Marine Girls: Beach Party Beach Party (album) - Wikipedia Low - fi from 1981. In Kurt Cobain’s top 50 too.
Screen Violence Entire record written, produced, and performed in lockdown. Even the vocals from Robert Smith were provided with no verbal talks "Recorded mostly remotely between LA and Glasgow, ‘Screen Violence’ was originally conceived as a name for the band, before being revived for the title of their new record."
Herb Albert started out the Tijuana Brass in his garage with just himself playing the Tijuana Brass parts. "Alpert set up a small recording studio in his garage and had been overdubbing a tune called "Twinkle Star", written by Sol Lake, who would eventually write many of the Brass's original tunes. During a visit to Tijuana, Mexico, Alpert happened to hear a mariachiband while attending a bullfight. Following the experience, Alpert recalled that he was inspired to find a way to express musically what he felt while watching the wild responses of the crowd, and hearing the brass musicians introducing each new event with rousing fanfare.[11] Alpert adapted the trumpet style to the tune, mixed in crowd cheers and other noises for ambience, and renamed the song "The Lonely Bull".[12] He personally funded the production of the record as a single, and it spread through radio DJs until it caught on and became a Top 10 hit in the Fall of 1962. He followed up quickly with his debut album, The Lonely Bull by "Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass". Originally the Tijuana Brass was just Alpert overdubbing his own trumpet, slightly out of sync.[13] The title cut reached No. 6 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart.
"Visions is the third studio album by Canadian musician Grimes. It was released through 4ADon February 21, 2012. Her first since signing with 4AD,[1] the album was recorded entirely on Apple's GarageBand software in Grimes' apartment over a three-week period.[2][3] It was mixed by Grimes and her manager, Sebastian Cowan, at their La Brique Studio Space in Montreal.[4] Visions was streamed on the NPR website a week before it was released in the United States.[5]"
Visions is a brilliant album. In truth I'm disappointed that nothing she's done since has come close for me.
Every single one of mine, lol. And they sound better than anything old bands of mine recorded in studios.
Wich is not true because a very large part of the album has been recorded in EMI's Abbey Road Studios including almost all vocals and the whole of "Maybe I'm amazed", "Every night", and Morgan Studios.....
While I absolutely love those (and perhaps 49:00 most of all), I cannot help to think that for a drummer, he makes an excellent singer...
Paul McCartney: McCartney, McCartney II, McCartney III, Electric arguments (his three Fireman albums actually), lots of Flaming pie, and numerous songs throughout his discography. George Harrison recorded almost exclusively in his home studio from 1976 onwards Other specialists of the home recordings: Todd Rundgren, Pete Townshend, Kate Bush, David Gilmour, Mike Oldfield, Prince... Lots of music since around 1970. Even Elvis Presley's last recording sessions.
People keep mentioning McCartney's first album even though it's been pointed out several times that it wasn't entirely recorded at home. This album on the other hand: "Bert Jansch is the debut album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch. The album was recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder at engineer Bill Leader's house and sold to Transatlantic Records for £100. "
Well, maybe because they are just vocals and acoustic guitar demo's. You would have heard them anyway over the years, as the songs were taken and given the overdub treatment by Norman Petty. Songs like 'Learning The Game', 'You're The One', 'Peggy Sue Got Married', 'Cryin' Waitin' Hopin' were all apart of those tapes.
Almost half of The Shins' Oh Inverted World, including the single "New Slang," was solo recordings by James Mercer using the free version of Cool Edit 2000 on his laptop. One of the all time great post punk singles, "Private Plane" by Thomas Leer, is notable for its odd vocal sound, which is very close-miked. That's because not only was the song recorded in his bedroom, his girlfriend was asleep when he recorded the vocals and he was trying not to wake her.
Much of Lennon's Imagine was recorded in his home studio in Tittenhurst. Most, if not all, of these sessions were filmed and used in numerous documentaries.
I immediately thought of Mike Oldfield's Amarok (1990). Brilliant stuff, amazing amount of instruments, don't know how he kept all those parts and pieces in his head and made the whole thing work as one piece...and all at home!
Les Paul and Mary Ford also had recording facilities which are truly professional at home. Not prosumer. Big difference, and Les Paul was one of the best recording engineers of any era, a genius.
"You're the One" is not part of the apartment tapes. It was written (with Waylon Jennings and Slim Corbin of local radio station KLLL) during Holly's last visit to Lubbock, Texas, his home town, at Christmas 1958, and recorded at the KLLL studio.
