The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010)

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.

 

I got some of those 2008 Daphne Loves Derby demos ripped from awhile ago if anyone needs them

 

Doesn’t work great on mobile, it seems. I can’t get anything to load up.

 

Their servers are under incredible load, apparently. It'll speed up after the initial wave settles down.