Wonderful cover - Bad album
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Topic: Wonderful cover - Bad album
Posted By: Bern
Subject: Wonderful cover - Bad album
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 19:48
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Silly thread: Is there any album you know that have a stunningly great album cover or artwork but that is just awfully bad? or An album which is really good but with a piece of crap as a cover?  -------------  
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 19:53
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Hemispheres by Rush.
that album has a bad cover but is a good album ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 19:54
I always hated Going for the one cover but I like the album 
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 19:56
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Jethro Tull: Broadsword and the Beast (not awful, but pretty close). Thats all I can think of at the moment. -------------  
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:03
Judging from the first two that were mentionned, it seems that naked guys are not popular I just realized that there was naked guys on both -------------
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:05
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Jethro Tull "Under Wraps" ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:08
IMO both the album and its cover are bad but what do you think is the good parts of Under Wraps? -------------
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NotAProghead wrote:Posted By: stan the man
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:31
  ------------- true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants. 
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:32
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Opeth - Orchid.. i like the cover.. but the album dont ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:37
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Love Beach! ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:39
Love Beach is not a good option since both the cover and the album are GREAT!!!  -------------
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Posted By: stan the man
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:42
------------- true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants.
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:43
Yes Isn't he great? -------------
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:48
| A good album, bad cover is Acquiring the Taste. If I'd judged that album by its cover, it would surely not be a taste I'd wish to acquire. |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:50
I like only the cover, nice lady's silhouette, quite elegant.
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:52
Yes it's not that bad but to me, it just doesn't fit with JT for some reason. That's why I don't like it  -------------
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: stan the man
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 20:54
------------- true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants.
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Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:07
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Yes-Going for the one (another naked man)
Great album....not so great cover though!
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:11
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Now that I think of it : King Crimson - Red : This album cover is pretty lame but the music is the exact opposite of lame  -------------
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:14
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^So is VDGG - Godbluff
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RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: MattNYR
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:17
| Yesterday and Today by the Beatles has a picture of the four beatles with dead babies and raw meat or something. I have no idea what the hell is going on, except that it's a terrible album cover. And since it's by the Beatles, I'm assuming the music is pretty good. |
Posted By: Igha
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:23
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Focus - Moving Waves (Excellent album, with a very lame cover) Maybe it's one of the "prog icons", and it's everywhere...but the In The Court cover, I just don't like it, for me is horrible Hey Acquiring The Taste cover is Great... :( Love the double-sense humour ------------- My words are spiders upon the page,they spin out faith, hope and reason but are they meet and just, or only dust gathering about my chair? |
Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:36
same here ------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong 
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Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:38
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King Crimson In the wake of Poseiden great cover, not so great album
Starless and Bible Black, lousy cover great album; maybe they should swap.
The great thing about Genesis was when their music went downhill so did the covers, while their early covers and music are both great.
But with Going for the One I always liked the cover,but sure who wants to see a guys rear end?
 for me its the whole musical city thing in the backround which is awesome, maybe if Mr G. For the One wore some jeans it would be a better cover, the same goes for Hemispheres . |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:50
Personally i like the Godbluff cover. Really simplistic but still
 Tho i love the album as well. So i have nothing to contribute to this thread  ------------- 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: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:51
Its better then the other side ------------- 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: Logan
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 21:56
If I'd just seen that cover in a store and not known the band, I might have thought that acquiring the taste for this music is akin to acquiring the taste of a$$. A$$ is not a taste I'd wish to acquire. It sends a crappy message. What would Cartman say? |
Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:03
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My pick is
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
I love the album but very bad cover in my opinion
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:11
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I can't really think of anything outside of those mentioned... usually great album = great cover.
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Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:36
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Posted By: dagrush
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:44
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- I'm not a big fan of any of Genesis's covers (except Trespass), but fantastic music was contained within many of them - The obvious GFTO. I don't mind the naked guy so much, but the rest of it is weak too - Deep Purple's Fireball has a pretty cool cover, but I think the album is fairly weak - The already mentioned Moving Waves - The already mentioned Godbluff - The Yes Album's boring cover - The overly bright and annoying LTIA cover - The cool Obscued by Clouds cover - Not prog, but Iron Maiden's Virtual XI has a fantastic cover and the album is horrifying ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/omgwtfdagrush/"> 
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Posted By: soundspectrum
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:49
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demons and wizards....awesome cover...album aint so good!! love salisbury though |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 22:52
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King Crimson started off with some great album covers then we got some lame ones:
"Earthbound" - awful cover and not a great recording.
"Starless and Bible Black" - bland cover but great music
"Red" - another unimaginative cover - but imo the best KC album.
Perhaps in general the covers do reflect the music. I disagree with those members who don't like the covers for Rush - Hemispheres, Yes - Going For The One, Jethro Tull - Broadsword and The Beast - they are brilliant works of art and both the Yes album and JT's album have great music. Unfortunately, I never did get into Rush.
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 23:32
Not a bad album at all! Considered by many as HEEP's best.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 02:05
I'm in total agreement. The music is out of this world, shame about the cover. The same applies to an album featuring two-thirds of the Red lineup, i.e. UK's debut album. Insignificant cover, fantastic music.
As to great covers vs. not-so-great music, the first example that comes to my mind is Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans. I won't say it's a bad album (it's not) - it just does nothing for me, I'm afraid.
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 02:25
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I don't know... I dont like the cover to "Sabotage" of Black sabbath very much...
maybe you should make a thread about "Bad cover, wonderful music"
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Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 03:51
Inferno by Metamorfosi is an excellent album with a rather ugly looking cover which does not give any indication of the magnificent content of the album.
 But I have grown used to it. ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 17:01
A good album with a bad cover is Jefferson Airplane, Crown of Creation.
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Posted By: Zoso
Date Posted: April 24 2006 at 23:23
Yeah, God knows why they did that.  -------------  |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 05:31
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Asia, most of their albums have really good Roger Dean covers. I dont think we have to soil this page by talking about the music though. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 11:22
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the early RARE BIRD albums have awful covers, also ARGENT, but the music is absolutely brilliant! all i can think of for now...except QUEEN's were pretty gruesome for a while, oh, and COLOSSEUM, and MAY BLITZ...and...and....! -------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 17:22
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Meatloaf-Bat Out Of Hell. Bought it for the cover-nothing else. ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 17:38
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I like the Godbluff cover! I don't know if I like the Van der Graaf logo so much though (I mean Van der Graaf, not Van der Graaf Generator - the logo for the classic lineup is a classic logo). Some might say: The Silent Corner and The Empty Stage by Peter Hammill. Get A Whiff Of This by Juicy Lucy:  The Original Electric Ladyland cover, which I am not showing here! -------------   
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Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 20:18
From what I've heard, it's because they were pissed at Capitol for "butchering" their albums; often Capitol would add or remove trackis from the original album for the US version. BUt it was recalled very quickly (as you might imagine), so I'm not sure it really counts.
I despise the cover of Three Friends; I can't comment on the music, but I assume that it's pretty good as Gentle Giant seems to be well-liked on here; however, I will never buy that album because I could not stand having to look at that cover on a regular basis. ------------- "Never forget that the human race with technology is like an alcoholic with a barrel of wine." Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Because in their hearts, everyone secretly loves the Unabomber. |
Posted By: Rust
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 21:05
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More's cover doesn't do justice to the wonderful music inside.
Again with Going For the One love the songs confused by the cover, what were they thinking?
U.S. version of Time and A Word cover is preety boring, but I love the music.
For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night, like the album but the cover is a little perverted, not what I look forward to in prog.
Moonmadness is a boring cover as well but the album rocks! ------------- 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: zappaholic
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 21:27
Wasn't the U.S. cover the original? I know Hendrix didn't care for the U.K. sleeve.....
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: April 25 2006 at 23:23
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Yes, I meant the UK sleeve, not the US sleeve. I quite like Hendrix' decision on that actually, to dislike the UK cover. -------------
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