A new song from Mark, featuring The Posies’ Ken Stringfellow, and how it was inspired by the Nakedly Examined Music interview with Ken about Alex Chilton and the whole Big Star phenomenon.
Song Self-Exam (Pilot and How-To): “Write Me Off” by Mark Lint
As an accompaniment to the Nakedly Examined Music podcast, I’m launching a project to collect song explanations from our musician listeners: Song Self-Exams. This video explains how to do one of these and explains one of my songs relevant to the project of the new podcast. The point is to really listen, to open yourself to a work, not to treat it like a commodity.
Holiday Special 2015: Mark Lint’s “Songs from the Partially Examined Life” with Many Guest Greetings
Mark is joined by numerous previous guests to catch up and engage the musical part of PEL’s past episodes by introducing and playing the entirety of Mark Lint’s “Songs from the Partially Examined Life,” which you can own, along with the 2016 PEL wall calendar.
Mark on the Gig Gab Podcast
I got a chance to sit down and chat with my old bandmate Dave Hamilton to talk about my musical “career.” Listen to the episode. Also some news about my new album and a request for you to help me come up with artists that my stuff sounds like.
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Reason Enough”
A peppy, pretty Mark Lint song about how you shouldn’t kill yourself even if you’re basically a waste of space. About its cursed origins, and a quick very premature semi-announcement about a possible new PEL spinoff podcast about songwriting.
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “The Past Is Not Real” and “I Insist”
A couple of new recordings: one dark, one-man band number written and recorded in just the last couple of days, and one peppy pop fiesta that came together over the last year. Also, some news on eventual album releases.
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Antigone”
A new theme song for our favorite proto-feminist martyr. Isn’t it hard enough just being your daddy’s brother? Please just work the system from within!
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Sleep”
A tune for the Freud episode to listen to late at night, in a recording where past and present meet. Plus, a recap of Mark’s music-completion efforts.
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Jesus Noise”
A newish song about blocking out religion. Very soothing!
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: The Default Relation
A fake country song for our Gadamer episode with a lot of swearing in it. Enjoy!
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: Run Away
The definitive version of an acoustic tune written in 1987, completed for our Whitehead episode. With oboe and ukulele!
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Stoobis in the Sky”
A song about grief… but need it aim to be merely beautiful, or sublime (in Burke’s sense) as well?
Musical Anarchists Wanted Immediately: 12 Interminable Days of Xmas Project
One-man-band recording types needed to help record the longest Xmas song ever as a musical affront to all those persons and institutions that richly deserve it. Artists also needed to help with images for the video: contact Mark now if you want to get in on it!
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Point of Confusion”
The song from the end of #106, about a comfortable, stable state of indecision, featuring plentiful keyboards by Swedish listener Daniel Gustafsson.
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: Geoff Esty’s “Samuel”
A song recorded in 1994 about a lonely cat, resung for the new millennium.
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Green Song” and “Idiot, Listen”
Two old tunes revisited, one about fantasizing about a natural paradise, the other about waking up and realizing your life isn’t so bad.
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Double Negative Theology”
The song for ep. #101, inspired by Maimonides’s talk of negative theology, where the only claims about God you can make are about what he’s not.
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Axiomatic”
Listen to “Axiomatic” by Mark Lint & the Simulacra (as well as the version by New People). For our Gödel episode, I thought it fitting to remix one of the last-to-be-completed tracks for the Mark Lint & the Simulacra album (mostly recorded in 2000 with folks in Austin, but still not done now due to Continue Reading …
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Yours to Keep”
Listen to “Yours to Keep” by Mark Lint & the Madison Lint Ensemble, featuring Bob Linsenmayer, as well of the original demo of the song with Steve Petrinko. Pop music has at least the pretense that it’s fundamentally disposable, and this is part of what makes it fun. (I say pretense because in my case–as Continue Reading …
Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Take a Hike”
Listen to “Take a Hike” and “Goldfish” by Mark Lint and Stevie P. After my college band The MayTricks broke up due to my leaving for grad school in Austin, I returned to Ann Arbor for several quick visits and recorded new material with my co-front-guy Steve Petrinko. Sometimes he would just record some drums Continue Reading …
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