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My newest band is called New People, and our first album is called "The Easy Thing. You should go purchase it right this second. It contains by far the slickest of all my recordings, so listen to it first. Some of my tunes on it include:
Love Is the Problem Our hit single: a cheerful song for the single folks out there.. Here's a funny youtube video of the tune.
The Easy Thing Big crunchy chords, smarmy lyrics that want to do you. This song was written back in 1995 or so that never made it into a previous band's set, though Madison Lint did start and not finish a recording of it right after its revival.
New People A song about being shy, written in 1994; this is a remixed version of the recording made for our 12/06 demo.
Personnel: Me, Matt Ackerman, Julian Salgado Laredo
Here's a tribute from summer 2009, based on the arrangement I used to play of this with Madison Lint.
Billie Jean
Personnel:
Me, Jim Low (lead guitar), Steve Petrinko (drums and backing vox), and Edison Carter (keys)
The Partially Naked Self Examination Music Blog
I've started a weekly blog here to force myself to finish/record/remix/remaster/digitize my older (and some brand new) material. All the tunes are here, but for the accompanying discussion, you should go to the page (part of my philosophy podcast page) and read the semi-thoughtful discussion of matters musical and phliosophical. Oh, you an also enter your email address on that page to have postings sent to you, which will surely improve your day, yes?
2010 Music Blog Week 29: Her Skin Is Only Warm, the final song (written and sung by Steve Petrinko) from the 1991 MayTricks Demo.
2010 Music Blog Week 28: Can't Stand Losin' You, And She Was, and Paint It Black: three cover tunes recorded by The MayTricks in (I think) late '92. Me: bass/vocal, Steve Petrinko: drums/vocal, Geoff Esty: guitar/backing vocal, Brian Drake: guitar/keys/backing vocal.
2010 Music Blog Week 27: The Funny Train, by me in December 1975, i.e. at age 4.
2010 Music Blog Week 26: Venus on Earth, by the Backdrop. My first-ever recording of an original song (so it sounds very bad). Me: bass/vocal, Brian Greenfield: keys, Pete Catsaros: guitar, drums: some guy from the marching band, who also suggested the alternate chord progression that comes in in the middle.
2010 Music Blog Week 25: Run Away, by the Backdrop, recorded around Spring '89 (possibly summer) to cap off my high school music experience. Me: bass/guit/vocals/arrangement, Brian Greenfield: keyboard and keyboard and drum machine programming, Mike Goldberg: guitar solo, Sanjiv Ghogale: sax.
Week 24: Some new New People video from Summer '09: Love Is the Problem and Matt Ackerman's song Lucky. My commentary.
Week 23: A few early Lo-Fi nuggets:
1. Girl. From fall 1989, a tongue-in-cheek, juvenile collaboration (my first) with Steve Petrinko. Warning: Explicit Lyrics and terrible sound quality.
2. A Little Feeling. A solo (piano, bass, and some overdubbed vocals) demo from 1988.
3. Pakistan-the Complete Works. An improvised attempt to parody a garage band from spring 1991 with three of the MayTricks (me, Steve Petrinko, Matt Diaz) playing each others' instruments. There are three "songs:" Baby (Don't Look at Me), Swishy Boy, and Cram.
Week 22: The Mark Lint and the Fake Johnson Trio album. Posted for the first time in its entirety, with all tracks re-coded with tags (i.e. song title, artist, etc.) and liner art.
Week 21: Ron Visits the Land of Insanity and Finds It Pleasing. Yet another music school composition,, from late 1991 (I think), with three U. of Michigan horn players playing live in my classroom: Scott Pendleton, Mike Smith and Steve Burdick.
Week 20: Argument Leading to Death. Another piece written for composition class in fall 1991 or so, but this time recorded at home (on 4-track, with lots of punch-ins so we didn't have to actually be able to play the whole song) with me on bass and my roommate Sanj Ghogale on alto sax.
Week 19: Patriotism. A song I wrote for a composition class in I think early 1993 using a text from Paul Goodman's book "Growing Up Absurd" (1956). This is the in-class performance, with me singing (badly) and some other student named Jeanne playing piano.
Week 18: To Valerie (1991 Demo). A song by me, again from the 1991 MayTricks demo (see Week 14). Here's the eventual album version.
Week 17: So Chewy! an album by The MayTricks (1993). I've posted a whole album this time. A couple of the best songs are Steve's "Without" and my "Like Song."
Week 16: Wild Flower (1991 Demo). Same demo, another tune by Steve Petrinko, with the same line-up as Week 14. Here's the eventual album version from "So Chewy" (with Mark, Steve, Geoff Esty, and Brian Drake).
Week 15: Waste of Youth (1991 Demo). Here's another song from the same demo (which I'm retroactively calling the "Happy Flowers EP"), but this one was never redone for any later album, so this is the only recording there is. Written and sung by Steve Petrinko, with me (bass & backing vox), Dave Roof (guitar), and Josh Fielstra (keys, but note that Steve wrote the part that he's playing).
Week 14: Run Away (1991 Demo). Here's the first remix from the original MayTricks demo. Personnel: me (bass, vox), Steve Petrinko (drums), Dave Roof (lead 12-string acoustic guitar), Rich Stapleton (electric guitar), Josh Fielstra (keys). Compare this to the album version of this tune from 1993's "So Chewy."
Week 13: The Ballad of El Goodo. In tribute to the recently deceased Alex Chilton, here's a cover I performed solo in a coffee house in 1994 in Ann Arbor, MI of one of my favorite songs.
Week 12: "On Music Appreciation." One task of this music blog is to digitize cassette tapes from my childhood. This recording from around 1979 (meaning I was 8 years old) is excerpted/edited from the "audio diary" that my father encouraged me to record.
Week 11: Not Too Late. Another Mark Lint & the Simulacra, written in late 1998, Mark D.'s guitars and drums by Bruce Popky (I think) were recorded in early 2000, and I just now added bass, acoustic, vocals, percussion and some distorted background guitars.
Week 10: Night Before the End. Written in 1994, with the acoustic guitar laid down around 1997, I this became a Mark Lint & the Simulacra track in 2000 with the addition of guitars by Mark Doroba and drums by Armando Reyes, with my bass added soon thereafter. I just added lead vocals now and did the mix.
Week 9: Mush. This song was written by Ken Labarre of Tangy fame. In 2000 when I arrived in Austin we contemplated starting a band together, so I completely rewrote the lyrics to his song, maybe tweaked the melody, and quickly recorded this demo.
Week 8: Cold. One of the songs first recorded for the Madison Lint demo in 2001, this version is from March 2004, right near the end of the band's existence, and features, besides long-time members Jim Low on electric guitar and Ken Keeley on bass, Marcus Looze on drums (who played for a couple months with the band) and keyboardist Luke Palmer (who played with us for a couple of months in 2003 and rejoined just for this session). I recorded vocals and mixed this newly for 2010.
Week 7: Ann(e). This song was written in around 1993 but never recorded. I started the track in 2000, but nearly all of what's left here is brand new, with me on all instruments except Steve Petrinko FTPing in awesome drum and electric guitar parts.
Weeks 5 & 6: These weeks were occupied by tracks added to my youtube page. Some of these include:
-"Poor Lover" by the initial lineup of Madison Lint (2002)
-"Lock Them Away" by one of the latter Madison Lint incarnations (2003)
-"Retrogress" from the final gig of the Fake Johnson Trio (1997)
-"Little Mina" from the most recent New People show (2010)
Week 4: Came Round. The core of this was written in the summer of 1999 as a fragment for use by a potential acoustic duo that never happened. I've now finished the lyrics, added the long bridge, and recorded this for the first time.
Week 3: Once in a Great While. From the same period/project as "Write Me Off" (meaning Mark Doroba is on electric guitars) with drums by David Thibodeau . A rare occasion of me playing lead classical guitar, whcih involved a lot of punching in and overdubbing. I just now recorded that guitar and all the vocals.
Week 2: Write Me Off. Written in early 2000, with the drums (by Armando Reyes) and electric guitars (by Mark Doroba) recorded at that time for the never-finished Sinking and the Aftermath album. I put down the lead vocals in 2001 and just now recorded the acoustic rhythm guitar and backing vocals.
2010 Music Blog Week 1: Space. A song I wrote in around 1997. The drums were played by Trent Sinclair back in 2000, and I just now (12/99) added the rest of the instruments to get a listenable version of this goofy folky possibly supernatural love song.
Recent songwriting/screwing around: Here are some unpolished, new ('07-'09) tunes with just me and my guitar.
Celebrity Actually a tune from '96, but tweaked for potential use by the band (12-17-09); here it is w/o the backing vocals.
The Great Forgotten Lover Domestic pain and self-mockery (2-17-09)
Walled-Off Space When your mood demands isolation, you tend to get it (2-19-09, main verse resurrected from a 2006 fragment)
What You Want A song of surrender (12-5-08)
Find You Out Because they will, you know. Just you wait. (9-8-08)
Pretty Pretty Preetah Sex conquers all! (8-8-08)
Love Is the Problem The original demo of this tune, added to the band's set the day I wrote it (2-8-08)
Little
Mina This tune was begun when my daughter was a biting infant and is now (5 years later) finished and in the band's set list.
Mother's Day A depressing song from Fall '07.
If I Can't Have You Me deconstructing a Bee Gees song in late January, 2008.
Soundtrack, anyone? For my job, I occasionally get to record some instrumental backing beds for video work. Here's one new to 3/09, which I've since repurposed in part for the opening theme to my podcast.
Cheerio!
A solo tune I added some parts to in 2006: I just added a bunch of vocals and a bass track to this song
whose drums and guitar were recorded back in 2000. It's about the limits of
sharing. I'm not certain this is actually done; it may get a keyboard or electric
guitar pasted over it down the road.
Request
Denied
Personnel:
Me on everything except Trent Sinclair on drums.
My band in Madison from 2001-2004 was called
Madison Lint. Here are some tracks that probably aren't quite finished, but are in better shape than the as-yet-unproduced full album, for which all basic tracks have been long since recorded:
Lock
Them Away From a May, 2003 session
Personnel: Me, Jim Low, Ken Keeley, Jim
Turk.
Stop
From a December, 2002 session
Personnel: Me, Jim Low, Tom Broeske, Jim
Turk.
Here are tunes from Madison
Lint's 10/01 Electric Demo.
Chad
Who Cares What You Believe
Cold
Personnel: Me, Jim Low, Erik Andersen,
Jim Turk, Ken Keeley.
...and from Madison Lint's 3/02 Acoustic Demo.
Feeling
Time
Yours to Keep
In the Boatyard
Ring of Fire
Personnel: Me, Jim Low, Erik Andersen,
Jim Turk, Ken Keeley.
Here's Mark playing solo (2/02). Hear
it stripped down.
Feeling
Time
Madison Lint Live. Oh, Prince
of Darkness, please do not sue us for posting this live cheesy cover, recorded
straight from the mixing board April 17, 2002 at the Annex.
Rasberry
Beret
Personnel: Me, Jim Low, Erik Andersen,
Jim Turk, Ken Keeley.
The Mark Lint
and the Fake Album.
At long last, this album recorded
'99-'00 in Austin is all mixed, mastered, and packaged. You can download EVERY SONG on it here. I've pulled
out a couple of the more radio-friendly tracks here:
The
Thickening
Poor Lover
Dumb
Personnel: Me, Dave Hamilton, Jamie Nichols, Sam Ray.
Recordings from Mark Lint and Stevie P. Steve
Petrinko was my co-frontman for The MayTricks, my
college band in Ann Arbor that lasted from around 1990-1994. We hook up once
a year or so to write a song together and record it on the spot. It'll take
us a while to get a full album this way, so here's your outlet:
Goldfish
Written/recorded fall,
2002.
Yours
to Keep
Written summer, 2000, recorded
summer 2001.
Staple
Gun
Writtten/recorded X-mas,
1999.
Here are two preview tracks from the forthcoming
Mark Lint and the Simulacra CD, The Sinking and the Aftermath. These
were mostly recorded in the spring of 2000 before I left Austin, with bits filled
in very recently. I'm gradually finishing more of this, with the in progress versions of songs from this posted here.
Axiomatic
My Friends
Personnel: Me, Mark Doroba, with crazy
drums on Axiomatic by noted author David
Thibodeau.
Here are some songs from my 1998 (or so) CD,
Mark Lint and the Fake Johnson Trio.
A
Few Gone Down
Personnel: Me, Errol Siegel, Steve Petrinko,
and on backing vocals: Richard White.
Woe
Is Me
Personnel: Me, Errol Siegel, Steve Petrinko,
Lee Abramson, and on backing vocals: Bryan Breaux.
Wonderful
You
Personnel: Me, Errol Siegel, Lee Abramson,
Matt Miller.
I Like Life
Personnel: Me, Errol Siegel, Dave Hamilton,
Lee Abramson, and on backing vocals: Richard White, Brett McHague.
Finally, the final (double) album by The MayTricks,
Happy Songs Will Bring You Down, has been remastered for CD. Here
are some of my songs from it:
Bankrupt
A Few Gone Down
John T. Flibber
Healthy Song
Sorry
Personnel:
Me, Steve Petrinko, Geoff Esty, Cliff Kaminsky
This is a tune to show off my voice. It's
a cover of a 60's Italian tune I recorded August, 2000 with Steve Petrinko for
a compilation put out by Snowdownia Records (in Italy).
Se
Piangi, Se Ridi
Personnel: Me, Steve Petrinko. Written
by Mogol - Marchetti - Satti. I'll happily pull this off the net if one of the
copyright holders bitches.
Here are two non-album, peppy little solo tunes
from 1997. They are desinted for an in progress album called
The Cheese Stands Alone.
When
I Was Yours
Indefensible
Personnel: Me.
Here's are two live tunes from
the Mark Lint and the Fake Fall '98 demo. These were rerecorded
in pretty much this arrangement for the still-being-mixed Mark Lint and the
Fake album, So Whaddaya Think? The demo itself will be released on the
Languishing in Austin, 1995-1998 CD.
Her
Death
I
Die Desire
Personnel: Me, Dave Hamilton,
Jamie Nichols, Sam Ray.
Here's a tune from my 1997 lo-fi solo album, Black Jelly Beans and Smokes.
The Nipple Song
Recorded
in late 1991, I think, mixed 1997
This is a tune of mine from '96 that was
used on my friend Jeff Rosenberg's album project Talk Zack Talk. I
just recorded the guitars and sang, and he arranged, performed, and produced
the rest.
Undershirt
Here are some tunes of mine recorded by my college band The MayTricks in 1993 for So Chewy! (both written around 1991)
The
Like Song
Birthday Song
Personnel: Me, Steve Petrinko, Geoff Esty,
Brian Drake
Here's one of my favorites, written
and recorded on the same day in 1992 by me, with drums added later and backing
vocals by my sister and one of my best friends from high school (both non-singers).
It was realeased on The MayTricks.
Waygo
Personnel: Me, Steve Petrinko, and on
backing vocals: Mark's sister and Brian Hirt (formerly Gerber).
I will eventually remix my folky 1993 solo album Spanish
Armada. I'm posting mixes as I finish them here.
For comparison with the above, here's a solo performer version of the MayTricks
tune:
Waygo
And here's another Spanish
Armada tune, using the original 1993 mix/master with all the recording hiss intact, which is actually a recreation of a 1988 version with lots of the high school angst intact.
Call On You
Personnel: Me
Kid Songs
My kids Abe (5/1/2000) and Mina (4/10/2003) both like to sing.
Kimmy, 2002 This Valentine's Day song was a remake/update of one I recorded for Valentine's, 1995.
Wheels on
the Bus Down By the Station Abe, f rom 2/8/02 and 10/27/02 respectively
Frosty the Snowman Mina on 8-24-06
The Saga Begins Abe on 8-19-06 singing a Weird Al Star Wars parody
I'm Getting Ready for Bed Mina on 1-22-08 doing a piano/vocal improv
Volcanoes Abe and I way back in spring, 2003, singing a song that he and I wrote together
I Love Izzy and Allie Mina and I on 1-2-08 playing a song mostly written by Mina (she's playing piano too)
Ghosty Fisherman A song Abe, Mina, and I all wrote and sing together in late 8/07
Happy Birthday An original arrangement, 9/08
Not enough? You can hear more, some of it unfinished,
here.