The document discusses common elements found on rock album covers. Most covers do not prominently feature the artist and instead focus on a conceptual image related to the album's music. Dark colors are conventionally used but bright colors also appear. The title of the album and name of the band are always included.

1. Rock Album Covers

2. U2
Boy
1980
Pop
1997
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
Rattle and Hum
1988
Artificial Horizon
2010
Dark image
Title of album on cover
Artists on cover
Name of artists on cover
Illustration
Photograph
Black and white
Features on boy
Features man playing
the guitar
Features woman
running through
the street
Title of album on cover

3. Green Day
American Idiot
2004
Nimrod
1997
¡Uno!
2012
Demolicious
2014
Artist on the cover
Name of artists on
cover
Name of album
on the cover
Photograph
Illustration
Features a hand holding a
heart/grenade
Black background
Features a scrapyard,
instruments and a skull
Blanked out faces
Bright colours
Dark image
Name of album
on the cover

4. Muse
Drones
2015
Absolution
2003
Black Holes and Revelations
2006
Origin of Symmetry
2001
Name of artists on cover
Name of album on cover
Same font style
Bright image
Dark image
Conceptual
Photograph
Illustration
Set in a desert
Photograph
Same font style

5. The majority of rock album covers do not include the artist of the
album as the main feature of the cover, or at all. If included, the artist
usually takes a less important position on the cover.
The cover is usually based on a concept or idea and includes imagery
that relates to the content of some of the music on the album.
Dark colours are conventional on rock album covers, though
contrasting colours are used often, sometimes to emphasise certain
features of the cover.
The title of the album and the band are always included on the cover.
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