Mark Lint Big Directory of Online Music Samples

All songs Copyright Mark Linsenmayer except as indicated.  Any broadcast, use, or reuse of these songs without the express written consent of Mark Lint is strictly prohibited.

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My newest band is called New People. Go listen to the whole demo before you check out anything else here. Newly recorded songs from our album should be up here pretty soon.

Recent songwriting/screwing around: Here are some unpolished, new ('07-'08) tunes with just me and my guitar.
Love Is the Problem This is the newest one; it's been going around my head for the past weeks and was added to the band's set the day I wrote it (2-8-08).
Little Mina This tune was begun when my daughter was a biting infant and is now (5 years later) finished and being learned by the band.

Mother's Day A depressing song from this last fall.
If I Can't Have You Me deconstructing a Bee Gees song in late January.

My band in Madison from 2001-2004 was called Madison Lint. Here are two recordings, with all instruments recorded live 5-03 and 12-02 respectively:
Lock Them Away
Personnel: Me, Jim Low, Ken Keeley, Jim Turk.

Stop
Personnel: Me, Jim Low, Tom Broeske, Jim Turk.

A solo tune I recently added some parts to: I just added a bunch of vocals and a bass track to this song whose drums and guitar were recorded back in 2000. It's about the limits of sharing. I'm not certain this is actually done; it may get a keyboard or electric guitar pasted over it down the road.
Request Denied
Personnel: Me on everything except Trent Sinclair on drums.

The Mark Lint and the Fake Album. At long last, this album recorded '99-'00 in Austin is all mixed, mastered, and packaged. For a limited time, you can download EVERY SONG ON it here. I've pulled out a couple of the more radio-friendly tracks here:
The Thickening
Poor Lover

Dumb

Madison Lint's 10/01 Electric Demo.
Chad
Who Cares What You Believe

Cold
Personnel: Me, Jim Low, Erik Andersen, Jim Turk, Ken Keeley.

Madison Lint's 3/02 Acoustic Demo.
Feeling Time
Yours to Keep

In the Boatyard

Ring of Fire

Personnel: Me, Jim Low, Erik Andersen, Jim Turk, Ken Keeley.

Here's Mark playing solo (2/02). Hear it stripped down.
Feeling Time

Madison Lint Live. Oh, Prince of Darkness, please do not sue us for posting this live cheesy cover, recorded straight from the mixing board April 17, 2002 at the Annex.
Rasberry Beret
Personnel: Me, Jim Low, Erik Andersen, Jim Turk, Ken Keeley.

Recordings from Mark Lint and Stevie P. Steve Petrinko was my co-frontman for The MayTricks, my college band in Ann Arbor that lasted from around 1990-1994. We hook up once a year or so to write a song together and record it on the spot. It'll take us a while to get a full album this way, so here's your outlet:
Goldfish
Written/recorded fall, 2002.
Yours to Keep
Written summer, 2000, recorded summer 2001.
Staple Gun
Writtten/recorded X-mas, 1999.

Here are two preview tracks from the forthcoming Mark Lint and the Simulacra CD, The Sinking and the Aftermath. These were mostly recorded in the spring of 2000 before I left Austin, with bits filled in very recently. Finishing this album is on the top of my list; I'm posting the in progress versions of songs from this here.
Axiomatic
My Friends
Personnel: Me, Mark Doroba, with crazy drums on Axiomatic by noted author David Thibodeau.

Here are some songs from my 1998 (or so) CD, Mark Lint and the Fake Johnson Trio.
A Few Gone Down - alternate location (includes RealAudio for dail-up users)
Personnel: Me, Errol Siegel, Steve Petrinko, and on backing vocals: Richard White.
Woe Is Me
Personnel: Me, Errol Siegel, Steve Petrinko, Lee Abramson, and on backing vocals: Bryan Breaux.
Wonderful You
Personnel: Me, Errol Siegel, Lee Abramson, Matt Miller.
I Like Life - alternate location (includes RealAudio for dail-up users)
Personnel: Me, Errol Siegel, Dave Hamilton, Lee Abramson, and on backing vocals: Richard White, Brett McHague.

Finally, the final (double) album by The MayTricks, Happy Songs Will Bring You Down, has been remastered for CD. Here are some of my songs from it:
Bankrupt
A Few Gone Down
John T. Flibber
Healthy Song
Sorry
Personnel: Me, Steve Petrinko, Geoff Esty, Cliff Kaminsky

This is a tune to show off my voice. It's a cover of a 60's Italian tune I recorded August, 2000 with Steve Petrinko for a compilation put out by Snowdownia Records (in Italy).
Se Piangi, Se Ridi
Personnel: Me, Steve Petrinko. Written by Mogol - Marchetti - Satti. I'll happily pull this off the net if one of the copyright holders bitches.

Here are two unreleased, peppy little solo tunes from 1997. They are desinted for an in progress album called The Cheese Stands Alone.
When I Was Yours
Indefensible
Personnel: Me.

Here are two tunes from my 1997 lo-fi solo album, Black Jelly Beans and Smokes.   These are all me by myself.
The Nipple Song
Recorded in late 1991, I think, mixed 1997
Manager

Written/Recorded summer, 1997.

This is a tune of mine from '96 that was used on my friend Jeff Rosenberg's album project Talk Zack Talk. I just recorded the guitars and sang, and he arranged, performed, and produced the rest.
Undershirt

Here's are two live tunes from the Mark Lint and the Fake Fall '98 demo.  These were rerecorded in pretty much this arrangement for the still-being-mixed Mark Lint and the Fake album, So Whaddaya Think? The demo itself will be released on the Languishing in Austin, 1995-1998 CD.
Her Death
I Die Desire
Personnel: Me, Dave Hamilton, Jamie Nichols, Sam Ray.

This song was written all the way back in '91 and was recorded by my college band The MayTricks in 1993 for So Chewy!
The Like Song
Personnel: Me, Steve Petrinko, Geoff Esty, Brian Drake

Here's one of my favorites, written and recorded on the same day in 1992 by me, with drums added later and backing vocals by my sister and one of my best friends from high school (both non-singers).  It was realeased on The MayTricks.
Waygo
Personnel: Me, Steve Petrinko, and on backing vocals: Mark's sister and Brian Hirt (formerly Gerber).

I'm will eventually remix my folky 1993 solo album Spanish Armada. I'm posting mixes as I finish them here. For comparison with the above, here's a solo performer version of the MayTricks tune:
Waygo
Personnel: Me

Kid Songs
My kids Abe (5/1/2000) and Mina (4/10/2003) both like to sing.
Kimmy, 2002 This Valentine's Day song was a remake/update of one I recorded for Valentine's, 1995.
Wheels on the Bus Down By the Station Abe, f rom 2/8/02 and 10/27/02 respectively
Frosty the Snowman Mina on 8-24-06
The Saga Begins Abe on 8-19-06 singing a Weird Al Star Wars parody
I'm Getting Ready for Bed Mina on 1-22-08 doing a piano/vocal improv
Volcanoes Abe and I way back in spring, 2003, singing a song that he and I wrote together
I Love Izzy and Allie Mina and I on 1-2-08 playing a song mostly written by Mina (she's playing piano too)
Ghosty Fisherman A song Abe, Mina, and I all wrote and sing together in late 8/07

Not enough? You can hear more, some of it unfinished, here.

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