Favorite Album Cover?
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Topic: Favorite Album Cover?
Posted By: panamaredone
Subject: Favorite Album Cover?
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 15:31
| Name a few of your favorite prog album covers. |
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 15:41
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Overall art direction and package design, I love the deluxe edition of Marillion's Marbles by Carl Glover. As much as I love that band, I've never been a fan of their covers. I thought the Photoshop work was weak, and the photography was pretty dull. They nailed it with Marbles, however.
As noted last week, Hugh Syme has produced some of my favorites. Namely, Rush's Moving Pictures and Test For Echo. I also liked his Octavarium cover for Dream Theater. Neal Morse's package design for Testimony and One are pretty nice, too. Lovely photography for Testimony especially. Of course, not to mention Roger Dean would be wrong on so many levels. I like Tales Of Topographic Oceans and Yessongs. His covers for Asia's Alpha and ABWH are nice, as well. I wish I was home and was able to look over my collection because I know I'm missing a few. E ------------- 
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Posted By: dagrush
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 15:49
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Here are ten. The top one is my favourite, the rest are unordered Yes - Relayer Yes - Drama Genesis - Trespass Magma - Köhntarkösz POS - Be Rush - Fly By Night Rush - Roll The Bones Shadow Gallery - Room V VDGG - Still Life Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/omgwtfdagrush/"> 
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 15:50
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Oh, the Transatlantic covers. Especially for Bridge Across Forever. I love it when a band has a theme for stuff.
Just thought of more: Supertramp's Even In The Quietest Moments: Great concept of having the lone baby grand on a mountain top with sheet music. Their cover for Breakfast In America is hysterical. The plump waitress as the Statue Of Liberty is priceless. And to give it the feeling that an arriving plane is passing over it is a nice touch. E -------------
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Posted By: riversdancing
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 15:51
It must be the cover of Awaken The Guardian from Fates Warning. 
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Posted By: aprusso
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 15:55
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relayer
nursery cryme
felona e sorona
the future now
hemispheres
timewind (klaus schulze)
cervello - melos
pallas -the sentinel
marillion - fugazi
iq - tales from the lush attic
gentle giant - octopus
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Posted By: Lota
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 15:56
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Dark Side of the Moon, just simple but one of the best ------------- And In The End, The Love You Take, Is Equal To The Love You Make |
Posted By: N Ellingworth
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 15:58
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Yes - Realyer Pink Floyd - Animals ELP - Brain Salad Surgery thats all for the moment but I could think of a lot more |
Posted By: SGSpecial
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 15:59
| I am surprised no one has mentioned Caravan's "In the Land of Grey and Pink" or a single Zappa cover. |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 16:00
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Rush - 2112
Rush - moving pictures
Rush - fly by night
Yes - close to the edge
E L P - Trilogy
Rainbow - rising
KayaK - Merlin (bard of unseen)
Pink Floyd - Meddle
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Posted By: pale moon
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 16:06
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( ), Ageatus Byrjun and Takk by Sigur Ros Lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven by Godspeed You Black Emperor
and anything by Storm Thorgenson (Pink Floyd, Mars Volta, Led Zeppelin)
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Posted By: Third_Guard
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 16:09
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Locanda delle Fate - Forse le lucciole non si amano più
Genesis - Nursery Cryme Yes - Fragile King Crimson - In the wake of Poseidon Caravan - In the land of grey and pink Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear With the first 3 covers I made some t-shirt for myself. 
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 16:20
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My facourites are (not in order)
-YES Relayer, Tales, Fragile, Going for the One -ELP Brain Salad Surgery -PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother, WYWH, MLOR -ANTHONY PHILLIPS Private Parts and Pieces II, The Geese and the Ghost, Wise After the Event -CAMEL Moonmadness -MARILLION From Script to Clutching at Straws -PROGFEST 95 -GENESIS Nursery Cryme -KYRIE ELEISON The Fountain Beyond... -ANKDOTEN Vemod -Etc, etc, etc... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: XTChuck
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 16:21
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Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Osibisa - Woyaya Yes - Tales From Topographic OceansRush - A Farewell to Kings
Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free
Badger - One Live Badger
(3 out of these 6 are Roger Dean covers)
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Posted By: BePinkTheater
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 16:26
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Marbles.
Foxtrot
INTOTCK
Brain Salad Surgery
IN Absentia
some more too, but these stick out in my mind. ------------- I can strangle a canary in a tin can and it would be really original, but that wouldn't save it from sounding like utter sh*t. -Stone Beard |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 16:42
One that hasn't been mentioned is Were Only in it for the Money, The Mothers of Invention. Every time I see it I crack up.  -------------  
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 17:42
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All of Pink Floyd covers from Atom hear mother to The Division Bell (with the exception of maybe Meddle and the Final cut) are the best in music...or art
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Minkia
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 17:42
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DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK
URIAH HEEP 'DEMONS AND WIZARDS' JUDAS PRIEST 'SAD WINGS OF DESTINY' (mmmh.. I know, not exactly prog..) ------------- RELIGION IS HATE, RELIGION IS FEAR, RELIGION IS WAR,RELIGION IS RAPE, RELIGION'S OBSCENE,RELIGION'S A WHORE |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 18:15
Here's some of my favorite covers:
                ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 21:35
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Posted By: Pneubauer
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 21:46
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Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three (need to buy that album!) Caravan - In the land of grey and pink Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (I like it) Genesis - A Trick of the Tail Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory Gentle Giant - Octopus (both covers are really good, I dont prefer one or the other really) and... uh... ah hell, why not... 'In the court...' |
Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 21:49
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: May 22 2006 at 22:35
 Don't know about you but, this is one the best covers I've seen and the music fits perfectly. ------------- 
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Posted By: Joolz
Date Posted: May 23 2006 at 08:59
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 23 2006 at 09:36
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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: May 23 2006 at 09:51
got the album!! ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 23 2006 at 17:01
I agree, whenever I shut my eyes while listening to that album, this image pops right into my mind. Though even apart from the music it's amazing; I could stare at it for hours.
Also Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here has amazing art. Not just the cover but contained all throughout the album. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: int_2375
Date Posted: May 24 2006 at 03:15
| I never cared much for Hipgnosis covers, but everything Roger Dean and Alex Grey (Tool, The String Cheese Incident) do is pretty good. I also like H.R. Giger's ELP cover. |