EVEN MORE ALBUMS!
Here are some albums from Ookla's earlier days. They aren't available any more, so don't even ask.

THE RAND AND ADAM TAPE
(poor man's copyright) (1993)
This is where it all began. Rand and Adam wrote these 16 very silly songs the year after they got out of college, and recorded them on a stereo tape deck with a Radio Shack Spring Reverb box.  They then mailed themselves a copy of the tape, which someone had told them would protect them from plagiarism.  The 50 original copies of the tape were hand-painted by Rand and Adam, and as it turned out the acrylic paint they used melted in car tape decks, causing the tape to become stuck in the car stereos of virtually everyone who owned it.  One person even claims his stereo was stolen with the tape stuck in it.

Here's what Rand had to say about it in 1998:

Poor Man's Copyright was recorded in the waning hours of 1992. Up to that point, Adam and I had written a whopping 16 songs and were nervous that we would die before anyone (least of all, us) would ever get to hear them. So we did what any aspiring garage musicians would do: we set up a lame recording mechanism and played the songs. Ostensibly, it was to audition drummers and bass players, but we all know it was for primarily masturbatory purposes.

At any rate, here we are, six years later, and I still can't play the guitar. What's weirder is that even though Adam and I have a rhythm section and two cds behind us, people still want the "Rand and Adam Tape."

This tape is poorly recorded and at places even more poorly performed. It's live and neither of us had played guitar for more than a year. It's got sixteen songs, six of which have been rerecorded in one form or another on Ookla's cds, four of which may eventually appear on an Ookla cd, and six of which you're unlikely to ever hear again outside of this tape. (Which means, a) they're collector's items, and b) they suck.) If you're not already a fan of Ookla the Mok, I'd advise you to stay well clear of this. You have been warned.

Track Listing

The Hot Side

Still Can't Buy Me Love
Gorilla (gorilla)
Tandem Bike
Murder She Wrote
View Master
Cool
Math
Just Another Cliche

The Cool Side
Renoir Song
Rats Live On nO eviL staR
Three Monkeys
Jeff's Corner
Stranger in the Mirror
Lemon Oh's Song
Baby's Head
Private I

The Rand & Adam Tape is out of print.
REQUEST THE RAND & ADAM TAPE ANYWAYS

SUCKING OUT LOUD (1999)
Riding the success of their fabulously popular Super Secret CD, Ookla embarked on a massive 2-year tour of the science fiction convention circuit.  When sound wizard Bill Roper offered to record their November 14, 1998 concert at Windycon 25 in Chicago, the band jumped at the chance and made a deal to put out a CD. But Ookla's hectic tour schedule caught up with them--Adam got strept throat and lost his voice. Since the concert was going to be recorded and sold regardless of how it sounded, the band decided Adam would take one for the team and down a shot of brandy before each number (an old theatre trick; if your voice is hoarse a shot of brandy will get you through most of a song.)  It worked! His voice recovered, and the quality of the recording is excellent. You can really hear the thud of Adam's skull hitting the stage during track eleven.

Track Listing

Super Powers
Tommy
Arthur Curry
Math
This Song
Rishathra
Theme From Super Skrull
Stop Talking About Comic Books or I'll Kill You
Bride of Wolfman
My Secret Origin
Number One
Das Uber Tuber
View Master
Bonus Track: Sound Check/Dollar Fifty Movies

SUCKING OUT LOUD is out of print.  And no, they won't be re-releasing it.