Why are there no videos of music albums (in the studio) being made?

[jnglmassiv]

@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.

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[kenobi_65]

@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 , Wilson recorded a surplus of short, interchangeable musical fragments with his bandmates and a host of session musicians at four different Hollywood studios from February to September 1966, a process reflected in the song’s several dramatic shifts in key, texture, 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.

[JKellyMap]

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[JKellyMap]

XTC At The Manor - BBC2 TV 8 October 1980 - Full Documentary-

[blondebear]

Heads up for Tom Petty fans: the new documentary about the making of Wildflowers is out on YouTube today

Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free - The Making of Wildflowers