Tim Quirk
@tbquirk.bsky.social
I sing in Too Much Joy and Wonderlick and work in tech (Rhapsody/Google Play/Freeform/Zedge).
I tend to post about music, movies, and the death throes of democracy.
I tend to post about music, movies, and the death throes of democracy.
Santa kills the bird that can't fly when he drops it out of his sleigh at the end.
What was your takeaway from Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, when you watched it at a kid?
a stuffed reindeer with a red nose and a white tail
Alt: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Santa kills the bird that can't fly when he drops it out of his sleigh at the end.
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I bought my wife an O. Henry book for Christmas and it turns out she just sold her eyes.
December 17, 2024 at 6:08 PM
I bought my wife an O. Henry book for Christmas and it turns out she just sold her eyes.
The perennial question:
December 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The perennial question:
Christmas is a religious holiday that many secular people also celebrate (such as me, an avowed atheist who finds Christmas quite enjoyable without any of what I consider the religious rigamarole).
Christmas is a non religious holiday. I stand by that.
December 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Christmas is a religious holiday that many secular people also celebrate (such as me, an avowed atheist who finds Christmas quite enjoyable without any of what I consider the religious rigamarole).
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The first soundboard tapes of the entire Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour have arrived!
The Glasgow Soundboards
The first soundboard tapes of the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour!
www.flaggingdown.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The first soundboard tapes of the entire Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour have arrived!
This is clearly the most accurate Best Of music list of 2025, because Wonderlick is on it.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is clearly the most accurate Best Of music list of 2025, because Wonderlick is on it.
offshelf.net/2025/12/10/b...
offshelf.net/2025/12/10/b...
I told our publicist I will talk to anyone and everyone to explain how Tapedeck is trying to make a penny per play the floor rather than ceiling for streaming royalties, so here's yet another podcast about it.
How a Tech Veteran Is Rewriting the Rules of Music Royalties: Tim Quirk
YouTube video by The EntreMusician
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December 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I told our publicist I will talk to anyone and everyone to explain how Tapedeck is trying to make a penny per play the floor rather than ceiling for streaming royalties, so here's yet another podcast about it.
This is definitely an "only for those really interested" thing, but if you have any desire to hear what Too Much Joy sounded like when we were 16-year-olds calling ourselves the Rave and playing covers as well as originals, this Bandcamp Friday release might be for you.
The Rave: Live at the Rising Sun 1982, by The Rave
23 track album
toomuchjoy.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is definitely an "only for those really interested" thing, but if you have any desire to hear what Too Much Joy sounded like when we were 16-year-olds calling ourselves the Rave and playing covers as well as originals, this Bandcamp Friday release might be for you.
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Hey @tbquirk.bsky.social , as a major Too Much Joy fan (as evidenced in my #SpotifyWrapped stats), was there any chance I would not buy today's #BandcampFriday release of The Rave? I submit there was not...
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Hey @tbquirk.bsky.social , as a major Too Much Joy fan (as evidenced in my #SpotifyWrapped stats), was there any chance I would not buy today's #BandcampFriday release of The Rave? I submit there was not...
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This started out as a normal Too Much Joy interview (which I already had heard some of the anecdotes) but just about 20 minutes in, when Tim talks about Tapedeck, Rhapsody and the music industry (and the REM anecdote) it becomes fascinating.
Had a long, fun chat with The Music Lab podcast about Tapedeck (though the interviewer begins well back in my past):
4.63 Tim Quirk Interview
Spotify video
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December 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This started out as a normal Too Much Joy interview (which I already had heard some of the anecdotes) but just about 20 minutes in, when Tim talks about Tapedeck, Rhapsody and the music industry (and the REM anecdote) it becomes fascinating.
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The e-mail unsubscribe link is the digital equivalent to the "close door" elevator button.
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The e-mail unsubscribe link is the digital equivalent to the "close door" elevator button.
I admire South Park because even a simple joke (like a song titled “Pete Hegseth Is a Fucking Douche”) will contain profundities (like, “Your kids are gonna hear this and their friends will watch it too”).
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I admire South Park because even a simple joke (like a song titled “Pete Hegseth Is a Fucking Douche”) will contain profundities (like, “Your kids are gonna hear this and their friends will watch it too”).
Saw the latest Knives Out today, which is pretty perfect by the way, but 90 minutes into it an older lady in front of us exclaimed, "I don't think this is Hamnet!" and left.
Still trying to figure out why it took her an hour and a half to reach that conclusion.
Still trying to figure out why it took her an hour and a half to reach that conclusion.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Saw the latest Knives Out today, which is pretty perfect by the way, but 90 minutes into it an older lady in front of us exclaimed, "I don't think this is Hamnet!" and left.
Still trying to figure out why it took her an hour and a half to reach that conclusion.
Still trying to figure out why it took her an hour and a half to reach that conclusion.
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
November 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Black Friday,” Stephen miller yells, getting redder and redder, “will be replaced with White Friday.”
One day each year this old TMJ song gets some love. Based on a true story!
While reading a book in a nursing home parking lot earlier today, waiting for my SO to finish a visit, this came up in my 50 gb playlist organically. Perfect timing, no notes.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
One day each year this old TMJ song gets some love. Based on a true story!
Did some more blathering about Tapedeck with the Signal Chain podcast:
The Music Platform That Pays 1 Cent Per Stream
YouTube video by Signal Chain Stories
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November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Did some more blathering about Tapedeck with the Signal Chain podcast:
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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Getting mail from People Suck Music will always bring me joy. I haven't pulled the plastic off a CD in a while. But that thumb nail still does the trick between the black part and the clear cover. @tbquirk.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Getting mail from People Suck Music will always bring me joy. I haven't pulled the plastic off a CD in a while. But that thumb nail still does the trick between the black part and the clear cover. @tbquirk.bsky.social
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It's always a good day when receiving a package from People Suck Music & @tbquirk.bsky.social ... and a day earlier than expected
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It's always a good day when receiving a package from People Suck Music & @tbquirk.bsky.social ... and a day earlier than expected
I confess I was unsure about including so many outtakes and demos on the reissued Son of Sam I Am, but this reviewer seems very glad we did:
"There are reissues, and then there are resurrections...This isn’t just 'the album + a demo or two.' This is the full ecosystem of Son of Sam I Am."
"There are reissues, and then there are resurrections...This isn’t just 'the album + a demo or two.' This is the full ecosystem of Son of Sam I Am."
“Son of Sam I Am (Tommy's Version)” - Too Much Joy — ODYSSEY
There are reissues, and then there are resurrections. Son of Sam I Am (Tommy’s Version) is the latter: not just a re-release, but a reclamation—an album finally returned to the hands of the people who...
odysseymagazines.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I confess I was unsure about including so many outtakes and demos on the reissued Son of Sam I Am, but this reviewer seems very glad we did:
"There are reissues, and then there are resurrections...This isn’t just 'the album + a demo or two.' This is the full ecosystem of Son of Sam I Am."
"There are reissues, and then there are resurrections...This isn’t just 'the album + a demo or two.' This is the full ecosystem of Son of Sam I Am."
Glide Magazine has a nice piece about a new version of an old song of ours called Clowns -- includes a lyric video.
LISTEN: Too Much Joy Rejuvenate Their Punk Classic On Colorful "Clowns (but Ska)" - Glide Magazine
When Too Much Joy first released Son of Sam I Am on the San Francisco-based indie label Alias Records, critics were delighted. Rolling Stone called it “an
glidemagazine.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Glide Magazine has a nice piece about a new version of an old song of ours called Clowns -- includes a lyric video.
Had a long, fun chat with The Music Lab podcast about Tapedeck (though the interviewer begins well back in my past):
4.63 Tim Quirk Interview
Spotify video
open.spotify.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Had a long, fun chat with The Music Lab podcast about Tapedeck (though the interviewer begins well back in my past):
Was watching something else when my TV hiccuped and sent me to TCM, where a shot that was perfectly composed but patently ridiculous made me rewind to see which Brian DePalma movie I was missing.
Turned out it was The Fury, and I watched it to the end, and I'm glad I did. Ludicrous fun.
Turned out it was The Fury, and I watched it to the end, and I'm glad I did. Ludicrous fun.
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Was watching something else when my TV hiccuped and sent me to TCM, where a shot that was perfectly composed but patently ridiculous made me rewind to see which Brian DePalma movie I was missing.
Turned out it was The Fury, and I watched it to the end, and I'm glad I did. Ludicrous fun.
Turned out it was The Fury, and I watched it to the end, and I'm glad I did. Ludicrous fun.
I'd like to thank all the reviewers who lowered my expectations for Nebraska '82, because I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I do if they hadn't convinced me I'd wasted my money pre-ordering it.
The multiple versions of "Downbound Train" are, surprisingly, what I like most so far.
The multiple versions of "Downbound Train" are, surprisingly, what I like most so far.
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I'd like to thank all the reviewers who lowered my expectations for Nebraska '82, because I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I do if they hadn't convinced me I'd wasted my money pre-ordering it.
The multiple versions of "Downbound Train" are, surprisingly, what I like most so far.
The multiple versions of "Downbound Train" are, surprisingly, what I like most so far.