Dat Ole Album Covver Meme Agin

A meme I did a year ago is now going around Facebook. It was fun the first time, and I enjoyed doing it again, so here's the note I just posted on Facebook, detailing what to do, if you're so inclined (I didn't spend as much time on this year's as last - I have work to get back to):

Rules for Making Up Your Fake Band's Album Cover:

1. Your band name is your first hit on Wikipedia's Random Page

2. Your album name is taken from the end of the last quote on this random quotes page.

3. Your album cover is made from the fourth picture on Flickr's Interesting Photos.

I did this for my blog last January when it was going around then. The result of that one can be seen HERE. Berit did hers a few days later, and can be seen HERE

However, I haven't seen the back cover part of the meme make it to Facebook. Here's how it went when I did it a year ago:

1. Reload Flickr's interesting photos page twice. Use the seventh picture, but desaturate it.

2. Reload the random quotes page. Take the last few words of each quote to make song titles. Use them all.

So here's what I got for the back cover of that exciting new album by THOC2, To Fly in Formation:

Now YOU try it, if you haven't already . . .

The profound effect 15 album meme....

Another meme that's been going around Facebook that I did there . . .

Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world. Go to the tab marked Notes at your Profile, and when you finish, tag 15 others (or more), including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they know the drill. Get the idea now? Good. Tag, you're it!

I got the list to 20 - including some doubles - and left it there; don't feel the need to go any farther in culling it . . . this list is in chronological order of when these albums rocked my world and changed my worldview in some way (or were the sudden, necessary soundtrack for my life at the time) -- #1-4 were "childhood," #5-7 were high school age, #8-12 were college, #13-15 were my 20s, the rest were . . . mostly age 29 (1997 was a big year for me and music).

1. Threepenny Opera – 1976 NYSF Cast Recording
2. 25 Years of Recorded Comedy - 3-LP 1977 compilation
3. Einstein On The Beach – Philip Glass
4. Big Science – Laurie Anderson
5. Trouble in Paradise – Randy Newman
6. We’re Only In It For The Money – The Mothers of Invention
7. Closer – Joy Division
8. Raw Power – Iggy & The Stooges
9. The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle – Sex Pistols
10. The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
11. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) – Brian Eno
12. 50 Coastin’ Classics – The Coasters
13. The Complete 50s Masters – Elvis Presley
14. Sins of Our Fathers – Andy Prieboy
15. the Sin Alley and Back from the Grave series – Crypt Records
16. Datapanik in Year Zero (box set) – Pere Ubu
17. Anthology of American Folk Music – compiled by Harry Smith
18. Dispepsi – Negativland
19. Lost Highway – original soundtrack supervised by Trent Reznor
20. Special year-after-9/11 Calming Duo: ‘Love and Theft' – Bob Dylan / Heathen – David Bowie