I HEART ROGER DEAN!!

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― mark s, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

jess made me do it (but i do)

― mark s, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

ethan to thread!!

― mark s, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

tha's fuckin' sweet, dude. i wonder if i could get my friend chino to airbrush that shit on the side of my van?

― your null fame, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh Roger's good......but can he work the voodoo like ol' R.W.?

http://www.michael-parkes-gallery.com/thumpert.jpg

― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I should I feel about recognizing that RW painting?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bah - Marti Klarwein is the king of poorly painted hippie psych alb covers, surely! 'Live Evil' - wot a rec, wot a cov.

― Andrew L, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

poorly? what mean? entire surface even covered: no patches or splotches = perfectly well painted!!

also where is mati klarwein's SINISTAH GIANT RED oKTARpUS eh? EH??

― mark s, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

(even = evenly)

― mark s, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

And he doesn't go over the lines when he colours the bits in, either. Some of us had to live through years of this kind of horrible cover, and I for one am not teribly keen to be reminded of Roger Dean or Gentle Giant.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh stop yr whining martin, TWO yrs if that and then 25 yrs w/o!!

― mark s, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

MARK, DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME ON ILE?! RUN AWAY!!!

― jess, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

actually, it didnt even dawn on me that this was a dean until right now. that either makes me very stupid or very sane.

― jess, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i find these sleeves even weirder when the music isn't the expected prog rock - like Afro-rock (Osibisa had Roger Dean sleeves) or the second 20th Century Steel Band LP which has a scary strange flying pterodactyl skeleton.

actually i think the first Osibisa album may predate the Roger Dean Yes covers, so maybe these sleeves aren't a result of prog rock as assumed?

― michael, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i don't think it's fair to blame the africans for gentle giant.

― jess, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

At the Record and Tape Exchange they used to have Grade One recs (primo LPs to be put out at full price), Grade Two recs (common or garden mung that wld be flogged off at 2 quid in the bargain basements) and Grade Three recs (worthless horrors that were sold in 'sight unseen' job lots.) Ancient graffiti in the R+T staff toilets: "Gentle Giant rule Grade Two"! Since the great prog revival (??) this is prob. no longer true...

― Andrew L, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

the problem with philly used cd stores is that all common mung is sold at the same 6.99, despite contents. if that thing (not "octopus", the first album, and the start of all this nonsense with the pictures) has been 1.99 i would have bought it immediately, if only to have in the house to ward off vampires and zombies!

― jess, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's true, Mark, that it was not a lot of years when these abominations were so pre-eminent, but they were very formative years for me, and therefore disproportionately traumatic.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think Jello Biafra coined my favorite pejorative for this album cover style: "Fantaisy-poo". I think he was referring to his made-up prog rock band name, "Earth Fart".

But hey, how 'bout that Pedro Bell?

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

?brain salad surgery = frankenchrist?

― mark s, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The song 'Think of me with kindness' on this album is lovely. Its a good example of why prog rock bands would have been much better if they had to try to do 3 minute pop songs.

― Alexander Blair, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Earth Fart" was surely Jello Biafra's Invented Windham Hill-style new age band, yes? I am rather fond of roger dean also, I like the cover for "Badger" best (tho it is a crap album.)

― Norman Phay, Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/8904/toefat.jpg

surely tha best ablum kovah ?

― a-33, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Toe Fat - nun bttr

― a-33, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The worst kind of mid to late 70s album sleeve is the kind churned out by the Hypgnosis (sp?) design house. These usually took the form of a stylised photograph attempting a tedious visual pun on whatever the album title was. Unfortunately I can't think of any examples but Mark S will know what I'm talking about.

― David, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

DONT FORGET URIAH HEEP!

― chaki, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00103/ice250905_103540b.jpg

This photo of melting ice (from an article on global warming) looks disconcertingly like a Roger Dean.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 25 September 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

That guy's everywhere!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Corky McCoy (Miles's On The Corner, In Concert, Big Fun and Water Babies) is my favorite album cover artist of all time.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm kinda impressed how Dean just had the one font. Until Asia at least.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.rock.co.za/files/rdspace.jpg

Check out the South African Roger dean fansite!
http://www.rock.co.za/files/roger.html

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link

He's no RODNEY MATTHEWS though

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― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Let's try this one instead :

http://www.unterwurzacher.at/covers/magnum/chase_the_dragon.jpg

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.ssmt-reviews.com/images/praying/time.jpg

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~ayokoyam/nwobhmhittyou/followedtime.jpg

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

He designed the logo for Tetris on my phone:

http://www.zone-office.com/dtisoft/uploads/2004104204535YJx.gif

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

HI GYGAX

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

"The worst kind of mid to late 70s album sleeve is the kind churned out by the Hypgnosis (sp?) design house."

Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson of TG and Coil was an active part of the Hipgnosis team. While I tend to agree about their output - I'd actually prefer Dean - they did do a lot of the 'classic' Pink Floyd covers.

― Soukesian, Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

The song 'Think of me with kindness' on this album is lovely. Its a good example of why prog rock bands would have been much better if they had to try to do 3 minute pop songs.

― Alexander Blair, Saturday, 11 May 2002 01:00

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 00:34 (six years ago) link

i too heart roger dean

― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 00:59 (six years ago) link

oh the incongruity

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/513ENHDViwL.jpg

― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link

image would be better suited to that lame metal ballads compilation

― calstars, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 01:08 (six years ago) link

― michael, Saturday, 11 May 2002 01:00

Not Roger Dean, but I'm interested in checking out 20th Century Steel Band.

Did that Avatar/James Cameron lawsuit ever get going?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 01:12 (six years ago) link

love this babe ruth one too, always wondered why the black background... if he ran out of time or something. still looks cool!

http://bobbyshred.baberuthband.co.uk/images/baberuth/compcover1shrp2.jpg

― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link

Future-quidditch

tbh one of my least favorite Deans because of the lack of back, fore or midground.

― Puke and Other Poems (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 06:53 (six years ago) link

Relayer = one of his finest.

― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 07:04 (six years ago) link

lol

http://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/john-lodge-natural-avenue-2-ab.jpg

― brimstead, Thursday, 27 July 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link

hi there!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Steve_Howe_Beginnings.jpg

― brimstead, Thursday, 27 July 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link

And then there's "Can't afford a whole cover, but I've got enough for a logo"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Blue_Sky_on_Mars_%28Matthew_Sweet_album_-_cover_art%29.jpg

― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 27 July 2017 03:30 (six years ago) link

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