List your top 10 favourite prog albums you bought only because of the cover art (I'm not sure that I've done this once since albums moved primarily to the CD format and artwork seems much less important - or certainly much less a part of the overall purchasing decision experience). Anyway, I'm including the albums I'd never heard a single second of music from before the cover just grabbed me and wouldn't let go. In no particular order:
1) ELP - Brain Salad Surgery (Wow! That Giger artwork just grabbed me by the throat and BSS became the 1st prog album I ever bought)
2) Rush - A Farewell to Kings (Had never heard of them but the cover just looked so cool)
3) Ethos - Open Up (not the front cover but the back which showed the band and their very prog instruments)
4) Camel - Mirage (the US release with the airbrushed camel art cover)
5) Yes - Relayer (probably my fave Roger Dean painting)
6) Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting (along with the cover photo, any album with a song called Swastika Girls just had to be heard)
7) Genesis - Genesis Live (when I saw what these guys looked like on stage, I just had to hear what kind of music they were making)
8) Crimso - ITCOTCK (what can I say, perhaps the ultimate disturbing cover art of all time)
9) Pulsar - Halloween (may be the cover art and title but the whole package just seemed so...well...creepy)
10) Tull - A Passion Play (what killed the ballet dancer???)
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