Prog 2.0 Album Covers

My personal favorite album art:
Bass Communion II - Bass Communion



And one by Lasse Hoile:
In Absentia -  Porcupine Tree

I think this is one of my favorite album covers ever.

Here are some of my favourites:

Here's to hoping some of you have gone over the 18 ridiculous prog art covers. I'm with VB. Some of us strain to convince the rest that this is actually high art. Would we debate the artistic merit of book covers ? How about graphic novels / comic books ? Van & automobile hood dressings (valkeries in bikinis anyone) ? Our national public broadcaster, the CBC, has gotten mucho good press over the years for their original exploding logo. But it is seen as graphic art, in the sense of something that is "drawn". And not as high art that belongs in a gallery next to Van Gogh or J Pollock (Pollack Palloc Pullock, whatever...)

Oh, by the way, for those who feel these topics are intellectually or artistically worth bursting a blood vessel debating its' impotence, I mean importance; check out  http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_scandal_of_olivia_newton. Read number 5 about the world shaking debate as to what is & is not, or should not be included in one of Wikipedia's hallowed pages. Then substitute Prog along with our favourite phrases we use in supporting the weightiness of our preferred music.

P.S. tee hee hee hee hee ad infinitum ....

P.P.S. mind you a lot of covers make for interesting viewing under certain "altered" states of mind ... ahah, aha, aha ...... nudge nudge wink wink munch munch ....

P.P.P.S - btw, my 3 fave covers are a  4 way tie between AC/DC's Back in Black, Spinal Tap, and Metallica's Black Album. Oh, the fourth one is Venom's Black Metal. But I don't own that one, so I can't remember for sure that it actually is as good.


Edited by debrewguy - March 16 2008 at 19:57

debrewguy wrote: Here's to hoping some of you have gone over the 18 ridiculous prog art covers. I'm with VB. Some of us strain to convince the rest that this is actually high art. Would we debate the artistic merit of book covers ? How about graphic novels / comic books ? Van & automobile hood dressings (valkeries in bikinis anyone) ? Our national public broadcaster, the CBC, has gotten mucho good press over the years for their original exploding logo. But it is seen as graphic art, in the sense of something that is "drawn". And not as high art that belongs in a gallery next to Van Gogh or J Pollock (Pollack Palloc Pullock, whatever...) Oh, by the way, for those who feel these topics are intellectually or artistically worth bursting a blood vessel debating its' impotence, I mean importance; check out  http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_scandal_of_olivia_newton. Read number 5 about the world shaking debate as to what is & is not, or should not be included in one of Wikipedia's hallowed pages. Then substitute Prog along with our favourite phrases we use in supporting the weightiness of our preferred music. P.S. tee hee hee hee hee ad infinitum .... P.P.S. mind you a lot of covers make for interesting viewing under certain "altered" states of mind ... ahah, aha, aha ...... nudge nudge wink wink munch munch .... P.P.P.S - btw, my 3 fave covers are a  4 way tie between AC/DC's Back in Black, Spinal Tap, and Metallica's Black Album. Oh, the fourth one is Venom's Black Metal. But I don't own that one, so I can't remember for sure that it actually is as good.

Rocktopus wrote: stonebeard wrote: I think this is one of my favorite album covers ever. Ulver's latest'a a great one!

We agree on music for once!

that Kayo Dot cover of the run-over bird or whatever it is supposed to be is one of the worst I have ever seen. even those admittedly a bit outdated "Sword and Sorcery" covers of the 70s are better than that one. but "de gustibus non est disputandum".
on the whole I think the current fashion of making album covers is just as good or bad as it was in the 70s. today artists follow another fad: be laconic or abstract. in the 70s it was: be fantastic. it is just another passing fad. and one thing is for sure: in 30-40 years people will laugh at the album covers of today as today we laugh at the album covers of the 70s.
an album cover of today which I like:




Edited by BaldJean - March 17 2008 at 05:31

keiser willhelm wrote: some fav's of mine...

I like this cover very much keiser.

I think the Kayo Dot album cover is actually hand drawn by Toby, so no worries of it being a picture of an actual run-over bird

I seem to like albums with sprawling nature-scapes on them

to name a few