Best prog album cover
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Topic: Best prog album cover
Posted By: Snow
Subject: Best prog album cover
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 10:04
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Personally I wonder if there's an album cover better than Floyd's Dark Side? |
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 10:07
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Posted By: AcostaFulano
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 11:51
| RELAYER |
Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 12:27
yep |
AcostaFulano wrote:Posted By: bityear
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 12:29
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Starless and Bible Black. Never saw a short text that can mean so much as that one. It's creepy! I want a t-shirt with that one on...  ------------- www.geocities.com/joelbitars |
Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 12:39
| King Crimson's "Lizard." When I first bought this on gatefold vinyl it was so cool. I wish I still had it on vinyl. I left home at a very young age, not on good terms, and when I came back for my albums years later my brother was using them to make the sound effects for the rap music he was D.J.ing at parties. In other words he ruined my records, the whole collection and quite a nice prog filled collection at that. One of his favorite albums to use at parties was Crimsons In The Court Of The Crimson King. I still wince when I think about coming home and seeing all my albums on a cart he had set up for D.J.ing. I could cry and maybe I should. I think I will. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 24 2005 at 12:49
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Counting Prog Metal?
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Posted By: Cygnus
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 05:42
| I have tosay Rising from Rainbow. Awsome |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 06:03
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Better than Darkside, erm , let me think..... Relayer - Yes
IMO.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 06:18
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Some lack of imagination being shown. I take 'the best cover' to mean more than an excellent piece of artwork printed on its front. It is the creative use of the package, including the pictures we should consider more. Hence CD inserts rarely have the dynamism of a 12" square LP sleeve. So outstanding covers as packaging - but not sticking only to mainstream prog: Small Faces : Ogden Nut Gone Brown ( LP came in a round LP sleeve, and the CD is available in a tin-plated steel can - subsequently imitated several times) Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here Jefferson Airplane: Bark (LP comes in a brown supermarket bag) (To reiterate) Man : Be Good To Yourself Heaven (first and only album, folds out to 5 foot by 1 poster) Isaac Hayes: Black Moses ( sleeve folds out into a cross) The Deviant: Ptoof Pink Fairies: Never Never Land (with outer printed, otherwise clear vinyl sleeve and complimentary printed card insert to give support). Rolling Stones: Satanic Majesties (3-d image stuck on front of sleeve) Rutles (OST)
In passing I must comment on some multi-CD sets. Recently obtained Captain Beefheart's Grow Fins, with thick walled cardboard slip case and a 3 to 4 cm thick book which includes the 5 CDs. it is very difficult to read the very extensive liner notes, and the CDs readily fall out of their sleeves - and the price! Similar for Miles Davis's The Complete Bitchs Brew Sessions 4 CD set. In comparison a cardboard box, indiviual sleeve and a separate booklet containing notes, especially if the 3 or 4 CD set is sold less than 20 quid, is so much effective as a package and providing assessible information; e.g. Decca Record's Legend Of A Mind, Vertigo's Time Machine, Castle's Ars Longa Vita Brevis
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 08:00
'Big Generator' gets my vote for the worst... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 08:24
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a beautiful gatefold cover, with Art Deco inlays for the lyric sheets. Balletto di Bronzo : Ys
------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 10:37
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that makes me wan't to cry ------------- 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 10:41
| "Going For The One" beats DSOTM, mainly for the photo in the middle. I think it's tragic that we have CDs instead of these fantastic album covers. |
Posted By: Stiefel
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 10:56
| King Crimson - ITCOTCK |
Posted By: iguana
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 11:04
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anything done by hugh syme.
obvious choices would be storm thorgerson and roger dean, but that's all a matter of taste. roger dean has lost much of his appeal, his recent work is far to generic .. check out the cover of alan white's new band project and you'll know what i mean. i also admire what dirk rudolph does with typography. carl glover's work with the current marillion and procupine tree is admirable as well. or how about "smell the glove" by spinal tap (the 'censored' edition)? for that matter, any tap cover? 
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Posted By: Single Coil
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 11:06
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The cover of A Farewell to Kings (Rush) just creeps me out to this day.
------------- If it's worth playing, it's worth playing loud! |
Posted By: Ritual
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 11:06
| Tales From Topographic Oceans |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 11:21
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here are some covers you can't reproduce on CD: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6880&KW=gimmick+record+cover - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6880&a mp;KW=gimmick+record+cover ------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: bamba
Date Posted: July 28 2005 at 21:43
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QUELLA VECCHIA LOCANDA - QUELLA VECCHIA LOCANDA ------------- Learning Flute [Amigo de Manticore y Memowakeman] (primo)[IMG]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2187/2437702285_fbb450500d_o.jpg |