mp3 review - mp3 review & Sunset Rubdown
I just realized yesterday that I started this list over a year ago with 15 close friends and its now 57 strong. Sure, we had some people drop off here and there, and sure I’ve sent out some real shit here and there, and yes there has been a few lapses, but the important thing is that we’re still going. Most of you guys know me well enough to know that its no small feat for me to stick to doing anything on a regular basis (except maybe drinking and smoking). Its funny though, I went back to read some of our old emails and found that somehow this has morphed from highly critical music geek commentary to my personal journal on display, with some music at the bottom. Anyway, I thought it’d be cool to send out some facts and highlights from the past year of the review list.
- first email sent 8/3/06 with one track from Jeremy Enigk’s solo record. The subject was “Mark’s mp3 review board”, and it remained that for an entire week, until Matt B. sent a post telling me to change the subject since “everyone knows whos email list it is”.
- that same day Dave Hyland posted a scathing review of the Enigk track in which he suggested that Enigk was ‘getting old’. Trevor wrote a response stating that Lemmy was ‘getting old’ and still ‘kicked ass’. Dave’s retort was that his Mom was getting old and would kick Trevors ‘hipster ass’. This is where the review scale of ‘how many asses Dave’s Mom kicked’ came from.
- the unofficial most popular post (based on the number of replies) was the ‘crazy guy on the china town bus’ story, which featured tracks by ‘Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin’, but the popularity, it seems, had nothing to do the tracks as none of the replies actually said anything about them.
http://www.r8e8r.com/review
- the second most popular post (again based on replies) was the ’shandie drinker’ post, where I was ridiculed for writing about drinking ’shandies’ and where we found out that term ’shandy drinker’ is British slang for an effeminate or possibly homosexual male.
http://www.r8e8r.com/review
-Trevor holds the record for most replies with a whopping 62, followed by Dave Hyland with 47, and Lawerence with 35. My old boss at Insound holds the record for the fewest, when I accidently forwarded him Dan P’s less than positive Cold War Kids review, thinking I was sending it to Matt B. His response was ‘was this meant for me? You know my friend just singed them to his major-ish label?’ At the time I was using insound server space for my mp3s. smart….real smart.
- post that generated the most downloads: Justin Timberlake pre-release mystery post. Come on, was there any question. This was the only time I posted an entire album, and the only time I didn’t label the post.
All in all, I think it was a great year, and I just wanted to thank you all for allowing me to fill your inboxes with my ramblings and musical explorations. I hope everyone found something here that they enjoyed.
peace, love, and your mom,
-mark
Ok, that was a long one so here’s some tracks from the upcoming release of Montreal’s Sunset Rubdown. Sunset Rubdown began as a solo project of Spencer Krug, of Wolf Parade fame, who released the Sunset Rubdown debut Snake’s Got a Leg in July 2005. Eventually, the group expanded to include Camilla Wynne Ingr of Pony Up!, Jordan Robson-Cramer of XY Lover, and Michael Doerksen. This record (Random Spirit Lover on Jagjaguwar) doesn’t come out til Oct. 9th so enjoy, and don’t tell anyone where you got it from:
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