The Smiths album artwork is part of what makes The Smiths so special. Their artwork is unique and has a running theme and pattern throughout them all. Most of the artwork includes a photo of an famous icon that has been an important inspiration to Morrissey, such as James Dean, Diana Dors, Terence Stamp and many others. This is not something we would be able to recreate due to copyright issues but 'The Sound Of The Smiths' below does feature the band as the album cover.
Another theme of The Smiths album artwork is an image to portray a message, such as the Meat Is Murder artwork. Morrissey is strongly in favour of animal rights and feels strongly about being a vegetarian, hence the song Meat Is Murder. This is shown on the album cover with an iconic war image. This gives a message about murder and war and given the content of the song, shows Morrissey's views of animals being more equal to humans and that to eat meat is murder, whether it be animal or human.
To create an album cover with a political message such as this on it wouldn't make much sense to us our song Bigmouth Strikes Again does not deal with such issues. The artwork used for the single was this:
As I think we are quite keen in photographing Jordan to be on our cover, (or at least on the magazine advert), this is the kind of thing we could use for inspiration. The Smiths very often use a coloured fade over the photo which we could also look into using. The font is minimal and sophisticated which I think would look good and professional. The Smiths artwork is quite plain but I think that it would be important to use certain features of it in our work.
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