Hi Sinister, Well, I've done something for the obscure B&S collectors among you. Today I made some MP3s of some of the rarer stuff I have so that everyone can hear it. I don't have any good way of sharing it so I'm on Napster right now and my username is Mickmcmick. I've only got a 56k connection so please bear with me. Hopefully the tracks will spread somewhat virally. Here's what I encoded: "Tigermilk" Instrumental: Well I'm not 100% certain this is the elusive Tigermilk Instrumental, but it's an instrumental the band played in Barcelona, 1997, and it hasn't been released yet. So since the only instrumental we've heard mention of is the Tigermilk Instrumental I tentatively gave it that name. It's not the world's greatest song or anything, but it's interesting to hear it. Studio version of Loneliness of the Middle Distance Runner: there are versions of this song circulating on Napster but they're just live cuts. This one was recorded in a studio and features Stevie's guitar very prominently. I put the word studio in the name of the MP3 so that you can distinguish between this one and the live versions. Rhoda: This one's also been making the rounds in MP3 form, but the MP3 circulating was only recorded at 96 kbps, this one is 160. Also, the version circulating is very, very quiet. This one is a normal volume, although it has more tape hiss. Most importantly, the other version had the beginning of the song nicked off after the first line or so of lyrics. This one has the whole song. It's not a massive improvement but I figured while I was at it... Hurley's Having Dreams: This is one of the three Stuart Murdoch/Rhode Island demos, I think a lot of people have it on tape but I haven't seen it at all on Napster. So I encoded it. Pocketbook Angel / London Has Let Me Down Again: The other two demos. These are on Napster, but when I downloaded them from Napster I found them to be of horriffic quality with ungodly amounts of tape hiss. So I recorded my (marginally better) copies and filtered out a lot of the hiss. In fact I filtered tape hiss out of all of these and encoded them all at 160 kbps. So for the ones which are already on Napster just look for the 160 kbps versions. Well, I liked Sophie's theory about the mystery third Legal Man track. That makes a lot of sense. They did sort of the same thing with 3...6...9 didn't they? Oh and if anyone has a place to host these songs let me know, that would be much easier. -- Brian Pennington, aka Mick McMick | cellophanesky@mac.com | ICQ# 39021436 Sandcastle Records: <http://www.indiepages.com/sandcastle/> the Cellophane Sky:<http://home.earthlink.net/~cellophanesky/the/index.html> "Better a tear of truth than smiling lies." - Duncan Browne +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+