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100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. "Metal Box" & "London Calling"
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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RE: 100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. The Ramones/ ABC
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Rolling Stone:
American Beauty (1970) - Grateful Dead
Book:
Houses of the Holy (1973) - Led Zeppelin
The Grateful Dead cover is a little bland, but it has a character of it’s own, I guess.
The Zeppelin cover, apparently based on Arthur C. Clarke, was banned in Spain and maybe some other countries to, due to the ‘child pornography.’ Right. Iconic, but not as stupendous as people keep saying.
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somethingfamiliar
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Wasn't there a joke in Bill and Ted about HoH? They're announcing Socrates being charged with corrupting the youth "like Led Zeppelin on the cover of the Houses of the Holy album"? Something like that. Too grainy and blown out for my tastes. The blown highlights make it very evocative of the song "No Quarter" for me; it fits that song really well. I hope the cover of III is on the list.
The other one's just a logo.
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RE: 100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. Grateful Dead's "Am. Beauty"/Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the H
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I think I remember reading on Wikipedia that the psychadelicness of Houses of the Holy was an accident, that the colors were normal before but something happened when it was reprinted that made it like it is. It's pretty cool, and the music itself makes it one of their, in my opinion, three greatest albums (the others being IV and Physical Graffiti).
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Date Posted:
6/13/06 12:30pm
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RE: 100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. Grateful Dead's "Am. Beauty"/Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the H
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Don't like the "American Beauty" cover, but the other has a certain eerie beauty.
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7/3/06 9:51pm
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RE: 100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. Grateful Dead's "Am. Beauty"/Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the H
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Well, the reports of my death have been greatly exagerated.
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56.
Rolling Stone:
Brain Salad Surgery (1973) - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Book:
Hub-Tones (1962) - Freddy Hubbard
Oh, man, it’s that stupid fellatio cover again . . .
The other one however, I absolutely love to death. It’s simple, but it seems the quintessence of jazz: all those black bars and then one is depressed. Hubbard was, of course, a trumpet player . . . and the colors are brilliant, white cover, black bars, orange splash of color. This is jazz in visual form.
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RE: 100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. E, L & P: "Brain Salad Surgery" & Freddy Hubbards's "Hub-Tone
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I certainly hope so... 
Re: the covers. Don't like the first one, and I wonder why it ended up on both lists.
The jazz one has great elegance.
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duende
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RE: 100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. E, L & P: "Brain Salad Surgery" & Freddy Hubbards's "Hub-Tone
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I like Giger, but ELP is a mentally challenged band. The sole fact that it's them brings down the cover for me.
That said, they should've let Giger go with the original version, in which it was far more apparent that it is supposed to be a penis poised below those lips.
The second is great and reminds me of the ebonies on the pi-aner.
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TheBoogieMan
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7/4/06 7:19am
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Freddie Hubbard was a great trumpeter. I haven't heard the album, but that cover is terrific. Are the black lines in fact "Hub-tones"?
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55.
Rolling Stone:
Turn Back (1981) - Toto
Book:
In No Sense? Nonsense! (1987) - The Art of Noise
Well, I actually really like the first one. It's simple and I love the way the name is part of the image. And it's quite shocking really, how only the name and one line can evoke so much emotion. Yeah, this is a great cover.
The other one . . . well . . . no.
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RE: 100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. Toto's "Turn Back"; The Art of Noise
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The Toto one is extremely witty. The second one is way too pleased with itself.
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7/21/06 8:55pm
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54.
Rolling Stone:
Cats Under the Stars (1974) - Jerry Garcia Band
Book:
Invisible Storm (1992) - Edward Vesala & Sound and Fury
My opinion:
Two really good ones.
Invisible Storm suffers from the quality of the picture. In large size, it's a stunning picture.
Cats Under the Stars I just really, really like. The black and gold lettering, the blue and red sno-cone ( ) and the regal cat up there on top . . . I just really like that one.
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RE: 100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. "Cats Under the Stars" & "Invisible Storm"
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Cats has an interesting semi-deco style.
I liked the other one a lot, too.
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duende
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7/22/06 7:15pm
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RE: 100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. "Cats Under the Stars" & "Invisible Storm"
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I'm flatlining.
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7/22/06 7:46pm
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I'm pretty neutral about the first one, but the second one is pretty damn cool.
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Date Posted:
7/26/06 1:14pm
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RE: 100 Greatest Album Covers: Disc. "Cats Under the Stars" & "Invisible Storm"
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53.
Book:
It's a Beautiful Day (1969) - It's a Beautiful Day
Rolling Stone:
Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (1979) - Stevie Wonder
Well, the first one is a bit twee. Intentional irony does little for me.
The second one, bizarre album and origin aside, is actually pretty cool. Simple and calm.
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