Sebadoh - III

The very first time I heard of Sebadoh, it was the soundtrack to KIDS, a controversial film made in the mid nineties about a boy named Telly who deflowers young and naive virgins and unknowingly gives them HIV in the process of deflowering them, the second to last track on this album 'Spoiled' played while the credits rolled in the end, which seemed pretty fitting, as the film itself was dark and gray in subject matter, it wasn't until months later when I downloaded III, the seemingly third official release from Sebadoh, that I knew that this was going to be my favorite band, and it was, it was hissy, and demo-quality, stark, almost...

Reprising the use of a four-track cassette recorder, Lou Barlow, Eric Gaffney (who sings lead vox on "As The World Dies, the Eyes of God Grow Bigger.) and a few other people, basically kick started a genre that would soon be known best to hipsters and others alike, if you just go on a lyric site and scroll down the titles of their songs, you'll know that some of these songs are influenced by the use of marijuana, like one track on this album called 'Smoke A Bowl', heck, one of their tapes was called "Weed Forestin'"

When III was first released in August-September 1991, it was a cassette only release I think, which seemed fitting since it was lo-fi and cassette quality, but it wasn't released on CD until 1992, and then reissued in a 2CD set, having loads of goodies on the second disk, I will only put a link to the first disk, which is the remastered version of III, hereeeee you go!:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mqlr3jmmvj2

Smashing Pumpkins/Billy Corgan - the Mellon Collie Demos I

Featured on thepumpkins.net, these are the earliest demos of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, these are basically just Billy's voice with a guitar track, these recordings were also pressed on vinyl as Chicago Tapes and Unreleased Demos, but that isn't very special because it's mostly these MP3s pressed on a record and a few demos predating Gish, nothing new.


On an unrelated note: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is being re-released along with Adore, Pisces Icariot, Siamese Dream, and Machina, not at the same time, let's just hope we get a better quality transfer of this tape when the reissue comes out, it's supposed to come out on vinyl too, so that's a plus.

Anyway, I was looking for the full tape of this set, with Rotten Apples, Blank, Stumbeline, and thePumpkins.net state that these are the same as the studio versions, which is not true because I don't remember the studio versions having hiss, I suppose they *are* the studio versions, but different mixes, or because of the tape's age, they sound different and hissy...

You won't find these anywhere but here on this blog in a .rar, and before this very posting, these were available on RSPAA, which closed down many moons ago, but I found these in a torrent, which downloaded very slowly (About six days...Yeah...)

Enjoy: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B4AVHLA0

Tony Mason - Mommy's Got A Migraine [1993]

Back in the early nineties, a man named Tony Mason used to make music, he made a few cassettes on a regular basis, one of those cassettes being Mommy's Got A Migraine, released in 1993, he had this tape, along with other tapes such as Huh? - the Best of None of the Above, and Tomatoe Potatoe, and No Smurfing Zone, a very old post on Dr. Demento's website shows Tony Mason himself promoting these tapes in 1995, asking to send him a blank tape and he would dub his music onto the blank tape, and send it back to the person who mailed him! Nice! This is a pretty cool album because it's music making fun of music, or making a sarcastic nod to the modern music at the time, Ballad is my favorite track, Barney's On Fire gained some popularity because it was erroneously thought to be Weird Al's work, this is not the case, and Tony mentioned this on his website before he took everything down! And I had a few of his songs from earlier albums too, but then my laptop got broken and I lost those files, but anyway, if you enjoy lo-fi comedy-ish music then this is for you...

The very old post that Tony wrote in 1995: http://www.drdemento.com/addr.html#NOTA
Tony's website: tonymason.com

I don't think the MP3s are in order, because when I put them in a .rar they were all mixed up, but when you extract the files and drag and drop them into Windows Media Player, they seem in order...I dunno...

But here's the link, enjoy, I remastered these myself in July 2011.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YNMNFNEZ

Hi.

This is Supernova Records, why Supernova? Because I already went through like, a year of figuring out a name and this seemed pretty appropriate I suppose, now the main purpose for this blog was to show you, or another person, some new music...

I'm all about the nineties, eighties, seventies, maybe even the sixties, occasionally, what I do here is I post hard to find music, some of the music posted on here is very difficult to find and enjoy, and I do all the work for you to hear whatever you like to hear! Some of the music here is either archived from vinyl, or cassette tape and very unique and often weird.

But please remember I don't own any of the music showcased here, I am just a devoted fan of music who is willing to "remaster" music, the music is put through Audacity, tinkered around a bit, and exported in WAV and downgraded by 320 MP3, but, it still sounds good though because I hear no difference from the original WAV files and MP3 files.

It's very nice to have you read this blog and listen to the music, keep music alive.

-    Simon F.