Best Artwork on Prog sleeve
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Topic: Best Artwork on Prog sleeve
Posted By: raggy
Subject: Best Artwork on Prog sleeve
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 11:02
Is Roger Dean the ultimate prog artist? I know I was sometimes caught out as a kid, accidentally buying the odd duff LP on the grounds that "any album that looks like this must be good", ( ie Osibissa.)
Which cover art most compliments (or contradicts) its musical contents?
Do you lament the passing of the 12" format, when you really got some art for your money? I used to christen each new LP by skinning-up a good 'un on the sleeve whilst listening to it! Try getting your king skins to stay put on a slippy CD cover,...very messy.
My faves (off the top of my head) include;
"Pentateuch of the Cosmogony", Dave Greenslade.(artwork by Patrick Woodroffe, makes Dean's work on Yessongs look like the the scrawlings of a 2 yr old!)
"Relayer." (Roger on top form.)
Rameses "Space Hymes", (also Dean. This band is overlooked on these pages. Not really my taste but may appeal to some prog fans leaning towards the Hippy/space thing. Then again, I'm a GonG freak and I'm still not keen. Oddly enough this band named amongst its members a young Lol Creame and Kevin Godley!!) 12" cover folds out to 24" by 36".
"Space Ritual"-Hawkwind, but like the above mentioned cover it folds out to 6 times its size, so you really need the original vinyl.
any more suggestions/comments?
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 14:07
Roger Dean is my favorite cover artist. A signed ABWH poster hangs framed on the wall of my office. He is the MAN.
Check out Ed Unitsky, he did the cover of the Tangent CD and some Flower Kings stuff. I also like Gieger, "Brain Salad Surgery" has to be one of the most copied covers of all time.
If you search around, I believe we've covered the topic and a few members have posted some of their work.
http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001">
http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb033"> Oh Yeah, I do miss the full-color sleeves. You need a magnifying glass to read lyrics now. Crikey!!!
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 14:26
MARK WILKINSON is THE drawer (See my avatar). Marillion... but also Maiden, Judas Priest, Hawkwind, Asia logo, magazine covers, a tribute to Robert Wyatt...




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Posted By: Gaston
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 15:37
Not sure, but it looks like you are talking about paintings or canvas art, not image art so I would say Dean. But if you are not just talking about paintings I would say that the brilliance of Storm Thorgerson's designs for Pink Floyd such as the Division bell and Animals are top notch.
Speaking of Roger Dean and Storm Thorgerson, here's a slight connection:
http://www.rogerdean.com/logos/images/03-PsygnosisOwl_jpg.jpg - http://www.rogerdean.com/logos/images/03-PsygnosisOwl_jpg.jp g
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It's the same guy. Great minds think alike.
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Posted By: benny bouncer
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 16:06
ELP - Brain salad surgery......by geiger i believe!
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Posted By: raggy
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 16:23
Gaston wrote:
Not sure, but it looks like you are talking about paintings or canvas art, not image art so I would say Dean. But if you are not just talking about paintings I would say that the brilliance of Storm Thorgerson's designs for Pink Floyd such as the Division bell and Animals are top notch.
Speaking of Roger Dean and Storm Thorgerson, here's a slight connection:
http://www.rogerdean.com/logos/images/03-PsygnosisOwl_jpg.jpg - http://www.rogerdean.com/logos/images/03-PsygnosisOwl_jpg.jp g
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I do in fact mean any cover, not just the Dean(esque). Animals is and always has been one of my all time favourites! Also I find that some albums sound like they should come from a dark cover (like Animals, You (GonG)) and some from a light one,(Selling England, Angels Egg)
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 16:40
Crimson's Lizard, plus Roger Dean's work. 
As mentioned on the earlier version of this thread, the cover art for Anthony Phillips' THE GEESE AND THE GHOST and WISE AFTER THE EVENT (Peter Giles?) is beautiful, and breathtakingly-detailed.
I also like the Paul Whitehead Genesis jackets, especially Nursery Cryme, with the faux "crackling" from "age," decaying fly in the corner, etc.
There's lots of great album art out there, but on the CD it is squeezed into too small a format to do it justice!
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 17:01
I liked the Hemispheres, Farewell, Permanent Waves,....... Covers. Excellent. Hugh Syme? Awesome.
Which Rush cover is the best? Yes, ELP, on and on and on....
i always though Marillion's covers where better than the music... (joke)
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 12 2004 at 17:12
Lucifer`s Friend`s first album with the two shady guys standing in a pool of blood in an alley way. Disturbing.
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 04:59
lucas wrote:
MARK WILKINSON is THE drawer (See my avatar). Marillion... but also Maiden, Judas Priest, Hawkwind, Asia logo, magazine covers, a tribute to Robert Wyatt...
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IMHO, his artwork for Marillion is DISGUSTING . Pure kitsch. But I'm curious what Iron Maiden sleeve he drew... Could you tell me?
(my favourite sleeves are Tales From Topographic Oceans, In The Court Of The Crimson King and some sleeves from Captain Beefheart)
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 12:26
Some of my favorites are
Tarkus (ELP)
Close to the Edge (something about that all green album cover I find fascinating)
Larks' Tongues in Aspic (KC)
In the Wake of Poseidon (KC)
Relayer (Yes)
Meddle (Pink Floyd)
there are many more that I cannot think of at the moment.
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 12:32
Joren wrote:
But I'm curious what Iron Maiden sleeve he drew... Could you tell me?
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Posted By: diddy
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 13:14
Travis Smith is the Man...he has not many prog covers but he made the one for Opeth's Damnation. But one of his best work is his cover for Blackwater Park, also by Opeth:

He also worked for Zero Hour, a Prog MetalGroup:

and this one is inside of a Katatonia Booklet, I love it:

more on this page: http://www.seempieces.com/ - http://www.seempieces.com/
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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 13:23
lucas wrote:
Joren wrote:
But I'm curious what Iron Maiden sleeve he drew... Could you tell me?
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Is this my problem? I don't see the covers! Maybe you could just give me the title, then I'll find it myself... 
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Posted By: arqwave
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 13:41
pink floyd's covers from Storm Thorgerson are amazing, also the covers from marillion in the hogarth era are very nice, Dream Theater's falling into infinity (good cover for a regular album), also from Thorgenson, Rush covers from the last 15 years, very artistic, simple and consciece, also porcupine tree's covers are amazing... Speaking about Roger Dean, he is amazing.
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 15:42
Joren wrote:
lucas wrote:
Joren wrote:
But I'm curious what Iron Maiden sleeve he drew... Could you tell me?
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Is this my problem? I don't see the covers! Maybe you could just give me the title, then I'll find it myself... 
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Go to http://www.the-masque.com/maiden1.html - http://www.the-masque.com/maiden1.html . 
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: April 13 2004 at 17:25
Greenslade " Bedside Manners Are Extra " By Dean.

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Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: April 14 2004 at 05:44
lucas wrote:
Joren wrote:
lucas wrote:
Joren wrote:
But I'm curious what Iron Maiden sleeve he drew... Could you tell me?
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Is this my problem? I don't see the covers! Maybe you could just give me the title, then I'll find it myself... 
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Go to http://www.the-masque.com/maiden1.html - http://www.the-masque.com/maiden1.html . 
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Thanks! I like the artwork for the Wickerman and Live At Donnington, but I still prefer The 'original' Eddies from Derek Riggs!!!

But we're not talking about prog anymore! 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 14 2004 at 09:36
Joren wrote: "But we're not talking about prog anymore."
Not talking about PROG?! Achtung! Raus! Raus! Schnell, schnell! Es ist verboten! Gott im himmel! 
(No offense, Diddy. I remember some of my German course, but I bet that the above is full of errors....)
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Posted By: Rosalie
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 01:16
Hello! I there is Rosalie.
Who by the way you saw the cover new album the Tangent???
www.thetangent.org
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 01:31
Posted By: D.Noisserger
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 01:33

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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 01:34
yeah- thats another cool one^^^
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Posted By: D.Noisserger
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 01:43
hehe ^^
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Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 01:46
Hmm...
I love the Roger Dean stuff, it kinda has defined prog. Also some
others you may not know, like the alternate Octopus cover by GG, the
first (at least) by Osibisa, a great Anglo-African rhythm band in the
mold of Santana, Greenslade's first few, just to name a few.
The Gieger (sp?) Brain Salad cover also rules (I know its no Love Beach but...)
Hugh Syme (Rush) has been mentioned, good stuff.
Hypgnosis did all the classic Floyd if I'm not mistaken, also good.
May not be prog in your eyes (it is in mine), but love the Mastodon-Leviathan cover.
But my all time faves are Aenima and especially the transparency cover
for Lateralus by Tool, and sorry, but I'm far too lazy to look up who
did those.
Not prog but love all the Pedro Bell Funkadelic covers.
P.S. Also like the dude who did the bulk of the Ozrics covers.
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 03:31
Drew wrote:

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thats my computer background, and I have a poster of all the rush albums. Hugh Syme is my favorite. Test for Echo and Vapor Trails are among my other favorites...
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http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/VTlyrics.htm">
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Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 03:48
I've always found the cover sleeve of Supertramp's "Crisis? What crisis?" very funny, and I like "Even inthe quietest moments" a lot, too.
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Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 03:54
diddy wrote:
Travis Smith is the Man...he has not many prog covers but he made the one for Opeth's Damnation. But one of his best work is his cover for Blackwater Park, also by Opeth:

He also worked for Zero Hour, a Prog MetalGroup:

and this one is inside of a Katatonia Booklet, I love it:

more on this page: http://www.seempieces.com/ - http://www.seempieces.com/
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Great page!
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 03:59
Roger Dean covers are great.
Others :I like the cover of Pawn Hearts, Still Life(I mean VDGG's Still Life), Foxtrot, Selling England By Pound, A Social Grace, One Hour By the Concrete Lake and many more.
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 04:29
http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/PRESTOlyrics.htm"> http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/GUPlyrics.htm">
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 05:08
Almost all progcovers are avvesome.I used to learn dravving a bit...I remember I become interested vvtih Crimson at first because of their debut's sleeve
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 09:54
I guess my favorite cover artists are Roger Dean (how could he not be...?) but mostly Hipgnosis, the work he did for the Floyd covers and Genesis Lamb is nothing short of genius for me
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 10:07
Basically all Anthony Phillips covers are outstanding! 
Also:
Hawkind - Warrior on the edge of time
Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
Uriah Heep - Demons & Wizards
and several from Barclay James Harvest!
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Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 10:47
My all time favorite would have to be Crimsons Lizard cover artwork.
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: December 21 2005 at 10:58
Paulieg wrote:
My all time favorite would have to be Crimsons Lizard cover artwork. |
Now that is a great cover....
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 14:04
probably this one:

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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 16:22
Peter wrote:
Joren wrote: "But we're not talking about prog anymore."
Not talking about PROG?! Achtung! Raus! Raus! Schnell, schnell! Es ist verboten! Gott im himmel! 
(No offense, Diddy. I remember some of my German course, but I bet that the above is full of errors....) |
Only one error; the "H" in "Himmel" has to be capitalized. Nouns begin with a capital letter in German. Of course your sentences are ellipses only; there are no verbs in them (but for the auxiliary verb "ist"), which makes it easier.
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Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 16:33
BaldFriede wrote:
Peter wrote:
Joren wrote: "But we're not talking about prog anymore."
Not talking about PROG?! Achtung! Raus! Raus! Schnell, schnell! Es ist verboten! Gott im himmel! 
(No offense, Diddy. I remember some of my German course, but I bet that the above is full of errors....)
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Only one error; the "H" in "Himmel" has to be capitalized. Nouns begin with a capital letter in German. Of course your sentences are ellipses only; there are no verbs in them (but for the auxiliary verb "ist"), which makes it easier.
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Also, isn't it "Gott in Himmel!" not "im." I'm pretty sure.
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 18:55
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 18:57
bluetailfly wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
Peter wrote:
Joren wrote: "But we're not talking about prog anymore."
Not talking about PROG?! Achtung! Raus! Raus! Schnell, schnell! Es ist verboten! Gott im himmel! 
(No offense, Diddy. I remember some of my German course, but I bet that the above is full of errors....)
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Only one error; the "H" in "Himmel" has to be capitalized. Nouns begin with a capital letter in German. Of course your sentences are ellipses only; there are no verbs in them (but for the auxiliary verb "ist"), which makes it easier.
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Also, isn't it "Gott in Himmel!" not "im." I'm pretty sure. |
No, it is "im". Short for "in dem". Dative. Trust a native speaker.
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Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 19:43
BaldFriede wrote:
bluetailfly wrote:
BaldFriede wrote:
Peter wrote:
Joren wrote: "But we're not talking about prog anymore."
Not talking about PROG?! Achtung! Raus! Raus! Schnell, schnell! Es ist verboten! Gott im himmel! 
(No offense, Diddy. I remember some of my German course, but I bet that the above is full of errors....)
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Only one error; the "H" in "Himmel" has to be capitalized. Nouns begin with a capital letter in German. Of course your sentences are ellipses only; there are no verbs in them (but for the auxiliary verb "ist"), which makes it easier.
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Also, isn't it "Gott in Himmel!" not "im." I'm pretty sure.
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No, it is "im". Short for "in dem". Dative. Trust a native speaker.
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But I thought the dative form is only used for indirect objects, which Himmel isn't in this case (I think it's the object of a preposition). So why "in dem" and not "in den" aka "in"? I took several semesters of German, but I defer to your expertise. I'm just wondering why.
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 20:02
Because of the dative. The article "der" is declinated like this:
Nominative - der Genitive - des Dative - dem Accusative - den
Specifying a location requires the dative in German, so it is "in dem Himmel" (which sounds clumsy in German and would only be used if there were several heavens and you wanted to specify which one you mean. The stress of the sentence would have to be on the article then, "in dem Himmel", "in this heaven" (actually "dem" is short for "diesem", the dative of "dies", "this" (specification). Also note that "diesem" is only used in combination with nouns which are masculine or neutral; for feminine nouns it would have to be "dieser". In a table it would look like this:
German articles: masculine feminine neutral
Nominative der die das
Genitive des der des
Dative dem der dem
Accusative den die das
with specification:
masculine feminine neutral Nominative dieser diese dieses Genitive dieses dieser dieses Dative diesem dieser diesem Accusative diesen diese dieses)
If there is only one heaven, the "in dem" is further shortened to "im"). Interestingly, if you want to express that you go into heaven (specifying direction and not location), the accusative is used, and it is "in den Himmel" (which cannot be shortened to "in Himmel" the way "in dem Himmel" is shortened to "im Himmel"). If you are confused now: Yes, German grammar IS complicated.
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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: December 29 2005 at 20:05
This one definitely takes the cake

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Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: December 30 2005 at 11:43
BaldFriede wrote:
Because of the dative. The article "der" is declinated like this:
Nominative - der Genitive - des Dative - dem Accusative - den
Specifying a location requires the dative in German, so it is "in dem Himmel" (which sounds clumsy in German and would only be used if there were several heavens and you wanted to specify which one you mean. The stress of the sentence would have to be on the article then, "in dem Himmel", "in this heaven" (actually "dem" is short for "diesem", the dative of "dies", "this" (specification). Also note that "diesem" is only used in combination with nouns which are masculine or neutral; for feminine nouns it would have to be "dieser". In a table it would look like this:
German articles: masculine feminine neutral Nominative der die das Genitive des der des Dative dem der dem Accusative den die das
with specification:
masculine feminine neutral Nominative dieser diese dieses Genitive dieses dieser dieses Dative diesem dieser diesem Accusative diesen diese dieses)
If there is only one heaven, the "in dem" is further shortened to "im"). Interestingly, if you want to express that you go into heaven (specifying direction and not location), the accusative is used, and it is "in den Himmel" (which cannot be shortened to "in Himmel" the way "in dem Himmel" is shortened to "im Himmel"). If you are confused now: Yes, German grammar IS complicated.
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Thanks for the very thorough response on the matter; I didn't remember that specifying location required the dative. I remember that I was often bewildered by all the rules, and also found it difficult to memorize which article goes with which noun. We were always being tested on it and there was really no underlying pattern to help you; you just had to know that Das went with Wienerschnitzel. (and the fact that there were fast food restaurants called Der Wienerschnitzel didn't help!)
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Posted By: NELMOMEDELPROG
Date Posted: December 30 2005 at 12:35
Posted By: UncleMeat
Date Posted: December 30 2005 at 16:17
Peter wrote:
Joren wrote: "But we're not talking about prog anymore."
Not talking about PROG?! Achtung! Raus! Raus! Schnell, schnell! Es ist verboten! Gott im himmel! 
(No offense, Diddy. I remember some of my German course, but I bet that the above is full of errors....) |
I saw that Joren lives in the Netherlands, so he does not speak German
but Dutch. Believe me, these two languages maybe look alike but are are
very very different.
You should have written: Opletten! Wegwezen! Snel, snel! Het is verboden. O mijn God! 
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Posted By: UncleMeat
Date Posted: December 30 2005 at 16:22
And talking about Covers: it is of course a question of taste, but I do
not like Roger Dean covers. The early genesis covers are okay, and the
Lamb stands out as.
I think that a lot of zappa album covers are very nice.
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 30 2005 at 18:50
- ELP - Tarkus
- Pink Floyd - DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, The Wall, Ummagumma
- Genesis - Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot
- King Crimson - ITCOTCK
- Yes - Fragile, CTTE, Yessongs, TFTO, Relayer, Drama
and many more
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Posted By: Big Ears
Date Posted: December 31 2005 at 06:21
Roger Dean's designs for Yes, Greenslade and Budgie are part of the reason I like progressive and heavy rock. I also liked gatefold covers especially if they contained lyrics. Quadrophenia by The Who is not progressive I know, but it has a great cover and book which is inextricably bound to the album with its photographs telling the story.
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Posted By: lordoflight
Date Posted: December 31 2005 at 07:21
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hawkwind/cover_spaceritual.gif&imgrefurl=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hawkwind/disc_spaceritual.html&h=302&w=340&sz=88&tbnid=cnEqHKPeVWsJ:&tbnh=102&tbnw=115&hl=en&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspace%2Britual%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D"> Hawkwind Space Ritual
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://merovingian.org/images/cover_art/Ash%2520Ra%2520Tempel%2520Front.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.stryder.com/archive/2005/2005.03-21.04-03.html&h=1424&w=1400&sz=1702&tbnid=9V5hF9UCrosJ:&tbnh=150&tbnw=147&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dash%2Bra%2Btempel%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D"> Ash Ra Tempel - Same
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://fusionanomaly.net/amonduulwolfcity.jpg&imgrefurl=http://fusionanomaly.net/green.html&h=200&w=200&sz=11&tbnid=pGGUITBc8pIJ:&tbnh=99&tbnw=99&hl=en&start=17&prev=/images%3Fq%3Damon%2Bduul%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D"> Amon Duul - Wolf City
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ondarock.it/pietremiliari/cover/ummagumma.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ondarock.it/pietremiliari/ummagumma.html&h=242&w=242&sz=25&tbnid=z2PsRWJuNLgJ:&tbnh=105&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dummagumma%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D"> Ummagumma
Also, Iron Maiden's early album covers, and Opeth's Blackwater Park, Black Sabbath's debut. Also, some black metal albums have nice artwork (not the ones with the corpse painted idiots posing with axes and spears)
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Posted By: Topographic Oce
Date Posted: December 31 2005 at 14:10
raggy wrote:
Is Roger Dean the ultimate prog artist? I know I was sometimes caught out as a kid, accidentally buying the odd duff LP on the grounds that "any album that looks like this must be good", ( ie Osibissa.)
Which cover art most compliments (or contradicts) its musical contents?
Do you lament the passing of the 12" format, when you really got some art for your money? I used to christen each new LP by skinning-up a good 'un on the sleeve whilst listening to it! Try getting your king skins to stay put on a slippy CD cover,...very messy.
My faves (off the top of my head) include;
"Pentateuch of the Cosmogony", Dave Greenslade.(artwork by Patrick Woodroffe, makes Dean's work on Yessongs look like the the scrawlings of a 2 yr old!)
"Relayer." (Roger on top form.)
Rameses "Space Hymes", (also Dean. This band is overlooked on these pages. Not really my taste but may appeal to some prog fans leaning towards the Hippy/space thing. Then again, I'm a GonG freak and I'm still not keen. Oddly enough this band named amongst its members a young Lol Creame and Kevin Godley!!) 12" cover folds out to 24" by 36".
"Space Ritual"-Hawkwind, but like the above mentioned cover it folds out to 6 times its size, so you really need the original vinyl.
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I agree that Roger Dean was the master of Prog album artwork but must disagree vehemently with your coment about the OSIBISA (1 S) album that was totally revolutionary and was probably the start of world Music here in the UK.
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Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: December 31 2005 at 14:58
I think the cover and artwork on the vinyl of Grave New World is completely unsurpassed by anything I have ever seen. The music is brilliant but the LP is worth buying for the cover and booklet alone.
The only other cover that bears comparison is the original cover of Happy to Meet, Sorry to Part by Horslips. They designed it themselves (Charles O'Connor is a trained graphic designer) and it is a 16 page (I think) booklet in the shape of a concertina. They cost too much to make so later vinyls were issued with a simplified version. The originals are real collectors items. A colleague of mine has one but he won't sell me it (the swine!). It makes Brain Salad Surgery's cover look like something a toddler designed, frankly.
I love Dean's designs but a really top cover takes a bit more than just a good picture.
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Posted By: Someo Therguy
Date Posted: December 31 2005 at 16:20
I love the King Crimson covers that feature the paintings of P. J. Crook, like Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With and The Nightwatch DVD. Her work is outstanding.
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: December 31 2005 at 18:08


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Posted By: White Queen
Date Posted: December 31 2005 at 19:08



ROGER DEAN!!! WHOEVER DID IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING!!!
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Posted By: walrus333
Date Posted: December 31 2005 at 23:36
Roger Dean and Brain Salad Surgery, Ive also always like Script for a Jesters Tear
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: January 01 2006 at 00:05
My favorites:

Especially the amazing paintings inside:




Also



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Date Posted: January 02 2006 at 03:52



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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 22:08
^ yea the hebrew on that cover is pretty cool
"Tohu Vavohu" means chaos, the biblical description of the world before god made order
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Posted By: troy
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 22:22
Ioannis for third image, now Ioannis for dangerous age has done some amazing work for fates warning covers. "awaken the gaurdian" and the newer "fwx" being a couple. Go to http://www.DANGEROUSAGE.COM - WWW.DANGEROUSAGE.COM to check out some of his other work. This guy is really great.
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Posted By: troy
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 22:37
Hugh Syme also did some nice work on Fates Warning's " perfect symmetry", and "parallels".
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Posted By: MoodsWings
Date Posted: January 03 2006 at 22:58
I love Roger Dean's work.
I've just borrowed a book from the library called '100 Best Album Covers'
by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell. Not sure if I agree with a lot
of them but I like the way it gives written detail about each of the
cover designs.
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Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 00:46
I really like the covers to Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme (especially how Nursery
Cryme is on the front of Foxtrot.) But overall, Roger Dean is my favorite prog
cover artist.
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But glittering prizes
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Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 07:44


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Posted By: NecroManiac
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 08:20
Posted By: validictorian
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 12:37
The In the Court of the Crimson King cover was done by Barry Godber who died shortly thereafter. Try as I might I've never been able to find any other artwork by him. Does anyone know if there is any out there?
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Posted By: fanloy
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 12:57

My favorite 
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Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 14:08
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 14:15
sorry for being too big.

quite funny if you look at the details
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 14:18
and last but not least, Mr. Bungle

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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 17:46
You should have shown the back of the Finisterra cover, chamberry... the swimming penis is quite amusing!
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: January 04 2006 at 20:56
Fitzcarraldo wrote:
You should have shown the back of the Finisterra cover, chamberry... the swimming penis is quite amusing!
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