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In Stereophonic Sound

by Liebermintz

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In Stereophonic Sound 03:33
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in stereophonic sound, fuckers. oh, yeah, that'll sure get everybody rockin' out for sure. /sarcasm
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A Regular Slave Rebellion 03:47
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what kind of reality is this music considered listenable?
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Autobahn 04:45
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What is Wrong With You? 03:57
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(it's supposed to be "Jay, what is wrong with you/can I kill you" as in Homer Jay Simpson, not "Jake")
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I Think My Voice is Strange 05:02
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No More Rides (Pop Star) 04:11
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I Shot Selena in the Back 04:34
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The Gipper 02:14
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Okay, gotta try this one. It's for the Gipper. You gotta try this one. It's for the Gipper. It's for the Gipper.
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Riot! 05:13
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Music Machine 04:55
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In Stereophonic Sound 2 07:16
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about

A little backstory about this thing:

This, believe it or not, was my first attempt at creating an album. Not the cover - I made that in eight minutes with a photo of some idiot doing a really dumb thing on Twitch and a Frank Sinatra album cover - but the musical content inside.

In 2005, I had become really interested in trying to make music. The problem is: I didn't have any training in music. Sure, I knew how to play recorder and cello, but just barely - and besides, I only joined middle school orchestra in order to play electric bass just like Les Claypool. So, armed with a dilapidated student guitar in desperate need of some replacement strings (that I called my "bass" since it had four strings, IIRC), a pair of sport earbuds jury-rigged as makeshift microphones, and the subwoofer to my speakers, I set out to write songs.

I thought this was good. Well, in the sense that I had made an avant-garde rock and roll album. I thought that, since I didn't have any knowledge of how the Velvet Underground sounded except for really basic genre descriptors, I was making the most cutting edge in rock music - albeit with bad mastering, bad recording equipment, and increasingly bad ideas.

Around this same time, I had a massive falling-out with one of my middle school friends. He and his group of friends had resorted to bullying me through the most asinine of ways - by saying the things that I wouldn't shut up about at the time, as if to say "this is all you talk about, please diversify if you want to fit in!" Things got to the point of one of them pushing me into a urinal, but this was before that.

I had mentioned to one of them that I had this album in my bookbag - I burned a copy as a means to play over - and he wanted to take a listen. And, oddly enough, so did the other bullies. So, thinking that I had found my way into stopping the bullying, I burned at least five or six copies of this album, each with some minor differences - one CD had a "song" I had recently recorded called "Cardinals," which isn't on the two CDs I have.

However, I had given them a tool to punish me. One of the people I had given the CD to thought it'd be a great idea to play it in the car on his way back from school - with his mom listening. His mom, horrified at the fact that I had sang a comical amount of profanity, alerted my homeroom teacher, who alerted my grandfather. And, after a very rough day at school, wondering why I was called to the counselor's office, my grandfather waited for me at the door, ready to chew me out.

Disturbed at what he had heard, he proceeded to chew me out for my "rap album." I, knowing that he wouldn't understand what I meant by "experimental avant-garde rock album," took it in stride. I got punished hard for making the album - not only did I lose my room for a good week, I lost my computer for three or four months. And at school, the bullying managed to get worse - to the point of me trying to fight back (poorly) and getting in-school suspension.

I was hoist by my own petard. All because I thought that a pretentious (and terrible) attempt at making music without any sort of training was my ticket to stop the bullying.

12 years removed from the incident and not only do I have musical training, I actually know how to write a song. I had revisited some of the material on the album before - i.e. I ripped it for one of my online friends sometime in 2009 and dumped the files on Megaupload, which I lost when that site went belly-up - but I hadn't thought about giving a "proper" Internet release to what my family has called "my rap album where I threatened to kill XXXX."

A lot of the music was heavily inspired by what I was listening to at the time, which was Rage Against the Machine, Relient K, Stone Temple Pilots, INXS, etc. Not like you'd be able to tell otherwise - save for the awkward rap-like cadence on some of the songs, which I could easily tell was me attempting to do a Zach de la Rocha thing.

Most of the songs are total nonsense - partially based on fake songs I made up on drawings I made of fake All Music Guide pages, partially based on nonsense things I made up on the spot. So, basically, Chris-chan's homemade Nintendo Power magazine mixed with her penchant for repeating nonsense phrases out of context, but with an oddly nu metal and whatever-I-could-find-on-wikipedia-and-YTMND flavor.

One song in particular is jarring to me - "I Shot Selena in the Back." I know what I was trying to aim for - a dark story song about the murder of Selena, as told through the perspective of Yolanda Saldivar - but I had no idea on how to write a story song, so I pretty much just said "I shot Selena in the back, y'all" like I were the edgiest rap rock superstar.

Also I say a lot of stuff about riots and all that - look, I was just mimicking stuff on Rage Against the Machine and Limp Bizkit songs. I didn't intend for this to be read as some sort of school shooter's manifesto.

So now you can listen to my first attempt at making an album. Tracks have been re-EQ'd and compressed to death in order to make the album a lot easier to comprehend and a lot less hell to listen to.

Be warned: these are the edgy ramblings of a 14-year-old boy who can't play guitar (yet) and wasn't interested in it until a camp counselor and several people in the youth group praise band told me to learn the instrument, so prepare your ears for all the language.

I repeat: this was not a manifesto for something worse. This was meant to be a cutting-edge avant-garde nu metal album.

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released February 7, 2006

Liebermintz - student guitar in need of tuning (my "bass"), "raps," "vocals,"

"Music and lyrics" by Liebermintz

Originally credited under the name "Homsar."

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