CD Cover Research

The Feeling's CD covers:

All CD's released by The Feeling all relate to the album the feature o n. For example all the singles released from the first album, 'Twelve Stops And Home', are all cartoon, and just like the album cover all feature a hands or feet. The albums are also related by the colour scheme, which throughout the seven CD's are all full of colour. This is apparent in all the singles released from this album apart from the 'Fill My Little World Bonus Edition' which is different to all other CD's released by The Feeling.

The Second album is a different story, the CD covers are totally different from the 1st album, the only similarity the share is The Fee ling logo. The 1st Album is colourful and mostly cartoon with the exception of a hand or either a foot, where as this album is all realistic with no cartoon sections at all. The covers are made up of what look like vintage nick naks, they are all placed in a way that they are almost being presented to the audience, which would be the person buying the album. And again with the 1st album, the single which was released from the album runs along the same theme, the furnishings and ornaments are being displayed to the audience.

Inspirational Covers:

In particular, the two covers released by Hard-Fi and the one cover released by System Of A Down all are very post-modern, they were the first of their kind to be released, for example when have you ever seen a cover released with no picture, just writing saying why there isn't a picture.
All the other covers that I have displayed above stand out in some way to me. In particular, The Velvet Underground's album cover, this is one of my favorites mainly because of the simple yet iconic artwork on the front.

I decided to feature the the other CD covers because they all stood out to me in one way or another. I liked the Pendulum - Hold Your Colour album cover because its so unusual, and after looking at it for 10 minutes, its still hard to tell what it actually is. The greenery with the eye makes the cover look interesting, it looks like a monster, or possible a person with roots and weeds all over their face. This cover almost looks magical with the colours and the hint of glitter on the right hand side of the cover, just by the Pendulum logo.

The next album cover I chose was Nevermind by Nivarna. This is an inspirational album cover that had never been used before, a baby swimming after a US dollar. Its possible the fact that the baby is naked, and that you can see his private parts, this album was then re-edited to hide the indecent image of the baby. This shows the rebelliousness of the band, Nivarna. Nivarna were a rock/punk band which never followed the rules, which is emphasized by the cover.

The fourth cover on the top row is the album Absolution released by the band Muse. I like this cover because it is unusual like all the other covers I have featured above. I think the way the editor/designer has incorporated the shadows of what appears to be flying people. This then contrasts with the bold writing of the album artist and album name.

The next album I am going to explain is the third album from the left on the bottom row. This album is about three years old and was released by a band called Brand New. This album stands out to me because of the colours and also because of the picture. Why is an astronaut floating above the sea? What is this supposed to mean? I like this cover so much because its interesting and I want to know why is there a floating astronaut and why is the sky orange and not blue.