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Originally posted by OnwardToSunhillow View PostIf you had to replace all of the non-Dean Yes album covers with pieces of Roger Dean art, which would you choose?
We already know what he had in mind for Going for the One, but what about the rest?- Yes
- Time and a Word
- Tormato
- 90125
- Big Generator
- Talk
- Magnification
Last edited by PeterCologne; 12-20-2021, 08:37 AM.
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Admired 90215's total 180 from fantasy landscapes. The sleek modern sheen of it all. Reinforced a certain corporate nature of the band. From all concerned. Slick 80's power pop. Loud drums. Short staccato guitar breaks. Pedestrian bass. Synth patches of keys. Professional management. Generic general-messages-of-hope-songs for a mass audience.
So the return of Dean for ABWH was a breath of fresh air. Art before commerce. Multi-suite songs. Beautiful acoustic guitar. Poetic lyrics. Even piercing power play machine lyric aims and doesn't miss. Quirky. Curious.
B. Dread and the cool running. Brits in the Carribean. Balmy. Heat stroke.
Upshot: no replacement Dean covers. The other ones (apart from the hipgnosis ones) perfectly describe their corporate-rawk contents. A salutary warning. A sign of the greed-is-good 80's. Magnification a misstep too. The live DVD was much better. Truly great.
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So after a lot of samey Dean live album covers. Live into Vegas was definitely back to form. And the expansive TQ. Brings a smile everytime. Thawing ice. Brilliant. Homage to Chris stone column. Poignant.
To replace all the covers would muddy the waters and misrepresent the art inside.
SAVE THE BOGONG MOTH
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Originally posted by Gilly Goodness View PostAdmired 90215's total 180 from fantasy landscapes. The sleek modern sheen of it all. Reinforced a certain corporate nature of the band. From all concerned. Slick 80's power pop. Loud drums. Short staccato guitar breaks. Pedestrian bass. Synth patches of keys. Professional management. Generic general-messages-of-hope-songs for a mass audience.
So the return of Dean for ABWH was a breath of fresh air. Art before commerce. Multi-suite songs. Beautiful acoustic guitar. Poetic lyrics. Even piercing power play machine lyric aims and doesn't miss. Quirky. Curious.
B. Dread and the cool running. Brits in the Carribean. Balmy. Heat stroke.
Upshot: no replacement Dean covers. The other ones (apart from the hipgnosis ones) perfectly describe their corporate-rawk contents. A salutary warning. A sign of the greed-is-good 80's. Magnification a misstep too. The live DVD was much better. Truly great.
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So after a lot of samey Dean live album covers. Live into Vegas was definitely back to form. And the expansive TQ. Brings a smile everytime. Thawing ice. Brilliant. Homage to Chris stone column. Poignant.
To replace all the covers would muddy the waters and misrepresent the art inside.
SAVE THE BOGONG MOTH
And the cover of the ABWH-album to me smelled not like fresh air but like regression. Teakbois and Birthright done with maybe good intentions to deliver something new, but both didn't work out, Teakbois sounding even more like a cheap parody. In fact it was the beginning of the end of Yes being visionary. Only Talk and Magnification - both with non-Dean-covers by the way - discovered real new ground. Interesting how Yesfans-views can differ
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