Ten Banned Albums, Burned, Then Played
Artist Brian Joseph Davis selected ten albums by ten artists who at some point had been banned or censored, and then ignited them. Throwing caution and proper stylus care to the wind, he then played whatever he could from the charred vinyl and spliced together the samples. You can visit his Ten Banned Albums website here (flash page, scroll to the bottom and click on the album icons), and you can download MP3 samples from this page.
The artists who received this very special treatment are: Stravinsky, Mahler, The Kingsmen, Vaughan Meader, The Beatles, Cat Stevens, The Sex Pistols, Prince, The Dead Kennedys and 2 Live Crew. "Ten Banned Albums" is also on display from January 12 to February 11th at Toronto's Diaz Contemporary Art Gallery, as part of the show Thoughts About Sound, Music, Silence, and Confusion.
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Posted by: aquarium drunkard | January 07, 2006 at 06:33 PM
Also known as the P.T. Barnum Art Gallery?
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Posted by: Lee Hartsfeld | January 09, 2006 at 12:38 PM
Milan Knizak's Broken Music disc on Locust is also a great document of these kinds of shenanigans.
Posted by: Brian Turner | January 13, 2006 at 01:36 PM
The amazing thing about those burned records is that the music is pretty much all blasted out of recognition--except for Louie, Louie! It doesn't sound all that different! That riff is inde-fucking-structible! It's the cockroach of rock 'n' roll!
Posted by: El Vampiro Atomico | February 26, 2006 at 07:21 PM