Black Sabbath: Nicest / ugliest cover art?
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Topic: Black Sabbath: Nicest / ugliest cover art?
Posted By: Gandalff
Subject: Black Sabbath: Nicest / ugliest cover art?
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 04:42
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 04:47
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Notice: only studio albums.
My vote, without order:
Nicest, most tasteful covers:
Black Sabbath
Technical Ecstasy
Heaven And Hell
The Eternal Idol
Ugliest covers:
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Born Again
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 05:01
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The best covers: Black Sabbath, Vol. 4, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. The worst covers: Paranoid, Sabotage (  ), Born Again.------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 05:03
Well, Born Again of course  Sabbath have some very very ugly ones indeed, mostly Seventh Star and Technical Ecstacy, and some that really don't really move me in any way. I really do like Born Again, but the debut is my favourite, along with Heaven and Hell and perhaps even Master of Reality. It's not really a great looking cover, but I like the simplicity, and for some reason seeing that always makes me want to listen to the album. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 05:12
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Nicest. Technical Ecstasy Vol 4 Sabbath Bloody sabbath heaven and Hell Ugliest Born Again Paranoid Master Of Reality Sabotage Seventh Star Forbidden ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: WatcherOfTheSkies88
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 06:40
| The cover art for the debut album for Black Sabbath remains my favorite cover art of all time. It's just... perfect. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 14:07
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Heaven & Hell remains my favourite piece of Sabbs art and work of art to boot. Close second in both is Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 14:20
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The cover to Paranoid is a travesty. Although, a funny one! A pink man wavin his shield in the air and a shaky camera. You could almost imagine it being shown to the band Spinal Tap. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 14:22
It's not a shaky camera it's a long exposure.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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akamaisondufromage wrote:Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: September 04 2010 at 14:28
Ooops. Sorry. In which case I am mistaken Snowy. It is a work of genious. How could I have not seen that? ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: September 05 2010 at 04:58
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Oh, Forbidden cover is ugly too. It looks like a very bad comics. The same about Mob Rules. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: September 05 2010 at 06:04
No its still sh*t. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Conor Fynes
Date Posted: September 05 2010 at 15:51
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I like the debut album art... very metal!
BORN AGAIN's album art looks frankly horrible... along with some others!
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Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: September 05 2010 at 17:04
The debut is the best ............Awful covers . They should have shoot the designers for some of them. Surprisling I like Paranoid too but it is sentimental  ------------- Matt |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: September 05 2010 at 17:33
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Greatest: the debut, no doubt. Though I've always liked the norse-inspired Tyr.
Worst: Dehumanizer and Forbidden, both seem like covers from sh*tty metal bands.
The Heaven & Hell cover is iconic, though.
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: September 05 2010 at 20:12
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Never thought about it, but looking at those, the debut is the only one that doesn't seem silly and/or cheesy and/or just plain poor. There could be a sub-section of PA to rate and review album covers. For those who wish to burn up more time. |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: September 06 2010 at 12:09
The debut is their best cover IMHO, the perfectly suited combination of visuals with the music on the record. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Heaven & Hell are also great.
Paranoid truly is an unbelievably bad album cover that makes Love Beach look like the work of Rembrandt. As you say, the 'concept' appears to involve a fat, bearded bloke in a motorcycle crash helmet, wearing purple underpants over a pair of pink tights, waving a toy sword while hopping around in a forest at midnight. The concept this communicates to me is 'Sad Perv' rather than the 'Paranoid' idea which was presumably intended! Hard to believe that Marcus Keef, who did the sublime cover for the first album (and lots of other great covers on the Vertigo label), was also responsible for this atrocity just a few months later. ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: September 06 2010 at 13:27
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What the hell is on Sabotage cover? Another kind of travesty? Especially Ozzy and Bill are straightly awful here. Despite of this, the music on Sabotage is one of the best Black Sabbath stuff ever. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: September 06 2010 at 15:31
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Ugliest - Sabotage... did we really use to dress like that?!
Nicest - Black Sabbath... reminds me of my missus.
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Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: September 06 2010 at 19:52
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Best-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Worst-Tyr. Incredibly dated, and not in an endearing way either. ------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 04:11
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Not exactly known for their beautiful sleeves
The Sab's best were the debut, Mob Rules and Technical Extasy
The worsts are Paranoid, Reality, Four, Bloody Sab, Sabotage and Born again ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: WatcherOfTheSkies88
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 16:38
| I think the Paranoid album cover gets too much crap. Yeah, it's kind of dumb, but nowhere near as bad as Love Beach or any other awful album covers from great bands. And I particularly like the album cover for "Master of Reality"... it's very simple, but the use of colors and font is pretty cool, IMO. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 22:13
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It's surprising to see so much love for Technical Ecstasy, I've never before heard that someone actually liked it. From the Hipgnosis covers I prefer Never Say Die, and that's not very good either. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA!
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Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 22:33
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Great: Black Sabbath, The Mob Rules, Dehumanizer
Good:Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Tyr, Cross Purposes
Mediocre: Paranoid, Master of Reality, Vol. 4, Heaven and Hell, Forbidden
Bad: Technical Ecstasy, Never Say Die, The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross
Horrible: Sabotage, Seventh Star
You Gotta Be Kidding Me: Born Again ------------- "I am the one who crossed through space...or stayed where I was...or didn't exist in the first place...." |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: September 08 2010 at 03:46
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All their album sleeves suck but we should declare an armistice for the debut (it was original at the time and has been slavishly copied by the contra-moths that inhabit metal ever since)
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