farm tape #1

here are some songs recorded at the same time as the Halaka split album.

1. jane ponder
2. joyce's farm
3. this town is empty now
4. run mauro, run
5. naomi
6. engine
7. light colored bulbs
8. hidden tracks

naomi and engine are by jeff mangum.
git some.

the other side of this tape will be appearing eventually.  it too has neutral milk covers.

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joyce's farm:

hidden tracks:

foolish

here's a favorite of mine being butchered over an 18 minute span. also, i think somehow the speed of the vocal track and the speed of the guitar track got thrown off each other.  i don't know if that's possible.

sorry superchunk.

foolish:



also probably the only time you'll hear a drum track. until of course i make a human friend to play drums with me.

UPDATE: here is another take.  it's still 20 minutes too long and doing the original an injustice.

badroom tapes

so, as stated earlier, this place is a good method of backing up random crap that i have. this stuff was recorded in my bedroom on a handheld cassette recorder.  rough demos, plenty of mess ups in there. mostly unfinished songs that i just wanted to get down before they were forgotten.

side a:
1. when you stole my heart, you buried my soul
2. when the world comes undone
3. path
4. she's going away again #1
5. she's going away again #2
6. divided in 9 in the hearts of a worm
7. virginia and back
8. i get it now
9. the trials of harrison hayes*
10. going hungry
11. the whole of the law**
12. shelter from the storm***
13. going hungry (again)

side b:
1. s.e ohio
2. one trick pony(lounge#)
3. the tide begins to turn
4. albert fish
5. song for sam #2
6. warmth(intro)(all around you)
7. warmth(yer not christ)
8. 2x2(my kingdom will come)
9. union valley


side a

side b 


* willard grant conspiracy
** the only ones (and of course yo la tengo)
*** bob dylan
#a little bit of "lounge" tossed in there. modest mouse.

song for sam #2


when you stole my heart, you buried my soul


warmth(yer not christ)


2x2(my kingdom will come)

songs for friends

recorded for a friend on a simple, crappy, little tape recorder.

some covers, some traditional songs

track list:

1. whatever (elliott smith)

2. friend of the devil (robert hunter/jerry garcia)

3. down here in the still

4. wayfaring stranger (traditional)

5. i know you rider

6. down in the hollow

7. when the ship comes in (bob dylan)

8. this town is empty now

9. from congress st., with love

10. dink's song (traditional)

11. it's hard to be blind (traditional)

12. the jackson hole

down in the hollow:

the jackson hole:

songs for a friend

folk songs in C

how about something with words and vocals too? it even has banjo.

no? tough.

the dead's "friend of the devil":

bob dylan's "when the ship comes in":

from congress st., with love:

i'm not sure where that last one will end up in the big scheme of things.  i feel like i'm constantly somewhat-working on multiple albums/records/whatever-you-wanna-call-em.  one of which that i am working on right now is "from congress st., with love" so it'd make sense to include that song.  but all the songs for that project were written in athens, oh over the past year or two.  i try to keep each little collection of tunes concise in some way, and all the songs for that album were written around the same time, in the same little house, with the same thoughts about the same things. primarily simple little folk songs. so i'm not sure if that song, which was not written around the same time, same place, etc., will be included on that or another project i'm working on. 

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we'll see.