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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: KevShmev on December 04, 2019, 08:38:27 PM
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The album doesn't have to be bad, it can merely be good.
First album I thought of was AC/DC's Blow Up Your Video. Solid record, with a few really good songs, yet the album cover, I think, is pretty awesome.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Blowupyourvideo.jpg)
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Blow Up Your Video is awesome. I consider it the 3rd best BJ Era album after BiB and FTATR. I love that album.
The album cover blows. I think you have this backwards. :P
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Blow Up Your Video is awesome. I consider it the 3rd best BJ Era album after BiB and FTATR. I love that album.
What are your favorite songs? I am not gonna lie: I had never heard A/DC until MTV suddenly put You Shook Me All Night Long in the regular rotation in the summer of 1987, and then I heard Back in Black and Who Made Who. I thought all three were awesome. And then Heatseeker was the first single/video from Blow Up Your Video, and the 14-year old KevShmev was pretty blown away by it. :metal :metal
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Every song is excellent except for Ruff Stuff, which kind of blows. Even Some Sin For Nuthin', which isn't a great song on it's own, probably has the best solo section on the whole album.
Might be time for you to dust that off. It was such a huge step up from the mess they call Fly On the Wall (awesome title track not withstanding). Sorry J Dude...
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In before Stadler posts about Grace Under Pressure! :biggrin:
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Every song is excellent except for Ruff Stuff, which kind of blows. Even Some Sin For Nuthin', which isn't a great song on it's own, probably has the best solo section on the whole album.
Might be time for you to dust that off. It was such a huge step up from the mess they call Fly On the Wall (awesome title track not withstanding). Sorry J Dude...
Hmmm, you might be right.
But wait, you don't like Shake Your Foundations from Fly on the Wall?
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oh i have a go-to example for this one
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1569848030_5.jpg)
one of the best album covers i've ever seen. 5-6/10 record at best, maybe even lower now since i haven't heard it in years
also malina :splodetard:
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Native Construct - Quiet World
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^ i honestly considered that one too, but i like the inter arma one more, and the album less
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To actually answer the question, the ones that first come to my mind are:
The Astonishing
Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark
Queensryche's Dedicated to Chaos and Q2K
Tesla's Bust a Nut
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First thought is St Anger. On the whole I think Metallica has great covers, with AJFA being an all timer.
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Yeah, St. Anger is one of my choices as well.
Also, Falling into infinity.
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oh i have a go-to example for this one
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1569848030_5.jpg)
one of the best album covers i've ever seen. 5-6/10 record at best, maybe even lower now since i haven't heard it in years
Except the album is pretty awesome. Not one I return to all too often, but some of the stuff on it is amazing. It's not really too consistent, I'll give you that.
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Black sabbath Forbidden
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/57/Forbidden.jpg/220px-Forbidden.jpg)
Mentioned previously, but Fear of the dark
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/Iron_Maiden_-_Fear_Of_The_Dark.jpg/220px-Iron_Maiden_-_Fear_Of_The_Dark.jpg)
In through the out door
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81r5-83z16L._SY355_.jpg)
An album art that deeply resonates with anyone who has ever dealt with a breakup and pain/uncertainty that goes with it. I absolutely LOVE this album cover and I love that he burns the Dear john letter. Really don't like the album though :lol
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I can't think of anything at the moment, but the winner for the reverse question has to be Maiden's Dance of Death. Never the divide between the beauty of an album and the crappiness of the cover was so vast.
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Hey >:( I LOVE St. Anger and In Through The Out Door!!!
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Every song is excellent except for Ruff Stuff, which kind of blows. Even Some Sin For Nuthin', which isn't a great song on it's own, probably has the best solo section on the whole album.
Might be time for you to dust that off. It was such a huge step up from the mess they call Fly On the Wall (awesome title track not withstanding). Sorry J Dude...
Hmmm, you might be right.
But wait, you don't like Shake Your Foundations from Fly on the Wall?
Yes, that's a decent song.
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Whole lotta screamo metal out there with amazing art but dog shit for music.
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(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71f-P7EsmjL._SL1002_.jpg)
I personally happen to like half of it very much, but for the masses, the popular opinion is that the album isn't good. The artwork however, :tup
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Scalding hot take: The Human Equation
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Scalding hot take: The Human Equation
Got room in that canoe for one more? Gorgeous, brilliant artwork, but a boring album.
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:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:
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Blow Up Your Video is awesome. I consider it the 3rd best BJ Era album after BiB and FTATR. I love that album.
The album cover blows. I think you have this backwards. :P
This is why we're buds. I LOVE that album, and I agree with your ranking exactly. Album cover? Eh (but then again, I don't think AC/DC has any legendary covers in their catalogue; it's never been their strong suit).
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In before Stadler posts about Grace Under Pressure! :biggrin:
HAHAHA, I was getting ready.... :)
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Whole lotta screamo metal out there with amazing art but dog shit for music.
Indeed! Can't name specific examples off the top of my head, but am I the only one that in more than occasion saw an album cover, thought "wow, wickedly cool, let's check out these g........ oh shit they're metalcore" ?
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There's a lot of prog/symphonic/power metal albums with pretty cool artwork but music I'm not too fuzzed about. Maiden's crappier albums still have pretty decent artwork.
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Scalding hot take: The Human Equation
Got room in that canoe for one more? Gorgeous, brilliant artwork, but a boring album.
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
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any Portnoy-era DT album and any Yes album that was released after Talk (Fly From Here being an exeption, possibly even Magnification) What can I say, I always loved all the cover art for both Yes and DT.
Any Led Zeppelin album as well (interesting cover art IMHO, I just never was a fan of LZ and never will be)
Any Iron Maiden cover art (as with Led Zeppelin, I never was a fan of them either but I've always loved their cover art, particulary those paintings by Derek Riggs)
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As much as I love Iron Maiden, I always thought the Eddie thing is kind of silly. I do get it though, it has worked and served them well with album sales. So it's a good marketing tactic geared toward young metal heads back in the day. It also has paid dividends in merchandise sales at their shows. Even still to this day, Eddie lives on quite well in the Maiden line-up. :lol
I personally am not a big fan of Eddie, but I'm a huge Maiden fan. :metal
I know this is backwards to the context of the thread, but thats what we do here in DT forms. :biggrin:
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In before Stadler posts about Grace Under Pressure! :biggrin:
If they had used the back image of the egg in the vice, then it would fit this category. Hold Your Fire and Roll the Bones also qualify (although I don't know that I'd go so far as to say that the cover of RtB is "great").
I'll throw this one in the mix:
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Uy9%2Bv4W8L._SX355_.jpg)
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Porcupine_Tree_-_Fear_of_a_blank_planet_%28album_cover%29.jpg/330px-Porcupine_Tree_-_Fear_of_a_blank_planet_%28album_cover%29.jpg)
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Oh that's a spicy take alright
Especially since I don't really care for that album cover :corn
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Any of the Roger Dean covers for the band featuring John Payne that called itself "Asia".
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Any of the Roger Dean covers for the band featuring John Payne that called itself "Asia".
say word, son
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I fucking love the artwork on Pink Floyd's Animals, but the music never clicked with me. Might be time to revisit it.
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As much as I love Iron Maiden, I always thought the Eddie thing is kind of silly. I do get it though, it has worked and served them well with album sales. So it's a good marketing tactic geared toward young metal heads back in the day. It also has paid dividends in merchandise sales at their shows. Even still to this day, Eddie lives on quite well in the Maiden line-up. :lol
You just wrote why Eddie isn't silly :D I get it, if you don't like it, you don't like it, but Eddie is the greatest marketing stunt in heavy metal history. He's the quintessential mascot, Maiden didn't invent mascots but there isn't, and there won't be anymore, a mascot in heavy metal as worldwide recognizable as Eddie. Kiss marketed themselves as characters, sure, but Eddie is Eddie. No other mascot comes remotely close in terms of cultural impact.
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As much as I love Iron Maiden, I always thought the Eddie thing is kind of silly. I do get it though, it has worked and served them well with album sales. So it's a good marketing tactic geared toward young metal heads back in the day. It also has paid dividends in merchandise sales at their shows. Even still to this day, Eddie lives on quite well in the Maiden line-up. :lol
You just wrote why Eddie isn't silly :D I get it, if you don't like it, you don't like it, but Eddie is the greatest marketing stunt in heavy metal history. He's the quintessential mascot, Maiden didn't invent mascots but there isn't, and there won't be anymore, a mascot in heavy metal as worldwide recognizable as Eddie. Kiss marketed themselves as characters, sure, but Eddie is Eddie. No other mascot comes remotely close in terms of cultural impact.
I guess Snaggletooth B. Warpig (Motörhead's mascot) did though. He ran the full gamut of merchandising too (like Eddie does)
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Maybe; I think it's different though. SBW is more of a logo in that sense, and for a band that's not nearly the size or impact of Maiden. I've only seen Motorhead three times, but none of those had SBW walking on stage like Eddie (which even now is cool as shit).
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As much as I love Iron Maiden, I always thought the Eddie thing is kind of silly. I do get it though, it has worked and served them well with album sales. So it's a good marketing tactic geared toward young metal heads back in the day. It also has paid dividends in merchandise sales at their shows. Even still to this day, Eddie lives on quite well in the Maiden line-up. :lol
You just wrote why Eddie isn't silly :D I get it, if you don't like it, you don't like it, but Eddie is the greatest marketing stunt in heavy metal history. He's the quintessential mascot, Maiden didn't invent mascots but there isn't, and there won't be anymore, a mascot in heavy metal as worldwide recognizable as Eddie. Kiss marketed themselves as characters, sure, but Eddie is Eddie. No other mascot comes remotely close in terms of cultural impact.
I guess Snaggletooth B. Warpig (Motörhead's mascot) did though. He ran the full gamut of merchandising too (like Eddie does)
Concur with Stadler, particularly that Motorhead is not and never was on anything close to the same level as Maiden. Also, I had no idea that thing had a name.
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As much as I love Iron Maiden, I always thought the Eddie thing is kind of silly. I do get it though, it has worked and served them well with album sales. So it's a good marketing tactic geared toward young metal heads back in the day. It also has paid dividends in merchandise sales at their shows. Even still to this day, Eddie lives on quite well in the Maiden line-up. :lol
You just wrote why Eddie isn't silly :D I get it, if you don't like it, you don't like it, but Eddie is the greatest marketing stunt in heavy metal history. He's the quintessential mascot, Maiden didn't invent mascots but there isn't, and there won't be anymore, a mascot in heavy metal as worldwide recognizable as Eddie. Kiss marketed themselves as characters, sure, but Eddie is Eddie. No other mascot comes remotely close in terms of cultural impact.
I guess Snaggletooth B. Warpig (Motörhead's mascot) did though. He ran the full gamut of merchandising too (like Eddie does)
Concur with Stadler, particularly that Motorhead is not and never was on anything close to the same level as Maiden. Also, I had no idea that thing had a name.
Ok then, very sorry.
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Porcupine_Tree_-_Fear_of_a_blank_planet_%28album_cover%29.jpg/330px-Porcupine_Tree_-_Fear_of_a_blank_planet_%28album_cover%29.jpg)
Probably a top 3 PT for me.
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Hear in the Now Frontier.
I can see why you selected that one for this thread. But honestly, I just don't get the appeal of that cover - maybe the title of the album caused me to think that the cover would have a deeper meaning or something. But a bunch of detached ears in mason jars in a wilderness just doesn't do it for me. (Personal opinion, I know)
Same with St. Anger - don't understand how that album cover is really appealing. Some of Pushead's other artwork for Metallica is pretty cool, but not that, IMO.
any Portnoy-era DT album
It amazes me that you could ever have been a DT fan before MM came aboard judging by all your hatred for everything from the MP-era.
In before Stadler posts about Grace Under Pressure! :biggrin:
If they had used the back image of the egg in the vice, then it would fit this category. Hold Your Fire and Roll the Bones also qualify (although I don't know that I'd go so far as to say that the cover of RtB is "great").
Interesting - the egg and vice artwork isn't all that amazing to me, but the front cover is probably my favorite one out of all Rush's covers.
Regarding RtB, good choice - forgot about that one. I think the artwork is pretty clever and impressive given that Photoshop was still in it's infancy back then. But HYF? If the juggler artwork was used on the cover, sure. But just 3 simple red balls on a red background? Meh.
Fear of a Blank Planet
Seriously? Love the artwork and the album - one of my favorites from PT!
As much as I love Iron Maiden, I always thought the Eddie thing is kind of silly. I do get it though, it has worked and served them well with album sales. So it's a good marketing tactic geared toward young metal heads back in the day. It also has paid dividends in merchandise sales at their shows. Even still to this day, Eddie lives on quite well in the Maiden line-up. :lol
You just wrote why Eddie isn't silly :D I get it, if you don't like it, you don't like it, but Eddie is the greatest marketing stunt in heavy metal history. He's the quintessential mascot, Maiden didn't invent mascots but there isn't, and there won't be anymore, a mascot in heavy metal as worldwide recognizable as Eddie. Kiss marketed themselves as characters, sure, but Eddie is Eddie. No other mascot comes remotely close in terms of cultural impact.
I guess Snaggletooth B. Warpig (Motörhead's mascot) did though. He ran the full gamut of merchandising too (like Eddie does)
Concur with Stadler, particularly that Motorhead is not and never was on anything close to the same level as Maiden. Also, I had no idea that thing had a name.
How about Megadeth's Vic Rattlehead? He may not have been on every album cover and he doesn't stomp around the stage like Eddie, but otherwise I'd say he's right up there with Eddie.
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Hear in the Now Frontier.
I can see why you selected that one for this thread. But honestly, I just don't get the appeal of that cover - maybe the title of the album caused me to think that the cover would have a deeper meaning or something. But a bunch of detached ears in mason jars in a wilderness just doesn't do it for me. (Personal opinion, I know)
Same with St. Anger - don't understand how that album cover is really appealing. Some of Pushead's other artwork for Metallica is pretty cool, but not that, IMO.
any Portnoy-era DT album
It amazes me that you could ever have been a DT fan before MM came aboard judging by all your hatred for everything from the MP-era.
In before Stadler posts about Grace Under Pressure! :biggrin:
If they had used the back image of the egg in the vice, then it would fit this category. Hold Your Fire and Roll the Bones also qualify (although I don't know that I'd go so far as to say that the cover of RtB is "great").
Interesting - the egg and vice artwork isn't all that amazing to me, but the front cover is probably my favorite one out of all Rush's covers.
Regarding RtB, good choice - forgot about that one. I think the artwork is pretty clever and impressive given that Photoshop was still in it's infancy back then. But HYF? If the juggler artwork was used on the cover, sure. But just 3 simple red balls on a red background? Meh.
Fear of a Blank Planet
Seriously? Love the artwork and the album - one of my favorites from PT!
As much as I love Iron Maiden, I always thought the Eddie thing is kind of silly. I do get it though, it has worked and served them well with album sales. So it's a good marketing tactic geared toward young metal heads back in the day. It also has paid dividends in merchandise sales at their shows. Even still to this day, Eddie lives on quite well in the Maiden line-up. :lol
You just wrote why Eddie isn't silly :D I get it, if you don't like it, you don't like it, but Eddie is the greatest marketing stunt in heavy metal history. He's the quintessential mascot, Maiden didn't invent mascots but there isn't, and there won't be anymore, a mascot in heavy metal as worldwide recognizable as Eddie. Kiss marketed themselves as characters, sure, but Eddie is Eddie. No other mascot comes remotely close in terms of cultural impact.
I guess Snaggletooth B. Warpig (Motörhead's mascot) did though. He ran the full gamut of merchandising too (like Eddie does)
Concur with Stadler, particularly that Motorhead is not and never was on anything close to the same level as Maiden. Also, I had no idea that thing had a name.
How about Megadeth's Vic Rattlehead? He may not have been on every album cover and he doesn't stomp around the stage like Eddie, but otherwise I'd say he's right up there with Eddie.
Vic would have been my other guess. (my favouite Megadeth art is that of The System Has Failed). Btw, Scotty, it's MP's drumming (and his personality that he exhibited when I met him as a child) that peeves me, I like an estimated 90% (or probably more) of the MP era pieces based on the songwriting, which I still would speak highly of today (although I still think that modern day DT has evolved in that respect as well). The very few Portnoy era pieces I dislike concerning the songwriting are most of FII and Take The Time. I even love When Dream And Day Unite concerning the songwriting aspect. I even get inspired by JP's (and JM's) concepts of phrasing on their instruments (although I play the drums), so even if you think I'm kind of an extremist (which I may be in some respects), I think I'm not too much of that concerning every aspect of DT. There is plenty I love about them. (concerning modern day DT: JP's and JM's work on PBD and Illumination Theory as examples). I hope this will clarify some things. Anyway, carry on everyone. That's all for today from me.
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Regarding RtB, good choice - forgot about that one. I think the artwork is pretty clever and impressive given that Photoshop was still in it's infancy back then. But HYF? If the juggler artwork was used on the cover, sure. But just 3 simple red balls on a red background? Meh.
I will defend Roll the Bones to the death as far as it being a really good album, and I think it is one of their best album covers, although most of Rush's album covers are, at worst, quite good.
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Regarding RtB, good choice - forgot about that one. I think the artwork is pretty clever and impressive given that Photoshop was still in it's infancy back then. But HYF? If the juggler artwork was used on the cover, sure. But just 3 simple red balls on a red background? Meh.
I will defend Roll the Bones to the death as far as it being a really good album, and I think it is one of their best album covers, although most of Rush's album covers are, at worst, quite good.
Scotty, I always thought Photoshop came up much later than 1992, never thought it was used or available at that time already. Interesting, coming to think of that then.
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Soundgarden - King Animal
Growing up in the 90s Soundgarden was one of the few Seattle/grunge bands that any lasting impact with me so I was pretty excited to hear them finally reunite. I like this cover but was never blown away with the overall music on the album - just meh to me.
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Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers? Off the top of my head:
Kiss - Unmasked (yes, I think this is a great - or at least really good - album)
Priest - Defenders Of The Faith (yes, this is a great album)
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
Yes - Big Penetrator
Marillion - Season's End
And the great album with a cover so shitty it's almost great itself: Black Sabbath - Sabotage
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Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers? Off the top of my head:
Maybe a new thread would be more suitable :P. But I'll contribute anyways:
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Regarding RtB, good choice - forgot about that one. I think the artwork is pretty clever and impressive given that Photoshop was still in it's infancy back then. But HYF? If the juggler artwork was used on the cover, sure. But just 3 simple red balls on a red background? Meh.
I will defend Roll the Bones to the death as far as it being a really good album, and I think it is one of their best album covers, although most of Rush's album covers are, at worst, quite good.
HYF is simple and clean, although I agree that it would be an overstatement to call it "great" (and yeah, the juggler might have been better). I also agree that Rush's album covers were consistently in the very good to great range (don't dislike the cover of GUP,, but I also wouldn't call it great but can't find fault with those who do).
I always thought Photoshop came up much later than 1992, never thought it was used or available at that time already. Interesting, coming to think of that then.
If the info in the Wikipedia article is accurate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop ), it was first released in February 1990.
Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers? Off the top of my head:
Kiss - Unmasked (yes, I think this is a great - or at least really good - album)
Priest - Defenders Of The Faith (yes, this is a great album)
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station
Yes - Big Penetrator
Marillion - Season's End
And the great album with a cover so shitty it's almost great itself: Black Sabbath - Sabotage
I would disagree strongly that the Defenders cover is shitty, and I'd say Big Generator is just plain boring, but not bad, much less shitty.
I know nothing about the music on the Bent Knee album, but that's a pretty cool cover (and LTE1 isn't bad either).
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Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers?
Don't know how good the album is, but for shitty covers, I think Millie Jackson takes the crown for me.
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Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers?
Don't know how good the album is, but for shitty covers, I think Millie Jackson takes the crown for me.
I had to google to find out who that is, and she apparently released 27 albums between 1972-2001. Care to narrow down which album you're talking about?
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The 'Back to the Shit' album cover. That was me trying to make a joke....sorry!!
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The 'Back to the Shit' album cover. That was me trying to make a joke....sorry!!
:lol :lol
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Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers? Off the top of my head:
Queensryche's early years owns this category.
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Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers? Off the top of my head:
YES - Going For The One
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!!! - Myth Takes
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I personally happen to like half of it very much, but for the masses, the popular opinion is that the album isn't good. The artwork however, :tup
Bingo! We have a winner!
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Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight Deluxe Edition is another.
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Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers? Off the top of my head:
YES - Going For The One
Actually, I love that cover.
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Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers? Off the top of my head:
YES - Going For The One
Took me some moments to realize it wasn't a positive comment about wanting to take the thread in the opposite direction of the original question.
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Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers? Off the top of my head:
First that comes to mind is the first Mullmuzzler. Great music, horrible cover.
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(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2457902134_10.jpg)
One of the best album covers I've ever seen. I want to like this album so much, just because of the cover. And it's not bad, it's pretty decent prog-ish tech death, but it's not something I ever find myself coming back to on its own merits. But sometimes I look at the album cover again and give it another try.
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Are we going to do an opposite? Great albums with shitty covers? Off the top of my head:
YES - Going For The One
Actually, I love that cover.
I snapped this a couple years ago.
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Thank god you didn't do a nude selfie in front of them.
(Cool shot, though. Really cool.)
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Scalding hot take: The Human Equation
Got room in that canoe for one more? Gorgeous, brilliant artwork, but a boring album.
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
I'll chip in so we can upgrade to at least a speedboat
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Thank god you didn't do a nude selfie in front of them.
(Cool shot, though. Really cool.)
Thanks.
If only I knew how to photoshop....
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Man, that Reasoning one makes me so sad. I adore the first two albums. But once the two male vocalists left, we were left with that bore of a final album. That's why I enjoyed the first two albums. Three vocalists playing off of each other, great melodies. The female singer worked well with the other two, but I just felt like she couldn't really carry whole songs by herself. She had this very specific way of singing and it gets old on its own really fast.
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One of the best album covers I've ever seen. I want to like this album so much, just because of the cover. And it's not bad, it's pretty decent prog-ish tech death, but it's not something I ever find myself coming back to on its own merits. But sometimes I look at the album cover again and give it another try.
agree that the art is very good
but also the album itself is very good