Dead Milkmen Free For All

dandrew · Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 355 Location: Earth

Hey all you people out there,

I just created a bandcamp account for (one of) my old band(s), The Uptown Welcomes. We were more or less a two-piece (with the occasional drummer who won't talk to one of us ever again....not me, I work with him) and only released one album, Heated, on Bucky's old Vailent Death Records. It's mostly instrumental and sometimes experimental (although the tracks I put on bandcamp are a little more accessible than some others).

http://theuptownwelcomes.bandcamp.com/album/hatest-grits-1998-2008

This is a pared down compilation of stuff from 10 years worth of nonsense. If this collection is deemed okay, maybe I'll put up a volume 2.

Yes, it's free. No, it will NOT be released on vinyl.

Let me know what you guys and gals think!

-Dandrew

LizardPrinceEros · Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 65 Location: Louisville, KY

dandrew · Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 355 Location: Earth

Hahahahahaha!

It's good, but trust me - it wouldn't be worth the wax it's pressed onto.

laserbeans · Joined: 03 Mar 2011 Posts: 18 Location: little tiny place

i liked it, dude man. i will definitely be downloading it.
i always like the sound of surf rock, it makes me want to boogie Cool

on the surf rock subject, there was totally a Red Elvises show near me tonight but i couldn't go cause it's 21+. i'm pretty peeved.
i especially liked Finishing Line at the Interstellar Race, Laidback, Allright!, Change The Pretty Ending, and A Mix of Sun and Clouds (cool little spaghetti western riffs). also, in Laidback, Allright! your vocals reminded me of They Might Be Giants.
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dandrew · Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 355 Location: Earth

Thanks, I'm glad you like it! And yes, They Might Be Giants were definitely an influence on us. If I can find one, I could send you a copy of our one and only album. Or maybe if Bucky (from Valient Death records) is reading this and has some left over. A lot of these tracks were from a second release we had planned, but it's scale was grander than we had anticipated.

And yeah, the Red Elvises rule. I've never seen them live, but everything I've heard by them is pretty damn good.

lithiumtom · Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 567

cant wait to check it out
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laserbeans · Joined: 03 Mar 2011 Posts: 18 Location: little tiny place

that would be awesome!
it's good stuff. i'm gonna burned this volume onto a cd, if i can, and added it to my collection. can never have too many Mr. Green

thanks very much, Dandrew! if you post up another volume i'll be doing the same with that.
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wad · Joined: 18 Dec 2008 Posts: 81 Location: Heber City, UT

Thanks Dandrew! I love it when you send me free music!!!

dandrew · Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 355 Location: Earth

lithiumtom · Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 567

yeah really man, thanks.
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LizardPrinceEros · Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 65 Location: Louisville, KY

I downloaded the tracks when you first posted them but haven't been able to listen yet. I'm hearing surf rock and TMBG though, so I'm just gonna pre-emptively say that I love it.

ThatGuyBucky · Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Posts: 11

ahh, I was listening to this just the other day! Good stuff - second only to "The Somnambulist Manifesto"

dandrew · Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 355 Location: Earth