Wednesday, February 25, 2009

My new album cover.


MY NEW ALBUM

While I am not much of a fan of the FaceBook memes--being an old, angry, curmudgeonly sort of guy--I did enjoy this one, forwarded to me by my pal Xian.

1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit "random"
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article that comes up is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Quotations Page and select "random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very LAST quote on 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
The third picture in the top row, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use PhotoShop or whatever to put it all together.

5 - Post it to FB with this text in the "caption" or "comment" and TAG the friends you want to join in.

The result of my efforts is posted above!
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59 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 11:56 AM

    Sounds Awesome! Digg time!

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  2. Jon Cole-DaltonFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:01 PM

    All I can say is, sweet.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM

    this is wonderful

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  4. UnknownFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:10 PM

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  5. UnknownFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:11 PM

    Here's mine! http://tinyurl.com/cl6nak Love it. I think mid 90s, NOFX stye punk band, probably?

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:13 PM

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/indieboy/3309165129/sizes/o/

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:15 PM

    My band=Nickerson Farms and our upcoming album is titled "be a nonconformist like everybody else"

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  8. UnknownFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:16 PM

    Band name: Tokyo Ghetto Pussy.

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  9. suedefaceFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    SJD for lyfe!: http://is.gd/kRGY

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  10. FlipyapFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:47 PM

    Edited to make it more metal:
    http://s5.tinypic.com/sgq4jd.jpg

    Original, sticking fully to the rules. Sounds more like a solo project:
    http://s5.tinypic.com/wuflol.jpg

    I LOVE this meme.

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  11. Jeff GreenFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:49 PM

    haha! Everyone keep posting your own. These are great. I'm gonna make more too, uhhh, when I'm not at work.

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  12. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 12:58 PM

    i made a bunch of these about a year ago:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/monkehtron/1album.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/monkehtron/2album.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/monkehtron/3album.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/monkehtron/4album.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/monkehtron/5album.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/monkehtron/6album.jpg

    mmmyep. i don't have photoshop, so i just used MS paint.

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  13. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 1:00 PM

    oops. looks like the links got cut off.

    blogger has been having a lot of weird problems lately...

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  14. UnknownFebruary 25, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    Wow. I'm always surprised how things like this float around. I first heard this over a year ago (someone even crated a page then to automatically generate the info: http://rbng.coldforged.org/). Then all of a sudden in the past week or two it finally exploded. Kinda like a really slow delay bomb.

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  15. UnknownFebruary 25, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    Sclager totally sucks. They're just a bunch of sellouts now. I was totally into them when they were indie, but now that they're on a major label they suck. I remember seeing them @ the 8x10, and they totally rocked, they even did a cover of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" and they tore it up. But now they're just cashing in and playing the hits for all the lemmings out there.

    FUCK SCHLAGER!!

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  16. Nick KunstFebruary 25, 2009 at 1:06 PM

    Pretty nice: http://i44.tinypic.com/33bmmvd.jpg

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  17. CoryFebruary 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM

    So awesome:
    http://i42.tinypic.com/eflws8.jpg

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  18. FlipyapFebruary 25, 2009 at 1:12 PM

    I love this meme so much.
    Somehow the results I'm getting sound quite plausible.
    I'm hoping to get some nonsense next.

    http://s5.tinypic.com/24c8n6s.jpg
    http://s5.tinypic.com/24uyjb6.jpg

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  19. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 1:50 PM

    That was a lot of fun.

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  20. FlipyapFebruary 25, 2009 at 1:51 PM

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  21. FlipyapFebruary 25, 2009 at 1:52 PM

    I was glad to finally find a crazy combination, but now that I look at the finished result, it does look like a sort of plausible hardcore album. This meme is magic.

    http://s5.tinypic.com/1e6xc6.jpg

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  22. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 2:26 PM

    Here's mine. Almost looks like a real album, but doesn't really match me.

    http://s5.tinypic.com/dwthxj.jpg

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  23. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 2:52 PM

    http://www.goombas.org/images/ptfc.jpg

    And the track list, based on the rule I heard about which is basically "google the name of your band and album. go to the third page. select the song titles out of the text of the 10 results on that page":
    1. LOL, Soulja
    2. Army - Small Wars Council
    3. A Cross Dressing Pakistani Television Presenter
    4. Margate FC, What More Could You Want?
    5. MELBOURNE, Jan 18
    6. The Only Self Goal
    7. Match :-(
    8. They Only Really Have One (Sometimes 2)
    9. And Also a Hundred
    10. Lahore Unit

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  24. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 3:53 PM

    I want this.
    http://i42.tinypic.com/2u8ute8.jpg

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  25. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 3:55 PM

    http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=random.jpg

    I wonder what kind of music that band would actually play.

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  26. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 4:03 PM

    Not got photoshop installed but....

    List of Golden Harvest productions

    Worthy of great respect

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/chewie007/3305580367/

    Nice image

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  27. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 5:30 PM

    heres mine

    http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=logo#/photo.php?id=599063271&pid=2088340&cp=599063271&cps=6edcd79f91

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  28. G-ManFebruary 25, 2009 at 5:55 PM

    Too lazy to shoop. Thus, text.

    Band Name: Yuri Trutnev
    Album: "Spends very little on office supplies"

    Rock on!

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  29. Blain NewportFebruary 25, 2009 at 6:20 PM

    Naming our band after another band's song was kind of lame, but I like the title of our first album.

    http://i40.tinypic.com/2ihxmk0.jpg

    The really nice photo was stolen from here.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/chelseaabril16/3300170438/

    I dub her the mistress of macro.

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  30. DaveoFebruary 25, 2009 at 6:44 PM

    Here's mine:

    http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/2/27/1785246/cd.jpg

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  31. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM

    Hmmm. I think I'll have to break the rules on this one....the first Wiki article was "List of Square Enix Compilation Albums". While I'm currently enjoying Chrono Trigger on my DS, that's just a really dumb name.

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  32. FredFebruary 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM

    http://fredgolden.net/twitter_album_cover.jpg

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  33. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 7:34 PM

    http://s629.photobucket.com/albums/uu18/Budo99/?action=view&current=Skinmanliver.jpg

    Band name: Skinman
    Album name: Through to your liver

    Disturbing how the band name and the album linked up perfectly.

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  34. UnknownFebruary 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM

    We are Yamabe Flow. Please check out our new album here:

    http://users.ameritech.net/fiveolddogs/yamabe-flow.jpg

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  35. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 10:46 PM

    http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3041/frankwiercinskiabsurdat.png

    That was really great!

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  36. FoodstuffFebruary 25, 2009 at 11:37 PM

    IAEDANS
    "Seriously, except yourselves."
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/11350112@N07/3298758092/

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  37. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 4:02 AM

    Larry Bergh

    "Making Us Ignorant"

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  38. UnknownFebruary 26, 2009 at 5:48 AM

    Chuquibambilla is a mouthful for a band name - I like it.

    http://photos-g.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v2402/120/2/1211925793/n1211925793_30154254_6465515.jpg

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  39. Ground ChuxFebruary 26, 2009 at 6:59 AM

    This was actually a sweet little experiment. Pretty stoked with my results.

    the Augusta and Florida Railway
    with
    about life: it goes on

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xSfJkAaLEh8/SaYs37hvLRI/AAAAAAAAABg/BY1czH8JB7Y/s320/albumcover_meme.jpg

    Which kinda looks like my overly-arty follow-up album to a critical darling.

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  40. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    Hey Jeff, since you're so into music would you care to share with us in a blog post some words on your favourite video game soundtracks? Among my faves are Doom, Star Control 2, The Longest Journey, and The 7th Guest.

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  41. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 11:35 AM

    Sweet! Don't have time to Photoshop these since I'm work...strangely enough actually using Photoshop.

    Here are a couple names/albums that came up for me:

    The "Could Really Be a Band and Album" Category:

    Band: Anchusa
    Album: Lower Middle Class

    Band: Longfellow
    Album: In The Long Run

    The "Totally Awesome and Funny" Category:

    Band: Worora
    Album: Better Than You Dare To Think

    Band: Rod Coleman
    Album: I Gave Up Reading

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  42. WetzelFebruary 26, 2009 at 3:22 PM

    Band Name : United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa, 2008
    First Album : It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

    Album cover : http://www.flickr.com/photos/anjoudiscus/3302151679/

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  43. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 5:34 PM

    Killer Nuns, a plane ride away!

    haha where was this in high school? Me and my buds spent days trying to figure out a band name...(we should have rehearsed, we sucked)

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  44. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2009 at 7:34 PM

    Seriously, this is too much fun.

    http://s5.tinypic.com/106hd8h.jpg

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  45. UnknownFebruary 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM

    The title and pic worked surprisingly well together.

    http://tinyurl.com/ckvmjk

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  46. GentryFebruary 27, 2009 at 12:05 AM

    band name: Dealer's Choice
    album: Psychology in the world

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonze/3303592169/


    it kind of works

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  47. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2009 at 6:09 AM

    Surprisingly perfect.

    Band: List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
    Album: CAR COULD GO STRAIGHT UPWARDS

    http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=21erx9d&s=5

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  48. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2009 at 7:30 AM

    I used to work at a classic Rock station here in NY, and we used to get these demo albums from these no-name bands daily. They all thought we would drop the over-analyzed, field-tested, and pre-programmed playlist in place of their "never heard of your crap" B-music. These look and sound exactly like every single one of those albums.

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  49. FredFebruary 27, 2009 at 11:38 AM

    Holy crap, did I get lucky, 3 times!!!

    http://fredgolden.net/jeffgreen_fallrisk.jpg

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  50. ScribejayFebruary 27, 2009 at 4:02 PM

    That worked too well.
    Band: 1957 World Figure Skating Championships

    Album: things we haven't been taught.

    Cover: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tg_bb/3298132499/

    This band will be awesome.

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  51. AnonymousMarch 1, 2009 at 7:26 PM

    It seems like everyone I know discovered this all of a sudden. Being too lazy to use photoshop I put up a web app to do these:

    Album Cover Generator

    My band is here: Regrettable Lutefisk

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  52. AnonymousMarch 3, 2009 at 4:23 AM

    http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g200/toofhairy/debutalbum.jpg

    :D

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  53. Capt CrossMarch 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM

    Here's my attempt at this meme. It kinda could be a real album cover.

    http://tinyurl.com/ddo2b3

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  54. jsd124March 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM

    http://s5.tinypic.com/2q34t35.jpg

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    Nice post

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