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	Album: Cheap Sneakers
				An Internet-only collection of great dance tunes, circa 2001. Playlist
	Track		Album		Lyrics		Notes
	Careful   (2.30MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (1) | Vote (0/5)		Cheap Sneakers				A cautionary tale for all wage slaves. Liberal sampling from the movie Office Space. Drums sampled from J. P. Sullivan.
	Fall Down   (4.07MB) | Stream Rating: 4.0 (1) | Vote (4/5)		Cheap Sneakers				A maudlin rocker ready for AM radio (remixed in 2005).
	No Turning Back   (3.69MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Cheap Sneakers				6/8 and armed for bare.
	Plug Nickle   (7.24MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Cheap Sneakers				Too much Radiohead and King Crimson can melt a mind (remixed in 2004).

	Album: Encode
				We fill machines with pictures, documents and music - an archive of human achievement. Is something lost in the translation? Circa 2002. Playlist
	Track		Album		Lyrics		Notes
	Breaking the Frames (demo)   (4.64MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Encode				A protest song two hundred years late, yet strangely still relevant.
	Not Amused   (7.61MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Encode				Be careful what you say around the machines; they're listening.
	The Dining Philosophers   (4.68MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Encode				I don't want the world -- I just want your half.
	Progress   (2.76MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Encode				Now we're getting somewhere.

	Album: Hootch
				An experimental effort by Josh Koplik and Joe Johnston. But what was the experiment trying to accomplish? Recorded from 1997-2000. Playlist
	Track		Album		Lyrics		Notes
	Beans   (1.13MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Hootch				An important message about nutrition.
	Erasers   (1.60MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Hootch				Spoken word goodness about one man's passion for erasers. Josh Koplik on keys.
	Francis   (1.12MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Hootch				Goin' for the gusto!
	Ting Buttocks   (1.03MB) | Stream Rating: 5.0 (1) | Vote (5/5)		Hootch				It's best not to ask. Josh Koplik on keys.
	Two Lips   (2.20MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Hootch				A father-son story for the ages.

	Album: Lurid
				A collection of tunes I've been working on between 2004 and 2006. Open up, chitlins. It's a big old bag of rock to blow your minds. Playlist
	Track		Album		Lyrics		Notes
	Rusted Gunnels (2006)   (4.00MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Lurid				Recorded at Bad Cat Studios with Ira Schwartz on Drums, Nate Patwardhan on guitars and bass, and me on guitars, synths and vox. If only we were 15 years younger...
	Big Idea   (2.44MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Lurid				It's the big 80s sound coming round the bend.
	Juliana (2006)   (2.45MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Lurid				Remake of Juliana with Nate Patwardan on drums at Bad Cat Studios.
	No Edgar   (8.57MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Lurid				Artists sure get a tough row to hoe sometimes.
	Malibu   (4.19MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Lurid				Spoken word piece a la Pink Floyd and Bill Shatner.

	Album: Mother Bodfish
				In the early nineties, radio on Cape Cod was still recovering from the coke-fuelled swill of corporate rock. Itinerants Peter Cummings and Joe Johnston teamed up for this sonic affront to conformity and good taste. Power to the people! Playlist
	Track		Album		Lyrics		Notes
	Annotated   (2.93MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Peter elucidates a poem.
	Artist   (1.10MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Art is such a chore...
	As Strange AsIt Might Seem   (1.67MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				It's not fair. It's just not fair...
	Bad Clown   (1.95MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Don't go in my basement. Don't go in my basement. Don't go in the bottom of my house.
	Call Me Betty   (1.71MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				I couldn't be prouder of this one.
	Christopher Robbins   (1.72MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Who could lie to and abandon Whinnie the Pooh? That villian Robbins, that's who.
	Dear Primrose   (1.91MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				A missive from the missing.
	dissection   (1.05MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Pete insisted we not play guitar in time with the keyboard.
	Everyday is another broken egg   (1.56MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish
	Fading Away   (1.91MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish
	Family Zookeeper   (1.35MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				families matter
	Following Daisies   (1.88MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				I got to write the lyrics this time. w00t!
	Fuses and Wires   (1.90MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				It's the last thing to go through your head in a car crash.
	glutton   (0.66MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Written after a post-Thanksgiving dinner
	Harry   (1.51MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Poor Harry...
	Hey You!   (0.58MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish
	Look at Me   (1.14MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Sounds like the inmates got into the sugar again
	Mr. Root   (2.87MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Children are the future and they need guidance (better than this).
	My Friend Pete   (1.12MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				An ode to a sleepy Pete
	Punching Bag   (2.71MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Ah, the love of a good man...
	Sea Shanty   (1.49MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Why didn't we do more of these?
	Sherly Temple   (0.38MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Say, baby, got a license to thrill?
	Shoebox in the Attic   (1.62MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				Creepy wind organ played by me.
	Terrible Day   (1.74MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				A very typical day, really...
	Time Doesn't Matter   (2.88MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				I'm fond of this one
	Tomorrow   (2.47MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish				See? Pete and I can do a pretty song sometimes.
	Woodcucks in Bottles   (1.72MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Mother Bodfish

	Album: Nukular Potatoe
				A series of grunts, whines and ululations guaranteed to move your speakers. Songs written and recorded during 2003-2005. Playlist
	Track		Album		Lyrics		Notes
	Archive   (3.31MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Nukular Potatoe				Make a better past to remember
	Give it a rest(rough mix)   (3.62MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Nukular Potatoe				What if radiohead made it big in the early eighties? (This song is still in progress)
	Juliana   (2.43MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Nukular Potatoe				I sink, but do not drown.
	Overactive Mind   (7.32MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Nukular Potatoe				Perhaps some meditation will help?
	Walk Away   (6.18MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		Nukular Potatoe				A mindless pop song inspired by my irratation with Hanson

	Album: Theme Songs
				My friend Jason McIntosh asked me to write the theme song to his cable access show Gameshelf. I submitted these three, but none fit what he was looking for. However, these are interesting thumbnail sketches nonetheless. Playlist
	Track		Album		Lyrics		Notes
	Jason's Theme 1   (1.10MB) | Stream Rating: 4.0 (1) | Vote (4/5)		Theme Songs				Oh Mr. Moog, what a wonderous sound you make.
	Jason's Theme 2   (1.39MB) | Stream Rating: 4.0 (1) | Vote (4/5)		Theme Songs				Pretty guitar
	Jason's Theme 3   (1.62MB) | Stream Rating: 5.0 (1) | Vote (5/5)		Theme Songs				A reworking of an older song, I called Moby.

	Miscellaneous tracks
	Track		Album		Lyrics		Notes
	Germs   (3.84MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Gary Numan meets Yes in a dark alley -- drunk.
	The Bee   (3.60MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Buzz, buzz, little drone.
	Letting Go (techno version)   (2.59MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				This the first time I've covered one of my own songs (yikes!).
	Badboy Boyfriend   (3.33MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Even though you know shouldn't, you know you want to anyway.
	I Don't Believe That   (2.82MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Conspiracy colors all.
	Birthday   (3.38MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Another cover of Eric Carter's tunes. This one orginally appeared on Mumble and Peg's This Ungodly Hour.
	Blue Mood   (2.63MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				A bluesy instrumental that goes nowhere in a hurry.
	But Not Yours   (3.68MB) | Stream Rating: 4.0 (1) | Vote (4/5)		none				One of the better songs to come out of a collaboration with Mike Lord (bass) and JP Sullivan (drums). The song's title was suggested at the time by the letters on JP's hat (NY) and the one on mine (B).
	The Coming Down   (5.63MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Killing time before the end on Merry Ol' Cape Cod. Remixed and remastered in 2006. For Nick Sevano.
	Conspiracy of Colors   (3.85MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Answering the musical question: what happens when $10,000 of recording equipment and an intoxicated jjohn stop being polite and start getting real? Josh Koplik on all instruments and mixing board.
	Count Backwards   (6.39MB) | Stream Rating: 5.0 (1) | Vote (5/5)		none				More Pete Gabriel inspired music? I see...
	Dance of the Sunni   (6.21MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				This arabesque romp is an epic inspired by both Jimmy Page and Flea.
	Don't Be Late   (5.04MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Punctuality counts!
	Question of Doubt   (3.17MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				A joyous noise for all those gen-xers out there.
	Dreamlife   (2.52MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Man, I hated being a waiter. Eileen Nugent sings backing vocals.
	Except me   (5.17MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Yet another cover of an Erik Carter song, as recorded by Mumble and Peg on their label Wondering in Volume. This song has haunted me since I first heard it as demo. My spare arrangement attempts to capture that blend of anger, loneliness and helplessness that Mr. Carter excels in projecting.
	Fall Down (2002 mix)   (3.36MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Old mix of the Cheap Sneakers cut.
	The Field   (4.81MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				It's not about baseball.
	Germs (2006)   (4.28MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Another remix/remaster of a vintage song. New patches make this version worth a listen.
	Goodnight   (2.65MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				A bar favorite, even though it's never been played in one.
	Hardly Started (2002 remix)   (4.47MB) | Stream Rating: 5.0 (1) | Vote (5/5)		none				A disco remix of a song about squandered opportunity. Includes samples of my former bandmates Mike Lord and J.P. Sullivan.
	Heavy Water   (2.25MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Slide guitar is fun!
	Immigrant Song (4-track)   (1.73MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Yes, that Immigrant Song.
	Letting Go(acoustic version)   (4.37MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Stripped down, free of signal processing or retakes, I unleash this acoustic demo of 'Letting Go' for comparison with the techno version.
	Make the Pie Higher   (0.78MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Real quotes from George W. Bush arranged into poetry by Richard Thompson.
	Modern Love (demo)   (7.74MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				If Gabriel and Bowie can both have a song with this title, so can I.
	Monkey v. Robot (cover)   (2.21MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Cover of James "Superstar" Kochalka's jaw-dropping epic, Monkey vs. Robot.
	Not Amused (demo)   (4.35MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Acoustic demo.
	No Turning Back(4-track)   (4.31MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				A golden oldy from 1990, wherein the cloying desperation of hipness is made manifest through a fully pegged Fender tube amplifier.
	No Turning Back(alt. acoustic version)   (3.63MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Yet another version, this time recorded with a Shure 58. The chorus at the end rocks.
	Round the Bend (2006)   (3.78MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				A remake of the demo. This is a song I enjoy a lot. I think this version captures the spirit of what I had in mind.
	Round the Bend (demo)   (2.71MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Yeh-haw, boys and girls! Grab a lasso and get your rock on!
	Rusted Gunnels(acoustic)   (3.29MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				More acoustic fun with the Shure 58. People seem to like this tune.
	Seasick   (4.90MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Going for a more "live" vibe, this little gem emerged. Note that the creaking sounds come from the floor of my apartment.
	Shut Up and Listen   (4.86MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				The challenge of the 21st century will be not only to ignore the poor, but to laugh at them.
	song01   (0.83MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				A simple tune for simpler times. Recorded directly to a 486 with a sound card in the mid-nineties.
	Spooky   (1.14MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Crazy gypsy music never sounded so good.
	Strings (2006)   (2.95MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				This psuedo-classical piece has been kicking around for years, but I recently remaster it with new patches. It's enya-rific now.
	Thorny Crown   (3.40MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Grab your partner and dough see dough. Existentialism's a fancy show!
	Welcome to My Life   (2.60MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
	Without you (2006)   (4.51MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				Remixed this track with modern synth patches and a new organ line.
	YAPC Rave '02   (1.53MB) | Stream Rating: 0.0 (0) | Vote		none				A techno synopsis of the Perl community, or at least the convention going memebers.
	You Belong to Me   (2.23MB) | Stream Rating: 5.0 (1) | Vote (5/5)		none				I covered this Elvis Costello song so that I could learn more about arrangements. The only MIDI parts in the song are the glock in the beginning and the drums. I also got to play my new tamborine.

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