Create random album covers - Time Waster
Creating compelling album cover art requires talent, though when I look through my old CD collection (how quaint!) it's pretty clear that talent is not a prerequisite for everyone who creates album covers. For a fun comparison, check out how surprisingly well My Album Generator creates passable album covers. The formula is simple: choose to use either a random Wikipedia article or a simple adjective + noun for the name of your band, and a recent random photo from either Flickr or Photobucket. Currently album titles are pulled from quotationspage.com. Lastly, choose whether you want to create a "Metal" band album cover, the only effect of which appears to be adding umlauts over vowels randomly.
It takes only a few seconds to try, and you'll probably end up with a few good ones rather quickly. Here are a couple of my favorites: Spectral Mandible, Peoria Panorama, Puffy Jello, and Buddy Liles.













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Subscribe to commentssnoopedgyedgeMar 9th 2009 3:09PM
I give you
captbaritoneMar 9th 2009 7:44PM
When that meme was going around various internet forums I wrote a script to automate the process. You can find it here: http://www.classicalcode.com/album_cover/
KarlWMar 9th 2009 8:44PM
http://nspmyerga.com/Default.aspx?album=0c321353-3a7a-4f08-ae3e-ccd42bf53d00.jpg
KarlWMar 9th 2009 8:46PM
http://nspmyerga.com/Default.aspx?album=a60d3cb0-0e4d-4398-b235-1ca4aeb35365.jpg
Oh, I just love this!
DeoWulfMar 9th 2009 9:11PM
http://nspmyerga.com/Default.aspx?album=bb1c9bde-0461-4213-b339-44f911a26cb7.jpg
And this one is actually plausible:
http://nspmyerga.com/Default.aspx?album=020fd77c-1909-45d8-b9bf-9c45c07d4b03.jpg
DeoWulfMar 9th 2009 9:19PM
http://nspmyerga.com/Default.aspx?album=af73ba9e-a08c-49d2-8dcf-b8b099323efe.jpg