Wikipedia Names your Band! *time waster*

Ok, so mulling abound the internet when not in work, and I stumble across this little guy: Wikipedia Names Your Band [PIC] Which quite successfully makes a band/album title/album art combo that works quite well most of the time, and is especally entertaining if you are a few pints in if you know what I mean.

A few of mine so far:


I figure that this is a emo-y metal core band, probably sounds like HIM mixed with Hawthorne heights.


Hm, synth pop/indie rock from some eastern country, I think.


Japanese Ambient, totally.

Post yours!!!


*and no, you don't have to make it a proper cover, I just liked messing with it.*

OkI guess im a tard because I cant figure out how to make the cover. Do you have to do it in photoshop?

RICLARK said:

OkI guess im a tard because I cant figure out how to make the cover. Do you have to do it in photoshop?

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Yeah, I just wiped up some quick photoshop. if you want, just post up the artist/title, and a link to the photo.

Baikal Teal

a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Centre of the Universe on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I'm going to go with a kind of whiney, Jewel-esque (but with better teeth) acoustic female singer/songwriter, with an apparent penchant for organization. OCD people need music too!

I can only get tiny GIFs from Flicker. How do you snag the pictures?


EDIT: snagged a jpg, but just remembered my proxy here at work doesn't allow me to upload pics!


Hyogo Prefecture
...she finally began to enjoy being a woman
To San Francisco 610 miles south ? Portland Oregon 124 miles north.. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

This would totally be some indie hipster band that would certainly get a little angsty...

Here's another one:


Irish singer/songwriter, kinda along the lines of Kristy McCall probably

Year Thirteen, "Interesting Sadness"


No idea how to transfer the pic. It was a black and gold (as opposed to black and white) photo of a bell tower viewed through near field branches.

This is fun!

Frozen - It Is Not Success At All (meh)
Very - I Miss You Like Hell
(kinda spooky)
(the above two were albums/songs of their own, unfortunately)
Vandalia-Butler City School District - The Uttermost Exertion of Their Abilities
Arctostaphylos canescens - Nudity and Espionage

That one was kinda cool. Just one more, I promise.

Wateni - I Am Filled With Music

Nice...

Yeah, I should totally be working on my design project, but making up the covers is far too much fun


Totally a sigur rós rip-off band

wow

aekdbbop said:

wow

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HAHAHA! that one's good. how about this?


Happy Hardcore. All the way.

I did a couple these bored on friday:

Malanga: Judge only their actions


B Channel: All you're doing is recording it

totally an activist punk band.

This has spooky coherence.

Ok, one last one before school:

Alt-rock, totally

Mine was actually pretty fitting:



Probably a Pink Floyd inspired prog-rock band...

jmulligan said:

I'm going to go with a kind of whiney, Jewel-esque (but with better teeth) acoustic female singer/songwriter, with an apparent penchant for organization. OCD people need music too!

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I've always found a little snaggle tooth to be sexy, especially on Jewel.

1 - Go to Random Wikipedia
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Random Quotes
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to Random Flickr
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together. (Gimp is free)

5 - Post it here.














Artist: Meat Glue
Album: smelleth so sour as shame

this is awesome

how do you copy thepic?

MikeFlynn74 said:

how do you copy thepic?

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open the pic, right click, "Save As..."
not sure for Mac

reminds me of this post..
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f45/wikipedia-names-your-band-time-waster-105128/

sorry, people do it to me all the time!

Berserker_Brew said:

open the pic, right click, "Save As..."
not sure for Mac

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Same thing for Mac, right click (or control-click) and "Save As". Then open it up in photoshop or Gimp, put in your text. I then save it as a .jpg and import it to Photobucket.

weird it keeps trying to save a green dot

You know, I thought it came out nice. Maybe I'll start writing some songs...get a little band together...that kind of thing. Yup. That sounds good. I'll quit my job first thing in the morning.

That was fun, and I can't believe how well the random choices worked together.

The name: Cophyla is a genus of microhylid frogs endemic to Madagascar. So I just had to add the frog clipped from another image.

The Picture was titled in Arabic, but its from someone named Funkyah

The Quote: Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983)

MikeFlynn74 said:

weird it keeps trying to save a green dot

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I was having the same problem, and was pissed cause I had an awesome album...

Band: Identity Theft
Album: Liking you back
Picture: This blurry dude walking bast this surreal mosaic.

Hell, I thought it was better than the majority of actual album covers I see....

I sucks at the Gimps...

Edit: This is obviously European Techno/House/Electronica/Dance that isn't available in stores but rather traded DJ to DJ in clubs.

Or something....

Band: Knut Peninsula
Album: Rather the Inadequate Life

This actually came together alright.

Full Quote: Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932

Ooooh I love this game! It always comes up with such great album covers. For extra fun, try to surmise what genre your album is. I'm guessing mine is lesbian rock.

Acoustic male singer-songwriter, a bit whiney and melancholy with just a touch of detached, superior *****etasticness.

I was going to make another, but it looks like some images are protected by clear gifs called spaceball.gif. here's how to get around that nonsense.

This one is a Boston Irish ska band.

Ottmarsheim- Protection and Kindness what's up doc on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I'm thinking Europop.

You guys using Gimp, where are you getting your fonts? The default font selection is pretty slim. I'm a total noob to the gimpdom. Was using Corell PSP X but the computer died and i haven't gotten around to reloading it.