Alex
King Of The Wasteland
I was walking around HMV lookin at some CDs and I realised a lot of the new releases simply had a photo of the artist on the front with the name of the artist and sometimes the name of the album.
Now I know photos of artists have been used for album covers for years (The Beatles were doing it all the time) but there seems to be a distinct lack of creativity today. My sister recently got some new CDs, (JLS Paloma Faith and a couple more) now out of all the album covers Paloma Faith had the most interesting one
It is really interesting with the background image and the doves like a painting and actually looks like there was some creative input to it.
Most albums though tend to have no creative input at all and because of this they all look similar which means they don't stand out when you're browsing for a new CD and unless you are specifically looking for that particular artist chances are you will bypass it.
Can you honestly tell me these covers jump out at you and are interesting to you???
What happened to interesting covers that used illustrations and photo manipulation.
Albums like Nirvana's Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Alice In Chains' Dirt and Guns n Roses Appetite For Destruction, these all used interesting images and/or photo manipulation that was great, what happened???
Now I know photos of artists have been used for album covers for years (The Beatles were doing it all the time) but there seems to be a distinct lack of creativity today. My sister recently got some new CDs, (JLS Paloma Faith and a couple more) now out of all the album covers Paloma Faith had the most interesting one
It is really interesting with the background image and the doves like a painting and actually looks like there was some creative input to it.
Most albums though tend to have no creative input at all and because of this they all look similar which means they don't stand out when you're browsing for a new CD and unless you are specifically looking for that particular artist chances are you will bypass it.
Can you honestly tell me these covers jump out at you and are interesting to you???
What happened to interesting covers that used illustrations and photo manipulation.
Albums like Nirvana's Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Alice In Chains' Dirt and Guns n Roses Appetite For Destruction, these all used interesting images and/or photo manipulation that was great, what happened???