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What was your imaginary first album going to be called?
Posted by Beezer on 6 April 2010 - 10:39am.
A few months ago I put a question in a blog entry asking what was the name of the purely imaginary band you always wanted to form but never did.
Mine was the cosmically shit 'Modus Operandi'. I recall this thread got a heavy response at the time but I didn't follow up with the pertinent second question; what was the name of your debut album going to be?
Mine, again, was the toe-clenchingly laughable 'Store In A Cool Place'
I'm sure most here have written an imaginary album right down to the 'Special thanks to' list on the sleeve.
What did you call it?
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Armchair Science
Which could've been the title of an 80s solo album by a member of Pink Floyd.
Up To No Good
The imaginary band name was The Villains...
Title now sounds a bit Motley Crue to these ears...
Shadows Reminiscent of Fear
Was to be the debut album of Nuclear Premonition.
It was 1972. A more innocent, happy time.
I was 13.
"Sprinting for the moral high ground"
Title album of Jaded Dice.
I was 15.
D00M World
Found a diary recently from 1983 which listed 3 albums from my imaginary group Fighter.
These were:
D00m World or the Race against Time
Stranger in the Grammar School
Pencil ! Pencil ! Pencil !
Track Listings, timings, production notes, sleeve drawings all present and correct. You'll be interested to note the song Pencil! lasted 21.03 and took up all of side two of the epic Pencil ! Pencil ! Pencil !. I believe the Fighter's second album dealt with the lead singers change in educational circumstances.
I'll go now, I feel I've revealed too much about my young self.
If it's any consolation
I helped a friend, who was much better on guitar than I was, write a song called 'New Clear War'
We were listening to 'Wishbone Ash: Live Dates' at the time. I'll leave it at that.
As if
I would have a title for an imaginary LP. Pfft!
My progtastic first release would have had a Supper's Ready-type long opus called Floodlit Featherbed *, a prediction of the future when, er, y'know, how's-your-father would be broadcast on TV. Utterly preposterous in pre-interweb 1970's but sadly true in Big Brother naughties.
* (c)Beany and not the property of Development Hell Inc.
Store in a Cool,Dry place
was a working title we had kicking around for a while too! We actually used 'Please Avoid Strong Strong Light' for a song title, both quotes found on the back of packets of Seabrook Crisps..before they introduced those foil bags which presumably protect crisps from damaging solar rays.
NO TONE LEFT UNTUNED
Unfortunately no one heard the product due to a pressing problem in the Nether Regions of the State of Matrimony.
First album I dreamed of...
Aged 13.
The "band" was Stone Dippie. World's worst name? Possibly. The album was simply going to be called "Faces" though, so not as bad as it could have been.
I still want to release an album called "Entering The Modern Age" though...
My Imaginary Band
My imaginary band has been called Walrus Gumboot (c.f. Lennon/McCartney), The Versificators (c.f. Orwell), Ogrizovic (c.f. Coventry goalkeeper of the 1980s/90s) and Project Sylvia (c.f. Plath).
I can't remember the title of the 'albums' that were recorded, but I remember writing the recording details on the cassettes (i.e. the 'studio' being the street I lived in at the time- for example, High Street Studios, or Church Way Studios).
I also wrote a 'Revolution In The Head' style summary of one of the albums.
Umm...
Leave It To The Experts.
Live In Basingstoke
It was a pronunciation gag.
My Mates band did indeed reside in Basingstoke, so that what we would've called the album (if we'd ever got out of the garage/granny annex)
Big Plans, but no conviction to actually get them done!
'Live Coverage'
Album of covers. Recorded live.
Boom-tish. (Look, I was only about 13.)
Indian Boy!
When I was seven years old, my younger brother and I formed a made-up band called Simon and Mark, which we innocently abbreviated to S&M. We had a song – a discordant racket - titled Indian Boy that we would perform while jumping around in our dressing gowns, ricocheting off a pair enormous foamed-filled cushions that were taller than we were and decorated in the ghastly brown and orange patterned tones of the 1970s.
We never really discussed making an LP. A lack of record company support was undoubtedly a factor in this, although it probably wasn’t helped by neither one of us having the slightest concept of what an album was.
S&M were more into the disposable punk ethos of releasing a single and then breaking up immediately afterwards. The fact that we didn’t even get as far as recording Indian Boy, or writing any lyrics, or a tune, marks us as one of most punk bands ever. I don’t think we get enough recognition for our influence on groups such as These Animal Men, The Libertines and Towers of London.
If I was in a made up band now it would be called:
Lauderdale Wrap - Desert Ho!
Named after the American flags draped over the coffins of U.S. servicemen killed in the line of duty, Lauderdale Wrap are a pair of hardware store clerks from Cederbrooke, Dakota.
Keyboard player, backwards7, claims his alias was the serial number of a type of capacitor that his father spent most of the 1980s soldering into the computer circuit boards that were used in the guidance systems of TC1 Toecutter missiles.
Drummer, Petunia Pudding, whose nom-der-plume is strangely reminiscent of a character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, grew up on a succession of U.S. army bases in Germany and on home soil. Her two brothers are currently serving in Afghanistan.
Desert Ho! - a concept album about the invasion of Iraq, recorded in a display bathroom suite at the store where the pair currently work, was inspired by youtube footage of U.S. forces test-firing artillery on 1000 year old sand dunes.
While songs such as Fallujah is a Nest of Lanterns and In Media Res provide sketchy, half-baked beauty, the highlight, and sole change in tempo, comes in the guise of Camel Spider Boogie - a berserk mambo performed by the house band who play every Friday at the duo’s favourite Greek restaurant. Backwards and Petunia are promising a more fleshed-out album made in collaboration with this band later in the year. Those sceptical about the charms of lo-fi may want to hold off until then.
I always
wanted to name an album "Junction Construction" by Junction Construction.
I've mentioned here before that my band name now would be Multicultural Bus Stop named because of the wide variety of people at a bus stop I pass every morning in Northolt, not sure what I'd call the album though.
Since...
...the imaginary band was going to be called The Giant Land Crabs, the mythical first album would inevitably be:
"The Return of the Giant Land Crabs!!"
Many years later, I was in a real band named The Landcrabs, which I felt was a step in the right direction...
my epic first album was going to be called...
the astronavigator and the in flight service engineer
it has been put on hold until 2013 you will be delighted to hear
my band...
incomplete perfection and the science of doubt