Mississauga Rattler

album name: Mississauga Rattler
band name: by Dan Bryk

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1.	Coralie 03:18		download
2.	Love Song 02:52		download
3.	She Just Wants To Get High 03:02		download
4.	Love So Wrong 03:45		download
5.	Here Comes Love 05:13	info	download
6.	Now I'm Gone 03:15		download
7.	Misery Loves Company 02:35		download
8.	If I Wasn't The Only One 03:09	info	download
9.	Nothing Much 02:53		download
10.	Life With Billy 03:17		download
11.	Baby's Got Baggage 03:05		download
12.	You Will Still Be Alone 03:27		download
13.	Just Give Up 07:49		download

about: These are demos that I made at home for what would have been the follow-up album to Lovers Leap.

The handful of fans and friends who know these songs or have heard me butcher them live over the years have been on me to finally record them, but I've finally come to accept that I might never get around to making a proper record of them.

This isn't even all of the demos from that time; some of the songs like Discount Store, Simple Stupid Song and My Own Worst Enemy have shown up in far superior versions elsewhere.

I remember reading an interview with Andy Partridge where he talked about writer's block. He complained of having so many song ideas stuck inside him, it felt quite like constipation. Making a record and getting the songs out there was (as memory serves) "like taking a nice artistic crap." Even now, I have a serious backlog of unrecorded material the past few years, so I'm kind of hoping that "freeing" these songs might get them out of my system so I can move on and finish up dozens of unfinished new songs. (I'm also crossing my fingers that maybe other people might want to cover these...)

A quick caveat emptor -- please feel free to listen first. I played and recorded everything nearly ten years of gigging and recording ago, so I apologize in advance for my relative lack of experience, my clunky drum machine programming, (worse!) the drum parts triggered on a sampler before the advent of acid and apple loops, and (especially!) the fact that I didn't and still don't play guitar -- anything that sounds like a guitar is probably a sample that might possibly send "real" guitarists running from the room screaming. Here's hoping I get by on hapless charm and solid songwriting.

I, too, find parts of these demos cringeworthy (particularly the first-take singing which was never intended for public consumption) but I'm still VERY proud of the songs themselves. Considering they ultimately got me dropped by my label, there is a certain vindication in knowing after all this time that these are still pretty good songs.

I hope you enjoy,

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credits: released 01 January 2003
Recorded and performed by Dan Bryk, except as noted.
license: Some rights reserved
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