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Mark Aaron James

Acoustic Pop with Rock Bravado

About Me

Every one of my myspace friends is actually a friend, or a friend of a friend, or a fan of my music. They have all, at the very least, exchanged messages with me and have listened to my songs. Please keep that in mind if you'd like to friend request me. I want to make new friends and fans, but I will not just be another notch on your myspace bedpost. I take the word "friend" seriously, even in the virtual world.
Another in a series of unmotivated smaltzy love songs I've been writing recently. Gotta love it.
Video of my first new song, written in the UK. Pale and tired, recorded in the morning.
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Mark Aaron James

Mark Aaron James and his band were raised by wild animals for a failed Disney documentary in the early seventies. The project went terribly awry when Swedish bass player, Victor Broden, brutally mauled a cameraman who came between he and his mate. Devastated, and still living among the beavers in the multi-level dam they called home, the band kicked out the original drummer, Frisky Sutcliff, for the better smelling David Burch, from Knoxville, Tennessee.
It was during this period that the band began its "boyband" dancing phase. It proved largely unpopular due to the group's choreographer, their adopted father, a sixty pound beaver named Gip. Most of the dances consisted of the four-man band building a reinforcement wall using only their asses.
Guitarist Eric Halbig suggested the band try it's new direction, alternative/pop mixed with the bravado of rock & roll classics, after chewing a large redwood into a shiny red Stratocaster without chipping any teeth, (taken as a sign from the Almighty).
The band, still scarred by its brush with fame in the documentary, was skeptical. Then they heard that a good, independent band, without any industry contacts, didn't have a chance in hell of getting on corporate radio. Comforted by the promise of obscurity, they formed Mark Aaron James and The Borrowed Souls with the Floridian lead singer and award winning songwriter.
When they became the number two music act among the beavers, (trailing just behind a Grateful Dead tribute band made up of three dancing bears and Simon, of the chipmunks, who left due to Alvin's hogging the spotlight), they decided to take their act on the road. They dont bite...*anymore...so come see 'em.
*(We are not responsible if you feed or provoke the band in an attempt to test this statement).

My Interests

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Member Since: 9/25/2005
Band Website: markaaronjames.com
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You can listen to or purchase high quality MP3s from the new CD “Use Both Hands” to play on your iPod or any other MP3 player by clicking on the song title below. Each song costs 99 cents.

Ecstacy and Dance Music

This Song Would Be Better

Mr. Mazer

Simple Ingredients

Cat Person

I Still Love You

Egypts To Leave

Use Both Hands

Give Yourself Like the Sea

The 10th song on the new CD, a cover of Oingo Boingo’s “Weird Science,” is only available on the physical CD which you can buy at MarkAaronJames.com or CDbaby. Hope ya dig the new music.



Just wrote this odd song and kinda dig it, lots of sexual innuendo and double entendres. Fun to write.

The video for KLEPTOMANIAC GIRLFRIEND

Influences: '70s singer/songwriters, '80s cartoons, '90s powerpop, '00s New York
Sounds Like: Elvis Costello, John Mayer, Ben Folds and the Barenaked Ladies jamming together after a a few nice bottles of wine.

Record Label: Wider Man
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Differences Ive encountered between the US and UK

Family Feud is called Family Fortune (That just takes all the drama out of it, don't ya think?)Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is on every station several times a dayA Subway 6 inch sandwich costs the ...
Posted by Mark Aaron James on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:02:00 PST

My first week in the UK

So, I've completed my first week in the UK. No major disasters to report, but it was hell taking 6 suitcases, 70 pounds each, through 2 airports and customs. I warned my friend Russel, picking me up...
Posted by Mark Aaron James on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:00:00 PST

Random old song

So, it's 7 AM in the morning and I am still awake. I'm packing for the UK and I found a bunch of old cassette tapes from shows I did in Nashville. I've been gradually converting them to MP3s. That ...
Posted by Mark Aaron James on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:14:00 PST

Kreskin really is amazing!

When I was a kid, I remember staying up late to watch the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Several times I saw The Amazing Kreskin as Johnny's guest. He really was amazing. Well last Monday night I...
Posted by Mark Aaron James on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:37:00 PST

Ill be on the radio 10/29

Just a heads up; I'm going to be a guest on the internationally syndicated Joey Reynolds Radio Show this Monday night, (actually, very early Sunday morning if you're on the east coast). The show start...
Posted by Mark Aaron James on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:08:00 PST

I played with Twisted Sister...no, really!!!

So, my friend David Ipolito has this amazing gig. For the past 16 years he has gotten a special permit and performed every sunny Saturday in Central Park. I've sat in with hime for the past 3 weeks ...
Posted by Mark Aaron James on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:52:00 PST

I'm on iTunes

I've been on iTunes for years, but I've never really announced it. So, there ya have it. You can just search for my name on iTunes and you will find 3 of my CDs. (Just a Satellite isn't on there ye...
Posted by Mark Aaron James on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:12:00 PST

Only in New York

So, every Monday that I'm free I try to go to this party called "Cast Party." In a nutshell, because most Broadway shows are dark on Mondays, a group of theatre folks, headed by Jim Caruso, planned ...
Posted by Mark Aaron James on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:29:00 PST

that little somethin' extra

So, I had already turned in all the music and artwork for my new CD last week, along with new art and 8 bonus tracks for a re-issue of my old CD, Mr. Wirehead, when I got a phone call from Discmakers....
Posted by Mark Aaron James on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:12:00 PST

New CD coming

So, work has begun on the new CD. Not sure, but I think the title is going to be "Use Both Hands." Here are the songs that have made the cut, in no particular order, subject to change. I'm psyched....
Posted by Mark Aaron James on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:48:00 PST