great album but boring art work

It often comes to my mind when i listen to Close to the Edge an album with such grate music, but then you look at the artwork of the record and all you see is green why is it like that when the Fragile, Tales, Relayer and other Roger Deans artwork are so grate. I personly dont think the artwork compliments the music verry well.

are there any other albums that have grate music but are featured with a boring or uncreative artwork (or the opisite grate art work but bad album/music). kind of like the Asia albums, probably the gratest artworks of all time, but the music dosent sound as epic.

and which bands do you think have the best artwork and moust creative, fun, longest streak of grate art.




Edited by aginor - September 20 2009 at 04:43

I think the graduated  green of Close to the Edge, makes ot more iconic.......more "classy".....and it has agreat logo.

Yes's first album? How is it that we keep mentioning Yes goddnit!

That's a very interesting subject. I find that the artwork works on a subconcious psycological level in conveying the "feel" or "atmosphere" of an album. There are MANY examples of how an "ugly" artwork (in quotes because of the subjectivity of this matter) brings down the overall enjoyment of an LP. Off the top of my head I would mention "Going for the One" , "Tormato" , and of course "The Yes Album". Had these albums featured a trademark Roger Dean arwortk, they could go up a whole star for me (in the PA rating system).The Same could be said for "The lamb lies down on broadway" although this album is a major musical let down for me, it would help to feature a more "fantasy" sleeve.

^ Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is a superb Hypnosis cover - I think it reflects the gritty realism vs. fantasy of the music rather well.

Dean wrote: ^ Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is a superb Hypnosis cover - I think it reflects the gritty realism vs. fantasy of the music rather well.

theBox wrote: Snow Dog wrote: theBox wrote: That's a very interesting subject. I find that the artwork works on a subconcious psycological level in conveying the "feel" or "atmosphere" of an album. There are MANY examples of how an "ugly" artwork (in quotes because of the subjectivity of this matter) brings down the overall enjoyment of an LP. Off the top of my head I would mention "Going for the One" , "Tormato" , and of course "The Yes Album". Had these albums featured a trademark Roger Dean arwortk, they could go up a whole star for me (in the PA rating system).The Same could be said for "The lamb lies down on broadway" although this album is a major musical let down for me, it would help to feature a more "fantasy" sleeve. Just about disagree with everything you say here. ...well, as I said in my original post, these things can be VERY subjective. "I find that the artwork works on a subconcious psycological level in conveying the "feel" or "atmosphere" of an album" .....you mean to tell me that you even disagree with this???

questionsneverknown wrote: And there are two versions of the cover for Gentle Giant's Octopus--the one with the raging octopod soaring atop the ocean is lovely; the one with the picked squid in the jar is horrible.

What a completely odd thing to say about Close To The Edge unless you're only talking about the front.  Speaking of grates:

You may start throwing tormatoes at me.
The Wall. It might fit. Nevertheless, it is not the best to do to an album as great as The Wall is.