Noise Addicts has shared the rules to a fun way to name your band, choose your album cover art and name your album, with a little bit of randomness, and some help from Wikipedia, Flickr and Quotationspage.
Here are the rules:
- Go to Wikipedia and hit “random” and the first article you get is the name of your band.
- Go to “Random Quotations”. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page will be the title of your new album.
- Go to Flickr and click on “Explore the Last Seven Days”. The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
They’ve got a library of album covers with the post, and they are actually on a par with a lot of actual releases.
If you give it a try, leave a comment with what you came up with!
I gave it a try, and came up with the album “brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems”, by Revolution.
Here’s the album cover:
Image: sarah22333
Note: If you actually treat this as more than a game, make sure to look for Creative Commons licensed images!
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Gerbil
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Nice! You can let Wiki name your band, Flicker can do your art, and there are numerous software programs that will make music for you. At what point will a laptop computer become self-aware and just start a band without any human intervention whatsoever? Perhaps the task of doing something ‘new’ or ‘different’ is just too daunting for some…
St B – you think it hasn’t already happened?
Really? Sorry but this little meme was cluttering up every corner of facebook about a month ago. I was trying to forget it!
Wow, cool game. It’s new to me…
Band: It Could Happen to You (song)
Album: what ‘banging a stripper’ means
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hhyaena/3385669686/
First try, no joke.
wi_ngo – I totally want to hear your album! The photo goes, too!
Band: 1864 in sports
Album: That means that he exists.
Photo” http://www.flickr.com/photos/baar01/3384868276/
You are probably right Georg, somewhere a Commodore 64 is laughing…
Jello Biafra started a thing about band names, I like his system better lol.
Hahaha that’ pretty good!
Band Name: Rate Risk
Album: Immune To Bullets
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
That’s fun
Band: Droppin’ Things
Album: Nothing looks more stupid than a hat
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markjsebastian/3413960926/
I did it a second time
Band: Color Filter Arry
Album: Late to bed and late to Wake
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jomana-althawadi/3406972103/
Cool.
Band Name: Johnathan Sessler
Album: You Shouldn’t make a sudden move
Album art is an abandoned house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOD4DZUhd4A
sweet
band: Information Integration Theory
Album:Good without Roast Beef
cover is a sunset over a rocky beach
BAND : Arc De Bera
ALBUM : Some Talent Or Other
COVER : http://www.flickr.com/photos/corinneprimusphotogr...
Band: Compressible Flow
Album: Lay All Undiscovered Before Me
Art: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28793002@N03/4101156...
Band: Compressible Flow
Album: Lay All Undiscovered Before Me
Art: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28793002@N03/4101156...