Make own album art (then song... FUN!!!!1)

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:50 pm

Well, the songwriting isn't going too well yet, so I'll just post the picture.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:04 pm

eh.

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:43 pm

Post by **Spud** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:34 pm

I guess it doesn't always work...

SPUD

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:25 pm

I dunno, Spud, I think yours would work really well if the band name were different.

Billy's Little Trip · Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:34 pm

OK, I did a song thingy. Just click my album pictarrr.

Cars Are Still Stressed
by Formosa Plastics Propylene Explosion

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:26 pm

Ross wrote:Interesting how well these all turn out. Except this one...

I'm pretty sure I've got that album. I think my parents used to play it at parties back in the mid-70s.

Post by **Spud** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:40 am

You know, I was thinking. I couldn't be that unlucky twice in a row...

I was right.

edit - Yeah, yeah, I cropped the picture for dramatic effect. Well, that and the fact that ALBUMS COVERS ARE SQUARE.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:41 am

OK, my FAWM needed some inspiration before things take off. Now I'm sort of ready.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:04 am

Spud wrote:and the fact that ALBUMS COVERS ARE SQUARE.

I thought of this after the fact. So being the positive thinker that I am, mine is a bonus cover. NOW with 20% more album cover goodness.

Post by **Spud** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:24 am

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
Spud wrote:and the fact that ALBUMS COVERS ARE SQUARE.
I thought of this after the fact. So being the positive thinker that I am, mine is a bonus cover. NOW with 20% more album cover goodness.

eh, just release it on cassette.

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:28 am

Hah, another forum I read is doing this exact same thing right now. Here's what I came up with.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:53 am

Spud wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote:
Spud wrote:and the fact that ALBUMS COVERS ARE SQUARE.
I thought of this after the fact. So being the positive thinker that I am, mine is a bonus cover. NOW with 20% more album cover goodness.
eh, just release it on cassette.

Not entirely true, Spud. Sagmeister designed a CD cover that was half the width of a regular CD cover, so, 120mm high x 60mm across. Can't recall the band off the top of my head, though.

Didn't Talking Heads also release a CD that had a cover that was especially made? Something like 140mm high x 300mm wide?

Couldn't you get casette cases that were essentially two cases moulded side by side, essentially giving you a square canvas, rather than a rectangle one?

you know, just saying.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:36 am

I kept getting great song and band names ruined by wussy landscape pictures or pictures of kids.

So I tried it with some of my own photos, and got:

and:

j$ · Post by j$ » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:35 am

Weird sycronicity between image and title, eh?

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:50 am

No song yet, but... yes, this is fun!

Charles (KA)

j$ · Post by j$ » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:24 am

OK so that's just odd, KA - how many women wearing rabbit masks are there on flickr?

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:07 am

J$, that one's awesome. I'd be a member of Smartcar with an album like that.

Here's another one:

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:49 am

another one.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:09 am

mr_lostman · Post by **mr_lostman** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:32 pm

bam did it... Its just a rough quick take. Made most of it up as i recorded. But its a fun excrecise. I think I write easier when I'm trying to ape someone else or another genre.

(click for song)

I kinda want to do the supercar one like some Belle and Sebastian type song. Would you be cool with that j$?

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:44 pm