Fed up with the music business? Build your own!

This meme has been doing the rounds this week, and I’ve been having lots of fun with it. Here’s what you do…

1. Go to the Wikipedia random article generator and note the title of the randomly selected article. This is your band name.

2. Similarly, go to this random quotation page and note the last four words of the last quotation. This is your album title.

3. Now to Flickr’s interesting photos feature. Download (or screengrab if necessary) the third picture. This is your album cover picture.

4. Now put the whole lot together in the photo/graphics application of your choice. Populate your imaginary music business with exciting acts!

Here’s one I made earlier. You might be interested to read what the band’s publicity people have to say…

“Sandhu blend the lyrical yearning and wistfulness of the Smiths with sharp, classic pop songwriting in the vein of Prefab Sprout, but with a modern electropop sensibility and skinny jeans. They recently returned from a hugely successful tour of youth clubs in the northern suburbs of Rotterdam.”

Go and buy it now!

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8 Responses to Fed up with the music business? Build your own!

  1. Si says:

    Imagination have stormed the scene with their thought-provoking live performances and introspective lyrics. Their new album touches upon the environmental catastrophe awaiting the planet juxtaposes it with a young man’s yearning in a post-twentieth-century urban wasteland.

  2. Si says:

    Darn it, no HTML in comments… ah well!

  3. adrian says:

    Gah, sorry! I did that to get rid of the Russian blog spammers, but Akismet seems to take care of all that now. I’ll change that setting so you can post your link :)

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  5. Steve Dix says:

    Perek Belleh “They Needed To Hear”

  6. Ross says:

    Good game, good game…

    And strangely addictive, too…

  7. Arkle says:

    With the obvious exception of the album cover part, I used this to come up with the favorite band of one of the characters in my 2nd novel, as well as the title of their latest CD. This is fun.

    BTW, in case anyone was wondering…

    Artist: KPKY
    Album: To Your Regular Duties

    :-)

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