Recording an album

Despite what you may hear from the cocaine addled, work shy, self obsessed buffoons who rise like faeces in a bowl of custard to the top of the pop world, there is absolutely no need to take two years to record one hour of music. Think about it, do the maths - that works out at about 7 or 8 seconds per day. Well, 10 days ago, I, and four mates, went into a recording studio with the intention of recording more than an album's worth of material in under a day. Did we do it - yes. We started recording at 9:30 and by 12:30 we'd recorded 14 well known songs (minus any backing vocals). A bit of lunch was had then we put on some vocals, mixed it all and were done by 3:30! Want to hear some excepts? Well, we edited all the songs down to about 90 seconds each (we recorded some this way with verses and choruses missing, others are simply faded in or out). A couple of things I should say: 1) We recorded live (i.e. all at once and generally used the first take, due to time pressure) as we wanted to give a real live effect, not a note perfect, studio edited copy of a song. 2) Yes, we know there are mistakes and bits that should be done again, but we didn't have time 3) The quality on the web is not CD - well, your PC speakers are probably crap anyway! 4) The website lists any cheats/edits that we did do 5) This was the first time in a studio for some of us, so be gentle! Info and song excepts at http://www.clubsec.info/mistabeat.aspx