside pictures that accompany the lyrics for every song (and manages to fit almost all of them extremely well); Yes just has the front and back of the LP. That's where I think it's harder; maybe the covers would be about the same; it's hard to say because I don't know how long Dean had to spend to make covers like Relayer (or how long it took Storm to make covers like WYWH and Animals).
Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying that by any stretch of the imagination thet Dean's covers are bad (except maybe for CTTE, because gradients are lame); I prefer Storm though.
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 18:59 |
Floyd's Best Covers
- Ummagumma
- A Saucerful of Secrets
- Atom Heart Mother
- Meddle
- Animals
- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- Relics
Yes' Best Covers
- Fragile
- Tales From Topographic Oceans
- Relayer
- Close to the Edge
- Time and A Word (English Cover)
- The Ladder
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 18:59 |
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yes covers are better
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 19:21 |
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Yes!!!
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 19:29 |
I'll vote for Floyd. The Division Bell and Animals is enough to make up for Meddle 
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Rust
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 19:36 |
Man With Hat wrote:
I'll vote for Floyd. The Division Bell and Animals is enough to make up for Meddle |
How can you not like Meddle? I think they really thought outside the box on that one. It's like a message from God saying, "Open you damn ears so you can hear this bad ass music!" Since it is a picture of an ear.
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We got to pump the stuff to make us tough
from the heart
Its astart
What we need is awareness we cant get careless
Mental self defensive fitness
Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 19:53 |
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Fragile and Relayer are the only Yes covers that catch my eye. Pink Floyd has A Saucerful of Secrets, More, Ummagumma, Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and Animals. It is defenately an unfair comparison. If it was Floyd and Genesis covers than it would be pretty close in my opinion.
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 20:17 |
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I love both Hipgnosis and Roger Dean, but I'll choose Yes. VERY though question!!
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