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i shit u not. here below is the article, cut'n' past 4 slopy.
Sound Files: We like short shorts!
by Douglas Wolk
What are those rock stars doing with their months-long recording
sessions in the Bahamas, anyway? The bedroom geniuses who
participate in the Crap Art website's Album-a-Day project
(crapart.spacebar.org/aad) write, record, and mix an entire album's
(well, at least 20 minutes') worth of songs in 24 hours and upload
the results for others to hear (usually at mp3.com). The site's
motto is "A bad song is better than no song"; contributors are
encouraged to keep individual compositions mercifuly short.
Remember, AAD is one letter away from ADD!
So far, various unknown bands and solo performers have risen
to the challenge, although almost half of the twenty-odd "albums"
submitted have been by Crap Art webmaster Tom 7. His latest at press
time is a 15-song voice-and-guitar paroxysm called Testify in Hockey,
rich in wack-job gems like "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." The most
accomplished of the project's speed demons is Maxfield, whose voice
and keyboard playing suggest a low-rent Ben Folds. On his third and
latest day's work, Dynamic Equilibrium, he even takes some passable
stabs at drum'n'bass.
Production values aside, there's not much difference between
your typical underground pop hopeful's long-gestating opus and, say,
Wum's 24-hour Album-a-Day brain spasm In Many Houses & Trees.
Eventually, some of these one-take wonders may turn pro and begin
crafting albums at a more leisurely pace. But the road to artistic
maturity is paved with crap art.
In less decadent times, it wasn't uncommon for musicians to
work this quickly. Here's the musical brevity hall of fame:
* Steve Allen, the original host of the Tonight! show, was also a
ridiculously prolific songwriter (steveallen.com/music/composer.htm),
frequently churning out as many as 40 songs per month. In front of
200 witnesses, he once sat at his piano and wrote 400 songs in one
day.
* Although Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band spent months
reheasing before making the classic 1969 double album Trout Mask
Replica (beefheart.com/datharp/albums/tmr.html), they knocked out the
album itself in an astounding four and a half hours.
* And the all-time record goes to Little Richard
(www.kolumbus.fi/timrei/lre.htm), who recorded 1957's "Keep a
Knockin'" in less time than it takes to hear the song. It took him
just 57 seconds to lay down the music, which was edited to create a
two-minute single.
MAX JUST U RMEMBEBER WHO MADE U A STAR!~!!!!!!
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