If you go to the Wayback Machine — specifically here — around the years of 1999 - 2001, you’ll see that my pal and I hosted what would now be known as an mp3 blog. Yeah, we coded it all by hand almost every week, so it wasn’t a real blog, but the idea was the same.

I know there were alot of these around at the time, but finding out about them was much harder than it is today. My first exposure to the mp3 blog precursor (and my inspiration for starting ours) was Matthew’s Song of the Week page. I love the fact that his site still lives out there on the real web, some 5 years after Matthew stopped posting - and that there is still one mp3 left on the site that you can download.

I am a big musicgeek, and love discovering new songs through blogs. These days I get my fix from blogs such as Fluxblog, Stereogum, Lost Bands Of The New Wave Era, and Said The Gramaphone. Mix Me A Molotov is intended to be an mp3 blog with a smattering of music news. The usual disclaimers apply: music piracy for world domination or financial success is bad, turning people on to new music is good, mp3s posted here will be up for about a week and then disappear, etc. etc.

I thought a good way to start out this mp3 blog would be to get nostalgic and post the old mp3’s from ‘The Unheard Music: Butch & John’s Song Of The Week’ page. Keep in mind that this was 1999 - a long time ago in dog years! Our commentary for the first two weeks has been lost, so for today and tomorrow you just get the songs.

I’ll post two at a time until a) I finish, or b) I get bored or antsy and have to start posting new stuff.

Week 1:

Butch: Shanahy - Medley: Skyeboat Song / Lark In The Morning / Calliope House (Shanahy is a celtic band from Salt Lake City. Butch is a fan of celtic music. ‘Nuff said)

John: The B-52’s - 6060-842 (commentary is of course lost, but I’m sure I said something to the effect that this band was one of my first musical epiphanies - i.e., finding out there was another musical world out there, quite different from what I was listening to on my coke-can radio at the time)

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