132. the set of Two & a Half Men
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
133. the living room of the last house holding out in a gentrified neighborhood of condos
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
134. A battery chicken farm
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
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?
― ban halen (electricsound), Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I feel like I'm hearing more and more of these retarded "my recording setup is more authentic than yours" stories every day
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
Matmos to thread.
― Moka, Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:30 (1 month ago) Permalink
there was a good portlandia sketch about that this season.
― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:33 (1 month ago) Permalink
turns out it was a difft cave
― wee waa nee (electricsound), Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:37 (1 month ago) Permalink
i'd like to hear an indie rock album that was recorded underwater.
― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 04:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
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.
136. Fleet Foxes -- Blue Ridge Mountains at the Grand Palais
137-40. Sigur Ros, Beruit, Bon Iver and Lambchop in some indiscriminate localles.
141. Avett Bros in a Wyoming gondola:
141. Tom Waits -- Mule Variations; some produced in a hen house.
Not indie; but props for Kitaro for recording and sampling all over creation.
― bodacious ignoramus, Sunday, 14 April 2013 05:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Sunday, 14 April 2013 11:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
in 2013 the most authentic recording setup is in bed, on a macbook with garageband. the new lo-fi.
― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:35 (1 month ago) Permalink
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.
― first geir, it's alright (hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:01 (1 month ago) Permalink
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.
― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
looking fwd to the first album recorded inside a loaf of artisanal seed bread
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
so it wasn't one of these?
I used to think Tom Waits was the realest motherfucker alive. but now? *sigh*
― first geir, it's alright (hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
Supposedly once a chicken coop:
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:45 (1 month ago) Permalink
xp some next-level chicken housing there
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:46 (1 month ago) Permalink
I'm ok with Link Wray, but AnCo are a bunch of hucksters, apparently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campfire_Songs_(album)
The album comprises five individual songs played back to back and recorded in one take. Although it was the middle of November and thus very cold, the recording was made outside on a screen porch in Maryland, using three Sony MiniDisc players with Sony ECM-MS907 microphones placed strategically around the band. Ambient sound from the surrounding area was also captured and added later.
I really need to start a blacklist of artists who pull this shit.
― first geir, it's alright (hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:49 (1 month ago) Permalink
aw, i love that album. i don't know if they are "hucksters" really, even then they weren't considered lo-fi purists.
― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 18:51 (1 month ago) Permalink
this really doesn't seem like any sort of dastardly artifice to me. i guess there are levels at which records that somehow super-foregrounded the mythical genesis of their record might be deflated by revelations about them being made in a studio but it just seems like both of those things - surrounding your record w/a certain narrative/context, or importing ambient sound for atmosphere & affiliation - are legitimate parts of a group's toolkit. it's like cinema. it's okay that it wasn't filmed in an actual remote village. it's okay that it never really happened. i think there are probably more ~problematic dynamics~ involved in like shitty mercury rev records that apply effects to a piano track than there are w/somebody making a collage & putting a name on it.
while we are here sometimes it is nice to go to bat for a cool record & anyone who likes sorta field recorded nice group records might enjoy this tenniscoats record, temporacha, on room 40, which they recorded just kinda out & about & which is very gentle & musical but also subject to the ebbs and flows of traffic and nearby ambient activity. i think there is maybe a better school of unshowy "naturalism" in some japanese stuff - cf reiko kudo records where the song stops when the phone rings or dishwasher starts, katsura yamauchi lps where he records intermittent sax motifs separated by the noise of water flowing.
― schlump, Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
btw movietone fans might be deflated to know that a bunch of the non beach songs on their records are recorded in a library, iirc, fwiw.
― schlump, Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:05 (1 month ago) Permalink
lol. libraries are best known for being the opposite of the beach.
― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
If you record an album in your backyard and title it CAMPFIRE SONGS, it had better be as pure as it gets, no matter what the rest of your discography sounds like.
― first geir, it's alright (hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:10 (1 month ago) Permalink
Virginia Astley didn't really record From Gardens Where We Feel Secure in one take on a lazy summer's day:
http://www.virginiaastley.com/discography/albums/html/gardens_03.html
The sound effects used on the album were recorded at various times between April and June 1982 at locations in and around Moulsford, Oxfordshire.
so that makes...
AnCoMovietoneTom WaitsAerosmithVirginia AstleyPAT FINN
If you have any more artists to add to my least, feel free to implicate them itt. I already have some major suspicions about Deep Listening Band, but I don't want to be too hasty here.
*my list
― first geir, it's alright (hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:11 (1 month ago) Permalink
― first geir, it's alright (hongro hongro go faster faster) (unregistered), Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is like the homely & bucolic equivalent of I LIKE MY RAPPERS PACKING HEAT right
― schlump, Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:13 (1 month ago) Permalink
i remember relating some recording mythos to a guy at a party in college -- i think it was about the crystal castles guy recording in icelandic churches -- and he became very hostile, saying "so? so what? does that make it sound better somehow? what is the point of that?" one of the worst conversations of all time.
― Pat Finn, Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:14 (1 month ago) Permalink
what if it turned out that ... bon iver wasn't really heartbroken
― schlump, Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:14 (1 month ago) Permalink
shocking cctv footage reveals modern comforts of bon iver's "mountain hideaway"
he had netflix streaming
― schlump, Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:15 (1 month ago) Permalink
there were two whole days when he was just having a nice vacation
something sad to me about people buying campfire songs & then being disappointed that they cannot actually smell sausages cooking while they listen to it
― schlump, Sunday, 14 April 2013 19:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
DEAR ANIMAL COLLECTIVEI RECENTLY PURCHASED YOUR CAMPFIRE SONGS ALBUM AND WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED TO FI
the French village in which it was recorded has no "Main Street" at all. That would mean "Hand Street" over there anyway. FRAUDS
― not feeling those lighters (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 15 April 2013 00:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
faulting all these stupid hat & vest bands for being inauthentic about their retro authenticity kitsch is just as dopey, imo. i imagine that most of their fans just like the songs, not so much the idea that they're really real about the appalachian folk tradition or w/e. it's musical steempunk.
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Monday, 15 April 2013 00:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
stones a key text supporting the CONCEIT RULES/AUTHENTICITY DROOLS thesis
― big bobby digital fan (schlump), Monday, 15 April 2013 00:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
i recently wrote about that in the lumineers thread!
― Pat Finn, Monday, 15 April 2013 00:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
although my thesis was a bit different. i distinguished between different kinds of inauthenticity, and how some are better than others. it's a fraught issue, and a key one, i think, that people who think a lot about music get tripped up on. The Lumineers i'm sure there is a thread about the issue of authenticity somewhere in the archives...
― Pat Finn, Monday, 15 April 2013 00:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
At the time of recording [Tales from Topographic Oceans], heavy metal group Black Sabbath were producing their album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in the studio next door. Singer Ozzy Osbourne recalled that placed in the Yes studio was a model cow with electronic udders and a small barn to give the room an "earthy" feel.
― lazulum, Monday, 15 April 2013 00:57 (1 month ago) Permalink
i forget, did the beach boys record all of their music on a beach?
― Pat Finn, Monday, 15 April 2013 04:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
not impressed unless they did it all whilst surfing
― infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Monday, 15 April 2013 04:30 (1 month ago) Permalink
lol.
― Pat Finn, Monday, 15 April 2013 04:32 (1 month ago) Permalink
didn't the boredoms record that piano bit at the start of seadrum on the beach
― Crackle Box, Monday, 15 April 2013 11:32 (1 month ago) Permalink
via wikiParts of the album was pieced together from previously recorded material, some of which included guitarist Yamamoto, who was no longer in the band. As its name implies, parts of the album were recorded by the ocean, and some audio was recorded directly underwater.[6]
― Crackle Box, Monday, 15 April 2013 11:33 (1 month ago) Permalink
the thing about this whole trend that annoys me is that it seems like people are trying to use it as a shortcut to ACTUALLY BEING GOOD AT MUSIC
― Poliopolice, Monday, 15 April 2013 16:16 (1 month ago) Permalink