Most of the time album covers are relevant to the genre of music, but you can get random ones. The factors that make album covers different are the images, the font, the layout, and the colours. They create common ideolgies and opinions of the band or artist, letting you create your own opinion. They need to look interesting and appealing to the audience, to draw their attention, making it more likely they'll buy it.
The album name is placed along the top of the cd, it's not part of the cd. It relates to the image and the band, because at the time when the Clash where in their prime time, it was a time of racism. So it was a 'black market clash' against England. The font of the name is simple, because I think the band were trying to send out a message. The Clash is written in a destroyed kind of way, which could have connotations of social equality being destroyed at that time. The band wanted to combine both punk and reggae together, which they did very successfully and were also one of the first bands to ever do that. Even though the photos are real pictures, it has a cartoon effect about it. It was a time period of riots, so the cartoon likeness could be their idea of a joke towards civilization. The cover has connotations of the band having strong opinions towards the government and society, and if you know about the band members especially Joe St rummer you will also know that that's true. I think that its easy to identify a punk album, simply because somewhere on the album they will use bright, fluorescent colours, or they will use surrealist images. They've also shown that their not soley just punk, by putting the rastefarian on the front, it also shows they were not embarrased to be different and they enjoyed being experimental and individual. Not all punk album covers have messages on them, but this was a band all full of strong opinions, and rebellion against the government.

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