The photograph shows the artist by a microphone, giving the impression that he is about to sing. It is not clear whether he is at a live performance, or in a recording session. The image fits well with the title ‘Alone With Everybody’ as he is seen very much alone, but his performing is a form of communication to the world so thus he is alone but performing for everybody. The black and white gives the image a mature look, which reflects the possible loneliness feeling he may be conveying through the title. This same image is used for the album cover, but on the cover only his face his seen and not the microphone.
The Very Best of Betty Wright: Betty Wright
This image gives out quite a relaxed vibe. It includes an image of the actual album for detail, as well as a few sentences of information on the album and some kind of tagline (SHE GOT SOUL!). The background colour is green, and there is an image of Betty Wright singing. The advert is very spaced out and quite empty, giving out the impression the album is quite chilled-out.
Era Vulgaris: Queens of the Stone Age
This advert features an animated image of two light bulbs. One may get the impression from this colourful and child-friendly cover that the album contains joyful/humorous songs, or one may think deeper and predict the album’s songs are actually dark/unhappy and that the cover is done for a contrast with the actual songs. This can be backed-up by the title Era Vulgaris; Latin for ‘common era’, this title was chosen by the artists because to them it sounded like Vulgar Era, which reportedly “sounds like something they’d want to be a part of”. The actual songs are indeed dark, hard, and electronic.
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