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A game: Identify the artist + album based only on a thin sliver of album artwork

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mango drank

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So, when playing music in the Spotify phone app, you'll see the current song's album art front and center, but at the edge of the screen you'll see these thin slivers of the left or right edges of the cover art of adjacent songs in the playlist:

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Sometimes I'll try to guess what the next album is based just on that small piece of the album artwork. Today I thought: hey, this could be turned into a game!

Rules: crop off a thin vertical slice of an album cover, and have people try to guess what the artist and album are. (Guessing just the artist by itself is fine, too; sometimes the album name is hard to remember.) You can use the left and right edges to make the game harder, but it's fine to crop a strip of a point in between the two also. Width-wise, something like 5%-10% of the width of the cover is a good range. The albums themselves can be well-known or obscure, up to you. Edit your original post with the winners. You can reply to individual guessers, but it can make a mess of the thread. If a couple hours have passed, you can fill in the remaining unsolved covers.

Some examples to get things started (these are just left and right edges):

RESULTS:
1. Drake/Future - What a Time to Be Alive guessed by Cesare Borgia
2. Duran Duran - Rio guessed by thebeeks
3.
The Birthday Massacre - Superstition
4. Goldfrapp - Tales of Us (Deluxe) guessed by blame space
5. The Strokes - Angles guessed by Salsa
6. Tyler, the Creator - Wolf guessed by Cesare Borgia
7.
Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel to Anything (Expanded)
8. Mew - +/- guessed by Dead
9. Skrillex - Bangarang guessed by Fandangox
10. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange guessed by tim.mbp

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*EDIT* Ah crap, didn't see the left/right edge rule. Ah well, I've actually made it way easier haha

1. Polygon Window (Richard D. James), Surfing on Sinewaves (collige)
2. Shpongle, Nothing Lasts But Nothing Is Lost (IfritTower)
3. Kid A, Radiohead (spame blace)
4.
 

Galang

Banned
Übermatik;203572872 said:
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*EDIT* Ah crap, didn't see the left/right edge rule. Ah well, I've actually made it way easier haha

So far I have:

Radiohead - Kid A
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
 

Crayons

Banned
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to me these are really obvious but it might be a little hard for you guys

1) TWIABP - Harmlessness
2) The Velvet Underground & Nico
3) Car Seat Headrest - Nervous Young Man
4) Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
5) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
8) Lou Reed - Transformer
 

mango drank

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Übermatik;203572872 said:
Ah crap, didn't see the left/right edge rule. Ah well, I've actually made it way easier haha

OK, I changed the rules to accommodate taking a vertical strip from any part of the cover. :) I thought about it when first making the thread, went with just the edges, but the game can still be plenty hard either way, so it's all good.
 

Crayons

Banned
strawberry jam
Lou Reed
something else I knew

EDIT THE FUCKING VELVET UNDERGROUND and nico

yes yes and yes

good job i am impress

4 is Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper

yes

Do I see Volta and Franz Ferdinand?
Bjork and Franz Ferdinand?



no
1 - The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Harmlessness
Yes!
 

Fat4all

Banned
To make this one a little easier, I'll show the empty space around it.

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So you can see the exact spot it's from.

EDIT: here's a hint, it's not just one artist, probably should of picked one with one one artist :/
 

mango drank

Member
All right, another round from me. This time I'm using a mix of both left/right edges and points in between.

RESULTS:
B-1: The Cars - The Cars Misha
B-2: First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar Shark Johnson
B-3: Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits Shark Johnson
B-4: Marina and the Diamonds <3 - Froot torre_avenue
B-5:
Royksopp - Senior
B-6:
Azaelia Banks - 1991
B-7: Santigold blame space
B-8: Cults nskinnear
B-9: Cut/Copy - In Ghost Colours brianjones
B-10: Muse - Black Holes and Revelations blame space

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cj_iwakura

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To make this one a little easier, I'll show the empty space around it.

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So you can see the exact spot it's from.

EDIT: here's a hint, it's not just one artist, probably should of picked one with one one artist :/

Pretty sure it's the Cowboy Bebop OST.
 

KissVibes

Banned
All right, another round from me. This time I'm using a mix of both left/right edges and points in between.

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B2 is First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
B3 is Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
B10 is Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
 
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