This first post has been updated to contain all of my records. Obviously there is quite a bit here.
So, if you're wondering what to listen to, I'll tell you that each record is probably better than the one that came before it. Thanks, anybody and everybody, for listening.

track by track commentary is on the spoiler tags






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and here's a track by track run down.

01. G#1 (Better Version): The first version of this song was the first thing I ever recorded with my guitar. The lead was a bit off the beat of the rhythm guitar, so I re-did it and came out with this nice little ditty.
02. Big Trash: This is the most recent of any of these tracks, and it's probably my best. without trying to sound like a big douchebag, I think this track is fucking awesome. It's pretty much one chord the entire time (except for a bit at the end) but I just think this thing fucking kills shit. Recorded on the fly, I wasn't able to replicate this guitar sound which is a shame because I really love it.
03. Dirty Like The Bunker: Another one-chord-wonder, but there's an epic lead bit in there that I like a lot. Very much in the same vein of the second track but they sound great back to back.
04. G#4: One of the originals, this is just me improvising with two guitar parts in the same scale. Turned out nice for an interlude.
05. The Ballad of Sue Wiley: This is really a big mess of a song but I like how it turned out. I'm really influenced by Neil Young/Lou Reed with my rudimentary guitar playing and it's most evident here. And yes, I ripped off "Poor Places" by Wilco for the end.
06. No Mercy For Cleveland Tonight [key track]: Possibly my best work, I'm really proud of this one as well. Originally this was just the two guitar parts, but I was miraculously able to sync up the drum beat and the organ riffs to turn this into something really special.
07. G#7 (Version 3): A "pop" song, or something. some of the easiest listening here, perhaps the least interesting, but I do like the way it turned out. Revolves around an E chord drone.
08. Compound (Killer Version): This is definitely the track I've tinkered with the most. Like track 6, it started out as just two guitars but then I added the little blooping beat, then added a big pause with a big drum countdown before the really noisy part begins. It was pure accident that the song actually starts again, as the player was set to loop, but I think that turned out marvelously. I love this one.
09. July Stomp: The first real idea I had for a song, originated after I listened to a Beat Happening record for the first time. this is like the 5th version I recorded, with big sloppy lead playing over the top.
10. The Shop: Three guitar parts, took me a shitload of takes to get them all right. I messed around with the feedback and flanger options a lot and I think I came out with nice atmospheric sound on this one. I think it works well as the final track.

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New EP.


01. Indian Summer: One of my originals, neglected it for a while and forgot how cool it was. Very simple opening similar to the opening track from the last record. It's got a nice atmosphere to it I think, which carries through the whole EP nicely I think.
02. We'll Rock Through The Leaves: Another from the self title record sessions, went untitled for a while before I settled on this semi-gay one. Oh well. It's like Crazy Horse without the distortion I think, because I ripped some chords from "everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" or some other neil song if I remember correctly. There's another version that's all scraped up with distortion and it's good in its own right, but I think this one is better and fits more.
03. The Time You Were Lost: Good track here, I think it's got a nice 60's feel cause I rocked out the mellotron emulator on the minimoog. I like it a lot, nice bouncy driving feel to it.
04. Another Number: Another original scraggler, it's alright, not my best, but works here nicely and serves as a good little interlude.
05. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again:Yes, it's a Bob Dylan cover. No, there aren't any vocals. It's pretty much just me riffing over the chords from the song, doesn't really sound anything like the original. Kind of masturbatory, but I really liked the guitar tone I ended up with and it feels right in this spot.
06. Crunch Time: Kind of out of place, but a tremendous closer with some sick feedback rocking at the end. Big walls of guitar. Title is very apt.

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Here's another record.

I'm pretty confident that it's better than the last one. At least, I enjoy listening to it all the way through more than i did the last one. It's got a stronger set of songs, though they're not quite as structured as some of the stuff from last time. Most of them are a lot shorter, though "King of Trees and Rain" is my longest thing yet at 7:24. It's worth it though.

Track by track rundown:

01. Bangs: This is just a stage-setter. Weird sounds guitar sounds.
02. The Estimation: Kind of sounds like "The Time You Were Lost" from the Indian Summer EP, mostly because I used the same mellotron emulator. But, it's different. Short and sweet, like a lot of songs on this record.
03. Letters From Athens: This is probably my favorite song on here. The bed of synths was pretty much an accident, but it sounds so sweet. I just threw some guitar strumming on top and there we go. No big leads or anything, I tried it and it kind of ruined the delicate feel this song's got going on
04. You're Getting Older: I love the big beat on the second half of this song. I tried to experiment with the different percussion sounds I could get on this record and this is the best result of such experimenting. The first part of the riff is stolen from a Spacemen 3 song, but it changes. The second part is a riff I've had for while but never worked into anything. So here it is.
05.Underwater: This is a song from the winter, or the Indian Summer sessions. It was originally like 5 minutes long and pretty boring because it didn't really deviate from what goes on during its now just-over-a-minute runtime. But it's cool now. Some backwards guitar, sounds slick.
06. The Thin Man: So, this song was a complete accident. Little did I know, my laptop has little a little microphone built into it, and I hit record thinking I was plugged in, but I wasn't...and I don't know exactly, but it turned out pretty nifty. I added the synth to flesh it out a bit more, and it still sounds pretty thin compared to the rest of the stuff here, but it's got a bouncy feel that I dig a whole lot.
07. Free Matches: Another one of the best songs here. Bain, the guitar sounds like Kevin Shields, deal with it. But really. I think this thing turned out awesome. More in the style than some of the louder tracks from the first record, but it's not as harsh and it's a bit more...uh, anthemic? Despite the lack of words. It's awesome though.
08. The End Of Something: The second half of this was originally another longer piece that I cut down, but I decided to add some quiet guitar noodling at the beginning. Really, the second half is one of my favorite things I've done. It's almost dance-y. Really cool track.
09. The King Of Trees And Birds: This was the first song I record for this record, and it feels more like something from the first record I think, but it's still awesome. This actually originated about 2 weeks ago when me and my buddies were tripping, jamming on our acoustics. One of them came up with the little riff that it's based around, and me and my other buddy just messed around over it. Hence, the triple writing credits.So, I tried to recreate that here, even though it sounds absolutely nothing like what was produced by the three of us a week or two ago.
10. They're Crashing: This was the product of almost pure improvisation. Possibly the weakest track here, but it's still worthwhile, I think. It's got kind of a Galaxie 500 thing going during the beginning.
11. Song in The Room: The main guitar part was something I've had in my head for a long time, and tried to record numerous times. Finally think I got it right this time. I used the same microphone that "The Thin Man" was recorded on, so it sounds similar. Pretty cool track, I think I got the lead guitar to sound pretty nifty with some tinkering.
12. Day In Bed: Contended for my favorite track on the record. This was the last song I recorded, and it turned out marvelously. The climax is nasty, and it was pretty obvious when I finished it that it'd be the closer.

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01. June 14th, 2008: Ok, so this is actually one of those older ones I mentioned. Back when I first downloaded that Moog program that I've used in the past (actually, it's only featured on these older tracks), I made up a hours of crap with some good stuff along the way. This is one of the good things. Mostly just ambient swells of organ sounding stuff, sounds very nice and leads into the next track....
02. Backyard (The One Before): This is one hell of a track, I think. Definitely one of my favorite things that I've ever done. The most immediately noticeable difference between this and any of my other records is this drum machine program that I found that can generate actual drum patterns as opposed to the simple "THUD...THUD...THUD" shit I've used in the past. Starts off simply and gently, then all hell breaks loose in the middle, then comes back. I love it.
03. Box Fan: More of the new drum machine. This has what I think sounds sort of like a Yo La Tengo style guitar riff, the simple epic shit like "I Heard You Looking" and that. Doesn't deviate a whole lot from the central motif, but it's got some cool guitar work. Used to be longer, then I cut it down with the fade. It's more effective that way.
04. Hot Tub Night: Brief acoustic guitar +whistling interlude. Not much more to say about this one. Leads nicely into...
05. The Fire Department Conversation:... what is easily my favorite guitar playing I've put down to tape. Works over a cool chord progression that I thought sounded a bit like something Paul Westerberg thinks up. This could be the best track on this album, I love the hell out of it.
06. Factory Thrum, Part I: Another "Box Fan" style track, but that kind of thing only stays interesting for so long, so I chopped it in half and put the second part later on the album. Mostly just goofing around in D, but it sounds cool for it's brief runtime.
07. The Wind + Everything: Here's the second old Moog recording. Just a...well, I forget what chord it is, repeating itself while a bunch of shit goes on around it. The end sounds like, well, the wind, hence the title. Leads into...
08. It Gets Fucked: Behind "Fire Department," here's my favorite guitar work. Just acoustic + electric working around a few cool riffs I thought up whilst improvising. Turned out better than I expected it too. Recorded live with the acoustic track playing through the stereo while I played electric. I mean, obviously as a bedroom record, the whole thing is lo-fi, but the acoustic on this one is REAL lo-fi. I like how it turned out, though.
09. Dirt Road: Here's another of those old Moog recordings. This is just nasty as hell. I pretty much completely forgot about this track until I was rooting around through my old files, and it just kinda conked me on the head. Really sinister, lots of cool synth keyboard fuckery at the end.
10. Firewood: This was one of the first tracks I tried with the drum machine program, thus why the drums are all crazy. I was just messing around. Turned out pretty cool, though, first appearance of slide guitar on a Dr. Mercy record ( though more shows up later on). The end I played the electric with my feet, I think... or it was on the next track...
11. Burning Said Firewood: This and the last track always went together because I used similar chords, and I think I recorded them right after each other. Again, I think this was where I played the electric with my feet while doing the acoustic with my hands... I mean, it's not anything impressive, just some background noise for the acoustic. Maybe this one's a bit longer than it needs to be, but we'll be alright.
12. Factory Thrum, Part II: Here's that second half I was talking about.
13. Deerfield: Old Moog strikes again. This is perhaps my favorite of the Moog songs. Honest, for the life of me I don't remember how I made these tracks. This one is probably the most complicated, and it's also probably the best. Lots of really cool noises and shit.
14. Day On The Street: Starts with some backwards guitar that sounds cool after the last track, then works it's way into a guitar riff that I've had in my head for years. Glad I finally worked it into a song. Drums come in later, as well as more slide guitar, which was pretty much an accident. I tried recording a normal lead which just sounded muddled, and picked up my slide and just fucked around for a minute and it actually turned out pretty damn cool. One of my favorite tracks here.
15. Post-Everything: Similar to "Burning Said Firewood" in that it's mostly just some acoustic interlude action, except it's got a cool drum beat as well. Doesn't carry on too long, either, and serves as a good preface for...
16. The Long Summer: This is the longest Dr. Mercy track ever, clocking in at 8:19. Again, some of my favorite guitar work. I think it sounds like a Velvet Underground song in the style of "Sister Ray" or something, so that's always cool. Also, used a sample for the first time ever, from a home video of my graduation party last year. Comes in at the end and is a nice way to close the song.
17. Looking For...: OK, this one's sweet. The first part is just some tremoloed guitar action, and it morphs into an ambient piece that also is from the Moog sessions. Said ambient piece serves as a very nice close to the album, I think, and I like how the noise in the middle leads into it. Had the idea for a track like this for about a week before I finally recorded it, and the finished product turned out very cool. The end![/b]

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OK. So when I was recording the stuff for the Friends EP, I had the idea that I just wanted to do an EP. So I did. But over the past weekend/week, I was bored and recorded a handful of other worthwhile tracks. And I found this cool electric organ in my basement, so I wanted to fuck around with that. Cool little instrument. Anyway, this has all the songs that appeared on the Friends EP (if anyone even listened to it), plus 5 more tracks I did this past week, and 1 more from a while ago.

01. The Things I Wish I Never Knew: I re-downloaded that mini-moog program that was used on my first two records a few weeks ago on my desktop computer (doesn't work on my laptop cause I use linux now). Messed around a bit and produced this dazzling opener! Bunch of synths just bouncing about, my favorite bit comes at the end. Works well to set the scene.
02. Everyone Is Here: First song I did with that organ I mentioned above there, and it turned out...well, could quite be my favorite track ever. That's mostly due to the drum programming at the end that just turned this track into something completely over-the-top and awesome. Probably my most fucked-up guitar playing to date, as well, was really satisfied with the take. If you're going to listen to one song from this record, it should be this one.
03. It's Over And It Doesn't Matter: Revolves mainly on an acoustic guitar which deviates only slightly from a G chord, and then I added two dueling guitars over it. They lock together for a cool riff sometime around the middle. This track's got a really cool sound to it, I think. The creaking chair in the beginning was a nice touch, I thought.
04. Reds: Really just me goofing around. This took me about 15 minutes to complete, but it turned out much better than I thought it would. I think the guitars, 3 electric tracks, just all sound really good here. Really just kind of a stop-gap track, I suppose.
05. Maggie, Asleep On The Couch: Maggie is my dog. She was asleep on the couch while I recorded this. Also, this started out just me messing around, but blossomed into a really laid back, beautiful track. All acoustic guitars, with me doing percussion by just using the acoustic guitar body like a set of bongos. Obviously I wasn't pounding on it. Also, my car keys were played for more percussion on the second half of the track. Reminds me of "Over My Head" a bit by Red House Painters in sound alone, and I think that's awesome.
06. Heart to Heart: This song was the product of me listening to a lot of Joy Division for the couple days before I recorded it. I don't think it really ended up sounding anything like Joy Division, but here we are. My most fast paced song ever, and it turns into a giant noise-fuck at the end. On the whole I think it resembles "Mildred Pierce" by Sonic Youth.
07. An Old House: OK, so I've bought the record Earth 2 by Earth a few days ago, and that's why this track exist. Just a big wall of guitars, which I fucked with a bit with the effects available in Audacity. Just some cool sounds, really.
08. We Have Tables: An old moog song that I dug up for Friends EP. Just a two note bass-line and percussion. nice comedown after the last track.
09. Do You Like Games?:Really just a continuation of the last track, except with big swooping synths that come in around the middle and stuff. It's actually the percussion with the knobs twiddled a bit if I remember correctly. I like how when they finally drop out you're left with just the bass line. Cool track
10. Soda Can Blues: OK, in all honesty, this track is kind of worthless. I picked up an old cherry coke can that had been laying in my room a while and played my acoustic guitar with it. That's all this track is. Sorry. Ha. There's a cool harmonic I hit at the end that's really the only reason I included it here...well, that and the novelty of there being guitar played with a pop can.
11. Bleed Into Tomorrow: Theres vocals on this one! Just a few oooh's and ahhh's at the end, but I think it turned out great. Except for the fact that Audacity can't really handle 5 or more tracks without kind of fucking itself and making everything sound like shit, so if there's a drop in quality once the vocals come in on this track, that's the reason behind it. The organ was used on this track as well too nifty results. I like this track a lot.
12. I'll Be There Before Noon: An old moog track I dug up earlier in the week. I'd forgotten about it. I had named the mp3 "Slammin' Beatz" originally, and that's really the only reason I listened to it again. Turns out that this is an awesome track! Really, I was really surprised when I heard how cool this one was. Didn't remember it at all. Really cool percussion sound was found, and the end turns into something of an ambient outro to the record. I do wish it was a tiny bit shorter, but when I went to edit it I couldn't really cut out anything that I felt didn't take away some of the track's impact. So here it is in all its 8 minute glory!

DR. MERCY & THE ACRONYMS OF DISASTER - PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY

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yep. here's my new album. I've been recording stuff intended for a new record since September, so that's a record 3-month recording process for Dr. Mercy! Granted, all of the stuff included here is from about mid November onward, but you get the idea. Anyway, this is unquestionably my best, most fully-formed work to date. There a real live songs and shit on here, with vocals and lyrics and everything. The complexity of this album (at least compared to my past work) is due to the new recording program I've been using, a free software program called Ardour. I'd been using Audacity in the past, and Ardour is about 10x better. Far easier editing, more tracks, etc. And I actually sat down and wrote a couple songs here. Ok, so here goes.

01. Daily Affirmation: This is a pretty traditional Dr. Mercy track. Ragged guitars, lots of weird noises and such in the first half. Two huge guitars lock together at the end with a monster drum pattern. It's good. The end is really, really good.
02. Rhymes With Bullshit: So here's the first really different track. I mean, it's not all that different, but it's got vocals with me saying stuff, which hasn't happened before. The melody and lyrics were completely improvised, however. They don't really mean anything, hence the title of this track. Honestly, I laid the drum track and acoustic guitar bit down and didn't know what else to do with it, so I sat down with a harmonica and started singing some crap. I think it turned out pretty good, considering. I tried recording different vocal parts with words that I actually liked but nothing ever ended up sounding as good as this original take, so it remained the final version. The end of this track is a fucking jam, too.
03. You Left The Window Open Last Night: Ok, so I recorded this in my dorm room with, you guessed it, the window open. All I was doing was putting down the guitar track, and a firetruck drove by or something, hence the siren sounds. Turned out great, I think. Then I hit a bunch of buttons on my phone and played it through my guitar pickups, and that sounded kinda nifty. turned out nice.
04. Cigarettes & Wasted Potential: Alright. Here is another track with words and vocals. Spoken word, fed through my amp with lots of reverb. They're kinda buried, on purpose. In terms of instrumentals, this might be one of my favorite tracks I've ever done. A bit meandering, maybe, but I think it all sounds wonderful. The original version of this track had a "cover" of Neil Young's Down By The River at the end, which was really just me playing the chords from the song on acoustic and soloing over them for about 4 extra minutes... fun as hell to make, but was pretty meaningless to the rest of the track (besides the fact that the, uh, chorus of this song just steals the chords right from the song), so I cut it out. But I left the noise outro. Good song.
05. Sleeping On Couches / A Walking Bloodbath: The first half of this song sounds like post-rock, I think. Another one of my favorite instrumental sections ever. So when I finished the second guitar part the logical thing at the time was to play a bunch of noisy shit for a while, so I did that. Then I put down a fast drum part for the second part of the song, and it was original a huge droney jam in C for about ten minutes. Then I cut it about in half. Electric chord organ makes its presence known on this track. Turned out great. One of my favorites here.
06. No Peeking: This track is kinda silly, really. Falsetto vocals fed through the my amp with lots of distortion. It's kinda like my "Highly Suspicious." Perhaps the noisiest song I've ever done. It's kinda like my "Highly Suspicious." I enjoy it a lot, especially the beginning and the transition to the second part of the song where the drums come in. It all fell into place nicely. Lots of dirty-as-hell guitar.
07. When We Were Three Years Younger: Quite possibly my best song ever. It's really just an F chord, the whole time, with slight variations. I actually sat down and wrote these lyrics, made up the melody. It's a real live song with a chorus and everything. I mean it's obviously not that complicated. So I recorded it with me just singing it on the acoustic, then fed it through my amp with lots of distortion, which sounded cool, with some little guitar blips on top. But the real great part of this track comes when the song-y part ends and this weird beat I made with the mini moog program begins to fade in, and it turns into this psychadelic / space-rock / shoegaze type deal. my only complaint is that the beat kind of falls off tempo a bit once or twice, and I'm really not sure why that happened. Something with the moog program. I think the sounds I had going were a lot for it to handle. But it's still awesome.
08. Two People Resting In The Sun: A long, 7 minute drone piece. I just felt like making a song like this, so I did. Nothing other than two guitars melting into each other. It ended up sounding a lot like the end of "Handshake Drugs" by Wilco or "NYC Ghosts & Flowers" by Sonic Youth, somehow.
09. When We Were Three Years Younger (Reprise): Exactly what it sounds like. This time the vocals are a lot more clear. The best part about this short little closer, though, is this weird recording I found on this cassette I had laying aroudn in my room. I don't know if it's me playing something I recorded with this tape recorder a long time ago, or if it's something else, or what, but whatever it is, it's the noise you hear right at the beginning of this song that repeats a few times later on. Brings the album to a nice calming close, I think.[/b]

So there. I am really proud of this thing, overall.

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Getting this now.

This is pretty cool shit. You need to drop the bass, though.

Thanks for listening, big daddy.

your signature intrigued me, so i'm DLing this.

i just amused myself because your amatuer ass didn't include a folder in the rar so i put it in a folder called "biltop's record"

one song sounds like you're playing like a saw or a piece of sheet metal, it's like a floppy noise...

an interesting piece of work overall

Cool, thanks.

which song, btw? Cause I can assure you there was no sheet metal involved.

it was somewhere (i think) near the end of july stomp... it may have just been some muted tremolo picking though...

i'll probably listen to it again a couple more times... it wasn't what i expected (not that i really had any idea what to expect other than pure awesomeness)

Haha awesome. Any feedback is really great.

That dude Kevin Shields is stealing your music.

Thanks bain.

i'm going to post this on my music blog, not that i think anyone reads it, but what the hell.

haha, yes ceebs. This'll be the first step to blogosphere stardom.

you're on my last.fm for last week

i somehow missed this thread. i'm gonna listen to this later.

clearly you don't read his signature either

i have sigs turned off. reads much smoother.

My signature is getting a bit unwieldy...