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Gryff

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« Reply #50 on: 06 Oct 2005, 16:35 »
all the covers done by http://www.sound.jp/hipgnosis/yapwall/yhip.html">hipgnosis were awesome.
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« Reply #51 on: 06 Oct 2005, 17:00 »
The book I linked to earlier was compiled by people from hipgnosis, it goes into great depth about several pink floyd covers.
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« Reply #52 on: 06 Oct 2005, 17:03 »
Music that is Musically Challenged - After the Sky Falls...



Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

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« Reply #53 on: 06 Oct 2005, 17:10 »

Simple and effective. The back art makes it even better, but I have no scanner and I can't find an image of it online.


That comic idea is good, especially since the comic on the cover is messed up and only shown in a sensible manner on the inside.
And note: The Safety Margin thing - I have no idea where that comes from. The version I have does not have it and it looks better.


Though actually all Shellac albums have excellent art. But the art of 1000 Hurts and At Action Park has to be actually seen, whereas Terraform also works with images.
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« Reply #54 on: 06 Oct 2005, 19:46 »
http://coverart.last.fm/300x300/1416535.jpg

Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
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« Reply #55 on: 06 Oct 2005, 21:50 »
Watain - Casus Luciferi



Manowar - Kings of Metal

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« Reply #56 on: 06 Oct 2005, 22:07 »
metal is amusing.
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« Reply #57 on: 06 Oct 2005, 23:49 »
Quote from: Gryff
metal is awesome.


That's better
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« Reply #58 on: 07 Oct 2005, 07:55 »
One you have to see in real life (because scans don't show the actual effect): Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn.

You have to see the inside as well. It gets my overall best packaging I've seen award.
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« Reply #59 on: 07 Oct 2005, 08:54 »

I May Never Get Out of the Blues Alive.

Look closely at John Lee Hooker sitting up front on an inner city bus.
The stenciled sign reads No Dancin', with an apostrophe!



The Rotter's Club - Hatfield and the North

This is my all-time favorite album.  It inspired me on a decade-long investigation of Canterbury progressive music.  I can report back that it's
all really boring, repetitious, pretentious, except for this album and some of
Robert Wyatt's stuff.    I think this is bette davis signing fan photos,
with Hatfield's first album patched in.
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« Reply #60 on: 07 Oct 2005, 10:05 »
Monotome blue?  How about this:


Aquabats of course!


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« Reply #61 on: 09 Oct 2005, 12:08 »
Savoy Brown - Looking In


Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream


and...

Michael Franti & Spearhead - Stay Human
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« Reply #62 on: 09 Oct 2005, 16:04 »
One of my favourite intensely 'metal' covers:

Horna - Perima Vihassa Ja Verikostossa

(Full art, I can't find a copy of the album cover bigger than 200X200)



Also, I feel it is wrong in the extreme that no-one has yet mentioned:

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« Reply #63 on: 09 Oct 2005, 17:13 »
If Top Gun hadn't sucked ass, that song alone would have been the soundtrack. but it did suck. And so it wasn't the soundtrack.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #64 on: 09 Oct 2005, 20:25 »
Aces High was my gateway to Iron Maiden, and I still fucking love it.
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« Reply #65 on: 09 Oct 2005, 20:43 »
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« Reply #66 on: 09 Oct 2005, 20:58 »
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http://www.spazoutny.com/ironmaiden.htm


Terrible formatting... burning my EYES.
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« Reply #67 on: 09 Oct 2005, 22:43 »
http://www.epinions.com/musc_mu-184195/display_~reviews

best album of all time also has best cover!!!!
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« Reply #68 on: 10 Oct 2005, 00:49 »
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Quote from: Inlander
http://www.spazoutny.com/ironmaiden.htm


Terrible formatting... burning my EYES.


'tis one of those fabled, accursed pages that work only in internet explorer! AIEEEEE!
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« Reply #69 on: 10 Oct 2005, 11:24 »
DARNZ! I forgot Argus for a moment there;


Also... P*U*L*S*E


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« Reply #70 on: 10 Oct 2005, 17:27 »
ROXY MUSIC THEME!!!

Roxy Music - Best Of Roxy Music


Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy


801 - Live


Phil Manzenara - K-scope
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« Reply #71 on: 10 Oct 2005, 17:59 »
Simple, elegant, classic:

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« Reply #72 on: 10 Oct 2005, 18:12 »
http://www.punkas.com/octagonoctagonoctagon.jpg"  width="200">
The Mint Chicks - Octagon, Octagon, Octagon

http://www.everyman.co.nz/image/127b.jpg"  width="200">
The Mint Chicks - Anti-Tiger

Made awesomer by the fact that the guitarist drew them!
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« Reply #73 on: 10 Oct 2005, 19:58 »
Cheer up was a pretty good cover, though not a great CD....



or how about:

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« Reply #74 on: 10 Oct 2005, 20:02 »
I like how Nine Inch Nails has done interesting things not with just the covers, but the cases themselves.
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« Reply #75 on: 10 Oct 2005, 20:05 »
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I like how Nine Inch Nails has done interesting things not with just the covers, but the cases themselves.


Yeah but the cover for With Teeth just sucks.
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« Reply #76 on: 10 Oct 2005, 21:45 »
DANGERDOOM!
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« Reply #77 on: 11 Oct 2005, 06:29 »
Definitely something from Factory Records, sleek is the word that springs to mind. Blue Monday just cos it cost more to produce than they sold it for. Of course, the eventual re-release was cheaper but equally smooth.
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« Reply #78 on: 11 Oct 2005, 09:59 »
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Also... P*U*L*S*E


+inside


Actually I thought that was one of their worst front covers. But that bit from the inside of it is amazing.
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« Reply #79 on: 11 Oct 2005, 10:35 »


Fripp and Eno, in a Hall of Mirrors.
 Eno plays solitaire with a deck of pornographic playing cards.

Vintage Frippertronics, repetitious tape loops.

I used to listen to it on my friend's big ol' family stereo,
usually at 33 1/3, sometimes at 78 and even at 16 2/3 RPM.

The quality of the music was consistent, only the duration and pitch changed.
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