Entertainment For Lively Minds
Albums named after studios
Posted by David Hepworth on 5 January 2010 - 5:30pm.
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
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...
Maybe it's a mod thing...
see references further down to ver Modfather's Studio 150 and Heliocentric.
Electric Ladyland
is the obvious one.
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Except it isn't, because the studio was named after the album, apparently. The album was recorded at the Record Plant in NY.
How about
Electric Landlady as a (Lemmy?) quote about the studio/album
Electric Landlady
was also a Kirsty MacColl album
A title coined
by Johnny Marr, apparently.
I always thought
it was after Kirsty read a Q interview with Lemmy where he mixed up the studio name.
Booker T & the MGs'...
... McLemore Avenue, former home of Stax.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's reissued debut LP is called "The Complete Muscle Shoals Album."
Konk
by the Kooks. Isn't it Ray Davies' studio?
Before I discovered that, I assumed it was a marching powder reference.
Which recording studio...
... does Upstairs At Eric's reference?
If we're having Upstairs At Eric's
then I'll add The Hope And Anchor - Front Row Festival
Cher
There's an album by Cher called 3614 Jackson Highway - the street address of Muscle Shoals. It's actually rather good.
does "songs from the Big Pink "count?
see also "basement tapes" and "The Texas Campfire Tapes" by Michelle Shocked.
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.
461 Ocean Boulevard
is, I believe, the address of Criteria Recording, where the eponymous album was recorded
Are you positive?
I'd always understood 461 referred to the house he rented while recording at Criteria.
According to Wikipedia
You're right.
I've been labouring under a misapprehension for the last 30 years :-)
Andromeda Heights
Is the studio Paddy McAloon built for himself.
The Basement Tapes
were recorded in, er, a basement (at Big Pink)
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)
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)
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)
Apologies to the massive
For the triple posting. IT issues at work.
Studio 150
Paul Weller's covers album, named after the studio in Amsterdam where it was recorded.
Also
Heliocentric, named after Heliocentric Studios, funnily enough.
Strawberry Fields Forever
10CC's Strawberry Studios?
Fairy nuff.
"Beany!!
You forgot your coat"
'Goodnight LA'
by Ageing brum rockers Magnum.
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.
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.
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.
Inner Space
Can's 1979 album Can was once re-issued with the title Inner Space, the name of Can's own studio.
"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 ;-)
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.
sorry to be pedantic but...
Abbey Road was not named after the studio which, in those days, was still called EMI Studios.
I Am Kloots last album
was called 'Play Moolah Rouge' which is a studio in Stockport I believe. Good album too :o)
The Sun Studio Sessions
I'm pretty sure that Elvis LP was named after a studio. Can't remember which one though.
Swedish sixties group Tages
Made an album simply called Studio in 1967.
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.
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).
What came first
Real World Studio or Real World Records?
Real World Studio
but you're right, there's been more than one album named after it.
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.
Reggae
Probably lots of these, for instance :
Black Ark in Dub or Larks from the Ark (Lee Perry)
Honky Chateau
By Elton John. Named after Château d'Hérouville.
Gave name to the band too
The Power Station