15 “Strange” But Unique Album Covers From Progressive Rock

Thursday, 13 August 2009 15:06

Progressive Rock is a genre that (still) wants to give a new highly artistic dimension at the rock music.

It evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s and in the mid-1970s had a great success in Britain and America.
Many bands shown their technical skill and ability to compose music making albums with a great expressive power and an absolutely particular structure for the songs.
This steady and almost maniacal research of an elegant artistic expression lets us stunning songs and great music, but also unique (and maybe “strange”) album covers. Below yo’ll see 15 examples.

Area – Arbeit Macht Frei (Cramps – 1973 – Italian Prog Rock)

Selected Track: Arbeit Macht Frei (click to listen on YouTube)

Biglietto per l’Inferno (Trident Records – 1974 – Italian Prog Rock)

Selected Track: Confessione (click to listen on YouTube)

Genesis – Nursery Crime (Charisma, Atlantic Records – 1971)

Selected Track: The Musical Box (Belgian TV – Six Hours Live) (click to listen on YouTube)

I Giganti – Terra in Bocca (RiFi, Akarma – 1971 – Italian Prog Rock)

Selected Track: Largo iniziale (Intro) (click to listen on YouTube)

Jethro Tull – Aqualung (Chrysalis Records – 1971)

Selected Track: My God (Live) (click to listen on YouTube)

Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick (Chrysalis Records – 1972)

Selected Track: Thick as a Brick (Live at Madison Square Garden Version, 1978) (click to listen on YouTube)

King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King (Island Records – 1969)

Selected Track: Epitaph including March for no Reason and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (click to listen on YouTube)

Le Orme – Uomo di pezza (Philips – 1972 – Italian Prog Rock)

Selected Track: Figure di Cartone (click to listen on YouTube)

Pholas Dactylus – Concerto delle Menti (Magma – 1974 – Italian Prog Rock)

Selected Track: Concerto delle Menti Parte Prima (I) (click to listen on YouTube)

The Moody Blues – In Search of the Lost Chord (Deram Records – 1968)

Selected Track: Ride my See-Saw (click to listen on YouTube)

Yes – Fragile (Atlantic Records – 1971)

Selected Track: South Side Of The Sky (Live) (click to listen on YouTube)

Yes – Tormato (Atlantic Records – 1978)

Selected Track: Don’t Kill the Whale (Live at Wembley 1978) (click to listen on YouTube)

Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (Harvest Records – 1973)

Selected Track: Money (click to listen on YouTube)

Marillion – Script for a Jester’s Tear (EMI Records, Capitol Records – 1983)

Selected Track: Ride my See-Saw (click to listen on YouTube)

Matching Mole – Matching Mole’s Little Red Record (CBS – 1972)

Selected Tracks: Flora Fidgit and Smoke Signal (click to listen on YouTube)