Randomly Generate Your Musical Career

This is a game I stole from a myspace bulliten… which says a lot 1) about my creativity and 2) about the work-level at my office right now.

  1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band’s name.
  2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
  3. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

Band name: Free Culture Swathmoore (Oh Christ, I think I’m a jam band.)
Album: Karongasaurus

  1. George Hayden
  2. Phelsuma madagascariensis
  3. List of baseball jargon
  4. NAND
  5. Jay Brannan
  6. Acromethalon
  7. Swipe (breakdance move)
  8. Phyllis Kirk
  9. Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part, Ontario
  10. The Now Show
  11. HMS Revenge (06)
  12. The Red & The Black
  13. 24th United States Congress – political parties
  14. Frederico Lapenda
  15. Eisarena Wolfsburg
  1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band’s name.
  2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
  3. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

Band name: Samuel T. Durrance
Album name: AGCT
Tracks:

  1. MafiaBoy
  2. Michel David
  3. BHK
  4. Canterbury Corpus
  5. Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Police
  6. Gold Base
  7. 1984 Stanley Cup Finals
  8. Spanish ship Nuestra Señona de Santísima Trinidad (1769)
  9. Alliant Energy
  10. Maiko National Park
  11. Seidō juku
  12. William A. Dickson
  13. Maurice Feild
  14. Baoshan District
  15. Glory of Heracles

Either we’re a boring band, or this is a boring game. I suspect the latter. There are, like, no, y’know, verbs, yo?

Mine sounds incredibly dull, with the possible exception of track 13.

Band name: Wigan Pier
Album name: William Samuel Symonds
Tracks:

  1. Swords, Dublin
  2. The Giant (Twin Peaks)
  3. Alan Watson
  4. Michael Irvine
  5. Xenia (genus)
  6. Dave McClain (coach)
  7. Trent Haaga
  8. Singanamala
  9. Broad-tailed Hummingbird
  10. Registered Merit Reporter
  11. Pinot
  12. Channel 25
  13. Mounseer Nongtongpaw; or, The Discoveries of John Bull in a Trip to Paris
  14. Davide Marchini
  15. Bringhurst Field

Band name: Jives (wow!)
Album name: Cheshire Cat in popular culture

Track listing:

  1. Philippine Football Federation
  2. Clan Cunningham
  3. Movement for the Left
  4. Buffalo High School
  5. The Regent
  6. Small Wild Goose Pagoda
  7. Édouard Roche
  8. Reverse psychology
  9. Dervish
  10. Pennsylvania Route 643
  11. Historical U.S. Census Totals for York County, Maine
  12. Boliviana negra
  13. Pastured poultry
  14. Nilo Alcala
  15. The Sand Child
    Oooh! Bonus hidden track: Many-finned sea serpent :smiley:

That was sort of neat. I don’t think I’d buy my own album, though. But damn, track 11 looks like it could be a hit.

Band Name: Xiafs

Album: Thousand Islands - Frontenac Arch

Tracks:

  1. GR 5
  2. Coptisine
  3. Cranberry Township
  4. Pine View Middle School
  5. Elko County, Nevada
  6. Chemical Revolution
  7. Hetzel
  8. Rolando Boyce
  9. Empress Li
  10. Painted Smiles
  11. Prog
  12. Whitlock
  13. Straight-line Diagram
  14. Local Government Act of 1973
    Sounds like we’re signed with Windham Hill. :rolleyes:

That’s a club hit, right there.

This is hilarious!

Band Name: The Nature of Maps

Album: Sliotar

  1. Albert Roosevelt
  2. Heikki Aho
  3. Digital Sheet Music
  4. Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School (Waterloo)
  5. Aldgate, Northamptonshire
  6. Gabriel’s Mother’s Highway
  7. Walter the Farting Dog
  8. Charley Trippi
  9. Jean Smith
  10. Isabella, Missouri
  11. John Langton
  12. MacArthur Center
  13. Die Försterchristl
  14. Denise Rood
  15. Ponipate Lesavua

Band Name: The Suppliants (nice to have a “the” one!)

**Album: ** KISS 100

Tracks:

  1. Bruschetta
  2. ParkZone J-3 Cub
  3. Ordinary People
  4. Crust punk
  5. Tiptree United F.C.
  6. Umbro-Romanesco
  7. Fortinos
  8. The Sash
  9. Footpath
  10. Tennelec
  11. Bad Marienberg
  12. Adpositional phrase
  13. LGBT rights in Estonia
  14. Ball’s Green
  15. Bucolics

Eh, kinda prog-y sounding to me. I dig how a bunch of people can do random searches and not even have to wait 120 per.

Well THAT’S a Brooklyn hipster band, if ever I saw one!

It’s the fourth album of a band called Matt Pond PA. And several of the song titles are singers or albums. I think my randomly generated musical career plagiarizes.

Band Name: The Slave Mother
Album: Typhoon Lee

  1. Zentralblatt MATH
  2. Bondarzewiaceae
  3. Handcuff knot
  4. Tonfön
  5. Botswana National Front
  6. Sphaerolejeunea
  7. Tait’s conjecture
  8. Opipramol
  9. Dihydropteroate
  10. Magdalena Channel
  11. Lesser pelvis
  12. Ninjatō
  13. Shrew
  14. Troxacitabine
  15. Military fiat

Huh, looks like I had a metal band.

Band Name : Kellerman [Ahh crap I’m probably German techno-crap]

Album: FIFA altitude ban [Yep definately Euro-crap]

1.Wade Deacon High School
2.Bobby Campbell (footballer born 1956)
3.List of Guantánamo Bay detainees [aha a political angle that’s good, boring ass song though]
4.Asynchronous Transfer Mode
5. End Term [Nihilism of course]
6.John Sebastian Little
7.Seven Days to a Killing
8. Bad Ems (Verbandsgemeinde) [And there go the last doubts about German techo-crap]
9.Gibloux Radio Tower [French angle]
10.Manhattan Tower (Gordon Jenkins 1956 album)
11.Protein-glutamate methylesterase
12.Electrolux [and Swedish for good measure]
13. Phil Hughes
14.Yasu, Fukuoka
15.Cross fluid

Well, End Term, Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Seven Days to a Killing, and Cross fluid, are gonna be the charting singles from my album. Real trendy, soon to be forgotten crap.

Band: Fleet Marine Force (not bad)

Album: Piraña (hmmm…ok)

  1. Magdalena Spiny Rat
  2. Nelson Cavaquinho
  3. Moniek Kleinsman
  4. Ateleia popenoei
  • (so far it’s looking a bit prog rock-ish)*
  1. Thunder Machine
  2. Nokia N73
  • (feel the influence of Kraftwerk)*
  1. Scats
  2. Broccoli (disambiguation)
  • (fantastic!)*
  1. Megalagrion adytum
  2. Simon Karori
  3. Julie of the Wolves
  • (going for the goth dollar)*
  1. Shenzhen City Commercial Bank

  2. Gunjial Janubi

  3. Temple West

  4. Catió
    I’m having so much fun I’ve gone straight back into the studio to record Munfordville, Kentucky:

  5. Kuniteru

  6. Chatham, Illinois

  7. Fernando Lanhas

  8. Alfa Romeo V6 engine
    (Nice self-reference to Nokia N73 :smiley: )

  9. The Official Matrix Exhibit

  10. Tapatia

  11. Van Sweringen brothers

  12. Volunteer vacation

  13. Darwin Kastle
    (Oh dear, getting tedious…)

  14. Bobby Orr

  15. Sauda Skisenter

  16. Iron Felix
    (That’s better)

  17. Keith Robinson (Comedian)

  18. Soft science

  19. Medieval Corsica
    I’ve got a feeling that there’s a lot of filler tracks here, and tight production controls could have prevented the sprawl.

Band Name: Karl Menninger [not a good start]
Album name:Valea Iadului River (Leuca) [not looking up]

Songs:
1.Movement for Reform Judaism[Still on the boring and possibly educational track, I think]
2.Toni Brogno
3.Comet (pyrotechnics)[Can’t wait for the video to start playing on youtube]
4.James Johnston Dobbie [a person’s name, again?]
5. Eric Talford [ditto]
6.The King of Rally[Not sure what it’s about, but this title gives me a little hope]
7.Vágur[place name]
8. Nosce [surname]
9.Georg Reichwein [person’s full name]
10. Brian Deacon [ditto]
11. Karen Velez [ditto–but hey, a girl-type person this time]
12.Sikandar Aftab[man]
13.Beaver Bridge [someone could write a really interesting song with this title]
14.List of battles fought during Ramadan by Muslims [I told you we were boring and educational]
15.Harvard Journal of Law and Technology[ditto]

So, aside from an excessive amount of more or less meaningless names, I see some real potential for tracks 3, 6, 13 and 14. Maybe if we put out 3 or 4 more albums, we can capitalize on our youtube fame and get together an intriguing best of album.

I hit the random article link one last time, in the hope of getting a better name for the group. I got “List of mayors of Lobos” (Argentina). Might make an interesting song, but still not a good group name.

Band: Mainland Drill
Album: Jacques Vroom

  1. Netolice
  2. Havana 3am
  3. The King of Fighters 2001
  4. Marianne Moore
  5. List of Darkwing Duck Episodes
  6. Anna Maria of Ostfriesland
  7. Muong People
  8. 1962 Pulitzer Prize
  9. United States Life-Saving Service
  10. American Southern Baptist Mission
  11. Siege of Jadotville
  12. List of Best-Selling Video Games
  13. Back on the Bus, Y’all
  14. Smith Ely, Jr.
  15. Royal Netherlands Army Reserve

Band Name: Lower Luleå Court District
Album Name: Song Hae-seong

Track 1: Operation Rekstok
Track 2: Marc-André Bergeron
Track 3: Tilting Train Express
Track 4: Conejo Valley
Track 5: Evren Geniş
Track 6: State Assembly elections in India, 1998
Track 7: Summer in the City: Live in New York
Track 8: Paudie Fitzmaurice
Track 9: The Mighty Boosh (1998 stage show)
Track 10: 1962 U.S. National Championships - Men’s Singles
Track 11: Marc Olsen
Track 12: Osama Hassan
Track 13: 1991-92 WHL season
Track 14: Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis
Track 15: Andøya Air Station
This was obviously put together during our “constantly messed up on drugs” period…

Band Name: Nikita
Album Name: Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 (I wasn’t going to post mine until this popped up)

Track 1: Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
Track 2: Los Borrachos del Tablon
Track 3: Love Is on the Air (rather boring after the first two tracks I must say)
Track 4: Skirmisher
Track 5: 7096 Napier
Track 6: Flag of French Guiana
Track 7: Peucedanum kupense
Track 8: Sven Yngve Persson
Track 9: Pink Saturday (hahaha)
Track 10: 680 N Lake Shore Drive
Track 11: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
Track 12: Embolotherium
Track 13: Italy at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Track 14: Bill Madden
Track 15: Nicolae L. Lupu

We’re all over the map musically speaking. There’s something here for everyone!

Bonus: Our next album is titled: Kingdom of Kandy

Band Name: Rock Sand

Album: Modern Love’s Silliness

Tracks:

  1. Thanksgiving after Communion
  2. Leota Toombs
  3. Don’t Cut Your Fabric to This Year’s Fashion
  4. Snooker world rankings 1990/1991
  5. Yavuz Bingöl
  6. Deal
  7. Timeline of early Estonian publications
  8. My Dog Skip
  9. Schwartzberg’s weighted voting
  10. Gare de Saint Germain-en-Laye Grande-Ceinture
  11. Anthony Farnell
  12. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies
  13. Staining dye
  14. Open interest
  15. Honours of Emperor Haile Selassie I
    I really dig the band name and album name, but the track names lost me.

Band name: Hammersmith Creek (not bad)
Album: Osh Province

  1. Dry Season
  2. Misty Morning, Albert Bridge
  3. Dispersion
  4. DVD X Copy
  5. United States Cencus, 1990
  6. Khorrambid County
  7. ProtoLife
  8. Abiel Smith School
  9. Dan Coshnear
  10. Flemish Region
  11. Family caregiver
  12. Inter-processor interrupt
  13. Mike Tucker
  14. Hornos
  15. Poibrene

This album focuses mostly on the people we know and places we’ve been and where we are going, musically, artistically, and physically. The bonus track, called Willard Wheatley, is a thank you song for letting us hide in the BVI while we kicked our drug additions.