Rand-O-Album Cover

[davidn]

I saw this on gr33bo's journal and needed something creative to do while waiting for a lunch meeting (it's a hard life).

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.

Open up your image editor of choice and let yourself loose.



It's strange just how many random phrases sound like convincing band and album names. That said, I'm not sure what genre this band would be, but I'm fairly certain that I would stay away from them.

Comments

[kjorteo]

I got "Minnesota State High School Mathematics League" as my band and decided to stop playing right then and there.

Edit: Then I got Viva Forever (which I had to disqualify because it's a Spice Girls song and using something already music-oriented like that seems like it's cheating) and then--and I swear I'm not making this up--premature ejaculation. I think the universe really just doesn't want me to be able to do this meme.

[davidn]

Sounds like the band that Lister listens to in Red Dwarf called "Cholostomy Explosion". I also got a Beastie Boys album as one of my results and skipped over it for much the same reason - though bands with "tribute" names like Epica, Ride the Sky, and so on, aren't exactly uncommon.

Speaking of which, another thing I like about our own genre of music is the album artwork style - it's usually instantly recognizable, and not a sort of attempt at photographic artsiness (I can imagine your example below having the album title as a sticker on the car window). Iron Maiden has one single cover that's a live band shot, and it just looks completely wrong.

[kjorteo]

With the exceptions of Pink Bubbles Go Ape! and Chameleon, of course.