Entertainment For Lively Minds
Create Your Own Album
Here's a nice little game doing the rounds. Don't know if it's been posted before, but it's a bit of fun.
1 - Go to wikipedia and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”. ...Third picture no matter ......what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together.
5 - Post it.
ANd as Mr.Hepworth would say, "No cheating".
My effort:
Band Name: HALFPENNY ROSE RED.
Album Name: I STILL WON'T BELIEVE IT.
Picture: Some swarthy woman in a red dress (luckily).
Good clean fun and some of the outcomes are quite spooky.
Now, how do I post a pic?
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Here's my pic...I hope.
Neither...
... would I.
You wouldn't? I would...
Oh, I see, we're talking about different things.
As you were, nothing to see here...
We had ago at this a while back
Check:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/a-fun-little-waste-a-few-minutes
Always game for more, though!
For picture posting, Mr Gatz is the tutor of choice:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/easy-picture-posting
And here's one that a mate sent to me.
OK, here's mine . . .
Page/Name:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Meggitt
Quote/Title:
http://quotationspage.com/quote/40012.html
Photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceciliagilabert/5381725156/sizes/l/in/photo...
All three elements were chosen as per the instructions -- honest, scout's honour. The photo seemed to lend itself to a classical cover. That, and the black background, led me to think of Deutsche Grammophon. As Lieutenant William Geoffrey Meggitt was a WW1 flying ace, the combination of artist, title, photo and record label seemed too good an idea to leave unrealised in my head. So here it is . . .
Hooray! It's back!
It's the game that will not die.
Oct 08: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/create-imaginary-album
Feb 09: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/what-would-your-debut-album-look
Dec 09: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/fun-way-making-your-own-bandalbuma...
Dec 10: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/a-fun-little-waste-a-few-minutes
Indeed
And I think every single one of those threads features the unmistakable sound of Trevose Head.
May as well do another...
WIlco meets Fountains of Wayne?
.
Gerry Rafferty RIP
A sad loss.
Have an up...
for making me chortle.
Can't decide...
..if my effort is an early nineties blues/folk combo or a 7/11 charity album.
Shower of shitehawks
"The Chief Occupation Of Mankind by Tooloomius
All sounds terribly earnest, gloomy and not a little pretentious. Not my cup of tea at all. The reason there's no typography on the cover is not because I'm an Easter Leaver when it comes to photohop, but because this shower of shitehawks think it would be "a vulgar sellout".
As would
a square LP cover
And here's mine.
Looks positively Scandinavian, probably out on Smalltown Supersound with guest vocals from Lykke Li and one of Peter, Bjorn and John. I would buy this like a shot if I saw it in HMV.
It looks like....
...the Sugababes' HR department had a massive crisis just before releasing "Angels with Dirty Faces".
You'll never be short of work
if you're employed in the Sugababes' HR dept. I imagine an endless round of exit interviews and orientation sessions.
Cor.
Mutya's exit interview transcript probably has to be kept under oil, in a lead box.
I think they'd sound like Blink 182.
I think i already have this
That was fun.
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Another one
Somehow I don't think this is going to be very warm and pastoral.
I can't get the photo off Flickr (all rights reserved)
I can't get the photo off Flickr (all rights reserved - unless there is a way to do so) but it was 'The best days of our lives' by Graemewebbphotography
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arcimboldi/5388046598/in/photostream/
Which suited my album title
Some New And Better Ones
My band name
The Bridges at Toko - Ri
What a splendid waste of time, cheers BJ
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1980sSwiss bobsledding bronze medal winner Tony Ruegg's album
...is called It Always Interupts A Discussion
American long distance runner...
...Clare Eichner's album is called No Such Thing As Algebra
Something slightly more confrontational...
2007 In Piracy
Use It To Stab People
Mark Appleyard - You Must Mourn First Yourself
The Californian pro-skater decides on a career change by making an ambient music album in homage to Eno.
My first go
California State University, Fullerton are a melodic East Coast band with a wry sense of humor, who have been likened to They Might Be Giants. They are very stubborn, to the extent that they refused to change their name for a record label which was interested in signing them but thought the name "dreary as fuck." The band released it instead on their own label, which they called, yes, Dreary As Fuck.
According to
Merjer, "unrepentant doo-wop harmonies marred this sophmore effort that was otherwise characterised by methodically constructed sonic cathedrals of sound".
The Word gave it no stars at all.
Terminus Voyager - Just Become More Televised
Backstage at the O2 arena, Terminus Voyager are putting the finishing touches to their dressing room. Drummer Jay and lead singer Kayleigh have removed a page from a recent edition of Heat magazine and are using a pair of nail scissors to carefully cut around a photo of Cheryl Cole. With the image of their rival freed from the page, the pair tape it to the centre of the dartboard that forms part of their rider.
“Louis Walsh told us that we were ten times the band Girls Aloud are,” says Kayleigh
Next to her, Tarkus – the group’s platinum blonde, 17 year old lead guitarist nods her head:
“The longest song Girls Aloud ever did was 6 minutes 43 seconds. For us anything under 10 minutes is a failure.”
The five girls were thrust into the public eye in late 2009 when they stormed through the finals of X Factor to be crowned winners. Ask any member of the band and they will tell you that it’s a role they’ve been preparing for their entire lives:
“All five of us grew up listening to our dads’ Prog Rock albums so it was bound to be an influence on our sound,” says former nail-technician, turned keyboard wizard, Uriah.
“Wishbone Ash was massive in our house, ELP too.” says Lorraine to general murmurs of agreement.
Fans of the band’s 127-minute Tolkien-inspired debut - The Horrible & The Miserable - may be surprised by the new album’s (Just Become More Televised) more grounded magic realism, telling the tale of a young Peruvian boy’s friendship with an aeroplane.
“There was a lot of orc-slaying on our first album. It was just something that we had to get out of our system,” says Kayleigh. “We’ve killed more orcs in song than a lot of more famous Prog Rock acts. I don’t think Yes ever killed a single orc.”
“We made orcs an endangered species!” says Jay.
Uriah: “Our next album might be called Save the Orc!”
While most bands claim that what they do is all about the music, the girls are remarkably candid with regard to their ulterior motives:
“To be honest we formed the band as a way of meeting awkward loners,” says Kayleigh.
“Those guys are so hard to meet in normal social situations,” sighs Lorraine. “We needed something to lure them out of their bedrooms.”
2011 sees the band branching-out from music with the launch of their own range of designer capes.
“We’re also collaborating on a series of fantasy novels with David Gemmell’s nephew,” adds Jay.
So is there enough room in the pop charts for yet another all-girl Prog Rock group?
“Fuck yeah,” says Tarkus. “If you don’t have enough time in your life for a 27 minute song, where an atheist 747 passenger jet and a Christian vending machine argue about the existence of god in a Texan airport, then maybe you’re just not all that into music.”
You clearly have too much free time
worth it though.
Have an up.
Vladimir Posse - Didn't Trust Me So Much
In spite of production appearances from RJD2, Moby, and Malkin Zany Lativan Electro Duo 'Vladimir Posse' find the difficult second album doesn't quite sell as well as hoped.
Another attempt
Sunday afternoon boredom led me to trying another one of these. Of course, access to a large library of fonts and a great photo helped.
Hämevaara have released the artwork for their upcoming full-length album, More Or Less Bunk. The duo, named after the Finnish town where they met as schoolboys, warn us of a stylistic departure. For their first collection of original material, they have ditched the the manic beats and thumping bass of their DJ sets. Pirjo Kappe (the tall one) tells us that the title is taken from a quote from Henry Ford, "History is more or less bunk". Erki Lairala (the beardy one) further explains that the record will illustrate that Hämevaara plan not to be pigeonholed by the legendary club appearances or anthemic mixes of their past. But what will it sound like? Judging by the cover, the mood is very much downtempo. Fans of massive "choons" may be relieved to learn that a remix album is already in the works, tentatively titled More Beats, More Bunks.
Thanks to the original sources: Name, title and photo.
cracking typeface. What is
cracking typeface. What is that?
Alpha Bloc Sculpture
It' Alpha Bloc Sculpture. Here's more info: http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/singles/font_bureau/alpha_bloc_sculpture/
One more then...
After a career as a boxer in his native South Korea, Song Soon-Chum moved to Croydon, where he released the first of his self financed independent albums back in 1964. Yoko Ono once declared that he was a big influence on her early singing style. 'Immortal As They Quote' is his 32nd studio album (released March 2007) albeit a posthumous one. He sadly passed away in June 2006. So no more songs soon from Song Soon-Chum.