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Topic: Worst Prog Album Cover
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Worst Prog Album Cover
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 14:14
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What's the worst album cover you've ever seen for a Prog-Rock band? My vote goes to the German band Brainstorm for their 1972 album "Smile a While"   |
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Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 14:30
 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. |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 14:51
^ I'm just trying to figure out what the hell that's suppose to be?! 
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Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 14:56
Leprous thing? It should mean lots of things to lots of people. I prefer my plain lemon tea with melissa leaves. 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 14:58
| If that Brainstorm had women in it instead of men nobody would think it was bad. Lol. Even though I won't suggest anyone is homophobic because they hate it I do think it would be better if the album was called bra storm(regardless if men or women were on it)since that would make more sense. |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 15:05
Hey I figured it out. The vehicle seems to be PROGRESSING. That should mean it is progressive haha. |
Argo2112 wrote:Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 15:10
It sounds like a bra storm in a D-cup.  If the Brainstorm album cover had featured women instead of men, I probably would have bought the album just on the strength of the album cover alone.
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 17:19
This one is really bad, so much so it makes me laugh.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 17:39
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I know exactly what you mean, Manuel. The album cover is both dreadful and funny at the same time. It makes Queen's cross-dressing video for "I Want To Break Free" look relatively tame by comparison.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 18:12
 ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 18:49
| Laughs in transatlantic* |
Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 19:19
I'm going for another German band with two of the worst album covers ever, Missus Beastly...  ------------- He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me -- John Barrymore |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 19:47
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LOL. I made a whole list of bad album covers on Rate Your Music. Anyone who wants to torture themselves can find it here http://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/baaad-album-covers/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/baaad-album-covers/ Prog only, huh? That Brainstorm is definately on my list. I actually like the Leprous one. It's surreal!       If those didnt' scare you, check out my list above for more! -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 20:10
A cover doesn't have to "make sense". Leprous cover is just like their music. Forced creativity, which is actually faking intellectuality. It can be seen as "surreal", like after consuming magic mushrooms haha. I respect your perception, yet as I said everything about Leprous seems pretentious to me. I think Death - Spiritual Healing is an impactful portrayal of extreme religiousness. Very American and very Stephen King-esque. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 20:25
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^ personally i view the Leprous cover as playful. Forced creativity? How do you define such a thing? ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 20:35
My definition is related to their works, albeit not excluding how the majority sees them as "groundbreaking", "creative", "progressive" or even "the best and most sophisticated prog metal band of the 2000s". Edit: Or to be more clear, they perhaps "had to" force it, to make a difference in the genre; just like Mastodon. Otherwise they had had no chance of "breaking the majority's ground" with their theoretical musical (in)competence and dysfunctional ideas. Sorry but, without integrity, I refuse to be impressed. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 20:50
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All creativity is forced. That's what makes something new otherwise it's called "repeating what's been done." Personally i love Leprous but then again i dig avant-prog and other so-called forced creative efforts. I prefer to view it as explorative :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 20:55
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If a change or progression(?) is lacking integrity, it is better not to produce anything. That is my philosophy. I'm not generalizing all the avant-garde, experimental stuff. I was just talking about Leprous and Mastodon.
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 21:20
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So why do you deem what they do as lacking integrity? A very subjective term. Just because you don't personally like them doesn't mean they killed a thousand people and drank their blood in order to come up with some new ideas. It's just not your taste. Simple as that. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 21:22
| It's not my taste, and those mentioned are my ideas and grounds for my dislike. Should I add "IMO" while saying they lack integrity and such all the time? These are my views, simple as that. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 22:50
This is a gawd awful album cover ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 22:51
So is this ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 22:52
And why stop there ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 22:53
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 22:54
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 22:55
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 24 2019 at 22:59
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 00:23
The back cover of the album has some more photos like that:  The band obviously enjoyed that photo shoot. My vote for worst album cover goes to a compilation album of Birth Control:  The band apparently had a liking for bad taste album covers; here two more examples:   -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 01:33
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Yup, Germany surely ran away with the Olympic gold medal of tacky artwork cover during the 70's
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 02:08
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@Sean Trane:-Yes, it seems the German Prog-Rock bands of the 1970's had a particular knack for coming up with the most dreadful album covers, including Brainstorm, Missus Beastly & Birth Control.
@BaldFriede:- It made me "Smile a While" longer, when I saw the dreadful back cover of Brainstorm's album.
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Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 03:03
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They made that cover for control underwear fetishists...what could be more prog than that?? ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Neu!mann
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 03:50
There's no way this gets my vote, because it's meant to be be tongue-in-cheek. Love Beach, on the other hand, was by a major band, so that makes it 100x worse!! ------------- "we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 06:31
This ties with Brainstorm as the worst for me. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 08:38
Well, if it were the BONZO DOG BAND, or THE WHO, everyone would think that the cover was a classic and a great Hipgnosis cover ... but they had more class and used better flash, and a couple of other nice photos instead for a couple of their covers ... much sexier! I won't even bother listening to the album ... for some reason, it just felt ... why bother? ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 08:43
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@Progmatic:- That album cover with men in ballet dresses is a good contender for worst Prog album cover, but my eyesight's not good enough to see the name of the artist or the title of the album.
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 08:43
You are keeping yourself from a good listening experience; the album is a solid 4 star album. Here the title track: ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 09:03
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^ for me it's a 5 star album. Never judge an album by its cover. Music is a 5 and cover is a 1/2 star. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 09:04
| @BaldFriede and SillyPuppy:- You're right! Brainstorm's "Smile a While" is a classic German Jazz-Rock album. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 09:05
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BTW, i agree with BaldFriede. As a band, Birth Control consistently sucked for album cover art. They win the tacky cover award. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 09:39
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An interesting side information about the album: The title of the 4th track is given as "Bosco Biati weiß alles" on the album cover. The correct title would however be "Bosko Biati kennt Alles". Mark that "Bosko" is written with a "K" here. This title would refer to a card trick, in which 20 cards (10 identical pairs, so each card appears twice) are placed in 4 rows of 5 cards each. One person has to pick a pair and tell in which rows the two cards appear (example given: 1st and 3rd row). The other person will then immediately tell which pair was chosen. If you look at "Bosko Biati Kennt Alles" closely you will notice that the sentence consists of 10 different letters that each appear twice. This does of course tell how the trick is done. Since both the correct and the wrong title mean the same in German it is easy to see how the mistake was made. In the example given it would be the pair of cards placed on the positions of the letter "K".
------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 10:09
That cover reminds me of Mother Goose - a New Zealand Band who moved to Australia in 1976 and had a #1 hit single with a novelty song called 'Baked Beans'. They could really play. There's a live clip of them on youtube from 77. It goes from heavy blues to Zappa-ish prog to Chattanooga Choo Choo, all with the guitarist dressed in diapers and a bib. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 12:26
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An interesting side information about the album "Smile a While": The title of the 4th track is given as "Bosco Biati weiß alles" on the album cover. The correct title would however be "Bosko Biati kennt Alles". Mark that "Bosko" is written with a "K" here. This title would refer to a card trick, in which 20 cards (10 identical pairs, so each card appears twice) are placed in 4 rows of 5 cards each. One person has to pick a pair and tell in which rows the two cards appear (example given: 1st and 3rd row). The other person will then immediately tell which pair was chosen. If you look at "Bosko Biati Kennt Alles" closely you will notice that the sentence consists of 10 different letters that each appear twice. This does of course tell how the trick is done. Since both the correct and the wrong title mean the same in German it is easy to see how the mistake was made. In the example given it would be the pair of cards placed on the positions of the letter "K". ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 19:18
That's freakin' hysterical! At least it's got a high amusement factor. Since it's got some redeeming value in that, I can't call it the worst. |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: September 25 2019 at 19:20
| I've always thought that DT cover truly bad. |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: September 26 2019 at 00:34
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Yes. Tormato is the worst I reckon. By comparisson with all the rest... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: September 26 2019 at 01:56
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Hawkwind had some abysmal album covers in the early to mid 80's, that looked like they were drawn by not very talented 10 year-olds. 'Sonic Attack' and 'Zones' spring to mind. But while they were inept and juvenile, they probably aren't as catastrophically bad as some other hard rock album covers. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: September 26 2019 at 02:24
Honestly? Here the cover of "Zones":  Just look at the drape of the pilot's suit. This was most definitely not drawn by an untalented 10 year-old; this was drawn by an artist who knew exactly what he was doing. Getting drapery right is one of the most difficult things in the art of painting.
------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 26 2019 at 04:11
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The cover for Hawkwind's "Zones" album looks okay to me.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 26 2019 at 07:17
I promise to listen to it ... there are a couple of those old things that I have not heard ... I need to find Tanned Leather and Cherubin ... I liked those and it was not the covers, btw. The only "covers" i ever bought, for the most part were the ones done by HIPGNOSIS, and the main reason why was that their covers were ALWAYS an "editorial" about the music, and you just about knew what you were going to get. But, generally, covers were never the reason why I bought something ... in fact, I refused to buy the BLIND FAITH album with the young girl on it, because that cover was exploitative, and I did not think that the music was any better! But it's a fine line ... like seeing Jimi in the middle of a bunch of ladies in one album that was censored in America. When comparing the "humor" from Brainstorm's album cover, to one by Frank Zappa sitting on the stool, at least you know that he is saying ... it's just some sh*t ... and he is not making any excuses for his thinking, while Brainstorm's is a bit on the weird side, even if it is making fun of the classical side of things ... but I'm not knowledgeable enough about underclothing to say any more about that ... I, personally, do not find it funny, or interesting and it did not help me buy the album or touch it, when AD2, KS and TD had something that was much more interesting and valuable to me! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 26 2019 at 08:48
| The design of an album cover has a big part to play for me in whether I decide to buy an album, particularly when it comes to the surreal Prog-Rock album covers designed by the creative Hipgnosis team, or Roger Dean's superb fantasy art designs for albums by Yes, Asia and Uriah Heep, amongst others. |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: September 26 2019 at 10:59
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The gatefold sleve of vinyl was a big part of the buying experience. Mind you that Love Beach cover put me off when it came out... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 27 2019 at 22:51
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I didn't think ELP's "Love Beach" album cover was THAT bad, although I've heard it's generally considered to be their worst album.
I loved the old gatefold album cover sleeves too.
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Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: September 28 2019 at 04:16
Well, different strokes. I reckon it's a poor album cover, not to mention just a poor album. Moorcock had said of one of the tracks, about a year before the album was cobbled together, "We'll probably release it one day if we're desperate enough" (fair enough Moorcock could be very self-deprecating, but I really think that Flicknife period was the nadir of Hawkwind up to that point. I can't really comment about their new stuff.)
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: September 28 2019 at 04:28
You can consider it to be a
bad album cover; that's a matter of personal taste. But to say it looks
like it was done by a not very talented ten-year old is plain nonsense. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 01:16
| ELP - I would rate the Welcome Back My Friends album cover as worse than Love Beach . Works Volume One also often gets cited although it I quite like that one. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:10
oh that is easy... and the root of my warfare with Photobucket years ago who deemed the cover so offensive they kept on removing .. that got so nasty there might have been a death threat or two.. and they relented and stopped deleting my uploads of the cover. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:21
I love the music on this album but the cover is so lame ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:23
I wouldn't call this prog but Deerhoof is here on PA  ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:24
COLD CUTShttp://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3438" rel="nofollow - Nicholas Greenwood•Canterbury Scene
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:24
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I like the music of Fuzzy Duck too, but you're right, the album cover is dreadful and it's enough to put you off listening to the great music contained within.
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:25
Horrible album, horrible cover, UGH ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:26
Another album that i love the music but someone was on the same wavelength as Birth Control ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:27
I know some like this one but i find it cheap and rather drab compared to the bounty inside ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:29
THis one is quite uglyECHOLYNhttp://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=90" rel="nofollow - Echolyn•Symphonic Prog |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 07:46
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Holger Czukay may be my hero, but he has a number of very lazy and unattractive album covers.  I like the Echolyn cover, by the way.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 08:11
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@SillyPuppy:- I actually like Zarathustra's album, even if the cover is not that great.
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 08:22
Great album, but the cover is indeed questionable. I am not certain what to think of this album cover:  ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 10:10
I've known a few kids not terribly much older than 10 who were so naturally gifted that they could run wings around whoever drew that. And sorry, but i just think it looks adolescent in concept and awkward in execution.
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Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 10:22
It strikes me there were quite a few of these subdued, BROWN, album covers around in the early seventies. |
Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 10:23
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I've probably said it before but I will say it again. The worst album cover is definitely Gong's Acid Motherhood. I won't even post the image Here. Google it at your own risk ------------- "Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl." |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 11:07
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@Imperial Zeppelin:- I totally agree with you - Gong's Acid Motherhood has to be one of the worst - if not THEE worst - Prog album covers of all time, and it's so goddamned awful that I dare not even post the image here.
Just to give you an idea of how truly awful the album cover is though, it features a pregnant and naked picture of Gong member Daevid Allen on the cover. To say it's not a pretty sight would be the understatement of the year! |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 11:37
I actually like that one. It's just so outrageous and over the top that I find it hilarious. I totally understand why you hate it! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: TheH
Date Posted: September 29 2019 at 12:12
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I would vote for the Picture of BIG FAT MAMMA on the original cover of PFM's Chocolate Kings (US and UK cover is different). Thankfully it was very small on the cover (just not on the poster).
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 02:29
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). ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 04:57
Opinions differ, yet this is the second "pretentious" judgment I received here, such as, as if I despised everything similar. I gave few examples, you're the second person acting like you know that it is some sort of generalization made by me. It is not, I assure you. Should I do likewise for people who jump to sudden conclusions with VERY limited evidence, if that is evidence at all? I prefer not to. Yet, you can try to explain me what is the thing that makes this cover "fart" being one of the best cover arts for you. Thus I might apologize and delete the "f" letter I put in fron of the word "art"(?) You can save me from analyzing the lyrics and such, considering that you know the integrity of this art and how it is related to the album overall. My opinions do change sometimes, albeit highly unlikely on such things. |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 05:55
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Are people simply expressing an opinion that equates to...Cover A OFFENDS me ergo It's the worst cover? Art is as subjective as music. And the same argument is made time and time again on this site... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 06:06
| I think this shouldn't have turned into an argument. I expressed solely that this cover is a "work o' fart" for me, and called Leprous crap altogether. My only focus was the product(s). |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 07:16
This is on my favorite album cover list as well. Pretentious is another word for "not getting it." ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 07:18
WHO DO WE THINK WE AREhttp://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1969" rel="nofollow - Deep Purple•Proto-Prog |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 07:20
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) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 07:32
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. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:07
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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! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Odvin Draoi
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:12
That would be TOO predictable, haha. 
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:32
This one won't win any album cover awards!ABLUTIONhttp://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7715" rel="nofollow - Ablution•Jazz Rock/Fusion |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:33
Cheesy AFTIEFENRAUSCHhttp://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8066" rel="nofollow - ACI•Progressive Electronic |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:39
This is not appealing in the leastVIVO TECNÓPOLIShttp://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8663" rel="nofollow - Gramonautus•Crossover Prog |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:43
This is pretty bad too IMHOAR4 [AKA: A. R. IV]http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2547" rel="nofollow - A.R. & Machines•Krautrock |
![A.R. & Machines AR4 [Aka: A. R. IV] album cover](https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2547/cover_1241419122017_r.jpg "A.R. & MachinesAR4 [Aka: A. R. IV] album cover")
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:46
This band had a bad name and a very uninteresting album cover for the music contained withinCARGOhttp://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=930" rel="nofollow - Cargo•Heavy Prog |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:47
| ^^ I like it. It strikes visually and not in a bad way. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:49
Obvious why this one is hideiousTHE STRANDS OF THE FUTUREhttp://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=291" rel="nofollow - Pulsar•Symphonic Prog |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:50
For a prog album cover though? It would make a better industrial ambient album cover. ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 08:59
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 10:13
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^ to me it looks cheap. I want it to be artier! ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 10:27
| ^ At least it looks/sounds better than Can's album with a similar cover :P |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 14:59
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: October 01 2019 at 16:01
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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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Posted By: Braka1
Date Posted: October 02 2019 at 01:24
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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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 02 2019 at 06:33
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 ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 02 2019 at 06:34
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 ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: October 02 2019 at 06:44
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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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