Of the studio albums which is your favourite album cover not done by Roger Dean?
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18YES0%0Time and a Word0%0The Yes Album22.22%4Going for the One11.11%2Tormato16.67%3901255.56%1Big Generator11.11%2Talk16.67%3Magnification16.67%3The Definitive YES Albums
-The Yes Album-Fragile-Close to the Edge-Tales From Topographic Oceans-
-Relayer-Going for the One-Drama-90125-Big Generator-Talk-
-The Ladder-Magnification-Fly From Here-The Quest-Mirror to the Sky- -
My only option had to be TYA... -
Not the most inspired day at the office of Hipgnosis, but thankfully "someone" had a ploughman's lunch at hand.
Love the back cover photo too.
Cover has the logo. With inbuilt title. Strange days. Most peculiar mama.Last edited by Gilly Goodness; 12-17-2021, 10:42 PM.Comment
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Tormato got my vote too and currently leads the poll (yay!)Originally posted by Gilly Goodness View Post
I love the juxtaposition of the suit and the hippy dippy water divining. The monochromatic photo overlaid with the bright red of the tomato is a nice touch too.
The clincher for me is the inner sleeve with its mystical astronomical/topographical themes, all OS and von Daniken.Comment
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And the smell of that inner sleeve. You don't get that with a download.Originally posted by Yorkshire Square View Post
Must confess thought it was a banker holding drumsticks for a few years.
SAVE THE BOGONG MOTH
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Or the flasher from GftO… I think we know what's under that tomato…Originally posted by Gilly Goodness View PostComment
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Talk for meComment
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Talk is by far the classiest of the rest, but I understand why Peter Max doesn't float the boat of many.
Never that keen on Tormato - it's just a very dull affair from Hipgnosis. GftO is much, much better and I think suffers in its reception around the prudery issue. My bet is that it would be a lot more popular if it were a naked woman - which is a bit juvenile. Magnification is a fantastic album with decent artwork.
The rest are IMO [as an artist and designer] rather pedestrian and really very dated.Comment
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Agree about Talk. Tormatos irony and graphic class though makes it my number two. The word dull I would use for all those Dean-covers of the recent 32years. Yesmusic deserves more artful visualizing than this naive fantasies by numbers.Originally posted by Chris2210 View PostComment
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Yay. I see someone else finally voted for GFTO like me. Whoo hoo. 😉😆
interesting mix so far in the voting.
I put Time and a Word (UK of course) second choice, then TYAComment
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Nice touch of irony.Originally posted by Chris2210 View Post
I've left more interesting patterns in the toilet bowl than Mr Max's effort...Comment
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OuchOriginally posted by Yorkshire Square View Post
meanwhile I'm the only one who likes Big Generator oh well 
The Definitive YES Albums
-The Yes Album-Fragile-Close to the Edge-Tales From Topographic Oceans-
-Relayer-Going for the One-Drama-90125-Big Generator-Talk-
-The Ladder-Magnification-Fly From Here-The Quest-Mirror to the Sky-Comment
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I instead am convinced that the Max-cover as well as your "interesting patterns" are much more the result of artistic expression than the very most of the Dean-coversOriginally posted by Yorkshire Square View Post
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