Thursday, November 24, 2011

CD Artwork.


 This one is obvious, it's the Avenged Sevenfold Clown Of Evil album. I read that the lead singer has a HORRIBLE clown phobia, and most of the songs in this album follows the lines of this.


Do you ever just browse the CD shelves at Target, or Best Buy, or even walmart, looking for some really cool covers? I do. Alllll the time. Some are really interesting, and fun to look at. I've  done some research on these here   covers, to find out what they're about.
 This one here is about the Green Day album 21st Century Breakdown. This entire album is essentially about how the modern world is so screwed up that there isn't much good left in the world, except the love between Christian and Gloria, the two characters on the Album.
"I wanted the art work to look really different. I wanted it to represent the East Bay and where we come from, because there's a lot of artists in the East Bay scene that are just as important as the music. So we talked to Richie Bucher. He did a 7-inch cover for this band called Raooul that I really liked. He's also been playing in bands in the East Bay for years. There's pieces of us buried on the album cover. There's one guy with his camera up in the air taking a picture with a beard. He took pictures of bands every weekend at Gilmans. The robed character that looks like the Mona Lisa is the woman on the cover of the first Black Sabbath ALbum. Angus Young is in there somewhere too. The graffiti reading "Twisted Dog Sisters" refers to these two girls from Berkeley. I think the guy saying "The fritter, fat boy" was a reference to a local cop." -Billie Joe Armstrong. 



The single's cover artwork, by Marvel Zombies artist Arthur Soydum, is based on the band's "Crimson Ghost" skull logo. Both the cover art and the single's two songs, "Land of the Dead" and "Twilight of the Dead", are a homage to the Living Dead series. "Land of the Dead" is named after Romero's 2005 film of the same name,  for which Twilight of the Dead was a working title. "Land of the Dead" and "Twilight of the Dead" are the third and fourth Misfits songs to be titled after Romero's Living Deadfilms: Previous Misfits lineups had recorded "Night of the Living Dead" (1979).







This album is called "Reinventing Axl Rose, by Against Me!. The artwork is kind of obvious, it's the singer Axl Rose, lead singer and guitarist in Guns N' Roses. 

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