Our Favourite Progressive Rock Album Covers! || Episode One
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- Hi all, what are your favourite album covers from these bands? Let us know down below!
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The artists who designed these covers:
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound: Betty Swanwick (1915-1989)
Genesis - Nursery Cryme: Paul Whitehead
Yes - Relayer / Tales of Topographic Oceans: Roger Dean (*1944)
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King: Barry Godber (1946-1970)
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon: Tammo de Jongh, original title: Archetypes or the 12 Faces of Humankind (1967)
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery: H. R. Giger (1940-2014)
ELP - self-titled: Nic Dartnell
Rush - Hemispheres: Hugh Syme
Rush - Fly by Night: Eraldo Carugati
Gentle Giant - self-titled: George Underwood (*1947)
Gentle Giant - Octopus: Roger Dean
Van der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other: Jim Flynn (design) & Ged Grimmel (photo)
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts: Paul Whitehead
Procol Harum - A Salty Dog / self-titled: Dickinson (just that)
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink: Anne Marie Anderson
Pink Floyd - Animals: Roger Waters (final concept)
Pink Floyd - Meddle: Storm Thorgerson
(all according to Wikipedia and Progarchives)
Well said! Important 'cos without the artists there ain't no art
I always loved Ummagumma with the Droste effect picture in picture and the back with the layout of their gear is totally badass. Great topic Niamh!
‘Script for a……’is for me the standout album cover for the genre. It’s still as captivating now as it was when it was first released way back in 1983. There’s something about 2112 too, it’s brilliance lies in it’s simplicity. Can’t remember an album cover appearing on the back of so many denim jackets in the late 70’s/early 80’s and beyond.
Great to see you looking well again Dad! Thanks for the video guys.
The pyramid that appears in the near center background of Topographic Oceans is the Kukulkán Temple a the Pre-hispanic city of Chichen Itza, state of Yucatán, Mexico (at Jon Anderson's request), one of the biggest cities of the Maya civilization (between 8th and 12th centuries AD).
H.R. Giger
Fun fact: The Dead Kennedys included a poster insert into their Frankenchrist LP; the poster image was made by Giger and caused a lot of uproar in the PMRC-era USA in the 80s. I'll leave you to find and view...
Although no one batted an eyelid over it here in the UK. Wish I’d have kept my copy
God bless anti censorship XD
I loved your discussion on prog birds.
Genesis- Trespass
Yes- Tales
King Crimson- Larks Tongues
ELP- Brain Salad Surgery
Rush- 2112
Gentle Giant- In a Glass House
VdGG- Least We Can Do...
Procol Harum- A Salty Dog
Caravan- Land of Grey and Pink
Pink Floyd- Animals
As always a super intelligent and insightful video, luv you guys!
Very good video. In the land of Grey and pink is their third album. The first self titled, everyone seems to ignore it but is very good also. Thanks
Great presentation, and well spoken German words. German Prog Rock next week will be great (Eloy, Triumvirat, Ramses, Subsignal, Vanden Plas, RPWL .......) Schönes Wochenende.☀️🇩🇪
Salty Dog!! I’ve always loved that cover and album, saw it as a kid and it stuck in my head. Great video and choices by you both!🖖🏻
IMO, no prog album art cover can be compared with Jethro Tull's Stand Up. The engraving is superb and the centerfold with the pop-up figures is genius. Top notch job, certainly in 1969.
- Rush: 2112
- Pink Floyd: Animals
- The Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
- Symphonic Slam: Symphonic Slam
- Genesis: A Trick of the Tail
- Strawbs: Hero and Heroine
- Yes: Fragile
- Gentle Giant: Octopus
- Jethro Tull: A Passion Play
- King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
- Supertramp: Crime of the Century
- Tangerine Dream: Zeit
- Electric Light Orchestra: Eldorado
- Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow
- Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygene
- Vangelis: Spiral
My picks:
Genesis: Foxtrot
Yes: Fragile
King Crimson: Islands
ELP: Brain Salad Surgery
Rush: Fly by Night
Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
VDGG: The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
Prcol Harum: Shine On Brightly
Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink
Pink Floyd: Division Bell
Fripp called the Islands cover "feeble"....
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Man I could listen to you guys talk about album artwork forever.
Great video, I could’ve done with at least another half hour of this.
Enjoying the 2 of you reviewing , excellent keep up the good work 👍
A great topic, My favourite prog covers are Dark Side Of The Moon, Fly By Night ( love that owl) and Octavarium is cool. I am guessing Monday's video is about German prog bands?
I love the Fly By Night artwork as well
Looks like it cooled off a bit. Great to see you two. I love great album covers.
I think the Dutch painter Carel Willink would have been great at album covers for prog bands. Look at his painting "Simeon the stylite". (no sun in the Netherlands).
Ha! ☺️👌...What was said is All True ...Fun Stuff
I kept telling a friend of mine that the Meddle album is an ear under water and she either couldn’t see it or was just trying to annoy me the more I told her ‘IT’S AN EAR!’ 😄. Admittedly I didn’t ‘see’ it originally when I bought it back in the early 70s, and it was only when I opened it up and turned it end on that I saw what it was.
As always I enjoyed the video on the covers very much. It is amazing to see that even today ELP and all the other bands have the same emotional impact on people as on me nearly fifty years ago. Kind regards to your father from Europe and you may listen to Spartacus by Triumvirat when you like ELP.
As a package, and in it's totality ? I love The Lamb !! Just so much to absorb & get into.... But artwork ? Yes' Roger Dean artwork, hands down. I had the pleasure to speak to him via phone at the 1st Yes Convention, along with Alan White. This was in Cherry Hill, NJ, what was it ?.... 1984 or 5 ? 9012Live was the current offering at that time.....
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I couldn't remember at first, either...H.R. Giger! I think ELP captured the whole Post-Apocalyptic and Steampunk vibe before we had movies and stuff like that. BSS is definitely one of my top few covers and I really love "The Lamb" cover, but I think my VERY favorite cover, from my semi-official favorite album, is Quadrophenia, which I consider to be pretty Progressive. Other awesome covers from other kinds of early '70s music were the early Elton John and Cat Stevens albums. Another favorite cover, from the '60s is Magical Mystery Tour! I actually think Stevens/Yusuf was pretty progressive in creating "World Music" in songs like Peace Train and Angelsea LONG before almost anyone else. I just view the late '60s-early '70s as an extremely ambitious musical time...
The sleeve of the Meddle-album shows an ear. Just open up the sleeve and hold it upright. And you will see it.
My favour of the Pink Floyd album covers is Dark Side of the Moon. I like this symbolic prism. But I also like the cover of Atom Heart Mother. This cow is somewhat freaky.
Great show once again. I like Yes’s cover for Close to the Edge (maybe the definition of a simple but effective prog rock album cover). I have always loved the Foxtrot cover. Crimson’s Discipline would be my pick. The Caravan cover reminds me of one of my favorite novels, and a very proggy book by Mervyn Peake, which I recommend highly- Titus Groan. Oh, and I always see the head of a giraffe when I look at Meddle.
Great choices. Some others I truly love:
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a blank planet
King Crimson - Leviathan
Mastodon - Leviathan
CAN - Tago Mago
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt.2
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland
Opeth - Sorceress
Beardfish - Mammoth
Genesis - A Trick of The Tail
Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine
"Seek for the sword that was broken,
In Imladris it dwells" ...Whoops! You guys have time warped me back over 50 years to my college days with the Lord Of The Rings references, and I'm loving it!! Must confess to never having managed to get a round entrance door to my humble abode though. I was struck with the nice green shade of your "Selling England By The Pound" album. Much nicer than the light beige of my copy from back in the '70's on this side of the water. The Gentle Giant "Octopus" cover has major differences depending where/when you got it. Mine, again from back in the '70's and sourced in U.S. shows what's clearly an octopus contained in a jar, all in an institutional green color, none of the bright red and such as Dad held up. Suppose that's a big reason that collectors seek different pressings and countries of origin for their vinyl collections. I've blabbed long enough. Wonderful vid, thanks much. P.S. Very fond of the Japanese pressings.
Couple of favourites off the top of my head - Roger Dean's cover for Dave Greenslade's Cactus Choir, Camel's Rain Dances. Niamh, you need to visit Roger Dean's exhibition at Trading Boundaries which must be a doable trip down the road for you!
Hugh Syme's design for Hemisphere's is Iconic!His Designs are so varied and contrasting from album to album.Hugh recently Designed the Artwork for my forthcoming Prog/Fusion album 'Far and Distant Things'.He's a very friendly Imaginative guy to work with!
So much fun listening to you and your father. I could do this for hours. I wish you a relaxed weekend.
Cool reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey. I love that trippy psychedelic stuff. Some of my favorite prog album covers include Tangerine Dream-Stratosfear/Mike Oldfield-Tubular Bells/Vangelis-Albedo 0.39/ELP-Tarkus/Genesis-The Lamb Lies Down/Space Circus-Fantastic Arrival/Yes-Relayer/Goblin-Suspiria/Hawkwind-Hall Of The Mountain Grill/Pink Floyd-Meddle and Happy The Man-Happy The Man.
Also a vote for Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow.
I think Atom Heart Mother is a really nice cover, actually -- not specifically because of the cows, but because the pasture scenery nicely fits the atmosphere of the acoustic pieces on Side 2. I live in Wisconsin, which is a state with a lot of dairy farms, and I often put on the second half of this album whenever I'm driving in an area with a lot of cow pastures.
Very interesting topic.
Procal Harum A Whiter Shade of Pale reminds me of an Aubrey Beardsley image.
The inflatable pig broke loose from its tether during Animals cover shoot.
Casing chaos for air traffic around London.
Have a great weekend.
Roger Dean (Yes, Asia) & Storm Thorgerson / Hipgnosis ( Pink Floyd, T. Rex, the Pretty Things, Black Sabbath, UFO, 10cc, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Scorpions, The Nice, Paul McCartney & Wings, the Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Electric Light Orchestra, Rainbow, Styx)
Totally with Dad on the Relayer art, I was hoping one of you was going to choose that sleeve
Interesting to see which one you´d pick for each band. I´d pretty much side with Niamh´s choices, except for Genesis. Would have gone for ´Trespass´ in that case.
All of Roger Dean's covers for Yes: Particularly the "Union" cover: love the circles.
My 2 favorites are The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn which certainly telegraphs what your about to experience & The Yes album because you see the actual band on the cover ! The 🇺🇸 Time & A Word doesn't count in my humble opinion due to Steve being pictured despite not playing on it. 👋
Picks;
Genesis: Trespass
Yes : Tales
King Crimson : Lizard
ELP : ELP
Rush: farewell to kings
Gentle Giant: In a glass house
VDGG: The quiet zone / The pleasure dome
Procol Harem: Procol Harum
Caravan : In the land of grey and pink
Pink Floyd: Ummagumma
what about the budgie albums and the group man from early seventies not reall prog but not too far away
i agree about the selling england by the pound,actually trying to pick the best is apples and oranges so many good ones,but yes i liked the first ELPalbum a lot, simple and classy .fun video and fun talkative subject.thanks so much .the owl rush cover is an awesome cover on a lot of levels.
Fly By Night is such an excellent cover. My favourite Prog birds are owls & Gryphons (if they count!) 🦉
The artwork on A Salty Dog is reminiscent of the Players Navy Cut cigarette packets. Your dad couldn’t just remember at the time he was talking about it.
"Meddle" cover is an ear (under water) - open it and keep vertical to see for yourself :) - love this one too. Was a bit surprised not to see Camel, they would fit in the classic era and they surely have some beautiful artwork to choose from.
Also would recommend Roger Dean's artoworks for first two albums by Greenslade - marvelous!!
also liked the cover artwork he did for the first Asia album and Budgie´s ´never turn your back on a friend´.
nice video guys ,cheers
...you would never think of a squid and such as classically Prog 😁😁😁
Generally if I love the cover art it usually seems to follow that I like the music contained therein. The only exception I can think of is Charge! by Paladin. Great Roger Dean cover but the music is a bit meh! My Top 10 album covers, mostly Prog but not all:
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
Black Sabbath - s/t
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans
Grateful Dead - Blues for Allah
Dave Greenslade - Cactus Choir
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
10cc - How Dare You!
Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
Bubbling under: Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again
Kansas: Song For America, Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Two For The Show, Monolith, Audio-Visions
Supertramp: Crime of the Century, Breakfast in America
one of my faves is uriah heep " the magicians birthday " on an unrelated note. and this one,s for neev,s dad. the dead released what i call the " suitcase " i may be wrong but it is the complete europe ,72 tour .every second of every performance of the tour. its something like 30+ cds. you have it? this came out a few years ago.
Yes-Tales ,Genesis- Trespass,
King Crimson- Islands, ELP-F irst album, Jethro Tull-Stormwatch,Rush-Fly by night, Gentle Giant-Power and the glory,Black Sabbath-self title, Caravan-In the land..
Pink Floyd- Dark side of the moon.That is my list.
Kisses!!!!
I'm not sure if people consider King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard more of a psychedelic or prog band, but to me their art work at the very least has a very prog rock feel, especially Polygondwandaland. Mars Volta, Rx Bandits and Sound of Animals Fighting also have pretty good art work, but again, those last two may not be seen as prog rock for everyone.
Jethro Tull Broadsword & any Budgie
Fly By Night & Hemispheres are amazing albums !!!!!
Genesis: Nursery Cryme: You failed to mention that the cover depicts characters and scenes based on "The Musical Box" ...
Van der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts: Look again, you'll see The Mekon from Dan Dare flying by on the back cover ...
I’m with Dad on Yes and ELP (my profile picture might be a giveaway…) but my favourite Prog album cover is Greenslades’ Time and Tide, by Patrick Woodroffe (sadly no longer with us). I loved Roger Dean’s first two Greenslade album covers (featuring the multi armed man) but Woodroffe’s fabulously intricate take on Dean’s theme was definitely Prog! Not my favourite Greenslade album, but the cover took my breath away when I first saw it.
I agree that album covers is always what I went for and hoped that the music behind it would be just as good. (Never judge a book for it's cover)
Good choices . Mine would be :
Genesis : A Trick of the Tail
Yes : Tales from Topographic Oceans
King Crimson : Islands
ELP : Brain Salad Surgery
Rush : Moving Pictures
Gentle Giant : The Power & the Glory
Procol Harum : Grand Hotel
Pink Floyd : Dark Side of the Moon
Moody Blues : On the Threshold of a Dream
Jethro Tull : A Passion Play
Marillion : Misplaced Childhood
Tangerine Dream : Rubycon
Supertramp : Crime of the Century
Camel : Rain Dances
by the way; meddle cover is an 'EAR' fold out the sleeve and you see it
Pink Floyd really do have some great covers!
Add one more vote for Yes: Tales. Love the water and those fish and those stones (pyramids?).
Did you know that the rocks/stones depicted on Relayer and Tales fit together - give it a go! trivia!
If I had to pick my faborite album cover, it would probably be Beyond Reality by Cast.
Michael Bennett is such an amazing artist. He's like Roger Dean with swirls.
Always been attracted by Wally’s self titled, first album cover, just something about it.
honorable mention=Be Bop Deluxe Futurama or Axe Victim
Love your shirt.
Forgot always liked, Pink Fairies, Kings Of Oblivion album cover too.
Tell your dad the procol harum, salty dog cover is based on, Senior Service Cigarettes.
Billy Cobham & George Duke - Live On Tour in Europe is my favorite.
Yes! My favourite nightmare fuel :-)
Re: Animals. The floating pig broke free of it's moorings and headed over to Heathrow airport. Flights had to be cancelled. I think it eventually landed in a farmer's field. Doh!
Didnt know that!! That’s hilarious 😅😅
My top 5 prog rock art work
Number one is
EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER tarkus. And brain salad surgery. This is a joint number one
Number two is genesis trespass
Number three
The court of the crimson king
Number four rush 2112
Number five wishbone Ash
Pillgirmage
And yes fragile
Just one more
The mighty pink Floyd
Dark side of the moon
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This isn't Prog, but it's a great album with a timeless (and brilliant) cover: Led Zep's "Houses of the Holy." Am I right in remembering that the boy on the cover was Plant's son--who later died young???
when you fold the meddle sleeve out you can clearly detect an ear,obvioulsy photoshop didnt exist in 1971 so to create the effect of an ear being immersed by water was done with two slide projectors laying one picture onto the other.
Nice lps! Do you like ash ra temple? They have many lps! Start with inventions" and then s/t " after hash break!
Best art ? Gosh so many: ok here's :1. Clear light symphony
2.janus " grave digger
3.fallen angle " uriah heep
4.osage tribe
5.eloy " colours
6.arzachel
7.mythos " dreamlab
8.mothergong" robot woman
10.zappa hot rats just way to many and no these arnt top just nice examples of cool artwork!
You mainly like illustrations and paintings, there are great very graphic covers too, The VDGG covers I think Godbluff and World Cover are more impactful. But I get it ! You should have mentioned the artists. The Procol Harum seems to be from a 19th century artist: Beardsley. The ELP cover is from Giger. For example you don't like the cover of the Pet Sound album. From a typographical and graphic point of view it's a much better cover then The least you can do… (even if VDGG is one of my favorite bands).
in the land of grey and pink was actually Caravan's 3rd album
King Crimson Court of the crimson king. This was the only piece of art I owned when I was in the dorms at university. The vinyl was destroyed, unplayable. Ultimately it lived on my wall for years.🤓🖖🤘
I can not choose, there are so many great great great bands in the 70s. But also looking at new bands or newer bands. Just look at Ayreon (into the electric castle) what an artwork, what a story, what a music. Or the newer bands like Leprous. or bands like Dream Theater have amazing albums, songs and perfection.
But for some amazing names besides the regular: Rare Bird, Looking Glass, Mountain Mississippi, Mom's Apple Pie....... etc etc.
Hello dad
Eloy: Metromania
Marillion: Script for a Jester's Tear
Rush: Exit Stage Left
For now the album cover "Sacrifice" from the band Black Widow.
I would like to have a nice walk with you and Dad,in Epping Forest watching birds and trees end so on, just music for eyes and ears
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Animals, Battersea is now a Tate Modern Art Museum, Arvo Part piece was debut there. Meddle, it's an Ear. How can you not know this?
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@@the_prog_nerd New information.
The VDGG box set is out 3rd September but its disappointing.
Only the Charisma years, only 4 albums in 5.1. Existing masters on cd and then new masters on cd, so duplication. Pink Floyd later box all over again. 68 page book but I've got their biography so not bothered about that. Some live stuff but I'm not that bothered about those.
So for me personally, I'm happy with all the remastered cd I've got. It's a shame, I was hoping it would be a complete album collection with all of them in 5.1.
So, I won't be trying to get it, I say trying because I've just had an email from Burning Shed and I looked straight away to see what was in it and apparently its sold out?
Apologies, its just the signed card copies that have sold out.
Niamh where do you get all those wonderful t-shirts? 😂
Lots of different places. Mainly Liquid Blue and Old Skool Hooligans !
ELP- H. P. Gieger Salty Dogs- Player´s Navy Cut.... Open the Meddle Album so you see it´s an Ear...
Hey niamh what is your favorite the Mars Volta album
De-Loused In The Comatorium!
@@the_prog_nerd mine also
If you like birds on album covers check out The Complete Mike Oldfield, a 1985 greatest hits album....the cover is exquisite!!
Olias of sunhilliow great cover also, meddle cover is an ear if u fold it out
Agree!
Anyone know who designed that Caravan album cover?
I forgot to ask you guys what do you think of ange? Vocals are really dramatic like vdg
Can't believe no one mentioned Spinal Tap's "Smell the Glove".
In the US when I bought the Gentle Giant Octopus album the cover was a jar with a octopus in it. I had bought Animals when it first came out and did not like it. After all the talk about it and some 44 years later I played it again on Sunday and I still don't like it. It was just a terrible follow up album to Wish You Were Here.
Tell Prog Dad I said hi
Will do!
H.R. Giger
Meddle cover is an ear: i.imgur.com/pBCFAMX.jpg
Turn Relayer over and set it right beside Topographic Oceans on the right side of it. The rocks join right up perfectly. Coincidence? Umm,,, probably?
10 faves:
Beatles - Beatles 65
Pink Floyd - Animals
Yes - Topographic Oceans
Grateful Dead - Skull and Roses
Rush - Signals
Elvis/The Clash - London Calling/Elvis Presley
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
ELP - Works 1
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Public Image Ltd - Metal Box.
Not all prog but as near as dammit. Pushing the boundaries.
Runners up include,
King Crimson - Discipline
Monty Python - Another Monty Python Album
Prolly many more but my mind wanders.....
Monday? Kraftwerk. Ha!
Can Soon over Babaluma
Grateful dead Shakedown street
Le orme Smogmagica
Haruomi Hosono Making of non-standard music
Kraftwerk 2
Frank Zappa Sleep dirt
ELO Time
Chris De Burgh Eastern wind
Level 42 Staring at the sun
Wings Red rose speedway
Genesis A trick of the tail
Vangelis Hypothesis
Camel Moonmadness
Steve Hackett Voyage of the acolyte
Justin Hayward John Lodge Blue jays
Roxy music Country life
Prince Lovesexy
The Jeremy Spencer band Flee
10cc How dare you
Judie Tzuke The cat is out
The Alan Parsons project Turn of a friendly card
Ringo Starr Stop and smell the roses
Elton John 21 at 33
Elvis Presley How great thou art
Renaissance Prologue
Pooh Un po del nostro temo migliore
Indochine 3
Toshiki Kadomatsu On the city shore
Quella vecchia loranda
Locanda delle fata
Sparks Angst in my pants
Andy Mackay In search of Eddie Riff
Supertramp Crisis what crisis
Art Garfunkel Fate for breakfast
Shigeaki Saegusa The fantasia of falls
Barry Manilow Even now
King crimson Islands
Yes Tales from topographic oceans 😁
didn´t know even half of the covers you listed, but most of them are memorable indeed. Got them all on vinyl or CD, i may ask?
@@henrikv3199 Hi. Yes I got them all, mostly on CD, 11 of them on both Vinyl and CD, and one only on Vinyl. And I love the music on them too, except Hypothesis by Vangelis which is interesting but very hard listening to. He had another one at the same time named The Dragon which is also a bit strange but very cool to listen to, and also got a good album cover. 😎
@@kopptue9622 ok, thx for taking the time to answer. i supposed some of them might be quite pricey and/or difficult to get on vinyl, that´s why i would have been surprised about you having them all on vinyl. i also noticed that when a cover of some album clicks with you, the music often turns out to be good as well.
When it comes to Yes I would take the artwork and leave the albums in their sleeves