With the Fake Band Game at least.
The rules they publish are slightly different from the ones I was using (thanks Swami)? a couple fo years ago which are:
- Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random – The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
- Click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 – The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
- Visit http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ – The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
- Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result.
Extra points for indicating the musical genre of the album, but if you get as far as putting together the track listing, naming the lead singer’s girlfriend or printing the Tour t-shirts off on Cafe Press, then you may have gone too far.
I’ll post a couple of my favourites in bit.
I must admit I tinkered with the idea of creating some actual music to go along with them on MySpace. Of my bands probably? Artlenburg would have been best, as I have no discernible musical talent.
Plus if I chose Lady Chapel, asking someone to act as lead singer to your fake internet band comes across as a little creepy
Anyway, I turned round an realised that I already had a life, so droppped the idea.