These are the final Levittowners recordings, from Spring 2003, shortly before John and I graduated from New College. "The Social Construction Of Bedtime" was recorded on four-track (I think) in the garage of the house where I was living at this time. All the rest were recorded in the ballroom of College Hall, a mansion formerly belonging to one of the Ringling brothers. We got special permission from the school to do a couple of all-night recording sessions there. It sounded great for our songs, like reverb on everything. Our friend David Jacco plays bass guitar where there is bass guitar. We used a pirated copy of the professional audio program Logic which we could just barely figure out how to use and which I'm sure ran painfully slowly on my laptop computer.
Unfortunately we broke up near the end of the recording session. When it came time to record the vocals, John and I were having a long argument about the lyrics to the song "Process, Or Politics" aka "Our Hero Is Here" and that was the last straw for Annie. I regret not finishing the vocals on these songs.
Also recorded in the ballroom around this same time was the version of "This Humdrum Town" on
Our Coma Summer by Titans of Filth and the Brian Hughes song "Mary Anne," which is the most elaborate production I think I've ever been involved in even to this date, our attempt to do a big Phil Spector sound.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/tm350twnqbz/Spring.zip
