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Title: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: GregMcduck on December 04, 2007, 02:52:53 PM
1) Go on wikipedia.
2) Click Random Page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of this article is your band name.
3) Click Random Page again. This is your album name.
4) Click 12 more times. These articles are the CD's tracks.

Artist: Little By Little
Album: R. Paul Butler

1. Oklahoma City Underground
2. American Sammy
3. Media resource locator
4. Jeffrey Sachs
5. Bertrand Clausel
6. Indiana-Purdue rivalry
7. Francis Bradley
8. Graham Arader
9. Hückel method
10. Tim Smith's Extra Special OceanLandWorld
11. WXTV
12. 1960s in film

I'd like to think I'm some kind of trip hop band that uses lots of pop culture references, but let's face it. I'm They Might Be Giants.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Isaac S. on December 04, 2007, 03:04:06 PM
Oh, why not?

Band: South Witham
Album: Fazlallah Astarabadi (Naimi)

1. Volume 2 (EP)
2. Cashmere, New Zealand
3. A.C. Anderson
4. Sweet potato latent virus
5. Pixley
6. Redirection table
7. GC Rieber
8. Optic tract
9. Texas Tornship, DeWitt County, Illinois
10. Houzhou
11. William A. Bablitch
12. HNoMS Kvikk
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Wiseblood on December 04, 2007, 03:10:23 PM
Band: Saint Helena
Album: Charles Francis Stein

1. Smallville Characters (Season 6)
2. The Beauty of Hindsight
3. Deep Dish
4. Donald Dewar
5. Technical Analysis Software
6. Highcliffe School
7. Erie, Colorado
8. Once Upon a Time (Dreadzone Album)
9. Cheriton, Swansea
10. Connecticut Route 15
11. Eugene Octave Sykes
12. Bellum Caves
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Rude on December 04, 2007, 03:22:55 PM
...

(http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7688/cassettent1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

Track Listing:

01. 1989 Chicago White Sox season
02. Roman Romanchuk
03. Cauchy space
04. The Powers That Be
05. Pascal-Firmin Ndimira
06. Weavertown Amish Mennonite Church
07. Rafael Núñez
08. Supernatural Law
09. Elbing class torpedo boat
10. Alan Sproates
11. List of bishops of Carlisle
12. Unimatch

Apparently we're an eclectic bunch of guys who met at a local bar near the Bell Street Bus Station. So that's what we decided to name our band. There are a few sports nuts, sure... mostly the drummer and bass player. But our lead singer is a man of the world, who also happens to be very interested in religious institutions. As for me? Well, i like a very specific class of torpedo boat.

-Rude

PS- The Cassette Generator is here: http://www.says-it.com/cassette/cassette.php
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Dim of the Yard on December 04, 2007, 03:31:44 PM
Artist: Lacey Schwimmer
Album: Kampala YMCA

1. Shawn Farrell
2. Pyrrhuloxia
3. USS Commencement Bay (CVE-105)
4. Wind River (Yukon)
5. Fyodor Baykov
6. Love Hurts (UK TV series)
7. Humanitarian Service Medal
8. Indian Island
9. List Of Cemeteries In Omaha
10. Ranking Junior
11. Buffalo Sabres Alumni Hockey Team
12. Football Crazy (Goodies episode)

I don't know about you guys, but I would SO listen to number 9.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Cibernético II on December 04, 2007, 05:03:57 PM
(http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5977/cassettetj7.th.jpg) (http://img210.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cassettetj7.jpg)

1. "Crucifixion (disambiguation)"
2. "Sandra Bezic"
3. "Walter Davis (basketball)"
4. "Autogenic Succession"
5. "Esperanto Jubilee Symbol"
6. "Posterior Column-Medial Lemniscus Pathway"
7. "Ró?anystok"
8. "Vorticity"
9. "Ribeirão Pires"
10. "Saraksh"
11. "Piper Mendezense"
12.  "Herrmann Pass"

* Dear, fans. This album was inspired by and is dedicated to our two strongest passions: Graduate level science and the Olympics. Sixteen years ago, when Lola Anglada was in its infant stages, we made a promise to ourselves that no matter how small the venues were that we played in, we were going to play as if we were in the spotlight of Mount Olympus herself, heralding the march of great athletes and scientists as they displayed the best of human achievement to the very heavens above. We often doubted that we, an eccentric 17 piece band of grad school misfits would ever make a commercial success. But here we are today, as if by some great intergalactic magician's slight of hand we've made it. We finally have our cassettes out on the street and we want to thank all who have supported us on the journey. This album is named in honor of the the Chinese Weightlifter who, without her inspiration, this would have never been possible.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Tyrant on December 04, 2007, 05:24:19 PM
Artist: Cokato Township, Minnesota

Album: Verticordia brownii

1) Peter Schneider (conductor)
2) Curtis Perry
3) Headman Shabalala
4) 257th Battalion, CEF
5) Imnam Dam
6) The Fruit Machine
7) The Fat Boys
8 ) Nulla poena sine lege
9) Sweet Mother
10) Mercer Hayes
11) John Speed
12) Aguiar da Beira


  We won a Grammy for our touching acoustic rendition of The Fat Boys, exclusively on our German EP import.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Tripe on December 04, 2007, 07:09:34 PM
Like Kulashaker, only harder

(http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb319/TripeHoundRedux/fakeAlbum.jpg)

Hidden track: El Shorouk Academy
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: ChrisHanel on December 04, 2007, 07:24:33 PM
Artist: Fulton County
Album: Taiwan Independence!

1. Galati River
2. Nima Nakisa
3. Compound Poisson distribution
4. Joe Carter
5. Military of Mali
6. Nelson
7. Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom
8. Made to Love
9. NGC 6231
10. Flop
11. Definite description
12. Tourniquet

I imagine this album to be an intropsective acoustic piece, feeding off influences of protest folk music and happier BNL-esque contemporary pop genres. The source material stems from a trip through Asia and being inspired by the ever rapidly changing political landscape.

Made to Love would be the opening single for its marketability, a bittersweet tale about a japanese escort girl who dreams of a life in a less oppressive culture. The suprise hit though would be Tourniquet, an angry ballad about a Burmese freedom fighter fighting to live amongst hostile conditions and scant medical help.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Courtney on December 04, 2007, 07:52:59 PM
My band, Cultural Movement, and our first album "Dry Creek Valley AVA":  (album cover taken from the first Google image that came up when I typed in "cultural movement.")

(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/courtlynne/snail.jpg)

1. Issa Asgarally
2. Top lines
3. Kapila Wijegunawardene
4. Radio Now Live
5. Cities of South Korea
6. Mark Dalton (porn star)
7. Giuseppe Dordoni
8. Gavino Ledda
9. List of asteroids/108901–109000
10. List of individuals executed in Delaware
11. The Fallen
12. Carl F. W. Borgward

This is a very personal and political piece for myself and the band. 

I do think it's kind of creepy that right after "List of individuals executed in Delaware" the next page was "The Fallen."  :cue the spooky music:
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Ortega on December 04, 2007, 09:25:13 PM
Artist: U.S. Agent
Album: Paul Dixon

1. Mikan Drill
2. Illinois's 8th congressional district election, 2006
3. 1976 Canary Island UFO sighting
4. Dockum Group
5. List of asteroids
6. Gunnar Sträng
7. Arturo Bandini
8. USS Signet
9. Hidemaro Konoye
10. Plasma torch
11. Mahi-Mahi
12. Locking hubs

We're, like, a total non-conformist punk band. We don't subscribe to the facist capitalistic dogma of the dictatorial President Bush. So grab your spiked wrist-bands, check your black-eye liner, and make sure your Anti-Flag T-shirt is clean and come see our show.

Now Playing at the Vans Warped Tour.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: erika_lk on December 04, 2007, 09:44:53 PM
Artist:  Wael Gomaa
Album:  LOVE | LOVE?

1.  Polycarpaea paulayana
2.  Mialet, Gard
3.  Hoffmann Rearrangement
4.  Slipstream (Magazine)
5.  Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt
6.  Calamba, Misamis Occidental
7.  Pirouz Ghorbani
8.  Southern Blot
9.  Domitius
10.  Cholesteric liquid crystal
11.  Murder Most Horrid
12.  Braxton County High School

.. So this is how the Flaming Lips get their song titles.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Pak-Man on December 04, 2007, 10:49:02 PM
These made me crack up right in front of my boss at work. I've been dying to  try this one out!

Band Name: Garuru

Album: Foot Clan

Track Listing:

1) Ypsolophidae
2) List of asteroids/99501–99600 (All the bands love to do their own take on "List of Asteroids.")
3) Guðmundur Gunnarsson
4) Maafilaafushi (Lhaviyani Atoll)
5) Referent power
6) Point Denis
7) John Grant (novelist)
8) Donigan Cumming
9) Movie Magg
10) Samuel Whittemore
11) The Skeptic (UK magazine)
12) Tomy air suspension

Hidden Track: Geometry Expressions

Garuru is a cult retro '80s band that loves to make clever pop culture references in their music. The band name (Coincidentally enough) originates from Sgt. Frog, a manga I'm convinced that only I read. :^) Everyone was shocked and amazed that we managed to slip Donigan Cumming past the censors. Every one of our concerts opens up with a rousing rendition of Referent Power, but it's Tomy air suspension that really gets the crowd going.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Tyrant on December 05, 2007, 12:24:42 AM
Quote from: TripeHoundRedux on December 04, 2007, 07:09:34 PM
Like Kulashaker, only harder

(http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb319/TripeHoundRedux/fakeAlbum.jpg)

Hidden track: El Shorouk Academy

 Tripe, that is the damn funniest thing I've seen in a while!!!  :clap:
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Pak-Man on December 05, 2007, 12:31:14 AM
I have to make another!

Band Name: 2002 in Singapore

Album: Ray Knight
(http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~leszekp/photo_gallery/theworld/Singapore_03.jpg)
1) Addlestone railway station
2) Ultra Twister
3) Indefinite logarithm
4) Horsham YMCA
5) 1942 in literature
6) Once Upon a Planet
7) Joseph Luns
8) Lietbertus of St. Ruf
9) FL (programming language)
10) Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
11) U.S. National Dancesport Champions (Professional Standard)
12) Opisthotropis

2002 in Singapore is into geek-rock and songs about scientific processes. Our big hit was Once Upon a Planet, but all the hardcore 2002-ers love to jam to Opisthotropis.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: RoninFox on December 05, 2007, 12:41:22 AM
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c189/RoninFox/cassette.jpg)

1.   Arrondissements of the Haut-Rhin department
2.   St. James, Missouri
3.   Ugly Duckling Presse
4.   Game Boy Advance Network Boot
5.   Old Toongabbie, New South Wales
6.   History of Patna
7.   Richard Koch
8.   Warnemünde
9.   John Patton (Detroit mayor)
10.  Internet Adult Film Database
11.  Spinner Mason
12.  Refus Global

We're obviously a dirty hippie new wave kind of band.  Our Richard Koch track received a level of fame as a protest song on community college campuses against those horrible corrupt establishment types.

We were however sued for stealing our album title from an already released CD by Shikari.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Tyrant on December 05, 2007, 01:08:38 AM
Because Pak made me:

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff131/stannenba/misc/cheddarman2.jpg)



 Band: Check This Kid Out
Album: Cheddar Man


Vegas World
Dušan Ivkovi?
Gruver, Iowa
Belathauzer
NARO
2007 in darts
Kinal
Heuglin's Wheatear
Raaphi Persitz
Rolf Gerling
Quebec Federation of Real Estate Boards
Zablocki v. Redhail


Secret track: Lead (band)

 We're a band from Wisconsin. 'Nuff said.

  We have a tuba player.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Tripe on December 05, 2007, 06:49:48 AM
(http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb319/TripeHoundRedux/Oiler.jpg)

Oiler are a Grime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grime_%28music%29) crew from Camden.

This is their first album after Lady Sovereign convinced  Casual Records to let them record it.
Unfortunately for the members of the crew, all profits will go directly to Casual to cover the costs of the things the crew half-inched to sell off during the recording session.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Junkyard on December 05, 2007, 06:54:51 AM
Band Name: Repeal Organizations
Album: Vexx

1-Audio CD
2-Acuff
3-Pásztori
4-List of TNA pay-per-view events
5-Basic Officer Leaders Course
6-Duravit
7-Kleinkarlbach
8-Flat Beat
9-Cy Alexander
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: mrbasehart on December 05, 2007, 01:45:57 PM
I can't believe I almost missed this awesome game! Here's mine:

Artist:  Tekken.

Album: Neanderthal Interaction with Cro-Magnons

1. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2. pcplayer
3. Distichodus petersii
4. Fujiko Takimoto
5. Christine Stix-Hackl
6. Court Funds Office
7. Rudolf Brandt
8. Shrewsbury-Lansdowne I-44 (St. Louis Metrolink)
9. Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy
10. Idaho Statesman
11. Ken Ablack
12. Hamatar

Tekken combine their love of Germanic Industrial Death Metal with their love of gaming culture and...highways.  Their debut album (titled so in confidence over their superiority of other bands) displays assurance in all areas of musicianship.  The rousing, yet empty, opening number contrasts highly with the lofty and dark tones found in Court Funds Office.  The undoubtable highlight of the album is Hamatar, a full blooded guitar-a-thon lasting over 15 minutes. 

Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: SmilinJackRoss on December 05, 2007, 02:37:53 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v187/cooleyre/alt.jpg) (first google image for Altshausen)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v187/cooleyre/cassette.jpg)

Artist:  Altshausen
Album:  Academy Award for Best Original Musical

1. Baron Calverley
2. Lupinine
3. Frank Dobson
4. Raber's Almanac
5. Boston College Media Research and Action Project
6. Four Crosses

Each song on this six song EP from the German speed-pop-punk band clocks in at less than two minutes, but what they lack in quantity, they make up for in energy.  Rolling Stone dubbed them "a hell-spawn love child of The Dead Kennedy's, Blink-182, and Amy Grant".  The female lead singer hits the high notes like no other punk band dares.  The first single, "Four Crosses", is a heady ballad that meditates on the nature of war, love, and food poisoning.  Tracks "Baron Calverley" and "Frank Dobson" are the lead singer's diatribes against the titular former lovers she has had, and how she wants to eviscerate them in front of their pets. 
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: BBQ Platypus on December 05, 2007, 03:17:47 PM
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/KeithMoonIsGod/TrustedNetworkConnect.jpg)

Artist: Allan Campbell
Album: Trusted Network Connect

Track listing:

1.   Methlick
2.   Daniel Motlop
3.   Casco Viejo
4.   Shamsul Maidin
5.   Stylidium alsinoides
6.   WRR (FM)
7.   Mordovian State University
8.   Nicholas C. Petris
9.   Balun
10. Idiga
11. United-TI
12. Shilo

Review from elitistsnobsonline.com
Although Allan Campbell is one of the boldest, strangest, and most radically deconstructionist avant-garde composer in music today, his expressive social conscience makes his music relatable for the common man. *  Though obviously influenced by the greats - Dave Smith, Pere Ubu and Laurie Anderson come to mind - he takes the established genre of artificial postmodernist salad-bowl-style music synthesis and adds to it a unique Texan perspective.  His latest work, Trusted Network Connect, conveys his hopeful message - a sermon on the unity of mankind, and the ability of information technology to bring about the political realization of that unity.  The tracks "United-TI" (United Tech Israel) and "Shilo" (referring to an Israeli settlement on the West Bank) provide a fitting denouement - passionate and moving while remaining static and emotionally detached through the use of digitally-enhanced acoustic resonance at the natural frequency of the interior of the Dome of the Rock.  This brilliantly dull piece of musical mathematics nearly sent this reviewer into a coma.  5 stars (out of 100 possible)!


* No, it doesn't.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: RobtheBarbarian on December 05, 2007, 03:29:28 PM
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e276/diamondback88/navalartillery.jpg)

1. E.M.F.
2. Stephanie McLean
3. Grieg, New York
4. Burretiodendron esquirolii
5. Society for American Archaeology
6. CNS
7. Hi Honey, I'm Home!
8. Banpo

Probably an obscure progressive thrash metal band like Vovoid.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: BBQ Platypus on December 05, 2007, 05:29:39 PM
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/KeithMoonIsGod/Who-1.jpg)

Artist:  Banking in the U.K.
Album: November

Track listing:

1.   Washington Monuments
2.   Timbuktu
3.   Holgate, Ohio
4.   MONIAC Computer
5.   The Algebra of Ice
6.   Antiseen
7.   Shiri
8.   Daet, Camarines Norte
9.   Selection Sort
10. High Level/Footner Lake Water Aerodrome

From the All-Music Guide
Banking in the U.K. are the masterminds behind the anarcho-capitalist art punk scene that has been taking Britain's college-age youth by storm these past few years.  Their sophomore effort, November, is not too serious a departure from their debut, Deregu-volution, in terms of style or lyrical themes.  They're still rockin' it hard with their audacious, guitar-driven song sound.  Indeed, some of the arrangements - particularly in the three-song medley that concludes the album - the transition from the haunting, forboding Gregorian chant-inspired spookiness of "Daet, Camarines Norte" to the ideological centerpiece of the album, "Selection Sort," to the two part, "Marquee Moon"-esque twelve-minute jam "High Level/Footnever Lake Water Aerodrome," - are even faster, ballsier, and guitar-tastic than their first effort..  Overall, though these lads aren't likely to change much, they certainly are growing.
- Review written by: Koko the AMG Music-Reviewing Orangutan


(Oh, and for the record, that thing where Pete Townshend's head is supposed to be is actually a zoomed-in view of Pete Townshend's nose with bigger nostrils drawn in...poorly.....in MS Paint).
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: acoletterose on December 05, 2007, 06:31:06 PM
Artist: Carrickfergus Castle
Album: Edmund Clark Sanford

1. Larry Elgart
2. Koedijk
3. Larry Ellison
4. USS Matinicus (AK-52)
5. JS Moore
6. Irish Masters
7. Radical of an integer
8. Harry Minto
9. McPherson Square
10. City Utilities of Springfield
11. Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery
12. Tai Wan, Hung Hom

My band is old and musty... Constantly under siege from enemies, but vital to the English government. We generally sing about other singers.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Pak-Man on December 06, 2007, 12:25:25 AM
Band: Superkings
Album: Alf Prøysen

1) Nissan (disambiguation)
2) Ray Morrison (football coach)
3) Akilu Aliyu
4) Policy Review
5) Area code 661
6) Francis Rawdon Chesney
7) Laurens Jan Brinkhorst
8  S.V. Zulte Waregem
9) 1986 French Open
10) Strathkelvin and Bearsden (UK Parliament constituency)
11)Gordon Goodwin (athlete)
12) Paul B. Freeland
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: RoninFox on December 06, 2007, 06:03:38 AM
Quote from: Pak-Man on December 06, 2007, 12:25:25 AM
Band: Superkings
Album: Alf Prøysen

1) Nissan (disambiguation)
2) Ray Morrison (football coach)
3) Akilu Aliyu
4) Policy Review
5) Area code 661
6) Francis Rawdon Chesney
7) Laurens Jan Brinkhorst
8  S.V. Zulte Waregem
9) 1986 French Open
10) Strathkelvin and Bearsden (UK Parliament constituency)
11)Gordon Goodwin (athlete)
12) Paul B. Freeland


Wow, a band named for an alter-ego of Bender?  I want this album!
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: BBQ Platypus on December 30, 2007, 11:57:43 AM
Artist:   Nursery Suite
Album: Swinton Railway Station

1.   Ellicott's Stone
2.   Banya, Pazardzhik Province
3.   Chant (Crater)
4.   Taking Liberties (Frasier)
5.   Gulf of Finland
6.   Roswell GA City Government
7.   Dan Pastorini
8.   Airblade
9.   Fox Sports Australia
10. The Bard's Song (In the Forest)
11. Specific Carbohydrate Diet
12. Persijap Jepara

Nursery Suite is a Norwegian power metal band.  'Nuff said.


Artist: La Pensée Straight
Album: Hermon Atkins MacNeil

1.   1969 Australian Open - Women's Singles
2.   Excitation Filter
3.   Friedrich Wetter
4.   800 in Poetry
5.   Battle of Great Bridge
6.   Mount Edgecumbe
7.   Mount Tidar
8.   Schempp-Hirth Duo Discus
9.   Ting Kau Bridge
10. Kakeru Manabe
11. Westmount, Nova Scotia
12. El Dorado Arts Council

La Pensée Straight are a pair of lesbian folk songwriters who think they're a lot cleverer than they really are.  Their latest album, the bizarrely titled Hermon Atkins MacNeil, is a pretentious, self-indulgent, nigh unlistenable bore.  Don't buy it - it stinks.


Artist: Maria Klawe
Album: The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

1.   Ready for Romance
2.   Enemonzo
3.   Keystone, Wisconsin
4.   Noriq Records
5.   Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia
6.   Block Rockin' Beats
7.   Marici
8.   Penn State Nittany Lions Football under Tom Fennell
9.   Androgen Receptor
10. Joe Zychik
11. Neil Parish
12. Symphony No. 8 (Sibelius)

Maria Klawe is some sort of techno/industrial/house artist.  I'm not exactly sure because I'm too scared to listen to an album named after an adult animated film.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Tripe on December 30, 2007, 05:39:35 PM
(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/6749/cassettebv7.jpg)

1: United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade
2: Phenomenology of essences
3: Mt. Zion Christian Academy
4: Adamsdown
5: Scottish Aviation Bulldog
6: Kunnonny
7: Peter Rees, Baron Rees
8: Klenová Castle
9: Four Nations Initiative
10:  René Paul Raymond Capuron
11: Thurrock services
12: Nucleoside deoxyribosyltransferase

John Winter (meteorologist) or JW(m) as they are know to their fans, are a Weezeresque indy band with a heavy nerd ascetic. So devoted are they to the geek imagery that they are initially releasing their new album Christianity and Islam on Cassette tape. This was a compromise with the record company who pont blank refused to let them do it on 8-track.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: RoninFox on December 30, 2007, 05:52:20 PM
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c189/RoninFox/cassette-1.jpg)

1.  ENR
2.  Hakim Ahsan
3.  Swanson Train Station
4.  Gerard Denton
5.  Robert K. Brown
6.  Slovenian People's Party
7.  Bas Peters
8.  Brian D. Beaudreault
9.  SMK Damansara Jaya
10.  Spitak
11.  Biohazard (album)
12.  Turá
Hidden track.  Kain Phalanx

With subjects ranging from foreign countries, to specific schools in foreign countries, to foreign countries' political parties, and US Marines that are stationed in foreign countries the ironically named The Star Spangled Banner (Whitney Houston Single) is sending a very clear message.  "We bought a lot of books about foreign countries."  Also, the hidden track "Kain Phalanx" is a lovely ballad about the manga character from Shadow Skill that proves that the entire band is peopled with geeks.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck on December 30, 2007, 05:57:38 PM
And now, Ladies and Gentlemen!  Possibly the most boring entry on this thread!

Artist: Harriet Ann Jacobs

Album: William Cove

1.  Raedykes
2.  Glycosmis tomentella
3.  Gordon Korman
4.  Icelandic presidential election, 1988
5.  Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Abudu
6.  Cockatoo Island, New South Wales
7.  Zöschen
8.  116th Street (IRT Lenox Avenue Line)
9.  Rolling Star
10.  Sanford House (Syracuse, New York)
11.  Kim (TV film)
12.  Beceni

(Ironically, my #9 is actually a single released by some artist named Yui....so my album contains a "cover version")
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: mrbasehart on December 30, 2007, 08:08:44 PM
Quote from: Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck on December 30, 2007, 05:57:38 PM
And now, Ladies and Gentlemen!  Possibly the most boring entry on this thread!

Artist: Harriet Ann Jacobs

Album: William Cove

1.  Raedykes
2.  Glycosmis tomentella
3.  Gordon Korman
4.  Icelandic presidential election, 1988
5.  Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Abudu
6.  Cockatoo Island, New South Wales
7.  Zöschen
8.  116th Street (IRT Lenox Avenue Line)
9.  Rolling Star
10.  Sanford House (Syracuse, New York)
11.  Kim (TV film)
12.  Beceni

(Ironically, my #9 is actually a single released by some artist named Yui....so my album contains a "cover version")

116th Street? Is that just across 110th street? ;)
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Sideswipe on January 01, 2008, 04:33:07 PM
Band Name:South African Grand Prix
Albim name:  Operation Bulldog III

1.  Mi pequeña Soledad
2.  Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov
3.  Sam E. Goldberg
4.  Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
5.  Wellington Drive Technologies
6.  Harriet Chalmers Adams
7.  Nemacheilus leontinae
8.  Gardar Svavarsson
9.  2005 Khanaqin bombings
10.  Knysna Local Municipality
11.  Doshpuluur
12. Extensor digitorum brevis muscle


Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: BBQ Platypus on January 02, 2008, 11:24:52 AM
Artist: Audi R-Zero
Album: Bill of Sale

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1.   Louis Pierre Ancillon de la Sablonnière
2.   Rainer Salzgeber
3.   Mick Bates (footballer)
4.   Riesdorf
5.   Hubert Cornish
6.   ?tefan B?nic?
7.   Shu Chang
8.   Brasenose Lane
9.   Bila Tserkva
10. Mango (CN)
11. Genko Slavov
12. Robert Sayine

Audi R-Zero is a very European avantgarde accordion-rock group.  They aren't very popular.



Artist: Kennebunk, Maine
Album: Azad Brigade

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/KeithMoonIsGod/AzadBrigade.jpg)

1.   Zero Tolerance Magazine
2.   Wuestneiopsis georgiana
3.   James Landale
4.   Rabiola
5.   Bachke Rehna Re Baba
6.   905
7.   Nagai Station
8.   Water Polo at the 1984 Summer Olympics
9.   Green Bean Casserole
10. Roundstone, County Galway
11. Madiswil
12. John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst

Kennebunk, Maine consists of a bunch of silly guys making musically relevant (or perhaps not) noise carefully constructed to make it sound like they're not actually trying.  Basically, they're like Ween during their early years.  Here, they add a bit of an Eastern, Bollywood-esque flair (plus a quirky cover of John Entwistle's "905") to their usual assortment of eclectically-influenced fart jokes.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: SmilinJackRoss on May 05, 2008, 01:20:29 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v187/cooleyre/cassette-1.jpg)

Artist: Session Road
Album: Fisker Karma

1. Del Wood
2. Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Masud
3. Gardiner Street
4. Rama chandramara
5. Deputy First Minister
6. Downtown 81
7. Fasting girls
8. Value shop
9. Comrade Turbinski
10. Red-rumped Myzomela

No record labels thought that "Death Metal Ska" was a viable sound or genre, so Session Road had to release their debut album independently.  And while their album sound is something to behold itself, one must see their live shows to fully appreciate the band.  Picture the antics of GWAR with the visuals of Cirque du Soleil, then mix in some chanting monks plus a full orchestra, and offer up full audience participation during their hit song "Red-Rumped Myzomela" climax, and you've got one hell of a concert experience.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: dignan on May 05, 2008, 01:50:09 PM
Artist: Comporellon
Album: MLM

1. Lovat
2. Force the Hand of Chance
3. Munji Language
4. Femme Fatale
5. Slippage
6. List of Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland, 1998
7. Wetlook
8. Bac de Roda
9. Lentinula
10. History of Liberia
11. Botanical Garden
12. Give A Little Nibble

Best I can tell, Comporellon is a band that's comprised of people who love Roman Numerals.  They have three primary songwriters in the band:  one who is primarily concerned with various sexual fetishes, one who is trying to emulate a Byrds-era David Crosby circa 1967 with such songs as "Force the Hand of Chance" and "Botanical Garden," and one who is a history professor.  It makes for a rather disjointed album, although "Wetlook" was a surprise hit in Finland. 
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Janitor on May 05, 2008, 03:05:22 PM
Artist: Kenji Doihara
Album: Macon County, Illinois

1. Ottawa River Parkway
2. Okhtyrka
3. Dino Fava Passaro
4. Kostas Eleftherakis
5. Bob Jencks
6. Pennsylvania Route 325
7. Denny Miller
8. Democratic Force
9. Wagon-wheel effect
10. Falmouth Docks Police
11. Moskovia Airlines
12. ELP3

Kenji Doihara is the greatest thing to hit western Idaho since dial up modems. We're going all the way to the top baby. Look us up at www.potatosaregreat.gov/loacl/freehosting/ruralbands/kenji
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: BBQ Platypus on May 05, 2008, 05:20:13 PM
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Artist:  Revenge of the Vampire
Album: Renaissance Canada

1.   University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley Field
2.   Absolutely Free
3.   Sunday Morning
4.   Paolo Gorini
5.   Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus
6.   FTPDrive
7.   Corrado Pizziolo
8.   The Sea Island Mathematical Manual
9.   Stiltskin Live
10. WKAD
11. The Plainsman
12. Marathon

Revenge of the Vampire is an avant-garde death metal parody band whose songs cover subjects not generally found in death metal songs with all of the melodramatic flair characteristic of the genre.  With songs about football stadiums, Frank Zappa albums, Catholic organizations, and Italian people, this album follows the formula to a T.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: LBeria on May 05, 2008, 05:28:36 PM
Band:  Broin
Album:  Crocodeta

Track 1:  Plain-tailed Wren
Track 2:  Family Values Tour 2007
Track 3:  Jakob Gdolin
Track 4:  Leptokarya
Track 5:  Universidad de los Andes
Track 6:  Freybouse
Track 7:  Erigeron breweri
Track 8:  Parasite (comics)
Track 9:  Zeta Boötis
Track 10:  Great Migration (Puritan)
Track 11:  Robinson Treaty
Track 12:  Seaxneat

Y'know....it almost sounds plausible!!  ;D
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: RoninFox on May 05, 2008, 05:33:12 PM
Been awhile since I started a new band, so here I present the debut album of

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Oakland Township, Mahnomen County, Minnesota
Spedding

1 Penick Family
2 Statistic
3 USCGC Thetis (WMEC-910)
4 Aleksey baga
5 Undermining (chess)
6 TBN
7 Campfire
8 List of state leaders in 914
9 Maxi Trial
10 Vincenzo Curcio
11 Nell Johnson
12 UBAP2L
Hidden track: Bess Truman

"OTMCM" is an intense metal group who's songs often reflect the lead singers time in various crime families in his youth before a failed career in the US Coast Guard and a misstep where he thought he'd heard the voice of God and became a religious broadcaster.  The band draws much of its influence from the past, comparing the fall of many of the leaders in organized crime to the futility of dictatorships to fail, not to mention the fear of a new Neo-Nazi movement to create the perfect Aryan race of female actresses by modifying important protiens with genetics.

Also the drummer once saw a picture of Bess Truman and really got the hots for her.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: esoobaC .T bocaJ on May 05, 2008, 05:36:29 PM
neat

Artist: Birds of Kangaroo Island
Album: Snipe Master

1)Brainchild
2)Ericameria laricifolia
3)Assay, Indre-et-Loire
4)places and things named for John Marshall
5)U.S. Route 24 in Michigan
6)Prashar Lake
7)Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
8)El Forn
9)Ron Grant
10)Ron Grant
11)Jon Amiel
12)The Bantu Sports Club

[Bonus Tracks]
*Carl Joachim Hambro
*Eugenia aceitillo
*Cattery
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: FLOCK of RABID SHEEP?!?! on May 06, 2008, 12:48:53 PM
Artist: Winnipeg Beach Provincial Park
Album: Pattern (disambiguation)

1. One in a Million
2. St. Louis, Missouri
3. Bruce Ducker
4. Python Automobile
5. Silvares
6. Devil May Cry 4
7. Trade Office
8. United Kingdom Driving Test
9. Miejska Gorka
10. Division 1 1999-2000
11. Willy Rosingh
12. Sex Party

Bonus Tracks:
Burham F.C.
Ryotaro Sugi
Endless Love Soundtracks

We are a band that combines the singular and sometimes conflicting elements of Tool's bass-lines and strong religious context with world events and music.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: LBeria on May 07, 2008, 08:59:44 PM
Artist:  SLC30A7
Album:  Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity

Track 1:  Justice Is Done
Track 2:  Prix Goncourt des Lycéens
Track 3:  Beanfest
Track 4:  Poço das Trincheiras
Track 5:  Typhon
Track 6:  The Lilac Time
Track 7:  Skögul
Track 8:  Lilburn
Track 9:  Sretensky Monastery (Moscow)
Track 10:  Elizabeth Jeffreys
Track 11:  Autheuil, Eure-et-Loir
Track 12:  Norris Hopper

Hidden DVD Tracks
DVD 1:  Repeating waveforms
DVD 2:  Kamiichi, Toyama

Um.....well....I got nothin' on the funny.....
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Raven on May 08, 2008, 01:28:13 AM
Never saw this thread before.

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Band- Meanings of asteroid names
Album-Front Range Urban Corridor

1.  RAND
2.  Himeji Central Park
3.  Bankapura
4.  Mozenrath
5.  Return of the Mullet
6.  DuMont Television Network
7.  Pseudoseisura
8.  Rotary Connection
9.  Schabak
10. Roznov, Texas
11. Paradise Jam Tournament
12. Captive Witness

Hidden Track- Margarita Island (disambiguation)




"Return of the Mullet" is gonna be played at wedding receptions for the next 20 years.

"Rotary Connection" is about the modern man struggling with demons trapped in a touch tone hell that is customer service.

"Captive Witness" is a drinking song about the Designated Driver being the only one arrested.

"Margarita Island (disambiguation)"  was going to feature a guest appearance by Jimmy Buffet but the drummer assaulted him with a broken Corona bottle when he was in studio, so we got Marilyn Manson instead.  I think you'll like how it turned out. 
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: BBQ Platypus on May 08, 2008, 09:09:20 AM
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Artist: National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association
Album: Pont du Garigliano

1.   Aggamon
2.   Hydeout Productions 1st Collection
3.   Juan Martín
4.   Sheree Murphy
5.   Musha Gundam
6.   Équevillon
7.   Nyahururu
8.   James Wales
9.   Battle of Eretria
10. Nauclea gageana
11. Love, Peace & Poetry - Vol.3 Asian
12. Tougué

National Intercollegiate Womens Fencing Association plays multinational folk-tinged pop music.  They are very popular in Europe, particularly among fans of comic books, anime, and threatened plant species endemic to India.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Pak-Man on May 21, 2008, 01:51:41 AM
Band Name: Torsional Vibration
Album name: Champagne unit

1: Lord Henry Cavendish
2: Little Armalite
3: Kevin Dooley
4: Brooke Gunning
5: Tamil script
6: Victor Frankenstein
7: From the Soul
8: Frieze
9: System Planning Corporation
10: List of indie game developers
11: Surplus store
12: Realms of Arda

Bonus Track: Temporary Labour Working Group

Now with the Band Bio Generator BBQ Platypus linked to elsewhere:

http://www.bumbershoot.org/band-bio-generator.htm

And a few more random Wikipedia entries, we have:

Forged in the wasteland better known as Lakuntza, Torsional Vibration climbed to the top of the techno scene in 2000 with their debut album, Campbell Rose. The band's latest album, Torsional Vibration, joins Planetfesto's deafening howls with crushing drums to produce an effort bursting at the seams with spine-tingling classics. With standout tracks like "Realms of Arda," look for Torsional Vibration to be a major factor in the techno landscape for years to come.
Title: Re: Start a rock band... with Wikipedia
Post by: Tripe on May 21, 2008, 06:07:43 AM
Band: Bohemian Literature
Album: Sophia Williams-De Bruyn

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Tracks:
Segmental Blood Pressure
Kufayrat Abu Khinan
Jeffree Cell
Robert T. Bennett
1038
Alphabet (computer science)
Francis Edo-Osagie
Apemosyne
Histidine
Bucium River
Anthoceros
WYNK-FM

Sophia Williams-De Bruyn - (hidden track)

Bio:
Rising out of the hills of Gainesville, Georgia, Bohemian Literature rose to the top of the modern global scene in 2003 with their debut album, Axial Multipole Moments. The band's latest album, Sophia Williams-De Bruyn, unites Robert Gadocha's inspiring melodies with a funky 7 piece sitar section to produce indigenous grooves. With standout tracks like Jeffree cell, dominating radio airwaves far and wide, Bohemian Literature is an essential addition to any music lover's library.

Single:

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Jeffree cell
Jeffree cell PJ Mix
WYNK-FM (radio edit)
Exshaw, Alberta