In the Prog Seat: Our Favorite Album Covers!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2023
- Join the In the Prog Seat crew as they show off their favorite progressive rock album covers!
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You guys should do a show on favourite Prog songs by bands that aren’t Prog
Crime of the Century. Best album cover. Fits the music.
My favorite of all time is Caravan "In the Land of Grey and Pink"
One of the best and most creative covers out there.
I know they're not prog ,but hipgnosis excelled with the cover for the album FIRST OFFENCE by BUNK DOGGER.
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire of the Unknown Origin is a trippy, cool looking cover.
I think I recall Pete wearing that T-Shirt it is fucking awesome! Had that cd longbox artwork hanging in my teenage bedroom.
Nice to have Canz on the show!
Always enjoy listening to him.
Really enjoyed the episode everyone!
👍
I love albums covers that adequately represent the music.
Five covers I like not mentioned:
Camel - Nude
Gnidrolog - Lady Lake
Pink Floyd - Animals
Khan - Space Shanty
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Roger Dean for the win!!!
Best cover artist for arguably the best prog band.
I would definitely have to go with…
1. jethro tull: aqualung
2. Yes: Relayer
3. King crimson: In the court of the crimson king
4. Kansas: song for America
5. Rush: fly by night
6. Jethro Tull: thick as a brick
Huge fan of the HVS energy that Chris is adding to the show on this episode; a sentence like "they're havin' an orgy, bro!" is something you'd never hear from any of ITPS's recurring crew members
ah forgot to mention *jean michel jarre's oxygene und equinox*
Asia - Sea Serpent by Roger Dean
Asia Asia - that dragon rocks. Roger Dean must win by percentage !
My 5 today are, but like you say could change on a weekly basis.
Threshold - Legends of The Shires
Lifesigns - Cardington (because I love Aviation History)
Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Arena - Pepper's Ghost
HM: Yes - Fragile
That's cool that Anthony knows Cans. It's hard to pick my favorite covers. So, I'll just pull a Catino, and say that I like anything by Hipgnosis and Roger Dean. BTW, the drummer on David Gilmour was Willie Wilson. Both Rick Wills and Willie were in Gilmour's pre-Pink Floyd band Joker's Wild. Eric was right. Dennis is primarily a tattoo artist. I'm Facebook friends with some of the members, as well as Rich's wife. One of them mentioned that. Chris should be on more Prog Seat episodes
Hey Pete , The artist that painted Rush: Fly By Night cover also painted the four Kiss solo album covers which of course are iconic.
Cool, did not know that!
Love all of those covers
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering. It’s my favorite of all my prog album covers, capturing the moody, timeless music within. With the original record packaging, there was a cool inner sleeve that had lyrics and extensions of the cover art too.
@KenGolden @ChuckAlvarez Abdul Mati Klarwein was one of my favorite cover artists. Mati's first foray into the world of album covers ended with a glorious failure. In the late 50's he was listening to jazz, a time when new artists were exploring the intersection of jazz, classical, and ethnic music. One of them was Yusef Lateef, Mati created a painting of Yusef amid colorful flowers and sent it to the musician, labeled as "Original Portrait of the Great Yusef Lateef Hand Painted by Abdul Mati". Lateef, a devoted Muslim, liked not only the painting but also the fact that it was created by a person named Abdul, undoubtedly a man of color. "Dear Bro" he replied to the artist, inviting him to meet and discuss future album covers after a set at the Five Spot jazz club in New York City. What ensued could have finished Klarwein's album art career that night. When the concert was over, Mati addressed himself to Yusef, he looked at him but continued his discussion with others at the table. So he addressed him again and introduced himself as the artist who'd sent him the portrait. Once again he was ignored and this time he didn't even look up..."The reason for the rude behavior on Lateef's behalf was simple: to him, Klarwein was of the wrong color: Prejudice works both ways. Mati was friends with Jimi Hendrix and was working on a painting for a record cover to an album that was never finished, where Jimi and Gil Evans were collaborating. Unfortunately, Jimi died during the recording and it was never released. Demand for Mati Klarwein's art in the music business increased with the popularity of Miles Davis and Santana covers. More albums featured his work in the next few years, some commissioned and some based on existing paintings. In 1970 there was a cover for Buddy Miles - 'Message to the People", and Jackie Mclean - "Demon's Dance", 1971 The Chamber Brothers - "Grain of Sand", and in 1972 Earth, Wind & Fire - "Last Days and Time", and Osibisa - "Heads".
About two years ago I was outbid on a Mati Klarwein painting. It heavily featured cats and I’m a dog person not into cats so I dropped out of the bidding. The painting didn’t sell for as much as I would have thought. Nice piece. I hope it found a good home.
Glad to see the"angry man with the beard" on the show.
Franco Battiato "Sulle Corde Di Aries" is an absolute favourite. In addition to being an avant garde masterpiece that sounds like a cross between 'Meddle' and Zappa's abstract experimentation circa 'Uncle Meat', the front cover is super spooky and I used it as my company avatar pix for over 10+ years. Really really freaked people out!!!
Surprised no-one chose any Camel, Alan Parsons Project, Gong or Tangerine Dream. I really likesome of the Renaissance covers also
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Is pretty iconic
Not on the panel, but I got yer' Camel covered. (Moonmadness) (but they have several great covers)
Kraftwerk?? Yuk!
Don't know if George likes CTI records, but they've got some stunning covers.
Stephen - loved your shout-out for Liam Wong.
Greenslade's debut
Warrior On The Edge Of Time - Hawkwind
Time Honoured ghosts - Barclay James Harvest
Moonmadness - Camel
ELO ll - ELO (U.S. version)
Trespass - Genesis
Recycled - Nektar
A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren
I have an idea for a show: Prog albums you’ve never heard because the bad reviews are good enough for you.
Guitar Shop - Jeff Beck, Watch - Manfred Mann's Earth Band - two of my favorites!
Thank you Chad for a professional presentation of your pics. Had absolutely no glare because you use digital imagery. Fantastic. I think would be really cool if you could turn Ken onto your presentation system for his New Release Show so he would get a clear professional presentation of his new products.
I’ve showed them how. Tough to teach these old dogs new tricks. 😅
Good suggestion. Chad is going to teach this dinosaur how to do it.
@@lasercd7851 Not to start a fight, but as much as I like Chad's digital imagery, I prefer when you guys hold up the releases, especially vinyl. There's just some warmth to seeing the physical copies, despite the glare and stuff. I'm sure as many people agree as they disagree, though.
Classic Anthony head shaking at Ken's avoidance of paintings with birds in them
I have Boat on the Sea on Vinyl. It was a Kickstarter project. Sounds amazing.
Here's my five (different from any mentioned by the panel):
1. Phish - Rift
2. Magma - Attahk
3. Alan Parson's project: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
4. Captain Beefheart - Trout mask Replica
5. Can - Ege Bamyasi (I know this is divisive...but iconic)
Honorable mentions: Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull, how come no one mentioned this?), Blues for Allah (Grateful Dead), Wish you were here (Pink Floyd), Leftoverture (Kansas)
There used to be a prog museum on Second Life, sadly not there anymore. Where you could actually go into the house on the Cactus Choir album. It was full over cover art from other prog albums. I also remener a Genesis Garden taken from The Nursery Cryme album. There was also some interactive stuff. You could step into the 2112 and Tales From Topographic Oceans albums. Anyone else remembers it? Been a gew years ago though.
Did Pedro welcome you in 😄
pendragon 90's album covers are great and King Crimson has many great covers but lizard might be my favorite for the medieval tapestry.
one obscure one that caught my eye and i love it a lot was Terutsugu Hirayama - Castle of noi
An amazing cover! I also love the classic and iconic simplicity of Lark's Tongues in Aspic.
@@toddhill7483 i love that one to. id get a shirt of that one
Love the prog seat shows guys I appreciate the time it takes putting the shows together with everyone, look forward to more shows 👍🏻
👍 we appreciate everyone who watches and comments!
@@ericporter344 thanks Eric, i’m a big Echolyn fan like you 👍🏻
@@FundamentalsUK can’t wait for their new one!!
@@ericporter344 what’s your favourite, it’s between, as the world, suffocating the bloom ( first one I got) and self titled , windows. I do really enjoy Mei, although you have to invest a lot of time on that, worth it though.
@@FundamentalsUK As The World…you never forget your first 😉
Yes!! Canz is here! You’re awesome man
Hey, thanks dude!
Travis Smith´s Work is fantastic, Opeth: Still Life, Damnation, Deliverance etc., Katatonia: Dead End Kings, Death: The Sound of Perseverance
In the court of the crimson king is stunning but i was terrified of it as a kid...thankfully the colours at the top made it stand out and i knew when to stop looking at my dads albums!
Hawkwind Space Ritual box set. There are 11 discs. One disc is a Blu-Ray. The original album remastered. The original album was made from 2 concerts. 3 concerts were recorded, but 1 not used in the album due to a technical problem. All 3 concerts are included in the set (the tech problem with the 3rd show fixed up I think). Then a 50th Ann. stereo remix of the original album. The Blu-Ray is different sound versions of the original album. It’s pretty well the same track listing on all the discs, but the shows have different improvisations. You have to be a big Hawkwind fan for this, which I am. I just got through the first full show (Liverpool). Lovin’ it! There’s also a book, with somewhat blurry photos of the band on stage & a poster.
Crisis? What Crisis?, Smallcreep's Day, Morte Macabre-Symphonic Holocaust, Livestock, Thick As A Brick. I need to be an amateur guest picker some night!
My favorite album covers:
1. Kokkyou Junreika by J.A.Caesar
2. Music inspired by lord of the rings by Bo Hansson
3. Framtiden by Älgarnas Trädgård
4. Land of Grey by Caravan
5. Dedicato A Frazz by Semiramis
6. 4visions by Eskaton
7. Woyaya by Osibisa
8. Kebenekajse ll by Kebenekajse
9. Red Queen by Gryphon
10. Electric Silence by Dzyan
11. Ocean by Eloy
12. Geafar by Haikara
13. Being by Wigwam
14. The world of Kan Mikami by Kan Mikami
15. Days of Summer Gone by Chris
16. Lady Lake by Gnidrolog
gunfire upon the first mention of roger dean
Gun - Dean's debut cover !!
Alright, my number 1 is every single Roger Dean Cover. (Mainly the ones from Yes and Uriah Heep)
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
Styx - Equinox
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Messin
King Crimson - Wake of Poseidon/Islands
Rush - 2112
Uriah Heep - Salisbury (Demons and Wizards is with Roger Dean)
ELO - A New World Record
Hawkwind - Hawkwind
Prog Metal:
Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
Tool - Opiate (Newer one)
Mastodon - Remission
Opeth - Orchid
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream (Would be Closure/Continuation if it weren't for that white box)
Any album with artwork by Mati Klarwein is a special album cover. My favorite album cover of all time is Jon Hassell's Forth World Volume 2: Dream Theory in Malaya. Mati Klarwein's art, titled "Alexander's Dream", adorns that cover and it is extraordinary. Other choices for me would be Pink Floyd's "Animals", Faust's first album, Yes' "Tales from Topographic Oceans" and King Crimson's "Lizard".
Floyd - Animals, Rush - Fly By Night, Jethro Tull - Stormwatch, ELO - Out of the Blue, Kansas - Leftoverture
For Roger Dean i like the first two Osibisa album covers, especially Woyaya with it's flying elephants.
Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Lizard
In the Land of Grey and Pink (Caravan)
Dark Side of the Moon
Moonmadness (Camel)
Animals, BSS, Elegy, Farwell to Kings, ITCOTCK, In Search of Space, Rotter's Club, Relayer, Argus, Phaedra.
VdGG's album H to He cover art has always intrigued me and I really like it. Still Life is another album by them that has a nice cover art.
Willie Wilson, not Wilcox, plays on Gilmour's s/t. British guy, from a Gilmour-produced band (Cochise ?). The mistake did get us a funny Ken Golden anecdote about the other Willie.
Almost all of my top ten would be Hipgnosis or Roger Dean covers. But when Bundles was mentioned, I thought of Eberhard Weber’s Colours of Chloe. It’s great, as are many ECM covers from the period.
Another great discussion would be "Worst Album Covers on Great Albums". I can't tell you how frustrating it is for me to love an album but only have a bland or boring album cover to look at while it's playing. Not to mention how it hurts sales of that album (or it did back in the day when people actually browsed through products in brick-and-mortar stores). A great cover can inspire a buying decision just as much as a terrible cover can cause a customer to overlook an album.
Where is "Thick as a Brick" - what a brilliant cover!
eric koodoos for the wobbler love it
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Nothing can beat the Roger Dean covers after that Hipgnosis with great covers
Yes every Album from fragile to Relayer
I think Hipgnosis did an excellent job with Going For The One. It's like an urban version of a Dean cover. Tormato on the other hand...
Good episode. I ordered a vinyl copy of Amorphous Androgynous right after I watched the show.
The first one to come to mind was Comus - "First Utterance". Very weird and creepy.
Basically all the Mark Wilkinson designed Marillion albums.
Momentary Lapse of Reason. Every bed is real. Storm literally had hundreds of them on a beach in Devon.
Division Bell. Because I pass that scene every day on my way to work, (minus the heads). I have a photo of me with the heads when they appeared at the Their Mortal Remains exhibition.
My Top Five Would Have To Be:
1) Santana - Lotus (1974)
2) Weather Report - Black Market (1976)
3) Miles Davis - Agharta (1975) [North American Edition]
4) Herbie Hancock - Flood (1975)
5) Yes - Tales Of Topographic Oceans (1973)
JT A Passion Play is pretty trippy.
" Where were his spectacles?" 🤣🤣🤣
Italian band Le Orme- Uomo Di Pezza album cover is beautiful.
Two new album covers- Caligonaut's- Magnified As Giants and the Baroness's album "Stone". The lead singer for Baroness paints all their covers and the new album is my favorite.
Interesting show big thanks to everyone for showing their favourite album covers. Still a couple of shows, to catch up with yet.
1. KC - In The Wake of Poseidon
2. Asia - XXX + Aura
3. Moody Blues - EGBDF
4. Pendragon - Love Over Fear
5. Klaus Schulze - TimeWind
Wilderun: veil of imagination. A dead, twisted, fossilized looking tree covered in flowers bursting with color in the middle of a field.
Blood Incantation: hidden history of the human race. 1970s sci-fi artwork by a guy named Bruce Pennington.
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Hawkwind - Warrior On the Edge of Time
Not really prog but have to go with Tea for the Tillerman, especially since he did it himself. Mona Bon Jakon and Teaser and the Firecat were pretty cool as well.
So much great stuff from back in the day, but have to echo Steven’s pick of a “new” one, Script for a Jester’s Tear, my favourite of the Marillion covers he did. Has to be the vinyl version though.
Like so many of the panel, Relayer is my favourite RD cover, it just fits so well with the music.
Grave New World by The Strawbs, the vinyl cover with the three panel gatefold with the massive picture inside and great artwork on the front. It also came with a cool book with artwork and lyrics, something that always adds to cover.
On the Threshold of a Dream, my favourite Phil Travers cover for The Moodies, my first ever album and the one that got me into prog. Another one with a cool book, early copies had it stapled into the cover, mine didn’t and I think I prefer it. My copy was also thankfully clarifoil free - anyone old enough to remember that?
Honourable mentions …
Nursery Cryme, which Christian mentioned. Not the best artist and the band were unhappy with the Foxtrot cover, but this one was just perfect as a cover and fit in with the music.
I have the original Lateralus CD that Chuck mentioned, really creative use of the CD format where ordinary pictures don’t usually work as well as on vinyl.
Wish you were here must deserve a call out for those amazing photos, done for real without photoshopping, and representing all those albums where you got all the bells and whistles like coming in a bag, postcards, stickers etc.
Surprised Yessongs didn’t get a mention.
Loads of stuff by Travis Smith, who I think got a passing mention.
Land of Grey and Pink, mentioned by Ken
The guy who did those weird Hieronymus Bosch type paintings for Cathedral.
Not prog, but those crazy flying elephant covers Roger Dean did for Osibisa.
Great show, thanks Gentlemen.
My top 5 would be like this:
1. The Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (wanted to chose I Robot but Tales is the best Hipgnosis cover imo)
2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
3. Nektar - Remember The Future
4. Kansas - Kansas
5. Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
The best album cover artist currently for my money is Ukraine artist Igor Sokolskiy who does covers for the Ukraine prog band Karfagen. He is the modern Rodney Matthews. His imagination is off the charts.
Ethos- Ardour is a classic, beautifully prog cover!
Just off the top...
Golden Earring - To The Hilt
FM - Black Noise
UFO - No Heavy Petting
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Beatles - Revolver
King's X - King's X
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
Atticus Fault - Atticus Fault
Well, this is a prog show, and UFO isn’t a prog band. Great Hipgnosis art? Yes.
Weird al yankovik -running with scissors
Roger Dean had an exhibit and spoke prior to the Yes concert tonight at MGM National Harbor. Very interesting presentation.
Much like Steven's love of variations on an idea, I love the three Henry Cow albums with the sock. You all mentioned most of my favorites, but I'll also mention Jade Warrior, Floating World; Gentle Giant, In a Glass House (with the transparency); Genesis, Selling England by the Pound; Caravan, In the Land of Grey and Pink; Wobbler, From Silence to Somewhere, and Thick as a Brick for how much fun it is.
I don't think you can beat 'Close to the Edge' - no, not the inside gatefold, the graduated green cover with the band and album logos. Simple but, as the other Ken says, it stands out when you're flicking through the bins, partly due to the logos being at the top rather than the bottom. Other Roger Dean faves are Gun, Osibisa's 'Woyawa' and Motown Chartbusters Volume 6 (not remotely prog) though I could mention at least a dozen. Best non-Dean is Flash 'In the Can' - don't judge me!
Another cool thing about the CTTE cover is that the initial versions of it were textured--almost like a leather grain on the outside cover. They seemed to stop that on later pressings, I guess to cut costs.
My top 5 prog covers:
1) Peter Gabriel -:Scratch
2)Elp - Brain Sallad Surgery
3)10cc - Deceptive Bends
4)Genesis - Live
5) Yes - Topographic Oceans
Wasn’t the greatest album but I got lost in the cover of moody blues long distance voyager
Just good time ❤
Fragile - Yes
First album cover that comes to mind is Brain Salad Surgery by ELP. Some of my favourite album art of any genre period.
Outside of Pink Floyd, my favourite (also by Hipgnosis) is The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and not just the front cover but the entire LP package. I love the glimpes into Rael's journey and all the quirky Hipgnosis graphics. Their "surrealist realism" as you might call it is just wonderful to me.
Enigmatic Calling is my favorite album of all time - currently, that could change, as Pete knows. Thanks for mentioning Pagan's Mind, George!!
Cool covers, as well as good albums, no doubt
I like Arik Roper covers like The Weirding from Astra. Pretty much blown away by many stoner, doom, psych album covers nowadays. Like the recent Superskull cover by Black Rainbows or the whole sci-fi packaging of the Ummon vinyl by Slift. Or the art of Zdzisław Beksiński (Bellwitch, Samsara Blues Experiment, King Buffalo).Fantastic stuff!
The Keys album from Mark Mangold and Jake E has great cover art, with according the booklet, a secret riddle in it that I haven't discovered yet..... I also love the Kite Parade - "Retro" artwork. (Just to name two newer releases 😀).
going to go by only albums that I own. on vinyl.
5. Genesis - Nursery Cryme - croquet with human heads? a perfect illustration showing a pastoral scene with an undercurrent of menace like Peter Gabriel's lyrics
4. Art Bears - Winter Songs - made to look like a medieval manuscript, it reflects the old English folk thrown into an art rock blender
3. National Health - s/t - a hospital bed pov photo with band members and nurses and a random kid. the kid and a nurse are featured on the back, rocking out on a stage
2. Renaissance - Turn of the Cards - a Hipgnosis concept with some fun Tarot designs
1. Richard Wahnfried - Time Actor - a Peter Nagel painting with a baby, cups, and striped amorphous stripes
Lacking Hipgnosis / Storm Thorgerson representation in my opinion.
(And for those who are into H.R. Giger I suggest the cover of the Magma album Attahk.)
fantastic show i love album art maybe my favourite is the androgenous one
Chad, on your recommendation I looked up Captain Awkward by Moron Police, and it's a trip! Like a weird love child of Aha, Frank Zappa, and Creed. Oh, and for album covers, I'd mention the Moody Blues cover for Question of Balance, since nobody else seems to be. But I still can't believe none of you guys brought up Thick as a Brick.
JT - Minstrel in the Gallery
Love these:
Genesis-Nursery Cryme
Yes-Relayer
Eloy-Ocean
Gentle Giant-Octopus
The Moody Blues-Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Caravan-In the Land of Grey and Pink
Nektar-A Tab in the Ocean
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
Steve Hackett-Voyage of the Acolyte
Frank Zappa-Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Andy Edwards includes that Passport sleeve among the worst ever. Hilarious video.
Anything and everything by Rodney Mathews.
Some that I think the art conveys the sound of the album :
Arachnoid - S/T
Harmonium - Si On Avait Besoin D'une Cinquième Saison
Dr. Z - Three Parts To My Soul (Spiritus, Manes Et Umbra)
Murphy Blend - S/T
Solaris - Marsbéli Krónikák (Martian Chronicles)
* the first _Gentle Giant_ album where the giant holds the guys in the palms of his hands
* the first Kraftwerk with the orange cone, in its simplicity
* the ear on _Manfred Mann’s_ Roaring Silence
* the miniatures on _King Crimson_ Lizard
* the cow head on _Moving Gelatine Plates_ The World of Genius Hans
Some 10 years ago I saw a book with the same cover as Kansas Point of Know Return. I can’t recall the author and the title.
Check out Moonlit Sailor album covers...and also Karfagen.
For the front cover i.e. artwork: Argus - Wishbone Ash
For the whole album cover: Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull ....there is so much to like and read and it's hilarious!
I think it's a rule -- Roger Dean album art makes your record sound better!
Todd Rundgren Utopia 1st record..eyeball
Great show. Now get ready for Album covers that definitely represent the music (strictly alphabetical):
1) Bachdenkel - "Lemmings"
2) Harmonium - "Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquieme Saison"
3) Levitation - "Need for Not"
4) The Spacious Mind - "Garden of a Well Fed Head" (well any of their die-cut covers)
5) David Torn - "Cloud About Mercury"
Suprised no one choose any Van Der Graff Generator, Pawn Hearts, H to He, The Least We Can Do or Still Life.
Klaatu - Hope
In no particular order, Santana-Caravanserai. Utopia-Ra. Return To Forever-Romantic Warrior. Klaus Shultz’s/Andreas Grosser-Babel. Jeff Beck-Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop. Frank Zappa-The Grand Wazoo.