The GOOD album cover thread.
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SiMuLaCrUm
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One of my favourites(Echoes is amazing), but it has my favourite album art. They just don't make album covers like they used to....
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Einherjar86
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I assume you mean D&W ?
First of all it could be seen as a very perverted painting. With the waterfall you are looking at the genitals of a man and woman. So it could simply be a slight of hand by the artist to show the Wizard saying "common everyone and screw". But then there is the tree which is the area of pubic... so I interpret it as being the tree of life from which "the waters" flow. Much of the topic within the record is regarding peace and love, sure it was the tail end of the peace and love hippy thing but this album used the Wizard as they were fabled to help good conquer evil. So I dig deeper and feel that the flowing water comes from the tree, the pinnacle of the painting and represents life and the tree of life and the function from which the seeds of life comes. Took me over 25 years to see that and for what ever reason that was always one of my favorites, so I starred at it plenty when in my teens. It was even painted on a HUGE mural for me by one sweet classmate for our senior ball. When I realized what I was looking at I wondered if she had upon painting it.
It is almost masked by distraction from the eclips of the moon creating a near owl image so I think that is part of why it took so long to see it... but that aint no owl beak... lol
Now I will prolly get a warning for posting porn
That's a pretty deep reading, and pretty cool too.
So then who's the guy on the cover supposed to be? Does he have any relevance, or is he mostly just decoration?
He's "The Wizard" and no those are not demon horns, if you have the album which is larger the entire thing on his head appears to be a fur head gear maybe, same as his boots, not hair, it doesnt lay right to be hair. A full cover fur hat with tails down the sides to the neck, more like a Nordsman would have worn ? The butterfly wings, one I think is a Monark, are a nice touch and the artist captured the swing of his cape as if he just swung around to make his gesture to come along. Lower in the water fall in this picture appears to be a scribbled in face, but Im looking at my album now and that is another small bush. Its right beside the bottom of the shafty looking rock... lol. The album swings open and the back cover is part of the same painting but only contains more plasma looking stuff, space and a few planets and stars.
A interesting side note to this painting is that:
It was released in '72
In '73 ELP presented a painting for Brain Salad Surgery which contained a mans genitalia below a womans face and the record company would not use it and they had to change it to a "shaft of light". However this artist was apparently cleaver enough to disquise things and no one caught it. Like I said it took me decades. Yet if you have the large album its more than obvious what you are looking at onces your eyes and brain finally catch up... lol But I think it contains a deeper meaning than just "sex" or sneaky pornography, though Im sure there was much motivation or coyness to having done that as well. I find NO credits for the cover art anywhere on this album but I think the guy was both crafty and deep. Wait... I see wikipedia credits it to a Roger Dean but mentions nothing of my observation. I should register there and bring light to this subject. This can be saved to files and possibly blown up there for those that want a better look. It might get a bit blurry, mine does, not as good as the full glossy vinyl cover.
I was a serious Heepster in the day, few others amounst my basic age group were into them. Big influence on me, second only to early Zeppelin at that time, I was 14, Tull and Rush came a year or so later to me.
Heres the following record, also '72 and is also supposed to be a Roger Dean painting, Magicians birthday. It appears less deep and little more than a man argueing with or confronting a magic man but there is a woman under or infront of the first flower. Who knows. Maybe the man is the Magician, he has a wand, and he is battling or creating a demon ???? who holds the woman amounst his red blob. Not sure what kind of plants those are, almost wonder if they are poppies or orchids ?
A interesting side note to this painting is that:
It was released in '72
In '73 ELP presented a painting for Brain Salad Surgery which contained a mans genitalia below a womans face and the record company would not use it and they had to change it to a "shaft of light". However this artist was apparently cleaver enough to disquise things and no one caught it. Like I said it took me decades. Yet if you have the large album its more than obvious what you are looking at onces your eyes and brain finally catch up... lol But I think it contains a deeper meaning than just "sex" or sneaky pornography, though Im sure there was much motivation or coyness to having done that as well. I find NO credits for the cover art anywhere on this album but I think the guy was both crafty and deep. Wait... I see wikipedia credits it to a Roger Dean but mentions nothing of my observation. I should register there and bring light to this subject. This can be saved to files and possibly blown up there for those that want a better look. It might get a bit blurry, mine does, not as good as the full glossy vinyl cover.
I was a serious Heepster in the day, few others amounst my basic age group were into them. Big influence on me, second only to early Zeppelin at that time, I was 14, Tull and Rush came a year or so later to me.
Heres the following record, also '72 and is also supposed to be a Roger Dean painting, Magicians birthday. It appears less deep and little more than a man argueing with or confronting a magic man but there is a woman under or infront of the first flower. Who knows. Maybe the man is the Magician, he has a wand, and he is battling or creating a demon ???? who holds the woman amounst his red blob. Not sure what kind of plants those are, almost wonder if they are poppies or orchids ?
The inner fold out jacket to Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach is classic too but I cant find a copy.
Then theres Bold As Love - which I now find out that Jimi wanted American Indian images on accout of his other heritage and due to failure to communicate got Indian images. It still in a way identifies with the picture he was trying to paint with the song Bold as Love. The cover almost represents him as either "the axis" or the prodigy, but I dont believe he considered himself the Axis (hell I know, he was pretty humble about himself). In the song, I believe that was spiritual as native Americans also believed in a single creator. Ironically he was The Axis as far as the new way of looking at the guitar, writing and recording.
Then theres Bold As Love - which I now find out that Jimi wanted American Indian images on accout of his other heritage and due to failure to communicate got Indian images. It still in a way identifies with the picture he was trying to paint with the song Bold as Love. The cover almost represents him as either "the axis" or the prodigy, but I dont believe he considered himself the Axis (hell I know, he was pretty humble about himself). In the song, I believe that was spiritual as native Americans also believed in a single creator. Ironically he was The Axis as far as the new way of looking at the guitar, writing and recording.
OK, further more, how about this, procreation is a natural instinct, and "the Wizard" lives inside ourselves. He is the one we go to when we are in contemplation, which is this other dude in our minds we all talk to from time to time. In my case there are a few and they never shut up... lol. But then perhaps those few are the Demon and the Wizard ?
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Since when are sig sizes an issue? You can triple post all you want...i find it a bit ridiculous but whatever.or one could see a sig that takes up a full screen by someone who also complains about someone elses lenght of posts or post count for no apparent reason to be a bit rediculous.... No ? maybe its just me...
like I said write the mod, he could probably classify that as trolling, maybe you'll get somewhere, who knows
like I said write the mod, he could probably classify that as trolling, maybe you'll get somewhere, who knows
here is a cover i like alot for alice cooper from welcome to my nightmare album
i believe its really great n shows wut the album is really abt...
i believe its really great n shows wut the album is really abt...
ramses
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I have the Roger Dean collector cards, that have all of his paintings with an explanation on the back of the card. I don't remember if he says anything in regards to what does look a little "sexual" in nature on the UH album art. Geiger is the artist for the Brain Salad Surgery artwork. Geiger does a lot of sexually graphic paintings. Another "suggestive album cover is Gentle Giant's 2nd album Aquiring the Taste.
Trust me Rams it aint "a little sexual", save it to pictures and blow it up, you'll see, spitting image of male and female genitals, even has the slit at the head of de paapee, he waa a crafty lad
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Einherjar86
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^I love it when bands use famous paintings for their covers. That's a John Martin painting, and was part of his The Last Judgment triptych, I believe. It's called The Great Day of His Wrath. Fucking epic painting. Another great painting is Dore's Enigma, which appears on the cover of While Heaven Wept's album Of Empire Forlorn:
and the album...
and the album...
ShredHeadJHJ
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Hell yeah, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. That's one of the best dark ambient albums out there too.
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sorry to drag this up but does any other genre of music have a sliding scale of what fits under it that changes over time? It is quite a bizarre idea. I think if a band were ever actually called heavy metal then they are, permanently.
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