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Welcome to the Album Cover Meme…
Make your own!
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
You then take the pic and add text to it, then post your pic.
I got it from John Harper (who got it from Vincent) and Joe took it from me and posted his before I posted mine!
I might have to do another… it’s a ton of fun.
UPDATE: I did another. It was a ton of fun.
I bring you, the debut album from Neunkirchen Saarland, “Day Expressed in M&Ms.”
That’s twice in a row I got a band name that was just the name of a town. I was kind of hoping that I would be able to make a dark industrial album — Neunkirchen Saarland could have been the next Einsturnze Neubauten — but the album title and the image ruled that out. I’m thinking something acoustic with just a shade of euro-pop.
Heh. I bet they play ukelele, don’t they?
This is just begging to be automated as a little generator web page. Oh, for a faster internet connection….
Of course. :)
You know, half the fun though is doing some quickie graphic design with it. You really need something like P-shop/Gimp/Illustrator/Inkscape to have the proper fun with it.
Mine were both done in Inkscape.
Very cool.
I got:
Bowland Bridge is soon to release their debut album _Refuge of the Complex_ with the lead track ‘…and Accept Her Suggestions’. The album will feature this cover: http://www.flickr.com/photos/memetic/2170704308/
What fun! I just repeated the technique for an album name to get the first song title.