Prog 2.0 Album Covers

Atavachron wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: I think  this stuff is trying waaaaaaaaaay too hard. I mean, that last one with the bird formation formed into the shape of a butterfly, c`mon it looks like some sort of cover you would find on the of some Windham Hill new age album from 1983. Then again, I`m from the mid 16th century when Roger Dean and Hipgnosis were the rage. Also these bands, save for Marillion aren`t even porgrock bands. actually many of the covers posted are much like the sort of designs Hipgnosis was coming up with at the time, though these may not be quite as edgy

That's certainly a thought Atavachron. Would you be happy to post some contemporary examples of cover art you think might better fit the bill?

Looks like ECM covers meets Fantasia.

Of course, Tool! How could I have over looked them? Thanks KoS.

That's cool Mike, shame we can see the image here. I think Lou Reed did something similar with one of his post 'New York' albums.

Heh, yes indeed Mike. 

I have just have one more thing to add and then I`m bailing out of this disscussion on "porg" album art. As I mentioned on page one of the thread on my lunch hour yesterday I showed that Butterfly graphic by Storm T to a friend and she remarked that it was cute and looked like something her 7 year old daughter would create in art class at school. Now, I hooked up with one of my old flying buddies last night and couldn`t resist. I had the butterfly picture folded up in my pocket and took it out and showed it to him  Here`s an abridged version of our conversation:
I said " Dave, what do you make of this?" Immediately he replied " looks like something some ( fill in the blank ) would paint. I said, " C`mon ****head  it was done by a 7 year old girl on her computer in her art class, I think it`s quite nice." He the took another look at it and said ," Isn`t it incredible what the kids can do on computers today. This kid is going places. " Blah blah blah
You get the gist. My point is that you guys are reading too much into this stuff. We`re not talking  Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Pablo Pcasso or even Francis Bacon here. It`s rock album art. ROCK FREAKING ALBUM ART Don`t read too much into it or take it too seriously for freak sake! there! Have fun with the rest of your deepest of deep musings.

Actually, I wrote about the butterfly cover in my school Art project. I think you're missing the point - it is for the song "Butterflies and Hurricanes", which is referring to the chaos theory. This image also refers to it. If you're not familiar, the idea is that a small thing can elevate into something huge, like the flapping of a butterfly's wing making a small change in the atmosphere and that change elevating and causing, or preventing, a hurricane on the other side of the world. Here, many butterflies (small), form together to make a huge one.

It's a simple idea, it's true, but I somehow doubt a 7-year-old would be able to come up with the idea AND carry it out. It is, after all, perfect for the song, and that is surely what covers are about?

Vibrationbaby wrote: sleeper wrote: ^That sounds like you were fishing for a specific answer and so deliberatly lied to the guy to get it. I simply pulled the picture out of my pocket and simply said " Dave, what do you make of this?" I wasn`t fishing for any specific answer. If he would have said "that`s genius", I would have have come back here and said that. But I am going to just remain a spectator here.

Yes, and you also said " I said, " C`mon ****head  it was done by a 7 year old girl on her computer in her art class". His following answer that you posted was basd entirely on this information, which we know is a lie because its a Storm Thorgerson (sp?) cover. His impression of the artist is wrong because you gave him fals information. Besides, I don't know any under 12 that could manipulate a photoshop type programe so well.

Not to mention in my opinion, one of his most stunning (photographic) images:



Things were so much more worthy when there was a large format camera involved, rather than a PC...

Away from Storm though -

Similarities / Homages, anyone?




Inspired by/homage to?

you obviously have no kids, else you would know with what surreal ideas they can come up with. Roger Dean is a blunderer compared to them.
or are you speaking of the actual execution of the picture, not the idea? of course a 7 year old kid can not be expected to the the drawing skills of Roger Dean. but I don't consider that picture to be badly executed at all. it reminds me of some of the impressionists (in execution, not in idea). the picture looks a bit as if a surreal painter decided to execute one of his ideas in an impressionistic style