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

42 each member in the back of 5 different pickup trucks, all travelling down the highway at slightly different speeds.

43. Duncan Norvelle's Withernsea pad

44. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation

45. on top of earth movers and backhoes at a construction site over the weekend when there's no one else there.

46. a farm, but not a rundown old timey place with generations of folksy wisdom, a big fuckall monsanto farm.

47. On a rocket ship racing to Arboria

48. the deck of a Japanese whaler

46. Within a whirlwind of their own hubris

47. charity clothes donation box

48. The Groucho Club.

49. Kim Jong Il's mausoleum.

50. Mrs Slocombe's pussy

51. the onion a.v. club offices

The wreck of Titanic (metal bands or ambient knot-twiddlers only)

53. WWII era bunker

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

54. Lassiters

Is it this one?

http://www.sanmarkotravel.com/images/Griekenland/Kreta/Agiofarago/Agiofarago_09.jpg

(sorry)

55. an old luncheonette (turning one into a studio was basically the main plot point of the whole last season of the NBC show Parenthood)

56. a methadone clinic (I have a friend who owns a studio and that's what the building used to be, but it's basically just a typical Baltimore rowhouse and people generally don't know that that's what it once was)

57. a funeral home

58. A crypt.

59. Tutenkhamun's tomb.

sic

60. the infinity room

Would record in all these places.

61. a Martello tower (NB: must be concept album about Ulysses)

62. The Orfield Laboratories Quiet Room.

63. scrooge mcduck's money bin

oh my God I need to be in that Orfield room, fuckin A

There was a thing about the guy who was in there for 45 minutes in the Guardian Weekend this, er, weekend. Sounds hardcore.

64. on an airplane, moments before it crashes and kills the entire band. their final moments would be captured in lo-fi glory on the black box recorder (it would helpful, but not mandatory, if the name of the band was "Black Box Recorder"), and the limited-edition release would be housed in a box designed to resemble the actual flight recorder.

65. The Fortress of Solitude

66. Inside the MCP

Are you aware of this Black Box Recorder?

xxpost

67. A perspex box dangling from a crane.

68. an Ames room

xxpost - yup. but I would be sad if Luke Haines died in a fiery wreck, so nix that, actually.

this is my old band performing inside a box at the museum of contemporary art in chicago as part of an art exhibit
http://images.artnet.com/images_US/magazine/reviews/velez/velez12-5-07-7.jpg

69. At the sea organ, Croatia.

70. a (un)Convention Center

71. The penalty box at an Edmonton Oilers game

72. My friends and I once plugged in some instruments in the middle of the night at this weird rest area outside Blackfoot, ID; the acoustics were awesome and someone should really take advantage of it

http://itd.idaho.gov/highways/ops/maintenance/RestArea/RestAreaMap/images/northblackfootNB.jpg

Coldplay are recording an album in my colon right now. It's pretty damn uncomfortable, but I endure it knowing that one day this shit will come out.

A "rest-stops of the NJ turnpike tour" could be awesome.

"Live from the Walt Whitman...rest stop"

73. An Orgone accumulator

74. in a hidden corner of a studio where another, more prominent band is already recording. a thousand people will be able to hear Coldplay playing faintly in the background on your band's album, and a million people will be able to hear your band playing faintly in the background on a Coldplay album. instant exposure!

75. A dumbwaiter

76. a sun temple in a lost city

Nowadays, the least conventional place for a totally meaningful indie band to record is a recording studio.

145 (estimated). the quiet car on an amtrak train,

146. an Irish castle

147. on the left side of an infield left vacant by a david ortiz shift, during the fourth inning of a red sox - yankees game.

148. New York Knicks locker room feat. James Dolan on whine

1. Just got out of jail!
2. On my way to the hardware store
3. People all look the same from the roof of a house (it's your house)
4. Watching your window from my sister's car
5. This town doesn't have enough pay phones
6. Sleeping in my sister's car
7. Combo #5!
8. Creeping up the stairs (it's your house)
9. Hand on your bedroom door
10. Standing at the foot of your bed

― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:29 AM (9 months ago)

^^^belated LOL @ this