CD Cover Research

This is CD cover for the British indie-rock band Radiohead.The Bends was the first of the band's full-length records with artwork by Stanley Donwood, in collaboration with Yorke, who went under the name "The White Chocolate Farm" (later shortened to Tchock). Originally Yorke had wanted to use an image of an iron lung as the cover, but he lost it. The eventual album cover was created at the last minute by morphing a photograph taken by Donwood of a medical dummy with Yorke's own face. It is also the last Radiohead album whose liner notes and artwork include pictures of the band members. This CD cover is a postmodern representation of the band Radiohead has it does not include all members of band in a group mid shot of each other has most commonly found with music bands. Using constructed artwork rather than a group picture of a band or a computer generated image, establishes that the band has creativity and originality, even if the art work is inspired by someone else's piece of work, that their are creating from scratch and is a statement that the band is marketing their work not themselves to the consumers. The medical dummy is modelled after Radiohead band member Thom Yorke, the lead vocalist and songwriter. This dummy could be an interpretation of how making the main image focus of the CD cover on the band members facial image rather than their work, then they would be considered another marketing gimmick of the music label industry. This is not standard norm of independent music artists who sell themselves out and lose their individuality as portrayed by the dummy modelled after a band member.