Does anyone else have songs from artists who perhaps never made it beyond a handful of fans?
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@dilmandila and until recently, one of my favourite nu metal bands, LeVeL, was basically a "everyone in this niche heard of them, nobody outside ever has, they put out one CD in 2005 and vanished" type deal. Couple years back they reformed though and went on Spotify and such.
@dilmandila (a band called "Level" with an album called "Level", you can imagine how ungoogleable they were)
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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 songs from my brother's old bands stuck in my head.
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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 Totally. There’s a guy named Steven Emerson I used to see perform with his band pretty often in the SF Bay Area 25 years ago or so, and while he put out a couple of albums, I’ve never met anyone outside of one of his shows who knows who he is. Great crooner.
Cool thing is it’s so easy now to get on streaming, and he’s there, so anyone can find him.
Also, I had a band back in college, and our demo tapes are on streaming. I hope that we are that band for some folks…
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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 Yeah, I have loved and appreciated many small artists, some now well forgotten, or who've withdrawn early works from distribution.
I'm archiving their work from time to time, although I'm lagging behind about it.
Here's a favourite:
The October Country - Clean Kills and Other Trophies
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@dilmandila (a band called "Level" with an album called "Level", you can imagine how ungoogleable they were)
@amberage
I wonder if some of the names we pick for ourselves now will not make much sense to people in future. -
@dilmandila Yeah, I have loved and appreciated many small artists, some now well forgotten, or who've withdrawn early works from distribution.
I'm archiving their work from time to time, although I'm lagging behind about it.
Here's a favourite:
The October Country - Clean Kills and Other Trophies
https://archive.org/details/the-october-country-clean-kills-and-other-trophies@HauntedOwlbear This is cool! Though I wonder about copyrights, if they would mind....?
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@dilmandila YES! Well, had. I remember hearing a song on a guitar mag cover CD a very long time ago (20-30 years). Might have been Total Guitar. I've never been able to track down the band or anything else they ever did.
Song was called Chicken, and I think the band was called Sault St(e?) Marie, which is practically un-Googleable because it's the name of at least 2 towns where other bands have come from.@woe2you @dilmandila at the days before you had to consult an SEO expert when naming your band.
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@dilmandila YES! Well, had. I remember hearing a song on a guitar mag cover CD a very long time ago (20-30 years). Might have been Total Guitar. I've never been able to track down the band or anything else they ever did.
Song was called Chicken, and I think the band was called Sault St(e?) Marie, which is practically un-Googleable because it's the name of at least 2 towns where other bands have come from.@woe2you @dilmandila It's Sault St Marie, and there's another band called Sault Ste Marie that is more recent. The CD itself is listed on Discogs, but yeah, can't find the song or band anywhere and this is the only recording of them apparently.
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@HauntedOwlbear This is cool! Though I wonder about copyrights, if they would mind....?
@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.
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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 got a cassette in the late nineties from a black metal band called Perished. I played it a lot and it is my lost white whale. The cassette is lost and the band probably quit 30 years ago. But my memories still lives
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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 absolutely. Living in Maryland growing up, punk band Active Sac. Then in Florida later, bands like Pygmy and Monster Zero. When I lived in New Hampshire, too. Sometimes bands that may even have been kinda loved locally a little but NO ONE would know their names if you mentioned them to someone (The Gravel Pit from MA).
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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
