21-05-2016: organizing media release dates for the alter-reality

tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1

lastly, there will be a youtube account, but it will only post *samples* of songs rather than entire songs. i'm looking at one minute samples of pretty much every song. i will want to use this profile as a commenting perch, of course. i was going to re-use the dtk profile, but i've decided not to. see, what i've learned is that posting full tracks to youtube makes people think the music is free, and it simply can't be. the point is to push people to bandcamp. fuck streaming. i'll post it when i set it up tomorrow; i'm uploading right now and can't log out. but, this profile won't start working until september, either.

for right now, it's just the blogspot site that will be working.

i'm hitting a math rock show tomorrow night, but i'll be home relatively early and should be able to start realigning the three facebook pages with the period one disc and getting back to finalizing the inri material for good.

this is going to be the new facebook page, because people don't exist outside of facebook, so you need it, even if you hate it. but, it's just going to list links to bandcamp as they come up. all the actual writing will be at the blogspot page. it's really just an obligation.

https://www.facebook.com/inri-1719120681676528

this is going to be the new bandcamp space, which will build itself up from 1996-1999, starting in september 2016. so, it's going to take the full four years to get through this material. but, inri is just period one. i will start a new bandcamp page for deny everything (period 2.1) in the year 2020.

http://jnrj.bandcamp.com/

it turns out that blogger is giving me everything that i want, for now, in a fairly simple interface. all i wanted was a simple journal-style page without heavy scripting and with an rss feed. but, i was hoping i could find a site like this - livejournal or tumblr or something - that gives me what i want because it allows me to post in real time.

i do think that i'll eventually move this to an appspot site, but what that means is that i'll need to upload the whole site every time i make a post. the reality is that it's going to be a while before the site gets more complex, anyways, so this just makes more sense for the moment. i *did* try livejournal, but it looks like it wants to charge me, and i'm not paying. google is always good for free stuff, anyways. in time, i should be able to just copy and paste this page over. really.

so, this is the blog space for the alter-reality. facebook is just a shitty interface, so i'm trying to avoid it - and, actually, get the remaining data that's here off of it. that's going to mean wiping this page down to a cv-type skeleton. the blogspot page will be the most comprehensive thing to follow, the meta level page, where all the links to bandcamp and other comments will come up.

http://therealinri.blogspot.ca/

there's a lot of stuff on that record that doesn't sound much like soundgarden, but is actually extremely well put together. the record continues to get flak for being "unfocused", but that's always missed the point - the late 90s were really a final renaissance of expansive art rock, and the record really fits in perfectly along with other period classics like mcis, aenima and ok computer. i'd argue it's highly underrated, and arguably even their best record. the psychedelic sound that dominates the disc was picked up by cameron & shepherd in the wellwater conspiracy, which seems to suggest that it was actually the rhythm section that had taken over the band in it's twilight phase.

anyways. i'll get to this. but this is another underappreciated track from that disc that i used to listen to quite a bit.

i pull a pretty heavy ty cobb in the climax to the first section of this track:

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/to-spin-inside-dull-aberrations-2

if you're too young to know what i'm talking about:

my records going back to 1996 are not perfect, but, then again, i've been over this before: who has digital records from 1996? the oldest cd list i can find is from 2002. there are records in archives somewhere that are older than this...if i can find them...

but, here is what i can reconstruct.

now, note that this is going to necessarily be mildly revisionist, in the sense that i didn't buy every cd on the day it came out. some of it, i know i did - like the i mother earth disc, or the nin disc. but i didn't get into stuff like labradford or tortoise until 98 or 99. i can remember exactly when i got into labradford - i saw them open for gybe! on the slow riot tour, which was the spring of '99. tortoise is a little more blurry. i remember getting standards on the release date.

the point is that this is going to have to be approximate, whether i like it or not. although, there is a possibility that it could get very, very accurate starting about mid '97, if i can get to those archives.

i don't get online until mid '97 or so, and there's going to be a big gap over that period. i'm comfortable waiting until i get there before i start looking for usenet and listserv archives.

but, we can see where i'm going with this quite clearly. my first post is going to no doubt be about enjoying the new soundgarden record, down on the upside.

hard-headed, fuck you all.
just add it all
to the hot rod death toll.

that mandolin solo, though.

the page will be up soonish.

download  microscopic  1996  ep  jan 9, 1996
radiohead  street spirit  1996  single  jan 22, 1996
limblifter llimblifter  1996  lp  jan 23, 1996
stabbing westward  wither, blister, burn + peel  1996  lp  jan 23rd
the smashing pumpkins  1979  1996  ep  jan 26th
tortoise  millions now living will never die  1996  lp  jan 30
econoline crush  affliction  1996  lp  feb 20
skinny puppy  brap  1996  2xlp  feb 27
the process  1996  lp
charlie's family  1996  lp
gravity kills  gravity kills  1996  lp  mar 5
the smashing pumpkins  1979 mixes  1996  ep  mar 12th
stp  tiny music  1996  ep  mar 26
the tea party  alhambra  1996  ep  mar ?
the smashing pumpkins  tonight, tonight  1996  ep  apr 15
man or astroman?  experiment zero  1996  lp  april 16th
the smashing pumpkins  zero  1996  ep  apr 23
download  sidewinder  1996  ep  april 30, 1996
soundgarden  down on the upside  1996  lp  may 21

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download  the eyes of stanley pain  1996  lp  may 28th
nine inch nails  quake soundtrack  1996  lp  june 22
kmfdm  xtort  1996  lp  june 25th
sponge  wax ecstatic  1996  lp  july 2nd
i mother earth  scenery and fish  1996  lp  july 9th
ost  escape from l.a.  1996  lp  july 15
alice in chians  unplugged  1996  lp  july 30
various (charity)  sweet relief ii  1996  lp  aug 6
rhcp  coffee shop  1995  single  aug 12
white zombie  supersexy swingin' sounds  1996  lp  aug 15th
foetus  boil  1996  lp  aug 20
pearl jam  no code  1996  lp  aug 27th
rem  e-bow the letter  1996  ep  aug 27th
rem  new adventures in hifi  1996  lp  sept 9
the smashing pumpkins live at the corel centre in ottawa  sept 13
tool  aenima  1996  lp  sept 17
moby  animal rights  1996  lp  sept 23rd
weezer  pinkerton  1996  lp  sept 24
the tear garden  to be an angel blind, the crippled soul divide  1996  lp  oct 1
garbage  milk  1996  single  oct 7
korn  life is peachy  1996  lp  oct 15th
swans  soundtracks for the blind  1996  2xlp  oct 22
bjork  possibly maybe  1996  single  oct 28
garbage  #1 crush  1996  single  oct 29
aphex twin  rdj album  1996  lp  nov 4
james gorner / billy corgan  ransom  1996  lp  nov 5
the smashing pumpkins  33  1996  ep  nov 11
bowery electric  beat  1996  lp  nov 12
labradford  labradford  1996  lp  nov 12th
barenaked ladies  rock spectacle  1996  ep  nov 19, 1996
bush  razorblade suitcase  1996  lp  nov 19, 1996
our lady peace  superman's dead  1996  single  dec 16, 1996
the offspring  all i want  1996  single  dec 31, 1996