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The time? 1995/96-ish. The grand idea? Snag a bunch of those ubiquitous and free cassette samplers from Wuxtry, et al., copy over the existing tracks with 5 songs of my own, slap a couple stickers over the cardboard sleeve, and hand them out under the moniker of "Main." As with most of my ideas, though, if it takes longer than 10 minutes to execute it, I will invariably give up pretty easily. Thus, only two or three copies were actually completed and handed out. I don't even have a complete copy myself -- I had to cull these songs from various, poorly marked cassettes.
In Your Room - 2:59 - College kids love Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen. Most college kids, last time I checked, are neither Drake nor Cohen, though. Very soft recording; turn up the volume if need be. Vocals kick in after about a minute or so.
Your Introduction - 1:05 - aka "Introduction" on the tape.
Your Friends - 6:19 - The epic, po-faced little song. I dunno, let's call this "Country music as performed by someone who sounds loaded on Valium, as heard by an even more sedated listener." If you can get through this one I should give you a prize.
Double Oh - 1:42 - aka "Working Sketch" on the tape. Another example of my trouble completing my ideas.
And the stickers that were to be the front and back covers of this tape. Dig the tongue-in-cheek title. Clever:
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