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M.L.KNIGHT 
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 Topic: Ever bought a prog L.P.....
Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:12 |
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....on the strenght of the cover alone? I know it's shallow, but hands up. I'll start you off.....
RUSH-Hemispheres
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HAROLD THE BARREL
He knows the price of eveything
and the value of nothing!!
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ummagumma08
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Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:18 |
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I rarely buy records without knowing beforehand what it's about. But I feel that the cover has a tiny influence on how I like the record, for instance the Steve Hillage record "Motivation Radio" has a horribe cover, and I feel I would like it a bit better if it had a more interesting cover!
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BaldJean
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Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:21 |
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I bought lots based just on the cover, and was rarely disappointed. on
the contrary, many of my favorite bands were discovered that way
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:53 |
Some goodies i found when buying by the cover:
RUFUS ZUPHALL "Weiss Der Teufel", AINIGMA "Diluvium" 
Some baddies:
YES "Union" and "Keys to Ascension", RICK WAKEMAN "Greatest hits". I got hoaxed by Roger Dean! 
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porter
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Posted: August 14 2005 at 12:57 |
I've never done such a horrible thing....
this may be a little OT but, does anybody know what the hell is that thing on the THRAK cover? still guessing after maybe 10 years.....
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"my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III")
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Jeremy Bender
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Posted: August 14 2005 at 13:04 |
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I bought ELP's "Brain Salad Surgery"
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M.L.KNIGHT
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Posted: August 14 2005 at 13:11 |
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must admit...I've been fooled by some of Roger Deans covers myself. He
is responsible for a lot of dross in my old (sadly sold off) record
collection.
Don't want to sound like an old git...but it's really not the
same listening to music without a good old L.P. cover to check out!!
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HAROLD THE BARREL
He knows the price of eveything
and the value of nothing!!
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Don_Frog
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Posted: August 16 2005 at 22:32 |
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I don't think I ever have. I always know at least a little about the cd before I buy it.
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The Miracle
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Posted: August 23 2005 at 14:30 |
No, I always research on the band and listen to samples before buying an album
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sigod
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Posted: August 23 2005 at 15:24 |
Greenslade was my 'cover' purchase.
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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Borealis
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Posted: August 23 2005 at 16:14 |
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I have never really done that. Maybe I should, luckily I'd find someting great...
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Vive le Québec libre!...
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tuxon
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Posted: August 23 2005 at 22:00 |
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I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT
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little_neutrino
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Posted: August 23 2005 at 23:47 |
I admit I've never done that before. I've done it with books though, and ended up with some real crap and some ... even worse crap. They're right when they tell you not to judge the book by its cover, man.
But what I have done is, and what I continue to do, is buy music (LPs and CDs - though really cheap CDs) based on the name alone. Which is just as bad as buying stuff because it looks nice.
On the other hand, that's how I got into Yes, and Tull, and ELP, Rush (incidentally it was Hemispheres as well!!), and Mike Oldfield. So ... I dunno. I must just be really really lucky not to pick the sucky albums when randomly buying.
Edited by little_neutrino
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yesman72
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 01:58 |
Covers kick ass but I gotta say that they're just a bonus. That Greenslade cover is awesome. You can tell that's Dean's work(it actually looks like a modified green version of Demons and Wizards).
Much love to all, and may progression continue but without losing sight of morals and purpose, without one, the other is useless.
Edited by yesman72
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Eddy
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 12:41 |
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i always research stuff before buying because i have such a limited
supply of money. the only eception was soon over babulan by can. im
gald i did, because now i am in love with them.!
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Syntharachnid
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 18:05 |
 little_neutrino wrote:
I admit I've never done that before. I've done it with books though, and ended up with some real crap and some ... even worse crap. They're right when they tell you not to judge the book by its cover, man.
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I've never bought CDs based on the cover, but I have bought one book without so much as reading the back. I just read the title, "Market Forces" and bought it. I'm reading it right now, it's brilliant!
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little_neutrino
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 23:10 |
Syntharachnid wrote:
little_neutrino wrote:
I admit I've never done that before. I've done it with books though, and ended up with some real crap and some ... even worse crap. They're right when they tell you not to judge the book by its cover, man.
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I've never bought CDs based on the cover, but I have bought one book without so much as reading the back. I just read the title, "Market Forces" and bought it. I'm reading it right now, it's brilliant!
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I'm glad you did well with it then - it never seems to work with me. I picked up something that looked neat but was total crap! About Casanova and Lord Byron and this fictional painter who was both their lovers ... it was like a fanfiction on history and the author just inserted herself into the mix to make things tonnes worse.  And then tried to compensate for it by making Casanova's cat talk and give feline opinions about things. On the upside, at least her facts about the history were right.
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