Three Guys, Twelve Songs

Recently, I stumbled upon a few CDs I haven't listened to in quite some time, so I decided to rip them onto my new computer. My eyes nearly bugged out of their sockets when I noticed iTunes ripping and encoding at about 28x speed; it finished the CD in just a few minutes. So I popped in another CD, and another, then another. And so on.

At some point, I started walking around the house looking for the random stashes of CDs we had laying around, brought them all back to my computer, and kept ripping. I think I added about 30 CDs last night, and there's a lot more to go.

On the VERY bad side, I had a couple of nearly full 100x CD binders that I can not for the life of me find. It has literally been years since I've seen them. Some day I may stumble upon them and rip them too, but I'm not optimistic. :-(

On the good side, I'll have an opportunity to reconnect with a lot of music I haven't listened to in literally a decade in some cases.

On the bad side, this may slow down my adoption of new music, which is something I've been trying to get better about. Who knows. We'll see when we pick songs for the next episode.

...which we should be doing soon now! Hmm. Mayhaps I should email the guys and see when they're available. :-)

UPDATE: 10:32am (Pacific)

WHAT THE FUCK?!

One of those caches of CDs I mentioned is at my office (where I am now; don't tell my boss I'm posting, ok? ;-) Lots of good stuff: Disburbed, NIN, some DefCon trance mix CDs,. I opened some jewel cases up and noticed that a bunch of the disks are missing.

I know _I_ sure as hell didn't lend the CDs out to anyone without the jewel cases. Where the hell did they go?! The class-ist in me wants to say "Those damn cleaning people!" but I have nothing to suggest that other than the fact that I trust my coworkers not to pull something as lame as this...

DAMNIT!

Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth.
Orbital - In Sides
Korn - See You On The Other Side
Disturbed - The Sickness
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists (I LOVE THIS ALBUM!)
Godsmack - Awake (which I could honestly live without.)

*sigh*

At least I have these CDs already ripped at work so I can just copy them. But still, this pisses me off. Anyway. I should really get to work now.

I love new music. Sometimes I feel like a shark -- I've got to keep constantly looking for what's just come out, what's coming out, what's hot, etc. But then there are those Old Favorites.
I'm not talking about the albums you revisit thinking, "Yeah, I want to hear that again..." or "I think I liked that whole album... lemme try it on again." No, I'm talking about those albums you put on and you don't actually have to listen you -- you feel them in your soul.
This morning I put on Soul Coughing's "Ruby Vroom" and the grooving bass felt like my pulse. Mike Doughty spits out lyrics and my mouth reflexively, silently, mouths all the words. It's instinct.
There aren't a lot of albums that fall into this category for me -- it's a more rarified elite even than what I call "desert island albums". No, these aren't the ones I would grab to take if I could only have a handful of music, these are the ones that are intrinsically part of me.
The aforementioned "Ruby Vroom" as well as "Irrisistible Bliss." Counting Crows "August and Ever After" and "Recovering the Satellites". Cracker's "Kerosene Hat". Neko Case's "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood". Finally, and most recently, "Bitte Orca" by Dirty Projectors. These aren't albums, they're friends.
Does this ring true for anyone out there? Do you have albums that are a part of you or am I just pathetically bizarre in this regard?

Sorry for the delay, my folks were in town this weekend so it took me a while to get to the post production.

But, episode 47 is up and posted! Have a listen.

If you enjoy what you heard, please check out the artists. My songs this week were:

"I Ain't Worried" by Rancid
"Store Bought Bones" by The Raconteurs
"Bukowski" by Modest Mouse
"Houston" by R.E.M.

In the interest of fairness, I appended a few roast-worthy tracks of mine that Jordy and Owen didn't have access to when picking their songs. Listen to the end for a few bloopers from the show and a couple songs that, were they sung by someone who can sing, might not suck. :-)

Still recording -- it's been plagued with technical problems, but we're rolling towards the finish line (last four coming up). Here are my four songs for Smitty's Birthday!!
1) Starting off with Cheap Trick's cover of "Don't Be Cruel".
2) Following up with one of Smitty's obsessions: Def Leppard's classic, "Pour Some Sugar On Me".
3) Mostly for the intro (which Mark demonstrated he still plays quite well): Tesla's "Love Song".
4) Finishing off with a band that I'm happy that Smitty's getting into: Modest Mouse's "3rd Planet".

Glad to see the show is up - setting iTunes on it now. Here are my songs with links for purchase:

Queens of the Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire
The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
Jack White & Alicia Keys - Another Way To Die
The Choir of London's Trinity College - Agnus Dei (Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings).

You all should be aware of the personal sacrifice I'm making right now. It's 12:45am and the MP3 encode claims to have another 15 minutes to go. Tomorrow is going to be a long day. :-)

Show 46 is quite the doozie. It clocked in at 2 hours 45 minutes, 1.7GB in .WAV format, probably close to 160MB in MP3. But it's _REALLY_ good. I got to listen to it while editing it (obviously) and there were several times when I caught myself just listening to the show instead of paying attention to the editing I was working on.

I also found out that CuBase has a seemingly arbitrary 135 minute limit on imported audio files. I had to load Jordy's and Owen's recordings into Audacity to chop off the first 2 hours and load it into CuBase in two parts. (Man, my new computer is going to make this a heck of a lot easier to do.)

I'll poke Owen and Jordy to post their songs with links to somewhere you can buy them.

Thanks for listening. :-)

UPDATE: It's 1:15, the episode is uploading, the RSS is updated. Show 46 is officially live.

-Mark

Another fantastic show, episode 46 was...

*sound of needle dragging across a record*

Wait a sec, what the hell happened to episode 44? The last episode from 2007 was 43, and we started up again with 45. Where'd 44 go?

At some point we talked about doing another episode after our last in 2007, and we started picking and uploading songs for each other, but we never actually got around to recording. So when I was picking my songs for the last show, I saw a Show44 folder on my hard drive and just picked the next one, hence Show45.

You can think of it like IPv5... ...if that makes a damn bit of sense to you...

*music starts up again*

So, here are my songs, and links to where you can buy the albums.

"Oath" by Street Sweeper Social Club off their self titled debut album
"Bulls On Parade" by Rage Against The Machine off Evil Empire
"Set It Off" by Audioslave off their self titled debut album
"Laugh/Love/Fuck" by The Coup off Get A Bigger Weapon

Due to scheduling, we won't be able to get this show produced and published until Sunday at the earliest, so please be patient.

My tracks for episode 46 are:
"Up to No Good" by Rancid; "Cannibal Resource" by Dirty Projectors; "Quintessence" by Mastodon; and "Oh My God" Ida Maria.
Great show so far! :)

Yup, its true. Show 45 is live. The blog is a little wonky right now, the links on the right side are gone, so I'll link here.

The MP3 for Show 45.
Subscribe in iTunes.
The RSS feed directly.

Enjoy, and please leave comments, what you think about the show. :-D

-Mark

Hey, I had a blast last night, guys. Per Mark's request, here're links out to my songs on Amazon - show your artists some wuv:

Mike Doughty - Nectarine (Part 2) from Sad Man Happy Man (A freaking BARGAIN at $5.00!).
R.E.M. - Living Well Is The Best Revenge from Accelerate (Deluxe version linked because it's awesome)
Green Day - Peacemaker from 21st Century Breakdown
Clutch - 50,000 Unstoppable Watts from Strange Cousins From The West

Links provided are for MP3 downloads, where I got 'em.