Sinister: Spread the Love

[Brian Pennington]

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 at mac.com | ICQ# 39021436
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