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Poll Question: What is your favorite ELP album cover?
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41 [57.75%]
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HR Giger's One. I also love the debut one
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well I don't think there's much doubt the Giger is the superior illustration, but my personal favorite is Love Beach..tanned, bare-chested, and those outfits, oh yeah

when I was a little kid I loved the Tarkus cover, it got me wondering what a band with a biomechanical armadillo tank on its cover might sound like
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I was going to vote the armadillo, but then I remembered coming across a sleeve in a thrift store for Brain Salad Surgery. I've listened to BSS several times and thougt it was merely a good album, but when I saw the cover in a large format, I instantly wanted it.
 
Too bad the sleeve was empty. Cry

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The debut has immaculate taste on its side... very understated and pretty.
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I like ELP the Atlantic Years cover
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hahaha!LOL
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The detail and intricacy of H.R. Giger's cover for Brain Salad Surgery makes all the others look amatuerish.
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Giger. Hands down. Fits the musically like few album covers can (Strange Days is just about the only cover that fits the entire album as well as Brain Salad). Among my favorite album covers ever. Total sucker for it, so it's a bit of a cheater question.

Now, as for second favorite, I have the very unflattering pictures of the band, the bunch of paintings, or the tankadillo rendered in crayon...hmm. The first album.
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

The detail and intricacy of H.R. Giger's cover for Brain Salad Surgery makes all the others look amatuerish.


Seconded.
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Now where is the Love Beach option? Shocked







Ok, seriously it's a tight fight between Tarkus and BSS. Very different stylistically, but both brilliant. I think I'll go for Tarkus for the adorable cartoon imagery.
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Originally posted by Keppa4v Keppa4v wrote:



Ok, seriously it's a tight fight between Tarkus and BSS. Very different stylistically, but both brilliant. I think I'll go for Tarkus for the adorable cartoon imagery.


I never realized you like the cover of Tarkus LOLLOLLOL! I actually think it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and a sure way to produce some laughter among non-prog-friends... so I like it too in a different, sarcastic kind of way. And it's not the armadillo that gets me, but the utter destruction (the skeleton) it has left behind. To put it in perspective: I think the cover of Love Beach is more elegant than Tarkus.

One more for BSS
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Originally posted by Anderson III Anderson III wrote:

Originally posted by Keppa4v Keppa4v wrote:



Ok, seriously it's a tight fight between Tarkus and BSS. Very different stylistically, but both brilliant. I think I'll go for Tarkus for the adorable cartoon imagery.


I never realized you like the cover of Tarkus LOLLOLLOL! I actually think it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and a sure way to produce some laughter among non-prog-friends... so I like it too in a different, sarcastic kind of way. And it's not the armadillo that gets me, but the utter destruction (the skeleton) it has left behind. To put it in perspective: I think the cover of Love Beach is more elegant than Tarkus.

One more for BSS
I remember first seeing the cover and hearing some of the music back in senior high when I was just discovering prog, and I was practically rolling on the floor with laughter in a "wtf is this sh*t?" manner, but nowadays I have a soft spot for it mainly because it's so unashamedly funny and ridiculous Big smile You know the type of person who goes to a prom wearing a clown suit, that's how I see the cover Clap
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Originally posted by Keppa4v Keppa4v wrote:



You know the type of person who goes to a prom wearing a clown suit, that's how I see the cover Clap
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Very nicely put.
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I wasn't surprised BSS is running away with this.  I have an original LP.  It's a gate, but not a gatefold.  There's an open circle in the middle.  You open the flaps and then you see the whole inner cover.  Prog as it gets baby!!!

I kind of wonder if I would have fallen so badly in love with prog if it weren't for the all the really cool album covers and packaging.




Edited by Slartibartfast - July 19 2009 at 08:06
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by TGM: Orb TGM: Orb wrote:

The debut has immaculate taste on its side... very understated and pretty.


Yup.
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It was absolutely sure that BSS would win Tongue
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