{"id":5546,"date":"2014-02-25T10:33:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T18:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5546"},"modified":"2023-10-17T01:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:58:24","slug":"collection-the-free-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/collection-the-free-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection: the fan tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several tracks I have up on Bandcamp are free downloads, and always will be. There are various reasons &#8211; generally because fandom, sometimes because licensing, and sometimes because they&#8217;re light-production live tracks, which doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t fun.<\/p>\n<p>This is a compilation of those free tracks. Some of them say &#8220;buy now&#8221; because of how Bandcamp works, but just enter $0 if you want and that&#8217;s totally okay. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=285313404\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=2ebd35\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/blue-morpho-opening-theme-1964-pilot-episode\">Blue Morpho (Opening theme, 1964 pilot episode) by Crime and the Forces of Evil<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Blue Morpho is a new character in this year&#8217;s <i>The Venture Brothers<\/i>, and he&#8217;s basically their Green Hornet &#8211; a superhero who pretends to be a super-criminal and everybody buys it. I decided the <i>Blue Morpho<\/i> pilot made in 1964 for ABC Television needed a theme song, which once again demonstrates I only do <em>really obscure<\/em> fan music.<\/li>\n<li><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=3734697828\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=2ebd35\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/thirteen\">Thirteen by Crime and the Forces of Evil<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\nAn altered-cover song, I wanted to do the &#8220;filkiest&#8221; thing I could come up with for Conflikt, a <em>filk<\/em> convention (geek folk music) which brought me in to MC the event as Toastmuppet. So I took an existing <a href=\"https:\/\/vixyandtony.bandcamp.com\/track\/thirteen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vixy &amp; Tony filk track<\/a> and &#8211; with permission &#8211; made it <em>even geekier<\/em> by making it about the 13th Doctor Who, out of regenerations, and contemplating his own mortality. Topical and relevant! For about six weeks. THANKS MOFFAT.<\/li>\n<li><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=380175324\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=2ebd35\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/kaiju-meat\">Kaiju Meat by Crime and the Forces of Evil<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\nWritten and performed for Jaegercon, the 2013 <i>Pacific Rim<\/i> fan convention. It&#8217;s what happens when we get the most electronic. Listen on headphones. Guest artists are <i>Pacific Rim<\/i> fans tereshkova2001, via Tumblr, and Kathryn Tewson, via Facebook.<\/li>\n<li><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=392130265\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=2ebd35\/track=88728349\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/cracksman-betty-remixed-and-remastered\">Cracksman Betty (Remixed and Remastered) by Crime and the Forces of Evil<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\nFound on <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.bandcamp.com\/album\/cracksman-betty-remixed-and-remastered\"><i>Cracksman Betty<\/i><\/a> (2012), a song about the days of computers old, when they mostly came as <em>kits<\/em>. Not components: <em>kits<\/em>, with <em>zillions of parts<\/em> and <em>soldering<\/em>. No, really, this was a real thing. This will make very little sense unless you know that, and also know that the S-100 Bus was the first expansion standard for what became personal computers.<\/li>\n<li><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=603755103\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=2ebd35\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/espionage-live-from-mars\">Espionage (Live from Mars) by Crime and the Forces of Evil<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\n<i>Live from Mars<\/i> is four songs from one of the first live shows I ever did, at the Mars Bar in Seattle. To be honest, I mostly released it because I wanted to have an album called <i>Live from Mars<\/i> that <em>actually was live from Mars<\/em>. \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=3987895487\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=2ebd35\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/nothin-but-a-song\">Nothin&#8217; But a Song by Twelve Good Measures ft. CRIME and the Forces of Evil<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\nA team-up of Crime and the Forces of Evil with Twelve Good Measures for the 2010 Great Big Sea Karaoke Contest. Being us, we couldn&#8217;t leave well enough alone, and added more instruments and lyrics over the originally-wordless bridge. We had the most listeners <em>by far<\/em> in the viewer-response part of the contest, but weren&#8217;t included in the band-selected final tally, probably because of that. Ah well, it was still fun. \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/solarbird.net\/Dropbox\/Public\/The%20Diesel-Driven%20Eight%20Dimensional%20Jet%20Car%20Blues%20%28mp3%29.mp3?dl=0\"><b>The Diesel-Driven Eight-Dimensional Jet Car Blues<\/b><\/a> (2009) (not on Bandcamp &#8211; direct mp3 download) &#8211; a joint effort with The Hong Kong Cavaliers. It always bugged me that Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers were big rock stars in the cult film <i>The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension<\/i>, and yet, we never see them perform a whole song! We see them start, twice, but plot keeps happening, so&#8230; I fixed it. All the Cavaliers are on this, including Buckaroo Banzai himself, and every one of their notes (except, like&#8230; three?) are scraped off the film soundtrack in tiny, tiny slices. Seriously, there are eight billion edits here, and I&#8217;m still proud of how you can&#8217;t hear any of them. And, of course, since it&#8217;s a joint appearance with us, Crime and the Forces of Evil are here too! Those are my lyrics (since the film didn&#8217;t have any &#8211; in character, they&#8217;re B. Banzai\/P. Tommy), and we&#8217;re on zouk, and mandolin, and a <em>bunch<\/em> of kinds of drums, and some other sounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several tracks I have up on Bandcamp are free downloads, and always will be. There are various reasons &#8211; generally because fandom, sometimes because licensing, and sometimes because they&#8217;re light-production live tracks, which doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t fun. This is a compilation of those free tracks. 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