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Fun way of making your own Band/Album/Album cover
Here`s a fun way of making a convincing-looking Band/Album/Album cover:
1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
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”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use photoshop, the gimp or similar to put it all together.
My attempt yelded the following result (I don`t know if it counts as Weed Bus is actually an Album name from a real band, but I didn`t cheat ;))
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Photo credits
Photo: Paris sous la neige... by Nadal Photo (from FLICKR)
Lack of photoshop
If anyone wishes, they can do this for me.
Collaborative Practice's "Where's It All Going to End?"
picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nightlights/4193055132/
actually sounds like a proper band. Weird.
EDIT: (did it with standard Windows Paint)
This will run and run..
Boulevard Victor's "Last Refuge Of The Complex" will be out next month. With a nice picture of a bell on the cover. This is a great thread! Have an "up"!
No photoshop
Lignou
Tilt Your Head Back and Laugh at the Sky
Too stupid
to know how to paste or whatever to paste album cover to this thread... however, be aware that "carpet the whole world", the first CD from indie newbies Empire Building is out now!
Je t'aime
Coming soon from Shinkansen recordings
GoatHerd..
This is genius.
Keep them coming, everyone.
In fact.. arse to it.. this has to be in the magazine.
Twenty album covers. Ten real, ten by GoatHerd's method. Which is which?
Chicago Black Hawks Season/Social Democratic Students
One 80-minute track on this LP from 'the Hawks' whose five guitarists each play different tones of feedback with their backs to the audience. Blamed for inciting school massacres.
Emo-y Oxford teenagers who thought the band name was, 'like, ironic' because they're not from Finland or social democratic, in fact they're not interested in politics and they're fed up of being judged for not going on student demos. It's like a form of prejudice, a higher grade of prejudice. Totally.
some new post-rock from Michigan
I lurk and lurk then one of these comes along
Followed rules to the letter and this came along:
North East London based Iris Boun (bass player in Afro-Beat Indie darlings Harksted) releases glo-fi, chillwave e.p. under banner of Lupinus Foliolosus, A Cuttlefish Spurting Out Ink evokes a nostalgic, superfluous airless intimacy.
I saw this in the last Observer Music Monthly
Five stars it got.
Anyone else find themselves wanting to buy the albums?
It could be my fevered imagination, but some of these covers give a real feel for what they'd sound like. That was the basis of my record-buying behaviour in the 70s, and it seldom failed me.
There's a crisp fiver for the first person achieve 10 sales.
Sao Pedro River's "Reason With People"
Upcoming alternative indie / electro group? Myth? Word Massive creation? You decide.
This is far too much fun. I may have to visit the Priory.