Make Your Own Album Cover (2008)

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If you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably done it or seen your friends do it plenty of times. Popularly known as Make Your Own Album Cover (or shortly “album cover”), this DIY game first began as a Flickr group project circa early 2008 and subsequently crossed over to other social networking sites like Facebook through the following year.

Origins of CD Cover Meme [Incomplete]

In February 2008, the Flickr group “CD Cover Meme” was created and it currently holds the largest collection of randomly generated album covers with 2000+ submissions. Once again in early 2009, fake album covers leaped beyond its own expectations when Facebook users quickly caught on by posting their album covers as tagged notes, inviting their friends to create their own artworks as well.

How to Make Your Own Album Cover

1 – Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 – Go to “Random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.
5 – Post it with this text in the “caption” and TAG the friends you want to join.

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26 Comments

the AMAZING Dik Shuttle of the Fabulous ShuttleLOUNGE
Jun 09, 2009 at 07:32PM UTC , the AMAZING Dik Shuttle of the Fabulous ShuttleLOUNGE wrote:

Mine was horrible. Some of those were pretty cool, tho.

Brad Kim
Jun 10, 2009 at 12:23AM UTC , Brad Kim wrote:

i feel like it’s sorta hit or miss for everyone. mine was:

they’re from sweden & sounds like they’re from sweden

Myxomatosis ....
Jun 11, 2009 at 08:25PM UTC , Myxomatosis .... wrote:

MS Paint ftw.

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Captain Blubber
Jun 12, 2009 at 10:22PM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

Fun stuff, I uploaded the only one that turned out well for me.

Tylord14
Jun 13, 2009 at 05:49AM UTC , Tylord14 wrote:

Mine turned out the best

SpyHunter29
Jun 13, 2009 at 01:56PM UTC , SpyHunter29 wrote:

The latest picture from Tylord14 is a double-post, please remove one of them.

Tylord14
Jun 14, 2009 at 05:55AM UTC , Tylord14 wrote:

ya sorry about that…i saw it double posted for some reason, and every time i tried deleting it i would come back to make sure and it was still there. sorry about it. i tried but it didnt work…IM SORRY OK JUST GET OFF MY BACK!!111

James Woods
Jun 15, 2009 at 07:41AM UTC , James Woods wrote:

Mine is made of pure win.

Miguel dos Santos
Jun 15, 2009 at 04:17PM UTC , Miguel dos Santos wrote:

I was surprised. They actually fit together quite well :P

Quantum
Jun 19, 2009 at 03:51PM UTC , Quantum wrote:

not to bad…not to bad

Max nunyobisnis
Jun 21, 2009 at 04:07AM UTC , Max nunyobisnis wrote:

By the way, the title of mine is “The Need Not The Cause.” (It’s a bit hard to read. I meant to change it, but forgot before I flattened the image to be able to be JPG format.)

Varya
Jul 12, 2009 at 10:33PM UTC , Varya wrote:

Hehe, I’m gonna be doing ton of these.
I really liked how my turned up in the end, I would listen to that album

TheAntiHeroHimself
Aug 03, 2009 at 08:28PM UTC , TheAntiHeroHimself wrote:

Lulz ms paint. quagmire style Heh heh, Alright!

Crackers McPickleskin
Aug 08, 2009 at 03:08AM UTC , Crackers McPickleskin wrote:

Mine worked so well

Risk
Aug 30, 2009 at 10:52PM UTC , Risk wrote:

All of mine turned out great! I uploaded my favorite.

Jostin Asuncion
Sep 03, 2009 at 09:51AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

I’m going to submit my favorite one out of the two I’ve already made. I’m pretty proud of it.

Erin Lynch
Sep 09, 2009 at 01:43AM UTC , Erin Lynch wrote:

I lucked out with a great picture and the name of a species of moth. Kinda looks like a VH1 “Artist You Ought to Know”.

Chris Menning
Oct 26, 2009 at 09:20PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

I cheated on both of mine, hitting refresh until it sounded like something that works. But I like it.

Ch3fB0yard3
Dec 11, 2009 at 06:48AM UTC , Ch3fB0yard3 wrote:

So far my favorite meme.

Lanthus [(°ᴥ°) mode activated]
Dec 11, 2009 at 07:19AM UTC , Lanthus [(°ᴥ°) mode activated] wrote:

Mine is definitely going to be my real album cover! So much win, it looks ska!

SyrilRam
Dec 25, 2009 at 01:43AM UTC , SyrilRam wrote:

This started earlier than it says here. One of my friends on myspace is Cody Matherson, and I’ve got Ken Finkster. They have combined forces to make Finkster and Matherson which according to myspace was created 11/14/2007. Predating the flickr group and facebook.

SyrilRam
Dec 25, 2009 at 02:03AM UTC , SyrilRam wrote:

I just wanted to add some information to your post about Cody Matherson and Make Your Own Album Cover. Cody Matherson, the guy on the cover of that story has stuff that came out on 8/03/2007. Which can be seen here http://saladdaysmusic.net/?p=387 and at that same time he had a Myspace page along with his friend Ken Finkster, and Barbara. They had individualized Myspace pages for a while and then Ken and Cody merged their myspace pages. This all predates Facebook by about 2 years.

sarahakele
Dec 25, 2009 at 08:00AM UTC , sarahakele wrote:

Mine was kinda interesting….my band name was Women of the House, and my song title was ‘24 Hours to Live’…I thought it was kinda cool.

Dragonboyjgh
Dec 26, 2009 at 11:08PM UTC , Dragonboyjgh wrote:

I got Blink-182’s reunion Tour as my wiki page. this unfortuneately can not be my band name. Thus, I am defeated.

GFreeze
Feb 07, 2010 at 06:22PM UTC , GFreeze wrote:

This is the earliest example of a Flickr photo tagged with “CD cover meme” I can find. It was uploaded in 2005.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/icecream/3306816551/
This person also has numerous other fake album covers from before February 2008.

Also, a generator exists. http://rfshq.com/-/Extras_And_Exclusives/cd-gen

karnella
Feb 26, 2010 at 02:03AM UTC , karnella wrote:

these are way too fun. mine always end up looking like indie bands.

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