# Why are there no videos of music albums (in the studio) being made? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [October 8, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-videos-of-music-albums-in-the-studio-being-made/952179 "2021-10-08T22:24:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-videos-of-music-albums-in-the-studio-being-made/952179/21 "2021-10-09T16:18:36Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Alan Parsons Project, “Games People Play” That was pretty good. Beach Boys - Good Vibrations. Heavens, that’s such a great song. Sorry about the spiltscreen. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N22GtM_A0ic) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-videos-of-music-albums-in-the-studio-being-made/952179/22 "2021-10-09T16:22:19Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Beach Boys - Good Vibrations. Heavens, that’s such a great song. Sorry about the spiltscreen. Cool video, and a great song, though it’s also one of the poster children for being a song that took **forever** to record in the studio, and the actual recording of it likely looked and sounded nothing like a group performing a song in unison. As described by Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > The making of “Good Vibrations” was unprecedented for any kind of recording. Building on his approach for _[Pet Sounds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Sounds)_ , Wilson recorded a surplus of short, interchangeable musical fragments with his bandmates and a host of [session musicians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_musician) at four different [Hollywood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood) studios from February to September 1966, a process reflected in the song’s several dramatic shifts in [key](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(music)), [texture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_(music)), instrumentation and mood. Over 90 hours of tape was consumed in the sessions, with the total cost of production estimated to be in the tens of thousands of dollars. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-videos-of-music-albums-in-the-studio-being-made/952179/23 "2021-10-09T17:25:40Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuns5YEZ6AE) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-videos-of-music-albums-in-the-studio-being-made/952179/24 "2021-10-09T17:26:42Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ne35P7kbucs/hqdefault.jpg "XTC At The Manor - BBC2 TV 8 October 1980 - Full Documentary-") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne35P7kbucs) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-videos-of-music-albums-in-the-studio-being-made/952179/25 "2021-11-11T17:22:23Z")
Heads up for Tom Petty fans: the new documentary about the making of Wildflowers is out on YouTube today [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WblnLk387u0/maxresdefault.jpg "Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free - The Making of Wildflowers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WblnLk387u0) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-there-no-videos-of-music-albums-in-the-studio-being-made/952179.md?page=1)