Pink Floyd - Least Inspired Album Art - Progressive Rock Music Forum

The Final Cut.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021

iluvmarillion wrote:

nick_h_nz wrote:

JD wrote:

Atom Heart Mother (1970) is UDDERLY underwhelming.

Sure, it's become an iconic image...of sorts...to some. But it's lazy and pedestrian.

Of course I have no doubt that an art grad would expound a deep critique into the subtext of the cow's arse and all it's societal meaning...YAWN.

If record companies were ever to remaster covers, this should be the first one they do !

Oh, and I like cheese too.

That’s how I feel about DSotM. Iconic as hell, but just as uninspired. I don’t dislike the cover for DSotM, and I definitely like it more than the contents, but compared to the rest of the covers it doesn’t seem anywhere near as inspired.

It probably received about 10% of it's record sales from that cover.

I’m well aware of that. In fact, I would have guessed far more than ten per cent. I wouldn’t have ven batted an eyelid if you’d said only 10% of its record sales were NOT because of that cover. It doesn’t change the argument of whether or not it is uninspired, though. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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The Wall.

Take away Comfortably Numb and this abomination has nothing whatsoever to recommend it, either in the music or the artwork.

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Progosopher wrote:

The Wall. Appropriate, yes, but they may as well just used plain cardboard - which would have been more appropriately bleak. Tongue

Atom Heart Mother comes a close second. Both are great albums, though.

The inner sleeve art, as others have pointed out, is fabulous, especially after the bleakness of the outer cover.

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

Hard to say. DSOTM was 'smoke and mirrors' to me. Means absolutely nothing but cons you into believing something important is going on. I think I really hate it when it comes to it. However for the sake of the poll The Wall is just so 'well its the album title and concept so what do you expect? its a wall and walls are not interesting!'.

Obscured By Clouds which also happens to be the least inspired Floyd album before the great fall after The Wall

The Wall is a boring album cover but actually works for the symbolic effect

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I hadn't read well the thread title and voted Permanent Lapse of Reason, but it's definitely not the least inspired artwork. I'd take back my vote and put it either for OBC , but more likely Piper as well.

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

The wall is one of there best albums but the album cover... is pretty lame. It doesent have as much significant meaning in the art as other albums do. Its just a wall.

Poll Question: Which album art do you consider to be the least inspired?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)	0	[0.00%]
A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)	0	[0.00%]
More (1969)	2	[3.70%]
Ummagumma (1969)	0	[0.00%]
Atom Heart Mother (1970)	3	[5.56%]
Relics (1971)	0	[0.00%]
Meddle (1971)	0	[0.00%]
Obscured by Clouds (1972)	11	[20.37%]
Dark Side of the Moon (1973)	2	[3.70%]
Wish You Were Here (1975)	1	[1.85%]
Animals (1977)	0	[0.00%]
The Wall (1979)	12	[22.22%]
A Collection of Great Dance Songs (1981)	1	[1.85%]
The Final Cut (1983)	12	[22.22%]
A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)	1	[1.85%]
Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988)	0	[0.00%]
The Division Bell (1994)	1	[1.85%]
P.U.L.S.E (1995)	0	[0.00%]
Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81 (2000)	1	[1.85%]
The Endless River (2014)	5	[9.26%]
Live at Knebworth 1990 (2021)	0	[0.00%]
I like cheese!	2	[3.70%]
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