RH's liner notes: ----------------- This is a collection of songs, made by people who post at the NFC Board. With each song, the NFC username of the person who submitted it is noted. This means that the person either recorded the song on his/hers own, or made it with a band. Initially, the compilation was being compiled by Mr. James Barricklow as he came up with the idea - and the plan was for him, and possibly Frank Morris, to complete it. James quickly ran out of free time for the compilation, however, and I was asked to help. I offered to 'take over' the job, and here is the result. Most of the songs were collected in just a couple of weeks. Even so, it didn't take long to fill the whole CD - and I still have several submissions that there just wasn't room for! I hope you like the choices we made. The majority of these songs were not recorded professionally, and most not in 'pure' stereo, so the quality is obviously not the best. Still, none of the songs are hiss-filled 5th generation recordings that were made with some old boombox. The songs came from a number of different sources, mostly computer files such as MP3s, Real Audio clips and low-quality WAV's. For those interested in technical specs, all the songs were converted to a 44100 khz sample rate, a 16-bit resolution and stereo -- unless the song was already in this format. Otherwise, some of the songs were left untouched, but most were spiced up a bit - ie. by amplifying the sound, or reducing hiss. A song like "Dying" suffered from having a lot of hiss in the background, and some other wierd noise (a TV perhaps?) that was removed. This left small traces, but the beautiful singing shines through. One song even went through my MiniDisc recorder as my PC and all the sound editing software I could think of refused to convert the file to pure wav format! The Minidisc record/playback approach worked smoothly though - and preserved the quality. While browsing around my old sound files, I also came across a couple of things that I thought would be fun to add. One is a little promo for the NFC that was made about a year prior to this CD's release. Another is the "Resignation Speech" from Mr. Francisco Chavando - also known as "casper" on the old WWWBoard. The story behind this, is that (almost) every year there has been an election on the board, to determine a "president". The first year, Chavando won. He later resigned (as the speech documents) and eventually left the board after some problems. Otherwise, apart from the bonus tracks, all the songs are by people who currently post on the board. "Quarantine" was submitted by a person who frequently visits the site, and whose band got more attention after being mentioned in the NFC News section. The "Salmon song" has nothing to do with NFC, but I thought it was pretty funny, so I added it. The compilation also offers 2 bonus tracks that couldn't make it to the actual CD - but is available on the website for the comp. One is a song by a band called Bad Medicine that my brother has been drumming for. The song was recorded with a camcorder (by me!) at a surprise party, thrown when my brother turned 30. The quality is not very good, but it's a pretty cool song. The other was some talking, cut out from the Melvins and Mike Ziegler rendition of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". - Rasmus Holmen, February 2001.