These recordings of the supposed 3rd Adam Schmitt Reprise album are demos and were never officially released. Some of the songs will be heard for the first time. Singer/songwriter Adam Schmitt first won acclaim in the early '90s when his 1991 debut album, World So Bright, and 1993 follow-up, Illiterature, had critics hailing him as a young pop genius. However, when his label Reprise didn't want to release a third album from him, Schmitt decided to record other artists instead, engineering, producing, and mastering music for Tommy Keene, Hum, Beezus, Robynn Ragland, and others in his home studio. By 1998, Schmitt was ready to concentrate on his own music again, but his perfectionism and production work delayed the release of his third effort until the middle of 2001. That album, Demolition, was issued by Parasol; Schmitt started out as a producer by working with many of the label's artists.AMG
The three Adam Schmitt CD's are still available and can be easily purchased from any record store online, even from Amazon.
The three Adam Schmitt CD's are still available and can be easily purchased from any record store online, even from Amazon.
FIRST TIME IN FLAC
ZS1 (346 mb)
ZS2 (295 mb)
Songs
Dime Store / Brighter Days / Garden of Love / River Black / Birds in the Sky / World So Bright / Handful of Trouble / Dead End / 1000 Times / Big City / Love on the Rocks / Waterloo / Hardest Part / Scared Like Me / Everything Blue Lost / Scarlet Street / A Certain Hold / On The Train / Light House / Falling Stars / Funny Things / Looking at the Moon
17 comments:
thank you for this..ive always been a big fan of adam's but ive never ome across this gem before..can't wait to play it
thank you again...love the new blog...and about the old blog...as a music writer ive met many many musicians down the years and one thing ive noticed on occassion is that some can be a bit over the top paranoid about being as they see it "ripped off" i can only think that a certain type of personality reacts badly to all the years of being stitched up by record companies in their younger days and the echoes of that translate in later years to being overly zealous in protecting their work (and that often goes hand in hand ironically with the truth that nobody much is interested in their work anymore anyway) So keep that in mind if you get anyone else ever over reacting...just delete their stuff and forget about it...from my experience most musicians are very nice and laid back...and cool.....
anyway all the best with this new blog which i think is going to be even better that the old one
mick d
link to pt 1 is dead. any chance for a re-up. link for pt2 still works fine. Any help is appreciated. Thanks for all your efforts - this is a wonderful blog.
my mistake - i forgot to remove the old lo,ks in the comments area - the new links are on the name and title
pwd: password
....or maybe adam2007 - i can't remember...sorry
Holy crap!, what a post. Adam's first album, World So Bright, is one of my all time favorite albums.
This is going to be fun to hear, really appreciate it.
everything's great, but WHERE'S SONG #24???
this link does not appear to work ? any help would be appreciated ta
links pt1 & pt2 work fine
Yeah, track 24 seems to not be a part of the archive? Any chance this could be fixed? I hate to mix a Schmitt tune! :)
...also, 15 - Everything Blue seems to end rather suddenly.
Can't wait to hear these Schmitt songs! Downloaded the RAR files. How do I find the password?
yes, pass adam2007
Love this guy. Great power pop guitar singer/songwriter. Woefully unknown. Thanks for this!
I can't find the link for pt. 1
I'm maybe the world's biggest Adam fan - so thanks a MILLION for posting this! WSB is my all time favorite album. I'm not sure that these are demos for a third record, maybe some, but they really sound like they were done around the time of his debut. Either way, I'd pay him a TON if I had the means to fully produce many of these tracks. I wish he didn't go MIA. He's not on social media, and his website hasn't changed in like 15 years. Too bad he's such a recluse.
Hi Angelo, many thanks for supplying this incredible “lost” material. I’m absolutely loving it. May I ask how you came to get it? It’s stunning.
This is a stunning collection of “lost” Adam material. I’m absolutely loving it and just want to say thanks so much for it. How on Earth did you get a hold of this? Or is that classified information? Cheers, Pete
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