LITTLE BABIES LET'S GO / WOMEN AND CHILDREN LET'S GO / OLD FOLKS LET'S GO

[allchildren]

I promised meredyd I would upload some music for her, and I HAVEN'T YET, because I am a bum! So here. (BTW, I say it every time: join indie_exchange. Invaluable resource u guyz. So is hypem.com, btw, for individual tracks.)

Meredith specifically requested b-sides/rare stuff from Regina Spektor and Arcade Fire, and I meant to expand on that, but I wasn't sure quite how to do it. So instead I just nerded really hard on these two artists!

HERE is zip of 27 rare Regina tracks, which includes:

- the Live at Bull Moose EP
- the Live in California EP
- Begin to Hope iTunes bonus tracks
- the White Sessions (includes "Bobbing for Apples" aka "someone next door is fucking to one of my songs")
- two live versions of "Reginasaurus" because they're both cute
- "Little Boxes" from Weeds
- "The Call" from Prince Caspian
- "Baby Jesus" live from a concert I attended :D
- really excellent cover of "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" which I had some guy rip from internet radio for me
- and more!!1

I didn't include any legit albums, cuz they're pretty easy to find and also the thing is, the first...four each have a few different songs and a lot of the same ones, so it's hard to choose. But I have them all so if you need halp, I can do zat.

And ditto for Arcade Fire, 35 tracks, which includes:

- self-titled EP aka "Us Kids Know"
- 8 tracks from something that is SUPPOSEDLY 18 rareties but I only gots 8 of 'em
- live radio session feat. mostly Neon Bible songs
- "Winter for a Year" aka my Susan Pevensie song of endless weeps
- "Cold Wind" from the Six Feet Under OST
- two different versions of "Maps" (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover)
- THREE different versions of "Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place)" (Talking Heads cover) (one of which is really fuzzy but features David Actual Byrne!) (I REALLY LOVE THAT SONG OKAY? LIKE IF I GET MARRIED IT WILL BE MY FIRST DANCE LOVE IT. So you get three.)
- covers of "Born on a Train" and "Guns of Brixton"
- and more!!!1

It does NOT include Miroir Noir or the instrumental "Burning Bridges" because I accidentally deleted my copy; it also does not include the so-called Christmas Album because so ardent is my AF enthusiasm that the file with it was too big for Mediafire. And it's mostly just noodling anyway without much musical merit. Also just be warned that the labeling on a lot of these is a little whack.

SO NOW THAT YOU HAVE SEEN BUT A SMALL SLICE OF MY MUSIC NERDERY (let's just act chill since nobody asked to see my collection of Liz Phair or Bjork rareties), I bid thee goodnight, internets! And also if you have any other musical requests/desire for recs, let me know! I-I kind of like music. A little bit.

Comments

[viklikesfic]

Yay! I love the direction of your music nerdery. I think I have all of Regina's albums, but maybe not! I have up to Soviet Kitsch. I kind of stopped buying music a few years ago because I stopped having money. But hmm, you've given me a good idea, maybe I'll do something like this with Bsides of one of the bands I have Bsides for.

[allchildren]

Regina has two albums after Soviet Kitsch! They are Begin to Hope (2006) and Far (2009). And, hm, I actually did buy Begin to Hope when it was newish, but for the last few years I've gotten increasingly fed up with the whole business of buying music. I don't even have a stereo anymore, everything is digital, they're so breakable anyway why waste the resources blah blah blah -- but on the other hand, liner notes! Something you can hold in your hand! And I spent my teen years at punk rock shows buying CDs for every local or touring band I even halfway liked just to support them. Then onto our third hand we have DRM and password protected mp4s and just all kinds of hateful things concerning sharing. So.. piracy is not unattractive until something better comes along.

Definitely do a b-sides post! I was amazed at how much I ended up having for these two, honestly.

[viklikesfic]

Oh wait, okay, I do have Begin to Hope, I got the order backward. Far is the one I don't have. I think I actually bought Begin to Hope on iTunes, I haven't done CDs in a while. I was so terrible at stepping on jewel cases and sometimes cracking the actual CDs! I worry about that with DVDs, like they don't necessarily last forever. I'm glad there are programs for DVD ripping now, but one can only store so many Lord of the Rings editions on one's harddrive ;-) Anyway, that's neither here nor there!

I may do more of a mix-y thing b/c the only band I REALLY have tons of stuff (live stuff) for are some friends of mine from a bit back. Their band (Jump, Little Children) was pretty popular regionally, but not so much nationally. I do have bits and pieces of other bands though like the Decemberists, Damien Rice doing covers, etc.

[wordsatourbacks]

zomigosh - Jump, Little Children?? A couple of my friends are big fans! Wow.

[viklikesfic]

Hey, small world! Yeah, a few of the band members were part of my group of friends down in Charleston when I was in college... good times. In that case, maybe I will put some of their live/rare stuff into a ZIP and post it in case anyone's interested.

[wordsatourbacks]

That sounds awesome! In that case I'll be sure to check it out and point folks your way.

[eumelia]

OMG Yay Regina!

Thank you so much for sharing your rarities :)

[allchildren]

You're very welcome! :D

[wordsatourbacks]

New reader says helloooo! Here via spinning the DW interests wheel for "media representation," whee. I have downloaded your Arcade Fire and Regina Spektor zips; thank you for sharing! And I would love to check out your Liz Phair rarities if you're up for posting them (I'm not well acquainted with Bjork), as I love love love Liz Phair.

[allchildren]

Hello! ZOMG YOU LOVE JESSE AND ELLISON. LET'S BE BFF. (um... or friendly e-acquaintances?) Hahaha, also you quoted my tumblr (I'm offyougoapparently). Well, shucks. Consider yourself Liz Phair-zip-promised!

[wordsatourbacks]

ZOMG YOU LOVE JESSE AND ELLISON. LET'S BE BFF. (um... or friendly e-acquaintances?)

ZOMGLET'S. (That was a typo... but then I thought it looked funnier that way?) JESSE! ELLISON!

Hahaha, also you quoted my tumblr (I'm offyougoapparently).

Hee, serendipity is AWESOME! And so is your tumblr.

Consider yourself Liz Phair-zip-promised!

Yaaaaaay! Thank you!