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Goodbye the Band

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About Me

Recording project started by old boy turned young man. Sometimes some friends help out.
GOODBYE THE BAND's TOP 30:
1. Sonic Youth, Sister
2. Dirty Projectors, Rise Above
3. Fiery Furnaces, Bitter Tea
4. Stereolab, Dots and Loops
5. Aphex Twin, Richard D. James Album (US Version)
6. Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
7. Autechre, LP5
8. Nico, The Marble Index
9. Brian Eno, Another Green World
10. Captain Beefheart, Lick My Decals Off, Baby
11. Beck, Midnite Vultures
12. Yo La Tengo, Painful
13. Joni Mitchell, Court and Spark
14. They Might Be Giants, Lincoln
15. The Smiths, Hatful of Hollow
16. Jim O'Rourke, Insignificance
17. Max Tundra, Mastered by Guy at the Exchange
18. Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted
19. His Name is Alive, Mouth by Mouth
20. Breeders, Pod
21. Radiohead, Kid A/Amnesiac
22. Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
23. Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral
24. Of Montreal, Satanic Panic in the Attic
25. The Kinks, Village Green Preservation Society
26. Ween, The Mollusk
27. Boredoms, Super Roots 7
28. Beatles, Revolver
29. Nirvana, In Utero
30. Ciccone Youth, The White(y) Album
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FULL LENGTH RECORDS:
Compositions, 1999
The Hate Record, 2000
Pathetique (The Unfinished Todd Rosenfelt Concept Album), 2000
Popular Music Vol. 1: Popular Music, 2001
Popular Music Vol. 2: Alphabetifuck, 2001
Popular Music Vol. 3: The Johnny American Concept Album, 2001
Songs Set to Music, 2002
What We Were On To, 2002
Popular Music Vol. 4: The Second Johnny American Album, 2003
The Vagues, 2004
Successful 'Guitar', 2005
Birthday Swamp, 2005, Mini-LP
Background Music (aka 'Indulgent Solo Record'), 2006
Birthday Slope, 2006
The Lion, 2007, Mini-LP
Lost to Books, 2007
EPs (starting in junior high):
The Ackerman Sessions, 1998
Station to Station, Motherfucker, 2002
Assthetics, 2003
The Cocaine Sessions, 2003
The LSD Sessions, 2003
Birthday Suite, 2004
The Funkmasta Suite, 2004
Pop for Folk Art, Vol. 1: Katie and Kalen Go on a Wild Ride, 2006
Menu Sans Prix Versions, 2006
Sky Tiger, 2007
Many were never released due to us being in high school at the time, but are available here for free .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/15/2005
Band Website: goodbyetheband.com
Band Members: John Acquadro has written and performed the vast majority of Goodbye the Band's songs, though a handful have been written and performed with Alexandra Ackerman, Michael Ulrich, Spencer Owen and Jamie Burkart.
Influences: The musicmakers and artist-people who would make me wanna continue making music if the obsessive part of my brain died would be: Dave Longstreth, the members of Sonic Youth, Ryan Trecartin, Stereolab, Aphex Twin from 1997-2003, Jamie Burkart, phantom teenage Spencer William Maxwell Owen, Max Tundra, Radiohead, Beat Happening, The Soft Pink Truth, Bob Dylan during the period that everybody likes, The Breeders, Django Reinhardt with Stephane Grappelli, Beach Boys mid-1960s, Brian Eno 1973-1980, Captain Beefheart 1969-1971, Daniel Johnston on "1990," David Bowie pretty frequently, Elvis Costello 1978-1980, The Fiery Furnaces, The Flaming Lips 1996-1997, His Name is Alive, Jim O'Rourke, John Cale, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, John Maus, Laurie Anderson, Ariel Pink, Joni Mitchell, The Kinks, Boredoms, Low, The Magnetic Fields, Beck 1996-2000, Soul Coughing, Phil Elvrum 1999-2003, Mike Watt, Modest Mouse pre-1999, Nico, Dismemberment Plan 1999, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails 1994, Pavement, Soul Coughing, Fireworks, the Spinto Band 1998-2000, Television 1977, They Might Be Giants 1982-1992, X, Mr. Raoufi, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise, Ween, Yoko Ono 1970, Danielson.
Sounds Like: Someone who really likes making music making a lot of it (too many songs to mention here, but enough that you would agree if you knew the number).
Record Label: (none)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New EP "Sky Tiger" - Culmination of 7 Years of Recording

"Sky Tiger" is now in the MySpace player. If you wish to enjoy it at a more appropriate bitrate, you can find it here: Sky Tiger EP. (http://www.archive.org/details/gtb-skytiger)Enjoy! John...
Posted by Goodbye the Band on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:13:00 PST