Last year Aquarium Drunkard released RAM On L.A. — a local music compilation featuring eleven Los Angeles artists each covering a track off Paul McCartney’s 1971 LP, RAM. Today we’re following that up with L’Aventure — a local music compilation featuring eight Los Angeles artists paying tribute to Television’s sophomore LP, Adventure.
Like its predecessor, L’Aventure is an attempt to capture, if only for an instant, a slice of what is happening musically in L.A. in 2010. Or more specifically, it’s an attempt to highlight eight Los Angeles artists that have, individually, caught my ear over the past couple of years. By no means all encompassing, L’Aventure is a great jumping off point for those interested in the diverse landscape that is L.A.’s music.
Why Adventure? Why now? Like RAM, the album is used as a template—as a cohesive force—bonding these, at times, disparate artists together. A post-punk landmark, Television’s debut, Marquee Moon, tends to garner most of the adulation. It’s follow-up, Adventure, is now a classic album in its own right that seems to regularly get lost on the mix. In short, it is time for a reevaluation—perhaps this is the beginning of that conversation.
Available as a free high-quality download (FLAC and/or 320kbs mp3), we are encouraging those who have the means to donate to the Los Angeles based Silverlake Conservatory of Music. 100% of all donations go directly to the conservatory. Huge thanks to the artists who generously donated both their time and talents to this project. Artwork by Jeremy Benson, layout by Ben Kramer.
The Players: The Henry Clay People :: Glory, Foreign Born :: Days, The Happy Hollows :: Foxhole, Local Natives :: Careful, The Deadly Syndrome :: Carried Away, Imaad Wasif w/ Lykke Li :: The Fire, Dirt Dress :: Ain’t That Nothin’, The Growlers :: The Dream’s Dream
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1 | jesselun June 22nd, 2010 at 4:49 am[...] from: Aquarium Drunkard » L'Aventure :: A Los Angeles Music Sampler – 2010 Share and [...]
2 | Aquarium Drunkard » L'Aventure :: A Los Angeles Music Sampler – 2010 | Blowelt | Crea tu Blog June 22nd, 2010 at 8:44 am[...] Aquarium Drunkard presents L’Aventure, a musical tribute to Television’s sophomore LP, featuring a whole bunch of LA bands and [...]
3 | Tracklist: Gaga, Harvey, Bush, Wavves, Devo, Television, Miley, Perez, Dream, Ciara, Clinic, aaaaand Firehose | atlanta.rssible.com June 22nd, 2010 at 10:19 am[...] folks over at Aquarium Drunkard have rounded up 8 local Los Angeles bands to cover tunes from Television’s 1978 record [...]
4 | L’Aventure: A Los Angeles Music Sampler | When You Awake - Indie Folk, Classic Country and Roots Music Blog June 22nd, 2010 at 12:51 pm[...] go for a ordinal place of that nature: the music journal Aquarium Drunkard has a category of goofy covers medium up for download that finds L.A.-based indie sway adornment covering, track-for-track, Television’s [...]
5 | Music Download » Local Natives: "Careful" (Television Cover) June 22nd, 2010 at 3:41 pm[...] which 11 local artists covered the songs on Paul McCartney’s 1971 album “RAM” — “L’Aventure” is a charity effort. All proceeds from the pay-what-you-will downloads benefit the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. [...]
6 | L.A. artists explore the sense of ‘Adventure’ — Buzzbands.LA June 22nd, 2010 at 3:47 pm[...] is available as a free download (FLAC and/or 320kbs mp3), if you have the means, please donate to the Los Angeles based Silverlake Conservatory of Music. 100% of all donations go directly to the [...]
7 | Aquarium Drunkard L’Aventure June 22nd, 2010 at 7:06 pm[...] Jun Justin from Aquarium Drunkard has done it again. Following last year’s song-for-song tribute to McCartney’s Ram, [...]
8 | Aquarium Drunkard & LA friends take on Television (for a good cause) « Some Velvet Blog June 22nd, 2010 at 8:49 pm[...] HERE to download the album directly from Aquarium Drunkard. All proceeds from the album download [...]
9 | Timbre Tantrum » Blog Archive » New Cover Album “L’Adventure,” Features LA Bands Local Natives, Foreign Born, The Deadly Syndrome and More June 23rd, 2010 at 8:05 am[...] & Hiss interviews Aquarium Drunkard's Justin Gage about the blog's new Television covers album, L'Aventure (available as a free mp3 download, but a donation to charity is [...]
10 | cream.fm › Shorties (Best Songs and Albums of 2010 So Far, Yann Martel, and more) June 23rd, 2010 at 10:40 amGreat comp!
11 | Chris June 23rd, 2010 at 8:49 pmoh yeah! excited to give this a listen
12 | The Pursuit of Folk (BLOG) June 24th, 2010 at 2:07 am[...] televisions adventure. i have not checked it out as of yet, but im sure its pretty awesome. clicky here. donations are accepted, all of which will benefit the silverlake conservatory of [...]
13 | » the gutter twins live in liverpool, 8.30.08 June 25th, 2010 at 8:54 am[...] Looking for the LA tribute to Television’s Adventure, L’Aventure? You can download it: here. [...]
14 | Aquarium Drunkard » SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show June 25th, 2010 at 10:01 am[...] Both tracks are taken from the Aquarium Drunkard blog’s annual digital cover compilation “L’Aventure” of Television’s 1978 album, following up to last year’s “RAM On [...]
15 | · “L’Aventure” A Los Angeles Music Sampler – 2010 June 26th, 2010 at 9:03 am[...] Moon, due to it’s length had to be divided between the two sides of a 7″ record. Aquarium Drunkard have just released a tribute to Television’s sophomore LP, Adventure featuring eight LA artists [...]
16 | THE PERFECT FIVE - A music blog. Five songs. Every week. June 28th, 2010 at 7:25 am[...] Aquarium Drunkard pays for the limo, arranges the tux and pops the cork on Television’s second album from 1978 - Adventure. The blog turned home grown independent record label gathered the cream of LaLa lands current musical talent (plus Lykke Li) and got them to pay tribute with covers to the NYC punks. Enter Local Natives – Careful. “Jump out of bed, pull down the shade, I used to have such sweet dreams – now it’s more like an air raid” [...]
17 | Careful when you cover- a-life July 1st, 2010 at 8:38 am[...] Wasif w/Lykke Li – The Fire (from L’Aventure out [...]
18 | Re-Up: June 2010 | I Listen So You Don't Have To July 1st, 2010 at 11:42 amCan’t seem to get the download to work; it keeps telling me that my cart session has expired…?
19 | cpb July 5th, 2010 at 1:41 am[...] the three tracks are available for download below with the videos after the jump. Be sure to catch their contribution to L’Aventure as [...]
20 | Aquarium Drunkard » The Deadly Syndrome :: Aquarium Drunkard Session July 8th, 2010 at 11:47 pm[...] Download This: AD’s L’Adventure Television tribute [...]
21 | Hidden Track » Bloggy Goodness: Sound Strike Benefit July 15th, 2010 at 2:02 pmhey – if i donate the $, do I still have to join e-Music?
I joined a while back and didn’t like it. Not sure if I can even do free trial. Either way – for me, it’s never risk free.
I’ll forget to cancel before the month end and they’ll start billing me … etc.
22 | Steve July 15th, 2010 at 7:36 pmNever mind. I figured it out. Misunderstood it . But I just tried the donation/download and it just kept saying “your cart session has expired …”. so I couldn’t do it.
23 | Steve July 15th, 2010 at 7:42 pmI paid, downloaded, and finally gave it a listen. I’m sorry to say that if this is a slice of where LA music is right now, it’s in a pretty sad place. Most of these are inert and have very little energy. I didn’t expect them to improve on the original songs, which have some cracking bad lyrics, but some of these were lame pisstakes–like the version of “Ain’t that Nothing.” Even groups I like had pretty tired versions of these songs. I appreciate all you make available, but I’m throwing this one back in.
24 | Bob Cetacean July 19th, 2010 at 11:27 amI suppose I’m not crazy about Ain’t That Nothing either, I must admit, but the general assessment here is that this a great, successful project, with covers doing what covers should do, which is to give you a chance to reassess the source material’s worth that you may have listened to 1000 times already. Several of these make me love Adventure more and that new esteem is entirely due to the thoughtful playing and mild rearranging. A really welcome idea, well executed, with the $ going the right way. It led me back to Ram as well which is also very worthwhile and a great chance to remind people that early McCartney was great and maybe people shouldn’t revile him so these days.
25 | Not Bob Cetacean July 29th, 2010 at 4:16 pm[...] NATIVES – CAREFUL (TELEVISION [...]
26 | The Color Awesome » Playlist: July 31st Sirius XMU Download 15 August 2nd, 2010 at 11:30 am[...] Natives – Careful Tekið af söfnplötu Aquarium Drunkard L’Aventure þar sem 11 hljómsveitir frá Los Angeles flytja eitt lag af plötunni Ram með Paul [...]
27 | 6 glæný lög fyrir helgina | Rjóminn August 13th, 2010 at 4:55 am[...] can be downloaded from here, with this year’s optional charitable cause being the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. The [...]
28 | Cover up / Selection Box Show 144 | BCB Radios Music Blog - Untitled Noise August 16th, 2010 at 9:58 am[...] can be downloaded from here, with this year’s optional charitable cause being the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. The [...]
29 | Cover up / Selection Box Show 144 « The Taking of Pelham Road August 17th, 2010 at 7:00 am[...] the tribute treatment more than once in the past few years (WFMU’s Tom Scharpling and Aquarium Drunkard) and I play it [...]
30 | Heart Of The Country > 1971 « American Standard Time August 24th, 2010 at 1:07 am[...] Television’s sophomore LP, Adventure. You can read more about it and check out some of the songs here (Foreign Born’s “Days” is another [...]
31 | Local Natives Cover Television | KCRW Music Blog September 8th, 2010 at 2:00 pm[...] fine folks over at Aquarium Drunkard have put together quite the treat for us Neil Young fans (yes, I realize it’s turning into [...]
32 | J. Tillman Sings ‘Tonight’s The Night’ | When You Awake - Indie Folk, Classic Country and Roots Music Blog September 15th, 2010 at 11:14 amSounds really interesting. To return the gift, your post and a huge list of links to live Television recordings 1973-2007 can be found here:
http://knowyourconjurer.blogspot.com/2010/10/television-and-richard-hell-mega-post.html
Cheers, Dave Sez.
33 | Dave Sez October 21st, 2010 at 9:13 am[...] with them and they’ve become very supportive of the band. The guy Justin decided to do a compilation/tribute album to the band Television. He basically took the entire album, Adventure, and had each of the 9 or 10 tracks covered by [...]
34 | Interview: Catching up with Local Natives’ Matt Frazier « Merry Swankster November 24th, 2010 at 1:06 pmI love this re-make so much, I’m Twittering links to it and giving CDs of it to my brother and friends who love Television. So sad that this band did only 2 official albums, though Tom Verlaine’s solo work is just about as good. Thanks to all the bands who did this album, and I hope to see more ReImagined projects soon. Perhaps something by The Slits, Raincoats, Au Pairs, or Tuxedo Moon?
35 | Vaspers aka Str8 Sounds or Steven Streight December 6th, 2010 at 3:18 pm[...] album, “L’Aventure”, released by Aquarium Drunkard and available here for nothing, if you’re broke or stingy, but preferably for a small donation, with all [...]
36 | WEEKEND SOUNDTRACK – Getting You Covered | Grounds for Appeal January 22nd, 2011 at 2:39 am[...] up-and-coming Los Angeles bands to cover tracks from Television’s album “Adventure” and created a tribute album. Proceeds from the album benefitted the Silver Lake Conservatory, an LA-area non-profit music [...]
37 | ATC and Topspin Help Musicians Support Charities & Nonprofits | atctower.net January 31st, 2011 at 4:03 pm