18 ridiculous prog album covers

Genesis takes the cake for bad album covers. they might mean well, or have a deaper meaning as to the music inside but man are they ugly. Tresspass is really bad, foxtrot is laughable, Nursury Cryme is pathetic, and The Lamb is very uninspired./ besides most cheese metal prog with dragons and fairies and big swords, genesis has, imo, lowered the bar significantly.

^ hahha.... if they knew more than the same old same old of of dear old England.. and America (Kansas?.. come on.. what was wrong with that cover)  ... they could have expanded it to 50 

Edited by micky - March 16 2008 at 21:46

Ah well, not everyone can appreciate the classiness of Prog covers.

Some others for consideration

   

Okay, not the best picks over all.








Edited by Logan - March 16 2008 at 22:23

crimson87 wrote: I personally think Tarkus`s cover is awful and that`s quite a pity becouse is a 5 star album, and the inner pictures showing how tarkus becomes aquatarkus .... come on !!!!! THEY SUCK.   What I DON´T like is that they also started bashing on the music as usual.Is it a national sport among americans to criticise prog?In my country they don`t even know what prog is!!

Salvo_ wrote: micky wrote: Salvo_ wrote: Ridiculous prog album covers implies they are talking about prog art, not albums that are prog. no it doesn't....  a 'prog album cover.. implies.. the cover of a prog rock album. But Love Beach is still tangential to the point they are trying to make. :P

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - March 16 2008 at 23:35

"...rendered in what appears to be magic marker"   

LOL

bad covers? 

- Argent's 'Ring of Hands'      ..p.u.
- 'Drama'     ..what's that all about Rog?  Looks like a poster for 'Cat People'
- 'Free Hand'    ..oookay
- 'A'     ..yeah


-      and the Nice never seemed to have a good designer

Salvo_ wrote:   Really, haven't you ever read The Onion? I think perhaps you need to lighten up a bit. They are not trying to offend you.   Of course they are not trying to offend me, neither they can, they are making a business   Trespass is good, although pretentious. I'm not saying he's a bad artist, but H to He and Nursery Cryme are ugly, ugly covers.   Trespass pretentious? It's barely a sketch, most of the effect is caused by the contrast between a pale blue background, two windows and very simple drawings of two characters, that's all, you can't get anything simpler but effective.   Abnd the knoife, well it's shocking as the soong, that's what the artist tried to do.   I don't see anything pretentious, and even if it is, Prog is pretentious, the Prog bands PRETEND to do something trascendental (At least has survived for 40 + years)  instead of music for shaking the butt, that will be fashion for some months and vanish, and the reason why I listen them.   If all musicians followed thre mainstream, this will be a boring world, why in hell must all the covers have the faces of the musicians, that's lack of imagination.   Iván

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - March 16 2008 at 22:55

Salvo_ wrote: Then you shouldn't be offended, Ivan.   I'm not offended, just tired of listening always the same nonsense.   It's a little bit pretentious because it's monks and stuff. But that's ok, I was just saying.   Hey Salvo, are you looking at he same cover? What monks, is only a couple who´s peace is suddenly interrupted by the knife (A revolution).   Iván

@ Ivan.

I may have gotten a little carried away, its not the worst genesis cover there(probably the best on the list) but its still very borring. ethereal figures? i find them to be very weighted and heavy, their isn't much movment in their cloths and the thick, static lines really weigh them down. they look like statues. the pale blue is a good choice for color because, like the rest of it, nothing is happening. it just looks so flat and lifeless to me. the knife was a good choice tho and the only thing that provides relief from the bordom.
i stand by what i said about the other album covers tho, really horrendous.