I spent a good bit of the weekend doing yard work and pulled up a couple of playlists I'd made from the early days of the late, great MacJams. Back in the days when you did such things, I'd burn CDs of some of my favorite tunes from the site and distribute to interested friends.
There are a lot of "where are they now?" names on the list. Some who, sadly, are gone now. And a few who are kicking around iBandstand (I wish there were more.) And there may be a few songs that were actually from similar sites, like MacIdol (anyone remember that one?), but I just don't remember any more. Sadly, I've forgotten the actual names of some of the artists, but I've put them in along with the handles where I remember, or at least think I remember. Maybe some of you folks can help me fill those in.
Hopefully some of these will spark some Memory Lane strolling. I wish I could actually share the playlists form Apple Music. If I can, someone tell me how and I will. And if you have your own similar playlists from days gone by, let me know. And I'd be happy to share the files if anyone wants them.
If anyone has any updates on any of these folks, has their own playlists from the past from MJ or any of the other sites of old, share them. I'd love to see what songs and artists other people are still listening to from the misty, ancient past (of a decade or so ago).
So here's CD 1:
47 Ginger Headed Sailors - Acid Blogroll (Rebsie) Doctor Superbly - Andy Taylor Luv Luv Luv - Peeg I Love My Mac - Daphna Space Cell - Dick Langford Stoned Behind The Shed - egobandit Boy Candy - Greg Douras and Lisa Purdy Ghosts - Judson Abts Barbed Wire Sunday - Kingbee Ballad of a Breakup - Leo Merton's Prayer - Lisa Purdy Love Me Baby Like Your TV - Mikki Nylund And Say We're Happy - Nolan Sydney Weekend - One Horse Down (jiguma/Neil Porter) Shine (I'm A Porn Star, She's A Rock Chick) - Paddler Falling (Legacy) - Pie FFF - I, Spike (Steve Hale) 12 - Tiny Tom You Will Do - TT
CD 2:
Them Pickers, Grinners, Losers, Winners - Sloparts (Ed Wemmerus (Sadly no longer with us) Beowulf - Billy Reid Mosters at the Garden Wall - Bing Dutch His New Position - The Casswells Wargames - Cydniko (Dion Young) jakuzurefrog - jesushairdo Aliens Are Dancing On The Milky Way - Joanna Sandsmark Pretty - John Schultz Quiet Scream - Leon Monsoon - Mars Shenandoah - Mystified Eggshell Walk - One Horse Down (jiguma/Neil Porter) Mother (Legacy) - Pie Green Fields of Canada - Rebsie Pieces on the Ground - Richard MacLemale Clockwork - Tense Orange - Tense Chamber - TT and Daphne
CD 3: Let's Get Drunk - Allen Dean She Plays With My Head - Andy Taylor When The End Was Near - Andrew Lack We Are Stars - Bud, Echoroom and Michael2 At The End of the Day - Danny Homan Ember and Cherry Blossom - Drakonis and Mystified White Boy Speaks of Rivers - geschwarztes Today - I, Spike (Steve Hale) Waiting For The Sign - I.G.M. I Told You So - Jack Hemby Tristezza (Miss Chaos Remix) - Miss Chaos and Mystified Undertow - Neil Porter Unobtainable Remedy - Nolan and Neil Porter Saturnine - The Orbiting (Lisa Purdy and Matt Smith) Under The Radar - Stephen Lang Mr. Rove - William Duane Space Cowboy - Vic Holman
CD 4:
3's My Favorite Number - Andy Taylor Butterfly Year - Andy Wigzell Bleed - Alley-opp and Ledebutante (Lisa Purdy) Mists of Mars - Dana Passaro A Bird Flies By The Window - Dane Obuchowski Give Them A Pounding - The Defunct Like Wake Dirge - Dick Langford and Rebsie Fairholm Safety Word - Sir-VER and Peter Greenstone Stars on my Ceiling - Peter Greenstone Five Billion Years - Paul Hidalgo Fernvale - Nolan Wynne Blur - Mystified I Love You All - Mikki Nylund Popcorn Chemical Suit - JOAN Sweet Isolation - EchoRoom It Feels Like Heaven - DJFU Stars and Dust - michael2 The King of Europe - Walter Vandervelde A Hero/MacJams City - Vic Holman and Alannah
Ha! I guess I sucked back then! Lol...
(I was known as Amagi, Karmic Whale, Calchas, and even Micheal Wark...)
Sure recognize a LOT of names. I was a big fan of Rebsie, Mystified, Allen Dean, Vic Holman, Neil Porter, Michael2, Egobandit, Paddler, Dick Langford, Echoroom, Leon, Andy Wigzell and Allanah.
Still in regular contact with Vic Holman. Micheal2 is sadly no longer with us...
Definitely remember Tom! Lots of great songs and another good ole Southern boy.
I didn't realize you were Calchas and Amagi (or forgot that I did. I have a tough time keeping names and handles connected).
I wish I was better at keeping up with people. I miss a lot of those folks. Actually met a ton of MJ folks over the years - the Texas crew (had a BLAST in Dallas with a bunch of them), a few folks around Chicago. And Mikki Nylund and I still keep in touch from time to time.
BTW, you can use the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive and still access saves of the old MJ site. I don't think you can play tunes on the page, but I have been able to download. Just put MacJams.com into the search window. There are hundreds of saves over the life of the site. It takes a little work to get to a specific artist or song, but it's been nice to go back and pick up a few things I've lost or didn't download.
Yeah, as I remember it, MJ and iComp kind of both went out around the same time - 2018-2019ish. I posted on iComp over the years, but mostly used MJ. Been kind of drifting from site to site since. Good to have a place where refugees from all those different sites can come together.
