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These are mostly demos. Enjoy. – John

 

 

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Here are some demos for your listening pleasure.

 

The good-quality tracks were recorded by other people, like Scott Wilson and Rob Snell and Lucas McTaggart.

The poorer-quality tracks were recorded by me.

 

Accidental Physics (drum-machine demo) (lyrics)

Mashed-Potato Sky (demo) (lyrics)

Ancient Jazz (lyrics)

Me and My Kind (lyrics)

Arbor Day (lyrics)

Mullet Boy Enumerates (demo 1) (lyrics)

Are You Wearing Argyle? (lyrics)

A New England (Billy Bragg)

At Five in the Morning (lyrics)

The Nose Hairs Burn (lyrics)

Being a Saint (live)* (lyrics)

Not to Stay (lyrics)

Beneficial Neglect (demo)** (lyrics)

The Ordinary Women***

Bricks Aspire (lyrics)

Register 5 (lyrics)

Chuck of 8 Chins (lyrics)

The Secret Pal Song (lyrics)

Clever Arnold (lyrics)

Shovel, Shovel, Shovel (lyrics)

Daguerreotype (demo)** (lyrics)

Sign Your Name (Terence Trent D’Arby)

Football Blood (lyrics)

So Help Me Something (lyrics)

The Front Steps in Summer (lyrics)

Sometimes a Ghost Is All You’ve Got (lyrics)

The Front Steps in Summer (live)* (lyrics)

Spasmatron (demo)** (lyrics)

Goat Is Got (demo) (lyrics)

Swimming Herward (acoustic) (lyrics)

Going Dutch Means You’re Ugly / viii (lyrics) (lyrics)

Swing on By (lyrics)

Handpockets (soft) (lyrics)

That Kind of Funny (lyrics)

Handpockets (loud) (lyrics)

The Time to Talk Is Now (lyrics)

A Host in Heresy (lyrics)

There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths)

A Host in Heresy (live)* (lyrics)

To Be an Expatriate (lyrics)

I Have Followed You (lyrics)

Tomorrow Wants to Extend (demo)* (lyrics)

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)

Tomorrow Wants to Extend (live)* (lyrics)

Krakatoa (demo) (lyrics)

Tractor Rape Chain (Guided by Voices)

Life-Size Stencils (guitar & vocals mix) (lyrics)

Trigger Cut (Pavement)

Little Palaces (Elvis Costello)

Welcome (lyrics)

Mallory-Free* (lyrics)

Wheat in Wind (lyrics)

 

*Appearing on these tracks are fellow Persians Todd Hunt, Lee Graham, and Steve Chrestman (or some combo thereof).

**Appearing on these tracks are fellow Men from Nantucket Gordon Garretson, Steve Chrestman, and Andy Sherman (or some combo thereof).

***The lyrics to this song are a Wallace Stevens poem of the same name, originally published in Harmonium (1923); the music is mine.