Randomly Generate Fake Album Covers (2009 Facebook craze done ILM style)

There's a fake-album-cover generation thing going around Facebook. But I figured a bunch of music losers like ILMers can up the ante: randomly create an album cover using the following method, but then write the journo-hype promo kit reissue-blurb nonsense to make sure it sells like hotcakes at Dusty Groove or Other Music or Rough Trade or Amoeba.

The Method:

• 01. Band Name - click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

• 02. Album Title - click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

• 03. Album Art - click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days

• 04. Design The Cover - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

• 05 Hype It Good -

man that is so february

your own album cover internet meme

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Chalsa Nepal - 'Let Them See' (1983)

'Let Them See' is the long-lost cornerstone of the nearly-forgotten but deeply influential post-post-punk Circuscore scene based in La Digue in the Seychelles from the early 1980s through the fall of the Berlin Wall. The album was produced jointly by Robert Gotobed of Wire and Albert Kuvezin (later of Tuvan thoat singing combo Huun-Huur-Tu), and features guest contributions from bassist Lemmy Kilmister, trombonist Peter Zummo, ex-Shangri-Las Mary Weiss, and string arrangements by future Fraggle Rock music director Don Gillis.

Chalsa Nepal combine their obvious debt to Crass, the bands of Disques du Crepescule, and an abiding love for classic skiffle 78s with the longstanding Seychelles tradition of Circus Music derived from the islands' French, African, Indian, and Chinese populations' roots. 'Let Them See' (a title taken from a quote by band-hero Henry David Thoreau) is a free-wheeling set of neo-psychedelic disco-dirges and xylophone-led post-Soul proto-dubstep pop confections--albeit with a tendency toward Marxist-Feminist death metal darkness.

Says Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, "The first time I heard it, I hated it; but the second time, my brain turned around backwards in my skull. It changed me forever; I think it changed all of us." And Simon Reynolds adds, 'it wasn't until I heard Chalsa Nepal's second album that I realised the truly infinite breadth of the Situationist-derived 'ardcore 'nuum and the ways in which it affects us, reaching even into today's most hauntological booty-beats revivalists."

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Shit, well, that thread title isn't easy to search for. I tried a search. . .

Maybe the blurb angle is enough? Probably not. Sorry, mods please delete/merge thread if it's redundant.

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Stadium rock… literally! Taking their title from the notable brainbox and footballer Socrates, “Sensible tokens of your love” captures their triumphant homecoming concert at the Rose Bowl Stadium, 2007. Joined by Pavarotti (his final performance) the Bruin boys bring us stirring renditions of work by Limp Bizkit, Korn and the recently rediscovered Kid Rock. Turn the lights down, crack open a keg with your bros and relax with the UCLA Bruins.

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this could go any number of ways, I was thinking some kind of droney, psych weirdo shit. maybe I'll write OM blurb for it later. anyone else, feel free

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Has that swan been roughed up by Obama supporters?

from the ILE thread, on first try:

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Dunabogdány - Life's Not The Movies

Hungarian pop mistress Dunabogdány -- "Duna" to her fans -- has taken the club charts in Budapest literally overnight. Her third album in just 18 months, Life's Not The Movies shows Duna in her most mature light. She has been quick to realize her first two excursions into high-energy electronic swing had their respective runs, so she's turned her formula inside out in the form of a swing-energy electronic high. Don't forget to adorn yourself with this latest somersault by Budapest's foxiest club banger.

already ordered chalsa nepal.

Hate to admit it, as I was trying to (lovingly) mock reissue-hyperbole. . . but I would probably buy Chalsa Nepal, too. I mean, the dude from Fraggle Rock? And even though it would probably just sound like late-era Oingo Boingo, circuscore might be cool. . .

I just got lucky getting a cool image and semi-plausible band/album titles. . .

Love the way the blurbs have been handled so far. They both sound scarily plausible, really. Well, maybe not the UCLA Bruins jock jams record title, but otherwise. . .

http://s638.photobucket.com/albums/uu109/geirhong/ilx/?action=view¤t=ducks.jpg

List Of Asteroids: To Do It Right

List Of Asteroids like to describe their own music as "organic electro". They have had several hit singles in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Phillipines, and their debut album is now released worldwide. Expect List Of Asteroids to be the biggest new name of 2009!

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OMG Geir makes punk album!

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Freak folk supergroup comprised of Jim James, Colin Meloy, Justin Vernon, Andrew Bird and Joanna Newsom. Key tracks include "The Wainscoting, Tick Tick Tick"; "Shiloh Promise"; and "Twilight Daguerreotype, Parts I, II & III: An Epic." Bonus track included with on-line download: a cover of Patrick Sky's "Luang Prabang" featuring guest vocalist Antony Hegarty.

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Pioneering feminist label Olivia Records hit its peak in 1974 with the release of Cris Williamson’s The Changer and the Changed. By 1988, the label had folded, but not before unleashing Women’s World, the label’s response to My Bloody Valentine. Pettily dismissed by critics as “sensible shoegaze,” the band’s lone album, You Just Need Some Exercise, is said to have shipped only 47 copies. Fast forward to 2009: Morrissey rediscovers the band and invites them to open for his Years of Refusal tour. Copies of You Just Need Some Exercise now fetch up to $500 on eBay.

I am going to have to look up "Woman's World" on Wikipedia, cause I just can't imagine what that could be about. . .

Mottdeterre-- your freakfolk supergroup sent shivers down my spine, not the good kind : )

It's one of those ridiculous checkout-line magazine's isn't it? That talks about buying all generic groceries and saving $40 that you can use to take your family to the movies (to which you bring your own popcorn)

I didn't even look to see what it was at the time, other than an ILX gift from heaven. Yeah, it's a tabloid.

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Alice saw this pic on my photobucket page, and wants this album.

i love this. let's do it again.