Top 10 beautiful album covers - 1 EACH GROUP
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Topic: Top 10 beautiful album covers - 1 EACH GROUP
Posted By: Jaja Macca
Subject: Top 10 beautiful album covers - 1 EACH GROUP
Date Posted: December 01 2008 at 01:47
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THE CHALLENGE IS JUST 1 COVER EACH GROUP/SOLO ARTIST!!! RELAYER - YES
BROADSWORD AND THE BEAST - JETHRO TULL
VIGIL IN THE WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS - FISH
ALPHA - ASIA
FUGAZI - MARILLION
POINT OF KNOW RETURN - KANSAS
COLOURS - ELOY
THE WORLD - PENDRAGON
IN THE LAND OF GREY AND PINK - CARAVAN
LIZARD - KING CRIMSON
This is my list...but I can change it!!!
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Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: December 01 2008 at 02:10
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Well I love the sleeve of the album as follows:
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
King Crimson - Islands
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Camel - Moonmadness
Fruupp - Future Legends
Maxophone - Maxophone
Premiata Forneria Marconi - L'isola Di Niente Ain Soph - Story Of Mysterious Forest
Vermillion Sands - Water Blue
Theta - Seeds Of The Dream
Ah...of course I'm a Japanese and a supporter of Japanese prog.  ------------- http://www.facebook.com/damoxt7942" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: December 01 2008 at 02:12
Some great Japanese prog:  My list of covers still to come  |
DamoXt7942 wrote:Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: December 01 2008 at 03:39
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Do we mean beautiful, or do we just mean..."good?" ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Jaja Macca
Date Posted: December 01 2008 at 13:58
Hey, The Whistler. Just your favorites... .Those you think beautiful.-------------
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Posted By: easytargets
Date Posted: December 01 2008 at 14:18
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VdGG - Still life (a favourite of mine)
Yes - Relayer
King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king/Lizard/Lark´s tongues in aspic
Caravan - In the land of grey and pink
Spock´s Beard - Feel euphoria/V
Dream Theater - A change of seasons
ELP - Brain salad surgery (Giger´s dark workart is awesome) ------------- The water rushes over all cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: December 01 2008 at 15:01
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Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Genesis - Foxtrot Rag I Ryggen - s/t Sigur Ros - ( ) PFM - Storia di Un Minuto Le Orme - Felona E Serona Samla Mammas Mana - Snorungarnas Symphoni Harmonium - Si On Avait Besoin D'Une cinquieme Saison Yes - Fragile Acid Mothers Temple - Stones Women and Records, Ominous from the Cosmic Circle |
Posted By: easytargets
Date Posted: December 02 2008 at 02:34
Since I´ve just read your list I´ve realized Le Orme´s artwork
in Uommo di pezza it is very similar to Cathedral´s (the doom
metal band) some albums artwort. Check out.
The difference is that Le Orme were out there a lot of time before. ------------- The water rushes over all cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 02 2008 at 03:03
In no real order. And i can think of many others if i wasn't limited to 10! Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath  Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts  Rainbow - Rising  Iron Maiden - Powerslave  Iron Maiden - Live After Death  Kebnekaise - III  Kebnekaise - Resa mot Okänt Mål  King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King  Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards  Yes - Relayer  Eloy - Dawn |
Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: December 02 2008 at 04:25
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I'll probably set up a list later, but for the moment I'd like to mention the early Anthony Phillips albums,
especially 'The Geese and the Ghost' and 'Wise after the Event'.
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 14:43
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all the YES album covers are Brasky family photos! -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 15:34
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anyway, no particular order
Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean
Anglagard - Hybris
Le Orme - Uomo Di Pezza
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 1 - Flying Teapot
Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
Bijelo Dugme - Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme
certainly changes daily ------------- Time always wins. |
Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 15:54
Feline "s/t"
 Liz Phair
 Dot Allison "Afterglow"
 Natalie Imbruglia "White Lilies Island"
 Abra Moore "Everything Changed"
 Shannon McNally "Geronimo"
 Sarah Cracknell "Kelly's Locker"
 Heather Nova "Siren"
 Shivaree "Who's Got Trouble"
 Dollshead "Frozen Charlotte"
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Posted By: sean
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 18:10
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Van der Graaf Generator-Pawn Hearts
King Crimson-In the Court of the Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-F # A# Infinity
Yes-Relayer
Mastodon-hard to choose between Leviathan and Blood Mountain, they're both awesome covers
John Zorn-Six Litanies for Heliogabalus
Explosions in the Sky-All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Rush-Permanent Waves
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Posted By: SolvexSoft
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 18:23
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Oakenfold
tiesto
madonna
pink
linkin park
leni kravitz
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Genesis - Foxtrot
Rag I Ryggen
Relayer ------------- SolvexSoft Ltd solvexsoftware.com |
Posted By: cobb2
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 19:00
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A couple of really excellent ones missing here: Roger Dean's One Live Badger Patrick Woodroofe's stunning work on Pentateuch of Cosmology Dave Greenslade And of course there's my new one for our bands demo cd  |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 19:12
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Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 22:35
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(No special order) 1. King Crimson- "Lizard" 2. Gong- "Gazeuse!" 3. Caravan- "In the Land of Grey and Pink" 4. Genesis- "Wind & Wuthering" 5. Yes- "Drama" 6. Can- "Monster Movie" 7. Ash Ra Tempel- "Ash Ra Tempel" 8. Pink Floyd- "More" 9. Uriah Heep- "The Magician's Birthday" 10. Le Orme- "Uomo di Pezza" ------------- 
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 23:07
Yeah I know what you're talking about. Those are some sweet covers too.
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Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: December 04 2008 at 14:24
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Posted By: Carlos
Date Posted: December 04 2008 at 16:21
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1) BITCHES BREW - MILES DAVIS 2) MOVING PICTURES - RUSH 3) TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS - YES 4) WISH YOU WERE - PINK FLOYD 5) IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR - LED ZEPPELIN 6) FUGAZI - MARILLION 7) STAND UP - JETHRO TULL 8) IN THE LAND OF GREY AND PINK - CARAVAN 9) LEFTOVERTURE - KANSAS 10) ABBEY ROAD - THE BEATLES ------------- Democracy=A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people... 
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: December 07 2008 at 14:03
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In no particular order: Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Watermark - Enya Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes Pinups - David Bowie Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Country Life - Roxy Music Moonflower - Santana In the Land of Grey & Pink - Caravan ------------- Is it any wonder that the monkey's confused? |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: December 07 2008 at 16:03
 The back cover is great too!      Ah, the good old fold-up covers. Can't think of any more right now; I'll add the rest later. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: December 07 2008 at 16:26
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I see no love for "Keys of Ascension", which IMO is the most breathtaking album cover ever. I haven't listened to it, but I've always looked at the cover and just gone "Wow".
*cough cough* my sig *cough cough* ------------- 
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Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: December 07 2008 at 17:05
Hi, my pal...
I have bought an album as soon as I watched the sleeve, without listening to the content.
It's more excellent for us sleeve-fans the songs are better than we thought.  ------------- http://www.facebook.com/damoxt7942" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: December 07 2008 at 17:06
| ^not to make discussion or fight. But I consider Dean's latest works, while still being incredible they leave me cold, also they're quite similar on scheme which makes not that original as the 70's ones he did. It seems it doesn't fit the music or title or whatever. While Tales From Topographic Oceans cover fits perfectly with the title. Or Yessongs one, or Relayer, Budgie's, Greenslade, etc, etc... |
Posted By: mourningknight
Date Posted: December 07 2008 at 17:55
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Way too many to choose from and very hard to pick just one from each group or even ten groups,but,here's
ten that I think deserve to be here:( In alphabetical order,obviously,lol)
Asia- Alpha
Caravan- in The Land Of Grey And Pink
Genesis- A Trick Of The Tail
Greenslade- Time And Tide
JHE- Axis:Bold As Love
King Crimson- Lizard
Anthony Phillips- The Geese And The Ghost
Procol Harum- Exotic Birds And Fruit
Vangelis- Heaven And Hell
Yes- Relayer
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Posted By: listen
Date Posted: December 07 2008 at 21:52
I like that cover a lot! Great job! How did you do it?
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Posted By: cobb2
Date Posted: December 07 2008 at 21:59
Thanks Listen. Shouldn't steal another thread. If you want to discuss it go here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52692 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52692
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Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 16:17
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I love Tangerine Dream's album covers, especially Zeit, Ricochet, Stratosfear and Force Majeure. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: St.Cleve Chronicle
Date Posted: December 16 2008 at 13:12
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Yes - Drama Genesis - Nursery cryme Jethro Tull - Stand up (LP only, otherwise Thick as a brick) Rush - A farewell to kings Pink Floyd - Wish you were here Return to forever - Romantic warrior Miles Davis - Bitches brew Frank Zappa - Hot Rats ELP - Brain salad surgery And finally, possibly the best of them all: Gentle giant - Acquiring the taste |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 11:39
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Love the Yes & Floyd covers But NO PUSSYFOOTING is interesting beeing from 73, but still stands out very "modern" (fripp/eno)
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 12:21
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Let's take another stab at it: 1. Asia - s/t 2. Dire Straits - s/t 3. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - s/t 4. Fireships - Peter Hammill 5. Trespass - Genesis 6. Les Porches - Maneige 7. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd 8. Tales From Topographic Oceans - Yes 9. Sea Song - Robert Wyatt 10. The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome - Van Der Graaf A few obvious ones on here, but all of these have some sort of beauty, bleak or otherwise, to my mind. |
Posted By: Kestrel
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 23:55
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Harmonium - Si On Avait |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 08:03
"Beauty" is of course in the eye of the beholder (and in the ear of the listener, so mine may be a bit strange. Here are two more from me: (Ignore the little square in the corner of this reissue cover). I just love the mystic atmosphere of this cover, and it is full of strange riddles. Why do a hawk and a penguin meet on a graveyard in the middle of the night? And why are there mines with burning fuses beneath the penguin and at the spot where the hawk is about to land? Are they not aware of it? Very very strange.  You may ask "What's so beautiful about that"? To understand that you have to have the vinyl of the album which has a kind of gimmick cover with several triangles that can be folded this way and that, each time resulting in a completely different cover picture. But however you recombine them, the lines where those triangles meet always fit. It is a truly fascinating cover, and you can spend a whole afternoon trying out all of the possible recombinations of the cover art. Title and artist name, by the way, were on the back cover only. I'll have to think of eight other ones; there are so many good ones. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 08:08
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Oops, I just noted I included both Annexus Quam covers in my list. Hm, I'll have to remove one, but which? ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 13:23
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: January 08 2009 at 09:24
Much prefer the original version of the cover with the "Led Zeppelin" printed in turquoise,
which I notice (outrageously) is going for between £190 to £380 on e-bay at the moment: - last time I checked in the 2nd hand price guide you were lucky to get a tenner for it!. Any offers on my LP cover in turqoise and the rest of the set sounding like the orange version???
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Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: February 14 2009 at 11:49
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*bump* I've been thinking about this one for a while and am now finally getting around to posting, in no particular order:           Just examples of beautiful or thought provoking images. In all fairness, I haven't really listened to 'Test for Echo' but I love the image, used it as a background for almost a year at one point. Also, despite Adam and Eve being my least favorite Flower Kings album, the cover art is beautiful. Enjoy ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: February 14 2009 at 12:53
Sorry to be a pedant, but which one exactly? The dark, broody Roger Dean job or the US one with the Octopus in a jar? Anyway, lots of my favourites have already been mentioned (especially Realyer), but I feel compelled to draw attention to what is probably my all-time favourite album cover (and, incidentally, one of my all-time favourite albums):  Innit lovely? |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: February 14 2009 at 13:07
rosetta - wake/lift Rob dougan - Furious Angels  Kayo dot - Blue Lambency downward  Pyramids - Pyramids  Omega Massiff - Geisterstadt  Mouth of the Architect - Quietly  Intronaut - Void  Miles davis - Bitches Brew  Earth - Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull  Mastodon - leviathon  Honorable Mention - Animal Collective : Meriweather Post Pavilion  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: MrEdifus
Date Posted: March 14 2009 at 16:47
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My Top Ten, in no particular order: (Mouse-over the art for the artist/album title if you don't know it or can't read it.)           And now, a couple of "honorable mentions:"   (Honorable Mentions NOT to be taken seriously as nominations for Greatest Album Art Ever.) ------------- 
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Posted By: horsewithteeth11
Date Posted: March 14 2009 at 17:12
So should we take your BREEing out of the credits for Ex Anima?   ------------- 
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Posted By: MrEdifus
Date Posted: March 14 2009 at 17:41
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Of course not. Unless you want me to BREE your face off. I can do it, you know.
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Posted By: mr.cub
Date Posted: March 14 2009 at 19:13
I personally love the Let It Be cover....
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Posted By: Odisseos
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 08:53
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Abbey Road
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Red Queen To Gryphon Three
The Geese And The Ghost
In A Glass House
Brain Salad Surgery
La Revolution Et Les Etoiles
Heaven And Hell
Novella
E Pluribus Funk
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Posted By: Curutchet
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 17:25
1. Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained 2. Redemption - The Origins of Ruin  3. Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls  4. Riverside - Schizophrenic Prayer  5. Therion - Lemuria  That's it for now, there are a lot of other covers I love - Pendragon's starting from The Masquerade Overture for example, and many others. I will post them when they come to mind. |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 17:42
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 18:05
 Great album, great cover! Subtlety in capturing a moment. ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 18:13
 ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 18:15
 ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 18:17
 ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 18:25
here's one from the mighty Mick... damn CD's... the vinyl LP sleeve... divine... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 18:28
and one who's stark..simplistic nature.. especially the individual group member's drawings just took me in before I even put the album on.. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 18:29
oh that is sweet ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 18:51
 ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: March 18 2009 at 18:54
 ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 20 2009 at 14:46
Not a proper list, but I decided to post these here. Aren't they excellent?   ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: visitor2035
Date Posted: March 22 2009 at 19:41
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...but you'd need to put a double barrelled shotgun to my head to agree to most of these on here, regarded as beautiful.
Tangerine Dream had more than a few excellent album covers, BSS was superb, Roger Deans stuff was great, Pink Floyd had a few beauties. Some Klaus Schulze stuff was impressive, but one of my favourites was Dave Greensalde's The Pentatecuh of the Cosmogony. Rush, Traffic and similar et al were minging. |
Posted By: Ffffffffffff.
Date Posted: March 23 2009 at 12:02
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un amico (1972): Pez - Folklore (2004):  Dün - Eros (1981):  Pink Floyd - Obscured by clouds (1972):  Pink Floyd - Animals (1977):  Bubu - Ababelas (1978):  King Crimson - In the court of the Crimson King (1969):  King Crimson - Lark's tongues in aspic (1974):  Gentle Giant - Octopus (1972):  Henry Cow - Legend (1973):  Samla Mammas Manna - Maltid (1973):  |
Posted By: Grimfurg
Date Posted: March 23 2009 at 13:21
I don't really have a top ten, but I really love this one: ------------- http://regulab.bandcamp.com/album/vol-i/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: BAD ALCHEMY
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 06:00
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1)EGG- THE POLITE FORCE
2)BLACK SABBATH-SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH
3)VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-PAWN HEARTS
4)GENESIS-THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY.
5)GENTLE GIANT-OCTOPUS
6)KING CRIMSON-IN THE COURT.......
7)ORNE-THE CONJURATION BY THE FIRE
8)ART BEARS-WINTER SONGS
9)COMUS-FIRST UTTERANCE
10)CRESSIDA-ASYLUM ------------- Obed Marsh |
Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: March 26 2009 at 07:36
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