IUMA (the site where I host my lovely mp3s) seems to be mentally ill right now. A friend has volunteered some temporary bandwidth to the Brad Sucks cause and I've uploaded some 128k versions of the songs (IUMA only allowed 96k). Part of the pain of being a net musician is finding a decent place to host your large, stupid music files. IUMA has been pretty nice, but apparently has some stability issues. The interface is very clean and easy to use and the pages it renders look pretty sharp. You get the feeling that you're part of some sort of elite music library, even though you're absolutely not in any way.

The alternative, MP3.com, is frightening and the administration interface is full of confusing text ads that get in your way for the first while. Also, MP3.com forces visitors to log in to listen to your music, which is a big fat hassle. And when you're on MP3.com, you get the feeling that you're in some sort of musicians-only ghetto, which you are.

If you know of any other decent alternatives and for some reason you're reading this, drop me a line at brad@bradsucks.net.

The links on the right side of the page now download the MP3 instead of trying to stream it. Streaming seems to only work for me and two other people it seems.

OverreactingGenre: Ballad Time: 3:17 Date: 2/27/2002 Album: Brad Sucks: I Don't Know What I'm Doing

I wrote this one as a simple little sad acoustic guitar song and completely failed at recording it that way. In the process of recording this thing, about four other versions started to surface and had to be beat down. There was a big rock guitar version (I kept the solo from it), a funk version and a version with my dog barking in the background. In case you were wondering, I'm using autotuning on my voice because apparently it's in style. And now, by proxy, so am I.

Difficult SituationGenre: Rock Time: 3:05 Date: 2/11/2002

Written and recorded real quick and was the first thing I wrote with my brand new Boss GT-6. The track also shows off my tremendous bass guitar playing skills which do not exist. The two voice samples used were from two anonymous people who were kind enough to be recorded while saying my name.

After a significantly annoying amount of programming and testing, it looks like the Brad Sucks website is ready to "go live" as they say. There's next to nothing to see at the moment. There's one song, no articles, nothing in most of the sections and only one news entry (this one). But it works well enough for me to start filling it up with glorious stuff, and that's all that really matters.

My e-mail address is brad@bradsucks.net.

Gangsta LoveGenre: Funk Time: 2:58 Date: 4/12/2001

I get asked who the voices are in this song a lot. It's all me, baby. I was going to fix up some stuff in this track before I put it online as it had been sitting on my hard drive for about a year, but I lost all the source files. So there it is.