MetaFilter posts tagged with demos

Ashtray floors, dirty clothes and filthy jokes...

vronsky — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:55:50 -0800

The Replacements you didn't hear -- demo versions of Alex Chilton, Can't Hardly Wait, Run for the Country + Nowhere Is My Home

Mind = Melted.

Dr-Baa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:33:27 -0800

Mind-Melting Demo Disasters. An independent record label posts some of its more....interesting submissions. He Had a Meth Lab Patsy Cline + Autotune = FRESH Keep Your Cooter Clean "Making Love" ?!?! Also, the demo version(I think) MeFi Music, it ain't.

A New Balance of Power

Iridic — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:56:58 -0800

Chris Crawford (previously) has released the beta version of his Storytron engine. The first demo? Balance of Power: 21st Century. If the new BoP leaves you pining for the original, check out Crawford's old games on the rejuvenated Home of the Underdogs.

"Big question mark here / Cause I don't like this part... "

Joe Beese — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:07:47 -0800

Billy Joel performs "Only The Good Die Young" as it was meant to be heard: a reggae number.

I bet you fall in bed too easily with the beautiful girls who are shyly brave and you sell yourself as a man to save but all the money in the world is not enough

Weebot — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:49:30 -0800

Liz Phair has gone from indie rock's princess to indie rock's bête noire over the last few years. But way, way before she was any of those, she was a just another post-collegiate twentysomething who had moved back into her parent's house and who recorded odes to Speed Racer and parodies of "Wild Thing" into her 4 track tape recorder to pass the time. I'd be stupid to suggest that Liz Phair is a name that carries a lot of currency these days (though if pressed, I'd defend her catalog up to and including her self-titled album,) but I'd imagine that this relic from early-90s zine culture would still be of interest to people. Legend has it that these recordings, which make up the three Girly Sound tapes, were recorded on a dare and given to only two people. They found their way to the head of Matador, and eventually Phair would rework many of these tracks into what would become Exile in Guyville. Phair has never formally released these demos, with the exception of a tossed-off EP in the mid-90s that included a couple of tracks. She revisits these songs occasionally, though less now than early in her career. There is certainly a noticeable difference between this and any of her properly recorded material. These demos include many rambling, Dylan-esque songs that top 7 minutes, many songs which sound like they were recorded as a lark, and some radically different early versions of songs she would later include on her studio albums. Personally, I like the one about White Baby Dealers. And the Batmobile one.

Please insert disk 2

Pretty_Generic — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 07:22:42 -0800

Old Amiga graphics demos recorded to Divx. These stuff was state of the art.

DemoDVD out.

krisjohn — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:51:47 -0800

Ages back there was a link, here at MeFi, to a project aimed at creating a DVD full of PC demos from back in the day. Well, they've finished. (They say if you pre-order now you'll get it in time for Christmas.)

WolfDaddy — Tue, 14 May 2002 17:19:57 -0800

Relive all your favorites from the demoscene. This project, headed up by nearly all of the team that maintained the old hornet.org demoscene archive, is committed to bringing those old classic demos ... to a DVD player near you. Now you no longer have to fret because you gave up your Gravis Ultrasound and DOS! Can I get a w00t from ya? I knew I could.