Author: Mike Vasas

  • Songs Not By Them – Automatic Stop by David Baldwin

    Automatic Stop [Strokes Cover] by David Baldwin David said…”I don’t know what made me pick this one. I guess it was when it came up on shuffle and I realized I was singing all the guitar parts…” Um…THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it! Listen below… Or click this for the Download Link…

  • Blog Zombie

    So, even though SNBM was a true 0 for weeks, the blog is back as a zombie blog. I’m very appreciative to my webhosting support staff.

  • To Be With You

    To Be With You by Mr. Big Taken from the 1991 LP “Lean Into It.” Released just over 20 years ago! Happy New Year! Lead vocals, stomping and clapping by Amanda Vasas. Listen below… Or click this for the Download Link…

  • Beehive State Medley – Live!

    Here’s Amanda and I doing a medley of Nilsson-related songs. Recorded at the Renegade Theatre Festival in Old Town Lansing. August 16, 2012

  • The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead

    Songsnotbyme.com proudly presents “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead.” Originally performed by XTC and covered by the Crash Test Dummies, this cover features Amanda Vasas, on vocals, Matt Mepham on drums and myself on guitars/bass. Also, Peter H. Pumpkinhead plays keyboards & sings backup. Special thanks to iMovie 11 for having a fairly consistent bug (yet […]

  • Songs Not By Your Parents

    Download the entire album in ZIP format here. Amanda and I made this record of cover songs à la the Songs Not By Me project for our baby and decided we’d share it with you to play for your baby or babies; however young, old, literal or metaphorical they may be. Songs Not By Your […]

  • Life Line – Opening of Contact

    My new cover of Harry Nilsson’s “Life Line” used as the opening music to the movie Contact. For the 2013 Thor competition. All instruments performed completely in the iOS environment except acoustic guitar and vocals recorded in the iOS environment.  I’ll upload the audio soon.

  • Songs Not By Me Updating Soon

    You may have noticed some changes to the template for Songs Not By Me. This is because I am finally migrating all tracks over to archive.org. Stay tuned.

  • The Complete Songs Not By Me Collection

    The project finished December 31st, 2010, but in 2016, I uploaded the entire project to archive.org for permanent archiving and streaming. You can listen to or download the entire project with below: …and here’s a direct link to the archive.org website for the project.