I wanted in 2021 to redo my first CD-Rs to be like maxi-singles or "Accidently too long EPs" in the style of Nine Inch Nails' Head Like A Hole or Closer To God where its over 35 minutes and has to be counted as an album. Most alternate versions exist on the same albums as their originals. There are a few various versions of some of the tracks, outtakes, early drafts, remixes, interludes, and brand new songs fitting the themes and previewing new styles. I made this the thing for all 4 albums, each one being mostly the years listed.


SWEET SOMBRIETY

The title seems kind of silly but it is the sober/somber period when I was relieved to leave my one band in high school.

I used the guitar parts, not of copyright by my band "NOOSE" because I wrote them and we never really tried to go anywhere. It's sort of goth/metal/grunge/alt - something.

This album will show up first on my next compilation "Organized Chaos" after my best picks compilation which will be called "The Beauty of Noise." Some of the tracks on this album keep the dark titles from the late 90's.

This compilation contains outtakes back as regular tracks and my first guitar song in 1993, Sycamore, quickly redone in ACID software. It also has a snippet called "1993" from a tape from that year I found.