Album Artwork

[EgonSpengler]

Then I had to go looking through my old physical media collections for album covers I liked:

Spoiler :

 

[EgonSpengler]

Several years ago, I played "the fake album cover game" on another site. If I remember the game, there was a 'random page' feature on Wikipedia, and that would be the name of your band; there was a random quote page somewhere, and you had to take either the first few words or the last few words of a random quote, and that was your album title; and then you'd get a random photo from one of the picture hosting services and that was your artwork. Then you'd assemble it however you could. I think I did a few dozen, but here are some of the more successful ones, imo.

Part of the game, and I suppose it has to be part of creating a real album cover for a real band, is making it so the viewer can tell which is the name of the band and which is the name of the album, and maybe intuit some sense of what style of music it is. In this game, the only things you had control over were how you manipulated the image, where you placed the text, and what fonts and effects you used.

 

[Angst]

Several years ago, I played "the fake album cover game" on another site. If I remember the game, there was a 'random page' feature on Wikipedia, and that would be the name of your band; there was a random quote page somewhere, and you had to take either the first few words or the last few words of a random quote, and that was your album title; and then you'd get a random photo from one of the picture hosting services and that was your artwork. Then you'd assemble it however you could. I think I did a few dozen, but here are some of the more successful ones, imo.

Part of the game, and I suppose it has to be part of creating a real album cover for a real band, is making it so the viewer can tell which is the name of the band and which is the name of the album, and maybe intuit some sense of what style of music it is. In this game, the only things you had control over were how you manipulated the image, where you placed the text, and what fonts and effects you used.

oh i did this too! i think the game was here on CFC too, i'm sure. i wonder if we can pull it up somewhere, would be fun to do again.

 

[tjs282]

Then you'd assemble it however you could. I think I did a few dozen, but here are some of the more successful ones, imo.

I'd be interested in listening to at least 5/6 of those!

 

[Samez]

Many nice covers here. I also liked:

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1781767766153838837

 

[EgonSpengler]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1781767766153838837

It checks all those boxes, and yet is pretty dull. Conversely, I think Miles Davis' 'Round About Midnight (1957) is much more compelling. I fact, I think this edition is even too busy. I would get rid of all the text - including the names of the artist and album - and move it all to the back cover.

 

[Qactus]

I always liked Muddy Waters - After the rain