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Poll Question: Out of this lot..??
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21 [26.25%]
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    Posted: October 09 2017 at 03:52
Choose from my list of faves!

Or state your own..

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 04:21
The cover art of the two Yes albums stand out here. Relayer has imo the most beautiful album cover ever.

I don't even like the covers of BSS and ItCotCK.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 04:47
DSOTM. Simple but effective.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 05:44
Uriah Heep's "The Magician Birthday".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 05:44
Out of this lot, I go for Topographic   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 05:46
Relayer from this list.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 06:27
Relayer, from this list.
Welcome to the middle of the film.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 07:45
Topo is my fave Dean cover---although Relayer is amazing I like the subject matter of Topographic.
But also love SEBTP and Trick
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 08:14
Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

DSOTM. Simple but effective.

This.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 09:17
First vote for Brain Salad Surgery.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 09:20
I think Dean peaked with 'Tales although he's done a lot of nice work since. It gets my vote.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 09:43
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 11:49
Tales from those listed here. 

As far as my overall favourite, though, I'd probably pick one of these. I'm a huge sucker for artwork with vivid colours:












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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 12:07
"Other" — for Drama by Yes. I love that cover.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 13:04
From the list, Relayer, which I voted for, because of the dramatic angles and ambiguity of whether we are looking at natural formations or artificial structures.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 13:05
I voted for Tales From Topographic Oceans!!! My fave Dean cover.

But for some reason I've always been fascinated by the Larks' Tongues In Aspic artwork. That cover scared the hell out of me as a kid. And then I heard it - and it scared the hell out of me. Still does.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 13:55
ITCOTCK is a atrocious amateur painting that belongs in the museum of bad art or something. Only thing worse I can think of must be the cover on their follow-up album (In the Wake). Can't you tell? 

Relayer is masterful but so is Warrior at the Edge of Time. Not an easy choice.

Trick of the Tail is very cozy. I think I actually bought it for the fairy-taleish cover and not because I thought it would be any good. It was only one or two pounds anyway. Like most UK prog back in the mid 90's. I had discovered Gabriel-are Genesis but was very skeptical about Phil who I knew mainly for I Can't Dance and Against All Odds etc - as a vocalist). 

One of Rush's better covers I think but it feels like just another cover - not a standout.

I can see why people love both Tales and Dark Side but colors and esthetics are kind of miss for me. 

Brain Salad is sort of impressive but looks like a cover for something sounding like Tool. Yeah looks like progmetal and thats not really a compliment. But then again I hate ELP and especially this album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 14:19
ITCOTCK, followed by Relayer.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 14:52
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 09 2017 at 15:35
from the list "Warrior on the Edge of Time", but my favorite one is the original cover of "Hawk Meets Penguin" by the British branch of Amon Düül.



I love how mysterious the cover is. what are a hawk and a penguin doing on a cemetery at night? and why are there mines with burning fuses below the penguin and the hawk's place of landing?


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