Return of the Skeptics

Once upon a time I had this great idea of reviving the Educated Skeptics website, or at least putting something back up on the web that signals that we ever existed. Mostly, I wanted the mp3's of our material to be available to our multitudes of fans (not that they couldn't find one of us and legally purchase a CD...). At this point, I'm in the middle of exam crunch and procrastinating, but I've basically resigned myself to the fact that I'm no web designer (I can barely operate HTML at all) and I'm not going to be ambitious enough to make the website reappear. What I can do is put links to those great tunes back up, and that's what this is all about.

Thank Google for the free webspace.

Who could forget Only One of You? With it's goofy backwards guitar intro that was way too much fun to record, and that catchy chorus? And the "oo oo's" at the end.

Follow that with Phil. The enigmatic name. The hard panned guitar/violin duos. And that weird noise I made at the end of the song. I'm still not sure about it...

Mexican Standoff has become one of my favourite tunes. The random opening was fun, the gratuitous bass solo sublime, and if I could have mixed that end section better, it might have come out awesome. Too much guitar. Bah. Hear it every time.

Elements is a fun song. Too many chords for its own good. Who writes a song with two bridges? But it evolved well, and I really like the way the violin worked its way in.

Everyone loves the Steps Don't Make a Sound intro. You just gotta love violin with cool effects. That overblown middle section with Peters playing a whole orchestra over himself was my idea, I'm still not sure about it, but I take responsibility. Oh. And I still haven't gotten an explanation as to how the lyrics of the song relate to cell phones at all.

One Way Streets probably got the short end of the stick in the mixing process, but I still like it. Go echoey guitar. And the "ooohs." I think they could be a little louder. But I've always loved them.

Never has more time been spent on a drum beat than for On Your Own. And after all that work, we ripped it out and put a drum maching in instead. I still think my favourite part is that little backwards cymbal as it leads into the first verse.

And Tired. I think this is the concensus fan favourite. I must say, when I came back from a bathroom break during our first recording of this, and Caleb was playing that nutty 32nds thing on the final chorus, I thought he was nuts. Now I love it.

There you have it. They're back on the web.