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Dog 3000

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Edited Aug 18, 2010, 03:27

bleg - imaginary albums

Aug 18, 2010, 03:24

Thought experiment for you record nerds out there:

I am trying to think of some examples of "imaginary albums" that could be pieced together from the solo work of members of a group (for a future radio program.)

If that doesn't make sense yet, these are the two obvious ones I've come up with already:

BEATLES EARLY 1970's -- taking the best of John, Paul, George & Ringo's albums to create a "fake" Beatles album from the era after they broke up.

CSNY's NEXT ALBUM -- using David, Stephen, Graham & Neil's solo albums to create an early 70's follow-up to "Deja Vu" (in fact CSNY made at least 2 attempts to record such an album.)

So what are some other groups that you could do this with?

HUSKER DU is almost a possibility, using Mould & Hart's first two solo releases apiece after that band broke up. Problem is, niether sounded much like "Husker Du" at that point, and also two solo artist's worth of stuff to choose from is not ideal (I'd like at least 3 if not 4 members stuff to choose from -- in order to keep it down to no more than 3-4 songs per person and still get 10-12 songs for an "album".)

THE WHO -- except you'd probably have too much Rog & Keith songs for comfort (and as I recall Moon's LP is a real stinker.) Plus Entwistle's solo albums don't get you far beyond his usual "2 decent songs per album." And a fair amount of Pete's best stuff wound up being recorded by The Who as well anyway.

WIRE? -- except I don't have any of those guys' solo records or know enough about them.

THROBBING GRISTLE? -- using Coil, Chris & Cosey, Psychic TV from the 80's and 90's. (This one would also require a lot of research since I don't know the material that well.)

Perhaps some prog or metal band with many revolving members (Deep Purple or Hawkwind)?

Anybody got any other hot ideas, or tried to do something like this?

(I know there is a blog out there that put together a series of imaginary Beatles LP's already . . . )

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bleg - imaginary albums – Dog 3000, Aug 18, 2010, 03:24


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