Slime Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Which albums of high and excellent musical quality were also the unfortunate owners of really BAD cover art? Is there an album you'll just never forget except the album art which you suppress like a bad childhood memory? Or are the best sounding albums also the best looking? Discuss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henri Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Yes - Going for the One Just plain awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 I won't say it's necessarily truly ugly, but Led Zeppelin III is really not good, and it certainly doesn't reflect the very acoustic nature of the album. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The O' Sullivan Factor Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Led Zeppelin 3 and Presence are both exceptional albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 QUOTE (The O' Sullivan Factor @ Apr 8 2007, 04:13 PM) Led Zeppelin 3 and Presence are both exceptional albums Well, yeah, but the cover of Zeppelin III is no good. And yet that's one of my fave Zeppelin albums. In the end, I believe the band were not happy either. There had been some kind of miscommunication much like what happened with Caress of Steel and a major mistake was made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 QUOTE (circumstantial tree @ Apr 8 2007, 01:33 PM)QUOTE (The O' Sullivan Factor @ Apr 8 2007, 04:13 PM) Led Zeppelin 3 and Presence are both exceptional albums Well, yeah, but the cover of Zeppelin III is no good. And yet that's one of my fave Zeppelin albums. In the end, I believe the band were not happy either. There had been some kind of miscommunication much like what happened with Caress of Steel and a major mistake was made. I've never heard the band wasn't happy. Are you guys old enough to have owned Zep III on vinyl, where the cover actually had the spinning wheel in it? I thought it was great...though the best Zep cover is II. this is the cover art i was never too fond of: http://www.cdpoint.com.br/imagens/075678252822.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Emotions Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 I'm not too wild about the cover art for Vapour Trails. IMO, it's the weakest art they've had since Hold Your Fire (although HYF has a great album insert, with the images on the streets). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 QUOTE (rushman14 @ Apr 8 2007, 03:42 PM) QUOTE (circumstantial tree @ Apr 8 2007, 01:33 PM)QUOTE (The O' Sullivan Factor @ Apr 8 2007, 04:13 PM) Led Zeppelin 3 and Presence are both exceptional albums Well, yeah, but the cover of Zeppelin III is no good. And yet that's one of my fave Zeppelin albums. In the end, I believe the band were not happy either. There had been some kind of miscommunication much like what happened with Caress of Steel and a major mistake was made. I've never heard the band wasn't happy. Are you guys old enough to have owned Zep III on vinyl, where the cover actually had the spinning wheel in it? I thought it was great...though the best Zep cover is II. this is the cover art i was never too fond of: http://www.cdpoint.com.br/imagens/075678252822.jpg You have to admit that the rest of the Counterparts packaging is cool though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushman14 Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 QUOTE (treeduck @ Apr 8 2007, 02:34 PM)QUOTE (rushman14 @ Apr 8 2007, 03:42 PM) QUOTE (circumstantial tree @ Apr 8 2007, 01:33 PM)QUOTE (The O' Sullivan Factor @ Apr 8 2007, 04:13 PM) Led Zeppelin 3 and Presence are both exceptional albums Well, yeah, but the cover of Zeppelin III is no good. And yet that's one of my fave Zeppelin albums. In the end, I believe the band were not happy either. There had been some kind of miscommunication much like what happened with Caress of Steel and a major mistake was made. I've never heard the band wasn't happy. Are you guys old enough to have owned Zep III on vinyl, where the cover actually had the spinning wheel in it? I thought it was great...though the best Zep cover is II. this is the cover art i was never too fond of: http://www.cdpoint.com.br/imagens/075678252822.jpg You have to admit that the rest of the Counterparts packaging is cool though... Absolutely, the rest of the CP packaging is cool. I wish they would have used the hare sitting on top of the tortoise as the cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 QUOTE (rushman14 @ Apr 8 2007, 04:38 PM) QUOTE (treeduck @ Apr 8 2007, 02:34 PM)QUOTE (rushman14 @ Apr 8 2007, 03:42 PM) QUOTE (circumstantial tree @ Apr 8 2007, 01:33 PM)QUOTE (The O' Sullivan Factor @ Apr 8 2007, 04:13 PM) Led Zeppelin 3 and Presence are both exceptional albums Well, yeah, but the cover of Zeppelin III is no good. And yet that's one of my fave Zeppelin albums. In the end, I believe the band were not happy either. There had been some kind of miscommunication much like what happened with Caress of Steel and a major mistake was made. I've never heard the band wasn't happy. Are you guys old enough to have owned Zep III on vinyl, where the cover actually had the spinning wheel in it? I thought it was great...though the best Zep cover is II. this is the cover art i was never too fond of: http://www.cdpoint.com.br/imagens/075678252822.jpg You have to admit that the rest of the Counterparts packaging is cool though... Absolutely, the rest of the CP packaging is cool. I wish they would have used the hare sitting on top of the tortoise as the cover. Yeah I wouldn't have chosen that as the cover, but it seems to be in the same spirit as the Hold Your Fire cover, with a "less is more" attitude... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-D-RocK- Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Metallica (colloquially known as "The Black Album"). It's nothing, it's just.....black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Owl Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 I love this album, but this is probably my least faviorate cover for a Pink Floyd album. The Final Cut, great music, not so great artwork http://www.w-fenec.org/photos/2004/rock/pink_floyd_final_cut.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The O' Sullivan Factor Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 QUOTE (treeduck @ Apr 8 2007, 04:52 PM) QUOTE (rushman14 @ Apr 8 2007, 04:38 PM) QUOTE (treeduck @ Apr 8 2007, 02:34 PM)QUOTE (rushman14 @ Apr 8 2007, 03:42 PM) QUOTE (circumstantial tree @ Apr 8 2007, 01:33 PM)QUOTE (The O' Sullivan Factor @ Apr 8 2007, 04:13 PM) Led Zeppelin 3 and Presence are both exceptional albums Well, yeah, but the cover of Zeppelin III is no good. And yet that's one of my fave Zeppelin albums. In the end, I believe the band were not happy either. There had been some kind of miscommunication much like what happened with Caress of Steel and a major mistake was made. I've never heard the band wasn't happy. Are you guys old enough to have owned Zep III on vinyl, where the cover actually had the spinning wheel in it? I thought it was great...though the best Zep cover is II. this is the cover art i was never too fond of: http://www.cdpoint.com.br/imagens/075678252822.jpg You have to admit that the rest of the Counterparts packaging is cool though... Absolutely, the rest of the CP packaging is cool. I wish they would have used the hare sitting on top of the tortoise as the cover. Yeah I wouldn't have chosen that as the cover, but it seems to be in the same spirit as the Hold Your Fire cover, with a "less is more" attitude... Ok I should've phrased that better, "Led Zeppelin 3" is my favorite Led Zep album other than "Physical Graffiti", but the cover art isn't so great on there. The wheel idea sounds ok, but If i remember correctly it was done better with PG. (I'm 17 and own no vinyl anything so I can't say much). I love the art to Counterparts it works well with the album, imo. Same with HYF not great as a piece of art, but in the context of the album works very well. Vapor Trails has some of my favorite art out of all of the Rush albums; the fireball and the card ideas are very neat, I chose VT over Signals simply due to the cover art when I first bought it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushgoober Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 QUOTE (Henri @ Apr 8 2007, 12:32 PM) Yes - Going for the One Just plain awful. Even worse is Yes - 90125 http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f72/rushgoober5/rushgoober6/Yes-90125.jpg Boy, that is one butt-ugly album cover, even by cheesy early 80's graphics standards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ru5h F@n Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 Snakes And Arrows. I was hoping for the highway one instead of the board game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddy Posted April 8, 2007 Share Posted April 8, 2007 (edited) QUOTE (circumstantial tree @ Apr 8 2007, 03:33 PM) QUOTE (The O' Sullivan Factor @ Apr 8 2007, 04:13 PM) Led Zeppelin 3 and Presence are both exceptional albums Well, yeah, but the cover of Zeppelin III is no good. And yet that's one of my fave Zeppelin albums. In the end, I believe the band were not happy either. There had been some kind of miscommunication much like what happened with Caress of Steel and a major mistake was made. Jimmy Page said it didn't come out the way he intended at all, but it was too late to do anything about it. He said something about wanting it to look like one of those garden chart things "that tell you when to plant peas or whatever" but it came out, in his opinion, looking like a child's spinning whell or something. Too cartoony. (I think it's cute, though. I was lucky enough to find one of the old vinyl versions with the spinning wheel.) Presence and In Through The Out Door are wonderful albums, but I didn't care much for the covers of either one. And REM has never had a decent album cover, although some of their albums (at least through Automatic For The People were quite good. Edit - spinning WHEEL. Crap... Edited April 8, 2007 by Maddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kudzu Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Duke by Genesis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rocinante Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 QUOTE (rushgoober @ Apr 8 2007, 04:13 PM) QUOTE (Henri @ Apr 8 2007, 12:32 PM) Yes - Going for the One Just plain awful. Even worse is Yes - 90125 http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f72/rushgoober5/rushgoober6/Yes-90125.jpg Boy, that is one butt-ugly album cover, even by cheesy early 80's graphics standards. I think either Big Generator or Talk is their worst album cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floydfanatic111 Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 In fact, some of the albums which had bad art were equally bad albums: Cases in point of both the cover art and albums sucking bad: Zee Identity (that album is the worst of all Pink Floyd solo efforts) Nick Mason Profiles (boring album save A Lie For a Lie) Billy Squier Signs of Life Styx Cyclorama Genesis Calling All Stations Queensryche Q2K KISS Hot In The Shade Kansas Freaks of Nature Judas Priest Jugulator Iron Maiden Virtual XI Metallica - Load, Reload and St Anger Rolling Stones Dirty Work Bruce Springsteen Seeger Sessions Aerosmith - all 90s albums Bad Company - Dangerous Age Black Sabbath - Forbidden Boston - Corporate America Deep Purple Slaves and Masters ELP In the Hot Seat Yes Big Generator and Talk, all suck both the cover and music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceMcc Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Tom Cochrane - Mad Mad World. Terrible album cover, but great album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfratt Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Dare I say The Beatles (aka The White Album)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circumstantial tree Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 For Rush, I'd have to say "Vapor Trails". A flying meatball does not inspire. The new one for Snakes and Arrows, unfortunately, doesn't either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuppetKing2112 Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 QUOTE (mfratt @ Apr 8 2007, 08:01 PM) Dare I say The Beatles (aka The White Album)? The extreme minimalist vibe was part of the point. And I'll second Snakes & Arrows...even if I don't know if it's a great album yet, it probably will be, and the cover is quite lackluster by Rush's standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Black sabbath - Master of Reality. Incredible album, cack cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soni Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 QUOTE (Ru5h F@n @ Apr 9 2007, 12:38 AM) Snakes And Arrows. I was hoping for the highway one instead of the board game. we don't know if it's such a great album YET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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