After MySpace lost all of its music files, it seemed that a massive swath of ap.net-era gold was lost to time. Then an anonymous group of academics surfaced a 1.3TB cache of MySpace-uploaded tracks they gathered between 2008 and 2010. They've made the hoard searchable online for those that don't have the means to store a local copy of the full thing. Let's use this thread as a means of surfacing goodies from this glorious dump.
I'll start. Here are the titles of some gems I found. Some can be found elsewhere (YouTube, CDs, some are streamable, etc.), others I'd either never heard before or had long forgotten. Demos: parade the day - Chemicals DEMO sienna skies (tour dates up!) - DEMO Daylight holiday parade (new demo!) - Walking By acoustic holiday parade (new demo!) - Never Enough holiday parade (new demo!) - Crimson Red holiday parade (new demo!) - My Philosophy holiday parade (new demo!) - Never Enough acoustic butch walker - Vessels DEMO butch walker - Atlanta ROUGH DEMO butch walker - Ships In A Bottle DEMO butch walker - 3 Kids in Brooklyn DEMO valencia (album in stores today!) - Holiday DEMO valencia (album in stores now!) - Holiday DEMO sonny - Nodlove demo sonny - Mora Demo sonny - Copaface part 2 demo sonny - Float it sonny - Moss Live at Pops playradioplay! new free song! - 1989 DEMO trevor hall - Bharat DEMO vessels (download our whole demo for free) - Empires vessels (download our whole demo for free) - Anchors vessels (download our whole demo for free) - Looking For Werewolves vessels (download our whole demo for free) - Edge of the World sky eats airplane (new album out now!) - Photographic Memory DEMO trophy scars - Bad Dreams demo swimming with dolphins - Sunset 1989 DEMO swimming with dolphins (new song up!!) - Sunset 1989 DEMO secret secret dino club (30 songs on purevolume!) - Girlfriend Application Demo secret secret dino club (30 songs on purevolume!) - Sweet Sweet Song secret secret dino club (30 songs on purevolume!) - Party Time Demo secret secret dino club (30 songs on purevolume!) - My Moves Are Delicious secret secret dino club (30 songs on purevolume!) - Chickenheadz Demo secret secret dino club (30 songs on purevolume!) - Dot Com chase coy (has new songs up!!!) - Coming Clean DEMO daphne loves derby - New Song Bedroom Demo Other: my favorite highway - Say So my favorite highway - Getaway Car my favorite highway - Entertain The Pain my favorite highway - What Are You Waiting For my favorite highway - Bigger Than Love my favorite highway - Simple Life transition! - Melody transition! - Winter Feat MxPx's Mike Herrera transition! - Excusable the medic droid album out now! - FSCENE8 the medic droid album out now! - ITS ABOUT LOVE the medic droid album out now! - FER SURE the medic droid album out now! - THE KILLER ANNA the medic droid album out now! - KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES the medic droid album out now! - THE KILLER ANNA A CAPELLA eleventyseven - Myspace eleventyseven - How It Feels eleventyseven - Its Beautiful eleventyseven - Love in Your Arms eleventyseven - Happiness alexander william gaskarth - Sticks Stones and Techno northstar - My Richochet acoustic brendon urie - first try brendon urie - rufio patrick stump - lets get it on Notes: There are more than a few Grammy winners in this list.
I recall ripping the Butch Walker Atlanta demo from MySpace because there was just no other way to have it to listen to. It’s still my favorite version.
Oh man, I loved that Holiday Parade EP with Crimson Red! I’ve been checking their Spotify page every so often hoping to add it to my throwbacks playlist.
Their servers are under incredible load, apparently. It'll speed up after the initial wave settles down.