The Love Songs

Digital Downloads

Downloads: The majority of our music is available through Bandcamp, Apple Music, Spotify, and Pandora.

Physical Copies

Postage: If you live in the USA, everything is postage paid. Add $3 for international orders
Payment Options: We accept well hidden cash, PayPal [payable to craigums@yourmother.com], Money Orders and Checks payable to Craig Billmeier (NOT Love Songs.) Email Craig for postal mailing address
Buy Elsewhere: You can order some releases online directly through: New Disorder Records, 1986’d, RevHQ, and Ebullition

Albums

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The Loneliest Whale

Formats: CD & LP
Released: October 18, 2019
Label: Blonde Medicine
Details: Recorded at Nu-Tone Recording in Pitsburg, CA by Ben Hirschfield. Mastered at Mammoth Sound in Maine by Dan Randall. Cover art by Glenn-O.
Track Listing: 1. Got What Gets You To Go, 2. Invisible, 3. The Loneliest Whale, 4. Last Chance, 5. 5-Sided Die, 6. BonneVicci Rides Again, 7. Literally, 8. That Sucks, 9. Barefoot, 10. Myself Getting Back At Me, 11. Bald Moon Rising
Additional Notes: Discogs

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Oh, The Places You’ll Go Wrong

Formats: CD & LP
Released: November 12, 2016
Label: 1986’d Music Industries
Details: Produced by The Love Songs and Chris Dugan. Mastered by Maor Appelbaum. (2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10) Recorded at JingleTown Recording in Oakland, CA by Chris Dugan. (1, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12) Recorded in the Dutch Oven by us. Cover art by Mike Foxall.
Track Listing: 1. No Soy, 2. All Branches, No Trunk, 3. Oh, The Places You’ll Go Wrong, 4. Satan‘s Brats, 5. Sex or War, 6. Blacno Nino, 7. D, 8. I Hope It Leaves a Scar, 9. Sweetish, 10. Cake or Crow, 11. Bastida, 12. All For Leyna
Additional Notes: Liner Notes | Discogs

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Time Off

Format: Digital Download EP
Short Run CD
Released: November 2011
Label: Silver Sprocket Records
Details: This recording was made in the Dutch Oven in early 2010, exactly ten years after we released our first cassette – if not improved we’re at least much easier to download. (The gratuitous nudity and blatant homoeroticism remain the same.) Originally titled “Bass Solo, Take One” to keep with our inexplicable Metallica/bass player theme this EP was changed to “TIME OFF” after our new bass player John, no wait, Brian(?) felt uncomfortable with that kind of pressure.* (And because Jack’s 3–-month Sudamerican sabbatical has so far stretched to two–plus years.) * Brian (yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s Brian) passed the new–band–member test not by learning the songs but by fixing our van, by the way.
Track Listing: 1. Tommy Del Mar, 2. Bitchin’, 3. Thrillhouse, 4. AYU...E, 5. I Don’t Want A Bag
Additional Notes: Liner Notes | Discogs

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Another Guaranteed 40 Minute Music Set

Format: LP
Released: November 2009
Label: Little Deputy Records
Details: Our long overdue 4th full length is also our first on the grandest of all formats, the LP! Fifteen new tracks totaling well over half an hour, including some that are not so new but previously only heard on cassette tape or the now obsolete compact disc. Exclusively available on ultra collectible hot pink vinyl!
Track Listing: SIDE ONE: 1. Live from Jeth–ro, 2. Jack’s Rage, 3. Three–Handed, 4. F.A.? F.U., 5. I Miss My TV Set, 6. Maria Roja, 7. I’m Not Afraid Of Humping And Picking Berries, 8. Love Songs Loves Us Some Reno
SIDE TWO: 9. The One Thing, 10. Restore L’Amore, 11. Dear Gramps, 12. I’m Tired And Cranky So Shut The Fuck Up, 13. Wanna Buy A Watch?, 14. You Or The Dog (Who Will I Miss More?), 15. Hot Buns (The Remake Of The Sequel To The Theme Of Top Gun)
Additional Notes: Lyrics | Liner Notes | Discogs

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Behind Enemy Lines (in G# Minor)

Format: CD
Released: August 2006
Label: New Disorder, 625 Not So Fast, Wajlemac & Laja
Details: Our 3rd full length which is also a concept record!
Track Listing: 1. Overture, 2. Hot List, 3. Doodie Movies and Mick Mucus, 4. High Speed Internet Tango, 5. Sweet-Talked, 6. You Have No Idea, 7. Backstory, 8. Underture, 9. That’s Why They Change The Locks When You’re Fired, 10. Unsent Letters, 11. Behind Enemy Lines
Additional Notes: Liner Notes | Discogs

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All Branches No Trunk

Format: CD
Released: June 2004
Label: New Disorder & 625 Not So Fast
Details: Recorded by Craigums in the Dutch Oven last Thursday between the hours of 3 and 5 P.M. Mastered under mild duress by Kris Ziakas at The Institute of Hi-Fidelity. All songs © 2004 Music of Manville/ASSCRAP. Alan played bass on 8. Joe Nothing and Alex Koll sang on 4. Jason Newsted does not appear on this CD.
Track Listing: 1. Chico y Chica, 2. Luv Song, 3. Cool As Corpses, 4. IPSN Day, 5. Sweet-ish, 6. Dick Parade, 7. Cookies and Love, 8. Salty Dwarf, 9. All Branches, No Trunk, 10. There’s No L In Fool, Foo, 11. To All The Girls I Thought About Loving Before, 12 .Misfortune Cookie, 13 Mr. Ruptured
Additional Notes: Out of print | Discogs

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Bandcamp

Volume One

Format: CD / Cassette
Released: January 2000
Label: New Disorder & Impatience of Indifference
Details: Originally released as a cassette at the last Your Mother show this eventually got re-released in the lucrative Compact Disc format, much to the delight of very few.
Track Listing: Restore L’Amore - The One Thing - I Turned Into A Medley (a 7-minute Misfits medley, polka style) - Tell A Friend - Make Sure There’s No Squares At My Funeral - Kung FuLafel - The No-Pants Party - I’d Juggle With Three Hands For You - Why’d She Have To Break Up With Me?!?! - Pistol-Whipt - Kickin’ It Down at da Gyz-m - Kelly Marie - The Two Thing - Dear Gramps - Hot Buns (theme to Top Gun II) - Flowers Across My Car Windshield - You Down Wit ADD? - I’m Tired & I’m Cranky, So Shut The Fuck Up / Second-Hand Chain-Smoker - Couch Potato - DMC’s Taking No Crap - Do You Know? - Nel Contra Caca - Wrap - You or the Dog? (Who Will I Miss More) - Hey, Ex-Girlfriend.
Additional Notes: Out of print | Discogs

Compilations

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1986’d

Arcane Drama — Vol 1

Format: LP
Released: December 2016
Label: 1986’d Music Industiries
Details: “D” is from “Oh, The Places You’ll Go Wrong”.
Track Listing: 1. Public Safety – “The Betrayal”, 2. The Love Songs – “D”, 3. Sarchasm – “Tides II”, 4. Decent Criminal – “Bingel”, 5. Dandelion Massacre – “Siren Sigh”, 6. Skank Bank – “Real Rock Riddim”, 7. Crowd 9 – “Smile”, 8. La Plebe – “Siempre Unidos”, 9. The Pathogens – “Johnny Hit & Run Jenny”, 10. Dog Party – “Box of Handkerchiefs”, 11. Heartless Folk – “Coffin Nail”, 12. Cronander – “Trapped”, 13. Demi & The Gods – “Owe the Night”, 14. Day Labor – “Bandito”
Additional Notes: Discogs

Maximum Rocknroll Presents: Noise Ordinance

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Maximum Rock N Roll

Maximum Rocknroll Presents: Noise Ordinance

Format: LP
Released: 2011
Label: Maximum Rocknroll
Details: This version of “Tommy Del Mar” is from the “Time Off” EP.
Track Listing: 1. N/N – “Es Anarquista”, 2. Fix My Head – “Quit Life”, 3. Ruleta Rusa – “Ray Nara”, 4. Year One – “Colony Collapse Disorder”, 5. Suicide Bomb – “Anywhere But Here”, 6. Acephalix – “Scar Tissue”, 7. Mörpheme Muchi – “Moumai”, 8. Duck And Cover – “Candy Man”, 9. Fleshies – “Death Of A Peckerwood”, 10. Black Rainbow – “Lux Perpetua”, 11. Airfix Kits – “To Kill The King”, 12. I Will Kill You Fucker – “1981”, 13. Rank / Xerox – “Drips”, 14. Surrender – “Praise To Capital”, 15. Conquest For Death – “Locked In”, 16. Needles – “We All Fall”, 17. Ecoli – “The Maggot Becomes A Fly”, 18. Shotwell – “You Scare The Night”, 19. Hunx And His Punx – “The Problem Is You”, 20. The Love Songs – “Tommy Del Mar”, 21. Migraine – “ The Corpse In The Chair/Repulsed”, 22. Face The Rail – “Wearing Thin” , 23. Acts Of Sedition – “Last Train To Fruitvale”
Additional Notes: Discogs

Out of Print

21 (songs!): A Holland Compilation CD, Vol. II

Format: CD
Released: September 2009
Label: Holland Project
Details: “Love Songs Loves us Some Reno” is from “Another Guaranteed 40 Minute Music Set”.
Track Listing: 1. Love Songs – “Love Songs Loves us Some Reno”, 2. Ferocious Eagle – “In These Woods”, 3. My Flag is on Fire – “I Quit”, 4. Apprentice – “America”, 5. Manacle – “Vampire Gone Toothless”, 6. Deepen the Wound – “Grow Up, Give Up”, 7. Guard Rails – “There is Nothing Out There”, 8. Xenophobes – “GO!”, 9. Hopscotch Whiskey – “Hellbound Boy”, 10. Swahili – “Water Mountain”, 11. Short Hair – “Shark Mountain”, 12. Emic – “Bring it Back”, 13. Pterodactyl – “Old Clouds”, 14. Planets – “Free Ranger”, 15. New Thrill Parade – “Wine Tasting”, 16. Sonny Smith – “Death Cream”, 17. Buster Blue – “Shoes and the Places You Put Them”, 18. Hair Envelope – “Teeth”, 19. Over Vert – “Brutal Ender”, 20. Always Fierce – “Live from Tonic”

Out of Print

A Reason For Living

Format: DVD
Released: December 2005
Label: Unity Skate
Details: A skateboarding DVD compiled by the folks at Unity Skate Shop in Livermore, CA. Features a whole lot of skating, some live clips from bands playing at the skate shop, and a bunch of interviews with the skaters and others associated with the shop. Also comes with a compendium CD with 24 bands on it. An ambitious and much-respected project. IMDB

Out of Print

To the Bitter End Vol 2

Format: CD
Released: May 2005
Label: Vinehell
Details: 30 bands on one CD. The Love Songs track “Humping And Picking Berries” is from “Another Guaranteed 40 Minute Music Set”.
Additional Notes: Discogs

Out of Print

California Thrash Demolition

Format: CD
Released: January 2005
Label: 625 Thrash
Details: A 72 minute CD comp of Californian bands. The Love Songs track “F.A. F.U?” from “Another Guaranteed 40 Minute Music Set”.
Additional Notes: Discogs

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Necrotardation

Format: CD
Released: 2002
Label: Necrotardation
Details: A 40-page comic book with a soundtrack CD with Love Songs, Your Mother, Atom and His Package, Spazz, Useless ID, Biceptasaurus and several more bands (mostly from Australia). The comic book was drawn by Glenn Smith, and is about the greatest metal band that never was, NECROTARDATION. The Love Songs track “No Pants Party” from “Vol. I”.
Additional Notes: Discogs

7" / Singles / Soundtracks

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Thrillhouse Records

Hot Buns Redux

Format: 7"
Released: October 2007
Label: Thrillhouse Records
Details: “7" Single featuring 2 new amazing songs from Bay Area’s Love Songs. How many dick and fart jokes can you handle? The album cover should explain where this is going. When you listen to this be sure to wear some pants you don’t like all that much, cause they are getting thoroughly peed in from the shear awesomeness of these songs. I’m not joking.” – Thrillhouse Records. These songs were later included on “Another Guaranteed 40 Minute Music Set”.
Tracklist: 1. Hot Buns—Redux, 2. TV Set
Additional Notes: Discogs

Out of Print

Reno

Format: CD Single
Released: October 2004
Details: Limited to 35 copies, exclusively for the fine folks in Reno. This long was later included on “Another Guaranteed 40 Minute Music Set”.
Tracklist: 1. Love Songs Love Us Some Reno

Out of Print

Zombie Apocalypse Reno

Format: DVD
Released: 2006
Details: Brought to you by Reno kids you know and love, this flick has zombies, tunes, social commentary, romance, and some way cute girls. How could such a sweet sounding film possibly go wrong, you might ask. Pick up your copy today and find out! This song was later included on “Another Guaranteed 40 Minute Music Set”.
Tracklist: 1. Love Songs Love Us Some Reno

Splits

Out of Print

Love Songs / Sharp Knife Split

Format: Cassette
Released: March 2005
Label: Grateful Records
Details: The Love Songs, conquering one archaic recording format at a time. Both songs taken from “Another Guaranteed 40 Minute Music Set”.
Tracklist: 1. F.A. F.U.?, 2. Wanna Buy a Watch?
Additional Notes: Discogs

Miscellaneous

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Mail Order
The book is $8 USA / $11 World

Naked Shackelton

Format: Book
Author: By Craig Martin Billmeier
Details: The concept of the book stems from the underground punk practice of releasing "split records" where two like-minded bands each get one side of a record. Here, fellow punker Dean Carrico and I each got one half of a book. His half is called "Mad Cows Indeed" and exploits his student exchange time in Britain.