18 ridiculous prog album covers

There is an awful and ridicolous cover that i always remember:

I find the list quite ridiculous...

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: The album by Camel is a new version of an old and bad taste joke, it's said tghat Jesus in the Cross called Peter (who wasn't really at the cruxifiction place but the joke goes like this) and Peter answers "Yes Master", Jesus calls him again and asks him to climb the ladder to the Cross. Peter goes and Jesus tells him in he ear "I can see your house from here".   That's why the album got a lot of bad reactions in their day, thre joke is not only disrespectful, but also a bad one.   Iván

hahhahahhaha....  being the heathen I am.. hadn't heard that one...

memowakeman wrote: There is an awful and ridicolous cover that i always remember:

profanatio wrote: Anything with Roger Dean artwork makes a cover look ridiculously dated.

hahahha.. and your point is?  Those albums ARE 30 odd years old you know .   A '69 GTO looks dated in comparison to the sh*t Detroit rolls out to today...  but when you want to go for a spin.. which one would you choose. 

Yeah...a lot of the covers from the 70s I don't "get."

Now you might have cheesy metal album covers, but at least you don't have revolting weirdness like Birth Control albums or Le Orme's Collage.

/\ I think you're right but that doesn't make it any better

micky wrote: memowakeman wrote: There is an awful and ridicolous cover that i always remember:

That's how Raff will look like after a couple of years of marriage.

Wow, Ivan, that's really terrible. I'm surprised the label didn't stop them.

 

 

As a fact, they managed to control the band apparently. As far as I know, they wanted to recreate the joke completely, but the label said no way José, so they reached an agreement to this cover that makes no sense at all.

 

Something similar happened with Aphrodite’s Child, they wanted an album in red with big 666 on numbers, plus a joke saying “This album was conceived under the influence of Sahlep”.

 

Of course the label opposed, radical groups made a scandal, but the guys insisted, so their record was in the freezer for almost two years, until Vertigo dared to release it with everything Aphrodite’s Child insisted, but the band didn’t existed anymore, they had split long before.

 

People thought Sahlep was a Greek demon but at the end it was only a non alcoholic beverage from Turkey (Well at least here in Perú they do Sahlep with a bit of alcohol, almost as Irish Coffee).

 

Iván

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - March 17 2008 at 18:39