Faking! Ever put up an MP3 of a track supposedly by someone famous (but it's a cunning spoof)

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If not, name tracks you know aint who they are supposedly by...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

just posted this in the BoC thread but there is a track called "Litter Duty" I wrote that someone has renamed as being by BoC. T'wasn't me neither, honest guv.

The original is by Autofire and I'm quite proud of it. It's very tempting to start actually doing this with my other tracks to see what happens.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

also, why is every reggae song on slsk by Bob Marley? What makes people do this?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Ones I know of:

"Cities" by Bjork - actually a convincing fake by Liam Lynch
"Loser Remix" by Fatboy Slim It sounds more like the prodigy, but its not them either.

One time, a Victoria Beckham track was supposedly leaked called "I Wish", ahead of her first album. This made the tabloid pop pages, and I was quite interested in writing and producing a 'fake' song called that, but it went no further...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i've always wanted to put "running wild" by fresh air on slsk as a guided by voices track. have a listen and tell me you wouldn't double-take (it's on one of the Rubble comps and if Bob hasn't heard it i'm a monkeys feckin uncle)

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

whilst searching for the new Orbital album i kept seeing this track called 'Blue Illusion' - surely a fake?

when i first started doing big mash-up style mixes a few years back i was going to put them up as credited to Avalanches or 2 Many DJs but refrained

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Before Autechre released Confield there was a whole fake album by Team Doyobi released online.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Some Clientele and Camera Obscura tracks used to come up as being by Belle & Sebastian.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

(I am assuming that was a mistake, rather than anything to do with either band, though).

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I downloaded Vespertine the other day and track 8 had been replaced by that "Dirty Little Boy" track by Aphex. The rest of the album was intact. Why would anyone make that mistake?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Blue Illusion is actually by some German dude called Stevie Be Zet, although it does sound like early Orbital.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Blue Illusion" is a fake, aye. There's a track I can't remember the name of that claims to be by "Aphex, Kraftwerk, Autechre, Orbital" and, although it's quite nice, patently isn't! I've seen it id'd also as saying "If you like Aphex, Kraftwerk..." etcetera.

x-post

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

If any of you still have those spoof files, i'd love to hear them, i collect p2p spoofing stuff. anything from the cuckoos to overpeer. unfortuantely alot of these are just people being misinformed and renaming a file. my favorite is "the cars that go boom" originally done by L'Trimm but on p2p most versions are attributed to L'Tigre...

― PeterALopez, Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

What do people think about this phenomenon? Does it just annoy you, or do you think it breaks down barriers in some way? Does it depend on whether you are fooled or not?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

it can be annoying, but i suppose it's one of the quirks of p2p and you can't really complain if you're getting these songs for free. More frustrating is the fake "looped" tracks like they did for the new Streets.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Its a very good way indeed of getting your music heard. Just putting "Aphex" or "Radiohead" on a MP3 pretty much guarantees that thousands of people will download it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm surprised it doesn't happen more, to be honest.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

.. and if you put a contact email in the mp3's text section, I wonder what kind of messages you would get?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

some German dude called Stevie Be Zet

Blue Illusion. Surely he's not that unknown? One of the semi-legendary Frankfurt producers. A mislabeled track rather than a fake, that.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

.. and if you put a contact email in the mp3's text section, I wonder what kind of messages you would get?

ones from lawyers I'm sure.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Only if money was involved.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

No money trading hands should mean the laws about passing off might not apply (dunno - I'm not a lawyer), but maybe it could be argued that if one uses the notes tag to build up one's own career on the back of theirs, it would still be a violation. And then there might be stuff about it tarnishing their image if the tracks were no good (or better!)

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Then again, if all it does is annoy people, then maybe it could be argued that the act is comparable to the filesharing-spoiling tactics employed by the record companies themselves (blank and looped mp3s).

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

(previous post) but then, Beck could sue all the acts that ever passed themselves off as Beck. or Becklike.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

a poster who is in ILX exile has an mp3 of an "interesting" karaoke bar recording tagged as being some indie supergroup "backstage" collaboration.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I recorded a Pornography-era Cure rip-off at home once, as an excercise to get to know my digital recorder gizmo. If I copied it from tape to tape a few times and floated it out onto SS land it would probably fool most folks, although there's no singing.

― mzui, Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

we did retitle some (band name here) tracks as if by pink floyd for audiogalaxy propagation... so yes

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Somebody out there has stuck their own demo on Limewire and pretended it's the Wedding Present's 'My Favourite Dress' despite the fact it's got a completely different tune, sound, words, everything. I can't work out if this was out of hatred for the Wedding Present, desire for a wider audience, or just a fuckwitted mistake.

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought i'd found an unreleased Pavement track once called "summer tune" or something but suspicion strangled my joy when steve malkmus sang with a strange germanic lilt.

― Flotsam of the Fishfolk (Flotsam of the Fishfolk), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i've always wanted to put "running wild" by fresh air on slsk as a guided by voices track.

GBV actually has a track called "Run Wild"... you could replace just that track and include it with the rest of the songs on Isolation Drills...

Some of the misnamings may be due to people ripping mix CDs and having tracks misidentified by CDDB... it repeatedly claims a track some friends and I recorded as Metallica's version of "Whiskey in the Jar", which is pretty funny if you know us and the actual track...

― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The whiskey wasn't even IN the jar!

― jazz odysseus (jazz odysseus), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember that Weezer's Green Album was actually Pavement's Westing for quite a few months before it came out. Why I was downloading either of them is probably worth finding out.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

ive seen "crimson and clover" everywhere on filesharing networks as being by the velvet underground.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 14 May 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

my confusion and stupidity caused many collector geeks, and pitchfork I think, to believe the Homosexuals had recorded a version of Rainy Day Sunshine Girl by Faust.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 14 May 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

back in the napster days there were some shockingly funny Guns 'n' Roses "Chinese Democracy" fakes

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 14 May 2004 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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