Albums that deserved a gatefold sleeve

Great Gatefold sleeves was one of the highpoint of prog, but in some cases, the intended artwork got botched ever so ruthlessly and folded over the back.

Perusing the Saga 7x7 thread, I was looking over the band's discography in Discogs and was reminded how sad that the band's second Images At Twilight album sleeve had not been released as a gatefold, given that the back of the single sleeve had the same artwork continuing over the other side. 

In some ways, I think it was too bad that Tony Roberts (the illustrator of IaT) did not provide the full Silent Knight artwork (if there was ever one) to see it massacred the same way.

So, I'm looking for similar sleeves artworks that were unceremonously and irrespectfully folded over on the back of the sleeve (for financial reasons, most likely)... Any others?

I can think of Marillion's Script, Fugazi & Childhood that had only received single-slleves issues in North Am, but received Gatefold n Europe, so that doesn't count.

Also albums like Crime of The Century shouldn't count, because the back sleeve could appear as the front sleeves' continuity, but it isn't the case.

Over to you...

I missed the original title, what was it?

ELP's first album had the art work folded back. Definitely deserving a gatefold.

If you unfold the respective single sleeve, the two halves don't click in (well in a way they do, but there is something fishy. The Tor rock formation behind the humans is the same, but reversed.

Manuel wrote: Even though Nursery Crime had a gatefold cover in Europe, the USA edition did not, oddly enough, and that was the first copy I got. Later on, I got a european copy, which made more sense to me.

I guess your copy was a Buddha record issue

My Canadian Genesis albums were all gatefolds and issued by Charisma.

Not prog per se (at all), but a few of Nazareth's spectacular fantasy album sleeves never received a gatefold sleeve (to my knowleqdge).

Hair Of The Dog, 

Loud & Proud, 

No Mean City (though I'm not certain the back & front "collate" perfectly for that one)

Actually, when they did go "Gatefold", it was for their weakest artworks (Raza excepted).

That's the inner gatefold... 

What about the outer gtefold, though?

The American version of Amon Duul 2's "Made in Germany" threw away the original gatefold, with a cover that really was not exactly representative of AD2's music. While I love hearing Renate, I thought the cover was rather distasteful, and it likely hurt the band's efforts in America.

Egberto Gismonti's "No Caipira" should have had a gatefold, to help folks understand the incredible mixes in that album of Brazilian music, jazz and classical music to create a tapestry that was phenomenal, but was likely way too "classical" for most of our ears, even ECM's whose material at the time (1972) still had a lot of material that was very "traditional" in its style, though very free and improvised.