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Here's a fun little way to waste some time, come up with your own debut album using nothing but random content from the web. Details and my own results included! Thanks to spittingoutteeth from aethereverywhere.com for the technique.

http://aethereverywhere.com/discuss/showthread.php?tid=71

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1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four 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.

3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

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

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Here's what I got on my first try:



Sources:

wiki page for band name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Survivors_%28Simon_Raven_novel%29

quote used for album title: http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27146.html

image used as album cover: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmariani/2551207856/

While these results could have benefited from a better picture, it's still not too shabby for random picks. What do you come up with?
Sleaze Freak, "The Only Evil Is Ignorance"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sadfeeling/2552649445/
I'm very happy with mine -- and I didn't even cheat!

http://www.byond.com/members/Gughunter/files/ hugo_sanchez.png

Picture from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/devocean/2551954250/

Oddly enough, the quote is from Epictetus, and I was reading about him just last night.
C20XE - Natural ability without education
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2161/ 2546622848_85c7d2f8d7.jpg?v=0

Sorry, I had to spend some time looking at the source so I could get the image...
I hate it when people hide their images behind another image.
Really annoying.

And it's not like it protects anything.
http://www.byond.com/members/Mikau/files/album.png

That was a really weird wikipedia article to be linked to, since it says beside my name on Roleplayers "Mikau The Jerk"

It was actually "Jerk_(disambiguation)" though.
I'm not a boxing fan, but my random album cracked me up.

For the record, I did follow the rules. These links just happened to come together like magic. =)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guty_Espadas%2C_Jr.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26906.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21710168@N05/2545333476/
They do this on Fark and Something Awful every now and then. Some of the entries look like real album covers!
I lucked out on my first try. The band name is sufficiently unusual, the title is new-agey, and the album cover fits perfectly with both.

Budhlada - Of Adventures and Experiences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budhlada
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/31125.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/randommemory-s-photography/ 2568530300/

Turtle2x4's is my favorite here so far. Awesome juxtaposition of quote and image.
Charles Chun
Only Glamorous in Retrospect

http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif
And another

Annual Conference
When It Goes Off

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3161/ 2586323406_20458d3466_b.jpg
Maybe a good one for folk or country:
Red Rock West
Some Temptation We Resisted
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/ 2595503320_7f17e12b4f.jpg?v=0

And a European twist (metal, I imagine):
Strangford Lough
You just take it.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3071/ 2593054884_0eb5a12a40.jpg?v=0

Mine sounds like a Fort Minor rip off :P. It actually would work well though.

Fort Massac: Very Seldom Quoted Correctly
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zidane/2621762425/


The band name kinda ruins the next one...

Achina, Nigeria: To think about writing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpaulda/2616813124/


This one is perfect actually. The picture is of the middle east, (its actually a slideshow) which really makes it good

Forex swap: The war against reality
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khashi/2607267274/

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