Does anyone else have songs from artists who perhaps never made it beyond a handful of fans?
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Does anyone else have songs from artists who perhaps never made it beyond a handful of fans? I have some songs I treasure, got the CDs from the musicians or friends over 10yrs ago, but they've dropped out of the radar and I can't find them anywhere. Just their voice haunting my speakers like a sweet ghost. There's also an mp3 I got off a yahoo group, around 2005. I like the song, but it has no artist name, no title, just a voice and a guitar, perhaps home recorded.
@dilmandila i have a recording from my music teacher from years ago, meant to study at home to prepare for a theatre piece. Just some chords on a keyboard, nothing fancy, an idea that still needed a lot of work. That silly little recording still inspires me today.
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Does anyone else have songs from artists who perhaps never made it beyond a handful of fans? I have some songs I treasure, got the CDs from the musicians or friends over 10yrs ago, but they've dropped out of the radar and I can't find them anywhere. Just their voice haunting my speakers like a sweet ghost. There's also an mp3 I got off a yahoo group, around 2005. I like the song, but it has no artist name, no title, just a voice and a guitar, perhaps home recorded.
@dilmandila yup - first ones that come to mind are a local synthpop/post-punk band whose singer died way too young; the band of a guy my dad worked with whose CD I was lent to review and copy to tape when I was 12 (they were also stopped by an untimely death); and the odd MySpace artist whose song I downloaded and still have on a hard drive somewhere.
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@dilmandila yup - first ones that come to mind are a local synthpop/post-punk band whose singer died way too young; the band of a guy my dad worked with whose CD I was lent to review and copy to tape when I was 12 (they were also stopped by an untimely death); and the odd MySpace artist whose song I downloaded and still have on a hard drive somewhere.
@alicemcalicepants @dilmandila The Velcro Teddybears should have been big stars - met them as fresh faced youngsters playing in a pub in Barnsley, then went to most of their gigs over the next ten years including a Yorkshire Unplugged competition that they won, but they never cracked the big time. Still love their stuff!
http://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2012/04/yorkshire-unplugged.html
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Does anyone else have songs from artists who perhaps never made it beyond a handful of fans? I have some songs I treasure, got the CDs from the musicians or friends over 10yrs ago, but they've dropped out of the radar and I can't find them anywhere. Just their voice haunting my speakers like a sweet ghost. There's also an mp3 I got off a yahoo group, around 2005. I like the song, but it has no artist name, no title, just a voice and a guitar, perhaps home recorded.
@dilmandila I still listen to music from Boca Chica, a band from Pittsburgh that I lost track of when I left town. Some members were friend-of-a-friend. It looks like they have not put out an album in over 10 years, but my kids now have their music on a MP3 player.
They got some national attention at one point..
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2009/10/second_stage_boca_chica.html -
Does anyone else have songs from artists who perhaps never made it beyond a handful of fans? I have some songs I treasure, got the CDs from the musicians or friends over 10yrs ago, but they've dropped out of the radar and I can't find them anywhere. Just their voice haunting my speakers like a sweet ghost. There's also an mp3 I got off a yahoo group, around 2005. I like the song, but it has no artist name, no title, just a voice and a guitar, perhaps home recorded.
@dilmandila yes, from back in the days of lime wire. I have a bunch of pop punk music that never made it past that era. I wish I could find a band that I really kind of fell in love with literally called “My Favorite Band.” They uploaded their EP in its entirety. I think it’s something like eight songs. But I don’t have any of the song titles saved anywhere. It’s just a burn CD, with a logo of which I thought fit the band at the time. The logo was hand drawn by me. 
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@Trenton_Hoshiko What's the link to the radio? I might want to listen
@dilmandila
This is the link: https://www.bagelradio.com/Mostly indie alt rock with lots of VERY small artists. And the host is a really cool guy. The program i was talking about is "480 minutes" which takes place on fridays and I think those reruns are on Sundays if I remember correctly.
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Does anyone else have songs from artists who perhaps never made it beyond a handful of fans? I have some songs I treasure, got the CDs from the musicians or friends over 10yrs ago, but they've dropped out of the radar and I can't find them anywhere. Just their voice haunting my speakers like a sweet ghost. There's also an mp3 I got off a yahoo group, around 2005. I like the song, but it has no artist name, no title, just a voice and a guitar, perhaps home recorded.
@dilmandila
There are a lot of musicians here in the fediverse that fit that description. I printed 180 copies of my CD; I still have at least a hundred. -
@dilmandila
There are a lot of musicians here in the fediverse that fit that description. I printed 180 copies of my CD; I still have at least a hundred.@bardmoss @dilmandila we still enjoy our Dalla CD's we once bought in Cornwall. Oh why did they stop!! And do the Mandibles still exist? We bought their CD from them on the street somewhere.
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@dilmandila Also: Human Radio - one album on Epic or Columbia in 1990. Fairly perfect pop. Found the CD on Discogs a couple of years ago to my joy. The whole album is on YT - my fave track is My First Million.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP-LgxRc_GDzU9uOin-LAD8MGH2WS4SxK
@Bishopjoey sounds great! @dilmandila
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Does anyone else have songs from artists who perhaps never made it beyond a handful of fans? I have some songs I treasure, got the CDs from the musicians or friends over 10yrs ago, but they've dropped out of the radar and I can't find them anywhere. Just their voice haunting my speakers like a sweet ghost. There's also an mp3 I got off a yahoo group, around 2005. I like the song, but it has no artist name, no title, just a voice and a guitar, perhaps home recorded.
@dilmandila as an adult I only have one CD given to me by the artist so far, but I treasure it and there are a couple songs on it that I might even do covers of at some point because I like them so much
Growing up, my parents had a few and they were among the top ones we played in the car because everyone in the family really liked them. Even our dog would go closer to the speakers when one of those CDs was on
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