Five Years of Flirt!
How hard is it on Valentine's Day is it to post just a few love songs? Turns out, incredibly hard. Although "love" and it's discovery or loss has to be one of the most sung about topics in music, finding just that perfect song to express your sentiments is still near impossible. A few years ago, the other admins at Excellent Online and I put together a little two disc Valentine for the world... Flirt!
Looking back five years now, I'm still amazed at our accomplishment. We managed to wrangle up a few of our friends to give us new tracks, wonderful covers and rare gems. I never knew until that experience how time consuming and hard it was to organize a record release... and we only had to deal with an online release! Regardless, there are still several songs on that compilation that remain some of my favorite love songs of all time.
If I do say so myself, the whole compilation shows how ahead of our time we were. I don't think any of us envisioned Of Montreal becoming the international phenoms they are today or that Marc Maron would go on to be one of the founding voices of Air America radio. We were the first place to release new material from former Ride frontman Mark Gardener and saw a quick reformation of janglepop stars Velocity Girl (which sadly never came to full fruition). I need to thank again everyone who lent their material or time to the success of this compilation... thanks again to ALL OF YOU.
Buy some: Of Montreal, Seth Knappen, The Marlboro Chorus, Sprites, Velocity Girl, Koala, Cinerama
Comments
That was FIVE YEARS AGO?! Time flies. That was the first public recorded appearance of The Positions. And we've recorded all of one record since.
Anyway, thanks for the nostalgia.
Posted by: Reid | February 14, 2008 9:25 AM
that's a great cinerama song... from a great album, actually. one of gedge's finest moments. the album, that is.
Posted by: bill p | February 14, 2008 11:07 AM
The Flirt compilation was excellent. Kudos to everyone involved. I've still yet to hear another Of Montreal song as utterly fantastic as Sad Love, even after all these years.
Posted by: Kippers | February 18, 2008 5:54 AM
Stumbled upon the blog from your Last.fm profile and saw this post. The Flirt! compilation has been one of my favorite all-time comps! Every single year I revisit the site to see if you've put a new one together.
Sorry for the completely random comment but, seriously, I've loved that comp since I downloaded it overnight on my 56k modem. Well done!
Posted by: C. Ford | March 11, 2008 6:35 PM