great album but boring art work - Progressive Rock Music Forum

akamaisondufromage wrote:

Good grief!! What goes on The Lamb The Wall Going for the One ......Are all fantastic covers..

This one always makes me cringe

Maybe I am alone on thhis too?

Have to agree...cheap, tacky...just pants! LOL

Originally posted by questionsneverknown

questionsneverknown wrote:

Blasphemy of blasphemies, I'll also say I don't really care for the cover for Genesis' Foxtrot. (I do like SEBTP, LLDOB, WAW.) Rush had great covers for Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and Signals, but 2112 and a few others were not so good.

Camel's cover for Moonmadness is great. PFM's Per Un Amico, not so great.

And there are two versions of the cover for Gentle Giant's Octopus--the one with the raging octopod soaring atop the ocean is lovely; the one with the picked squid in the jar is horrible.

Oh, so many more to talk about.

All the words in this quote are false in my opinion, except for the one for Octopus, in which case I think both covers are absolutely wonderful.

Trendsetter win!

The search for nonexistent perfection.

Dean wrote:

Ah, but Close To The Edge

reveals its inner beauty:

Felt like this was worth mentioning again. Smile

Some people mentioned The Wall too I noticed. Whats wrong with simplicity? Another iconic cover in my book conveying ther bleakness inside.

Dean wrote:

Any cover with a photo of the band on it is pretty bad in my estimation, though King Crimson's Red is the exception to that rule.

What do you think of these?:

The Quiet One wrote:

Dean wrote:

Any cover with a photo of the band on it is pretty bad in my estimation, though King Crimson's Red is the exception to that rule.

What do you think of these?:

Red is horrible, Led Zeppelin II is great.

These are superb

And they all contain a picture of the band

Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira

- Paul Éluard

Brilliant music, but a very dull cover.

Tsevir Leirbag wrote:

^ You're right. But there's so much people who will tell you you're wrong...

Well.....yeah..he's wrong.

Pretty awful, in my opinion. An ugly purple background, a nude woman that seems to be cut out of paper... This album cover art is an insult to women, and, putting all controversy aside, it is still downright embarrassing... Waters' music deserves better than that.

The Quiet One wrote:

akamaisondufromage wrote:

Good grief!! What goes on The Lamb The Wall Going for the One ......Are all fantastic covers..

This one always makes me cringe

Maybe I am alone on thhis too?

I'm with you! I thought it was some kind of Pig due to the pinkish, but when I figured out it was a odd guy with a sword and a shield, it just made a cool cover-work to a lame one.

Funny you should mention that, as the title for the album was originally "War Pigs", as you may already know. They designed the cover with that title in mind. Even though it's not a pig, it certainly fits that title better than "Paranoid". This is indeed a horrible cover.

Some other good albums with boring/bad art, in my opinion:

Perhaps I just think this because of the contrast to earlier albums from Genesis.

I this.

This is nearly as cheesy as the music.

Some bands just can't release a bad one, for instance:

Led Zeppelin

Pink Floyd

Porcupine Tree

And on a bit of a side note, I just wanted to bring up the eerie coincidence between the "V" artwork for both Symphony X and Spock's Beard

"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"

-The Great Gig in the Sky