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Flip side to the other question: the great/classic record that the band/artist just came in and banged out in a day or two. Extra points for having the same massive scope as Difficult Masterpieces. (But no live albums permitted.) Good example: Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade, which is almost all first takes, recorded and mixed in less than 4 days, start to finish.

Special bonus to Little Richard's "Keep A-Knockin'," which was actually recorded in LESS than its playing time.

― Douglas, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah? how?

― duane, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh yeah anyway, an answer - the Gordons 1st album was done in 1 night, recording & mixing & mastering & everything (i think)

― , Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe it's actually just about 50 seconds' worth of tape of Little Richard and the Upsetters, firing on more cylinders than they even had, at some radio station; later, somebody cut it up and spliced it into a 2 1/2 minute single (including extending the brief drum intro into the thing that Led Zep ripped off years later).

― Douglas, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Minutemen's _Double Nickles On The Dime_ comes to mind here.

― Chris Barrus, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wasn't 'Isn't Anything' recorded in a week?

― stevo, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not an album BUT: the original run of No-U-Turn singles - each one recorded in a couple of hours due to the time-deceleration capacities of weed.

― Tim, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, lots and lotsa jazz records--Bitches Brew in three days, f'rinst. the new Jay-Z is said to have been done in a week. allegedly 3 Feet High & Rising was a weeklong session as well. In Utero was two weeks. Please Please Me was thirteen hours for ten of its fourteen songs--not too frickin' bad for a record that CHANGED EVERYTHING.

― M. Matos, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Siouxsie and the Banshees' Nocturne, recorded in one night...which was not too hard, seeing at it was a live album.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh fiddle, *now* I see Douglas' qualification. I STAND BY MY ANSWER REGARDLESS.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bringing back A Love Supreme and Kind of Blue.

Ramones.

― Vic Funk, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Grr.
― Vic Funk, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Grr again.

― Vic Funk, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, "Double Nickels" turned into a double album because Minutemen felt pressured by the ambitious release of "Zen Arcade"... acc. to the "Our Band Could Be Your Life" book.

― Brian MacDonald, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anyone ever hear of Ed's Redeeming Qualities? all of their albums were recorded in like four hours.

― tyler, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At this rate we should bring up the Raunchy Young Lepers again. Most of their works were masterpieces. Sort of.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wasn't Trout Mask Replica recorded in an afternoon?

― Baxter Wingnut, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

erm has no one heard of writing and rehearsing songs? And Trout Mask Replica was *so* not recorded in an afternoon.

Little Richard wins, so far.

― mark s, Sunday, 27 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nirvana - Bleach, and Nick Drake - Pink Moon. Not (IMO) masterpieces, but both fine albums recorded double-quick. Also Black Sabbath's first album was recorded quickly; I'm not going to comment on its "masterpiece" status.

― Johan, Sunday, 27 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Belle & Sebastian's first LP was recorded in three days. A lot of people are quite keen on it.

― N., Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably explains why their last album wasn't much cop in comparison, it took bloody ages. Murdoch said it literally drove him to drink.

― Ally C, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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