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Mysteries of Life

The Mysteries of Life

Total Request: 21177 (18945 downloads, 2232 plays)

Request since monday Aug 30: 187 (168 downloads, 19 plays)

Location: Bloomington, Indiana

Categorized as: Alt-Rock

Comments: 4 comments

About:

Led by the husband-and-wife team of singer/guitarist Jake Smith and drummer Freda Love (both formerly of Antenna), the Bloomington, Indiana-based alternative pop band the Mysteries of Life also comprised keyboardist Dale Lawrence, celloist Geraldine Haas, bassist Kenny Childers and drummer LonPaul Ellrich. After debuting with the single "Kira," the group signed to RCA to issue their 1996 LP Keep a Secret; following a pair of indie label EPs, Focus on the Background and Anonymous Tip, the Mysteries of Life resurfaced with the full-length Come Clean in 1998. They later released the superb "Distant Relative" on in-house record label No Nostalgia in 2001. Released "Beginning To Move" in 2006 on Affirmitive/MFT. Currently Jake and Freda live in Nottingham England and continue to play and record. A new album of recordings is expected in 2008.


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Live at Second Story 03/11/06
1794 requests

 Recorded by Chris Menkhaus

  • Download MP3 Full Moon In My Soul
  • Download MP3 Take It Easy
  • Download MP3 Where Did Our Love Go?
  • Download MP3 Tomorrow Night
  • Download MP3 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
  • Download MP3 Stop Thinking
  • Download MP3 Gypsy
Selections from Beginning To Move
821 requests

 Released 2006 on Affirmation/MFT

  • Download MP3 One False Move
  • Download MP3 Stop Thinking
  • Download MP3 Early Summer
Selections from Distant Relative
2216 requests

 2001, No Nostaglia Records, Released 2001 on No Nostolgia

  • Download MP3 Back and Forth
  • Download MP3 I Just Bet
  • Download MP3 When I Let My Guard Down
  • Download MP3 T - 1
  • Download MP3 3 Things at Once
  • Download MP3 Talk to Me Then
  • Download MP3 Native Tongue
  • Download MP3 All My Might
Come Clean Demos
4155 requests

 Recorded for the Come Clean album on RCA.

  • Download MP3 Track 03
  • Download MP3 Track 09
  • Download MP3 Track 13
  • Download MP3 Track 17
  • Download MP3 Track 14
  • Download MP3 Track 18
  • Download MP3 Track 12
  • Download MP3 Track 01
  • Download MP3 Track 02
  • Download MP3 Track 19
  • Download MP3 Track 05
  • Download MP3 Track 06
  • Download MP3 Track 07
  • Download MP3 Track 15
  • Download MP3 Track 10
  • Download MP3 Track 04
  • Download MP3 Track 11
Misc Recordings 1996
953 requests

 Transferred from Cassette tape

  • Download MP3 1 Naive Melody
  • Download MP3 4 Cold Out
  • Download MP3 3 White Elephant
  • Download MP3 5 Shortest Day
MOL Compiliation
4161 requests

 A selection of some of our favorite Mysteries of Life songs from all their albums.

  • Download MP3 Going Through the Motions
  • Download MP3 Wish You Well
  • Download MP3 I Just Bet
  • Download MP3 A Year Ago Today
  • Download MP3 Hesitate
  • Download MP3 Southdowns
  • Download MP3 I Forgot To Say Goodbye
  • Download MP3 Your Face Betrays You
  • Download MP3 I Need To Know Where I Stand
  • Download MP3 3 Things at Once
  • Download MP3 Tell Me
  • Download MP3 Native Tongue
  • Download MP3 When I Let My Guard Down
  • Download MP3 Talk to Me Then
  • Download MP3 Once in a While
  • Download MP3 Feel My Way
  • Download MP3 Downhill
Jake solo performance at Collins Dorm, IU Bloomington
1272 requests
  • Download MP3 Track 06
  • Download MP3 Track 05
  • Download MP3 Track 02
  • Download MP3 Track 07
  • Download MP3 Track 03
  • Download MP3 Track 04
Live at MFT 2005 at Double Cross/The Church Bloomington
1171 requests

 Recorded by Chris Menkhaus

  • Download MP3 Take It Easy
  • Download MP3 I Just Bet
  • Download MP3 One False Move
  • Download MP3 Someday, Some Way
  • Download MP3 Stop Thinking
Live at Lafayette Brew Pub 02/14/04
1949 requests
  • Download MP3 A Year Ago Today (Live)
  • Download MP3 Cold Out (Live)
  • Download MP3 I Just Bet (Live)
  • Download MP3 When I Let My Guard Down (Live)
  • Download MP3 Nothing Ever Happens (Live)
  • Download MP3 Stop Thinking (Live)
  • Download MP3 In The Summer (Live)
  • Download MP3 Hard As I May Try (Live)
  • Download MP3 Walk On By (Live)
Live at Second Story 08/12/06
2685 requests

 Recorded by Chris Menkhaus

  • Download MP3 Where Did Our Love Go? (Encore)
  • Download MP3 I Just Bet
  • Download MP3 Downhill
  • Download MP3 Naive Melody
  • Download MP3 Building On Fire (Encore)
  • Download MP3 Stop Thinking
  • Download MP3 Magnetic Fields
  • Download MP3 Shaking
  • Download MP3 Farewell Toast
  • Download MP3 Hot Dog
  • Download MP3 I Need To Know Where I Stand
  • Download MP3 Your Face Betrays You
 
New Music
I wanna' skip school and listen to this for the rest of my life.
Jul 01, 2010elaine
I love the Mysteries of Life! I saw them twice in Austin. I read somewhere that a new album was brewing. Could someone in the know please provide an update? Thanx!
Dec 31, 2009Don L
wow. this is such a great band! i discovered them today listening to pandora radio. i tried itunes and then i was determined to find "when i let my guard down" and thanks to this website . . . i found a lot more than this!
awesome!
Dec 02, 2009lisa e
The Mysteries of Life is brilliant band that never made it. The song, "feel my way," has no verses. They just sing the chorus over and over again for 2 minutes, 37 seconds, and it completely works. I challenge ANYONE to do that and make it work.
Nov 06, 2009Karl Widerquist
 

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