CD and Album Cover Art
1. "CD Cover Meme"
<http://flickr.com/groups/cdcovermeme>
Steps in creating your own Random CD Cover:
(1) Artist
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random>
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
(2) Title
<http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3>
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
(3) Artwork
<http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/>
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
Here's one I just cooked up now:
* Artist: Battle of Pentemili beachhead (1974)
* Title: And ultimately defeat him
* Cover art: <http://www.flickr.com/photos/vts_photography/2566509468/>
Not sure about the artist name, but the title could work and the photo
is pretty good.
A recipe for the back cover:
<http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/01/12/album_art_meme>
(1) Reload Flickr's interesting photos page twice. Take the seventh
picture, desaturate it.
(2) Reload the random quotes page. Take the last few words of each quote
to make song titles. Use them all.
2. "Sleevage - Album Cover Blog. Music, Art, Design."
<http://sleevage.com/>
"Sleevage is a blog all about music cover art. From the LPs of the 60s
to the digital artworks of now. We'll post the best or most interesting
covers everyday in an effort to become the world's best resource for
great music artwork."
3. "Barcode-cover '80s album selling for a song"
<http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/183364/barcodecover_80s_
album_selling_for_a_song/>
"A big barcode splashed on the cover of an '80s compilation CD is being
mistakenly scanned by retailers instead of the real barcode, giving
Tears for Fears and Duran Duran fans a fat discount"
4. "Cover Stories, Old and New"
<http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2008/0515_cover_storie.php>
"(P)ast a certain age - or perhaps a certain stage in a career - most
acts' new album cover designs lose that singular, epochal quality that
was so common to their early releases. That is, where an act might once
have released iconic albums replete with cover art that not only
reflected their time but also defined it, those acts' older, mid-life
incarnations tend to release album covers that only lamely follow
ripened trends."
5. 317X
<http://www.317x.com/imagemenu.html>
A guy has scanned in the covers of his vinyl record collection, and
there are some quirky covers in there. A bit like those you see on
Spicks and Specks.
Here's a particularly bizarre album:
"IBM 7090 Computer and Digital to Sound Transducer - Music from
Mathematics"
<http://www.317x.com/albums/i/IBM/card.html>
"What is 317X?"
<http://ernienotbert.blogspot.com/2005/08/what-is-317x.html>
