Just did some tracking on what tunes get downloaded the most (we've had 196,713 downloads of our music as of yesterday). I've never done this before, so I'll have to figure out a way to automate the massaging of the web report in the future.

Anyhow here are the top 20 most listened to Soul Amp audio files (feel free to download and enjoy to your hearts content):

1. Zingo Bango Bomp mp3


2. Pink Shirt mp3


3. Bonfire Blues


4. New Day mp3


5. She Walks Up Ahead (2nd take from oldies) mp3


6. Banner Day (drum machine) mp3


7. Gentle Assassins - Closer in Your Life mpe


8. Throwing Rocks at Cars mp3


9. Easy in the Summer bratfest jam mp3


10. Ten Dollar Bill mp3


11. Banner Day-Full Band mp3


12. Division - original recording from oldies mp3


13. Hold On mp3


14. Jamie Says mp3


15. Division - album version mp3


16. Suburban Summer Symphony mp3


17. Division - old version - remastered mp3


18. How About Some Hammond mp3


19. she walks up ahead (original version 1st take) mp3


20. Mascara Death - remastered mp3
    

And here's what we think are the top ten Soul Amp songs:

http://www.soul-amp.com/Top_Ten_Songs.html

Psychedelic Rain Washed Street at both Night and Day in West Allis Wisconsin on Sept 13 and 14, 2008. Photo by Michael Fisk. (click to zoom)
Take a Ride Down This Street (a free mp3... just click)

Here's a new tune (the last tune from the first set) from the May 2008 House of Guinness gig. Bradly clearly came up with the idea from something he said here:

http://www.soul-amp.com/freebies/Downtown_Waukesha-Lets_Get_Spacey__soul-amp.mp3

It's a cool little tune with Nord Electro and Lead. It was made up on the spot, so there some oddities to it. But we hope you dig it. Have a great Monday and rest of the week!
Here's the top ten Soul Amp songs to listen to:

http://www.soul-amp.com/Top_Ten_Songs.html

Here's even more MP3 freebies:

http://www.soul-amp.com/freebies/

And I'll leave you with some more weird pics:

Weird Rain Washed Street in West Allis WI

Milwaukee Skyline from Bayview shore. September 2008. Photo by Mike Fisk

Here's the 2nd tune of our first set of the HOG gig in May 2008.

Last Summer Day in the City with You (a free MP3)

Milwaukee Sailboats in dry dock. September 2008. Photo by Mike Fisk

Here's more pics of the Milwaukee Skyline taken from a sailboat:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2007/10/sailing-in-milwaukee.html

Here's more Soul Amp tunes for ya:

http://www.soul-amp.com/Top_Ten_Songs.html

Queen Anne's Lace Flower LED Photo Art for the new Soul Amp Tune. Photo by Mike Fisk
Trans Inter-Soul Connector - mp3

OK, this time I'm posting our first set in order from first to last. Yep, breaking with tradition. So this another tune from the House of Guinness Show in May. Not much to say, just hope you groove out to the InstruRock tune. Made it up the fly and it seemed to be fairly, warmly received. Enjoy the flower LED Photo Art pictures and have a super cool Monday!

More photos of Queen Anne's lace in Sunset and some explanation and description of this invasive weed can be found here (hey, we're an invasive wee too):

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/08/queen-annes-lace-in-sunset-photo.html

If you're into this tune, you might like this one too:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/flower-photo-collage-psychedelic-photo.html

Queen Anne's Lace at Sunset in Milwaukee, WI, August 7, 2008. Photo by Mike Fisk

Ripples From the Stone - an mp3

What struck me recently as kind of odd is how I sometimes get nostalgic for times that were somewhat crappy.

I took pics last night of the sunset, but was feeling very stressed out about work (in fact, I was still at work and was only taking a break because the sunset looked nice). So it was not a very good time. But then I was thinking about how I look back on other times that weren't so nice that I've made it through. Sometimes I look back fondly even when times were not cool. I wondered at that and I wondered at whether, or not, I'd remember last night as something good. And then I thought, perhaps, for me, the feeling of nostalgia comes partly from just knowing how things turned out. I made it through it and so it would feel safe to go back to it. The great unknown future is more stressful.

Perhaps nostalgia is a bit of an instinctive feeling. Going back to something that's known as safe even if it wasn't that great. All creatures seem to try to control their environment to some extent. What better way than go back to what is already a known.

Anyhow, the flower in the pic is Queen Anne's Lace. It's a nasty weed with a beautiful flower that's all over the place. It's the origin of cultivated carrots (how cool, huh?). It was brought to this country by the colonists as a medicinal plant. The roots are high in vitamin A and the juice is supposed to be a diuretic and maybe has some anti-cancer properties. It's a real pretty weed, but a pain in the *ss to get rid of. It's a compound flower. Each flower is made up of thousands of tiny flowers. The center of the compound flower is often purplish (although I haven't seen that too much). Here's a good site about Queen Anne's Lace:

http://www.hort.wisc.edu/mastergardener/features/weeds/QAL/QueensAnneLace.pdf

The song is an old one. But songs don't get more nostalgic that this one. It's really an amazing tune considering how Bradly created the words on the fly. He's also playing a concertina-type accordion thingy on it (what's it called, Brady?... is it just a concertina?). All around, a pretty cool tune in my humblest opinion.

Be sure to check out Soul Amp's top ten tunes:

http://www.soul-amp.com/Top_Ten_Songs.html

And check out all the other Soul Amp free mp3s here:

http://www.soul-amp.com/freebies

And here's a cool pic of a weed with lights flowing all around it:

http://soul-amp.blogspot.com/2008/07/galactic-weed-led-photo-art-soul-amp.html

And here's more pics:

Milwaukee Sunset, August 2008. Photo by Mike Fisk

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