Blue EP

1. Shuffle, Kick, Hum a Tune
2. The Thing About Distance
3. March 25th, 1998
4. What a Wonderful Puddle (Braid)
5. Just Broken
6. Rowing a Dead Horse
7. Through the Sound of Crashing Pins
8. Mine

One of the first Hush Records releases (007 according to Jealous Butcher). It was released on CDR with handmade artwork and a lyric booklet.

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Kind of Like Spitting (cassette)

A1. Water Works
A2. Power Chords
A3. Tape Deck
A4. February 18th, 1996
A5. Big Grey Parlor
A6. Winter
A7. Drop the Bomb
A8. 4-Letter Words (Dan Devriend)
A9. No Free Refills

B1. Liquid Boy (Treepeople)
B2. Outside
B3. Answering Machine (The Replacements)
B4. Bookworm (Kpants)
B5. Still Be Around (Uncle Tupelo)
B6. Better Anyway
B7. You Poor Miserable Fool (The Karl Hendricks Trio)
B8. Lazer Diagram

Virtually impossible release to find a copy of. No, scrap the 'virtually' from that sentence this release is impossible to find. I've known about KoLS for a decade now and I can't recall having ever seen a copy of this cassette for sale.

Some kind person sent me a couple of CDRs a long time ago with a load of KoLS rarities on and included a rip of this cassette. Thank you to that person whoever you are (I still have the blue bit of card with your collage on).

Released on cassette by Jealous Butcher in 1996.

On this rip 'Water Works' and 'Power Chords' are still attached so there are 16 files instead of 17.

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Des Ark / Kind of Like Spitting / David Rovics - Tour CD

1. Des Ark - Unknown
2. Des Ark - Unknown
3. Des Ark - Unknown
4. Des Ark - Unknown
5. Des Ark - Unknown
6. Kind of Like Spitting - Share the Road
7. Kind of Like Spitting - Canaries
8. Kind of Like Spitting - That's What I Want to Hear (Phil Ochs)
9. Kind of Like Spitting - Passionate
10. Kind of Like Spitting - Little Time Bomb (Billy Bragg)
11. Kind of Like Spitting - Remember Me (Phil Ochs)
12. David Rovics - Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)
13. David Rovics - Draft Dodger Rag (Phil Ochs)
14. David Rovics - Who Would Jesus Bomb?
15. David Rovics - Oppositional Defiance Disorder
16. David Rovics - Drink of the Death Squads
17. David Rovics - The Saint Patrick Battalion
18. David Rovics - Shut Them Down

Complete mystery surrounds this release. Is anyone able to shed some light on it?

When I purchased it I was told it was a tour CD but was given no other information. It's just a CD, professionally pressed, with no sleeve (just white cardboard), no track listing, no label information (unless 'Slave 9' means anything?), nothing.
I've worked out the song titles for the KoLS and David Rovics sections but I'm unfamiliar with Des Ark.
All songs are good quality live recordings.

I've had to split this into two sections as it was too big to upload otherwise. Part 1 contains just the Des Ark set, Part 2 has all of the KoLS and David Rovics songs.

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Insound Tour Support #14

1. Fuck Liz Where Are You?
2. Now I Can Smile (The Minders)
3. Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen)
4. Prairie Lullaby (Mary L Rodgers*)
5. Firework
6. The Last Time I Saw Richard (Joni Mitchell)
7. Continent
8. Instinctually Restricted the Animal Will Bolt

* The insert states, "Written by Mary L. Rodgers, adapted from the Leon Redbone version". Allmusic.com's database suggests credit could also be given to Jimmie Rodgers, George "Funky" Brown and Billy Hill.

According to discogs.com this was released in 2000 in an edition of 1,000 copies.

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City on Film / Sterling Silver / Kind of Like Spitting

1. City on Film - Portland, Maine and the Pouring Rain
2. City on Film - Fairytale of New York (The Pogues cover)
3. Sterling Silver - The Cliff
4. Sterling Silver - Aleopoldbloom
5. Kind of Like Spitting - Blue Period
6. Kind of Like Spitting - Out of Harm's Way Finally...

This is one of the hardest KoLS-related CDs to track down. It was a tour CDR released in 1998 in an edition of 300 numbered copies with the help of Shout Midnight, Jealous Butcher and Slowdance Records.

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Home Vol. 1

1. Kind of Like Spitting - Beat Down the Kid
2. Kind of Like Spitting - Grenada
3. Jeff London - Happening to Me
4. Jeff London - Out of Reach

The first release in Post-Parlo's 'Home' series of split CDs. Released in 2000 in an edition of 1,000 CDs.

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Live in Seattle

1. I don't love you anymore (Magnetic Fields cover)
2. Song for you (Leon Russell cover)
3. Town (later named 'Aubergine')
4. 26 is too soon
5. Canaries
6. Annie's Harmonica
7. Sheriff Ochs
8. Happy
9. Passionate

Recorded on the date of Ben's birthday by James Nixon at the Vera Project in Seattle. It was released on hand-decorated CDRs in an edition of 50 copies and sold via the Hush Records website ("this is hush 51:A whether Chad likes it or not" written on the insert).

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City on Film / Kind of Like Spitting - Split 7"

A. The City on Film - Portland Maine and the Pouring Rain
B1. Kind of Like Spitting - There It Goes, So It Goes
B2. Kind of Like Spitting - Free Advice

One of the earliest label releases for Kind of Like Spitting. This 7" was released on Sport Records in 1999. Similar to the Rose of Sharon split, this may have had multiple pressings - although it's unlikely - due to some sleeves having bolder text and images.

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Kind of Like Spitting / Rose of Sharon - Split 7"

A. Kind of Like Spitting - A Shaggy Dog Shames Its Owner
AA. Rose of Sharon - Five Sides or So

Limited edition 7" vinyl released by Jealous Butcher Records. There were at least a couple of variations on the inserts included with this record (I'll try and add some images one day) so it could have had more than one pressing.

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Birds of a Feather 7"

A. Birds of a Feather
B1. Afraid of Crushes
B2. Rowing a Dead Horse

Released on vinyl by Grand Theft Autumn in an edition of 1000 black 7".
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Other tracks

Not sure where most of these came from or whether some really exist. Song titles are links to the mp3, bit rate varies.

Army of me (Bjork cover)
Brenda
Caroline, part 2
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd St.? (Bruce Springsteen cover)
Enjoy the view
Fire Alarm
I can't articulate
*I got bit by a spider*
Labels (Genius - GZA of Wu Tang Clan - cover)
Les Serpientes en el Aeroplano
Luck of the lasso
No, no girl (I'm at the backdoor)
Pseudothyrum Song (Mountain Goats cover)
Such Great Heights (The Postal Service cover)
Sweet Caroline
Vent
Weight
You have to let me try again
Zeroes

Cash Money Bros

Someone with a better memory than me will have to fill in some of the background to this live show. Where? When? Who? All I can remember at the moment is that it features, amongst others, Ben Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie) on drums.

01. In the Flesh (Pink Floyd)
02. The King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1 (Neutral Milk Hotel)
03. Dostoyevsky Gets Mugged Outside A Donut Shop In Jersey (Kind of Like Spitting)
04. A Hit ((smog))
05. I'm A Wizard
06. You Remind me of Home (Death Cab For Cutie)
07. Back To Gray (The Thermals cover)
08. Without You
09. Girl Problem (Elevator to Hell cover)
10. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper cover)


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What Will We Do With Our Hair? (demos)

Four untitled collaborations between Ben and his sister, Meredith.


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Live at C-Pop Art Gallery

Detroit, 19th July 2002

01. Following days
02. Dostoyevsky gets mugged outside a donut shop in Jersey
03. Birds of a feather
04. Where were you in Chicago? (Phil Ochs cover)
05. Outside a small circle of friends (Phil Ochs cover)
06. That's what I wanna hear (Phil Ochs cover)
07. Free Advice
08. Yes, you're busted
09. We are both writers
10. Girl problem (Elevator to Hell cover)
11. St. Swithen's Day (Billy Bragg cover)
12. Blue period
13. How's Croatia?
14. Vent
15. Untitled
16. Canaries
17. Passionate
18. I'm gonna say it now (Phil Ochs cover)
19. Little time bomb (Billy Bragg cover)
20. Everybody loves you babe (Billy Bragg cover)
21. In the flesh (Pink Floyd cover)
22. A hit ((Smog) cover)
23. The thing about distance
24. Valentine's Day is over (Billy Bragg cover)

Duo performance of Ben and David.
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Live at Le Jive Music Cafe

Wyandotte, MI, 12th June 2003

01. Canaries
02. Sheriff Ochs
03. Dostoyevsky gets mugged outside a donut shop in Jersey
04. Untitled
05. An American tune (Paul Simon cover)
06. Passionate
07. Happy?
08. Common People (Pulp cover)
09. A future worth remembering
10. Birds of a feather
11. Dodge dart
12. Little time bomb (Billy Bragg cover)
13. Following days
14. On the subject of her new gold star
15. The last time I saw Richard (Joni Mitchell cover)

Coming back to this set after a few years I've noticed there is no mention of Bob Nanna on the flier - although I apparently have (somewhere) a small Bob Nanna set that was performed before this. So the date and venue may be incorrect.

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After show acoustic set (Electric Factory, mp3)

Live at the Electric Factory
Philadelphia, 23rd November 2002

01. Canaries (end of)
02. La familia (Mirah cover)
03. We are both writers
04. Life with Lions (Billy Bragg cover)
05. Bubble Congress
06. On the subject of her new gold star
07. *Unknown*
08. In the red
09. Dostoyevsky gets mugged outside a donut shop in Jersey
10. Happy?

19mb zip folder but mp3s at 256kbps.
I have it down that there are videos of this set so I'll have a look around to see if I have those.


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Bridges Worth Burning (Japanese bonus tracks)

These five demos were added to the end of 'Bridges Worth Burning' on the Japanese edition manufactured and distributed by Toy's Factory in 2003.

13. We are both writers (demo)
14. Born beautiful (demo)
15. Following days (demo)
16. I want out (demo)
17. Finally (demo)

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Live on BSR 88.1 FM

Phoning It In, 8th January 2005

01. Sherrif Ochs
02. Aubergine
03. A Century of Fakers (Belle and Sebastian cover)
04. Canaries
05. You Got Served
06. Driver 8 (R.E.M. cover)
07. Birds of a Feather
08. Happy?
09. Song for Annie's Harmonica

You can still stream this show on the Brown Student Radio website - here - if you prefer not to download. The highest available quality is only 128kbps for this show and Ben performs over the phone, hence the show title.


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Live in Woodland Hills

6th September 2006

01. Song for you (Leon Russell cover)
02. Share the road
03. Sheriff Ochs
04. Canaries
05. Untitled
06. I'm tired (Phil Ochs cover)
07. You got served
08. Boxcar (Jawbreaker cover)
09. Aubergine
10. On the subject of her new gold star
11. A Hit (Smog cover)
12. Dostoyevsky gets mugged outside a donut shop in Jersey
13. Passionate
14. Happy?
15. People (Andrew Jackson Jihad cover)

A mixture of 256 and 320kbps mp3s (downloaded from two separate people?). This is the last, full live KoLS show I've managed to track down.


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Live at the Fireside Bowl (mp3)

Chicago, 17th August 2002

01. Untitled
02. In the Flesh (Pink Floyd cover)
03. Following Days
04. Birds of a Feather
05. Free Advice
06. Where were you in Chicago? (Phil Ochs cover)
07. That's what I wanna hear
08. Outside of a small circle of friends
09. How's Croatia
10. Dostoyevsky gets mugged outside a donut shop in Jersey
11. Yes, you're busted
12. We are both writers
13. March 25, 1998
14. Canaries
15. Passionate
16. St. Swithen's Day (Billy Bragg cover)
17. Boy cries wolf
18. Vent
19. Scene
20. I'm gonna say it now (Phil Ochs cover)

I'll have a look around to see if I can find the video and/or better quality mp3s (these are unfortunately only 128kbps) of this show.


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Redder Records covers

These were uploaded to the Redder Records website in a couple of batches. I'm pretty sure they appeared before 'In the Red' - most likely in the closing months of 2005.

Tracks:
Drunk Sincerity (Bad Religion)
Hewlitt's Daughter (Grandaddy)
In Love With A View (Mojave 3)
Inside of Love (Nada Surf)
Land of Competition (Bad Religion)
Sin City (Gram Parsons)
Some Girls Like Cigarettes (The Karl Hendricks Trio)
St. Swithin's Day (Billy Bragg)
Title Track (Death Cab for Cutie)
Tom Courtenay (Yo La Tengo)

The bitrate of the mp3s vary quite a bit (from 160kbps to 320kbps). This may have been my fault - I'll push the blame on iTunes if it was - but each track is in the best quality I have available.
Uploaded as a zip folder with all 10 songs.


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