best cover art
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Topic: best cover art
Posted By: Throgh
Subject: best cover art
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 12:54
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long time ago in '60 and '70 cover sheets were big and created by famous artist like e.g. Roslav Shaybo.
Which in your opinion is the best? my favourite is GENESIS' "Wind and wuthering" |
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Posted By: samhob
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 13:07
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hmm Yes - Fragile ( roger dean) etc.. |
Posted By: walrus
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 13:28
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laterallus from tool is amazing, not my favorite, but amazing ------------- you and whose army? |
Posted By: DEzerov
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 13:31
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Hipgnosis/ Magnetic Storm/ Storm Thorgerson was /is awesome........... 10cc, Alan Parsons, Black Sabbath, Brand X, Dream Theater, Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield, Nice, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Quartermass, Rick Wright, The Mars Volta, Yes..............phewwwwwwww Roger Dean, Phil Travers (Moodies), Paul Whitehead, Walter Mac Mazzieri (Le Orme)  a wonderful website devoted to Mazzieri at http://www.macmazzieri.com/ - http://www.macmazzieri.com/ ------------- The moon is made by some lame cooper and you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all - Nikolay Gogol |
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 15:39
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Mark Wilkinson (Marillion albums of Fish era) ------------- yet you still have time! |
Posted By: buckethead
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 16:10
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porcupine tree - in absentia pink floyd - animals, wish you were here all of mark wilkinson's work for marillion and king crimson's in the court of the crimson king. |
Posted By: fiori
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 16:12
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Paul Whitehead!! Half of Genesis albums in Gabriel era (tresspass, nursery cryme and foxtrot) ------------- "-Mr Fripp, your music is quite different than everything else out there... In one word, how'd you describe it? -Progressive... yeah... that's it" |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 07:23
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1)The best cover is Time Honoured Ghosts, by Barclay James Harvest (1975). 2) the first album by Blue Oyster Cult (1972) 3) A Passion Play, by Jethro Tull (1973) |
Posted By: M. B. Zapelini
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 07:51
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"The Kids Are Alright" (The Who) - beautiful cover art, an amazing booklet and engraved record bags - one of the greatest cover arts of all time, in all dimensions. ------------- "He's a man of the past and one of the present" PETER HAMMILL |
Posted By: floyd68
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 08:20
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my top ten:
spocks - beard v dream theater - octavarium pink floyd - wish you were here genesis - lamb asia - asia; at least the cover rocks ;-) yes - fragile, relayer camel - moonmadness elp - brain salad surgery bjh - octoberon flower kings -retropolis IMO: in most cases good packaging for good music... |
Posted By: sabian
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 08:20
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i love VDGG's "Still Life" |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 08:29
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I like some of the cover art from Symphony X.Rodney Matthews is better than Roger Dean in my opinion also. ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: lordoflight
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 08:38
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black sabbath - black sabbath pink floyd - animals hawkwind - space bandits amon duul - wolf city the doors - strange days celtic frost - into the pandemonium tangerine dream - rubycon
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Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 08:52
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hard to pick a favourite. I love the obvious ones: Paul Whitehead
(Genesis, VDGG, Hammill and High Tide's Sea Shanties), Roger Dean (Yes, Uriah Heep, Greenslade, Gentle Giant) but also Marcus Keef (Colosseum, Black Sabbath, Affinity, many Neon artists) and Peter Cross (Anthony Phillips). Since the cover for The geese and the ghost has been my screensaver for months, i'll choose this one |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 08:55
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Octoberon is really very good one!! |
floyd68 wrote:Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 09:09
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...of course I forgot to mention BJH! and Hipgnosis, Amon Düül II, T
Dream etc... King Crimson's Lizard has a stunning cover |
Posted By: Mahonster
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 09:27
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King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Opeth - Blackwater Park Porcupine Tree - Deadwing Tool - Lateralus (the proper one) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Other very good ones: Sikth - The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild Ulver - Blood Inside |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 11:02
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Throgh
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 12:28
Well done - 
and how do you like RUSH-" Power Windows" cover? And don't you think covers of CD are not the same masterpieces than LP? Projects of LP covers were more addicted to recordings than now and expressed spirit of music inside. I could put a cover, looked at , and listen, imagine... Good times, bad times 
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Posted By: porter
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 10:08
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roger dean is my favorite ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 17:19
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Posted By: Cluster One
Date Posted: September 12 2005 at 04:16
       ------------- Marmalade...I like marmalade. |
Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: September 12 2005 at 06:14
I have some lp replicas on cd format (mainly Genesis, Led Zep, some from Akarma records etc.) but I still regret the good ol' times... |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: September 13 2005 at 21:35
          ------------- And above all, is punk 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 13 2005 at 23:25
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Pink floyd...you can basically pick anything by them. (minus some early stuff) Tho my favorite: THE DIVISION BELL
------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Angeldust
Date Posted: September 19 2005 at 17:47
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Mirage ? Anyway ,propably Permanent Waves from Rush and Division Bell is a great too. |
Posted By: freebird
Date Posted: April 14 2006 at 18:36
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Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans Mike Oldfield - Songs of a Distant Earth Asia - Alpha (all Asia cover art great, albums mostly blah) King Crimson - Lizard Weather Report - Black Market Pendragon - Window of Life Camel - The Snow Goose Ash Ra Tempel - self titled (first album) ELP - Brain Salad Surgery Tangerine Dream - Tournado
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Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: April 14 2006 at 18:39
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Selling England By the Pound, Wish You Were Here, Frances the Mute, Deadwing, etc.
------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: Space Chief
Date Posted: April 14 2006 at 18:45
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But seriously...
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Posted By: Dr4Wazo
Date Posted: April 14 2006 at 18:50
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"Mëem Otsilennhetëe Dros Sun Surra Steuhn Do Nansei" |
Posted By: Joolz
Date Posted: April 15 2006 at 09:36
Well at least you're consistent   |
Posted By: Explorer-eighth
Date Posted: April 27 2006 at 19:09
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My favourite record sleeve art work includes:
Art Zoyd - Generations sans futur
Stormy Six - Macchina Maccheronica
Stormy Six - Al Volo
Magma - 1001 degrees centigrades (the orange, not the grey one)
Magma - Magma
King Crimson - In the wake of Poseidon
King Crimson - Lizard
Weather Report - Weather Report
Weather Report - I sing the body electric
Weather Report - Procession
Gong - You
Art Bears - Hopes and Fears
Can - Soon over Babaluma
Pere Ubu - New Picnic time
------------- The music I enjoy is complex; varied; deep and well played. |
Posted By: Barla
Date Posted: April 27 2006 at 21:53
| I'll add Genesis's "Selling England by the Pound", Yes "Tales..." and some Pendragon are excellent too ("The masquerade Overture", "The widow of life") |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: April 27 2006 at 22:59
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http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Valravennz/Rock%20Album%20Art/?"> http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Valravennz/Rock%20Album%20Art/?"> ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: April 27 2006 at 23:07
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No Patrick Woodroffe... hmmmm 
Nobody remember this? and many other brilliant fantasy works for books and albums |
Posted By: Zoso
Date Posted: April 27 2006 at 23:42
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Fragile, Relayer and Tales by Yes. Thank god for Roger Dean.
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Posted By: Joolz
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 05:36
Wow, yeah! Brilliant book with some OK music. I read once (probably in Record Collector magazine 10 or more years ago) that a mint copy of the LP was worth over £120 (UK pounds) - presumably a lot more now! I reckon my book is mint but the vinyl possibly not. Rodney Matthews is another favourite of mine. I think maybe my all time favourite cover is Bedside Manners Are Extra (Greenslade) by Roger Dean |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 11:40
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two of the most stunning covers i have seen.....
 ...less is more!!  http://rateyourmusic.com/misc/link_image?album_id=1914"> ...and even less is a lot more!!-------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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the eye follows you round the room!!
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 17:15
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I really like Paul Whitheads work (vdgg, Genesis). -------------  
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Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: April 28 2006 at 20:00
I agree with the music. What a stunning idea it was. If only Dave Greenslade could have shown the same brilliance with his music as Woodroffe did with the artwork |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: April 29 2006 at 06:27
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LED ZEPPELIN - Presence
Gentle Giant - Octopus
BLACK SABBATH - heaven and hell, black sabbath, sabbath bloody sabbath
Yes - Fragile
Klaus Schulze - Timewind
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra, Rubycon
Pink Floyd - Animals, Dsotm, Division Bell
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Posted By: freebird
Date Posted: April 29 2006 at 14:10
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: April 29 2006 at 14:34
^I like the "Gun" cover It was Roger Dean's first.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: April 29 2006 at 15:09
My favorites:   Especially the paintings inside:     ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: April 30 2006 at 06:25
Nektar's first album cover is great 
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