Good Effort, by The Acid Rains

Good Effort

by The Acid Rains

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1.	Wonderland (That Kinda Night) 04:17	buy track
2.	Holding My Breath 02:46	buy track
3.	Nothing to Do With You (Electric) 01:54	buy track
4.	This is How We Dance Now 03:45	buy track
5.	Leave You Cold 03:44	buy track
6.	Never Happened 04:27	buy track
7.	By the Moon 01:45	buy track
8.	Dig You Up (Live) 03:05	buy track
9.	Running for Home (Live) 03:17	buy track
10.	50 Years Younger 01:29	buy track
11.	Stiff by Irredescent (Remix) 00:44	buy track
12.	Where Do You Get Your Days? 02:56	buy track
13.	Two Sides (Round Here) 02:22	buy track
14.	1,000,000 Horses (For Nic) 02:18	buy track
15.	Buy My Friend's Book (For Kat) 02:56	buy track
16.	Jake's Getting a Vasectomy 02:04	buy track
17.	On & Off (Other Mix) 02:12	buy track
18.	...Let it Get That Way 01:42	buy track
19.	Every Girl in This Town is a Cop 02:58	buy track
20.	Snakes & Ladders Smoke and Mirrors 02:53	buy track
21.	Fading Out 05:23	buy track
22.	Big in Japan 01:21	buy track
23.	My First Heart Attack 01:44	buy track
24.	That Night You Died 02:31	buy track
25.	Nothing to do With You (Acoustic) 02:21	buy track
26.	Sleep Thru (Take 2) 02:50	buy track
27.	Be Cool 03:16	buy track
28.	No Next Time 02:30	buy track
29.	You Were Never Cool 02:58	buy track
30.	(Been a Little While) Since I Was Me 01:39	buy track
31.	The Wrong Man 03:50	buy track
32.	Red Pen History (Take 3) 02:12	buy track
33.	Pen Pals for Life 01:58	buy track

about

here's a bunch of unused tracks, dating from maybe as early as 2015 or -6, to early 2019.

"holding my breath" is maybe the first song i wrote consisting of a standard structure, although that has nothing to do with the recording date. the obviously embittered "snakes and ladders" may be the earliest recording but i am not very clear on a lot of these, timewise.

some of these were on soundcloud, youtube, in my friends' inboxes, most of them nowhere, strays, lost dogs (though not incl. the song 'a lost dog'), some of which i think i really should have put on an album, some that wouldn't have fit and also including many fragmentary ideas suffering arrested development, garbled takes, interminable dirges, bizarrely fluctuating volume levels, a song perhaps mic'd from inside a guitar, ignoble failures, drunken embarrassments, lofi flotsam, retrospectively regrettable angst i can't even defend as literal juvenilia, three songs written especially for friends, two songs wherein the metronome is audible, & a cover.

i think anyone who likes what i do will find at least one or two somethings they like although i've made it rough on you. poke around, get wet...

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released July 17, 2019

all songs written by james edward schier
except 'running for home' by matthew good

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The Acid Rains Edmonton, Alberta

i write songs, play guitar and sing

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