View Full Version : Great albums in bad or inappropriate cover art
gingernut
11-15-2012, 05:01 PM
Inspired by a comment in the Perilous thread...
I give you:
Basnie - Collage
Behaviour - Saga
Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
Patchwork - Arrakeen
...just a bit of fun.
paythesnuka
11-15-2012, 05:11 PM
Yes - Going for the One
NogbadTheBad
11-15-2012, 05:12 PM
Scorpions - Virgin Killer
Thus endeth the list
gregory
11-15-2012, 05:17 PM
There's plenty of great albums with wrong covers.
I never liked these:
GG - Acquiring The Taste
PFM - Chocolate Kings
ELP - Love Beach( not great, but a great band's production anyway)
Led Zeppelin - Presence (a pure nonsensical quasi-concept)
Uriah Heep - Salisbury( though it's arguable great)
Deep Purple - Machine Head( the photographer could rub the lens)
King Crimson - Islands( something like the Alpha-Centaura photo is just misconception, IMO)
Henry Cow - Unrest( as if they tried once again to explain the pun)
80s were ok
11-15-2012, 06:37 PM
what about Blind Faith? That one is pretty inappropriate.
Rickenbacker
11-15-2012, 06:46 PM
what about Blind Faith? That one is pretty inappropriate.
Yeah, that one is still pretty shocking today. No way would anyone go there today. I sometimes wonder if the band members cringe at it today.
Mister Triscuits
11-15-2012, 06:53 PM
Yeah, that one is still pretty shocking today. No way would anyone go there today. I sometimes wonder if the band members cringe at it today.
I've always thought that the censored cover, with the cool sepia-toned band photo, was much more appropriate to the feel of the album than the original cover anyway. I feel the same about the US cover of Electric Ladyland vs. the original European one. I enjoy looking at boobies as much as the next perv, but both of those nude covers were more creepy than sexy.
Pierre
11-15-2012, 07:04 PM
Fireballet, two too…
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/34065785.jpg
simon moon
11-15-2012, 07:09 PM
Yeah, that one is still pretty shocking today. No way would anyone go there today. I sometimes wonder if the band members cringe at it today.
I'm not so sure about that. Not all countries are as hung up about nudity as the US.
simon moon
11-15-2012, 07:12 PM
Fireballet, two too…
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/34065785.jpg
This thread is about GREAT albums with inappropriate covers.
The inappropriateness of "two too" goes WAY beyond the cover.
paythesnuka
11-15-2012, 07:30 PM
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
spellbound
11-15-2012, 07:41 PM
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/99ea1ffab134405d1cce0839d3a85781/1794.jpg
Rickenbacker
11-15-2012, 07:58 PM
I'm not so sure about that. Not all countries are as hung up about nudity as the US.
True, 'cept the original Blind Faith cover showed a (very) underage girl.
Musitron
11-15-2012, 08:11 PM
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
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simon moon
11-15-2012, 08:19 PM
True, 'cept the original Blind Faith cover showed a (very) underage girl.
I understand. I own the album with the original cover.
"the young girl was a London suburbanite, who posed upon consent by her parents and for a fee"
All I'm saying is that it is not considered inappropriate in all parts of the world.
In most Scandinavian countries, public nude (all ages) saunas are quite common. In most of Western Europe, nudity (all ages) is pretty common at beaches.
Progatron
11-15-2012, 08:21 PM
PFM - Chocolate Kings
Led Zeppelin - Presence (a pure nonsensical quasi-concept)
King Crimson - Islands( something like the Alpha-Centaura photo is just misconception, IMO)
If you mean the U.S. release of Chocolate Kings (American flag chocolate bar), I fully agree. Garish. The original cover is not that bad though - nothing great, mind you, rather plain. But not 'bad'. I made a point of getting that version on CD - as I did with the original Gentle Giant Octopus - who the hell would want that hideous U.S. cover when you could have Roger Dean, baby....
Presence is alleged to have been originally offered to Genesis for one of the mid-70s albums but declined, according to Steve Hackett. Seems some of those Hipgnosis cover ideas were recycled. Peter Gabriel has also said that Storm Thorgerson was known to try to pawn off old ideas as 'new and fresh'. Anyway, I've also never been wild about that cover, and truth be told I've only ever really liked about half of that album.
Disagree about Islands though - I really like that cover.
what about Blind Faith? That one is pretty inappropriate.
Yes, although no more so than the already mentioned Virgin Killer.
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Another one I like a lot.
Never really liked Power Windows as a cover - love the album though!
bill g
11-15-2012, 08:51 PM
Strictly Inc (boring cover)
Tony Banks - Still (boring cover)
Tony's classical cds too-'Six' ought to have a beautiful pastoral scene. They've never been much on covers, I guess.
I agree about Fireballet - Two, too as well. Some nice music on there, the last two songs particularly, but who'd know from the cover.
Scott Bails
11-15-2012, 08:57 PM
I understand. I own the album with the original cover.
"the young girl was a London suburbanite, who posed upon consent by her parents and for a fee"
All I'm saying is that it is not considered inappropriate in all parts of the world.
I think it's pretty inappropriate to use a young, nude girl to sell an album - no matter what country you're from.
And I'm far from a prude.
Progatron
11-15-2012, 08:58 PM
Strictly Inc
While I don't agree that Strictly Inc. is a 'great album', I do agree that the cover stinks. It looks like something I would doodle while on a long, boring phone call.
Moonchild_deleted
11-15-2012, 09:13 PM
humble pie/thunderbox (bad title and cover)318
any ray charles record…
Joe F.
11-15-2012, 09:57 PM
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
I think this cover is fantastic. Nothing inappropriate about it, imo.
humble pie/thunderbox (bad title and cover)
any ray charles record…
It's my understanding that Ray didn't think much about them either.
Moonchild_deleted
11-15-2012, 11:43 PM
and oh, i forgot about Moms Apple Pie self-titled...317
playbass
11-15-2012, 11:48 PM
I came here for the pictures...I am disappoint.
ThomasKDye
11-16-2012, 12:07 AM
Genesis - Duke
Drawn by a five year old attempting Zippy the Pinhead.
Sunlight Caller
11-16-2012, 01:57 AM
I heard Storm Thirgeson give a lecture about his covers, he was pretty whacked out at the time, a very strange chap! The obelisk I had always envisaged in Presence was explained as just a black void, thus nothing was there, they were holes cut into the photos, so it was all a lame pun. Still a crappy cover I agree. I love Hoses Of The Holy though.
The Blind Faith cover came from a different time, when our national bogeyman was not that every other person was deviant. Viewed through today's eyes it is seen as inappropriate. I read an interview with the model last year, she is proud of it still.
I hated the original cartoon Appetite For Destruction cover, really inappropriate, but then metal covers can be pretty awful and mysogenistic.
All I'm saying is that it is not considered inappropriate in all parts of the world. True enough - it's no doubt pretty popular in whatever part of the world Roman Polanski happens to find himself.
PFM - Chocolate Kings Which one? The choclate bar in the US flag wrapper or the one with the obese Marilyn Monroe?
Mr Class & Quality?
11-16-2012, 03:38 AM
I heard Storm Thirgeson give a lecture about his covers, he was pretty whacked out at the time, a very strange chap! The obelisk I had always envisaged in Presence was explained as just a black void, thus nothing was there, they were holes cut into the photos, so it was all a lame pun. Still a crappy cover I agree. I love Hoses Of The Holy though.
I love Hoses of the Holy too. :rofl
Vic2012
11-16-2012, 05:04 AM
I'm not so sure about that. Not all countries are as hung up about nudity as the US.
I'm afraid I have to agree with this. It's our puritanical heritage. Today you can't have naked children running around on beaches (here in the US) because so many perverts, and sickos are going around taking pictures randomly with there smartphones. This wasn't the case 50 years ago, obviously. But, I'd rather be over cautious and hung up about it than have the opposite extreme. I've seen European tourists on Miami Beach going topless and their kids are running around nekkid. Who am I to judge them? Who the fuck are we (Americans) to judge them. Anyway ...
The first time I saw the cover of the Blind Faith album I ust've been 10-12 years old. I wasn't shocked by the fact that a 12 year old girl was naked on the cover, I was just surprised that they actually displayed the album cover in full view at the store (Woolworth's). And being the inquisitive sort at that age, I kept wondering why this girl was holding a jet, an airplane, or whatever that thing is.
jkelman
11-16-2012, 07:31 AM
Today you can't have naked children running around on beaches (here in the US) because so many perverts, and sickos are going around taking pictures randomly with there smartphones.
True, but they were around...just not technologically enabled. Pedophilia is, sadly, nothing new...it's just more visible.
As open as I am, I always felt that BF cover to be just a little creepy. Yes, there are nude beaches around the world (I've been to one...a strange, surreal experience for someone not used to it), and yes'm there should be nothing creepy about it....but, sadly, that's the world we live in...and while I get the point of the cover, I just don't think it trumps the creep factor. Sorry!
Jymbot
11-16-2012, 09:10 AM
Uriah Heep - Salisbury( though it's arguable great)
Which cover, UK orig or North American?
Musitron
11-16-2012, 10:44 AM
Genesis - Duke
Drawn by a five year old attempting Zippy the Pinhead.
So the cover art is appropriate to the content :bad
Trane
11-16-2012, 10:56 AM
I think it's pretty inappropriate to use a young, nude girl to sell an album - no matter what country you're from.
And I'm far from a prude.
Hey, it was the 70's and not everyone thought about paedophilia back then (though I'm sure it occured as mucgh as today)
While I don't think Virgin Killer was really apropriate (even back then), I have no problem with Blind Faith or HotH (nudity =/= sexual exploitation, unless you're predisposed to it or hung up)
And I've got no problems with Electric Ladyland (though I still don't find most attractive at all) and that Boxer album (with the qstrategically-placed glove) either...
Nobody has mentioned those trashy-exploitation Flash albums or Montrose's Jump On It...I find those much less apropriate than BF or HotH... because they induce a sexual intention in the first case, while I don't see any in the latter two
Trane
11-16-2012, 11:11 AM
I'm afraid I have to agree with this. It's our puritanical heritage. Today you can't have naked children running around on beaches (here in the US) because so many perverts, and sickos are going around taking pictures randomly with there smartphones. This wasn't the case 50 years ago, obviously. But, I'd rather be over cautious and hung up about it than have the opposite extreme. I've seen European tourists on Miami Beach going topless and their kids are running around nekkid. Who am I to judge them? Who the fuck are we (Americans) to judge them. Anyway ...
The first time I saw the cover of the Blind Faith album I ust've been 10-12 years old. I wasn't shocked by the fact that a 12 year old girl was naked on the cover, I was just surprised that they actually displayed the album cover in full view at the store (Woolworth's). And being the inquisitive sort at that age, I kept wondering why this girl was holding a jet, an airplane, or whatever that thing is.
although I'm not really comfortable with my own nudity in public, I've got no hang-ups if others openly display theirs (unless it's really hideous).
But in the case of Europeans on Florida beaches, it's a bit about respecting the general customs of the place you're visiting >> Although i'm not for imposing puritan rules, just to protect some tight-assed prude either, there is a fine line not to cross... and respecting the laws if there are any re: beach nudity... >> look at Rio De J's beaches
True, but they were around...just not technologically enabled. Pedophilia is, sadly, nothing new...it's just more visible.
Well the rise of intenet certainly helped it out a lot, and those ever-present phone/cameras are a bloody pain in the butt... Ok, it can be useful in case of emergency, but most of all it's about the loss of your own right to your image...
But we're digressing... ;)
Scott Bails
11-16-2012, 11:12 AM
I have no problem with Blind Faith (nudity =/= sexual exploitation, unless you're predisposed or hung up)
Totally agree, except that I draw the line with children.
bRETT
11-16-2012, 11:12 AM
True, 'cept the original Blind Faith cover showed a (very) underage girl.
Youth, innocence, possibility (the airplane) = Blind faith. Seemed pretty appropriate.
Here she is at age 50:
http://alicevioleta.blogspot.com/2010/01/mariora-goschen.html
gregory
11-16-2012, 11:48 AM
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
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Yeah? I like this cover a lot. Funny. Magrittian mirror trick is not bad idea.
Musitron
11-16-2012, 12:19 PM
White Album?
Dave (in MA)
11-16-2012, 12:44 PM
Yeah? I like this cover a lot. Funny. Magrittian mirror trick is not bad idea.I think the main problem is the Ward and Osbourne outfits.
Musitron
11-16-2012, 04:04 PM
In Québec, that album by Plume was very popular in 70's. Can you beleive a cover like that? :rofl
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bRETT
11-16-2012, 04:25 PM
My least favorite prog-related cover is Alan Parsons Project's Eve-- Really ugly and misogynistic, but so are a lot of the lyrics on that album. Definitely a strange one.
mellotron storm
11-16-2012, 04:42 PM
Guru Guru's Hinten album cover is disturbing and funny. Maybe Krautrock's answer to Yes' Going For The One cover.
JeffCarney
11-16-2012, 04:59 PM
/thread
gregory
11-16-2012, 05:12 PM
Which one? The choclate bar in the US flag wrapper or the one with the obese Marilyn Monroe?
Both covers are pretty ugly, IMO.
gregory
11-16-2012, 05:15 PM
Which cover, UK orig or North American?
The one with tank. Never liked it. And the album itself is rather weak.
gregory
11-16-2012, 05:23 PM
I think the main problem is the Ward and Osbourne outfits.
I see no problem with their gear. They both look very cool. I don't care for Ward's wife's red tights - looks good, and it doesn't frustrate me absolutely:)
gregory
11-16-2012, 05:27 PM
Youth, innocence, possibility (the airplane) = Blind faith. Seemed pretty appropriate.
Nothing wrong with this, sure, but I'm indifferent to this cover. Just one of many covers. The album is great, I adore it.
JKL2000
11-16-2012, 05:33 PM
Not a great album, and not inappropriate cover art, but really bad cover art - I was just looking at this in my collection: Pink Floyd's "Is There Anybody Out There?" Who the heck came up with that concept?
Zeuhlmate
11-16-2012, 05:39 PM
I dont know if this is a GREAT album, but its o.k., and this is just the back of the cover, but it is rather up front seen in the light of the present times immidiate associations. Muck Grohbian Muckefuck - the title of the album is probably also disturbing.
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Crystal Plumage
11-16-2012, 05:39 PM
Why is it bad? It's just the masks from the "surrogate band" at the start of the concert. No problem with it.
Crystal Plumage
11-16-2012, 05:40 PM
Talking about the PF obviously ;)
Dave (in MA)
11-16-2012, 05:43 PM
I was just looking at this in my collection: Pink Floyd's "Is There Anybody Out There?" Who the heck came up with that concept?I guess I had already lost interest in PF by then, but apparently those masks were part of the ridiculous Wall stage show back when it was recorded.
Scott Bails
11-16-2012, 05:46 PM
the ridiculous Wall stage show
:O
gregory
11-16-2012, 05:55 PM
If you mean the U.S. release of Chocolate Kings (American flag chocolate bar), I fully agree. Garish. The original cover is not that bad though - nothing great, mind you, rather plain. But not 'bad'.
You know I had the vinyl of this in '70s, US release, with flags, it was in my then collection. Not bad, maybe, but plain, as you said, not impressive - in full contrast to the music, which I liked very much.
I made a point of getting that version on CD - as I did with the original Gentle Giant Octopus - who the hell would want that hideous U.S. cover when you could have Roger Dean, baby....
I had both in my vinyl collection - and first I got the US version, a can with octopus, - funny idea, I thought. Then I bought UK disc, with grandiose Dean's octopus - well, not radically different idea for cover, I must say.
Presence is alleged to have been originally offered to Genesis for one of the mid-70s albums but declined, according to Steve Hackett. Seems some of those Hipgnosis cover ideas were recycled. Peter Gabriel has also said that Storm Thorgerson was known to try to pawn off old ideas as 'new and fresh'. Anyway, I've also never been wild about that cover, and truth be told I've only ever really liked.
The weakest LZ cover, IMO. Though the obelisk idea wasn't bad, it was reduced to absurdity.
Disagree about Islands
It's very cheap. And the image doesn't comply to an album, IMO.
Trane
11-16-2012, 06:22 PM
I had both in my vinyl collection - and first I got the US version, a can with octopus, - funny idea, I thought. Then I bought UK disc, with grandiose Dean's octopus - well, not radically different idea for cover, I must say.
I'm probably in a minority, but I much prefer the North American Octopus version (love the cut-outs of the lid)... the UK Dean version is plain boring
rcarlberg
11-16-2012, 06:47 PM
King Crimson - Red (how could this cover not be red?)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (prisms? WTF?)
Procol Harum - Home (dumb game)
Supersister - Pudding En Gisteren (dumb comic that you couldn't even read unless you cut the gatefold apart)
Blodwyn Pig - Getting To This (dumb game on the inside, dumb drawing on the outside)
Clark Hutchinson - Retribution (embarassingly stupid band photo)
rcarlberg
11-16-2012, 06:48 PM
White Album - the boys had just given up, hadn't they?
Spinal Tap - Smell the Glove (offensive on any level)
Spinal Tap - "Black Album" (marketing disaster)
rcarlberg
11-16-2012, 06:56 PM
Guru Guru's Hinten album cover is disturbing and funny. Maybe Krautrock's answer to Yes' Going For The One cover.Except the years are all wrong :)
rcarlberg
11-16-2012, 07:10 PM
King Crimson's debut album cover is butt ugly, while the music is pretty great.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/In_the_Court_of_the_Crimson_King.jpg
rcarlberg
11-16-2012, 07:14 PM
http://www.groovenutrecords.net/upload/save_image/09301731_4e857e52cb79e.jpg Coo, not much of an effort, was it?
Progatron
11-16-2012, 07:23 PM
first I got the US version, a can with octopus, - funny idea, I thought. Then I bought UK disc, with grandiose Dean's octopus - well, not radically different idea for cover, I must say.
Not radically different in the sense that both covers had an octopus, but quite different in approach.
Garden Dreamer
11-16-2012, 07:27 PM
Great album, but this cover looks like it was thrown together quickly.345
The art from the Caravan/BU2B single would have been a more suitable album cover...
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BravadoNJ
11-16-2012, 07:29 PM
Houses Of The Holy, Sheer Heart Attack??? why, both these covers are good.
Scott Bails
11-16-2012, 07:45 PM
King Crimson - Red (how could this cover not be red?)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (prisms? WTF?)
WTF? Really? It's one of the most iconic album covers in rock history.
(Agree with you about Crimson, however)
Great album, but this cover looks like it was thrown together quickly.345
The art from the Caravan/BU2B single would have been a more suitable album cover...
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Absolutely agree - my exact thoughts when they pre-released the cover. I thought it was a fan-made cover. Definitely one of Hugh Syme's laziest works.
Progatron
11-16-2012, 07:47 PM
Strange, I find the Clockwork Angels cover quite striking. I do like the "Caravan" single cover a lot too though.
Scott Bails
11-16-2012, 07:50 PM
Strange, I find the Clockwork Angels cover quite striking. I do like the "Caravan" single cover a lot too though.
It looks like he photoshopped a clock on one of Windows Media Player's "visualizations."
Dave (in MA)
11-16-2012, 07:58 PM
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They weren't even trying.
arturs
11-16-2012, 08:23 PM
I think the Nik Bartsch ECM cds have absolutely terrible covers. I sorta see what he is trying to do, present a sense of vibration visually that is also in the music. But the execution is awful. They just look like a fuzzy hazy view of nothing. Music's great of course, so who cares... But it might be reducing his sales somewhat.
happytheman
11-16-2012, 08:43 PM
King Crimson - Red (how could this cover not be red?)
Look at the back cover.... self explanatory.
Progbear
11-16-2012, 08:59 PM
It’s not that great of an album but...the original UK version of Sad Café’s Misplaced Ideals. Yuck! What were they thinking?
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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
‘“What blow, Goblin?” said Corinius.’ --E. R. Eddison
N.P.:“Stratosfear”-Tangerine Dream
Yanks2014
11-16-2012, 09:51 PM
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (prisms? WTF?)
You are serious? Aside from it being totally iconic, possibly the most recognizable cover of all time, its also beyond cool. I found it striking the very first time I saw it back when I was 11 in 1978. Still is today, all these years later.
Yanks2014
11-16-2012, 09:55 PM
Rush - Hemispheres. Beyond shitty cover. No naked guys, please! No hangups, I just don't like to look at naked men. And he's walking on a pink brain. I know, hemispheres of the brain. What the hell is he pointing at, and what is with the guy in the hat and walking with a cane? Lame. Awesome music though.
zombywoof
11-16-2012, 11:08 PM
Great album, but this cover looks like it was thrown together quickly.345
The art from the Caravan/BU2B single would have been a more suitable album cover...
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Oh yes, I agree. Some of the artwork in the booklet would have been much, much better.
zombywoof
11-16-2012, 11:10 PM
I'm probably in a minority, but I much prefer the North American Octopus version (love the cut-outs of the lid)... the UK Dean version is plain boring
Actually, Roger Dean agrees with you. He told me he wasn't happy with the Octopus cover, but loved the US one. I disagree with both of you. :-)
Musitron
11-16-2012, 11:12 PM
Days of future passed - Moody Blues. great stuff. Maybe the first prog album. For sure one of the first to use mellotron. But what a bad art cover. But their following covers were just great.
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zombywoof
11-16-2012, 11:14 PM
http://whattheballs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/yes_close_to_the_edge.jpg
*ducks*
zombywoof
11-16-2012, 11:15 PM
Days of future passed - Moody Blues. great stuff. Maybe the first prog album. For sure one of the first to use mellotron. But what a bad art cover.
I LOVE that cover. It so resembles the album - whimsical and crazy all at once. In fact, I might prefer the cover to the album. But then, what do I know?
Trane
11-17-2012, 05:30 AM
I LOVE that cover. It so resembles the album - whimsical and crazy all at once. In fact, I might prefer the cover to the album. But then, what do I know?
Well, to be honest, the DOFP artwork would've been much better without the white top band with the title and band name within the illustration
Vic2012
11-17-2012, 07:12 AM
Youth, innocence, possibility (the airplane) = Blind faith. Seemed pretty appropriate.
Well, I didn't get the cover at all. To me it was just a naked girl holding a jet. Actually, I thought the jet was supposed to be a phallic symbol. I know, shame on me :lol. I think the part that I find more unsettling about that picture is that we can see her navel, and that she's clearly, completely nude. They didn't have to go that far. She could've left her skivies on.
Vic2012
11-17-2012, 07:18 AM
Great album, but this cover looks like it was thrown together quickly.345
I like the album cover. I don't care much for the album though, to be honest.
Roger Waters' "Amused To Death". Nobody suspects such meticulously produced music by seeing such a dull cover, that seems te be more fitting for lo-fi punk style music.
JKL2000
11-17-2012, 10:29 AM
Sorry Gingernut - I'd prefer not to.
;)
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Sometimes you shoudn't do band photos
Kcrimso
11-17-2012, 11:42 AM
I think it's pretty inappropriate to use a young, nude girl to sell an album - no matter what country you're from.
Yeah, that cover definitely would not fly even in sexually liberal scandinavian countries. (I am from Finland)
gregory
11-17-2012, 12:54 PM
King Crimson - Red (how could this cover not be red?)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (prisms? WTF?)
Procol Harum - Home (dumb game)
Love all three aforementioned covers. 'Red' is not about the colour, it's about over-the-top, going off the scale.
Prism is a crystal that could be used for beam refraction. Spectrum is a symbol of pletitude. It is confronted with dark foil of the cover. Not banal for sure. Plain cover would definitely include the moon photo.
Procol Harum Home cover is quite smart, according to the content of the album( many songs about death and depression)
zombywoof
11-17-2012, 01:25 PM
Well, to be honest, the DOFP artwork would've been much better without the white top band with the title and band name within the illustration
Agreed, but I don't see many record companies going for that in 67 when it was released. I think Court was probably one of the first albums to be released without the band and title on the sleeve.
Mister Triscuits
11-17-2012, 01:51 PM
I think Court was probably one of the first albums to be released without the band and title on the sleeve.
That's an interesting point. What was the first album (released by a "real" label) not to include title or artist name on either the front or back covers? Blonde on Blonde would be my first guess.
Trane
11-17-2012, 04:37 PM
Agreed, but I don't see many record companies going for that in 67 when it was released. I think Court was probably one of the first albums to be released without the band and title on the sleeve.
Not what I meant...
I would've loved to see the artwork take up the whole sleeve, but feature the band's name and title somewhere included in it.
That's an interesting point. What was the first album (released by a "real" label) not to include title or artist name on either the front or back covers? Blonde on Blonde would be my first guess.
White Album?? (though it was "waffled" in the cardboard)
zombywoof
11-17-2012, 05:01 PM
That's an interesting point. What was the first album (released by a "real" label) not to include title or artist name on either the front or back covers? Blonde on Blonde would be my first guess.
More than likely. I can't think of any other albums before it. Of course, the Floyd made it popular.
ItalProgRules
11-19-2012, 02:46 PM
Rush's Signals.
I love the album a lot, every song is a winner.
But the not-funny joke cover...some things may seem like a good idea at the time but do not stand the test of time.
ItalProgRules
11-19-2012, 02:53 PM
CMFA: the booklet is AMAZINGLY detailed. More fun than a barrel of Division Bells. The more you look at it, themore you notice. Watch for things like a tatooed hand that corresponds with one of the "times" on the front-cover clock. Then look at what that hand is doing...it is endlessly inventive and fascinating.
All props to Hugh Syme. It ain't just about the cover, folks. The booklet is essential to understanding the whole artwork concept. Downloaders are missing the fun.
Zalmoxe
11-19-2012, 03:06 PM
King Crimson's debut album cover is butt ugly, while the music is pretty great.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/In_the_Court_of_the_Crimson_King.jpg
You can't possibly be serious - that's one of the best covers I have seen!!!
Stickleback
11-19-2012, 03:13 PM
As open as I am, I always felt that BF cover to be just a little creepy.
That's because you've been indoctrinated into a society that views any type of nudity as taboo. This comes from many generations of puritanical judgment and coercive persuasion. Can you imagine a culture where you can be arrested and marked as a sex offender for merely being in your own skin? There are still tribes on this planet that don’t even know they are naked. Remember the Janet Jackson nipple scandal that brought America to a stand still and brought severe restrictions from the FCC (just ask Howard Stern)? There is nothing overtly sexually suggestive about the BF cover, just a picture a naked child.
Musitron
11-19-2012, 04:04 PM
You can't possibly be serious - that's one of the best covers I have seen!!!
King Crimson's debut album cover is so special. One of the best.
Mister Triscuits
11-19-2012, 04:06 PM
All props to Hugh Syme. It ain't just about the cover, folks. The booklet is essential to understanding the whole artwork concept. Downloaders are missing the fun.
Actually, the download of Clockwork Angels comes with a PDF of the booklet (which can be viewed at much larger than CD size).
Agree with you about Signals.
ItalProgRules
11-19-2012, 04:19 PM
Actually, the download of Clockwork Angels comes with a PDF of the booklet (which can be viewed at much larger than CD size).
Agree with you about Signals.
That's Cool.
Dave (in MA)
11-19-2012, 04:28 PM
I don't get the hate for the Days of Future Passed cover. Decca was a classical label, and it resembled a classical LP.
humble pie/thunderbox (bad title and cover)318
any ray charles record…I dig that Humble Pie. Don't mind watching girls do their business.
Ten Thumbs
11-20-2012, 12:09 AM
Like King Crimson Red. The meter on the back cover is in the red.
Rand Kelly
11-20-2012, 01:21 AM
Not what I meant...
I would've loved to see the artwork take up the whole sleeve, but feature the band's name and title somewhere included in it.
White Album?? (though it was "waffled" in the cardboard)
The Beatles was embossed on the original Apple vinyl on the front and the record number was embossed on the back. It was Braille basically. I still have my German DMM white vinyl pressing.
Rand Kelly
11-20-2012, 01:24 AM
I don't get the hate for the Days of Future Passed cover. Decca was a classical label, and it resembled a classical LP.
I think it was great to stare at while tripping on Vitamin L in 1973.
XanaFloyd
11-20-2012, 06:28 AM
Operation:Mindcrime and Empire... totally shitty cover and great albums :D
Scott Bails
11-20-2012, 09:04 AM
That's because you've been indoctrinated into a society that views any type of nudity as taboo. This comes from many generations of puritanical judgment and coercive persuasion. Can you imagine a culture where you can be arrested and marked as a sex offender for merely being in your own skin? There are still tribes on this planet that don’t even know they are naked. Remember the Janet Jackson nipple scandal that brought America to a stand still and brought severe restrictions from the FCC (just ask Howard Stern)? There is nothing overtly sexually suggestive about the BF cover, just a picture a naked child.
No, this isn't it at all.
If it was a woman on the cover, that would be fine. But the fact that it's a child is pretty creepy. And yes, at the time, it may have been more innocent, but in this day and age, unfortunately, a naked child is anything but innocent.
Progmatic
11-20-2012, 10:34 AM
No, this isn't it at all.
If it was a woman on the cover, that would be fine. But the fact that it's a child is pretty creepy. And yes, at the time, it may have been more innocent, but in this day and age, unfortunately, a naked child is anything but innocent.
I actually agree with Stickleback...I grew up in Europe;... child nudity, or even adult nudity were not a big deal (including public nudity at selected places like certain swimming pools and sun bathing places)...
It is a cultural thing and people took it the way it was...it did not make people more perverted, neither it promoted or led to exploitation of the children or women...
and I also do not buy this statement "day and age" ...Americans have been always puritans...
btw ...seeing naked child does not make you pedophile...
ItalProgRules
11-20-2012, 10:58 AM
I started guitar lessons at 12 years old in the late 70s. I took lessons in the basement of a musical instrument shop that also sold records. They had apparently been sticking all their old promo junk down in the basment outside the rehearsal (lesson) rooms for many years. Someone had stuck some of the old record ads up on the walls, and one of them was Blind Faith.
Being that I was 12, lets just say I was rather fascinated by that cover. If I had ever doubted my sexuality, let's just say all doubts were erased then and there! She wasn't that cute but hell, she was about my age and NEKKID! Rather than rushing home to practice my scales and chords and positions, I probably rushed home to spank the monkey.
JKL2000
11-20-2012, 11:07 AM
I remember hearing that a lot of old ladies bought New Order's "Power Corruption and Lies" thinking it would be an album of nice, old-lady music:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7e/NewOrderPower,Corruption%26Lies.jpg/220px-NewOrderPower,Corruption%26Lies.jpg
It IS a great album though!
Scott Bails
11-20-2012, 01:33 PM
and I also do not buy this statement "day and age" ...Americans have been always puritans...
btw ...seeing naked child does not make you pedophile...
It's not a statement of puritanism, it's a statement about the disgusting sickness that is pedophilia. I don't see the need to feed the disease. There are limitless ways to express yourself in an album cover without putting a nude young girl on it.
And no one has said that seeing a naked child makes you a pedophile, but the point is that it exists, and the "this day and age" was referring to the fact that it seems to be more rampant than ever.
Progmatic
11-20-2012, 02:10 PM
It's not a statement of puritanism, it's a statement about the disgusting sickness that is pedophilia. I don't see the need to feed the disease. There are limitless ways to express yourself in an album cover without putting a nude young girl on it.
And no one has said that seeing a naked child makes you a pedophile, but the point is that it exists, and the "this day and age" was referring to the fact that it seems to be more rampant than ever.
Well attack then pornography and not the art...if you look at the album cover it is clear it is just an artistic expression using nudity, nothing explicit...it is the same as claiming that Rubens pictures or statue of David should be banned...(and yes classical painters frequently portreyed naked bodies of very young girls)
It is like claiming that picture below makes someone horny...
btw pedophalia is not more rampant than ever, just the cases dealing with pedephiles are more publicized than ever before, since we have easier access to information...
Scott Bails
11-20-2012, 02:16 PM
btw pedophalia is not more rampant than ever, just the cases dealing with pedephiles are more publicized than ever before, since we have easier access to information...
Actually what I was really trying to say - my mistake.
But this is my point - I don't think it's such a big deal for when it was released, but it would be beyond stupid to release a cover like that now, with the heightened awareness of the topic. All my opinion, of course.
It's just a sensitive topic for me, I suppose. Thankfully, I have no personal experience with it, and am not aware of anyone that has, but I just find it disgusting, and a crime one step below murder. And the recent Penn State scandal has only intensified those emotions.
But - whatever. This isn't the time or place to discuss this stuff. Sorry for derailing a pretty interesting thread.
Stickleback
11-20-2012, 02:55 PM
No, this isn't it at all.
If it was a woman on the cover, that would be fine. But the fact that it's a child is pretty creepy. And yes, at the time, it may have been more innocent, but in this day and age, unfortunately, a naked child is anything but innocent.
Actually, it is right on track regarding the original topic of "inappropriate cover art." Just curious if you are you as offended or defensive of violent images on album covers, or just the human body?
Scott Bails
11-20-2012, 03:05 PM
It's the pedophilia thing. I think, since I've become a father, that I'm much more sensitive to violence and sexual imagery involving children.
Again, between adults, I don't give a rip what people want to do to themselves or each other. With kids, it's different.
ItalProgRules
11-20-2012, 03:45 PM
I remember hearing that a lot of old ladies bought New Order's "Power Corruption and Lies" thinking it would be an album of nice, old-lady music:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7e/NewOrderPower,Corruption%26Lies.jpg/220px-NewOrderPower,Corruption%26Lies.jpg
It IS a great album though!
Their best! Albums were never their best format (the 12" single was) but when it comes to NO albums, PC&L is da bomb.
JKL2000
11-20-2012, 05:18 PM
Their best! Albums were never their best format (the 12" single was) but when it comes to NO albums, PC&L is da bomb.
Yeah, I played that album endlessly back in the day. Actually, it was really the only New Order album I had.
Proghound
11-20-2012, 08:16 PM
how about Brand X Macrocosm?, when I showed it to Percy Jones he didnt even know about it. Few of their covers were slightly sexy, but this is lewd (but still kinda sexy). Percy said they would have never used that as a cover!422 Just shows what record companies can control these days... though still great music!
Dave (in MA)
11-20-2012, 11:35 PM
Macrocosm is tastefully done compared to Plot Thins:
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Stickleback
11-20-2012, 11:55 PM
^^^^^^Greatest album cover ever!!^^^^^^^
JKL2000
05-17-2013, 10:35 AM
This is one of the worst album covers I've seen, although it's a very good live album. It looks like a kid drew the artwork, and a very bad designer laid it all out. Fish's nose looks nothing like that. I just realized, is he about to eat the logo like it's sashimi? I can't imagine why Fish went with this.:
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/724/cover_64192382009.jpg
Really, look at the nose in this! It starts ABOVE the eyes!
Garden Dreamer
05-17-2013, 11:20 AM
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia. I hate that picture.
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Only posting this one because the criteria is GREAT albums, and some of these don't fit the bill. I'm a huge Humble Pie fan but "Thunderbox" was a tired band in decline. And the woman was sitting on top of the toilet seat, not actually taking care of business.
JKL2000
05-17-2013, 11:59 AM
^ I hate that one too - such a gross picture. It reminds me of a dead skate (the stingray-like creature) that I once saw washed up on a beach.
The Wish You Were Here cover art dealt with "abscence" in a much more tasteful way.
zombywoof
05-17-2013, 12:41 PM
Well, to be honest, the DOFP artwork would've been much better without the white top band with the title and band name within the illustration
I have an import copy with this cover on it:
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/224/cover_28391121102008.jpg
More along the lines of what you're talking about?
progguy
05-17-2013, 12:43 PM
I'm not sure if it's a "great" album -- the band certainly has some distinguished personnel -- but the cover for Fields' eponymous album wins my vote.
David Minasian
05-17-2013, 01:35 PM
I kinda like the Days of Future Passed artwork - especially when you look at it sideways. But I agree, the covers for In Search of the Lost Chord and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour are better, with Blue Jays probably being the best of all, perfectly matching the music.
I had to laugh at the cover art for Alan Parson's Eve LP. I had the album for a couple of weeks before a friend of mine told me to look at the artwork closely. It was only then that I noticed the warts, scabs, and tumors all over the girl's faces.
For me, one of the most magnificent albums to have poor artwork is Renaissance's Song For All Seasons. Barclay James Harvests' Victims of Circumstance is pretty hideous as well, but then again the album's not much better. But perhaps the best/worst example is David Minasian's Random Acts of Beauty - a truly sublime album with some of the cheesiest cover art I've ever... um, wait a second, what am I saying... :O
Scott Bails
05-17-2013, 01:50 PM
:lol
I never cared for the cover to Kansas' Masque. It's rather grotesque, and doesn't fit the music at all, IMO.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QK4oA4mAjm8/UIgV0lIuq4I/AAAAAAAAA8U/gQGVUNUwXDk/s1600/Kansas-Masque_(2001)-Frontal.jpg
Guess Who
05-17-2013, 11:09 PM
IQ- Subterranea
RPWL - God Has Failed,
Trane
05-18-2013, 01:26 AM
Yes - Going for the One
superb cover (you'd think so too if it was female buttcheeks on the artwork)... that's the reverse example of what the thread ask... a poor album in a great artwork cover :p
Scorpions - Virgin Killer
what about Blind Faith? That one is pretty inappropriate.
Woah, guys!!! What's with the nubile nudity (or adult) hang up ? (ok, both have a slight sexual leaning (very debatable for Blind Faith... which is a very religious album, so obviously your hang-ups are wrong, you dirty old men!!)
Oh, then Zep House Of The Holy should be renamed House of the Unholly, then???
There's plenty of great albums with wrong covers.
I never liked these:
GG - Acquiring The Taste
PFM - Chocolate Kings
ELP - Love Beach( not great, but a great band's production anyway)
Led Zeppelin - Presence (a pure nonsensical quasi-concept)
Uriah Heep - Salisbury( though it's arguable great)
Deep Purple - Machine Head( the photographer could rub the lens)
King Crimson - Islands( something like the Alpha-Centaura photo is just misconception, IMO)
Henry Cow - Unrest( as if they tried once again to explain the pun)
Outside your Crimson example (excellent artwork, though the white inside out US version was piss-poor, IMHO), yes!!! this is the kind of list I find very good for the topic... OK, Salisbury's Tank version is debattable in terms of good taste, but it's better than the alternate artwork. HC >> then youcould go on with their next In Praise album
AZs for Purple, I find their tastes for album rtwork piss poor ever since the MkII line-up appeared (loved the MkI artworks though)
Trane
05-18-2013, 01:41 AM
EDIT: Ok, I just reliazed this is an old thread that got bumped back up, so sorry for jumping back on first page comments in my previous post)... Apparently I'd unsubscribed accidentaly and lost sight of it...
Procol Harum - Home (dumb game)
Supersister - Pudding En Gisteren (dumb comic that you couldn't even read unless you cut the gatefold apart)
Blodwyn Pig - Getting To This (dumb game on the inside, dumb drawing on the outside)
Well if you wabnt to go the dumb game thing, Triumph's Just A Game's inner gatefold is just that!! And Gilgamesh's debut is another good example
http://www.groovenutrecords.net/upload/save_image/09301731_4e857e52cb79e.jpg Coo, not much of an effort, was it?
Albeit, not Nucleus' best album either...though tghe nband never had good artworks outside their first two albums
I think the Nik Bartsch ECM cds have absolutely terrible covers. I sorta see what he is trying to do, present a sense of vibration visually that is also in the music. But the execution is awful. They just look like a fuzzy hazy view of nothing. Music's great of course, so who cares... But it might be reducing his sales somewhat.
I see where yo're getting at... and partially agree with you as well. Though at first, I thought sme of those covers were cool, but now i think they're cold :)... but then again, the ECM alternative (just names) is even worse...
Trane
05-18-2013, 03:06 AM
I don't get the hate for the Days of Future Passed cover. Decca was a classical label, and it resembled a classical LP.
no hate at all, I love it.... but by 67 Decca was also a blues and rock label, so that argumentation is nil
But most likely the orchestra playing on it weighed on their decision
I have an import copy with this cover on it:
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/224/cover_28391121102008.jpg
More along the lines of what you're talking about?
Perfectamundo!!! You're hired as my lawyer ;)
Soo much better than the original top white band version
I generally like the 7 classic moodies artwork, but the weajer ones are Sojourn (something's lacking on that artwork) and Favour (initiation to paedophilia, anyone?? jess kidding) ... not crazy about Balance either, but the other four are excellent.
Exit the Lemming
05-18-2013, 04:19 AM
As much as I adore Van Der Graaf Generator's H to He Who Am the Only One, the cover art truly sucks heinously.:roll
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Rarebird
05-18-2013, 09:53 AM
As much as I adore Van Der Graaf Generator's H to He Who Am the Only One, the cover art truly sucks heinously.:roll
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What's wrong with it? I really love it.
LongFrog
05-18-2013, 11:41 AM
I wouldn't know how to judge the album art's propriety or the lack thereof, but here are some covers that hurt my aesthetic feelings:
Pendragon 'Pure' (why and what for is that violently bent human body there?)
Glass Hammer 'Cor Cordium' (them weird "birds" made from brains and 1/4" jacks)
IQ 'Dark Matter': Don't like the way those eyes stare
Steven Wilson 'The Raven': You've been Three-Hole Mooned!
Sarah Jarosz 'Follow Me Down'. Why on Earth would someone take a picture of a nice Polish American Texan lady and mutilate it like this?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=E_otJZJgz5tiJM&tbnid=VhNKNQqXNVci5M:&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsarahjarosz.com%2Fmusic%2Ffollow-me-down&ei=QaCXUZ6AApOi8QSdjoCICw&psig=AFQjCNF4_htWzO3syOKGn-DS3gO_t-6Zpw&ust=1368977857068735
Rarebird
05-18-2013, 01:20 PM
I wouldn't know how to judge the album art's propriety or the lack thereof, but here are some covers that hurt my aesthetic feelings:
Sarah Jarosz 'Follow Me Down'. Why on Earth would someone take a picture of a nice Polish American Texan lady and mutilate it like this?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=E_otJZJgz5tiJM&tbnid=VhNKNQqXNVci5M:&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsarahjarosz.com%2Fmusic%2Ffollow-me-down&ei=QaCXUZ6AApOi8QSdjoCICw&psig=AFQjCNF4_htWzO3syOKGn-DS3gO_t-6Zpw&ust=1368977857068735
I'm not sure but it looks like there are 2 pictures used. The lower part is a little bit turned.
Zeuhlmate
05-18-2013, 04:09 PM
"Bad and inappropriate" is in the mind of the beholder :)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWIy23PK7tM/Sp_8xdds2TI/AAAAAAAACgU/OdFN229QV9E/s400/cover.jpg
http://www.danbbs.dk/~m-bohn/kraan/images/Muckback1.jpg
Zeuhlmate
05-18-2013, 04:14 PM
http://taukojalka.com/mrtibbz/files/2011/03/secret-oyster-vidunderlige-kaelling.jpg
Trane
05-18-2013, 04:17 PM
^^^^
rotflmao
That one is indeed atrocious, but it's also from far their worse album too.
Zeuhlmate
05-18-2013, 04:17 PM
Steppenwolf: For Ladies Only 1971 (LP, when opened):
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8H2XbOppNms/UNGX1w9CGYI/AAAAAAAAEMY/QyZS4ThQRbI/s1600/Steppenwolf-inside-cover-john-kay-and-steppenwolf-30132074-500-257.jpg
philsunset
05-18-2013, 07:25 PM
Touch-S/T The attached off sized arms to shoulders.
Zeuhlmate
05-19-2013, 09:37 AM
This was the original cover painted by one of the bandmembers
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/87/244316277_d9ac3209f3_z.jpg
The British release looked like this:
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/k/kraan-live%28black%29.jpg
GREAT album by the way!
Rarebird
05-19-2013, 01:30 PM
This was the original cover painted by one of the bandmembers
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/87/244316277_d9ac3209f3_z.jpg
The British release looked like this:
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/k/kraan-live%28black%29.jpg
GREAT album by the way!
Glad they used the original cover for the CD version.
mellotron storm
05-19-2013, 02:05 PM
Eulenspygel-2
Brainstorm-Smile A While
Sorry but i'm not sure how to post the cover art.
Guru Guru-Hinten is another one.
Zeuhlmate
05-19-2013, 03:18 PM
Mellotron storm
You google the cover and when you find it, rightclick on it & choose 'open in a new window' Then you get the URL http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/943/cover_021131582009.jpg in the adressline. Copy this address.
Go to PE, make a reply and click on the greenish square button (nr. 3 from the right) above the area where you write, and paste in the URL. Remove marker in ' Retrieve remote file and reference locally'
And then it should look like this
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/943/cover_021131582009.jpg
mellotron storm
05-19-2013, 06:51 PM
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Thanks Zeuhlmate !
Too small of a picture, but this is Eulinspygel's "2" album with a chick standing on a dead chick and a fried egg.
Apparently after selling 7,000 copies they changed the cover by editing out the dead chick.
Zarkol
05-19-2013, 08:10 PM
White Album?
Spinal Tap - This is Spinal Tap
Udi Koomran
05-19-2013, 11:35 PM
Great Album
17361737
Scott Bails
05-20-2013, 08:51 AM
Why would anyone think a picture of someone on a toilet is going to make people want to buy their album? :roll
Zeuhlmate
05-20-2013, 09:09 AM
Well, its kind of marketing, isn't it? Zappa made several posters with him sitting and having a good time
http://www.posterland.dk/bigproductimages/frank-zappa.jpg.
Perhaps in a world a little less concerned than today?
I'm not sure I think this is art, but it makes you wonder :p
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Zeuhlmate
05-20-2013, 09:15 AM
Ozzy
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/52822763/Ozzy+Osbourne+toilet+photo+haha.jpg
Found here: http://famouspeopleonthetoilet.tumblr.com/
JKL2000
05-20-2013, 09:32 AM
Why would anyone think a picture of someone on a toilet is going to make people want to buy their album? :roll
Yeah, that one was gross. I much preferred the pregnant, nude Daevid Allen on the cover.
JKL2000
05-20-2013, 09:34 AM
IQ 'Dark Matter': Don't like the way those eyes stare[/url]
Yeah, this one always bothered me too. It looks like Richard Nixon playing the role of Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol.
Levgan
05-20-2013, 03:52 PM
It’s not that great of an album but...the original UK version of Sad Café’s Misplaced Ideals. Yuck! What were they thinking?
A few weeks ago I was asked to write a Storm Thorgerson obituary for one of Russian musical publications, so in addition to the actual text I prepared a photo gallery showcasing various Hipgnosis artworks. Oddly enough, this particular one was published the following caption from the editor: "apparently, this was one of the instances where Thorgerson's artwork was clearly superior to the music recorded on the LP". Talk about one man's trash... (FWIW I find the picture scary as hell).
Levgan
05-20-2013, 04:04 PM
I never cared for the cover to Kansas' Masque. It's rather grotesque, and doesn't fit the music at all, IMO.
Funny, I've never seen that cover because I only ever had that album on someone's homemade cassette. Is that a real Arcimboldo picture (unique Italian painter of the XVI century famous for his crazy fruit / vegetable face collages) or their own spoof?
Scott Bails
05-20-2013, 04:29 PM
I always thought it was real and not a spoof - for some reason, I feel like I read that somewhere, but have no idea where (possibly even the album jacket). I'm sure someone here could help out.
Trane
05-21-2013, 04:50 AM
Yeah, that one was gross. I much preferred the pregnant, nude Daevid Allen on the cover.
and better yet, the multiple vaginas shoots on the innerfold of the booklet...
Funny, I've never seen that cover because I only ever had that album on someone's homemade cassette. Is that a real Arcimboldo picture (unique Italian painter of the XVI century famous for his crazy fruit / vegetable face collages) or their own spoof?
well for some odd reasons I had nevert seen that album untilmthe Cd was released. I'dhad a few Kansas albums on vinyl (debut, Leftovertire and monolith)... and always peeked at their section when shopping for records, but I'd never been aware or seen the album before the mid-90's... I remember that it came a bit as a shock back then, coz this had ever happened to me (a well-know, album of a band I knew about that had totally escaped my radar)
gregory
05-22-2013, 05:38 AM
Not radically different in the sense that both covers had an octopus, but quite different in approach.
Quite right, thanks for clarifying.
Dedatolo
05-22-2013, 07:58 AM
DUNCAN BROWNE - THE WILD PLACES
Zeuhlmate
05-22-2013, 08:10 AM
The 'inappropriate' examples we find, are (almost?) all at least some decades old, plenty from the 70'ties.
But are there any recent examples?
What have changed - creativeness, 'taste', the PC factor, the business?
Rarebird
05-22-2013, 01:28 PM
I'm not sure if this is inappropriate, but speaking of male buts:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jiFv9JODSdA/Tv9OFwlFDmI/AAAAAAAAAIA/lpZeYIKB80g/s320/11.jpg
And it is pretty recent.
Zeuhlmate
05-22-2013, 02:05 PM
Nah - its pretty decent. :)
But this...
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1081994-1224452202.jpeg
On the other hand I dont believe its a great album either, which it should be, to be in this thread. So I sneaked it in. :)
Scott Bails
05-22-2013, 02:10 PM
Nah - its pretty decent. :)
But this...
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1081994-1224452202.jpeg
On the other hand I dont believe its a great album either, which it should be, to be in this thread. So I sneaked it in. :)
I'm not seeing anything.
Sunhillow
05-22-2013, 03:36 PM
Thread of the year, this. :lol
Progbear
05-22-2013, 05:19 PM
A few weeks ago I was asked to write a Storm Thorgerson obituary for one of Russian musical publications, so in addition to the actual text I prepared a photo gallery showcasing various Hipgnosis artworks. Oddly enough, this particular one was published the following caption from the editor: "apparently, this was one of the instances where Thorgerson's artwork was clearly superior to the music recorded on the LP". Talk about one man's trash... (FWIW I find the picture scary as hell).
I just find it gross and unpleasant to look at (which is why I didn’t link to it). It’s almost like Storm was thinking in branching out into horror and sci-fi movie make-up effects (some of the images in his video for OOALH semi-confirm this. Maggots in the eyes? Ew!). And I have to say, it’s a really inappropriate cover for a band as MOR as Sad Café.
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Trane
05-23-2013, 04:35 AM
But this...
http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1081994-1224452202.jpeg
On the other hand I dont believe its a great album either, which it should be, to be in this thread. So I sneaked it in. :)
Fucking hilarious!!! (is this a real album??)
Thanks for the morning giggle...
Zeuhlmate
05-23-2013, 05:08 AM
It's a real album, released 1957 and has quite 'edgy' songtitles too:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-My-Pussy-Belongs-To-Daddy/release/1081994
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