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Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 16

April 16, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Yes, another song not written by me, from the same 1991 demo as the last two weeks’ entries: “Wild Flower.” However, I did play this 40 million times and wrote the swell bass line and contributed to the somewhat out-of-tune backing vocals. The performance is actually pretty darn good, and the recording was only left off of the eventual album Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 15

April 10, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Here’s “Wasted Youth,” a song by Steve Petrinko, also (like week 14) from the MayTricks 1991 EP, which I’m retroactively calling the “Happy Flowers EP,” as “Happy Flowers” was to be the name of the album that we started recording with this lineup shortly after making this demo (at least according to my decision; I don’t know that the band Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 14

April 2, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 3 Comments

One of my heretofore unmentioned projects for this blog is digitizing and mixing the original, 1991 5-song demo from my college band The MayTricks, so here’s the first tune: “Run Away.” I’ve also posted an mp3 of the eventual 1993 album version of the tune for comparison. I like the demo better, I think, though the album version has its Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 13

March 24, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

In honor of the death of one of my biggest musical influences, Alex Chilton, here’s me from the summer of ’94 performing his Big Star song “The Ballad of El Goodo” in an Ann Arbor coffee house. I’ve digitized it and done my best here with a heap of processing to mitigate the fact that the guitar was recorded too Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 12

March 19, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Not music, this time, but music commentary (sort of), a philosophy of music, if you will: “On Music Appreciation.” One of the tasks of this weekly routine is to digitize old cassettes, and this is a bit of “Mark’s Diary” from 1978-79, so I believe I was in 3rd grade at the time. I’ve edited it so as to keep Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 11

March 10, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Another for the same album: “Not Too Late.” I added the vocals, acoustic, bass, percussion, and the big distorted background guitar all in the last couple of days, after not working on this since 2000. Written in late ’98 as my time in philosophy grad school was ending. Even as I entered grad school, I had a fatalistic “Nothing is Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 10

March 6, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Another tune destined for the Mark Lint & the Simulacra album: “Night Before the End.” If you’ve listened to the podcast ep. 16, you’ve heard that Seth thinks that it’s boring when musicians interpret songs for you, so I won’t to that, and leave you merely to wonder what it would mean to be “bold enough to bend” and “cold Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 9

February 25, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

This week I mixed a demo from a failed 2000 collaboration: “Mush.” One of the first musicians I met in Madison upon arriving in 2000 was Ken Labarre. “Mush” was a song he wrote for his previous band, and it rips on people who bare their feelings on daytime talk shows (not the kind of topic I typically write about, Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 8

February 19, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

The first newly completed song from the “Madison Lint” album: “Cold.” I’ve been singing this a lot to myself as I walk around this horribly frozen wasteland that is Wisconsin and thinking about when I wrote the words to this while wandering around the building of my crappy office job back in early 2001, when both the job and the Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 7

February 12, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Here’s another new recording: “Ann(e).” It’s a pretty old song, written I think late in 1991, back when I was in a psychedlic band called The MayTricks, and though the recording is entirely new (OK, I started the click track and the acoustic guitar back in 2000, i.e. this is another tune destined for the “Cheese Stands Alone” album), the Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 6

February 5, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 5 Comments

More video this week: http://www.youtube.com/user/MLinsenmayer#p/a/u/1/u3nNXdV8tbQ. The linked song is one of two I’ve just put up there from a 1997 gig by The Fake Johnson Trio. This was the very last gig for that band, and one of the few played as an actual trio: I switched to bass for a couple of shows for that incarnation. The song is Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 5

January 28, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

As January draws to a close, I made good on my determination to upload some more gig video, with a couple of songs from 1/16/10 New People show from the Alchemy Cafe. The song of the two by me currently visible (though I hope to have more up shortly) is at http://www.youtube.com/user/MLinsenmayer#p/a/u/1/_-9pPUESKN4, and from that URL you should be able Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 4

January 20, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

This week’s entry is an entirely new recording: “Came Round.” On one or two days in the summer of ’99 I wrote and recorded maybe five song fragments with nonsense lyrics that featured dual-vocals throughout the whole thing a la the Byrds. I was contemplating starting a folk duo that would feature collaborative songwriting and wanted to have some material Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 3

January 15, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

This week I’ve finished another tune from the same project as “Write Me Off,” namely “Once in a Great While,” which was originally called “Therapy Song #141.” The song is one of several I’ve written about inspiration and its masochistic character. What I want from moment to moment is a feeling of warmth, of involvement. When I finish a great Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 2

January 7, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

This week’s newly finished recording is “Write Me Off.” This is part of the “Sinking and the Aftermath” project; the story of my utter irresponsibility in not finishing these songs (from 1999-2000) earlier is told here. This is one of my favorite songs of those I’ve written, and it’s gone around my head quite regularly in the 10 years since Continue Reading …

Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 1

January 2, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Listen to “Space” by Mark Lint. This song was written in 1997 or 1998 smack in the heart of my Texas grad school tenure. That’s what the reference to “Every day I get up about three hours late” is about; I tended to sleep until 11am in those days. This is a song that seemed too sappy, simple, and uncool Continue Reading …

Thorough Musical Self-Examination: A New Year’s Resolution

January 2, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Yes, it’s a new year. Big, fat arbitrary deal. Well, yes, but I find it refreshing that something in our life of mostly culturally created pressures presents itself as an obviously merely cultural, arbitrary creation, as opposed to money, or romance, or politics, or your job, all of which, though largely if not wholly cultural, intrude in our lives in Continue Reading …

Thorough Musical Self-Examination: A New Year’s Resolution

January 2, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Yes, it’s a new year. Big, fat arbitrary deal. Well, yes, but I find it refreshing that something in our life of mostly culturally created pressures presents itself as an obviously merely cultural, arbitrary creation, as opposed to money, or romance, or politics, or your job, all of which, though largely if not wholly cultural, intrude in our lives in Continue Reading …

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