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RANT- Bands With Great Album Covers, Part 1 (w/Martin Popoff)
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2020
- Join Pete Pardo & Martin Popoff as they look at four bands who have consistently released albums with very cool album covers.
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The gentleman who painted Leftoverture for the band is a friend of mine back in Astoria Oregon, his name is Dave McMacken, he’s done many covers from Zappa to Angel
Shayne West yes as well as Apostrophe and Motels thing for Zappa, also painted movie stuff like Nice Dreams and 1941, he did so much, he owns a store in Astoria called Ratz now, a wonderful old hippie dude with behind the scene stories of amazement
Does he still work?
Luis Nasser I haven’t spoke with him in over a year, last I knew he was doing logos and art for marijuana industry and micro breweries
Bill Edwards would be cool to have his professional contact info. Thanks for the info though. I will look him up. Cheers!
My favourite album covers
1. Shoot out at the fantasy factory - Traffic
2. Don't look back - Boston
3. Focus 3 - Focus
4. Point of know return - Kansas
5. The Paradise theatre - Styx
6. The Hilt - Golden Earring
7. Drama - Yes
8. Rampant - Nazareth
Iron Maiden--a no brainer if there is one.
Pink Floyd have some of the best in my opinion, simple yet powerful.
Love that Monolith cover. The original gatefold LP looked great opened up, which you didn't show.
Conceptually, their best artwork, and the last truly great album they made.
So awesome you recognized Kansas as one of the best album cover bands.
A true reflection of their music...which was always as much art as it was rock.
@@martykott450 yes, and so inspiring and positive was their music.
Always a fan of the Alan Parsons Project covers as well, Turn of a Freindly Card, Eve, Vulture Culture, and of course Pyramid all very interesting
Marty Kott good ones, mostly Hipgnosis covers.
Incredible... I'm just looking at the commentaries after watching the video. The first band that came to my mind was Alan Parsons. And the first commentary is precisely about this band.
@@zeelias_zezito65 forgot to mention I Robot as well
@@martykott450 Yes. I Robot is a superb cover! Love it!!
@ agree...also effective
Kansas! Not only my fav band, but great album covers. First album is a reproduction of the painting of John Brown in the Kansas statehouse. Song for America is a metallic eagle, our national bird, and a perfect cover for the album. Leftoverture's cover is the coolest ever. Thanks Pete; I can tell that you love Kansas too. Great show!!!!
I was at the Beacon show in NYC when they did Leftoverature/Point back to back. The backdrop was a painting of each album cover as the set changed half way through, so did the background. Wonderful effect. Both covers are so iconic
As a kid my Mom's records that caught my eye were Boston, Journey and Def Leppard
As alluded to in several episodes, the bands with the most consistently compelling cover art are essentially described by this very art: Molly Hatchet - menacing & thunderous, Rush - mystical & clever, Yes - grandiose & majestic, BOC - mysterious & creepy.
I don't think any one band had an artist that was able to reflect the music as well as Roger Dean did with Yes, just a perfect marriage.
Magic Pot yep
I have to agree with you on this one !
How about Hugh Syme with Rush?
Derek Riggs with Iron Maiden ?
Hypnosis with Floyd and Zeppelin?
But, I do agree Roger Dean artwork with Yes music is beyond absolute perfection!
@@analogkid2869 Derek Riggs with Maiden is probably my #2 spot hands down, great choices.
Magic Pot ......................and Asia.
Now forget the first 2 album covers but Thin Lizzy’s albums covers from Vagabonds of the western world and so on are absolutely all great album covers.
Also Floyd and Maiden
Have LOVED these RANT series lately, Pete! Can’t get enough of them, seriously awesome job.
My pick would be the three Captain Beyond album covers. Absolutely awesome.
Rush and Megadeth are my 2 favorites.
When I was at art college in '81 I used to make a little money painting images on people's jackets/bikes/etc etc. One of the things I did was a mural on someone's bedroom wall of the image with the deer on the strange plateau things from the Yessongs sleeve. It took forever!
Many too many:
Genesis
King Crimson
Mastodon
YES
Opeth
Iron maiden
Rush
Return to forever
Metallica
Dream theater
Pink floyd
Death
Soft Machine
Frank Zappa
Xtc
This series about album covers has been very cool. Even better now about good album covers. Hey Pete, an episode with all the gang ranking your favorite lyrics would be fun. Like the kind of lyrics that really made an impact on all of you. You know, we get into the music because we love the rhythm, the guitars, the vocals, etc. But at some point as we mature, we start really paying attention to the lyrics and some speak to us or impact us in different ways. For example, when I paid attention to the lyrics in Diary of a Mad Man by Ozzy... geez kind of floored me. What do you think?
Maiden, Blind Guardian, Rush, Ayreon, Mastodon, Dissection, Amorphis, Dark Tranquillity, Mercyful Fate, Sepultura, Savatage, Death
SWEET/Sweet Fanny Adams---Desolation Boulevard----Give Us A Wink---Strung Up----Off The Record----Level Headed (US version)----Cut AboveThe Rest----Hard Centres----Sweetlife. STAY SWEET!!
Mastodon has some fantastic album covers.
Back in the late 70s and into the 80s I must have spent hundreds of hours lost in Roger Dean gatefold covers - Yes, Uriah Heep et al. In more recent years, Opeth's album covers really do it for me. Consistently great to look at, very evocative of their music, and a fantastic logo to boot.
I always liked all of Roger Dean’s art work.
Iron Maiden's are usually sick except maybe Book of Souls and I really enjoy most of Megadeth's covers like Peace Sells or Countdown
Collective catalogues: Pink Floyd, Rush, King Crimson; Love most covers from each of those bands. I also love the covers of Magma, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Frank Zappa, too :-)
Kansas - Yeah, I like those covers.
Love the music but Rush would be my pick for great band with very average album covers. Moving Pictures is superb, Presto maybe. Then I'm struggling.
@@aidannorris1254 Hold Your Fire doesn't bother me too much. The debut? Probably could have been better, but ok. Counterparts is not too bad. I'm excluding Hemispheres from this list, as I prefer to keep my actual opinion of it to myself. The others are awesome in my book. Personal taste, I guess.
A fun trick to do with a couple of Yes albums is to place the back cover of Relayer on the right and the front cover of Tales From Topographic Oceans on the left and you'll see that the rock formations match up on each album.
Yes
The first album is a painting of John Brown, abolitionist
Always had a soft spot in my heart for U.F.O. artwork covers........
Genesis is another prog band with many good artistic covers. I would also mention Living Colour. Pete, you could do a show "1965-2020 - The cover of the year".
Genesis Foxtrot album cover fantastic.
Good idea!
I love the Moody Blues Album Covers. In Search of a Lost Cord was the cover that got me into the band and they continued on with interesting art....That started in the late sixties.
Oh yeah
Mercyful Fate's "Don't Break the Oath" is one of my favorites.
King Diamond's "Them" is also great.
TheWrathOfKon I prefer the monochrome drawing on their debut cover with the naked girl being crucified. I’d love that on a t shirt.
Great Pete, two of my favorite artists of all-time , Blue Oyster Cult and Kansas you start your show with; great album covers from them; look forward to seeing more of your favorites.
Amon Amarth is probably the first to come to mind for me.
Also Children of Bodom, Nightwish, Savatage, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Chastain, Running Wild and Edenbridge also have a lot of cool artwork.
In newer bands Ghost has some of the best cover in my opinion, goes from old school horror cartoon styles to cooler darker sometimes morbid creature designs.
Some great ones for sure.
Thank you for your RANT- Bands With Great Album Covers (w/ Martin Popoff).🎤🎸🎵🥁
Yes's Magnification artwork is actually pretty cool once you delve into it, including the booklet and all. It's more like a Rush thing than a Yes thing.
Yes Union is one of my favorite album covers and the first actual Yes album I purchased. It had some great songs including "I would have waited forever"
Fish era Marillion and Fish solo.
Yep! Mark Wilkinson is an incredible artist.
Was reading an interview with Mark Kelly and he said one of their big arguments these days is over album covers. Hogarth's issue is that they always end up looking brown. I love the music from the H era as much as the Fish stuff but the cover art is a definite dip.
_Weltschmerz_ finally dropped. It was worth the wait.
Many, many, many years ago I had a Roger Dean calendar with one of his paintings for each month. One of the most beautiful things I've ever owned. I wish I still had it.
Yes and Motorhead.
2 great bands with some amazing album covers!
Kansas has the most majestic album covers imo, plus the epic music to go with them.
Great choices. Looking forward to additional vids for this series. Will hold my comments on my faves until I see other vids to be see if you guys see things the same
Loved the episode. Kansas artwork is one of my main motivations for starting my UA-cam channel and showing off my vinyl, even though it expanded to other formats. A little disappointed Pete didn't show off The Best Of Kansas, where it reprised elements from all previous album covers. And Martin's old cassette of The Yes Album is really cool.
Motorhead!! They always had badass album covers...
YES! Was just thinking this!
@@deicidedave well... overnite sensation? not so good :) but everything else? epic!!
@@123vid321 still not terrible haha i mean they did have 22 studio albums, some are not going to be the best :)
@@deicidedave true, mate! And for the record, I don't hate that album cover, it's just... WTF among all that masterpieces :) Cheers!
Another Perfect Day is my fave from them.
Kansas!! Supertramp and Styx had a few good ones too. Boston of course
Kansas' " Two For The Show " cover is based on a Norman Rockwell painting called "The Charwomen "
I can name many, many bands that have consistently good or great album covers, and it just so happens many of them are my absolute favorite bands:
Dio
Iron Maiden
Manowar
Candlemass
Saxon
Manilla Road
Dream Evil
Mercyful Fate
Blind Guardian
Thin Lizzy
Motörhead
Rainbow
Bathory
Danzig
Hammerfall
Rush
King Diamond
Savatage
Iced Earth
Pagan Alter
Yes was the first artist that came to my mind because of the Roger Dean artwork. Somewhere in the closets is a poster of his Demon and Wizards cover for Uriah Heep that was on my walls for years. Looking forward to the next four choices. One album cover that always struck me was Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on which the upper right has a torn playbill from the cover the preceding album, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player. Would be interested in the knowledge of your album covers whether you know of another album that seems to deliberately refer to its predecessor other than the logo or mascot [such as Iron Maiden's Eddie]. Thanks for another great Popoff and Pardo show. Looking forward to the next.
Iron Maiden! My favorite album covers of all time.
Kraftwerk and Can also have iconic album covers.
Can is my first choice also! I like all their covers, except perhaps "Rite Time".
The original Kraftwerk were good but the reworked reissues are awful!
Martin loves to show off those autographs! ;-) Can't blame him. I'm jealous.
Although I'm kind of indifferent towards their music, the Grateful Dead have a lot of great album covers.
Two for the Show is the cleaning ladies AFTER the show
Exactly.
That’s what I thought!
Magnum have lots of great album covers, I would also add the band Ten.
Agree Rodney Matthews some great album covers.The Eleventh Hour there best for me.
@@orchidcarpetcleaningrp6061 Chase The Dragon is my favourite, but agree Eleventh Hour is good too.
On a Storyteller's Night. B)
@@mikeprofo2328 Classic, had that poster and purple vinyl.
@@stephennorris2524 : Have the LP cover framed on my wall.
Opeth has cool album covers, and one of my favorite logos, in fact I had a Opeth tee before even listening to any of their music...i was a poser for awhile..lol
I agree Sherry - I’ve always said that Opeth has the most beautiful and iconic logo in all of Rock N Roll - particularly, just the “O” itself !
@@analogkid2869 yes!...i have the embroidered "O" on my jean jacket..its beautiful:))
Sherry Raisbeck Did you have it professionally embroidered by a seamstress? What are your thoughts on the latest Opeth album ?
Sherry Raisbeck I agree they have one of the best text logos. I have all of their album covers on t-shirts, same thing with Mastodon. Do you like the non-death metal Opeth as well?...I love it!
@@analogkid2869 A sewn on patch, and i really like their latest album:)
I am very glad this channel exists
Awesome video! As much as I loved the "worst album covers" the more positive video is welcome. Great choices all around.
Yes have great album covers! The inner part of Close to the Edge is the best - the water seemingly coming from nowhere flowing into oblivion. Unforgettable!
Yes definitely has my favorite line of album covers ever. Roger Dean is probably my favorite artist in general so it makes complete sense. Love the colors and shapes he uses for his work. But even before Roger Dean came into the picture for Yes, I love their first three album covers (the original covers for the first two, I can’t stand the International versions of those). The Yes Album was my first album from them and I’ve always loved it, even if it is a bit odd. Fragile, of course, is fantastic. Close to the Edge, while very basic, is iconic so I’ll give it that. Yessongs has my favorite Roger Dean art of all time; every “page” of it is fantastic. Tales from Topographic Oceans is a cool cover, kinda spacey but also like it’s underwater. Relayer is absolutely beautiful, which is crazy because it’s pretty much all one color. Going for the One and Tormato I’m not super crazy about because I don’t think Hipgnosis was a good fit for Yes covers. Yesshows has a kind of cool cover; I like the background and the bird thing. Drama is another really brilliant one; awesome use of colors and imagery there. And then they drop off a lot with 90125 and definitely with Big Generator. But Union is good and I don’t mind the cover for Talk. And then the Keys to Ascension covers are a real return to form for Roger Dean, with those crazy, weird, and interesting landscapes that I love so much. Unfortunately, the cover for Open Your Eyes is about as boring and uninspired as the music on the album itself. The Ladder’s got a pretty cool cover with Roger changing up the logo and picking some weird shapes for the landscape. I’m not a fan of Magnification’s cover, but I will say that it’s cool to see purple and black as colors for a Yes Album cover. And I love the covers for Fly From Here and Heaven and Earth. Roger Dean just hit a home run with pretty much every Yes cover he worked on, making this one an easy choice for me.
Loved this show...thanks, guys!
Kansas' 2nd album cover is not a "creature" but a metal eagle, the bird of America! Perfect!
Kansas covers are beautiful... same with many Yes records. #PetePardoArmy #PetePardoNation #BigMeatPete #SplashYourSeaOfTranquilityAllOverMyFace
Greenslade. They made four albums - three great covers, and one Ok. (Roger Dean, Patrick Woodroffe).
Lemming 998 yes, the roger dean Greenslade covers are brilliant. Dean also did the cover Dave Greenslade’s Cactus Choir album after the band ‘Greenslade’ broke up. That cover is amazing too.
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans and Relayer.
Erik Norlander - Into the Sunset
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
The Flower Kings - Retropolis, The Sum of No Evil
Sasquatch - II
Ice Age - The Great Divide
Isn't that John Brown on the cover of those early Kansas albums?
The first album.
...used John Brown’s image again on “Best of Kansas” & the Kansas Box set.
I see the Two for the Show cover opposite from your take on it. I see it as they are there to clean up after the show. They pick up a program that was left behind to see what happened that evening. There seems to be some trash and old programs in the seats. That’s what lead me to my opinion.
Led Zeppelin: I, II, “untitled”, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti...I like In Through the Out Door’s album cover(s) too.
I always thought Zeppelin III’s artwork was a bit of a stinker.
Houses of the holy if there were adult naked women instead of naked children
Very cool
Yes/ Roger Dean always have been my favorites
Excellent video 🎶👍
Love the starz album martin has behind him. Great band
Superb! Roger Dean is such an inspiration. Thanks guys.
Test for Echo is my favorite Rush album cover.
I said it before that BOC's "Cultösaurus Erectus" will always hold a soft spot in my heart for me since it was the first album I bought at 8 years old. Plus it an amazingly underrated album, 'Black Blade', 'Monsters', 'Deadline', 'The Marshall Plan', and 'Unknown Tongue' are superb tunes.
Divine Wind, Fallen Angel, Lips in the Hills...the only dud is Hungry Boys. My favorite BOC album.
I have always loved the Atom Heart Mother gatefold. Didnt have a word on the front or back not even hype stickers attached just the cow(s)
I love most of the Queen album artwork the one with the robot is my favorit !
Great show and good idea of a Rant the other way ! 🚀🌍👍🏼
Great show! My all-time favourite cover is probably the one for "Tales from Topographic Oceans".
Btw, why do you categorize the video as a rant?
Ne Obliviscaris. They only have 3 albums so far, but each cover is absolutely amazing!
I just have to say Molly Hatchet had great album covers. Best Metal album covers for a non metal band. When I was a young metalhead and I first saw their debut album cover and the bands name I really wanted to hear them.
And then was disappointed .....
Pete this is great and thank you for doing it. I requested this a while back and glad to see you and Martin provided the goods!
How about top 10 or top 20 coolest or best band names of all time?? I think that would be awesome.
Thin Lizzy. Love almost every single cover.
Jim Fitzpatrick. The heyday of comic strip art.
I agree. The only bad ones are the first eponymous lp and the truly awful "Fighting" which is actually one of the all time worst covers by any band.
@@GrahamS67 Bad Reputation didn't do anything for me but what's so bad about Fighting? It's a typical lineup of band members on the cover circa 1975
@@hanksta34 it's just so cheesy. Terrible poses. Just awful.
Hejira by Joni Mitchell. It's just so gorgeous to look at. Great album too!
Edit: Sorry! I realized that this is band album covers, so I should've known that my favorite album cover is from an album by an ARTIST, NOT A BAND lol XD. Oops...
The cover of BOC Mirrors is a painting, not a touched up photo. Unless you know that it’s hard to tell, which makes it a cool cover. Also, I would add Rush to list. Nice job, guys!
Boston & Journey have to be in this list.
Hawkwind always had the best album sleeves - thin lizzy / motorhead always gr8 too/santana also - sabbaths debut is my fave sleeve of all time - all their sleeves were interesting/strange - hawkwinds warrior on the edge of time is my second fave - the single sleeve - is a warrior at a lagoon - open the the gate fold - its reproductive organs - ovaries/ birth canal etc - very clever - fools game mordred- is my third favourie sleeve
Love the artwork on Motörhead's "Another Perfect Day" (also my favorite album), "Orgasmatron", "We Are Motörhead", and "Inferno".
Peter Gabriel solo albums have good covers. I personally don't mind the person being on the cover. It creates a connection with them. I have stared at him while listening to his music and enjoy it. I'd put his face on a t-shirt and wear it proudly.
Iron Maiden and DIO have good covers for the most part.
Yes has the most beautiful artwork. People complain about the simplicity of the Close to the Edge cover, but I find it almost mesmerizing. It just draws you in hue by hue.
If you like the psychedelic look, which I don't, the Jimi Hendrix Experience exemplified that look on Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold As Love.
Great show Pete and Martin !! There are so many bands with great album covers, really hard to choose, but I will go with Caravan's In the Land Of Gray And Pink, and Savoy Brown's Street Corner Talking.
Les Baker from the first time I saw it, I loved the ‘in the land of grey and pink’ cover and actually wanted to live in that little village. 😂
Good stuff....great topic! My 2 cents is DEFINITELY Iron Maiden....remember being a sophomore in HS and seeing the cover of their debut and I was hooked for life....all of there titles are classic.....especially Somewhere in Time which has so much hidden detail. Maiden is also lends itself perfectly to vinyl 👍👍
As a kid growing up mid 70s. The albums that PETE- MARTIN talked about / have all of them/ I studied and looked at them for hours if you added all the time together/ after I placed them on my turntable. Tremendous times/ would not trade in ever. My kids would not get it /today. Lol Great episode with you 2 gentlemen/ as usual ! 👍💯
Hey, Pete! That image in the cover of Kansa's album with the guy made of different sea creatures is actually a painting from a very interesting XVI century Italian painter, called Arcimboldo. He has a lot of paintings like that, with human faces made of fruits, vegetables, animals and stuff. You should check some of his art out - it's great!
Just a few in no particular order.
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Ace Frehley - 78 - Solo album
Metallica - And Justice for All...
REO Speedwagon - High infidelity
Iron Maiden - Killers
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
The obvious answers for me: Iron Maiden and Fish era Marillion. Pink Floyd, Genesis up to and including Duke. Trying to be more original but that's what I keep coming back to. Early Megadeth as well.
The cover art of Fragile was intended to tell a story about an organic spaceship that was departing a fragmented planet. The story continues with the gatefold art on Yessongs. It may be just me, but I think the story is completed on the cover of Tales from Topographic Oceans, where what I think is supposed to be a wing from that same ship is broken and decaying from behind a rock. My favorite run of cover art.
I love about 75 percent of Yes' album covers, especially Roger Dean's but I love some of the other ones too. I like the early band photos on the US version of Yes' debut and all versions of The Yes Album. I think unfortunately some of Roger Dean's more recent Yes covers are getting too cookie cutter but he's done good recent covers for other artists so he hasn't totally lost his touch imo.
Samson - before the storm. Loved it when i was a teenager
Also, the Yes album TALK was designed by Peter Max, who was very influential during the late 1960's. His style highly influenced the YELLOW SUBMARINE film featuring THE BEATLES. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(Yes_album)
I’m a big fan of Roger Dean and almost all of his work. I also like the works of Peter Max, and think the Talk album cover is fine. Like Dean, his work is instantly recognizable.
Teasing us with the shirt Martin. Clearly Amorphis has to make one of these episodes.
The Motorhead Overkill cover, with the monster, if you look at it careful, it looks like the monster is bending down from behind, with it's monsterhood hanging down....Badass cover.
LISTENING TO IT ALL DAY new album wow im thrilled to pieces it is a return to pearlman like lyrics as well surprises !!! i predict several of these songs will become anthems on radio etc "Stand and Fight "
Always liked the Robin Trower solo album covers.
Kansas, BOC, Pink Floyd, Journey, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath,..I know I missed a million of them.
Kansas' 'The Best Of Kansas is a good album cover too. The original has the then new song "Perfect Lover".
These guys are just a great double act, love your stuff 💖👍
Rogeer Dean: Mag's B-day and Demon n Wizards .. blew me away ..but I was 12yrs old .. lol .. First Steve Howe album cover too .. + the Yes ones .. inc. Relayer .. :-) My bedroom wall was covered with blow up posters of the Roger Dean album covers.. :-)