The Song Fight Bulletin Board

It's another long day in the Niviverse. I have a lot of things on my plate that I'm trying my best to balance. I really need to learn to type at a fast speed. My dictation software is just not working out and I have a lot of handwritten work that I need to transcribe. That's the curse of my life spent in transit. I get to write a lot while on trains. But typing on trains is much harder to get done.

Question of the Day:
How many albums of your work have you made? Are they available on the web?

I've only done one studio album with BLT and a hand full of 3 song demos. Nothing online.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:I've only done one studio album with BLT and a hand full of 3 song demos. Nothing online.

Tell me more about this BLT studio album....

qotd: I have only completed one album of minimal semi-glitchy melody-oriented electronic music, which I released way back in 2000. I keep thinking I'm going to finish my second album "foodsexsleep" any day now. It's been sitting at about 30 minutes long for way too long (and I feel like a good album should be as close to 45 minutes as possible), and there's several songs I need to get around to recording for it but I haven't felt like I've had the energy to (mostly because I have a couple songs in a half-finished state and it doesn't feel like they're coming together and instead of just moving on to another song I get obsessed and then discouraged).

It's been a while since I've tried to recall my discography (artist names, titles, dates to the best of my recollection):

Heater - The Gas Pedal (1999)
Heater - EP (2000)
Heater - Lifestyles (2000)
Melvin - It's Christmas! (2001)
Melvin - Springtime in Hell (2002)
Melvin - Dog Toy (2003)
Melvin - Isola (2004)
Beauregard - EP (2006)
Melvin - Turtle (2007)
Melvin - Terrain (2008)

The only 'legit' album I've done so far is Bed 'n Breakfast, but due to crappy pricing on cafepress, it's only been heard by like 5 people. I might release it for free online sometime, because I hate for people to not get to hear the tunes.
Bed 'n Breakfast

I count my frenzies from last year as an album, because there's around 12 of them, and they all have a similar feel.
55 Minute Frenzies

badly mixed AAD from 2007
Crappy Album a Week from 2006

Fun but kinda crappy jam bands with my friends -
CP
Soggy Taquitos
Our Dog and MC Euphrates

PS - I've got A LOT of demos in the works right now, but I'm not sure if I should organize them into three albums of completely different styles and sounds, or three albums with an equal mix of the three styles and sounds. What a dilemma.

Reïst wrote:The only 'legit' album I've done so far is Bed 'n Breakfast, but due to crappy pricing on cafepress

I know I've mentioned this to you before but dude, seriously, Mixonic. Same on-demand stuff as Cafepress only they don't charge rape prices.

QotD: I've never officially released anything 'Hoblit' but I've put out a Ghost Town Gridlock EP and The Funeral Dazies currently have a full length album out. Unfortunately we are currently still getting the rights to The Misfits' song Skulls so we can't sell it on the web.

We can easily get the rights to Little Red Riding Hood through most regular means but its the song Skulls we can't figure out how to get.

(http://www.thefuneraldazies.com ==> music link, click play if you want to hear the album. If you want a copy of the album for $10 ((no shipping)) PM me.)

fluffy wrote:Same on-demand stuff as Cafepress only they don't charge rape prices.

Dude, that looks like a nice place. I'm saving that for later.

Octothorpe. Here.

Information Overload, 2001
It's A Shame, 2003
Beer and Salad Days, 2005

Looks like we missed last year.

We have a cut on an Oingo Boingo Tribute Album as well.

All available at CD Baby.

You can hear all the tracks (except the O.B.) on the CD page at our website.

Here's my discography. CDs can be ordered from links at that page... some of them CDBaby but really any of them direct from me.

Heuristics Inc. - Live from the middle of nowhere (electronic live) 2006
Heuristics Inc. - Missing Architecture (electronic improv) 2004
Heuristics Inc. - Your Domestic Problems Are Completely Solved (electronic) 2004
Heuristics Inc. vs. the World - anemone (ambient song remix album - some remixes not ambient) 2003
Heuristics Inc. - Fluffy Dinosaur Attack! (electronic) 2002

Brainpipe - The Goo Sessions (electronic jam with Starfinger) 2002

Heuristics Inc. - A Flash in the Pan (AAD) 2007
Heuristics Inc. - "a very serious crime" (AAD) 2004

A bunch of songs on various compilations...


A Dollar Bill & the Inkpoints album is in progress as is another HInc electronic album but that contains some SongFight songs. That one's in mastering.
-bill

Niveous wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote:I've only done one studio album with BLT and a hand full of 3 song demos. Nothing online.

Tell me more about this BLT studio album....

It was a mix of things we were doing at the time. We did a lot of shows but not a lot of recording.
I'll upload it somewhere if you like. Where's the best free hosting for albums?

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
I'll upload it somewhere if you like. Where's the best free hosting for albums?

Ask Spud. Nicely.

Here.

Albums I have made
Not Available
1. The Heart of a Dove - In college I made a cassette release of a bunch of my songs for my friends as we were all graduating.
2. Fair - solo acoustic recordings of a bunch of my songs I did in 1991 and sold on cassette a little

Available at iTunes, Amazon digital downloads and eMusic.com
3. RD - Solo Acoustic - Recorded on Four track in 1996 or so
4. Ross Durand Live - recorded at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, 2000 - I opened for Todd Snider
5. Coffee Shop and All-nite Diner - 2002 or so

Available on the web - http://www.rossdurandmusic.com
6. Back from Santa Fe - AAW/WWTF - July 2007
7. Pastime - A song cycle on the history of Baseball - written and recorded for FAWM and RPM

I think you made this QotD just for meeeeeee. Okie maybe not but I love to self promote.

I currently have 2 albums out. Both are available on soundclick.

Headphones is my debut CD and features songs I did between 2002 and 2007. It was released December 20th, 2007. It is priced at $3.99 http://www.soundclick.com/store/digital ... umID=21673

Love, Hate, and Everything Between is my 2nd and most recent CD. It features songs I did between the end of 2007 and the middle of 2008. It came out July 1st, 2008 and it priced at $4.99 http://www.soundclick.com/store/digital ... umID=25269

Going by the pattern I've formed so far, I'd have a new CD coming out this month or at the very least by the new year. Unfortunetly I really don't have enough songs done to attempt a new CD that early.

Märk wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
I'll upload it somewhere if you like. Where's the best free hosting for albums?

Ask Spud. Nicely.

No way, he makes me grovel.
....and don't call me Nicely.

QOTD:

I load a bunch of songs onto personalized CDs with hand-drawn crayon covers and give them to my friends for free.

Like so:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71452656@N ... 034086640/

JeffHenderson wrote:QOTD:

I load a bunch of songs onto personalized CDs with hand-drawn crayon covers and give them to my friends for free.

Like so:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71452656@N ... 034086640/

Awesome drawrrrings. So, I see I'm not the only guy that sits around thinking abooot tacos.

Just stopping in and saying hello.

Yo B! Sup?

Billy's Little Trip wrote:

Märk wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
I'll upload it somewhere if you like. Where's the best free hosting for albums?

Ask Spud. Nicely.

No way, he makes me grovel.
....and don't call me Nicely.

[Paraphrased]
Me: I really feel guilty about you giving me free web hosting for.. shit, like 5 years now? Can I at least paypal donate you some cash or something?
Spud: Shut up.

This has been the longest week ever. Okay, the second-longest. The week Hurricane Katrina hit still takes top honors.

QotD: I've got a whole bunch of songs (mostly Songfight, but some not) arranged into albums, and a whole bunch of songs that aren't yet. I still haven't gotten around to making a layout for my website, but the albums are here:

Airplanes (2005-2008) - http://jon-eric.com/Songs/Airplanes/
Bad Attractions (2003-2004) - http://jon-eric.com/Songs/Attractions/

Uncollected: - http://jon-eric.com/Songs/Other/

Also, two AADs:

Teenager - http://jon-eric.com/Songs/Teenager/
Words - http://jon-eric.com/Songs/Words/

Looking at the layout reminds me that I probably ought to rename the files with track numbers in front. They're all tagged with the appropriate track numbers, but that doesn't do any good unless you actually download all the songs to your hard drive, and who would want to do that?