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| [11778] by "MUCHBETTERTOBOT" (user-112025l.dsl.mindspring.com) on Sat 11 May 2002 19:38:56 [ reply ] |
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max ur dreams r true bacause u r in SPIN MAGASINE. (get the june "MOBY" edition 4 ur self,)
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!~!!!!!! |
