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 tons. Obscure demo tapes, self released CD-Rs, sometimes even DIY 7" vinyl. Love that stuff.
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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 was hugelt involved in the metro Atlanta music scene 10-15 years ago, and I have a few dozen albums that, probably, I'm the only person to still (or ever) have a copy.
There's a line from one of them that I quote often enough that I had to upload the song, so people would know what I was talking about.
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@dilmandila I was hugelt involved in the metro Atlanta music scene 10-15 years ago, and I have a few dozen albums that, probably, I'm the only person to still (or ever) have a copy.
There's a line from one of them that I quote often enough that I had to upload the song, so people would know what I was talking about.
@dilmandila I wrote about this in 2018 https://ajroach42.com/document-your-art-archive-your-art/
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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 sorta related: there is an internet radio station i love that is small and plays reruns of their friday show all the way back to like 2006. The other day i was listening and found 3 songs I liked. Shazam could recognize them but they weren't avaliable anywhere. I think only 1 artist was on tidal with a different album and one artist was on bandcamp with a different album. The 3rd functionally didnt exist. If I hadn't heard the 2006 rerun Id never have heard the songs!
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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 Room 1202. I hung out with the singer/songwriter of the band (the only guy listed on Discogs, Omar Quiñones), went to a couple of their shows, had a CD-R of their music that got disc rot, and can't really listen to them anymore since their music is mostly not online. The only stuff on Youtube is poor quality live performance. Real shame.
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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've been beating the drum for my friend Daniel Østvold for almost 30 years now, especially his one solo studio album, which he doesn't even think is all that great.
I think about 500 copies of that CD were even printed and I think most of them stayed close to his personal circle or are even still in his house. I think his songwriting is amazing. -
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 @HauntedOwlbear I have an mp3 of a song (Blast Off) by person who ultimately did become very popular (Sammy Rae), but as far as I know they haven’t released it in any form since we were all essentially kids, which is a shame, I think, because I really like the song!
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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 have some tracks made and uploaded by users on a forum I was in as a teenager in 2005. One of them in particular is pretty good and is made by someone who has a small following now... -
@dilmandila sorta related: there is an internet radio station i love that is small and plays reruns of their friday show all the way back to like 2006. The other day i was listening and found 3 songs I liked. Shazam could recognize them but they weren't avaliable anywhere. I think only 1 artist was on tidal with a different album and one artist was on bandcamp with a different album. The 3rd functionally didnt exist. If I hadn't heard the 2006 rerun Id never have heard the songs!
@Trenton_Hoshiko What's the link to the radio? I might want to listen
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@dilmandila I wrote about this in 2018 https://ajroach42.com/document-your-art-archive-your-art/
@ajroach42 @dilmandila I do this with music and writing on the Internet Archive. Although any web site or platform can disappear, putting your work up in both sales and streaming sites and the Archive will keep it available for years to come.
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@dilmandila I wrote about this in 2018 https://ajroach42.com/document-your-art-archive-your-art/
@ajroach42 That's a sweet song! I will download and add to my collection. Thanks for sharing it! :-))
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@dilmandila Honestly, I hope they get in touch to complain, then I can ask them about preserving their other CDs!
The band and micro-label have both vanished off the face of the earth, so I'm considering this to be both music preservation and bait.
@HauntedOwlbear Well, makes sense then. The songs are great! I will download to add to my collection :-))
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@ajroach42 That's a sweet song! I will download and add to my collection. Thanks for sharing it! :-))
@dilmandila I really love the stuff Nelson put out.
He's on Bandcamp: https://johnthefruitman.bandcamp.com/
He's also in Holders: https://holders.bandcamp.com/album/sorry-taylor-konerman
And there are a bunch of his other videos on NETV. https://communitymedia.video/search?search=john%20thefruitman
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@dilmandila I really love the stuff Nelson put out.
He's on Bandcamp: https://johnthefruitman.bandcamp.com/
He's also in Holders: https://holders.bandcamp.com/album/sorry-taylor-konerman
And there are a bunch of his other videos on NETV. https://communitymedia.video/search?search=john%20thefruitman
@dilmandila He's also the producer and sometimes host of @workingclassmusic and the main videographer for our main concert series https://vod.newellijay.tv/c/music@vod.newellijay.tv/videos?s=1
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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 Oh, yeah, I do. I was part of an IDM makers forum back in the day, we traded a bunch of mp3s and cds. I just recently ripped all the old cd-rs from that group that I still had, but I've long since lost the tracklistings, so I've got a bunch of stuff I only know the artist name for, but not the name of the track or the album name
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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. 
