# Randomly Generate Your Musical Career **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595 "2007-12-19T17:51:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheMerchandise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@TheMerchandise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMerchandise)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/1 "2007-12-19T17:51:06Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/2 "2007-12-19T18:16:14Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/3 "2007-12-19T18:25:59Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/4 "2007-12-19T18:27:47Z")
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 😃 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. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/5 "2007-12-19T18:28:33Z")
**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: ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/6 "2007-12-19T18:31:24Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 1. Chemical Revolution [/QUOTE] That’s a club hit, right there. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/7 "2007-12-19T18:37:37Z")
This is hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/8 "2007-12-19T18:40:50Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/9 "2007-12-19T18:41:36Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![TheMerchandise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b487fb/32.png) [@TheMerchandise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMerchandise)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/10 "2007-12-19T18:50:20Z")
[QUOTE=Inner Stickler] Band Name: The Nature of Maps [/QUOTE] Well THAT’S a Brooklyn hipster band, if ever I saw one! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/11 "2007-12-19T18:55:33Z")
It’s the fourth album of a band called [Matt Pond PA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Pond_PA). And several of the song titles are singers or albums. I think my randomly generated musical career plagiarizes. ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/12 "2007-12-19T18:56:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/13 "2007-12-19T18:59:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/14 "2007-12-19T19:00:16Z")
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 😃 )_ 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. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/15 "2007-12-19T19:24:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/16 "2007-12-19T19:40:53Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/17 "2007-12-19T19:41:51Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/18 "2007-12-19T20:03:26Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/19 "2007-12-19T20:08:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595/20 "2007-12-19T20:20:50Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randomly-generate-your-musical-career/430595.md?page=2)