The Wikipedia Band Game

Because I'm trying to avoid doing work... OK, here goes.

Click the "random article" button on the Wikipedia main page. Whatever comes up will be your band name. Click the random button again. That'll be your album name. Click that again for a song name. Keep clicking the random button until you have enough songs for a full album. Who knows, you might get some ideas from it.

Here's what I got:

Band - GraphiCon

Album - The Spooky Bunch

1. Freefonix
2. KILR-FM
3. Andy Katz
4. Mauroux, Gers
5. A Fishing Rod For My Grandpa
6. Sokoľany (feat. Alaparma Baldo)
7. Bewafaa
8. La Jornada
9. National Defence University in Warsaw
10. Oleg Karavayev
11. Two Shoes
12. Command Post Tango

I don't like the electro/dance feel coming from this 'album'.

Band Name - Glasair Aviation

Album - Sergiy Matveyev

1. Norman Arthur Weigmann
2. Bachiniva
3. Zuhra Osmani
4. Ohio State Route 519
5. Daisies and Beatrice
6. Pavetta Muiriana
7. Gul Agha
8. USS Strong (DD-467)
9. Tansila Department
10.USS Dunlin (AM-361)
11. Spin Hall Effect
12. Karen Blixen

Mine all sounds pretty foreign, apart from Daisies and Beatrice! Definately a rocking aldum tho, no electro/dance feel here! Maybe a bit like System of a Down or Rammstein!
Well that passed some time at work! Cheers!

Your band name is pretty sick ktp; I could see 'Glasair Aviation' headlining festivals, even if there may be some questionably named songs (Gul Agha!!!) on the set list!

lol A Fishing Rod For My Grandpa

and Two Shoes is actually a song by The Cat Empire

Jukebox Romeo wrote:

lol A Fishing Rod For My Grandpa

More of a low key number that one I think. Not one that my audience- a bunch of ravers fuelled by illegal narcotics- will be waving their glowsticks in the air to.

Tomaldo wrote:

Your band name is pretty sick ktp; I could see 'Glasair Aviation' headlining festivals, even if there may be some questionably named songs (Gul Agha!!!) on the set list!

well you know, i like to aim high, maybe start with glastonbury and see where i go from there?! the band's going to be heeeuge!

ktp wrote:

maybe start with glastonbury

I hear a certain Mr. Springsteen is playing this year. Maybe if you ask nicely he might open for you!

haha. i might requite someone bigger to open for me. i don't want some unknown you know! oh and we will definately have diva needs!!

Band name: Abikomae Station

Album name: Pentax Lenses

1. French ship Wattignies (1754)
2. Ox
3. Alfred 23 Harth (A23H)
4. Seth Van Neerden
5. Charles Conrad Schneider
6. Sorocza Nózka
7. Fort Gibson, Oklahoma
8. Swiss Super League 1958-1959
9. Prospec Glacier
10. Que Hill
11. HMS Otrano
12. Nude Weather Reports

Most ridiculous album ever especially the closer track

Yeah, closer's a bit questionable... first single would have to be 'Swiss Super League 1958-1959'.

Prisoner - i love your album and closing track! best names ever!! Glasair Aviation has a run for it's money i thinK! yoink!

Band- Constitution of Cuba

Album- Jason Bates

1. Eoenantiornis
2. Mustersan
3. Depon
4. The Showing Up of Corporal Jones
5. Topspin
6. Lenin of the Rovers
7. Emerson Elementary School
8. Dreamland
9. Tambo River
10. Acne medicamentosa
11. Cendant
12. Palm Springs Convention Center

I'd like to hear the 7th track XD

Band Name - Caracas Stock Exchange (hah, this is awesome)

Album name - Roman Catholic Diocese of Ecatepec (Am I winning this thread yet?)

1. Scattered Pieces: Live
2. Damariscotta, Maine
3. Rincón de Luz (<- an Argentinean soap opera)
4. David J Russell
5. Outside Looking In
6. Shut Me Up
7. Hendrik Zwaardemaker (<- Dutch scientist)
8. Beagle class sloop
9. M-95 (Michigan highway)
10. Elwin Morris
11. Vologda River
12. Ségolène Royal (<- French politician)

Coming to The Stone Pony next weekend, The Caracas Stock Exchange on the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ecatepec tour!

haha. this thread is so stupidly funny...
but vibes totally wins it (so far)

vibes - i like the way your band is very international and seems to cater for everyones needs so well done for being so cosmopolitan with countries tho you do seem to be a bit too specific with religion!

It's good to see this being revived! I could see your band being shortened to 'CSE' Vibes... Coolmcr's track 'The Showing Up of Corporal Jones' is a good one too!

Maybe we should intoduce a new 'rule' (or is 'guideline' better?) regarding peoples names as 'tracks'- say you're only allowed 1 persons name in your track listing. Personally, I find non-peoples names a lot funnier for tracks. What does everyone think?

okay i chose the german wiki, may sound better for those who can't speak it


my bands name: Arachnitis uniflora > i like that one

my albums name: Neil A. Gershenfeld

tracklist:
1. HSW (business high school)
2. Pentium-F00F-Bug
3. Tata Interactive Systems
4. DB-Baureihe VT 07
5. Hold You Tight
6. Möhren (= carrots, only used in germany)
7. Scratch Beginnings
8. Twintop
9. Uthleben
10. Kanton Mayet
11. Steuermodell (= modell for tax)
12. Padang
13. Operation Kingpin
14. Schopfkolibris

as my albums was named after a person, i skipped other ones for my songs...

ok:

Name of my band: Red Flag Publishing House

Album: Bruno Dallansky
(this is funny, because the previous post is by an austrian )

1. European Patent Lawyers Association
2. Steve Bloomer's Watchin'
3. Cordova Township
4. Brigalow Belt Nort

(its only a EP...)
It started good with the bandname but the names of the songs are really ridiculous..

I like your first song, I can see that being about being screwed by the legal system. Why anyone would write a song about that, I don't know but hey...

Vibes wrote:

I like your first song, I can see that being about being screwed by the legal system. Why anyone would write a song about that, I don't know but hey...

haha yea youve got a point there.. i didnt think about it like that.

Are we gonna do the album covers for these as well?
Go to http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days and use the 3rd photo for the cover. Some of them can't be downloaded and will just come up as "spaceball.gif" or something along those lines. In that case, just refresh the link posted and try again! Unless you're clever enough to get around it. Anyway... here's mine.




Band: Credit Card Cashback
Album: Savignac-les-Églises

1. THP
Stands for several different things, but for my album it is the charity The Hunger Project.

2.Me (Buck Brothers album)

3. Sage (Sophos)
To do with the philosopher Plato, someone who doesn't seek wisdom because they already have it.

4. Maritimer English
A dialect of English spoken in the maritime provinces of Canada

5. Henri Nayrou
A member of the National Assembly of France.

6. Battle of Golymin
A battle in Golymin, Poland on the 26 December 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.

7. Pablo the Drug Mule Dog
A talking dog from an anti-drugs campaign in the UK.

8. Anelia
Bulgaria pop-folk singer

9. Fanta Regina Nacro
A film director from Burkin Faso in Africa

10. Sunam
A city in India

11. Wildlife Tourism

12. Ferrari/Maseratio engine

I forgot to mention, Savignac-les-Églises is a commune in France!

Mandacarallo i quite like your second song "Steve Bloomer's Watchin'" he sounds like a scary stalker man to me! could be quite a dark song!

haha loving the idea of an album cover too! who says we have too much time on our hands?!

Band: Atlas Corporation
Album: Park Avenue (no freakin way..)

1. John O'Byrne

2. Kevin Rose
hahaha, thats gangster..if you didn't know he used to be the host of the G4 show The Screen Savers

3. Ikawa Dam

4. Malacoctenus

5. Inshalla

6. Robber Barons

7. Casta

8. Serbian Passport

9. Live Full House

10. Short Music for Short People
lmao you gotta know what that is xD

11. Jurassic Park
oh this is just made of win

12. Range Factor

Those albums covers are brilliant, and really take this to the next level!