Fort Grunt

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Updated music idea

So from what I was saying last night- maybe the focus for a first project could be taking all the double albums ever and compacting their collective belatedness into one concise statement. There's a list on Wikipedia, which has a lot of live albums and best offs that don't count, but it's kind of amazing to look at the list of double albums we could use, they are mostly by "good" bands but are generally terrible albums...

The Beatles "White Album"
The Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street"
Bob Dylan "Blonde on Blonde"
The Clash "London Calling", "Sandinista!"
Husker Du "Zen Arcade"
Minutemen "Double Nickels on the Dime"
James Brown "The Payback"
Captain Beefheart "Trout Mask Replica"
Miles Davis "Bitches Brew"
Guns N Roses "Use Your Illusion I & II"
Outcast "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below"
Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti"
Pink Floyd "The Wall"
The Smashing Pumpkins "Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
The Who "Tommy" "Quadrophenia"
any Frank Zappa
Prince "Sign O the Times"

I think we could keep the list fairly short, but this one seems to cover a lot. I like the idea of the final project either being a mess of noise, or whatever that doesn't relate to the source material, just that it's short, to ride against the bloat, I guess. There could be something about how people can now save space on their shelves or computers by just having this as a distillation of the terribleness, sort of manifesto-like.


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