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Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Mar. 31 2010, 14:43 It's been a while since I started a topic. I'm in a situation where I can chill out today. I was thinking about several album covers I would love to have as oil paintings on my new walls. In the past a lot were agreed as cool such as Steely Dan-The Royal Scam. Very nice. My fav. of all time is the cover of Renaissance Novella. It is so tastefull. It looks like a nun(I think...) reading a book to 2 children. If I could commission a painter to re-create the painting with no Renaissance logo or letters, I would love that painting on my wall. That would be my number one. What are your fav. album covers as far as great art? Jim -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Mar. 31 2010, 14:59 Off the top of my head: Watershed & Blackwater Park by Opeth Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd The Last Bright Light by Mostly Autumn Rapid Eye Movement by Riverside And I think the Crack the Skye (by Mastodon) artwork is kinda cool, too. Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Mar. 31 2010, 18:16 This cover and inner case inspired me to buy an artist's pen. -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Mar. 31 2010, 18:19 Oh, I forgot about that! Another of my favorites, as are Foxtrot and Wind & Wuthering. Back to top

Milamber Group: Musicians Posts: 2275 Joined: Feb. 2010 Posted: April 01 2010, 01:19 Wish you were here (as well) Pink Floyd McCartney   Sir Paul War of the Worlds  Jeff Wayne and the Original SODE also This is Spinal Tap Back to top

trcanberra Group: Members Posts: 349 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: April 01 2010, 06:08 I really like Roger Dean covers, though they may be a bit old fashioned by now.  From Mike I love the cover for Platinum. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: April 01 2010, 08:11 Mike's Crises and Tr3s Lunas, All the Pink Floyd covers up to and including Dark Side of the Moon except Piper and the non-Australian Relics. The cover below, from Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy, is one of the most imaginative I've ever seen: Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: April 01 2010, 10:50 Need more pictures please. -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: April 02 2010, 01:53 Actually it was the cover of Trick that got me to buy my first Genesis album. I'd heard of them before but forgot them, even saw Gabriel and co. on the much downloaded 1973(midnight special?) appearance the night it aired, Musical Box and all. It might have been "in concert". But the same shopping incident also discovered Renaissance(Sheherazade). 2 bands in one day, based on cool LP covers(the criteria used for chosing both) leading to a lifetime of enjoyment. Some shopping day! But I do love Trick's cover. So, so cool.....I'm gonna try and crack this Windows Vista glitch/bitch and get a pic up. So easy it was with my previous XP PC. -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: April 02 2010, 02:05 I don't think my pic problem is my PC. It's this site. I used to go to Amazon.com and pull up a picture. Then "copy image location". Then return to tube-net, click add reply, click image. It worked perfectly 100's of times as seen from previous posts. Now I click image, then get "error, you must enter a URL".     Novella is pretty tho. Annie got old(so did I). That's life. All good things.... -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: April 02 2010, 03:10 Scatterplot, I get the same error message, but there's a way around it. Are you using Internet Explorer? When I click the Image button I get the error message that you get, and another message at the top of the screen telling me "This website is using a scripted window to ask you for information." Simply click that message, then click on "Temporarily allow scripted windows" and then you'll be able to use the image button as normal. Or failing that, simply use the following code, replacing the text with the address of the image: Code Sample [IMG]image URL here[/IMG] -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: April 02 2010, 03:23 This 3D effect could look good on a wall - maybe in a lounge with beige walls/carpets and chocolate leather sofas... -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: April 02 2010, 07:06 Quote (wiga @ April 02 2010, 03:23) maybe in a lounge with beige walls/carpets and chocolate leather sofas... It just makes you want to shout "This is good!" (Obscure Monty Python joke! Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: April 02 2010, 17:40 Sometimes it takes a little experimenting. -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: April 06 2010, 03:24 Quote (wiga @ April 02 2010, 03:23) This 3D effect could look good on a wall - maybe in a lounge with beige walls/carpets and chocolate leather sofas... ....yeah as long as you have the requisite tank top,HUGE flairs and jesus sandals.And are drinking a cuppa in a mug from a nice arts and crafts shop (complete with holes and dodgy glazing).Oh how i love the 70's,even though i was only born in 75.I've seen the pictures of what my mum made me were.Brown vest with orange piping!  Fav album covers you say?Off the top of my head i'd say Fish Rising by Steve Hillage.Very 70's front and very very 70's pictures of the band on the back (The Steve Hillage Band/Gong are sponsored by the makers of woolly hats). -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: July 15 2011, 11:52 I defy you to come up with a darker, more beautiful cover than this. Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: July 15 2011, 12:08 A few more: Deathspell Omega - Paracletus Neurosis - Times of Grace Opeth - Morningrise And finally, because everybody needs some cheese: Ghost - Opus Eponymous   Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: July 15 2011, 15:28 Oh I forgot this: Back to top

Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1868 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: July 15 2011, 19:06 Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: July 16 2011, 20:53 I'd put an image up but this is from my phone plus you've all seen it. Ad a teenager I had 3 album covers pinned to my bedroom wall. 2 Roger Dean and one other. Yes "Close to the Edge" Asia 1st album and Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds". More recently as works of art set in their time I might have added LemonJelly's "KY", Stone Roses, and New Order's " Blue Monday" As for my face Oldfield cover - Ommadawn & TSODE -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

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