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

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.

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

turns out it was a difft cave

i'd like to hear an indie rock album that was recorded underwater.

135. Great Lake Swimmers -- The (self-titled) album was recorded over several months in an abandoned grain silo in Southern Ontario. Jim James also recorded his "At Dawn" vocals in a silo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihxOcRh6wc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bLHg2c1a34

136. Fleet Foxes -- Blue Ridge Mountains at the Grand Palais
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1tbX_NJn98

137-40. Sigur Ros, Beruit, Bon Iver and Lambchop in some indiscriminate localles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3uQl-8ywKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYwmDJigB1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Swa9CYgRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ8sW_kovBs

141. Avett Bros in a Wyoming gondola:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlSZzKcoFp0

141. Tom Waits -- Mule Variations; some produced in a hen house.

Not indie; but props for Kitaro for recording and sampling all over creation.

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

http://ayup.co.uk/avina/twoyork.jpg

in 2013 the most authentic recording setup is in bed, on a macbook with garageband. the new lo-fi.

are these albums ever 100% authentic? I mean what if som eindie-folk act records an album in their great-grandfather's depression-era cabin in Maine, but when they go back and listen to the tape, they realize it sounds exactly like a studio recording, so they dub in some howling coyotes and creaking doors and crackling fireplaces to make it sound more rustic (and to justify the effort of hauling their gear into the woods)? in that case I think I would delete all of their albums from my hard drive and unsubscribe from their youtube channel regardless of what I thought of their music. I don't care if your intentions are pure: if you build your own banjolin and play the saw with a violin bow, you have no right to fuck with your audience's expectations, ever.

it broke my heart when I found out that only 3 of the 11 tracks on Movietone's The Sand and the Stars album were actually recorded on a beach, and some of the beachiest-sounding titles ("Ocean Song", "The Sand and the Stars") were recorded indoors. but at least they had the decency to include that information in the liner notes.

I even worry about more minor breaches of authenticity. part of the appeal of Mark Hollis's solo album is how immersive it is — you can hear the creaking of Mark's stool and the shuffle of footsteps on wooden floorboards, and it feels like you're right there with him in the studio. but what if even those mundane sounds were dubbed in from a sound effects disc? I don't care if the man is a legend; that would be the instant death of his credibility, as far as this listener is concerned.

the Mule Variations "hen house" is actually a room that used to be a henhouse but was in use as a storage room when he got to the studio. He liked the way it sounded. I've recorded in it, people call it "the Waits room" now.

looking fwd to the first album recorded inside a loaf of artisanal seed bread

the Mule Variations "hen house" is actually a room that used to be a henhouse but was in use as a storage room when he got to the studio. He liked the way it sounded. I've recorded in it, people call it "the Waits room" now.

so it wasn't one of these?

http://i46.tinypic.com/206le0x.jpg

I used to think Tom Waits was the realest motherfucker alive. but now? *sigh*

Supposedly once a chicken coop:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T7JTbUqCCJ8/UJ6By4DMDXI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/9CgRBl2_Ue8/s1600/3trackshack.jpg

xp some next-level chicken housing there