Best Genesis album cover

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I wasn't able to get tickets yet but it put me in the mood to do a poll and so I thought of this one. I think they had some good ones. You can vote for your top three(but please no more than that otherwise the poll becomes pointless). Studio albums only.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - May 08 2021 at 09:01

Poll Question: What is the best Genesis album cover?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
From Genesis to Revelation	2	[1.04%]
Trespass	16	[8.29%]
Nursery Cryme	27	[13.99%]
Foxtrot	32	[16.58%]
Selling England by the Pound	21	[10.88%]
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway	23	[11.92%]
A Trick of the Tail	26	[13.47%]
Wind and Wuthering	15	[7.77%]
And Then There Were Three	4	[2.07%]
Duke	10	[5.18%]
Abacab	1	[0.52%]
Genesis (shapes)	5	[2.59%]
Invisible Touch	2	[1.04%]
We Can't Dance	2	[1.04%]
Calling All Stations	1	[0.52%]
None are very good	6	[3.11%]
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AFlowerKingCrimson Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 02 2016 Location: Philly burbs Status: Offline Points: 16200	Post Options Post Reply Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Best Genesis album cover Posted: May 08 2021 at 09:00
	I wasn't able to get tickets yet but it put me in the mood to do a poll and so I thought of this one. I think they had some good ones. You can vote for your top three(but please no more than that otherwise the poll becomes pointless). Studio albums only. Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - May 08 2021 at 09:01

Earl of Mar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 13 2020 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 1214	Post Options Post Reply Quote Earl of Mar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: May 08 2021 at 09:11
	Nursery Cryme with honourable mention for TOTT.

Progmind Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 29 2010 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 3443	Post Options Post Reply Quote Progmind Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: May 08 2021 at 09:40
	Foxtrot!!!

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	The Fox on the Rocks, by a country mile. Nursery Crime a distant second place. Both of those covers are far greater than any other in the discography.
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	I like the picture on the first live album very much. When I first saw it (I had already heard "Foxtrot" and "Nursery Cryme") I immediately associated the front cover picture with the "Apocalypse in 9/8" section of "Supper's Ready" and the photo with the bat wings on the back cover with "Watcher of the Skies", though I had never seen them live.
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	I considered two of them - Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot. My nod goes to... Foxtrot in the end.


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	SEBTP is the best followed very closely by TOTT and W&W. something so strange about W&W that I love and only album cover I would put on a wall as art.

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	Duke is artisticaly most interesting IMO, both absurdist and strange with nice collour pallet. Though they have many intreguing ones, spessialy Wind And Wuthering is very mysterious and romantical, the whimsical Nursery Chryme, the trio from that until Selling England is very Lewis Caroll esque, surreallisme and the Lamb have more of a structural and symbolisme heavy. But Duke have that elegant minimalisme yet strong symbolisme and figurativ.


Icarium Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34050	Post Options Post Reply Quote Icarium Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: May 08 2021 at 10:09
	I wonder how a Roger Dean would be ontu a Genesis album. One will never know thay and its good with a variaty of artists. Genesis had one Hipignosis artworkwith tLLdoB which is cool albait not as spectacular as the album


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	My favorite cover is Nursery Cryme. I love Foxtrot and Selling England, as well as many other, but Nursery Cryme is quite special t me.

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	I like the Duke album cover the best. My second choice would be Nursery Cryme, followed by Trick of the Tail.
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	Went with W+W. Close calls would have been Selling England and Trick. Have to confess that as much I love Nursery and Foxtrot as albums, I don't think the covers are very good. On a partially related note, several years ago I walked into a small gallery that had an exhibition of 'bad album covers'. Most of them were truly atrocious, but, shockingly, they also included Foxtrot and . . . In the Court of the Crimson King.
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	I vote in Selling England by the Pound!!! Very classic!!

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	ATTWT. Classic Hypgnosis.
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	Wind And Wuthering, A Trick Of The Tail, Nursery Cryme

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	Nursery Cryme.
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	Trick of the Tail. Followed by SEbtP.
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	Foxtrot's my favorite, followed by Selling, A Trick, and Trespass.

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	I always felt that the music of SEBTP, ATOTT and W&W fit the album covers very well so those are my picks. They are also my favorite albums by the band. The Paul Whitehead album covers are good too but not quite as good as those. The Lamb is just a weird album cover but I suppose it fits the album pretty well too considering the music on it. I think when their music started to change, starting with ATTWT, so did the quality of the album covers although Duke and shapes aren't bad.