What Did You Sound Like Ten Years Ago?

like a galaxie 500 cover band

I didn't actually start playing until I was 22. All my friends were involved with music and I was always jealous of them until one day I went, "oh yeah I'll just go ahead and do that, I guess", and so I did.

i was making very bad industrial gabba ten years ago.

oh i could find some stuff for this thread

1998 - would have been doing some 4-track recordings of dopey indie pop in my freshman college dorm room, and just starting out playing in my college band: the buddy system

"the buddy system" got a big LOL outta me just now, not sure why

i think my high school metal band's cassette EPs are lost to time, but i think the keyboard player has a copy of the full-length that we record but never released. i've got to get that shit before it's too late.

Ten years ago, my stuff sounded like sped up tapes and computer noise, all overdriven and distorted to shite.

"the buddy system" is a pretty classic late '90s college indie rock band name, there were like 8,000 of them

LOL!!!

http://www.geocities.com/williamsburgrock/bs2.JPG

i'm not in that picture, but ROFL at nader/laduke sticker on keyboard

seriously I have a ton of my shit all ready to go and just realized the hell I'm uploading this junk to zshare
I think tonight I'll rip it all down to 128 and see if muxtape will let me make, like, four more muxtapes

nevermind fuck it

I sound like everybody I was listening to at the time but a little different and usually much more poorly mixed

1998 - I sounded like a groovebox.

I was really into amplified wood and taking my shirt off.

oh man. we sounded like a bad nirvana/alice in chains clone mostly. also had a song where we tried to sound like the jesus lizard but no one could play well enough to pull it off + a song that sorta sounded like pavement. i usually played bass but i played guitar on the pavementy song, complete w/ some really sloppy E pentatonic solos where i basically just went up the scale and then came back down. we were called NUTMEG due to this one time that 2 of my bandmates tried to get high by smoking a bunch of nutmeg and instead just ended up barfing

cover songs we played -
violent femmes - blister in the sun
nirvana - blandest (this was some rare early demo, we were total nerds for nirvana)
nirvana - drain you

lol I should pull out all of the bedroom electronica I made using Rebirth mods, that's all about 10 years old now

f you guys, i'm upping the ante

here are some songs by the buddy system, my college band. revel in the sound of a small-town college indie rock band circa the late 90s:

http://naamme.muxtape.com/

I'm glad you did that because it means I have to man up

http://spdrm.muxtape.com/

Nick I really was digging "Shield" a lot until it kind of fell apart and ended unexpectedly. I was thinking it kind of had some epic potential right at the first chorus. Are you allowed to rip yourself off?

like from the intro right into the chorus is pretty cinematic

i think what happened is we made a mistake near the end of the song while recording it, and rather than (duh) do another take, we decided to fade out the instruments and end with just vocals (before the end of the song)?!?!? seemed like a good idea at the time

for a bunch of college kids, we did some really dumb things

I was just listening to some of the effete indie-pop stuff I was making ten years ago, and ... somewhat depressingly, I think the songwriting was more focused, in that way it often is when you're just playing music that's in your "home" genre and not trying to push forward into making something new/interesting. There were a couple pop songs in there I'm fairly proud of!

I'm kind of disappointed listening to the old stuff at how less imaginative I've become. why so serious etc

http://spdrm.muxtape.com/

Oh Tom, please tell me the sekrit name of this music project is ASPIEDROME.

(disclaimer: no offence intended twds Tom or any other individual or group whatsoever, word just leapt at me as inevitable)

tombot ca. 97-00 is awesome jams!

i wasnt making songs 10 years ago, but i was making them 5 years ago, which was baby's first slapping together of acid loops. i don't know if that counts, like counting the training wheels part of knowing how to ride a bike or something.

i think my high school metal band's cassette EPs are lost to time, but i think the keyboard player has a copy of the full-length that we recorded but never released. i've got to get that shit before it's too late.

― Jordan, Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:47 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i finally got a hold of my high school goth metal band's album over the weekend. :D :/

http://www.myspace.com/themeekps
my friend and i were 12 years old when we started the meek; using a two-stringed guitar, pots and pans, and absolutely zero rehearsing, just writing words then immediately recording. mostly inspired by the shaggs. i don't think we knew who Beefheart was yet

Hang on, your band has 22 friends, and one of them is Brian Eno?

oh wait, it's just a Brian Eno fan page...

"if you tell me how to end it I'll tell you how to transcend it" - I only wish that the band 12 year old me was in was as cool

we were probably 15 when that was written, tbh. our very first recordings are not on that page

Reupped the buddy system songs from above: http://scarequotes.net/bs.html

n/a i think the link to "i'm always right" is bad. i tried to download it because it has the best title.

i will e-mail songs from said to goth metal band to anyone who is (for some reason) interested.

fixed. and you should be able to just stream the songs off that page.

I've got like five years until I can post anything here! lol

August 1999 is right at the beginning of my several year break from music where I tried to make a career in IT support... Yeah, that went well.

Holy shit "The Meek" is hilarious. A++

10 years ago I was making midi versions of video game music

10 years ago I was recording songs into .wav recorder that were about dying and being sad and not fitting in. I was the most original 16-year-old around imo

Oh, the halcyon days before the advent of oligarhy in the United States.

Ten years ago I was 17 and in an "internet band" where I ran CoolEdit 96 over and over tracks made by one of the other guys in a tracker program whose name just flew completely out of my head. It sounded like this: http://www.ummagurau.com/art/doctorcasino/thadod.mp3

We got our shit together a year or so later and did a couple of more "song" like things, which are kind of gothy and dorky in hindsight but still I think kinda neat. Great practice for learning to use the program ACID instead of pasting tracks together in CoolEdit. I did some of the keyboards and some of the drums on this:
http://www.ummagurau.com/art/doctorcasino/simplemachines.mp3

These are kinda over the top and scream HIGH SCHOOl to me but I have raelly fond memories of the hours spent puttering away on this stuff, maybe my first experience of the whole feeling of half a day slipping by while you forget to eat because you're deep into tweaking the volume levels of stuff and trying different amounts of echo (etc)....

oh the band was called "New Logic Theory" when I joined it and then after a slight lineup change it was "Digital Fever Computer."

And we made tracks by sending files back and forth using the ICQ send/receive file thing. Those were the fucking days.

how about 20 years ago? closet cleaning uncovered this, uh, gem...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/wl8jwg

digging the meek

That's pretty good.
20 years ago I sounded like the accumulated noise of ping-pong overdubs on a boombox, with lol80's computer noises, and "wind" sounds made by blowing across the built in mic of a cheap tape recorder.

ysi?

I think I erased the tape about ten years ago in self concious embarrasment. Pity, as I'd like to hear the results of two decades of demagnetisation.

One other thing I remember is that I was a massive Jean Michel Jarre fan at the time, so despite being English, I named all the tracks in French.

that's so awesome