Online Record Label

The days of putting out music onto physical media is over! Well, it is for me at least. I think that it's important that music be free. I am dedicated to supporting music by artists that want to share their music freely.
There Are Millions is now an online record label. All releases are available for FREE download. Often you'll have the option of donating cash to the artist, but that is truly optional. It is there for you only if you wish to show support in a monetary way. All funds donated will go to the artist and not There Are Millions.

The first release is by Jeremy from Boise called Long Ago. It's a collection of home recordings from 1999 to more recently. Ranging from moody instrumentals, experimental soundscapes and singer-songwriter fair there's a wide range of styles and musical coverage here.

The music by Jeremy from Boise has been compared to Graham Parsons, Mt. Eerie, Gastr del Sol with guitar work that is angular, odd, and exquisite. Download Long Ago today from jeremyfromboise.com

Thanks for your ongoing support!

Mark's Birthday Mix!

My good friend Mark recently had one of those special birthdays that end in a zero. You can download the mix that I made for him here: http://www.mediafire.com/?3zjimmmajmn

This is his mixtape playlist:
the Bees - Love in the Harbour
Black Math Horsemen - Deerslayer
Dosh - Capture the Flag
the Clash - Lost in the Supermarket
Caustic Resin - Half Step
Black Sabbath- Hole in the Sky
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get
Comets on Fire - The Swallow's Eye
Bill Bruford - Seems Like a Lifetime Ago
David Byrne and Brian Eno - The River
Dexter Romweber Duo - Lookout
Dramarama - Last Cigarette
Bad Brains - Pay to Cum
the Buggles - Living in a Plastic Age
Big Business - Just as the Day was Dawning
AC/DC - Baby Please Don't Go
Alice Cooper - Today Mueller
Carcass - Polarized

Jeremy From Boise - Deliver Results

This song is short, you can stream or download it here: http://jeremyfromboise.bandcamp.com/track/deliver-results

This music was improvised on guitar probably sometime around the middle of 2004. The lyrics were written on a long drive one day probably in 2007. I think that I may have had business on my mind, and possibly wondering about using metrics to determine how the business practices are working for you; hence the title. This is all just speculative hearsay and would not stand up in court. Do with it what you will. Lyrics below.

Deliver Results

One is high on faith and the other is on a 12-step program.

Deliver Results.

Flying through the windshield, get on and make that phone ring.

Ring
Ring
Ring
Ring

I'm just a child this my fist in the air.
You find that strange, and I don't think I care.
These are not roads on which we belong.
THESE ARE NOT ROADS ON WHICH WE BELONG.

Jeremy From Boise - Will Not Always Be

Go here to listen or download: http://jeremyfromboise.bandcamp.com/track/will-not-always-be

This song? It's basically a "carpe diem" type thing, I think. A friend once went to see Daniel Johnston perform and apparently in between a pair of songs Daniel Johnston proclaimed, "Millions of people have already died."
I don't know where he gets his numbers from, but I'm sure there's some strong evidence supporting that estimate. Whenever someone dies, whether it's a celebrity or a junkie, some people want to attach themselves to that person's legacy by holding a vigil, making a quilt, or simply claiming to have been very close to the deceased. I've always thought that was a selfish way to acknowledge someone else's loss. I think that is what the first section of the song is about. The second part of the song must be about living life to its fullest.

Will Not Always Be

They went on, beyond human reach
Let a hole going on deeper still
Illusion blown, not always welcome
Still maintain they're the nearest to you
Always faint in the core

It's critical that we get things straight
You are and will not always be
I am and will not always be
So as long as you wear it, make it dance.

This song is the lead-off track on the new collection of recordings by me, released under the least pretentious artist name that I could muster, Jeremy from Boise. I know that there are other Jeremys from this town, and I don't claim to be the only or the best. Some of the other Jeremys in Boise (or from here) are even better songwriters or better sound engineers. I simply chose the moniker because that's what many friends across the country know me as. If you are a Jeremy that is somehow connected to Boise, Idaho and have suffered due to the production of my music under this name and affiliation that we share, I apologize.

There are Millions becomes a "record" label!

The first release will be from me, "Jeremy from Boise."
here's the link: http://jeremyfromboise.bandcamp.com/track/trying-to-quit-xmas
This first release is a collection of solo works that span from 1999 to 2005. The entire album will be available for download and you'll be able to name your own price. I certainly won't blame you for not paying anything, as I'm a fan of free music, too. Each time I post another track I will be sending out an email and posting about it on the blog. Each email will include my thoughts and the lyrics (when applicable) to the song. I'm interested in this approach because most of the people on the Millions list are also my friends and I'd like to share this part of my life and thought process with you. I feel like I should eliminate the possible misconception that I really "write" lyrics. Mostly they flow out of me and make little to no sense at the time of writing, but eventually I understand them. It's kind of like automatic writing to a meter and melody.
> The first song is not the lead-off track of the album, but a song from several years ago that is relevant to this current season; A song about desolate winters in the high desert. It was recorded using Venec's toy guitar and the $99 Casio keyboard with song-bank that I made my parents by me for Christmas several years earlier. The song itself is about a rather miserable situation/season and trying to make the most of it. Lyrics below:

Trying to Quit Xmas
In all warm and fuzzy, outside cold desert wind
and drunk you've knocked down some people here and there.
Why settle for the fall when it calls up on the phone?
Just take away your house.

My belief in loss is tried and true

I might here have a bottle, or some money to pitch in.
Tradition is nice but for fitting in.
My skin dry and cracking, my thoughts are of endings,
Now I'm trying to protest and I'm trying to quit christmas.

This song originally appeared on a cassette compilation of other songs relating to the holiday. I think that most of the other songs included on the compilation may have been more pro-christmas than this one.