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The Anders 
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 Topic: Great Albums With Bad Album CoversPosted: September 07 2023 at 13:06 |
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Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free Not repulsive in any way, just pretty bland by Zappa's standards.
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Dapper~Blueberries
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Posted: September 07 2023 at 11:32 |
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A lot of retro prog like Flower Kings, Spock's Beard, and Echolyn have some fantastic albums, but their albums covers usually look quite bad.
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Posted: August 04 2023 at 10:59 |
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johnnyprozac
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The Death Spiritual Healing album cover is epic! It's so full of wit and charm... always puts a smile on my face!
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Posted: April 04 2021 at 01:16 |
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Posted: April 04 2021 at 01:13 |
![Focus - "Moving Waves" | Decibel Magazine](https://www.decibelmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/focusmovingwaves.jpg "Focus - "Moving Waves" | Decibel Magazine")
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Posted: April 04 2021 at 01:12 |
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Posted: April 03 2021 at 23:27 |
As someone in the psych and philosophy fields, I love, love, LOVE hearing people's interpretations of why they like or dislike art. Is there something about the "hard to look at" aspect present in other paintings for you? I'm a nerd so I'm curious LOL. I love surrealist art BTW.
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Posted: April 03 2021 at 14:34 |
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Not prog, and from what I've heard, not particularly engaging, but I can't stomach the collective Bill Bruford Earthworks covers. Like Leroy Neiman paintings, hard to look at.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Posted: April 01 2021 at 21:38 |
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Posted: April 01 2021 at 06:24 |
I actually would've agreed with you at one point, but I think the style of this cover fits well with songs like Misunderstood, the title track and disappear. I think they have far worse covers out there, but not all of them are good albums in my opinion so they might not fit the thread. I think Falling Into Infinity is a pretty awful cover for an album that I actually dig quite a bit, especially considering it came from the same guy who did Dark Side of the Moon, Peter Gabriel 3, Animals to name a few
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Posted: April 01 2021 at 05:58 |
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This cover is quite ugly, but the songs sound like this: |
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Posted: April 01 2021 at 05:35 |
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Also: David Bowie - Diamond Dogs The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds. Advanced, sophisticated pop and feeding goats? The Beatles - Rubber Soul. Never really been a fan of that photo actually. The close-up seems almost a bit agressive, and it is a bad representation of the music.
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Posted: March 31 2021 at 04:58 |
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Not Prog but a pretty good live album (the cover speaks for itself).
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Posted: March 31 2021 at 02:35 |
No arguing with tastes, is there?!
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Posted: March 31 2021 at 00:54 |
This site never surprises me; I LOVE H to HE's artwork!!!
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Posted: March 30 2021 at 16:13 |
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Going for the one, Tormato and Big Generator although I'm sure many on here with the last two being "great." Duke by Genesis comes to mind also.
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Posted: March 30 2021 at 15:50 |
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This album isn't actually bad at all...
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Posted: March 30 2021 at 15:46 |
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Indeed, different strokes for different folks. Although I prefer this cover than the When Dream and Day Unite cover.
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There is not bad music, just different tastes.
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Posted: March 30 2021 at 15:18 |
Different strokes for different folks. I love that cover art. It’s one of my favourite DT covers. 😄 |
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