"Twee" album covers

[JKL2000]

"If it's nae twee, it's nae prog!"

[Sputnik]

I am surprised on one has mentioned this one yet:



At least the budget was not wasted on the cover :-)

ROFLMAO!

"I have donned my battle lingerie and now I will smite you, foul hoplite!"

And what's with the walrus and the astronaut? WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE THINKING!?!?!?

[bob_32_116]

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[Halmyre]

I am surprised on one has mentioned this one yet:



At least the budget was not wasted on the cover :-)

I think you win. Absolutely appalling.

[JKL2000]

ROFLMAO!

"I have donned my battle lingerie and now I will smite you, foul hoplite!"

And what's with the walrus and the astronaut? WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE THINKING!?!?!?

What could be more prog than a walrus?

[Progbear]

What could be more prog than a walrus?

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[JKL2000]

What could be more prog than a walrus?

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Yeah, he's prog...

[Rarebird]

What could be more prog than a walrus?

The walrus was Paul.

[BaldJean]

ROFLMAO!

"I have donned my battle lingerie and now I will smite you, foul hoplite!"

And what's with the walrus and the astronaut? WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE THINKING!?!?!?

You forgot to look at the title of the album. It's "Oddity", so certainly odd things should happen and appear on the cover.

Oh, and it's not a hoplite. Hoplites were armed with spear and shield.

[Sputnik]

You forgot to look at the title of the album. It's "Oddity", so certainly odd things should happen and appear on the cover.

To paraphrase Spinal Tap, "it's a fine line between odd and stupid."

Oh, and it's not a hoplite. Hoplites were armed with spear and shield.

In addition to spears, hoplites most definitely used swords, the Xiphos which was a fairly short sword. The helmet and the round shield are dead giveaways that this is a Greek warrior, not a Roman legionary. Here's a good image of a hoplite showing all these elements:

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Now if I could just figure out who fought in battle lingerie, I'd know all there is to know about military history.

Bill

[bob_32_116]

Is a Hoplite an actual historical entity, or something out of some cult movie? I learned all about Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Goths, Huns and Vandals, but I never heard of Hoplites.

[Lopez]

Hoplites (lowercase "h") were citizen-soldiers of ancient Greece. The shield they carried was called a hoplon, therefore, the name hoplite. It's also a wonderful beer brewed by the Kelsen Brewery of Derry, New Hampshire.

[Yodelgoat]

Ive noticed that these are (almost) all album covers - not CD covers. I think I prefer the bad album cover over the small CD cover. I really miss the days when album covers were actually about something, and you could actually enjoy the cover. The little tiny prints used in CD's probably have saved a lot of bands from being mentioned here simply because the "artwork" is too small to notice anything crappy about the cover.

[Sputnik]

Hoplites (lowercase "h") were citizen-soldiers of ancient Greece. The shield they carried was called a hoplon, therefore, the name hoplite.

Basically right, though the meaning of "hopla" is debated somewhat in that it could refer generally to all the armor and weapons of the hoplite soldier. The shield was also knows as an aspis. We don't really know the answer, and it could well be that the origin of holpite is in the term hoplon derived from the shield, which was a critical piece of equipment.

It's also a wonderful beer brewed by the Kelsen Brewery of Derry, New Hampshire.

Dude, now we're talking!

Bill

[bob_32_116]

Basically right, though the meaning of "hopla" is debated somewhat in that it could refer generally to all the armor and weapons of the hoplite soldier. The shield was also knows as an aspis. We don't really know the answer, and it could well be that the origin of holpite is in the term hoplon derived from the shield, which was a critical piece of equipment.

Thanks for that info. Of course the name could also originate from their custom of hopping lightly across the battlefields in their battle lingerie, being careful not to step on any daisies.

[thedunno]

ROFLMAO!

"I have donned my battle lingerie and now I will smite you, foul hoplite!"

And what's with the walrus and the astronaut? WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE THINKING!?!?!?

In all fairness, I think the Carducci album cover, with all its sillyness, still has a bit of an amateurish charm. The music is actually fairly decent.

Now that 'serious' Iron Angel cover posted earlier REALLY makes me roll over the floor laughing.

[Progbear]

There’s this, but I like it, and I’m pretty sure it was on purpose: