VA - Songs from Albums with Roger Dean Artwork (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3+ Artwork

 

ROGER DEAN CONNECTIONS

VA - Songs from Albums with Roger Dean Artwork (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3+ Artwork

William Roger Dean (born 31 August 1944), known as Roger Dean, is an English artist, designer, and publisher. He is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in the late 1960's. The artists for whom he did the most art are English rock bands Yes and Asia. The covers often feature exotic fantasy landscapes. His work has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide.

Known primarily for the dreamy, other-worldly scenes he has created for Yes, Asia, Budgie, Uriah Heep, Gentle Giant and other bands, Dean has described himself primarily as a landscape painter. Characteristic landscapes show graceful stone arches (as shown in Arches Mist) or floating islands, while many paintings portray organic-seeming habitats, such as on the cover of Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe. Though he primarily works with watercolour paints, many of his paintings make use of multiple media, including gouache, ink, enamel, crayon and collage. In addition to his cover paintings, Dean is respected for his calligraphic work, designing logos and titles to go with his paintings.

Dean was friends with album cover designer Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis and the two lived in the same building after leaving university. He recalled a time when they collaborated on an album cover, but it turned out to be "a complete failure". The rise of the compact disc in the 1980's led to what Dean described as a decline in combining music with art, with the jewel case looking "tacky" and a way for record companies sacrificing quality to save money. He cites the early CD reissue of Close to the Edge by Yes as one that particularly affected him as his inner sleeve artwork was missing, replaced with black and white text. (Wikipedia)

Collated here are 57 songs from 57 albums that use Roger Dean's artwork. Mostly progressive rock songs that somehow reflect the albums brilliant artwork. I have not included every Yes and Asia album as these are a set on their own. There are only 4 Yes tracks and One Asia track. All album covers are in a separate file.  Enjoy!

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Track lists

CD1

1 Space Needle One Kind of Lullaby 6:11

2 Budgie Parents 10:25

3 Paladin Watching the World Pass By 9:41

4 Osibisa Beautiful Seven 6:46

5 Earth & Fire Hazy Paradise (Single B-Side,1970) 3:49

6 Ramases Life Child 6:40

7 Gravy Train Staircase to the Day 7:31

8 John Dummer Blues Band If I Could Keep From Laughing 6:43

9 McKendree Spring Spring 4:11

10 Asia Only Time Will Tell 4:50

11 Rare Earth What'd I Say 7:15

12 Clear Blue Sky My Heaven 5:01

13 Ben Craven Great & Terrible Potions 8:56

14 Magna Carta That Was Yesterday 3:26

15 Dr. Strangely Strange Sign on My Mind 8:23

16 It Bites Still Too Young to Remember 4:58

17 Babe Ruth Wells Fargo (Single A-Side) 3:32

18 Rick Wakeman Catherine of Aragon 4:03

19 Yes Roundabout 8:36

CD2

20 Yes And You and I 9:33

21 Aviator Keep Your Heart Right 6:24

22 Badger Fountain 7:22

23 Matthew Sweet Hollow 4:02

24 Greenslade Sundance 8:44

25 Nucleus Elastic Rock 4:05

26 Snafu Drowning in the Sea of Love 5:49

27 Midnight Sun Living on the Hill 14:48

28 Mike Absalom Old Woman in the Moon 4:32

29 Dell Richardson Pieces of a Jigsaw 3:19

30 Lighthouse Take it Slow (Out in the Country) (Single A-Side,1971) 3:08

31 John Lodge Summer Breeze 5:17

32 Ad Infinitum Rain Down 5:20

33 Gentle Giant The Advent of Panurge 4:42

34 Glass Hammer Long and Long Ago 10:20

35 Atomic Rooster Breakthrough 6:18

36 Billy Cox Powerhouse 3:09

37 David Kubinec Mainhourse Airline The Daybreak of Eternity 4:11

38 Budgie Young is a World 8:07

CD3

39 Third Ear Band Fleance 4:02

40 Gun Race With the Devil 3:39

41 Uriah Heep Sweet Lorraine 4:16

42 White Mighty Love 7:04

43 Nightwing Living Behind the 8 Ball 4:11

44 Yes Starship Trooper 10:08

45 Electric Sheep Sweep 5:19

46 R. Dean Taylor Indiana Wants Me 3:54

47 Focus Focus 11 6:13

48 Dba³ Skyscraper Souls 18:08

49 White Willow Silver and Gold 4:04

50 Thijs Van Leer Moving Waves 2:35

51 Barry Devlin Love With a Sting N It's Tail (Scorpio) 2:51

52 Black Moth Slumber With the Worm 3:16

53 Art Griffin's Sound Chaser Red Sky at Night 6:39

54 Vermilion Pachydermus (Extract) 7:33

55 Steve Howe Australia 4:14

56 Rick Wakeman Is Anybody There - 6:34

57 Yes Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil) 21:33

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