Be Excellent To Each Other

I think someone said the other week that we should do the album covers fun thing, so let's.

Rules are simple - create a made up album cover from the following:

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.

A little bit of MSPaint or photoshop action to attractively arrange the band and album title on the cover, and you're done.

Here's one I did last time round for anyone who can't work out what the hell I'm talking about:

I love this. It'll have to wait until I get back across to my office, however.

In short - is the same as before? Not a complaint...

Yes - we didn't ever do it on here, we did it on WoS, so it's exactly the same.

Lavelle Department - to have run away

Excellent!

Djamaluddin Adinegoro, abundance is human attention.

I'm not sure I can face doing this again, after doing 200 last time round.

Just do one then?

This is ace! I wish my work PC had some.. ANY... decent software on it!

I can't remember if I even posted mine before so I'm going to re-release it in a special bonus edition with an extra track just to say a hearty "HAH! Fuck YOU!" to anyone stupid enough to actually be a long term supportive fan who bought it on day 1.

Music industry CUNTS.

I love how so often it seems like the image and words go together. I guess we see connections in randomness a lot.

Here's mine. In retrospect I should have done the text in the same colour as the make-up, but, meh...

And here is my attempt

Here's my contribution to history.

Awwwww!

I know, I got lucky. I also imagine 13th Bomb Squadron to be a heavy metal band and so get even more pleasure from it in my own little way.

That cat looks freakishly human.

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Fluffy! Ironic! So bedroom it is like an entire chain of hotels.



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College indie guitar musings from the bassist who went on to form The Vaginal Croutons.

I need to get more fonts on my PC for this to be good.

I'd do one, but I don't think it's possible for them not to end up looking like they're for deeply pretentious, hateful britpop albums.

I think that's the point.

Except that kitty, which couldn't possibly be hateful.

Forum Question.
At time of posting the cat album cover has had 212 views, yet this topic is at 203 views. Why? Or is it just me?

Either that or exceptionally earnest singer-songwriter folk rock guff.

I'd do one, not least as I got "The Quid" and "To vex your mind", but the pictures were boring and I can't be arsed anyway.

You viewed it nine times while making the image and uploading it?

No because I'm getting 233 post views but the pic is now at 273 views. Would it be counted as a view if it was linked else where? (I have not linked to it btw). Just worried about the bandwidth.

Uh - hang on. You've attached the image. That's uploaded it to the BeEx server, so it doesn't care about any file on your PC anymore.

I would imagine a few people have sent it to mates and they went to it directly. The server can protect against that, but that would Grim...'s call.

Nice work all, but I feel like we're forgetting something. Wasn't there some random method of generating tracklistings as well?

Ithaca 37 - those I do understand.

Hit random article on Wikipedia ten times or something. Takes too much work.

Ah - sorry in my confusion I thought he was looking at something on his PC, thinking that the links were somehow going direct to his PC for the picture. I need some coffee.

I like this game.. but I cheated.. I used the last 5 words.

Don't hate me.

I think we can call that artistic license.

I had a really good one, but the only editing software I have is coreldraw, and I couldn't figure out how to save it as anything other than CDT, or other not JPG stuff. Stupid coreldraw!*

*may not be corel draw that is stupid.

Press "Print Scrn" with your masterwork in view, paste the clipboard into Paint, save as JPEG, bish-bash-bosh.


I suspect everbody cheats at this game because what nobody seems to want to admit is that the random results are resoundingly shite 99% of the time and it basically doesn't work. Right, my cheery-uppy work here is done!

Here's my effort
and I had a play around with Dudleys.

I think the game does work pretty well. The photos on flickr that you get sent to are almost always interesting, as they're ones that have been favourited a lot. The ends of quotes often tend to be something that an arty-farty band would go with, and there are so many bands with random names these days... *shrugs*

Mine was genuine. I cannot speak for the others.

And I love the work Wullie has done to Dudley's.

Mine was genuine, although I accept battle / death and cat playing dead was an awesomely lucky combo.

Also, AARGGGGGGGGGGGGH

I just tend to get pictures of bastard flowers, I'm finding. (And the second and fourth pictures are *always* ace). I don't want to be a grumpy tit, jus' saying by all means cheat and give us summat interesting.


Mwoo hoo ha haaa!

My random selection worked out pretty well.



And, from that Wikipedia page, Anna Mwalagho is an actual singer. So I think I should be awarded some sort of prize.

Apologies for terrible photoshopping, but I thought the selection was pretty good for a first run.

Most of these are better album covers than most actual albums.

a bit odd but this is fun...

my font choice was gash though

Same here. I didn't cheat except for the picture - I wouldn't have chosen any of the first five or so that came up, because they were all horrible ones of flowers and/or aryan children (and in my defence, the first two had text on). I would have gone with the third one down on the first page if I could be arsed, though, and claimed it was fair play on a technicality.

I've done loads of these but this one is probably my favourite

Here's some more:








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No cheating.