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Albums named after studios

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Apart from Abbey Road, Upstairs At Eric's, 2120 South Michigan Avenue etc. Come on down.

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Ocean Colour Scene's

Moseley Shoals

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Spartacus Mills | 5 January 2010 - 5:34pm

Apparently

they've released a 2009 album named after Rockfield studios too.

A dearth of imagination when it comes to naming albums, it would seem.

Or indeed making original music...

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Fraser M | 5 January 2010 - 5:52pm

Maybe it's a mod thing...

see references further down to ver Modfather's Studio 150 and Heliocentric.

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DougieJ | 5 January 2010 - 8:41pm

Electric Ladyland

is the obvious one.

[edit]

Except it isn't, because the studio was named after the album, apparently. The album was recorded at the Record Plant in NY.

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Fraser M | 5 January 2010 - 5:36pm

How about

Electric Landlady as a (Lemmy?) quote about the studio/album

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DogFacedBoy | 5 January 2010 - 5:46pm

Electric Landlady

was also a Kirsty MacColl album

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stimpy | 5 January 2010 - 6:14pm

A title coined

by Johnny Marr, apparently.

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Spartacus Mills | 5 January 2010 - 9:35pm

I always thought

it was after Kirsty read a Q interview with Lemmy where he mixed up the studio name.

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DogFacedBoy | 5 January 2010 - 10:33pm

Booker T & the MGs'...

... McLemore Avenue, former home of Stax.

Lynyrd Skynyrd's reissued debut LP is called "The Complete Muscle Shoals Album."

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Billybob Dylan | 5 January 2010 - 5:45pm

Konk

by the Kooks. Isn't it Ray Davies' studio?

Before I discovered that, I assumed it was a marching powder reference.

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Joe Robert | 5 January 2010 - 5:45pm

Which recording studio...

... does Upstairs At Eric's reference?

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Billybob Dylan | 5 January 2010 - 5:58pm

If we're having Upstairs At Eric's

then I'll add The Hope And Anchor - Front Row Festival

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stimpy | 5 January 2010 - 6:42pm

Cher

There's an album by Cher called 3614 Jackson Highway - the street address of Muscle Shoals. It's actually rather good.

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John_Innes | 5 January 2010 - 6:02pm

does "songs from the Big Pink "count?

see also "basement tapes" and "The Texas Campfire Tapes" by Michelle Shocked.

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Chris G | 5 January 2010 - 6:04pm

Does this count?

I seem to recall that Wonderland by The Charlatans was recorded in a studio on Wonderland Ave in the US, possibly LA.

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kb | 5 January 2010 - 6:08pm

461 Ocean Boulevard

is, I believe, the address of Criteria Recording, where the eponymous album was recorded

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stimpy | 5 January 2010 - 6:08pm

Are you positive?

I'd always understood 461 referred to the house he rented while recording at Criteria.

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Carl Parker | 5 January 2010 - 7:29pm

According to Wikipedia

You're right.

I've been labouring under a misapprehension for the last 30 years :-)

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stimpy | 5 January 2010 - 8:52pm

Andromeda Heights

Is the studio Paddy McAloon built for himself.

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Big Guxy | 5 January 2010 - 6:11pm

The Basement Tapes

were recorded in, er, a basement (at Big Pink)

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stimpy | 5 January 2010 - 6:11pm

Texas Campfire Tapes

was unsurprisingly recorded by a campfire in Texas. If we're having that, can I have The Trinity Session (named after a church which acted as a studio)

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Big Guxy | 5 January 2010 - 6:16pm

Texas Campfire Tapes

was unsurprisingly recorded by a campfire in Texas. If we're having that, can I have The Trinity Session (named after a church which acted as a studio)

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Big Guxy | 5 January 2010 - 6:16pm

Texas Campfire Tapes

was unsurprisingly recorded by a campfire in Texas. If we're having that, can I have The Trinity Session (named after a church which acted as a studio)

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Big Guxy | 5 January 2010 - 6:16pm

Apologies to the massive

For the triple posting. IT issues at work.

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Big Guxy | 5 January 2010 - 6:22pm

Studio 150

Paul Weller's covers album, named after the studio in Amsterdam where it was recorded.

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Richard Lowe | 5 January 2010 - 6:33pm

Also

Heliocentric, named after Heliocentric Studios, funnily enough.

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DougieJ | 5 January 2010 - 8:31pm

Strawberry Fields Forever

10CC's Strawberry Studios?

Fairy nuff.

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Beany | 5 January 2010 - 6:44pm

"Beany!!

You forgot your coat"

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stimpy | 5 January 2010 - 6:49pm

'Goodnight LA'

by Ageing brum rockers Magnum.

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Gareth | 5 January 2010 - 7:05pm

Session & sessions

Sheryl Crow recorded The Globe Sessions at Globe Studios, New York while much more famously Cowboy Junkies recorded the Trinity Session (and Revisited) using Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity as the recording studio because of it's marvellous acoustic.

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Carl Parker | 5 January 2010 - 7:27pm

eric's was a club in liverpool but i think

it had a studio upstairs, is that right?

Blur's '13' was named after the number of the room in the studio they were working in at the time they made it.

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sandamiano | 5 January 2010 - 7:33pm

The Eric of "Upstairs At Eric's" was Eric Radcliffe

He was the chap who engineered the early Depeche Mode and Yazoo albums. Hence the name.

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David Hepworth | 5 January 2010 - 8:31pm

Inner Space

Can's 1979 album Can was once re-issued with the title Inner Space, the name of Can's own studio.

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JQW | 5 January 2010 - 8:00pm

"But with the

Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there..."

ok, a track, not an album. And not named after a studio either. Oh well, coat etc ;-)

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DougieJ | 5 January 2010 - 8:37pm

Pieholden Suite

The late Jay Bennett (ex-Wilco) had a studio called Pieholden Suite, from the titular Wilco song. Not sure which came first but it's an excuse to mention a lovely piece of music by one of rock's forgotten heroes.

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Mavis Diles | 5 January 2010 - 8:52pm

sorry to be pedantic but...

Abbey Road was not named after the studio which, in those days, was still called EMI Studios.

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Nick Duvet | 5 January 2010 - 9:17pm

I Am Kloots last album

was called 'Play Moolah Rouge' which is a studio in Stockport I believe. Good album too :o)

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seanioio | 5 January 2010 - 9:28pm

The Sun Studio Sessions

I'm pretty sure that Elvis LP was named after a studio. Can't remember which one though.

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Kit Hogue | 5 January 2010 - 9:46pm

Swedish sixties group Tages

Made an album simply called Studio in 1967.

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Ola Claesson | 5 January 2010 - 9:51pm

I love an imaginative name for a studio.

My favorites are "Hexagon Sun" which is Boards Of Canada's studio in the Pentland Hills and "The Brain Farm," the home studio of late 90's almost done brilliant but didn't quite the Lo Fidelity Allstars. Why they never named albums after them I don't know, but there are the tunes Turquoise Hexagon Sun and Warming Up the Brain Farm which is lovely.

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ganglesprocket | 5 January 2010 - 10:11pm

Hexagon Sun

I like to imagine Hexagon Sun actually having a six-sided control room (I live very near the Pentland Hills but have never been anywhere near the studio so far as I know).

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Dr Yang | 6 January 2010 - 3:03pm

What came first

Real World Studio or Real World Records?

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Beany | 5 January 2010 - 10:33pm

Real World Studio

but you're right, there's been more than one album named after it.

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James EB | 6 January 2010 - 1:14pm

Aside from the obvious

A Week in the Real World,
A Week or Two in the Real World,
Voices of the Real World...

Actually Paul Oakenfold's "Bunkka" was apparently named after one of the rooms at Real World.

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Dr Yang | 6 January 2010 - 3:16pm

Reggae

Probably lots of these, for instance :

Black Ark in Dub or Larks from the Ark (Lee Perry)

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torrential1 | 5 January 2010 - 10:36pm

Honky Chateau

By Elton John. Named after Château d'Hérouville.

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James EB | 6 January 2010 - 1:13pm

Gave name to the band too

The Power Station

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lisbon | 6 January 2010 - 1:59pm
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