The Deaf Havana album is a personal favourite of mine, both the music and the album artwork. It's sepia tent is sort of stereotypical when it comes to photography that's meant to be thought provoking, but I think the contrast between a young child and the very formal clothes is what makes this different to most of these sorts of photos. I also think the fact that the child is looking directly at you makes the photo a lot more emotional.
The Chase and Status album is quite iconic due to the bright yellow text. I really have no idea about what the dog is doing there or why they chose yellow, but it's a good example of how colour can make something generic iconic.
The Chris Brown album uses colour dropping in the cover to exaggerate himself to give himself more of a sense of power and more of a presence within the photo. This is another style of using colour in black and white photos, but this creates a different feel to the Deaf Havana cover. The bright red has connotations of wealth and royalty etc, whereas the sepia tones are much more humble and emotional.
The Linkin Park cover is grungy, and the use of colour is meant to re-create a stencil that's been used for spray paint. This shows how colour can be used in various different saturation levels to create the effect where in part you don't even notice it to be colour.
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