Brendan Lynch on the Web
Brendan has really made inroads on the BUM Top Ten list. What's that? Belle's Underground Music or Best Underplayed Modern Music... Anyway, "Wonderful" has been up there for a couple months now and "Stop your Cryin'" is now making it up the ladder...
"Wonderful" made no. 13 in the Essential 47 of '97 list published by BUM.
"Wonderful" also made it into the top 200 (no. 157) of 1997 as tallied by Beyond Radio's Fringe.
I got a call from my mom today (2/6/98) saying Brendan was interviewed on CNN's Showbiz and that it would show today (2/6/98). I understand he also made CNN Headline News. I have the video, but something went wrong with the digitization and I'm not in a position to correct that right now. Sorry.
96 Wave in Charleston ( I don't know which of the many Charlestons this is...) has been playing Brendan.
97.5 3WV Charlottesville has been playing "Stop Your Cryin'"
CSCR in Ontario, Canada had Brendan as no. 19 on their playlist for 1/17/98
The world is a small place! I'm totally crazy about Sweden and a Swede named Pär Winberg voted Brendan's album in his top 50 for 1997. Brendan came in at 34. Pär runs an Internet music magazine called Midwestern Skies.
I've just discovered that "Wonderful" is included on a CD compilation called Sonic River.
Rock Around the World gives Brendan's album 3 worlds.
DiscDrive Online gives it 5 stars, i.e. "You don't have a record collection without this". Pretty cool!
World Drum of Eugene, OR also has a review.
Brendan also appeared on the Hitmaker Disc-overy list earlier this year, as well as having garnered airplay on KCRW, L.A., CA and The Edge in Toronto.
Showing that he's filtering into peoples' awareness, Brendan has made it into the catalog list for DISCO, a project that allows people to keep track of which CDs they own, find people with like tastes, and trade CDs if they want. However, they mistakenly call the album "Stop Your Crying".
So if I'm the Unofficial Brendan Lynch page, who's the Official one? Brendan let his domain name lapse a couple years ago. He now hangs his shingle at http://www.hearwater.com
As of 9/25/97, no thanks to Mercury Records, there is an Official Brendan Lynch Site. It's already making me sweat bullets instead of HTML code.
All-Music Guide
What You Can Do: At the bottom of each entry for an artist, it has a
ratings form. Please visit this site, search for Brendan by name and rate
the album if you are familiar with it. They want you to describe how it
sounds (using the scale they have) and how you think it stands up to the
artist's other work.
You can rate Brendan's album on Yahoo! Music.
If you have a website or MySpace/Friendster/etc. blog page, link to this site. The more people that link here, it's possible that search engines might realize the importance of this site to the query "Brendan Lynch".
If you live in Santa Barbara, request that KHTY play one of Brendan's songs - your choice.
"Ride" has been getting airplay on WRLT right in the heart of Music City! So as Tennesee Ernie Ford (resquiat in pace) once said, "Take a Tennesseean's word!"
If you live in Nashville, WRLT broadcasts on the Internet as well as the radio waves and takes requests for the noontime hour, even email requests. They are already playing "Ride". Don't spam them. Just make an honest request if you feel you need a "Brendan Break".
If you live in Charleston, do 96 Wave's Select-a-Set.
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, request Brendan on Live105's Request Fridays. 415-478-LIVE or 1-800-696-1053
If you have AOL, Compuserve, MSN or another similar online service with its own content areas, please go to the music forums and tell folks about Brendan and why you like his music.
Place for critics and wannabes to publish their pithy thoughts on CDs, albums and singles they have listened to. Write your own review of Brendan's album and put it there.
Newsgroup for talking about "alternative" music. Talk about you-know-who there.
WARNING: many spammers "harvest" email addresses from Usenet Newsgroups. Before posting to Usenet, doctor your newsreader settings so that you're posting with a faked address like "NOspidra@SPAMsirius.com" That way most people can figure out how to email you personal replies, but harvesters can't read what your email address is.
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