New music and live performances since the release of Porno, Mint & Grime have been sporadic.
Side projects and Super Fake Nice (2005-present) Recorded in 2005 at Spaceland, the performance includes a cover of AC/DC's hit song " Back in Black." Several videos of songs from the DVD, including the "Back in Black" cover, have been posted online on Mahaffey's MySpace and YouTube profiles. Ī live video, intended to be released on home video formats, remains unreleased.
After the album spent thirteen quiet years in limbo, Ornament and Crime was released on Augvia El Camino Media, who had previously released Super Fake Nice in 2014. A few songs from Ornament and Crime had been featured on the band's MySpace. When Universal Music Group acquired DreamWorks Records, the band's label at the time, the album was shelved indefinitely. In addition to these releases, Self contributed to several tribute albums, covering "Shame" on the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses in 1998 and " Ana Ng," for the They Might Be Giants tribute album Hello Radio: The Songs of They Might Be Giants, released in July 2006.Īn album entitled Ornament and Crime was completed in 2004 and was set to become the band's fifth commercial release. Porno, Mint & Grime consists of demos recorded during the 2001-2004 sessions for the unreleased album Ornament and Crime.Īfter a long hiatus, Self released an EP entitled Super Fake Nice in 2014. In 2005, Self again released an album for free on the Internet. That same year, Self released two more free Internet-only albums, Self Goes Shopping and Selfafornia. Back at Spongebath, Self released Gizmodgery in 2000, an album created entirely with children's toy instruments. Around this time, bassist Timm Nobles was replaced by Mac Burrus, formerly of Murfreesboro rock band The Plain.Īn EP titled Brunch (1999) and the album Breakfast with Girls (1999) were co-released by the Spongebath and DreamWorks labels. The album was followed in 1997 by The Half-Baked Serenade, an album released exclusively through a mail order catalog, and in 1997, an album released for free via the Internet called Feels Like Breakin' Shit. During this early period, the band featured Matt on vocals and guitar, Mike on lead guitar, Tim Nobles on bass, Chris James on keyboards and samplers, and Jason Rawlings on drums. The band's debut album, Subliminal Plastic Motives, was released in 1995 on the Spongebath Records, a label the Mahaffeys helped found. Self began with founders Matt and Mike Mahaffey recording songs in their childhood home in the early 1990s, following brief forays with other groups.
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