The Petra Zone

TOP 5

1. This Means War!
2. PP2
3. More Power To Ya
4. Come & Join Us
5. Petra

BOTTOM 5

1. No Doubt(everything about this album screams NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! to me)
2. Revival
3. Beyond Belief(why all the brown??)
4. Washes Whiter Than
5. Double Take

Top:

1. More power to ya
2. Back to the street
3. Captured in time and space
4. Never say die
5. Beat the system

Bottom:
1. Double take
2. Jekyll & Hyde
3. No doubt
4. God fixation
5. Washes whiter than
6. Petra

My favorite covers would all come from the older albums, pre Beat the System, with More Power to Ya easily taking the top spot. The lone exception to that rule would be This Means War, which I would probably rate as the second best Petra cover of all time. By and large their album covers after TMW have been pretty boring. The worst cover would have to go to No Doubt.

In some of the later albums they went with some really interesting themes. The colors, fonts, photos all really jelled. Then there was No Doubt. What were they thinking? I kind of liked the hidden 3d picture but it sure was ugly.

Top 5
1) Unseen Power- the fold out art along w. the cover always looked really cool to me.
2) More Power to Ya- Rocket ship guitars are a favorite of mine.
3) Back To the Street
4) On Fire
5) Beyond Belief- I like the images and the fonts used

Bottom
1) Washes Whiter Than
2) This Means War (the "warrior" looks really puny to me)
3) Never Say Die
4) No Doubt
5) Wake Up Call- when I saw the cover I instantly did not want to hear any of the songs on it.

Of course the album and art work has no bearing on the music on that particular album...

We should do this with Petra members.

TOP 5
1. More Power to Ya
2. Beat the System
3. Back to the Rock (no one gives this one enough credit; it restores Petra's album covers to their former glory)
4. This Means War
5. Back to the Street

BOTTOM 5
1. Double Take
2. Jekyll & Hyde
3. Washes Whiter Than
4. Petra
5. Petra Praise 2

Yeah, I spaced out Back to the Rock. It is pretty cool cover. Definitely the coolest cover since This Means War.

It's hard for me to rank them, because I like them all, but...

TOP 5:
1. Never Say Die
2. More Power to Ya
3. Back to the Rock
4. On Fire!
5. This Means War!

BOTTOM 5:
1. No Doubt
2. Double Take
3. Revival
4. Washes Whiter Than
5. God Fixation

Top:
1. Jekyll & Hyde
2. This Means War
3. Come and Join Us
4. More Power to Ya
5. Unseen Power

Bottom:
1. Washes Whiter Than
2. Wake-Up Call
3. Revival
4. Beat the System
5. No Doubt

I too would place the old guitar/space ship covers on top. Those were released in a day where that art was pretty bold for Christian albums. It was very timely. The modern album art was not really art per se. It for sure didn't take someone as long as the old paintings took. Back To The Street was the modern tip of the hat to the past, but it was really cheap looking.

My list remains the same 2.5 years later.

Top 10:
1. Come and Join Us (Cool medieval look)
2. This Means War (love spiritual warfare)
3. On Fire (again, spiritual warfare)
4. More Power to Ya (awesome and speaks for itself)
5. Not of This World (awesome and speaks for itself)
6. Back to the Street (awesome speaks for itself)
7. Never Say Die (awesome speaks for itself)
8. Unseen Power (of course, comparing wind to the Holy Ghost/Spirit)
9. Jekyll and Hyde (matches the title and grittiness of the music)
10. No Doubt (hopefully I will not get banned from here, but I like the colors on this one. Plus, I was only 15 when it came out )
Definite Honorable Mention: Classic Petra's Back to the Rock

Jonathan wrote:My list remains the same 2.5 years later.

Interesting! Yes, I thought we had done this before. Seems mine is almost the same, but with some exceptions!

My 2010 list:

Top:
1. More power to ya
2. Back to the street
3. Captured in time and space
4. Beat the system
5. On Fire

Bottom:
1. Jekyll & Hyde
2. Double take
3. Revival
4. Washes whiter than
5. Petra


And my 2012 list from above:

Top:
1. More power to ya
2. Back to the street
3. Captured in time and space
4. Never say die
5. Beat the system

Bottom:
1. Double take
2. Jekyll & Hyde
3. No doubt
4. God fixation
5. Washes whiter than
6. Petra

Jonathan wrote:My list remains the same 2.5 years later.

DUDE, how could you have Never Say Die so far down on your list? It's one of the coolest album covers!

Petrafan327 wrote:DUDE, your list? It's one of the coolest!

My opinion... It bugs me that "Petra" is in the standardized Starsong Promo typeface, completely unrelated visually to the rest of the art. Plus It jars my graphic designer sensibilities that "Petra" is outside of the actual art frame. Maybe cassette tape/8-track art came first?

I think the smiling-missile-coming-at-you vignette is odd, although it is really hard to execute an idea like that and make it look awesome.

My eyes are drawn to the upper right hand corner, where there's...nothing.

I do like the colors...