Rank a Bands Album Covers

[ST3V]

Was thinking about my previous thread of ranking bands albums, and figured this may be fun to do, and lead to some discussion.

 

 

Kansas has been my new obsession recently. Lots of good album art. (Also I'm waiting to do Styx because it seems like they're revealing their new album this week) Hope to see them live soon, with their lineup as in tact as possible (I say this due to the recent departure of Zak Rizvi)

KANSAS

1. Song For America

2. Kansas

3. Leftoverture

4. Drastic Measures

5. Point Of Know Return

6. Power

7. Vinyl Confessions

8. Masque

9. Somewhere In Elsewhere

10. The Absence Of Presence

11. The Prelude Implicit

12. Monolith

13. Freaks Of Nature

14. Audio-Visions

15. In The Spirit Of Things

16. Always Never The Same

[Entre_Perpetuo]

I like this idea! I don't even have to have heard all the albums to rank them this way. Let's do Weezer:

 

 

Top tier:

1. Pinkerton

2. Pacific Daydream

3. Everything Will Be Alright In The End

 

Great:

The White Album

OK Human

Van Weezer

 

Good:

Maladroit

Blue

Green

 

Okay (I guess):

Make Believe

 

Regrettable (but ironically iconic)

Red

Hurley

Rattitude

 

Embarrassing:

Teal

 

Lame:

Black

[ST3V]

I like this idea! I don't even have to have heard all the albums to rank them this way.

Exactly my thoughts, also solid list

[Entre_Perpetuo]

I like this idea! I don't even have to have heard all the albums to rank them this way.

Exactly my thoughts, also solid list

 

I figured I'd start with a discography that's pretty diverse in...quality. lol Makes it easier to tell the good from the bad.

[ST3V]

YES

1. Tales From Topographic Oceans

2. Relayer

3. Fly From Here

4. Big Generator*

5. The Ladder

6. Heaven & Earth

7. Fragile

8. 90125

9. Keys To Ascension

10. Going For The One

11. Union

12. Tormato

13. Drama

14. Magnification

15. Keys To Ascension 2**

16. Close To The Edge

17. The Yes Album

18. Yes***

19. Open Your Eyes

20. Talk

21. Time And A Word***

 

*Ranking for the Yellow version, not the Blue vinyl cover

**Ranking for the Pink tinted cover, not the Blue

***All albums ranked for their original covers, not the international re-released covers

Edited May 3, 2021 by ST3V

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Muse

 

1. The Resistance - love the colorful pattern so much

2. Origin Of Symmetry - the color scheme is so powerful, and the football posts are iconic

3. Absolution - I still don't know how they got those shadows without big lines for whatever was holding the silhouettes up

4. Black Holes And Revelations - again, great color scheme, and just a classic Thorgorson album cover

-> Hullaballoo - love the green, and the band looking so young standing around a crystal ball is just fab

5. Simulation Theory - both versions are just a whole bucket of fun

-> Live At Rome Olympic Stadium - standard live shot, but Muse's live shows are always so spectacular that even a standard shot is epic

6. Showbiz - a little obtuse, but the color scheme again just sells it, and the fiery aspect fits the mood of the album nicely

7. The 2nd Law - The color scheme works well, but the brain tree thing just isn't really much of a figural image to be so prominent

-> HAARP - meh

8. Drones - some of the art for this album is great, but the main cover just feels oddly cropped, and the color scheme, while accurate to the music inside, isn't very inviting. I do enjoy its reference back to Absolution though

[ST3V]

STYX

1. Cyclorama

2. Crash Of The Crown

3. Brave New World

4. The Grand Illusion

5. Man Of Miracles

6. Equinox

7. Kilroy Was Here

8. The Serpent Is Rising

9. Paradise Theater

10. Cornerstone

11. Big Bang Theory

12. Edge Of The Century

13. The Mission

14. Styx II

15. Crystal Ball

16. Styx

17. Pieces Of Eight