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Redruth Grand Master

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weird ploy -

 

reissue an older release with completely new music on it

offer free defective copy of the album with the regular release. purposely warped record, scratched cd or damaged digital files

mention in the promo that the packaging will be intentionally damaged and the sound quality will be low

include discloser document that indicates the date when the buyer is contractually obligated to return the record with no refund

 

 

strange music concept -

 

yodeling harmonica squishy-sound drill bass

underwater singing minimal pops clicks

your favorite sirens, horns and screeching sounds

electronic interpretations of the sound of animal mating

vocoder story time

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I know this has been done before (cant remember who by) but mix your album across 2 vinyls that need to be played together at the same time to create the complete tracks. You could also have fun by changing the pitch slightly as each new track starts so you have to get them to line up again.

 

My decks have a reverse motor too - not sure if there are many vinyls that play in reverse (tracks starting from the centre spindle and playing out) but it allows for some cool effects

 

Also, release an album on CD that contains corrupted digital files that you need to drag into audacity and repair before you can hear them

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Radiohead's In Rainbows came out on 10/10/2007, 10 years after OK Computer, and there are 10 letters in the names of both albums. Additionally, OK Computer's original working title was Zeroes and Ones, or "01," (the mirror image of "10" ... obviously). Even that last part alone is enough to make Radiohead fans start looking for a crazy conspiracy, as you're probably aware if you've ever had to spend a long car ride sitting beside one. The scary part? This time they'd be totally right.

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This is what doing a whippet on the highway looks like.

 

There's a way to combine the tracks from OK Computer (hereinafter referred to as 01) and In Rainbows (hereinafter referred to as 10), to form one huge mega-album. As Puddlegum explains, "To create the 01 and 10 playlist, begin with OK Computer's track one, "Airbag," and follow this with In Rainbow's track one, "15 Step." Alternate the albums, track by track, until you reach "Karma Police" onOK Computer, making "All I Need" the tenth track on the 01 and 10 playlist." It's not that they sound nice together; it's that these songs were definitely meant to make us shit our pants when played like this. In the way that "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight" and "The End" all flow into each other on The Beatles' Abbey Road, these songs all flow into one another as well, as if they were all recorded in one big session.

Don't believe us? Just listen to it. To get the full effect, you need to set your player with a 10-second crossfade between tracks (more 10s!), but you can notice most stuff without doing that. Then shit your pants.

 

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Is Thom York moody, or is he acting like he just crapped his pants

as a really subtle clue?

 

 

This blogger points out that the song "Nude" (10 album), starts with the reverb from "Subterranean Homesick Alien" (01 album) still lingering, and the beats at the end of "Airbag" (01) set the tempo for "15 Step" (10). There's nothing unusual about that ... except when you consider that those songs were written and recorded 10 years apart. The pants-shitting synchronicity also applies to the lyrics.Puddlegum gives some examples and says: "There appears to be a concept flowing through the 01 and 10 playlist. Ideas in one song [are] picked up by the next." In fact, one of the songs from In Rainbows was originally written for OK Computer and not used for 10 years, and the title of another seems to sum up the whole thing: "Jigsaw Falling Into Place."

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Alternate way to sum it up.

 

Remember all that "10" stuff we mentioned up top, about the date, the time between albums, the number of letters in the titles and whatnot? Want more? Radiohead themselves announced In Rainbows only 10 days before it came out (which is rather unusual), and the announcement was followed by a series of 10 cryptic messages posted by the band on their website. That's nothing new: Cryptic messages might be the only way alternative rock musicians know how to communicate. But then Radiohead fans, being Radiohead fans, noticed that the messages emphasized the letter X (one image was titled "Xendless Xurbia"). And, say, isn't "X" the Roman numeral for 10? Plus, let's take a look at this cover art real quick.

 

Taken from http://www.cracked.c...ous-albums.html

 

http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIBH97ma9YiI%26ob%3Dav2n&start1=&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DiY4APDrl66s&start2=&authorName=meahwahwah

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I think Jack White's wilder Third Man editions are up there in uniqueness—releasing flexi-discs attached to balloons, triple-decker records, psychedelic liquid-filled records (although I think the Black Hole soundtrack also did that), etc

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Recording an album, putting it on the moon, needing an astronaut to retrieve it in order for human civilization to actually hear it.

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An album made entirely of cooking noises like bacon sizzling and water boiling. That comes with scratch and sniff stickers.

 

1/50 sold has an actual piece of rotting food where the cd should be, maybe a pancake or crepe.

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Most of the time, once it gets beyond simple stuff like cassette-only releases, the effort put into the music is inversely proportional to the effort put into the packaging.

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I always liked Universal Indicator Green - 3 different size coloured vinyls, in a shopping bag.

 

Edible 'Gummy-Fetus' special edition with a USB containing songs hidden insi... oh wait.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ_Ipp7o7xg

 

Didn't they also do a gummy skull?

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The Entr'acte label has been using vacuum packs for a while now. Basically, your CDR/CD comes sealed in a beautiful vacuum pack and its up to the consumer to either destroy the packaging in order to actually get to the music or preserve it..

 

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I think Jack White's wilder Third Man editions are up there in uniqueness—releasing flexi-discs attached to balloons, triple-decker records, psychedelic liquid-filled records (although I think the Black Hole soundtrack also did that), etc

 

a 3rpm record

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jack-whites-third-man-creates-3rpm-record-20120328

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I always liked Universal Indicator Green - 3 different size coloured vinyls, in a shopping bag.

 

Edible 'Gummy-Fetus' special edition with a USB containing songs hidden insi... oh wait.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ_Ipp7o7xg

 

Didn't they also do a gummy skull?

 

gummy skull is for kids, they did a real human skull for adults.

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