totally rad unconventional recording spaces for totally meaningful indie bands (besides a church)

98. abandoned mill bldg above our practice space

99. Mormon temple visitor's center

100. Mormon seminary building

101. Mormon institute building

102. Mormon cannery building

mormon-owned all-you-can-eat salad bar?

103. yes, a Sizzler's

104. the birthplace of thomas edison

105. San Xavier del Bac

106. the wren building at the college of william & mary, the second oldest college in the united states

107. inside the world's biggest ball of yarn

108. on top of the world's biggest ball of yarn

109. underneath the world's biggest ball of yarn

110. next to the world's biggest ball of yarn

111. inside the world's second-biggest ball of yarn

112. on top of the world's second-biggest ball of yarn

wld listen to all these yarncore recodrings

113. underneath the world's second-biggest ball of yarn

114. next to the world's second-biggest ball of yarn

115. in the mythical land of yarnia

116. in your mom's uterus

117. The Geographic Center of the United States

111, 116, 117 are duplicates

oh wait there's three. triplicates? that doesn't sound right.

http://definr.com/triplicate

in a reclaimed former grain silo that, like, used to be an abandoned whiskey distillery and has, like, really great natural reverb

118. In... your face

Inside an aged oak barrel made from wood from the wreckages of 19th century naval ships.

119. mathmagic land

120. an authentic tape-operated recording shack in some forest in Thailand and like we had to, like, communicate with the engineer in like broken english

121. Miracle Of Birth Pavilion at MN State Fair

122. Fantastic Sam's

123. Waldo Flea Market

124. we found this great 19th century amusement park that has this like great aura of urban decay and it totally comes through on the recording

125. The belly of a sperm whale

126. Charles Manson's old Volkswagen Microbus

127. The Large Hadron Collider

128. we found this awesome tent out in the desert, like, right between these huge mountains and it's like the perfect space for a recording setup

129. Pete Doherty's gaff

129. Pete Doherty's guff

130. The Isle of Naboombu

131. The Tardis

111, 116, 117 are duplicates

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perhaps the most excellent "your mom" zing i've ever come across

132. the set of Two & a Half Men

133. the living room of the last house holding out in a gentrified neighborhood of condos

134. A battery chicken farm

hate on, haters, but I know a specific cave in the Agiofarago gorge in Crete where I totally want to record an album someday

― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned),

was this the same cave serena-maneesh recorded their last album in?

I feel like I'm hearing more and more of these retarded "my recording setup is more authentic than yours" stories every day

Matmos to thread.

there was a good portlandia sketch about that this season.