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H. Syme vs. S. Thorgerson vs. R Dean


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Who is the best cover-artists?  

51 members have voted

  1. 1. Who is the best cover-artists?

    • Hugh Syme
      15
    • Storm Thorgerson
      16
    • Roger Dean
      20


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I love both these artists and have each helped the bands they do covers for shine.

 

Storm is mostly known for his cover art with Pink Floyd

and Syme as you know is known for his work with Rush .

 

It's http://discoblog.houste.info/images/Pink%20Floyd%20-%20Animals.jpg vs http://www.hall9000.de/rubriken/service/plattentruhe/grafiken/rush_test.jpg

 

Take your pick

(Note this is not a comparison of music, just cover art)

 

And mods, if you feel another artist deserves a spot fell free to add them on.

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What about a newer artist like Travis Smith responsible for the following cover art?

 

Age of Silence - Acceleration

Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage

Death - The Sound of Perseverance

Katatonia - Tonight's Decision

Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

Lilitu - The Delores Lesion

Novembers Doom - To Welcome the Fade

Novembre - Novembrine Waltz

Opeth - Still Life

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Opeth - Deliverance

Opeth - Damnation

Opeth - Lamentations DVD

Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

Soul Embraced - This is My Blood

Strapping Young Lad - SYL

Subterranean Masquerade - Temporary Psychotic State EP

Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams

Townsend, Devin - Terria

Townsend, Devin - Accelerated Evolution

Winds - Reflections of the I

Winds - The Imaginary Direction of Time

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QUOTE (tangdog @ Apr 7 2007, 11:09 AM)
Syme has also done some good work for Megadeth and DT.

I know and Storm has also done work for Audio Slave and Alan Parsons. I was merely putting what the're most known for.

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QUOTE (tangdog @ Apr 7 2007, 12:09 PM)
Syme has also done some good work for Megadeth and DT.

And Iron Maiden!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Iron_Maiden_-_The_X_Factor.jpg

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Styx used both Hipgnosis/Storm Thorgerson and Hugh Syme.

 

Hipgnosis was used for Pieces of Eight. Dennis DeYoung hated the cover at first but grew to like it by saying "the women on the cover are now good looking as I am getting older".

 

Hugh did Edge Of The Century, the post-Tommy Shaw album

 

Storm did Cyclorama.

 

Storm did covers for Pink Floyd, Genesis, two Yes covers, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin among others

 

 

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I really think Roger Dean should've been included in this poll. But of course, that's just IMFO!
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QUOTE (Finbar @ Apr 7 2007, 02:11 PM)
I really think Roger Dean should've been included in this poll. But of course, that's just IMFO!

Yes, Mod's please add Roger Dean. I completly forgot about him (Yes, Asia) when I made this . Ashamed I should be.

 

Please add him and alter the tiltle of the thread please

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Storm, both are great though. Roger Dean should have been included tho.

 

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QUOTE (tangdog @ Apr 7 2007, 12:09 PM)
Syme has also done some good work for Megadeth and DT.

And Iron Maiden!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Iron_Maiden_-_The_X_Factor.jpg

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That album cover is terribe, and:

OT: That album was terrible

 

Just IMO

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well now that Roger Dean has been added, he gets my vote. Here is one of my favorite Dean covers. It's the import version of Gentle Giant's "Octopus". Great album.

http://www.expose.org/GaryGreen/octopus_eu.jpg

 

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Now that the change has been made its now....

 

 

 

http://products.priceclash.co.uk/images/nodrop/220/B000026A08/music/anderson-bruford-wakeman-howe.jpg vs. http://home.q04.itscom.net/hiropon/meddle.jpg vs. http://www.thebestlinks.com/images/6/6c/Rush_Hemispheres.jpg

 

 

i voted storm, but it is very close. These are the 3 best cover art artists in the music business

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QUOTE (The Owl @ Apr 8 2007, 11:27 AM)
Now that the change has been made its now....



http://products.priceclash.co.uk/images/nodrop/220/B000026A08/music/anderson-bruford-wakeman-howe.jpg vs. http://home.q04.itscom.net/hiropon/meddle.jpg vs. http://www.thebestlinks.com/images/6/6c/Rush_Hemispheres.jpg


i voted storm, but it is very close. These are the 3 best cover art artists in the music business

but clearly Meddle isnt your favorite Floyd cover is it? That would have no be Animals IMHO.

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