I HEART ROGER DEAN!!

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

jess made me do it (but i do)

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

ethan to thread!!

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

I should I feel about recognizing that RW painting?

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

(even = evenly)

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

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-three years ago)

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

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

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

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

?brain salad surgery = frankenchrist?

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

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-three years ago)

"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-three years ago)

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

surely tha best ablum kovah ?

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

Toe Fat - nun bttr

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

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-three years ago)

DONT FORGET URIAH HEEP!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

That guy's everywhere!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

He's no RODNEY MATTHEWS though

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

He designed the logo for Tetris on my phone:

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

HI GYGAX

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

"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 (twenty years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

i too heart roger dean

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

oh the incongruity

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

image would be better suited to that lame metal ballads compilation

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

― 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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

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 (eight years ago)

Relayer = one of his finest.

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

lol

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

hi there!

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

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

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 (eight years ago)

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