The cover art for this
album is very simple. The artist name sits vertically on the left
side and to its right is a set of 4 identical images. The images are
of a soldier in Vietnam wearing a helmet with the title of the album,
'Meat is Murder', on it. The images are shot in black and white and
the contrast is heightened so that the background landscape is less
prominent than the soldier's face and what is written on his helmet.
It looks relatively
simple but it is iconic in how ironic it is. A soldier, a glorified
murderer, is protesting how eating pork is murder, even if the person
eating it had nothing to do with the death of the pig first hand.
The image is repeated
because it is more impacting as a repeated image, rather than just
one large picture. This is because the words 'Meat is Murder' are
repeated, and repetition makes something stay in someone's head. That
was the aim of this album cover, to get the point of meat being
murderous across.
There is a lacking of
fancy graphics and art because the most important part of the cover
is the image. Also, graphics was a lot less common for album art as
this album was released in the mid-eighties.
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