LEAST favorite album cover

[sitboaf]

Grace Under Pressure edged out Permanent Waves for best album cover, in what quickly became a two-horse race.

 

But, what is the worst Rush album cover?

 

The original album cover is cheesy, but it's SO so cheesy that it makes me love it more.

 

My vote goes to Hemispheres. It looks like a grade school project to me.

[HomesickAlien]

Hold Your Fire

 

[Cyclonus X-1]

Power Windows. Worst album, worst cover.

[sitboaf]

QUOTE

Hold Your Fire

 

Yeah, the '80s were so red and black, weren't they? Maybe Rush was going for "iconic." Perhaps a Dark-Side-Of-The-Moon simplicity.

But you're right. It's just kinda boring.

Edited August 15, 2012 by sitboaf

[Shreddy Lee]

I had to go with Presto. It's just...

[Bastille Dave]

HYF. It's just......nothing.

[New World Kid]

Caress of Steel for me.

 

Firstly, there's so much going on in the center graphic that it's hard to tell what is pictured. Then you factor in an error where the "steel" came out gold. Yeah, it's that one.

[HowItIs]

Counterparts. Barely. It could have been a bit more... MORE.

[OGr8imL84AD8inF8sBlackSedan]

CA...It's just a big ugly mess.

[micgtr71]

I never liked the first album with the color.

[micgtr71]

oops...hit the wrong button. I voted for FBN. Never did like that cover.

[HalfwayToGone]

HYF, hands down for me. absolutely bland aside from the bright red color of it.

[t2s]

VT

 

[bluefox4000]

Presto......just....no, guys. And I love the album

[GeddyLeeRoth]

HYF. I can't explain it, but there is something slightly nauseating about it.

[metaldad]

HYF.

[J2112YYZ]

Hold Your Fire.

 

I don't get the cover at all. Just about every other cover fits in with the album title but that cover doesn't fit with anything or make sense. The picture inside the album booklet of the guy juggling the fireballs would've have been much better. Gooffier, yes, but much better.

Edited August 16, 2012 by J2112YYZ

[Geddyleegenes]

I can understand all the votes for HYF and I agree it's a bad cover. I probably would have gone with that if it hadn't been for the awful cover of...

 

"Snakes and Arrows" - I just find it a huge disappointment. Not even a Hugh Syme creation. Just a print of an old work. Nothing exciting about it. Too light in color. Other artwork associated with the album is so much better. The cover of SAA Live is great.

 

I wasn't so hot on "Clockwork Angels" either until I realized that the twisted face of the Watchmaker is smack in the middle. Now that's cool. (I know. I know. Others don't see it. I do and I always will!)

[treeduck]

QUOTE (micgtr71 @ Aug 15 2012, 04:52 AM)

oops...hit the wrong button. I voted for FBN. Never did like that cover.

You think Fly By Night has the worst cover?

 

Hate owls or something?

 

[treeduck]

Another vote for HYF...

 

They should have gone with the fire juggler on the inside sleeve as the front cover, it makes more sense RE the title too...

[treeduck]

Why are so many people voting for Caress of Steel? It's a good cover.

 

[DistantEarlyRushFan]

If you voted for CoS or CP, kill yourself. You just don't get it

[rushgoober]

I came really close to voting for their debut, but even that was exciting in its crudeness for a young band that couldn't afford a better artist! It actually corresponds well with the music - a young band that wasn't necessarily that mature yet, but were extremely exciting and enthusiastic.

 

I voted for HYF. It's like they weren't even trying on that one. It's seriously boring and unimaginative. They should have used the guy juggling the fireballs as the cover. There are similarities with CA - the images used inside the CD booklet are mostly a lot more interesting than the actual cover, but at least it had something going on, whereas the HYF cover is a real dud.

[Khan]

HYF for sure.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/KublaKhan/Whoop-Dee-Doo2.gif

[circumstantial tree]

Counterparts or Roll the Bones. CP simply is boring and the color scheme on RTB looks like "brown smelly stuff". Edited August 15, 2012 by circumstantial tree