Demo Tapes That Demonstrate Failure

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Everybody who's ever been in a band can relate: you lay down some hot tracks to impress potential booking agents or record labels, send them off feeling like limos and laminates are just around the corner, and realize approximately eight seconds later that the songs that sounded so great are actually embarrassing garbage, a blot on your rock-star delusions that can never be erased. Fortunately, most of those misbegotten demos are heard only by the people who made them and the people they're sent to (and in the latter case, only sometimes), so their missteps remain safely obscure...until now. Mind Melting Demo Disasters is a blog run by "an indie label digging through years of demo backlogs day by day" and passing the weirdest, creepiest, craziest, and saddest ones on to the blog-viewing public. They're not too mean-spirited about it, promising that "if this is your track and you think we're harsh, let us know, and we'll take it down." I haven't been through all of their archives yet - I'm hoping I don't have to personally hold them to that promise.

Thanks for the link, Matthew! Photo: ear plugs by Flickr user tuppus, used under a Creative Commons License.


 



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