The Misbelieves

Hilary Manning-Lundy left us yesterday, and as family and friends come to terms with the loss in their own ways, I've been listening to her lovely voice. I had the great pleasure of working with Hilary and her husband, Earl Lundy, on a collection of songs Earl recorded for the Changelings project. Earl has given me permission to share one of those songs here. Hilary's singing on "I Fell" is ethereal, clear and unaffected, and it evokes for me vivid recollections of the person she was.

would the planets fall in line?
would i find a place of bliss?

Download "I Fell" (8 MB MP3)
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Written and recorded by Earl Lundy and © 1990 Earl Lundy. Singing by Earl and Hilary. Earl played everything but bass (Jeff Bridges) and guitar (me).

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Former Bicycle Thief and current Misbelieves collaborator, David Keith, has written and recorded a new song. It's brilliant -- I can't get it out of my head, and I suggest you get it in your head too. Listen to "Mr. Universe Has Got the Blues" at The Fever of Phineas.

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I love covers! The way a pop song can be bent to create something new that changes the way you hear the original. So it's very satisfying to hear covers of my songs. Here are a few recent covers of some very old songs.

The Arcturus recorded a version of Bicycle Thieves' Different Movies
Be sure to check out the other songs by The Arcturus. "Worst Ever" is one of my favorites.

Dino Guy recorded three songs from the Next Window era: No More Than The Rain, The Right Thing To Say, and The French Have A Word For It. It's especially cool to hear the first two because they never got a proper demo treatment, and were only played live a handful of times.

Big thanks to the responsible parties for sharing these recordings, it means a lot to me. I encourage anyone with the inclination to create covers, mashups, or parodies of anything on this site, and will happily post them here.

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All of my songs are available for free as high-bitrate MP3s. Some of the more recent songs are also available as lossless FLACs. Everything here is covered under a Creative Commons license you can look at here. The quickest way to find MP3s is to click here. There's some information about the bands, real and imaginary, over on the right, and in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat. Thanks for visiting!

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