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One more for tonight.

73. Mike Rutherford - Acting Very Strange - NBIceman
http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/834/cover_91085122010.jpg

Originality: 6
Aesthetic: 0.25
Story: 4
Personal: 0.75
Average: 2.75

This cover wound up taking advantage of my scoring system to score higher than it probably deserved, mainly the Originality factor. I can't deny that the weird visual distortions are unique, although the overall layout and presentation is distinctly 80s and fairly generic. Also, there's at least some sense of story here with the funhouse mirror like images seeming to represent distorted aspects of the guy’s personality. I’m sure that's reading more into this image than was actually intended, but I have to give it the benefit of the doubt. Of course, just looking weird isn't that much of a story, especially when it's not presented in a thematically meaningful way.

On an Aesthetic basis, this cover does much worse because it looks so dated and unappealing. It's actually a pretty boring picture in the lower half with a purely white background, and aside from the visual distortions, there's nothing worth discussing to the rest of the cover. As for the weird pictures, the one that really jumps out on the left with the long sausage fingers seems disconnected from the rest of the image. Basically the whole thing looks inexplicably bad, and I'm not sure what they were going for with this cover.