Well dude. I am pretty big on lo-fi/minimalism/HOME TAPES stuff and this could have been a tomatoland topic heh. also tomatoland mixtape topic http://targ.tomatoland.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=35&start=0 i made my mixtape for in the first place, lots of good mixtapes there too.

maybe you should check out my mixtape, i did put this in the music thread in 'zoo. this should be good music in this area. it's all the best stuff i have accumulated so far and uh if you don't like one song in there then give a listen to other stuff from the same artist. 100% bozni guarantee all artists here own... give it a go and gimme a word. listen to it in one go, i made it to be a f...fluent experience. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BI9PJV7Y

hey how about you dietcoke give it a listen. or jamie. a-anybody...

ANYBODY!! PLEASE!! I SWEAR THIS IS GOOD! sounding like a salesman. actually i have picked all this stuff pretty naturally ever since i started listening to music and uh. lot of great music i have found has strangely been hometapes and outtakes and this is sort of weird since not all of it can be explained by HEH PERSONAL... or even with it all being raw takes! led zeppelin of all bands have lot of cool outtakes and rolling stones have some. elliott smith has ridicilous amount of great unreleased songs and in his case it has more to do with a lot of them being too personal or that they are not up to the bar the guy had for his albums. didn't fit in to any albums or that he didn't like them. blah blah blah.


aaaaaaand once we've accepted the lofi stuff then we get into the topic of LOFI MINIMALISM and drones and uh just LOFI in general. I won't go too much in-depth about this or my view to all this stuff for now but let's just say that my preferences have nothing to do with hipster revivationalism or obsession to/having fun listening to fucked up people/obscure stuff. I sounded like a huge prick right here whoa but it's more of a response to devendra branhart and the WAY people dig on this stuff nowdays. OBSCURE XD HOW PERSONAL... s-shepherd... i guess it's a pretty functional way to treat fidelity, tone or production! you can say a lot of shit about e.g. MBV's Loveless but it's pretty phenomenal record in a sense that the boundaries between GOOD PRODUCTION/FIDELITY and bad one was pretty much smashed to bits with that album and it was more about getting the right desired tone for each song to make an atmosphere!

That Eggs and Sausage demo is pretty cool, I like the album version better, but I love the whole poetry and snaps instrumentation.

I know there are a ton of Nirvana demos out because they want to milk as much money out of Kurt Cobain as possible. Here are some interesting ones.

I actually like this version a lot better than the other versions. It has a unique, 60s and CCR kind of vibe.

This is really only interesting because he says "Yeah Hey" instead of "Yeah Yeah"

EDIT: This is a good example of a demo that's significantly better than the album version. This version of "Can't Hardly Wait" by The Replacements has all the grit and attitude that was lacking from the eventual album version. It's not really lo-fi or anything, but I have no idea why this version of the song wasn't good enough to put on Tim.

There are quite a few Nirvana demos that are better than the finalized versions. I remember when "You know you're right" came out. A bunch of my friends thought I was psychic or something, because they remembered me playing it years before. I loved the original live version, called "On a mountain", and learned it in about three minutes after hearing it one one of the Outcesticide bootlegs.

I was actually disappointed by the studio version. The only thing it had going for it was that it lacked that microphone feedback spike that marred the original.


Another great demo find was In His Hands/Verse Chorus Verse



Also - Clutch was a gold mine of demos and unreleased tracks. I was digging the "Slow Hole to China" album from Clutch before it was ever released, because just about all the demos were available on their website.

there is one nirvana hometape in my mixtape and it's propably the best unreleased song they did. kurt did. do re mi. also whoa i didn't know old age was like that before, had slipped from me. no that's elliott smith feat kurt cobain. also in retrospect i hate those two posts i made, dumb pompous preaching and i'm only repeating myself.

I wasn't that fond of Do Re Mi the first time I heard it, but that was probably just because it was pretty much the only apocryphal Nirvana song I'd heard about but had never actually heard, aside from Seaside Suicide, so I had it really built up in my head. Going back and listening to it a few more times got me to really appreciate it though, I find the chorus part especially haunting.

Do Re Mi?

is that really elliot and kurt working together? that sounds really interesting. Any more songs like that?

ahhahah no it isn't really elliott smith with cobain. i just joked about it because it sounded bit like elliott smith song with kurt cobain vocals. it does sound good. if you want that Do Re Mi (owns) then... download. my. mixtape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!