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The lyrics to the latest BradSucks album

davidw — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:24:24 +0000

Brad Sucks’ latest album, Guess Who’s a Mess, is dark, funny, witty, creatively produced, CreativeCommonsed, and totally home-made by a one-man band. You ought to buy it.

I asked Brad for a pointer to the lyrics, and he instead sent me an unpolished version. I’m just now getting around to posting them. Here they are.

So download the album, or get it on iTunes or Spotify, give it a listen, and let Brad know that you love him.

New BradSucks album lyrics

davidw — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:07:46 +0000

Brad Turcotte, AKA BradSucks, has put out his new album, Guess Who’s a Mess. It is tuneful, dark, and remarkably well done. I like not only his music, lyrics, and voice, but also his skill as a producer. He is, in fact, a one-man band++.

So, you ought to buy his album, first because I think you’ll enjoy it; you can listen for free to decide. Second, Brad’s exactly the sort of artist the Web should support: no DRM, tracks posted for remixing, continuous interaction with his listeners as he develops new songs. He trusts the Web. We should repay that trust. It’s the least we can do.

At my request, Brad sent me an unedited copy of his lyrics. He’ll undoubtedly post a better version soon. But for now, here they are.

Two bands better than us

davidw — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:20:18 +0000

I was listening to BradSucks yet again, and yet again wondering why he isn’t famouser on the Net. I love his music from top to bottom â€” tune, lyrics, arrangement, performance â€” and he is totally living the Internet lifestyle. It’s frustrating to me. Lord knows how Brad feels about it.

So, how about this. See, we all get together and make our favorite big time bands feature on their Web sites at least two Bands That Are Better Than We Areâ„¢. Let them reach at least partway down the long tail to feature some great, lesser-known musicians. It’d be like having an opening act for their Web site. Wouldn’t that be a generous, Internetty thing for them to do?

Anybody know a famous band they can ask to do this? The only one I know is BradSucks, and, well…

Brad Sucks in Rock Band preview

davidw — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:13:55 +0000

More media for us Brad Sucks fanboys ‘n’ fangirls ! Next: Brad Sucks waffle irons! Can’t wait!

Brad Sucks latest album for free — and Brad still gets paid!

davidw — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:46:44 +0000

NOTE: The 50 copies are gone. Took about an hour.

I’m trying an experiment with a business model I like to call a reverse referral fee. Here’s how it works…

You click on a link that lets you download a copy of Brad Sucks’ latest album, Out of It. The album of wonderful music is yours for free in every sense. (Share it! Please!) But, I’m going to pay Brad for each copy downloaded, at a bulk rate he and I have agreed on.

This offer is good for the first fifty people who download it. After that, you can buy a copy on your own. Of course, Brad also makes his music available for free (in every sense), but don’t you want to support a truly webby, big-hearted musician who’s giving us his talent free of copyright, studios, and DRM? Doncha?

So, if you want to be one of the fifty, click here for your free-to-you-but-not-to-me copy of Brad Sucks’ Out of It.

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BradSucks, animated

davidw — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:14:21 +0000

BradSucks continues to post one new song a month for free download. Of course, you can always download his music for free, or, better, buy it in order to support the webbiest musician on the Web. Here’s his latest (demo): Model Home.

Here’s a music video done by Allen, a pal of his:

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New Brad Sucks CD is out

davidw — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:15:04 +0000

I’m downloading the new Brad Sucks collection…

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davidw — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:16:58 +0000

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Brad to suck again

davidw — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:02:15 +0000

You can now pre-order BradSucks’ new album. And why wouldn’t you? (You can answer that question by giving it a listen…) [Tags: bradsucks music ]

A lifetime of music for $4,464 (Canadian)

davidw — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:44:30 +0000

BradSucks sees a 750GB external hard drive for $159.97 CAD that says it holds 660 ~~hours~~days of MP3s and does the math:

* 660 days around-the-clock is 1.8 years of non-stop music, never repeating a single song
* That’s 15,840 hours.
* That’s 990 days or 2.7 years of non-repeating music if we adjust for waking hours.
* 28 of these hard drives full of music would play for 75 years, the average American male’s life-span. Again never repeating a song.
* 28 drives (18,627,840 hours of music storage) would cost only $4,464 CAD.
* Digital downloads to fill those drives would cost roughly 370 million dollars.

Best of all, you’d only have to listen to “Mandy” once!

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