Albums recorded at home ?

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  1. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    McCartney (1970)

    Generally regarded as the first home recording.

    Any other examples?
     
  2. davebush

    davebush New Test Leper

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    Springsteen - "Nebraska"
     
  3. Dandelion1967

    Dandelion1967 My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks

    Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20 by The Beach Boys were all recorded in the studio that Brian Wilson had set up in his mansion.
     
  4. bRETT

    bRETT Senior Member

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    Loads in this day and age. Many Pollard/GBV, five or six Paul Westerbergs.

    I believe parts of McCartney were done at EMI though.
     
  5. Dandelion1967

    Dandelion1967 My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks

    Emitt Rhodes first album.

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  6. 7solqs4iago

    7solqs4iago Forum Resident

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    someone's home, i think he made himself comfortable there

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  7. GowG

    GowG Forum Resident

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    Lots of Mike Oldfield albums. Peter Hammill's as well.
     
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  8. Thing Fish

    Thing Fish “Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”

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    Wasn't one of Billy Eilish's albums recorded in her brother Finneas's bedroom?
     
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  9. davebush

    davebush New Test Leper

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    I would assume almost all electronic/ambient albums of the last 25 years are home recordings,
     
  10. HotelYorba101

    HotelYorba101 Senior Member

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    Billie Eilish recorded her first initial albums and material in her bedroom studio with her brother helping to produce
     
  11. GoodKitty

    GoodKitty Om

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    Lindsey Buckingham's latest s/t,
    as well as a lot (most?) of his other stuff over the decades.
     
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  12. Yost

    Yost “It’s only impossible until it’s not”

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  13. rlj1010

    rlj1010 Forum Resident

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    A lot of artists have expensive "home studios", and those examples are plentiful. But if you're talking about albums recorded with a tape recorder in their living room, like McCartney, that's another story.
     
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  14. Dandelion1967

    Dandelion1967 My Favourite Parks Are Car Parks

  15. Odradek

    Odradek Forum Resident

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    The first album to make it a selling point was probably this posthumous 1959 release by the English actor Robert Donat (1905–58).

    Les Paul and Mary Ford did much if not all of their recording at home already in the late 1940s and early 1950s, notably including a string of hit singles, but did put out albums too, if being an album is a requirement.
     
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  16. bataclan2002

    bataclan2002 All You Need Is Now.

    Much of Prince’s Dirty Mind, Controversy and 1999.
     
  17. Key East

    Key East Forum Resident

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    Driving Rain by James Paul McCartney Epstein back in 2001.
     
  18. TheRunoutMatrix

    TheRunoutMatrix I'm sticking with you, cause I'm made out of glue.

    This wonderful album was recorded with a simple 8-track at her home, and a friend's cottage. I believe a studio was involved with some post work and finishing touches, but the main thing occured at home and I think it qualifies. I love it very much and wish it (and the rest of her early catalog in particular) was available on vinyl.

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  19. Sean

    Sean Senior Member

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    Elvis recorded some music at Graceland.
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  20. DME1061

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    Paul Westerberg

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  21. RageRomano

    RageRomano Idiot

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    Lots and lots and lots of albums by R. Stevie Moore.

     
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  22. RageRomano

    RageRomano Idiot

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    The Pod and Pure Guava by Ween

     
  23. Evethingandnothing

    Evethingandnothing Forum Resident

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    Weren't some of Buddy Holly & The Cricket's recordings home recordings?
     
  24. octophone

    octophone immaterial girl

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    I'm struggling to think of any that weren't!
     
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  25. Mr-Beagle

    Mr-Beagle Ah, but the song carries on, so holy

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    20/20 was partly recorded at Brian's home studio.
     
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