The Never mind the Bollocks album cover is so typical of Pre-Modern Punk. The pure simplicity of the cover accentuates the 'We can't be bothered' attitude of Punk, they just can't be bothered to do a crazy album cover. The name itself is typical, again, it's a 'screw the system' title, saying that everything other than Sex Pistols is rubbish.
The Sex Pistols often used this colour palette for their posters and album covers, with the exception of the anarchy in the U.K tour which used the Union Jack colours. The use of Pink and Yellow is really striking to a buyer, it makes the album stand out, much like the Sex Pistols themselves. The album title is in black bold writing, again, it makes the title stand out, and any young punk fan of the time would know that 'Never mind the Bollocks' was a punk thing to say, and therefore this attracts the target market.
The CD is exactly the same as the Front Cover but with all the producing companies and the liken on it. The canted 'Sex Pistols' logo on the CD adds to the Sex Pistols Punk style album.
Personally, I think this is the greatest example of Punk attitude on albums to date. The words this is crap plastered across their album just screams Punk. The song list on the back of the album is canted, you can't tell where each song ends, it's all in different fonts, it's just Punk on an album.
Again, they went for the Pink and Yellow colour palette but it's been changed around from the Front Cover as this time most of it is Pink. The name of the band is in a small flag like square in underneath the This is crap sign, it's in a sort of graffiti, scruffy bubble writing font, which could be trying to appeal to the youth's graffiti-ing anti-social ways.
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