What is your rarest MP3?

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― Fjord Spellman (fjord), Saturday, 29 July 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Probably the home recording of Puerto Rican frogs that a friend sent me.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Saturday, 29 July 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have a live album by Tipographica that was a bitch to find.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 29 July 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Boredoms "Boretronix" cassette, probably.

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 29 July 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Sleeve: YSI?

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

my Butcher cover mp3s, Elvis Sun mp3s, honus wagner mp3

― Fjord Spellman (fjord), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

all the ones I made myself

― unnamedroffler (xave), Saturday, 29 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

The one of me yelling "Oh god and baby jesus" while sledding off a track in Chardon, Ohio in 1995.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

hasn't the rarity of all music been made significantly less rare since the invention of, oh I don't know, the Mp3 format and file sharing?

some things are neglected and/or unpopular but I'd say there's not much out there anymore that's rare. if it's online it's online and there's a simple way to find it.

YSI the sledding mp3 though!

― Ryan Walsh (rhw), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

lots of things aren't so simple to find though!

― unnamedroffler (xave), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

honus wagner mp3

roffl

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

oh yes Ryan Walsh if that is your real name, you are right about that. If it comes on the computernet it replicates like a bug. What is the meaning of the term: RARE. We ARE REDEFINING WORDS AND CONCEPTS WITH THE COMPUTERNET.

― Fjord Spellman (fjord), Saturday, 29 July 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

taiwan deth - get low

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Fjord! Let's not fight! I'm just clarifying the discussion because I think it's slightly off kilter. I'm not saying I'm right. & please know: All caps is not the answer.

― Ryan Walsh (rhw), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

britney dfa remix

― a.b. (alanbanana), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

bummer

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) you mean the DFA demo, right? That one's always good for a laugh.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Saturday, 29 July 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Back when Link Wray died, ilXer mcd YSI'd an unreleased Link Wray recording called "Link #2" that he acquired from his dad, who apparently worked with the dude. It's a really great song, and definitely one of my favorite Link Wray tunes.

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

steve goldberg rarities

― mark grebt (sanskrit), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

An early version of the last Frank Black CD--there was a period where whenever I signed onto slsk somebody'd be grabbing them from me. So probably not so rare anymore, but still rarer than the rest of it. Oh, and an alternative version of the last Freddie Jackson album, but nobody ever tried to grab that.

― Eppy (Eppy), Saturday, 29 July 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

that early version of the last frank black cd had me very confused, and now I know who's responsible, time for a strongly worded letter of complaint....

An mp3 of someone making bird noises on a viola while her friend moos on a cello. Does that count? Also I think I have mp3s of a biosphere album backwards, I don't know why. I have mp3's of me missing Yo la tengo at a music festival in 2000, only one other person in the world has it and he's an acid casualty, it;s rare and pretty boring.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Saturday, 29 July 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say...
No-Neck Blues Band- Broken Circle Cassette
No-Neck Blues Band- Wolfen Nickel Euro Tour Cd

and a good number of live shows from various people, including one of Lichens which the guy made me promise to never share on the internet. a nice recording too.

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 29 July 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I had a really tough time finding MP3's of the Q-Chastic test pressing, but I don't know how rare they really are.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Saturday, 29 July 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Dodo Resurrection - Nostradamus
+ a rip of the Altar of Melek Taus 7".

― Rombald (rombald), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and the three tracks that I have by that group called 'Villa Savoye,' that apparently no one else has ever heard of...

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

the alex and simon post-rock experience MP3.

― alext (alext), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, yeah, sorry, I didn't really intend it for public distribution, I just forgot it was in my shared folder.

― Eppy (Eppy), Saturday, 29 July 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ghandi - live stuff (Page Hamilton's old band after Helmet).

― Jason Comely (rinkjustice), Sunday, 30 July 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Esteban Buttez - "Sociah T Asshole Suck A Dick"

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

You're probably going to think this is a total lameoid answer and say, "That's not rare at all you silly fool," but I have some "rare" stuff by The Scars in mp3 form, including four Peel Session songs, some demo stuff, and some live songs. And Freeze Frame's "Foxhole". And it took me an age and a day to track down the extended mixes for Endgames. But yeah, none of that stuff is probably even remotely rare.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Sunday, 30 July 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

sorry Ryan Walsh, I am new to the computernet.. I do not mean to get to the bad place in computernet space.. I also do like the humor whereas my kidding can seem heavy handed because of the way that only letters and cases have meaning but not face gestures, tone of the voice and familiararity of knowing a persons humorways..

Also I am kidding about Honus Wager MP3 rarieties. that is impossible. I don't believe honus wagner ever committed baseball to recorded form.

― Fjord Spellman (fjord), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Detective Comics #27

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

KIT BRASH OTM

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

my next door neighbour was nixon's secretary so i have the deleted 18 minutes in mp3

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 30 July 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

suckaz

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 30 July 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

I have this mp3 of Jimi Hendrix playing Day Tripper with the Beatles (or at least John Lennon). At least that's what it said when I got it from Kazaa many years ago...

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 30 July 2006 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

Noise Fest is one.

Things that haven't ever been released that I'm not even allowed to talk about!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 30 July 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

unreleased "audio credits" from the first arcade fire album

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 30 July 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

that's not rare at all, you silly fool... since there was a website (currated by a former member of the band, right?) which was offering those for download.

― Dan Gr (certain), Sunday, 30 July 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

the last recordings (ca. 2000) of my wife's old folk group that have only been heard by me and her since they were put on tape.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 30 July 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

i'll throw in along those lines a rip of my father's 60s psych group, too bad it never got the stringsed up treatment it was supposed to get. so that it doesn't stay rare: www.certaindiscs.com/display/the%20music%20box%20-%20take%20a%20look%20outside.mp3

― Dan Gr (certain), Sunday, 30 July 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

rather: here it is

― Dan Gr (certain), Sunday, 30 July 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

> I have this mp3 of Jimi Hendrix playing Day Tripper with the Beatles (or at least John Lennon). At least that's what it said when I got it from Kazaa many years ago...

I don't think that's too rare. It's probably the one on the Radio One CD. It does kick ass, though, so take that as some comfort.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 30 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

hey that was pretty nice dan. i liked waking up to it.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

the early ep by Growing and some live stuff that was cassette only by the same band.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

More seriously, I've got a copy of a set by Gallery playing at my local folk club in 1971, followed by solo spots from a couple of Gallery members a few excellent local singers and musicians.

― Rombald (rombald), Sunday, 30 July 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

I think more people have it now, but I had a hell of a time finding Vokal Ansambl Gordela's "Zinskaro" - the choral piece playing in the scene from Herzog's Nosferatu with the girl walking through the plague-infested city.

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Sunday, 30 July 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

a names means..., thanks. it's a nice tune, in my opinion.

― Dan Gr (certain), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

the alex and simon post-rock experience MP3.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 30 July 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

I have an mp3 of an unknown Brian Eno performance (in the vein of " Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks," but I can't place it) from the early 80s in front of a very sedate crowd, somewhere in Europe. It's very spiritual and I listen to it all the time.

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

"this guy's in love with you" - noel gallagher
live at the burt bacarach gig in 1996.

― pisces (piscesx), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Jim M, I am tormented with envy and desire.

― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 31 July 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

ALL CAPS IS NOT THE ANSWER

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 31 July 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Great rarity = great value, even if (almost) no one wants the thing in question. But that's only half the picture...

Rare objects (and the taste for them) have always been prized by those who enjoy feeling that their interests & possessions make them "special." In this sense, musical elitists are enamored of the belief that they have rarified, even remarkable tastes: that they are somehow able to discern the sublime qualities of things that remain unknown or impenetrable to to others.

This feeds the "rare music" underworld. But (fortunately or unfortunately) file sharing has done a lot to kill the specialness of secret musics -- separating hidden sounds from the ultra-rare objects that once contained them and making the music immediately accessible to any/all interested parties. Therefore, the hoarders of specialness now have to actually manufacture their own secrets by refusing to share them.

More and more, secret music is not that which is merely difficult to come by, but that which is actively withheld from non-elites.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 31 July 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

That's one way to look at it. Another is that weird shit always suffers from poor distribution. I love weird/rare music and I love the fact that the Internet's shaken so much out of the woodwork. Everybody who likes unusual music isn't a hoarder with a god complex, you know.

Anyway, some rare ones I've come by:

LaMonte Young - The Well Tuned Piano
Case in point, this is a little less rare now that several blogs have posted it. The Internet's the perfect vehicle for 5 hour piano pieces.

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - LAMF original cassette mix
Best-sounding version of this unfairly maligned album, rare as hen's teeth, but gotten right here at ILM during the pre-YSI-ban era.

Dog of Mystery - Versus the Electrical Socket Pixies
Actually I've only got about half of this one, but still pretty rare. Pre-Monster Magnet shenanigans by John McBain + Tim Cronin - I've got the original cassettes of this stuff but it's nice to have it digitally.

Entire Skullflower discography, I think I'm missing one song.

John Jacob Niles - American Folk & Gambling Songs
After his appearance in Scorsese's Dylan documentary there was a resurgence in interest in him - good thing, because his entire discography was out of print. A couple of his albums have been reissued since, but not this one from '56. Great stuff, the final track is called "American Street, Field and Jail House Cries" wherein Niles strings together short little field cries for 6 minutes in his bonechilling soprano. It's like somebody stuck a knife in the side of early 20th century America and let the sounds pour out in a rush...

Holy Toy - Panzers & Rabbits
Obscure Polish art punk band from the early 80s. I'd put this album on par with Pere Ubu or Monitor, nobody seems to have heard of them.

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

the bizarrest: a version of 'Get Back' with Macca changing the word to sing some lame racist even for the time guff about 'no Pakistanis, taking all our jobs'.

the best: 'Wood Beez' as a demo in 82 or so with the 'Songs to Remember' line-up; though don't think that's too rare for most Scritti afficinadoes.

― darren (darren), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Edward:

I know, and I agree with you. I was just working out some early morning hostility. Kinda like jumping jacks. But less funny.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

EdwardIII:
John Jacob Niles - American Folk & Gambling Songs
After his appearance in Scorsese's Dylan documentary there was a resurgence in interest in him - good thing, because his entire discography was out of print. A couple of his albums have been reissued since, but not this one from '56. Great stuff, the final track is called "American Street, Field and Jail House Cries" wherein Niles strings together short little field cries for 6 minutes in his bonechilling soprano. It's like somebody stuck a knife in the side of early 20th century America and let the sounds pour out in a rush...
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One of my favorite JJN records, by a long way. The final track is actually part of a much older tradition, going back to baroque music, of making songs from street cries. Some of the cries JJN sings are quite charming - "If you don't read nothin, you won't know nothin!" I also love his "Who Killed Cock Robin"...

Oh, I've got mp3s of a Smashchords 12"... is that rare?

― Rombald (rombald), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

hours of New Order demos from the Technique era.

― crazy (brother loves dub), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Therefore, the hoarders of specialness now have to actually manufacture their own secrets by refusing to share them.

This was going on before filesharing.

― unnamedroffler (xave), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

probably Esther Williams - "Last Night Changed It All"

― It's Rodney, assume the position! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to hear "Sociah T Asshole Suck A Dick."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 1 August 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

No mention of m@rissa?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

steve goldberg mp3

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

i had a bunch of 60s psych and 70s/80s post punk mp3s that were probably rare great before they all got reissued. shit from vinyl, etc. like the us of a lp. or screamers stuff from many-times overdubbed cassettes. or things like a robert rental live set.

so much of all that stuff has become less rare over time. a friend has the entire subpop singles collection ripped from his copies of the vinyl. again, most of that is probably fetchable.

another buddy has audio of sam phillips and merle haggard amongst others singing a few tunes in honor of another nashvillian's 70th birthday. including some great phillips preaching about the gospel of popular music.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

The US of A LP has been on CD since before the days of mp3s though! It had a Sony/CBS CD release through the 90s that went out of print before being reissued again.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Not counting unreleased/demo material: possibly Bad Religion's _Into The Unknown_?

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Not rare, and not the thread I found it through, but can any of you German speakers find the password for this lot?:

http://www.apd.dl.am/

I wish to flip my wig to Husker Du for evaluation purposes only.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

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