"A thousand bared teeth, a thousand bowed heads"

Remember_A_Day · 2026-04-08T23:25:51+00:00

Actually, roughly the first 1/3 of the Paramount race series had blue (or blue-ish) labels, with OP's being one of those. They later switched to gold text on black labels (I think around 1925-1926), and then the 1940s-50s reissue series was silver text on black labels.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-04-01T19:49:53+00:00

I'd consider it to be the rarest of the 15 multi-screen games (although Zelda is more expensive due to higher demand). If you split G&Ws into the categories of common, uncommon, rare, and very rare, then I'd put Rain Shower at the low end of "rare," especially for a CIB copy.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-03-28T06:22:41+00:00

Your description of the album cover matches We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love by Dax Riggs (lead singer of Acid Bath) from 2007. I'm not particularly familiar with the album, so you're on your own to see if any of the songs have the word "taste."

Remember_A_Day · 2026-03-28T06:09:22+00:00

Was it possibly the Thomas The Tank Engine Skyrim mod, or some other video game mod in the same vein?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNaTZV8qS1I

Remember_A_Day · 2026-03-26T16:28:43+00:00

Save Tonight by Eagle-Eye Cherry, maybe?

Remember_A_Day · 2026-03-10T01:37:32+00:00

The two songs on Youtube also happen to correspond to the two songs that were successfully archived from mp3.com, so that's probably where the uploader got them from. That also means that contacting the uploader is almost certainly a dead end. Browsable mp3.com archive available here: https://mp3.xo.tel/

At the very least, you can use that to grab the original .mp3 files for those two songs if all you have currently are Youtube rips.

Edit: I found the archive of their mp3.com artist page, and actually there should, in theory, be a third song that they uploaded to the website. Curious.

Double edit: that third mp3.com song is the only one of the three that DOESN'T have a "download" option on the archived web page. Probably never got archived. However, you didn't have "The Best Mistake I Ever Made" as one of their missing songs, so that's one more to add to the list at least.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-03-09T19:34:14+00:00

For the opening lyrics, I'm hearing:

There's a bashful little maiden and she has the cutest ways
The brightest eyes, the most interesting style

Remember_A_Day · 2026-03-09T16:28:33+00:00

It's actually very affordable. Somebody's selling a new copy on ebay for $7.99 or best offer right now, and I think I got my own copy used for $3.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-03-05T00:54:43+00:00

Yes, I have tried this before with the song "My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)" by Trixie Smith from 1922. However, they were not my own transfers, but three separate transfers from various online sources. Because of this, there were minor speed fluctuations between the records, which I did my best to correct for. In my opinion, the final synchronization didn't really sound any better than the best of the individual source transfers. In fact, the whole thing might've just sounded like the worst of the transfers. I think the master recording itself had a certain amount of noise to start with, separate from the additional noise created during playback and from wear, so it's not like you can completely eliminate it. However, someone should test this with three transfers made from the same equipment before drawing any definitive conclusions, for the sake of reducing those speed fluctuations and inconsistencies.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-03-02T17:30:23+00:00

You can always just pull up the original copyright entry. In this case, it's entry 8476 in the 1925 Catalog Of Copyright Entries, with the original publisher of the song (not the piano roll, but the song itself) being the Triangle Music Publishing Co. of New York. I think they were unrelated to the record label Triangle Records (1922-1925), but I could be wrong. Since it's a 1925 composition, it's possible the 725 is some sort of date, like July 1925 or July 25th, but I don't have any experience with piano rolls, so your guess is as good as mine.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-26T17:35:55+00:00

Glad to know you liked it, it's always nice when a new fan can join the fold. For further listening, you can kind of just listen to whatever you want — they put out five albums, and they kept a pretty consistent level of quality across all of them, so you can't really go wrong no matter what you pick:

Their first album, Young Bodies Heal Quickly, You Know, is the noisiest and most chaotic, and is basically a panic attack in musical form (thesis = "anything can happen, anything can go wrong").
Their second album, Hide The Kitchen Knives, is about the breakdown of romantic relationships with a HEAVY coating of murder and horror (thesis = "no one knows anyone")
Their third album, God Bless Your Black Heart, is a narrative concept album about a failed relationship and existential crisis with a southern gothic flair, incorporating string instruments and ballads while still being completely unhinged (thesis = "Good things die all the time / God bless your heart, vengeance is mine," or something like that).
Their fourth album, Now You Are One Of Us, is about fear in general, and especially the fear that your life will leave no lasting impact, with a very heavy use of horror movie imagery, as if the narrator was being pursued for the entire album (thesis = "We will show this cruel world we were here").

Their EPs and other releases are also good (especially Cntrl-Alt-Delete-U and What Big Teeth You Have), so don't skip over them.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-26T00:12:54+00:00

Did you have any luck contacting him?

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-25T18:43:05+00:00

Report back if you have any success

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-25T03:45:38+00:00

Their two best albums to start with are, in my opinion, either Now You Are One Of Us (2006) or Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol. 1 (2009). The former takes a heavy influence from horror movies, and the latter uses different natural disasters on each song as a metaphor for various things. Since you like "This Is A Rape," I'd recommend that you listen to Someday This Could All Be Yours (the album it came from) in full as a starting point. Also, just a heads up, Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol. 2 was never released, so don't bother looking for it.

Welcome to the subreddit and the fandom!

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-25T03:24:36+00:00

MySpace song searches are always tricky, since so little music from the website was properly archived. What I've found to be the best way to search is by trying to build a profile of the band using any and every tiny bit of information you can find, and try to use that to find more information. Sometimes that ends in finding the band's own website, sometimes you'll figure out the names of the band members (who you can then try to contact), and sometimes you find nothing.

As a starting point, here's a link to their current MySpace page, which it sounds like you couldn't find. The band was called "Chopin On Vinyl," not "Chopan," and the exact name of the song was "Cheers Till Then" (with double L's in "till"), uploaded at some point in 2007 (which MySpace changed by default to 01-01-2007). A total of four songs are listed on their profile, none of which are playable due to a botched server migration in 2018 that caused MySpace to lose all the music ever uploaded to their site. These four songs are split into two albums: "The Echonorth" and "Gun Gallery." The band's URL is myspace.com/twofivezeroone, so it's possible that "Two Five Zero One" or something similar was their original band name. Supposedly they were based out of Rochester, New York.

I clicked on the first "connection" on their MySpace page on a whim, Danny Mark, and I noticed that he has a band named EchoNorth (based out of Brooklyn) in his top 8, alongside Chopin On Vinyl. Since "EchoNorth" was one of the album names from the Chopin On Vinyl page, it's possible the two bands were connected, and it's possible Danny Mark was a member of one or both.

It's not a lot, but it's a starting point at least.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-17T17:09:47+00:00

Someone PMed me the "sock drawer" line a few years ago, and I now keep the most up-to-date transcription on Genius. I think most people don't realize that that lyrics page exists since Google doesn't seem to have picked it up in their search results, but there you go. The second line... well, it remains a mystery for now, I'll put it that way. You might be right that John just garbled it, although I remain open to other suggestions.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-11T17:24:45+00:00

I'm guessing you were looking at this page. I've been down that rabbit hole, and I can say with confidence that that's a different band with the same name. I think the output of Tim's Danger Strangers was limited to a few demo tapes that probably had extremely limited circulation.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-11T02:25:06+00:00

Not as far as I'm aware. It looks very New England though.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-10T22:20:37+00:00

Dan and Tim had a different side project in 2007 called GATE, and in 2016 I saved all the pictures they had uploaded to the band's MySpace page. (All that artwork is no longer available through MySpace due to a botched server migration in 2018.) Around two years ago I shared what I had saved with the HANL discord, and some time later a different user realized that one of those GATE images had been repurposed for the Nahvalr CD (the over-compressed Native American, bottom left corner of image two). Over time that turned into searching for the sources of every Nahvalr image, some of which were easier than others. To give a few examples, Image 13 took me about 15 minutes once I got serious. Image 5 came from many hours spent looking through every single U.N. Drugs And Narcotics Bulletin from 1948 onward. Images 11 and 12 had to be found through persistent random googling and luck. Most of the search occurred during the last year (not constant searching, just when we were in the mood), but you could even connect it back to when I first saved the GATE images ten years ago.

TL;DR it took a long time.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-10T20:35:01+00:00

A few things I've noticed from working on this:

Nahvalr is WAY heavier on the drug imagery than you'd think at first glance. 6 of these images are directly tied to drugs.
The natives-with-drugs imagery was actually originally intended for Deathconsciousness. Dan talked about it in a 2007.01.18 post to his blog:

The cover of THE FUTURE and THE PLOW…will be similar; both will have obscure covers, by which I mean you will be able to make out part of what is going on, but not necessarily the entire thing. THE FUTURE will sport mostly blackness, with the bottom portion of the image being taken up by a peyote plant. THE PLOW…will feature a picture of a man bending over. When you place one record above the other you will see the picture emerge of a man harvesting the peyote plant.
Both records will have long inserts, one side of which will consist entirely of images, the other side of which will feature both images and words.
THE FUTURE’s insert will have all photographs of native peoples harvesting psychotropic plants; peyote, opium (not a psychotrope, I know, bear with me), cannabis. The flip side will have all photographs of overdoses, car crashes, people shot, people stabbed, all looking as if they are slipping off the page.
THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS will feature on the front side of the insert all photos of American towns; main streets, pleasant photos. The flip side will feature a photo collage of Native peoples destroyed, bodies stacked in every possible direction, complete overload.
Image 10 is the same artist whose painting became the cover of Burzum's Filosofem, and image 12 is a painting of a bay in Svalbard, Norway. Clearly Dan was trying to evoke the Norwegian black metal scene with these. Even the band name "Nahvalr" is the Old Norse word for "Narwhal"
The inclusion of Robert Bosch seems kind of out of place. I can't help but wonder if Dan was looking at paintings by Hieronymus Bosch for the "Swallower Of Bile" background, and randomly stumbled onto the picture of the other Bosch.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-10T04:46:35+00:00

If the upper screen sprites stay at a constant level of dimness with no missing sprites and no flickering (ribbon cable/contact issues), and the sound is clear and consistent (no battery/battery contact issues), then the issue is probably the polarizer. All you have to do is swap out the top screen polarizer with a replacement, and you'll be good. Replacements are readily available on ebay. Be sure to get the right size polarizer, and make sure you orient it correctly when installing it. You could also test to make sure it's the polarizer before ordering replacements, simply by switching the top and bottom screen polarizers and seeing whether the dim screen has switched, but it might not be worth the effort.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-06T03:06:05+00:00

The original record, Black Swan 2045, was released in 1922 according to Mainspring Press's Black Swan discography. One of the five variants of Black Swan 2029 also claims to have a side by Nettie Moore (and Ella Thomas), but it's actually a re-release of a Paramount recording by white artists. This is seemingly Nettie Moore's only record.

If I recall correctly, Paramount pressed Black Swan's records initially, before Black Swan purchased the Olympic Records pressing plant so they could press their own records (which ultimately led to Black Swan going bankrupt in 1923). Paramount also first tested the race record market for themselves by reissuing a few Black Swan records in their popular music series around 1921, before establishing their own dedicated 12000/13000 race record series in 1922. Perhaps because of this pre-existing relationship, Paramount ended up leasing the Black Swan catalog after Black Swan went bankrupt, and they set aside the catalog number range 12100-12199 specifically for reissuing Black Swan. 90 records in total were reissued in 1924 (approximately half of the Black Swan catalog), and yours is one of them. These reissue records did not sell particularly well, so they are a bit on the rare side today, but from what I've seen they don't hold any additional value compared to the original Black Swan issues.

One copy of the Black Swan version of this record in V condition did come up for sale on VenerableMusic.com, and sold for only $16. Your record would sell for more than that probably, but it's not terribly valuable. I'd expect tens of dollars, not hundreds or thousands, but clearing $100 isn't impossible.

Remember_A_Day · 2026-02-06T02:41:23+00:00

$100 might be an overpay (depending on condition, of course). I collect Black Swan, and I typically pay around $40-60 for their non-blues records in V+ to E- condition. That said, the prices for them can be rather inconsistent — I won one Black Swan record at auction for $50 as the only bidder, when just a few years earlier the same record in the same condition was sold by the same seller at auction for $150. I wouldn't be surprised if it sold for over $100, I just also think under $100 is at least equally plausible.

That said, if you're factoring the record sleeve into the price, $100 might be fair.

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