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Oct. 21st, 2008

10:30 pm - The album game (copied from tracerj and modified by bunnirabbit)

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Step 1: Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random and the first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. Clip off any parenthetical disambiguation phrases tacked on at the end.

Step 2: Go to random quotations at http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and the last four (or five, if it really works better) words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. (If you want to do this again, you'll hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will just give you the same quotes over and over again.)

Step 3: Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" at http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ and the third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. Use Photoshop or something to clip it to a square and add text.

Step 4: Go to http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml and the subtitle of the journal you go to will be the first single from the album. (It may take a few tries to find one that has a subtitle, or that isn't in Russian, unless you want to use Russian.)

Put it all together, and that's your debut album.


I like this meme so much, I decided to do it twice:

Guido Gryseels - We Are Willing To Sacrifice
First single: "Na Voyne Kak Na Voyne"


Hurricane Betsy - Warmth On Your Face
First single: "Never Gonna Ever Give Up Tat Easily" [sic]

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From:tracerj
Date:October 22nd, 2008 12:16 am (UTC)
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Very nice work! I particularly like the second one.
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From:dv_girl
Date:October 22nd, 2008 12:31 am (UTC)
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First single: More from Sally

The band name ended up being a song from some other band. Recursive.
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From:kinkyturtle
Date:October 22nd, 2008 01:31 pm (UTC)
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There are a few band names like that. Like "Death Cab for Cutie", which was a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
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From:klepsydra
Date:October 22nd, 2008 02:53 pm (UTC)
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And before that it was the title of a sleazy paperback thriller, was it not?
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From:kinkyturtle
Date:October 22nd, 2008 07:28 pm (UTC)
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Either that or a parody of such titles, yes.
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From:hartree
Date:October 22nd, 2008 01:35 am (UTC)
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Interesting. I had that model of Diana camera when I was a kid.
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From:byackley
Date:October 22nd, 2008 02:20 am (UTC)
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Okay, let's try this...

Band name: Feba Radio
Title: Except Death and Taxes
First single: ...to the darkest night.

And the cover:




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From:darksasami
Date:October 22nd, 2008 04:12 am (UTC)
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I didn't like having the first single excluded from the picture, so I added it in the traditional manner.



Edited at 2008-10-22 08:16 am (UTC)
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From:darksasami
Date:October 22nd, 2008 05:31 am (UTC)
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It's been suggested I post a version of this with the stickers removed. There ya go.
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From:kinkyturtle
Date:October 22nd, 2008 01:30 pm (UTC)
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Explicit lyrics, hah. That basically amounts to two "damn"s on track 3 and one "ass" on track 19.
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From:deckardcanine
Date:October 22nd, 2008 11:11 am (UTC)
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Band: HMT Cambridgeshire
Album: You Have to Face Rejection
Cover: http://www.flickr.com/photos/julian-carretero/2964271246/
Single: Welcome, or Not, Here You Are
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From:joysweeper
Date:October 22nd, 2008 09:11 pm (UTC)
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I've seen this meme before, but never tried it.

Band name: The Story of the Olive(a silent film, apparently)
Album title: Your Values Don't Change
Album cover: Pearl The Vampire (Gotta love Lolcats)
First single: they just find new ways to lie to you

I like that the album title and the single seem to go so well together.
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From:thecanuckguy
Date:October 24th, 2008 09:56 pm (UTC)
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Is it just me, or does all that (except the album cover) sound like a fundamentalist Christian band? Or an anti-fundamentalist-Christian band (in which case, the album cover fits a little more)
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