Compare CD Cover iconography

Out of the 3 I just analysed I feel that the Linkin Park and Queen + Paul Rogers albums are the most similar but have many comparisons in target audience and iconography. Even though they are of the same genre one has a wider range of target audience than the other. For example the Queen album holds more of a target audience but this is because they have a lot more fans as they are more famous and have been going on for longer, therefore they have more people to impress and please with there iconography.

However, I feel that their iconography isn't as good as Linkin Park's CD covers iconography. This is because Queen's album cover is simple as it just hold a small image of the band and the bands name. But Linkin Park's album cover has an image that symbolises their music and shows rock in a different way.

A stereotype of rock is all the dark side for example death images, strange skulls and evil. And Linkin Park's album cover holds bits of this stereotype. For example they have an army man looking like he has come back from battle whilst having wings with some disfigurement to show its not all good. They also have some dripping images which is sometimes symbolised as blood in the rock genre, but I think this is clever how Linkin Park have used a white colour for these drips on the wings to maybe show a different type of blood and misery.

Overall I believe that the Linkin Park's album cover would appeal more to me as their iconography shows more of what the band are about and what their music would be like, whereas the Queen's album cover shows their iconography as it just shows an image of the band holding their instruments but not really showing me what the music is about and like. On the other hand for this Queen album, old fans will already know what the music is like and will buy this just for the sake of a new album from the well known band.

I have learnt from the Linkin Park's that I could show what the bands music is like by using a symbolic image and interpreting stereotypes of the rock genre in it, for example using dipped writing or the masks with a smudge etc. I will definitely consider using this technique.