Biggest Releases

[Sinister Shadows]

On September 6, Hank Williams III will be releasing four cd's totaling 73 brand new songs, this got me to wondering, what are the biggest releases of new material that you know of?

 

[WWWYKI777]

4 new CDs all at once by only one guy? Wow thats easily the most new music released all at once by a single artist I've ever heard of

Do you mean biggest as in quanity of songs like that? Or just something upcoming thats a big deal to us?

In terms of quanity I know one time the Foo fighters put out a double album "In your honor" & one time Red hot chilli peppers put out a double album "Stadium arcadium" those were like 20 & 30 songs long respectivley but I'm not aware of any future mega-quanity releases atm

But if we're just asking whats coming up thats a big deal to us , well Machine Heads new album is a pretty big deal to me and that will be out sometime this year.

Nightwish's new album will be a big deal and it even has its own full length movie to go along with it so thats gonna be crazy and thats due out next year

 

[SorgFamily]

Quantity: Ryan Adams put out three albums in 2005. Two with his backing band, The Cardinals, and one solo album. All three are killer albums by the way. Come to think of it, one album (Cold Roses) was a double album.

Also during April '65 - May '66 (so 13 months) Bob Dylan released three albums one a double album and two of them being two of the greatest albums of all-time. "Blonde on Blonde" (the double album) and Highway 61 Revisited.

Big releases this year: Limp Bizkit has an album coming out June 28th (I couldn't care less but I know tons of people are anticipating it) and The Red Hot Chili Peppers have "I'm With You" on August 30th. That one I am looking forward to mainly because I want to know how Josh Klinghoffer is going to do in John Frusciante's spot since he left the band. From what I've heard he's a pretty competent guitarist so here's hoping.

 

[Sinister Shadows]

4 new CDs all at once by only one guy?

he wrote just about every song himself, at least 30 of them he wrote the lyrics and all instruments himself (according to his website)

 

[Hollywood Naitch]

In February 2007, Buckethead, who has recently been the guitarist in Axl Rose's latest reincarnation of Guns N Roses released a box set entitled "In Search Of The". It was 13 album set of new material, totalling over 9 hours and every song was untitled and could only be distinguished by number "eg track 1, track 2 etc".

Below is the Wikipedia entry for the album:

In Search of The is a set of thirteen albums by Buckethead, released on February 21, 2007. Each was initially personally numbered and monogrammed by Buckethead himself. No two sets were the same, as the covers were hand-drawn and unique from one another. It is considered a special release, making it the first of Buckethead's albums to be referred to as such.

According to Travis Dickerson:[1][2]

“ ...this is not a regular CD. It's hand made, hand burned. The cover is whatever is deemed to be written on it. This is not a manufactured deal, each one is different and will be numbered and monogramed. No two of these will be the same. I have never heard of an artist doing something like this. This is as direct from the artist to the fan as I have ever heard of.
As far as the content, I don't know, but the mystery around it is no surprise. Again, I can't speculate because I don't want to mislead anyone, I just don't know anymore. My gut sense is this is a conceptual work, a piece of art. It could contain anything.
”

The original box set could be purchased as either a box set or separately.[3] There seems to be no underlying theme or thread to the songs on the separate discs, and they feature many different and diverse styles of music. In addition, each song stands alone; none of the tracks fade into each other. The set also lacks any type of track listing as all the songs are untitled, however, unofficial track names have been assigned by fans of Buckethead which are known to reflect his personality and his previous work. As such, references to past material are present. There is a total of 92 songs in the set ranging in lengths from 0:33 to 19:45, not including "Vol. 13: E" which is one unbroken 45-minute track.

Buckethead drew the covers on each set of In Search of The until he reached the 999th copy.[4] All further copies available are no longer hand-made and feature the same artwork from set to set.[5]

There are no credits to the set's name, so the all of the music on the set was most likely performed solely by Buckethead; however, this has not yet been confirmed.

Track listingVol. 1: I
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 0:54
2. "Track 2" 14:51
3. "Track 3" 2:58
4. "Track 4" 2:31
5. "Track 5" 0:41
6. "Track 6" 15:02
7. "Track 7" 1:44
8. "Track 8" 5:33
Total length: 44:19

Vol. 2: N
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 1:26
2. "Track 2" 10:49
3. "Track 3" 2:58
4. "Track 4" 2:09
5. "Track 5" 15:49
6. "Track 6" 3:18
7. "Track 7" 6:04
8. "Track 8" 2:16
Total length: 44:49

Vol. 3: S
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 14:51
2. "Track 2" 2:16
3. "Track 3" 3:48
4. "Track 4" 7:32
5. "Track 5" 4:24
6. "Track 6" 10:31
Total length: 43:37

Vol. 4: E

No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 3:20
2. "Track 2" 7:07
3. "Track 3" 9:02
4. "Track 4" 3:29
5. "Track 5" 5:21
6. "Track 6" 3:29
7. "Track 7" 3:58
8. "Track 8" 6:39
Total length: 42:30

Vol. 5: A
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 10:35
2. "Track 2" 1:14
3. "Track 3" 4:48
4. "Track 4" 10:11
5. "Track 5" 5:00
6. "Track 6" 1:40
7. "Track 7" 1:58
8. "Track 8" 2:54
9. "Track 9" 4:03
Total length: 42:27

Vol. 6: R
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 19:45
2. "Track 2" 3:42
3. "Track 3" 4:30
4. "Track 4" 1:11
5. "Track 5" 15:46
Total length: 45:00

Vol. 7: C
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 2:58
2. "Track 2" 16:40
3. "Track 3" 4:14
4. "Track 4" 4:20
5. "Track 5" 1:52
6. "Track 6" 11:03
Total length: 41:13

Vol. 8: H
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 10:20
2. "Track 2" 2:26
3. "Track 3" 5:27
4. "Track 4" 9:55
5. "Track 5" 2:30
6. "Track 6" 0:33
7. "Track 7" 3:32
8. "Track 8" 4:36
9. "Track 9" 2:14
Total length: 41:37

Vol. 9: O
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 9:23
2. "Track 2" 4:23
3. "Track 3" 5:18
4. "Track 4" 16:52
5. "Track 5" 6:37
Total length: 42:39

Vol. 10: F
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 5:13
2. "Track 2" 9:35
3. "Track 3" 6:45
4. "Track 4" 1:13
5. "Track 5" 6:45
6. "Track 6" 3:36
7. "Track 7" 7:13
8. "Track 8" 2:07
Total length: 42:31

Vol. 11: T
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 2:56
2. "Track 2" 4:21
3. "Track 3" 1:10
4. "Track 4" 4:04
5. "Track 5" 6:10
6. "Track 6" 3:14
7. "Track 7" 3:24
8. "Track 8" 3:50
9. "Track 9" 4:05
10. "Track 10" 4:25
11. "Track 11" 4:46
Total length: 42:29

Vol. 12: H
No. Title Length
1. "Track 1" 3:12
2. "Track 2" 10:48
3. "Track 3" 2:15
4. "Track 4" 10:16
5. "Track 5" 2:57
6. "Track 6" 3:33
7. "Track 7" 1:19
8. "Track 8" 15:19
Total length: 49:44

Vol. 13: E
No. Title Length
1. ""Track 1"" 45:01

What is even more incredible is that he also released another solo album called "Pepper's Ghost in March that same year, an acoustic album "Acoustic Shards", a demo tape "Buckethead's Blueprint", and 2 MORE albums in October- "Decoding The Bansheebot" and "Cyborg Slunks".

Add to this the fact that under the alias "Death Cube K (an anagram of Buckethead) he released 5 OTHER ALBUMS in the same year, you realise that the total number of CDs Buckethead released in 2007 is actually

TWENTY TWO

Check out his discography, it is unreal. The man is a machine, I have never seen anything like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead_discography

 

[WWWYKI777]

Holy crap that whole buckethead story is insane , were they all legitimate songs or was half of it stupid random crap?

I'd find it hard to beleive that most of it was any good and am inclined to think its just him playing random guitar solos over pre-made beats w/ no lyrics or singing at all

 

[Thom]

Toward the end of last year Wiley put links to eleven ZIP files on his twitter, I never got around to downloading them in the end, but according to Wikipedia there were over 200 songs including old and new material, a load of which was supposed to be on his new album.

The musical giveaway, being called the Zip Files by fans (who have already mocked up a cover), has proved an act of catharsis: "I just need people in England to listen to me. I need people to embrace me, otherwise I'm just in my own little world going mad. And people who I want to hear me can't hear me. I've got all this music sitting on hard drives, and in the end it started to make me feel sick. I thought, let me give it away, and then move on to make the greatest music I've ever made. I just had to get this out from under me, then start again from scratch. The Zip Files are just the foundation."

For a mere foundation, the songs are high quality: from avant-garde grime with quick-fire MC-ing (Elusive Intro), to unabashed chart-toppers (Aim High), to tracks sampling The Muppets (Gonzo), the gargantuan Zip Files span the range of Wiley's talent. They are everything, in other words, that grime can be, from edgy to poppy to just plain silly. As leading US blogger and producer DJ /rupture wrote in response: "Wiley is a major force of change, fearless, constantly imagining how things could be Very Different (music industry norms, synth settings, common sense etc), then making his fundamentally 'other' vision real."

 

[Hollywood Naitch]

Holy crap that whole buckethead story is insane , were they all legitimate songs or was half of it stupid random crap?

I'd find it hard to beleive that most of it was any good and am inclined to think its just him playing random guitar solos over pre-made beats w/ no lyrics or singing at all

It is all just instrumental, with no words so I reckon it could get boring.

I have never really listened to any of his material, I just know about him because I was told by a friend about him- that he demanded a chicken coop to be built inside the G 'N' R studio for him to stand in when he played, and the fact Ozzy asked him to be his guitarist on the condition that Buckethead removed the mask and KFC bucket he wears on his head. He agreed, and replaced it with an alien mask. Ozzy said take it off, he refused...so he didnt get the job!

He is reallllllly a strange guy, he is meant to go AWOL for long periods of time and noone knows much about him.