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Hugh Syme tells his 11 favourite album covers


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Why the heck should we care about his opinion?

 

Whether you like it or not, heres my top 5

 

1. Permanent Waves

2. Fly By Night

3. Moving Pictures

4. A Farewell to Kings

5. Hemispheres

 

Honorable mentions - Signals, GUP, VT, RTB and TFE

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The list is just chronological, not ranked.

 

Which is why Signals is listed between HYF and RTB.

 

Exactly.

No there's too many missed out.

 

What do you mean? He picks his favorite 10 and then lists them in chronological order, minus one.

Yeah so they're ranked.

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My top five:

 

1. A Farewell To Kings

2. Caress Of Steel

3. Permanent Waves

4. Grace Under Pressure

5. Moving Pictures

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My top five:

 

1. A Farewell To Kings

2. Caress Of Steel

3. Permanent Waves

4. Grace Under Pressure

5. Moving Pictures

AFTK. Great on the outside and great on the inside... :)
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My top five:

 

1. A Farewell To Kings

2. Caress Of Steel

3. Permanent Waves

4. Grace Under Pressure

5. Moving Pictures

AFTK. Great on the outside and great on the inside... :)

 

I find the cover so atmospheric, and almost comical and intense at the same time! Best Rush album, best cover.

 

I love HYF about the same but the same cannot be said for the artwork.

 

I wish I liked FBN more, but I way prefer the eagle on Song For America by Kansas...but your tattoo rules!

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My top five:

 

1. A Farewell To Kings

2. Caress Of Steel

3. Permanent Waves

4. Grace Under Pressure

5. Moving Pictures

AFTK. Great on the outside and great on the inside... :)

 

I find the cover so atmospheric, and almost comical and intense at the same time! Best Rush album, best cover.

 

I love HYF about the same but the same cannot be said for the artwork.

 

I wish I liked FBN more, but I way prefer the eagle on Song For America by Kansas...but your tattoo rules!

Thanks my friend. The more I look at it the more I love it. Glad I pulled the trigger on that one to be honest... :)
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Yeah I think it's funny how people are saying he's wrong and yet it's his opinion.

I'll honestly have to double check and see if I said he was wrong... :)
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anyway, caress of steel, 2112, AFTK, permanent waves, MP and GUP are their best covers. I like power windows a lot...only really cool cover after that one is test for echo

 

We have the same favourites. 2112 would be my sixth favourite.

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Anybody that said Hemispheres....seriously? I mean....I get the tie in to the lyrics of the record, but a giant brain and a naked dude's ass. Not what I want to see on an album cover. No way would I actually have went with that in the end. Edited by presto123
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I love album covers, and the artwork and all the imagery that goes with it - it was a part of the experience back then, as I am proud to be old enough to remember going to the stores that sold records and flipping thru the alphabetical bins ...

 

As far as metal albums - hard rock included - when I was old enough, I started painting the covers on the backs of denim jackets

 

Having Power Windows or pretty much anything else on that list was definitely not cool :D

 

Moving Pictures is OK

 

But the guy with the A Farewell To Kings jacket at the arcade was THE ****

 

Hugh, it is my opinion that your list, and some of your artwork, sucks

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Anybody that said Hemispheres....seriously? I mean....I get the tie in to the lyrics of the record, but a giant brain and a naked dude's ass. Not what I want to see on an album cover. No way would I actually have went with that in the end.

Me either. Never been a fav of mine...
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Anybody that said Hemispheres....seriously? I mean....I get the tie in to the lyrics of the record, but a giant brain and a naked dude's ass. Not what I want to see on an album cover. No way would I actually have went with that in the end.

Me either. Never been a fav of mine...

Phew! Thought I was alone!

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Anybody that said Hemispheres....seriously? I mean....I get the tie in to the lyrics of the record, but a giant brain and a naked dude's ass. Not what I want to see on an album cover. No way would I actually have went with that in the end.

Me either. Never been a fav of mine...

Phew! Thought I was alone!

Love the music but not so much the artwork... :)
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The list is just chronological, not ranked.

 

Which is why Signals is listed between HYF and RTB.

 

Exactly.

No there's too many missed out.

 

What do you mean? He picks his favorite 10 and then lists them in chronological order, minus one.

Yeah so they're ranked.

 

Maybe, but I just think he threw out his top ten in chronological order with one mistake in it.

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Yeah I think it's funny how people are saying he's wrong and yet it's his opinion.

 

they're just expressing their own opinion. it goes without saying that our opinions are our opinions

 

Also, some of us are saying hes wrong in a tounge and cheek way

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