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NJprogfan 
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 Topic: Bought album because of cover art
Posted: July 25 2005 at 12:40 |
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Here's a thread I haven't seen yet, (I'm sure I'll be told otherwise). What album/albums did you buy just because of the cover art, not knowing how the band sounded or sounds like? Mine was Hawkwind's "Space Ritual". I was blown away by the cover that opened up to practically poster-size and the music. Unfortunately, I sold all my vinyl years back....SOB SOB!!!!
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NetsNJFan
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 12:42 |
hmmm I already had TAAB on CD and vinyl, but I got the remaster just for the expanded newspaper. 
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King of Loss
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 12:44 |
I bought Scenes From A Memory when I was much younger because I liked the artwork Hahaha, and proved to be a great investment 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 12:45 |
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Probably Relayer, but it was also the fact that it only had three tracks!
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Hangedman
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 12:53 |
Dredg (cant remember the name of the album, it was green and had a cool symbol) didnt really like it.
Ozric Tentacles - Strangitude. Great album 
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bertburt
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 13:04 |
Saga - Images At Twilight.....probably still the most bizarre cover I've ever seen.
A close second would be Lark's Tongues....just mesmerized the first time I saw it. For some reason, the cover always seemed to match well with the music within. A very nice total package.
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CrazyDiamond
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 13:08 |
Yes - Relayer (one of the most beautiful cover I've ever seen!)
Genesis - Wind And Wuthering (wow what a cover and what a disc!)
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 13:08 |
I got into prog music when I bought "Yesterdays" of YES, as it had so nice covers!  Lucky bet.
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bityear
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 13:15 |
Erpland, Strangeitude, Pungent Effulgent, Jurassic Shift, Spice Doubt
by Ozric Tentacles. Saw them all at once in a shop for used CDs. I must
admit that I had already heard a track, but right then I couldn't
remember what it sounded like, or if I liked it. Bought the lot
anyway.
Also, Les Dudek's "Ghost Town Parade", which, uh, was good for being
AOR... but nothing I really like. Otherwise, I've usually heard a song
or two before, or else somebody has recommended them. Or, which often
happens, I see a cool cover, check the net for opinions on the album,
then buy it.
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abyssyinfinity
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 13:27 |
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Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
Hawkwind - In Search of Space
Garybaldi - Nuda
Murple - Io sono Murple
Id - Where are we going
Megaton - Same
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kirklott
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 14:56 |
 CrazyDiamond wrote:
Yes - Relayer (one of the most beautiful cover I've ever seen!)
Genesis - Wind And Wuthering (wow what a cover and what a disc!)
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Both too gray for me, but Relayer is Roger Dean's favorite Yes cover.
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"Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin
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kirklott
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 14:58 |
I was really drawn in by the debut and sole release by Art in America, which I think had a Roger Dean cover.
It was an 80s prog/pop trio, with an interesting focus on harp instead of the usual guitars or keys - very interesting in a rock setting.
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"Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin
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kirklott
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 14:59 |
Eetu Pellonpää wrote:
I got into prog music when I bought "Yesterdays" of YES, as it had so nice covers! Lucky bet.
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Now you realize that cover shows a boy peeing - that was never my favorite Yes cover.
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"Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 15:00 |
It really rocks ... great Stoner Metal from Scandinavia.
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dragonflight
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 15:04 |
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Dave Greenslade's 'The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony'. Absolutely stunning package when initially released on vinyl with Patrick Woodrolfe (I've probably mis-spelt that, sorry). The CD issue was awful in comparison. When I sold all my records and moved over to CD this was the only one I kept.
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Paradox
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 17:15 |
Caravan's "In The Land of Grey and Pink"
A fabulous cover, and fabulous music as i soon discovered.
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Arsillus
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Posted: July 25 2005 at 18:56 |
Just as I was getting into Yes, I found "Union" at a local shop and I snatched it up right away.
Little did I know that it really really really sucks.
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Blacksword
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Posted: July 26 2005 at 05:33 |
This is 'Woyaya' by Osibisa. I had never heard of them. It was in the bargain bin. It had a Roger Dean cover so I bought it. Got it home, put it on and it turned out to be a funky African jazz exploration. Which went down just fine
Apart from that I bought 'Brain Salad Surgery' for its cover artwork, and that alone. The album itself does little for me.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Drachen Theaker
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Posted: July 26 2005 at 07:18 |
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I bought Bedside Manners are Extra by Greenslade
knowing little about them except that they were
keyboard oriented and I liked the Roger Dean cover.
It turned out to be excellent and I consequently
formed a theory that Roger Dean artwork = great
prog album.
Sadly this hypothesis was swiftly torpedoed when I
bought Charge! by Paladin - badly recorded and
containing the least inspired organ solo I have heard
and, according to a guitar playing friend, the worst
guitar solo he has ever heard.
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Retroventuremod
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Posted: July 27 2005 at 01:22 |
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Yes close to the edge lol
I just liked how yes was written
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I asked the Beatles
I asked Timothy Leary
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