Best Album Covers of All Time

[hippypants]

As subjective as a title as that may be, I ran across a site that covers that area, and thought others at PE might want to explore it as well: http://albumcoverhalloffame.wordpres...ll-time-lists/

[Neptune]

My vote goes to Close to the Edge.

[JKL2000]

Sorry, but that is one friggin' confusing web site. I guess it's a blog really (or created with a "blogging site"), and there's something about the default blog format that just confuses me. I never liked it, and never understood why people wouldn't just want to do what I think of as a regular "web site" format instead. Where are the friggin pictures?

[Man In The Mountain]

Eddie Jobson's & ZINC The Green Album, was the best cover of all time.

[Wilton Said...]

Sorry, but that is one friggin' confusing web site. I guess it's a blog really (or created with a "blogging site"), and there's something about the default blog format that just confuses me. I never liked it, and never understood why people wouldn't just want to do what I think of as a regular "web site" format instead. Where are the friggin pictures?

I gotta agree. I expected to see photos and a write up.

[trurl]

Eddie Jobson's & ZINC The Green Album, was the best cover of all time.

Are you being sarcastic based on the other thread? I find it impossible to tell... I do think it's a very cool cover but I don't know if I would rank it quite that high I put Brain Salad Surgery in my top 10 but I know a lot of people hate that one.

[progman1975]

Jean Luc Ponty - Mystical Adventures

[progeezer's ghost]

Just a few off the top of my head (in chronological order):

Love- Forever Changes
KC- Court
Genesis- Foxtrot
King's X- Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Shadow Gallery- Tyranny

[Progtopia]

Zappa and the MOI's We're Only in It for the Money
anything in the Fish era of Marillion
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Vangelis - Heaven and Hell

[Shadow]

Trapeze - Running

[progeezer's ghost]

anything in the Fish era of Marillion

Good Call! (I believe the artist's name is Mark Wilkinson)

[rich]

My vote goes to Close to the Edge.

A true classic! On a side note what a great tour they are doing with Close to the Edge! What a great show in Monterey that I saw Jon or not, I'll take that music nearly anyway I can get it.

Back to the topic, I love the Trick and Wind covers by Genesis. Voyage by Hackett. RTF Romantic Warrior. Love Relayer. Crime of the Century... Eat a Peach, Thick as a Brick.. Abbey Road, Sgt Peppers... Camel Mirage, Moonmadness, Sinatra In the WeeSmall Hours, Stones Exile, Floyd Dark Side... Ok I gotta go now those came to me in 45 second... I could be here all night!

[PeterG]

Actually certain supposedly classic album covers irritate the hell out of me. Dark Side of the Moon for example, for me is the worst Pink Floyd cover and one of the worst covers of all time. To me, the DSotM cover as well as the Soft Machine Third cover look like simple & boring school Technical Drawing projects by 5th year pupils.

Three of my favs now then:
Hot Rats
Wind & Wuthering
Abraxas

[gregory]

Nursery Cryme
A Trick Of A Tail
Selling England By The Pound
Relayer
Tales From Topographic Oceans

[Dana5140]

Bitches Brew
ITCOTCK
CTTE
Abraxas
5000 Layers of the Onion
And my fave for its graphic simplicity- MDK

[walt]

Family-Fearless(lp edition)

[Man In The Mountain]

Are you being sarcastic based on the other thread? I find it impossible to tell... I do think it's a very cool cover but I don't know if I would rank it quite that high

It might be sarcasm. But, we're talking Eddie Jobson, so I could be totally serious.

[Nearfest2]

How is Roger Dean not even mentioned in that blog/article?

[Scott Bails]

anything in the Fish era of Marillion

Good Call! (I believe the artist's name is Mark Wilkinson)

Yeah, I love Wilkinson's work.

Actually certain supposedly classic album covers irritate the hell out of me. Dark Side of the Moon for example, for me is the worst Pink Floyd cover and one of the worst covers of all time. To me, the DSotM cover as well as the Soft Machine Third cover look like simple & boring school Technical Drawing projects by 5th year pupils.

I'll take any of those over any of the work Paul Whitehead did for Genesis. Talk about looking like a 5th-grader did it...

[Trane]

Family-Fearless(lp edition)

I much prefer Bandstand from them in the gimmick artwork .... but neither would be in my TOP 100

[Progtopia]

I knew it was Mark Wilkinson. I guess I was too lazy to type it out late last night.

[moecurlythanu]

So many Prog titles in these lists! Do you think there might be any emotional associaton going on here?

[mozo-pg]

Wind and Wuthering followed closely by Tales from Topographic Oceans

[Wisdomview]

Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Yes - Relayer
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic
The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics

[PeterG]

Talk about looking like a 5th-grader did it...

A 5th grader and a 5th Year pupil are not at all the same thing. A Fifth grader is approx. 10 (9-11 range) A Fifth Year pupil is approx. 16 (15-17 range). However the system in England changed in 1990 & England adopted the system used around most of Europe and the US, so the old Fifth Year is now called Year Eleven (11th grader)