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Grant b. makes noise: offensive commercial spam

grant

19:00 / 26.03.03

Look!

I made an album!

It's over here, on The Unlike Records homepage!

It's called "Something to Believe In," and has four songs about serial killers, at least two songs about the natural sciences, lots of big words, one unusual cover version (a secret track!) and only one song on which I remain disgruntled with the vocals. Because the vocal quality is not my strong point. The verbal quality is.

Instruments include the Hammond organ, the accordion, and Billy Bragg's voice saying "I" shifted up two octaves so he sounds like a cartoon martian.

The cover image looks like this:

only it says "grant" and "something to believe in" on it.

Some of you have heard songs from it before.

Mazarine

21:56 / 26.03.03

Wow... dude... that's creepy. I'm using that same sacred heart image in my tarot deck (sans electrons) but golly. Does it feature the song with "a valence that can't be defined, I can't get you out of my mind"?

Cat Chant

06:55 / 27.03.03

Hey, you're a rock star! Congratulations! I shall buy it when I get my grant* in a couple of weeks.

*Ooh! Pun! (Bet you've never, ever, ever heard that before.)

grant

14:17 / 27.03.03

Mazarine: there's a new recording of that song as the first track. "Photosensitivity." Spectrums shift as mass moves through space... and the light in your eyes causes heat in my face.

Deva: I always have to tell people that my name is "just like money from the gummint." I like doing that, actually.

deja_vroom

14:28 / 27.03.03

Ooh, fearful grant!

I envy you (In a good way, I swear).

Well done, bearded one!

Saveloy

14:57 / 27.03.03

This is the lovliest, most marvliest news of the day. Well done, that man!

Folks, if it's as good as the stuff I've heard on tape, then you should all - each and every one of you - buy at least a dozen copies for every member of your family. At just 8 foreign dollars each (that's about 40 pence in British decimal money) you can afford to!

So, is it any cop grant?

Quantum

15:10 / 27.03.03

go Grant! where can we buy it?

rizla mission

13:56 / 28.03.03

I just pre-ordered a copy.

Looking forward to it getting it lots.

How exciting.

grant

14:27 / 28.03.03

Quantum - you can get it at that first link! Wooo!

There are also demo versions and earlier, more lo-fi things up here:
http://www.mp3.com/grant, a page which has links to other pages with other songs on 'em.

Saveloy: it's OK, it is. There are a couple things I could monkey around with and fidget with forever trying to improve, but (to use a home repair analogy) I think that'd just wind up stripping the threads.

It's a very indie label. Like it's one guy. Who just dupes albums by people whose music he likes.

grant

17:04 / 28.03.03

got the real cover and tray card now:

cusm

17:56 / 28.03.03

Kick ass

000

22:03 / 28.03.03

*sullen*

As someone who vehemently despises credit cards, I wonder if it is possible to secure your lovely creative output by different means?

grant

20:51 / 30.03.03

That's a very good question. Thing is, I don't *have* any copies of it. I haven't actually held one in my hands yet. I imagine if you email Sammy McKee at The Unlike, you could work out some kind of check or money order thing. Or you could wait for me to get a few in here at my house and send me the requisite dosh.

Mmm.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:34 / 30.03.03

Woohoo, it has 'Burn At Both Ends' and 'Hey Shaggy' on it. I will indeed have to get this, but like BC I have no credit card and may have to wait, or get some nice person to order it for me and pay them...

MJ-12

23:19 / 30.03.03

Or you could wait for me to get a few in here at my house and send me the requisite dosh.

You've changed, man. It used to be all about the music.

grant

18:35 / 31.03.03

I'm as corporate as they come.

Oh, yes.

grant

19:30 / 29.10.03

OK, I made a new song. People seem to like it. I think it sounds a little like Archers of Loaf.

It's up here at this online mixtape:
http://www.burnsidemusic.com/, track 9

If that link doesn't work, here's another, straight to the mp3.

It's called "Nanomites," I did it with my friend harry, and it's about smart dust, as discussed elsewhere on Barbelith. I sort of wrote it for my cousin, who requested a song about sweating and Texas, where she's currently being bored out of her pretty little head by the military industrial complex. (Married a soldier, you see.)

As the abstract says, I again welcome constructive criticism. And adulation, of course.

grant

19:39 / 29.10.03

Did I mention the toy piano solo? I should mention that.

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