This album cover is for the band Japan for their album Tin Drum.

The genre of the band was very much alternative electronic and the band had a strong oriental image which is portrayed on the album cover, (hence the chop-sticks, rice etc). The black and white washed out colouring promotes how simplistic and stripped back the actual music they produced was. Furthermore, when this album cover came out, it was during the 80s where cerise, fluorescent, big and bold was very in so this colourless statement was a legendary contrast to everything else on the shelves. Equally, the font is also basic and uncomplicated which oozes the connotations of this interpretive group. The medium shot camera angle shows nearly everything in the image which tells us that this is a nothing to prove type of group and refreshingly dissimilar to the common close-ups seen on most modern day artists. This is an album cover from the band Asia. This group fell very much under the melodic rock genre. It stands out from the classic rock covers of demons, motorbikes and fire etc. This cover is quite creative for its time and would have been a very sophisticated graphic for the 80s. Asia were a great half way house band that bridged the gap between heavy metal black Sabbath and mellow Rick Astley. This album cover was about talented rock musicians coming together and turning shouting into a clever artwork. The dragon/snake image has a satanic edge combined with a mystic feel. The creature rising from the sea through crashing waves represents the connotations of how the band was formed and what they were about. Furthermore, the whole image exudes curves and rounded imagery which shows a huge contrast to the band title Asia which sits above the image showing nothing but straight lines and pointed edges. This album cover is for the band Electric Light Orchestra covering the album for Out of the Blue. This 70s graphic is mostly about the play on words. Out of the blue has huge parallels with the imagery of space, a spaceship and galaxies etc. The band itself was an electric orchestra which came under the genre of alternative rock ballads. Interestingly, the spaceship also looks much like a vinyl record player with the ship nose like the needle. The construction of the image is very clever. The band was one

of the rare groups to produce a coloured vinyl and in this case of course, blue. On the actual record itself there was an ELO sticker in the middle of the record just like the lettering in the middle of the circular spaceship on the album cover.