Oasis - Definately Maybe

After searching through multiple different album covers I have come to the conclusion that one of my favourites is ultimately the album cover shown above I.E Definately Maybe by the band Oasis, they're an indie rock/Britpop band whose music is generally about being young and being free, throughout the image there are images of the band members in different positions which generally are associated with being a teenager or being a young adult, I think this cleverly links directly to the target audience, the positions sat include a simple image of someone laying on the floor to a member of the band watching TV, as well as someone just standing and sitting in the background and a man playing the guitar on his couch. All this is very typical scenerey of teenagers and young adults, combined with the music it helps emphasize a glorified image of youth culture, although most of the scenery is very typical and fits into a realistic setting, there is some imagery which reflects more of the psychology of a teenager and a young adult, the repeatedly shown alcoholic drinks help reflect youth culture whilst the large globe shown at the top of the ceiling is much more surreal and I feel helps show the idea that youths and teens feel like conquering the world, therefore both the realstic ideolgies are shown as well as the psychology of teens and youths. The yellow, grainy colour is very synonomous with the 90s (the time the album was released) and helps reflect the freedom but also the dreary and grained life experiences of the time. There can be seen a potrait of a seemingly infamous figure, this helps highlight the heroism and hero-worship characteristics of teenagers and how music typically allows them to delve into escapism, the fact that every person shown within the cover appears to be relaxing gives the sense of a relaxed nature towards the album whilst the text appears very sporadic, personally I don't like the text shown at the top of the album, I feel as though it does not neccessarily fit with the rest of the imagery shown as very old fashioned writing does not usually match with the characteristics of teenagers and young adults however I do think this may have been deliberate in order to contribute and emphasize more towards the surreal nature of the cover. The band's logo can be seen very clearly in bold at the top left of the cover which helps the logo 'stand out' thereby allowing the identity of the band to be very clear, the black and white look of the logo does subvert the look of the album quite unusually, with a band's first official album it would be expected that the logo would be a similar design to the album as the band is very young and may want to use a similar design of the logo and the album. However clearly the black and white, bold logo does not reflect the yellow, grainy look of the album, this in turn makes the logo 'stand out' far more lucratively than what it would otherwise which would overall help increase the identity of the band so that whenever the band's album is physically picked up their eyes may be drawn to the logo as it is so different and coresponds very well with the album image.