Cover: Pink Floyd or Yes?
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Topic: Cover: Pink Floyd or Yes?
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: Cover: Pink Floyd or Yes?
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 14:26
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This two bands have the best, or at elast my favorite album covers. On one hand you have Roger Dean´s fanatasy and on the other Hypnosis (among others) excellent photography. My vote goes for Pink Floyd, all their covers between Atom heart mother till The division bell are faboulous!!! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 14:44
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Yes : I love Dean´s work, love Relayer cover and TFTTO But my vote goes to Pink Floyd too... i love Darkside, Wish you and Atom Covers...
------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 14:55
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Love Roger Dean's work however Hipnosis seemed to have a more
thoughtful doubled-meaning approach to their covers with alot of
humour, psychedelia and hidden messages so I'll go for the Floyd covers. ------------- My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head. |
Posted By: Ounamahl
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 14:57
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Hmm a tough one. Maybe Yes a bit. But DSOTM and Animals are stunning.
------------- This is an electrified fairytale |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 15:03
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hipgnosis and dean, both are great, but for my taste it is 'Roger Dean'. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 15:22
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My thoughts exactly. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Dr. Occulator wrote:Posted By: micky
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 15:26
oh man.. no matter how trippy or cool Floyd's covers were.. they simply
don't compare to the terrible twosome of Tales and Relayer by
themselves. Art... that's what they were.
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 16:49
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Pink Floyd because not only are the covers great, but the pictures that accompany the lyrics are also great. Storm Thurgeson is a genius. I also prefer creative pictures over a drawing; I think that getting a great picture requires more work. (Not that Dean had easy job.) I think CTTE's cover is incredibly lazy. Relayer is good, but CTTE drags the rest of Yes. |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 17:05
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I voted Yes and Roger Dean i like drawings much more then photo covers. ------------- 
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Posted By: UnknownFlow
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 17:07
| Both of them are absolutly stunning and they each fit the music so well, I mean you couldn't have the cover for Fragile on the CD of DSOTM it just wouldnt work. As for the quality i personally have to go for Yes, it's just so original and basically looks damn cool. |
Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 17:13
You think that taking a picture requires much more work than one of Dean's pieces? I'd like to think not. ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: ProgFan
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 17:22
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I go for Pink Floyd covers They are "better" than the covers of the albums of Yes |
Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 18:42
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Taking the picture, no. But thinking of the cover, setting it all up, and then manipulating it some, I think so. Besides that there are also the inside pictures that accompany the lyrics for every song (and manages to fit almost all of them extremely well); Yes just has the front and back of the LP. That's where I think it's harder; maybe the covers would be about the same; it's hard to say because I don't know how long Dean had to spend to make covers like Relayer (or how long it took Storm to make covers like WYWH and Animals). Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying that by any stretch of the imagination thet Dean's covers are bad (except maybe for CTTE, because gradients are lame); I prefer Storm though. |
Posted By: Rust
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 18:59
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Floyd's Best Covers
Yes' Best Covers
------------- We got to pump the stuff to make us tough from the heart Its astart What we need is awareness we cant get careless Mental self defensive fitness Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be |
Posted By: heavyhery
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 18:59
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yes covers are better ------------- heavyhery |
Posted By: White Queen
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 19:21
| Yes!!! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 19:29
I'll vote for Floyd. The Division Bell and Animals is enough to make up for Meddle  ------------- 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: Rust
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 19:36
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How can you not like Meddle? I think they really thought outside the box on that one. It's like a message from God saying, "Open you damn ears so you can hear this bad ass music!" Since it is a picture of an ear. ------------- We got to pump the stuff to make us tough from the heart Its astart What we need is awareness we cant get careless Mental self defensive fitness Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be |
Posted By: stan the man
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 19:53
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Fragile and Relayer are the only Yes covers that catch my eye. Pink Floyd has A Saucerful of Secrets, More, Ummagumma, Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and Animals. It is defenately an unfair comparison. If it was Floyd and Genesis covers than it would be pretty close in my opinion. ------------- true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants. 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: April 06 2006 at 20:17
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I love both Hipgnosis and Roger Dean, but I'll choose Yes. VERY though question!! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 08:32
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YES's covers of course!!! I like the KING CRIMSON's covers too. |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 08:35
| Of PF's album covers, I really liked Animals - the CD size pic doesn't so justice to what it looked like as a 12" cover. Overall though Roger Dean's covers for Yes would be my choice. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 08:42
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Posted By: Firepuck
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 09:41
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I'll take both on Vinyl please - I hate the size of CD covers. (BTW, I have both on vinyl - one good thing about being old I guess) While I prefer Yes to Pink Floyd from an aural standpoint I will have to bow to Pink Floyd from a visual point of view.
------------- Kryten : "'Pub'? Ah yes, A meeting place where humans attempt to achieve advanced states of mental incompetence by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks." |
Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 10:08
| I LOVED ROGER DEAN COVERS!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: Peace Frog
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 11:52
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I think Yes have generally better covers and prettier covers, which go for the more "art" look. But Pink Floyd have covers which are somehow really well thought out (DSOTM for instance) I chose Yes. ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: April 07 2006 at 12:02
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No one beats the Pink Floyd covers; such a misterious work... it is impossible not to spend months thinking about the possible meanings to those weird and cautivating photographs... Yes covers are ok, but somehow, they are far more obviuos and illustrative, nothing left for intuitive people there... ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: DrWizard
Date Posted: May 01 2006 at 15:33
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Pink Floyd definitely.....
There covers are more simple but have a purpose other then to look cool.
Yes covers are just cool drawings.
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Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: May 01 2006 at 15:48
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I don't vote for Yes... I voted for ROGER DEAN!!!
For always yours, Mandrakeroot
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Posted By: krring
Date Posted: May 01 2006 at 16:32
| A Saucerful of Secrets swings it for me. |
Posted By: Sacred 22
Date Posted: May 02 2006 at 01:39
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Tales, Relayer, Drama. All great ablum art work by Dean.
YES of course.
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