Whats your favorite cover art
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Topic: Whats your favorite cover art
Posted By: A Bard
Subject: Whats your favorite cover art
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 11:34
| Whats your favorite cover art. Mine has to be script for a jester's tear. It really show that this album is about. |
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 12:58
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The Beatles White Album. Ha ha. Rush - Moving Pictures Yes - Fragile Gong - Gazeuse ELP - Brain Salad Surgery Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Dream Theater - Images and Words Zappa - One Size Fits All Guess I can't pick a favorite. Sorry. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 13:16
In PA, I like this: Out of PA, I find this strangely mesmerising: 
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: March 17 2020 at 13:25
------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Logan wrote:Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 02:17
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Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 06:10
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Genesis - Wind & Wuthering Kate Bush - Never For Ever Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards Pink Floyd - Relics (original) Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds Neil Young - Zuma Jethro Tull - Aqualung Genesis - Trick Yes - TFTO Uriah Heep - Magician's Birthday Mike Oldfield - Crises Yeah, I'm not a fan of photographic covers at all. I really like illustrated and painted covers. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 06:30
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A Trick of the Tail - Genesis Relayer - Yes Alpha - Asia A farewell to Kings - Rush Permanent Waves - Rush Animals - Pink Floyd Breakfast in America - Supertramp Brain Salad Surgery - ELP Warrior on the edge of Time - Hawkwind ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 06:40
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Hi, Easy ... anything by Hipgnosis!!!!! At one time, I bought just about any album that had a Hipgnosis cover. The funny thing in the old days was that the cover was a bit of a hint about how good the music was ... and in the early days, it had some far out and some really neat stuff.
------------- 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: someone_else
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 16:37
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1. Yes - Relayer 2. Fright Pig - Out of the Barnyard 3. Gong - Gazeuse 4. Dream Theater - Images and Words 5. Manning - A Matter of Life and Death (The Journal of Abel Mann) 6. Collectors - s/t 7. Corvus Stone - Corvus Stone II 8. Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear 9. Big Big Train - English Electric1 X. Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three Honourable mentions: Big Big Train - Grimspound Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans Gnidrolog - Lady Lake 1Part One, Part Two and Full Power ------------- 
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Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 17:03
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I don't have one ultimate favourite cover art. Too many to mention. Yet, I can put the most cheesy cover art here. Can you see the pizza slices? They're cheesy! Joke aside, this is Hemlock's - Exordium album cover (A really standout album BTW. An underappreciated gem from Canada.) 
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 18 2020 at 19:00
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Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 08:04
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Fear of a blank planet - Porcupine Tree Solid State Survivor - Yellow Magic Orchestra Electric Savage - Colosseum II
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 08:12
Love this cover ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 15:09
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 16:20
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 17:18
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There is no more entertaining cover than the original release album of Thick as a Brick. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 19:09
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Check out my EYE CANDY ALBUM COVERS list on Rate Your Music It's some of the best album cover art that appeals to me at least :) http://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/eye-candy-album-covers/" rel="nofollow - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/eye-candy-album-covers/ A few prog covers i love      -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 19:10
That's probably a top 10 album cover for sure. The cover art is perfectly woven into the music as well ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Kempokid
Date Posted: March 19 2020 at 19:34
| Mastodon's Leviathan, or really most of their albums really take the cake for me. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 05:05
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this:  -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 13:34
Hi, Wow ... never EVER thought of it that way ... since the "Hippie" era for me, was a lot of SF stuff more than anything else, and many bands over there fit the bill ... however, only one of them, SANTANA, used a few more Latin/American folks and players than the other bands, and that worked really well in California with is very HIGH percentage of Latino folks, which made a huge difference ... specially in Southern California. People have a rather amusing and weird view of me as a "hippie" and I was not one ... I never even had my first joint until late 1971 when we moved to Santa Barbara ... but when I got there, smoking a joint, and having long hair was a HUGE FAD ... and it meant nothing at all ... compared to Madison, WI (with its 50K students at UW), which was a very hip place, and these things were taken a bit more seriously and it showed in the music choices and many concerts ... not to mention that I did not enjoy what the National Guard and the ______ folks did to the students and employees (including me!), during the Kent State days, at the Rathskeller when feeling out someone was a huge embarrassment and it was worse for the women ... and many of us looked at each other and we just got the feeling that something bad was also about to happen! But California's "laissez-faire" about it all ... not hip at all ... and felt like that one song we all hated because it really hurt SF and the far out places! And many of these folks were there to just get laid and get stoned ... the music was not valuable and for the most part ignored, and later it showed up and then some ... in that one place ... where ... someone even died, and Marty Balin got his face smashed! Hip/Hippie? Was long gone, and it almost felt like was an illusion! But all the art and music and literature will live forever! At least in my heart!!!!! And I'm very glad to be a part of that!
------------- 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: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 14:04
 ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 18:13
my parents were Hippies. I grew up in Oakland, just a bridge away from SF. the interior of my parents' living room looked just like the cover of "Abraxas" ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 20 2020 at 18:35
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Relayer. Saw the original painting at a silent auction in L.A. in the early '90s and was left speechless. Easily my favorite Dean cover. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 04:44
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 04:48
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 04:52
When this album was released, I was quite impressed with what it would've taken to put all those beds on the beach. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 05:56
killed many a brain cell to this one.. cover and music.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 07:16
Hi, I remembered you had said that ... and yeah, I knew some friends with similar crazy rooms and for the longest time my own room had a tapestry on top and all sides and lots of posters and all that. In the early days of it, it all meant something ... but it lost its flavor along the way. I don't "object" to being called a "hippie", although in how many folks use it here it is more on the condescending side of things than complimentary about the somewhat artistic side of things that had started way earlier, and had one of its introductory moments in the famous FURTHER bus ... the original one had nothing to do with the Grateful Dead originally. See the film "MAGIC TRIP" if you can ... it adds something to it all, that by the time the 70's got here had all been lost. And towards the end, there are a couple of quotes/comments by Ken Kesey that are absolutely massive! I'm more of the artistic hippie than the reality of it, if I can say so. By the time Abraxas came on, I was already seeing all the posters and art around it all, even including the stuff from Frank Zappa, and I always thought that the whole thing was far out and neat. AND ARTISTIC .... something that media run other "scenes" were not!
------------- 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: Teunis
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 13:11
| Really love all the Asia covers from Roger Dean. |
Posted By: tamijo_II
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 16:34
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So many great it impossible for me to pick just one, so I will post one of the better, not usual mentioned in Cover tread  ------------- Same person as this profile: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=22524" rel="nofollow - Tamijo |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 21 2020 at 16:39
This looks like crap to me, and I mean that literally, butt I like it. |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: April 02 2020 at 09:44
 Artists: bob hund Album: Det överexponerade gömstället (the over-exposed hiding place) The text reads: "I have no idea for the cover artwork - sorry, /Martin"
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: April 02 2020 at 09:46
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Another big favourite is The Who - Tommy... |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 04 2020 at 07:47
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Hi, The sad thing that I see here, is how the LP size (12 inches) had an effect in the art and how it was looked at and even appreciated ... and I think that almost all of these were LP's in the day, and the art stands out ... as a great example, the ABRAXAS cover would not look as good or as impressive on a CD as it did on a LP. I would like to see the "art" of it all make a come back, but with people just downloading songs ... I think the cover of an albums will become a completely lost art ... it was an outstanding side for many artists in a time when the art business was closed to more modern folks and new ideas in the art ... and today, it will be even worse than it was many years back, when seeing that ... wow ... what is that? ... nowadays, you don't even see a cover per se! Specially when folks are just downloading songs ... not albums! ------------- 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: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 04 2020 at 07:52
| Too many..... Roger Dean (of course) and Blim (Ozrics) come to mind instantly. But there are so many - Dan Seagrave for Metal, Patrick Woodruffe.....the list goes on. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 04 2020 at 07:55
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: April 04 2020 at 08:58
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This is another favourite:  |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 04 2020 at 09:06
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Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: April 04 2020 at 09:58
 I love the minimalism of Bass Communion covers like this one. Lots of great cover art in the thread everyone! ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: April 04 2020 at 10:01
That reminds me of:  ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 03:41
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 05:13
^Love that cover art too  More than a little Daliesque...but who cares about originality when it looks this awesome! I take it the music featured on it isn’t exactly your cup of tea?  ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 05:21
I just listened to the first song on it. It's one of his albums I really like.
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 05:34
My bad  I saw the cover and my mind said Blackdance. To be fair those three albums (Blackdance, Picture Music and Timewind) all share the brownish colour in their art works...which is why I often mention them as the coffee-trilogy. Timewind though is very silky and melodic. Probably one of his most revered and also one that isn’t that hard to get into..by Schulze standards. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 11:40
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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 11:45
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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 11:48
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Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 13:02
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Some of my faves:  ^ this produces something on me.. I don't know.. that sky.. and I always thought the left building roof was some kind of jet or rocket taking off and revolving around its axis (I may have a "sci-fi" bias). Classic Yes anyone?  Another one that comes to mind:  |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 13:07
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Also: David Bowie - "Heroes". With very simple means it gets to express a lot... And I don't know if this is one of my favourites, but it is definitely one of the weirdest:  |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 16:10
applause for Joe and Shirley Ann Savoie from the USA who took their
quarantine to the extreme to recreate the cover of Script For A Jesters
Tear in their home:)
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 17:21
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In no particular order Gatefold & more (often includes inner gatrfold): Stand Up & Brick In The Land of G&P In The Court & Lizard Caravanserai & Abraxas Crossings (Mwandishi) Bitches Brew Elastick Rock Soft Machine - 7 Meddle & Animals Trick Of The Tail (waffled cardboard & inner sleeve, please) 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus After Bathing At Baxter's QMS - What About Me? Yessongs & GFTO Argus Zoso & III TYA - Cricklewood Green Savoy Brown - Looking In Tommy & Quadrophenia Cinquième Saison Ni Vent Ni Nouvelle Mahogany Rush - Strange Universe Madden & Harris - Fools' Paradise (the inner is even nicer) Ash Ra Temple's debut Zeit Timewind (Dali inspiration) Jane's debut (Picasso inspiration) I'll be back for the single sleeves   |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: April 05 2020 at 20:42
This cover art has creeped me out forever! "Wolf City"  ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: April 06 2020 at 02:39
| How can I add an image please ? |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 06 2020 at 04:31
Said I would In no particular order Crime Of The Century Klaatu - Hope FM - Black Noise Maneige - s/t Sloche - Stadacone FM & Mahogany Rush - Tales Of The Unexpected Gong - You Wind & Wuthering Still Life Ricochet Shootout At Fantasy Factory Dashiell Hadayatt - Obsolete Twice Removed From Yesterday |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 06 2020 at 04:34
Hi, It's about the "energy" ... that quite often we don't see! ------------- 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: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: April 06 2020 at 09:04
You have two options: upload the image from your computer or, if you know a little, you can reference it from another place (ex: http://www.wikipedia.org/.../image.jpg). Ah.. the functionality has a quirk.. at least for me, I have to press ENTER to a new line (free of text) to the bottom to be able to insert the image. Two more:   Love the beautiful natural scene and how it gets disrupted by that kind of "portal" with human silhouette. Wow. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 07 2020 at 13:56
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