In every "Classic Album" TV/Radio documentary...

60. Cowboy hats

61. Bass played now has a beard that makes him look like the Unabomber.

Truck train tractor

62. Gritty archival helicopter view of lower-income housing towers in city where band formed / bucolic car-window footage of shady streets and porches in small town where band formed

63. Brief discussion of band's history prior to that album, illustrated by photographs where the band members all look about 14.

64. "It was originally called 'Truck Train Trailer', but the record company execs refused to even glance at the acetate until we gave it a more commercial title."

65. awkward home video montage of a recently deceased band member

66. "We never liked playing this song live"

67. Footage of Muhammad Ali dropping by the studio

68. Bono saying hearing this album changed his life (along with 900 other albums)

69. Ex band member who went totally la-la on LSD and was fired is now a soberly suited executive in Silicon Valley and earns more money than the rest of the band put together.

70. intercutting of interviews w/ different band members to disguise open fact that they all hate each other

71. "The producer locked everyone in the studio and wouldn't let anyone leave until the track was cut."

72. Awkward reunion, after several years, of lead guitarist with singer, who he knows has slept with at least two of his wives

17. Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.

Beat me to it.

73. "We knew we'd recorded a pretty good album, but we had no idea how overwhelming the response etc."

74. Totally pointless anecdote about booze/drugs.

75. "It's not my favourite album I've ever made but..."

76. Rock critic interviewed in front of massive cd/vinyl collection, driving home the point that "he/she really knows what they're talkin' about."

77. "I think it said something about the times we were living in and what people were going through..."

78. Band member visits site of club where the band played their first gig together. Location is now either a burnt out derelict husk or a wine bar completely at odds with the band's image. Bonus points: band member goes to old style jukebox and selects track from the album, but it is clearly faked and dubbed on afterwards.

79. "By the way, a remixed/remastered/remodeled edition of [insert album title] drops in two weeks yo."

80. Producer gets engineer to fade out out band leaving only lead vocal to demonstrate what a good singer that coke-addled jackass was.

81. ...followed by a tedious discussion about how good the singer was at double tracking vocals.

82. Stevie Wonder anecdote

83. Guitarist consistently referring to Jimi Hendrix by his first name

76. Rock critic interviewed in front of massive cd/vinyl collection, driving home the point that "he/she really knows what they're talkin' about."

also: "shit, i had no idea [critic] looked like that"

84. Bizarre dietary habits of band members: "At the time, all he would eat was dry toast and chips"

85. Anecdote about the band's drug dealer having their own limo on tour, paid for by the record company.

82. Stevie Wonder anecdote involving invisible crocodile.

86. last :45 is a quick roundup of the ridiculous garbage the band members have put out since

87. Band member demonstrates how they got odd sound on drums right there for camera, but it sounds nothing like the recording. Sheepish grin.

88. During the playback scenes, Assistant Engineer chap at desk who was -12 when record was made.

89. Complexions that resemble streaky bacon rashers wrapped against a tree-trunk.

90. Band member (usually guitarist) unsubtly hints how about how much sex and drugs he did during those "wild times".

91. If it's a Classic ROCK album, you can pretty much guarantee that Slash will be a talking head somewhere in it - talking about how the record 'changed his life' (like many many other rock albums), and how much of an influence it had on GNR in the early days (like many other rock albums).

Obvious bitterness from band members that the most talented (usually guitarist) decided to leave to focus on solo career, and became more famous.

mid-atlantic accents.

92. the songwriter explains how he wrote the song, demonstrating how he played it first simple on acoustic guitar at home, followed by the chorus of the song itself, to emphasize the difference.

93. Some old guy with a rainbow beard or otherwise bizarre attempt at youthful hair coloring

94. someone claims credit for inventing playing with a tape loop and/or feedback

Hah that is so awesome. Obviously it was some unknown dude in the 30s.

"We had a little extra studio time left over at the end, so we recorded [most memorable song on the album] as a goof."

96. producer, sitting behind a huge mixing desk, points out something 'obscure' that was obvious to everyone the first time they heard the record. ("Note how he sings 'hello how low'")

97. singer explains that he can't sing that high any more.

98. Jim Keltner and his aviators

Linked to #92:

99. Interviewee starts to sing part of song unaccompanied, recorded version plays under them and the pitch and/or timing is noticeably off.

100. "They were everywhere. It was literally overnight."

101. The fans loved this one of ours, but my personal favorite was (names worst album).

102. He came in that day with a song we'd never heard before and did it in one take.

(I imagine these two were maybe already done? I didn't read them ALL)

102. "Andy Wallace came in after the fact and ruined the mix."

er, 103

103 ".. and then we did the same number again. It wasn't the same though..."