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Fox On The Rocks 
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 Posted: December 28 2011 at 00:54 |
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Roger Dean.
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ergaster
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Posted: December 28 2011 at 07:16 |
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Roger Dean is iconic. For a while in the 70s and 80s I tried to collect all the Dean covers I could find. Still have a bunch stashed away, including some rarities I think.
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JS19
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Posted: December 28 2011 at 08:15 |
Why on earth would you pick Hugh Syme's worst album cover ever to represent him?
I wish Storm Thorgerson was one of the options.... How could he not be?
Roger Dean it is then.
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Gandalff
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Posted: December 28 2011 at 12:26 |
 JS19 wrote:
Why on earth would you pick Hugh Syme's worst album cover ever to represent him?
I wish Storm Thorgerson was one of the options.... How could he not be?
Roger Dean it is then.
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Please suggest any better example, you complainer! So, everyone has a different taste, do you know?
Regarding Thorgerson, he's included in Hipgnosis. Or can I itemize this option?
Edited by Gandalff - December 28 2011 at 12:27
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The Miracle
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Posted: December 28 2011 at 15:41 |
Gandalff wrote:
Please suggest any better example, you complainer! So, everyone has a different taste, do you know?
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I agree with JS, that cover is ruined by the airplane tail. It's not moving, just
sticking out there like a mountain peak. The photoshop distortion on the
Majesty symbol is especially horrid - don't know what he was thinking
there.  A lot of Syme's covers have little lame mistakes like that. Permanent Waves or Moving Pictures would be much better examples, I think his best works are the ones he did for Rush. You also picked Lasse Hoile's worst cover, pretty much anything else would've been better.
Edited by The Miracle - December 28 2011 at 15:56
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ergaster
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Posted: December 28 2011 at 20:04 |
The Miracle wrote:
Giger, Whitehead and Thorgerson(Hipgnosis) are the only ones I really like. Went with Giger. Smith and Dean have their moments.
The ITCOTCK cover is wonderful as well, but unfortunately it was Godber's only artwork before he passed away in '70.
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Lasse Hoile:
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This one always pissed me off: so he's taken a nice photo and
completely destroyed it with cheap textures and standard photoshop
filters. Why? It would've made a great cover as it was originally. Now
it's a muddy claustrophobic mess.
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According to Swilson on his FB page, absolutely nothing was done to this photograph. It is old polaroid stock in a pinhole camera at sunset. No photoshopping, no nothing, what you see is exactly how it developed when pulled from the camera. FWIW.
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The Miracle
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Posted: December 28 2011 at 20:47 |
^I stand corrected. Still looks like crap though.
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Gandalff
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Posted: December 29 2011 at 09:44 |
I must to declare again that's a matter of everyone's taste. For me personally, majority of Rush's albums covers are perceived as quite cheesy, I like Syme's artworks for Dream Theater much more. Likewise, I really enjoy Holie's artwork for Grace For Drowning, thus I've picked it.
However, changed for your satisfaction. But against my feelings. 
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Na-chaered palan-díriel
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: December 29 2011 at 10:20 |
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I'm particularly fond of Travis Smith's style. |
That's who i voted for,i just love his style.That dark and melancholic look really works for me. It's interesting that maybe his best album cover art is so different from the rest,and i'm talking about Opeth's Heritage cover art.Brilliant stuff !
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Gandalff
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Posted: December 29 2011 at 10:30 |
Mellotron Storm wrote:
sleeper wrote:
I'm particularly fond of Travis Smith's style. |
That's who i voted for,i just love his style.That dark and melancholic look really works for me. It's interesting that maybe his best album cover art is so different from the rest,and i'm talking about Opeth's Heritage cover art.Brilliant stuff !
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...and therefore you have Hugh Syme's artwork in your avatar? 
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Na-chaered palan-díriel
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The-time-is-now
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Posted: January 02 2012 at 02:20 |
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Roger Dean seems to be obvious.
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 One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D
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