Now for some fun: Pick Your Band Name / Album Name / Album Cover

[Mark de Vries]

I dug up four more albums from my record collection, which seems to become more and more ecclectic each day.

Department of Justice (Northern Ireland) - Destruct. It Never Fails

Archie Reese - Hang the Little Ones

StarCon - Ineligible for Public Office

Newburgh Priory - On the Unreasonable Man

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Some kind of pretentious indie-rock outfit. From Denmark.

 

[ITL]

Is it time for some 70's Prog Rock? Why, I do belive it is.

 

[Triskelion]

 

[trekkiedane]

You people are so talented! -it's a real ride to watch these covers!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ How do they make those covers, BTW? What program do they use? I know where the images themselves come from, but how do they do the text?

 

[Bears Discover Fire]

^^^I use Photoshop. I don't know what other people are using.

You can do basic text in MS paint.

Speaking of album covers:

Post-feminist ball busting thrash, on clearance at Amoeba!

 

[Skywalker]

Talk about luck, that's twice now I've gotten an actual name instead of something silly.

Probably some pretentious faux-big band wannabe.

 

[Triskelion]

^ Skywalker & Bears, nice job!

Mr Laser Beam, I use Photoshop too, but only for tweaking blend effects for the text (shading, borders, font kerning). You could do a lot with just MS Paint and experiment with free fonts such as what you can find at free font sites like this one.

Just download the font, open your computer control panel, and the file named "Fonts", drag and drop the new (unzipped) font file into it, and it's all installed and ready to use in Paint or Word!

Happy designing.

 

[Skywalker]

I use Photoshop, too, but I couldn't figure out how to get the vertical text to work right. All the letters had gigantic spaces between them compared to the letters in the horizontal text. So I just rasterized the vertical text and moved all the letters into position manually.

 

[Daneel]

You think yours is pretentious, Skywalker? Get a load of this:

And does anyone want to take a stab at assigning a genre to this one?

^ How do they make those covers, BTW? What program do they use? I know where the images themselves come from, but how do they do the text?

I've never used Photoshop in my life, so I just add the text by using the limited tools at my disposal on Photobucket -- hence why my covers aren't particularly impressive.

Ah well... I'm still having a lot of fun with these.

 

[Skywalker]

Here's some easy listening for you guys...

 

[Triskelion]

(I like the tags for this thread...the answer is none more. None more black )
It's not as if I have work to do, so:

alternative country:

India Hip Hop:

and a bonus from India...

Hmm, is the random universe trying to tell you something?

 

[Miss Chicken]

Maybe someone would like to review these two albums for me (as I know next to nothing about music)

The first is by a band named 93. According to the back of the album the number 93 has great significance in Thelema, a religion founded by Aleister Crowley. The picture is "I'm getting wise" by Ariel Chaos.

The second album is by Geir Knutsen, a Norweigan politican who has decided to moonlight as a musician. Picture is "Autumn....with a little Thanksgiving too" by CookieCrazie.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

^ How do they make those covers, BTW? What program do they use? I know where the images themselves come from, but how do they do the text?

I use the GIMP, go grab a font or two from dafont, then work in some effects.

An easy way to do neat effects with your text:

1. Create a layer for your text.
2. Add the text.
3. Duplicate the text layer.
4. Use a filter--some kind of blur, erode, dilate, etc. Anything that modifies the form of the text.
5. Cycle through the blend modes of the layer. "Grain extract" often produces the most interesting effects.

In fact, you can duplicate your original text layer multiple times, then use different effects and blend modes on each one. You can use it to create shadows, glows, and all sorts of weirdness.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I have no clue what kind of music this is, but I'm sure it's full of itself.

 

[Australis]

Otherwise Writer
Constant Lock
Paid Discipline
Forward Deal pt 1
Forward Deal pt 2
Using Plastic
Close Written
Hotel Earth
Medium Movie
Population Model
Opening Arrangement
Closer Reader
Little Broadcast

The Ability To Enjoy It was an album ahead of its time. The moody electronica of Constant Lock, the speedy synth thrash of Population Model, the plaintive love song Opening Arrangements, the new space rock of Hotel Earth, and the hard hitting solid bass end thump of Little Broadcast (reminiscent of ZZ Top's Antenna Head played by Ultravox) showcase a band at their most inventive and most eclectic. A standout was the acoustic Close Written, and its synth mirror image, Closer Reader. Why this album wasn't given better support by the record label remains a mystery to this day

(Wow, the phrase generator was on fire! I might have to write some of those songs. Set the generator to adjective - very common, noun - very common, or noun, noun)

 

[Robert Maxwell]

^ You stole my album name, you jerk!

See?

 

[Australis]

No no, this was an homage!