VTM archive
the music of Vanessa Rose Marcussen Meier 1987 · 2007
Archive changelog

51 updates to the archive, in order.

Every recovered track, every lyric transcription, every documented album, logged as it arrives. Most of these happened because someone dug through an old backup, or an old forum, or their own memory. The archive is a collection of small returns.

    • Added the lyrics for And I — Vanessa's stated favorite of her own songs, written June 2004. Audio still not recovered, but the full three-stanza lyric is now preserved
    • Added Simply Nessa as a documented album entry — the first album she finished on computer (May 18, 2004). Tracklist never published, no audio recovered
    • Re-ordered the Genesis, Silence, The Way, Vantastic, and Indifference album tracklists to match Vanessa's own stated track order from her completion announcements (the website's previous orderings had drifted)
    • Filled in missing tracks on the album order arrays: The Way now lists Walk With Me, You and I, So Alone (Demo); Vantastic lists Locked, Time Stands Still, Air, Tomorrow, One More Time; Indifference lists Another Night and That's the Way It Goes (VTM Spin Around Remix); Silence lists Behind the Mask (165 BPM Remix)
    • Corrected Dreamworld year from 2005 to 2007 (its only recovered track is dated 2007); corrected Electronically Challenged year from 2004 to 2007 (its tracks span 2005-2007)
    • Added the original closing line to the Have Faith lyrics — present in her earliest June 2004 draft and dropped from the version she shared three days later
    • Updated the Hands of Time annotation: she first demoed the song in March 2007, then submitted it to the American Idol songwriting competition that April
    • Documented four work-in-progress demos (1hardcore, 5fasttrance, softtrance, newertrance1) she shared in 2005 under their working filenames; identified 4duneish1 as the working filename of That's the Way It Goes before she titled it
    • Added Genesis as an album entry (2003, ten known track titles, no audio recovered yet) with its track list now live on the Genesis album page
    • Added lyrics for Have Faith: recovered from a June 2004 blisscoforum post where she posted the song as a work in progress
    • Added a July 2004 alternate closing verse for Bring You Down, posted to blisscoforum several months after her original December 2003 draft
    • Expanded the Musical Influences section with 20+ additional artists she posted about listening to between 2003 and 2006, including Gabry Ponte, Gigi D'Agostino, Darude, Kraftwerk, Orbital, Fischerspooner, and Autechre
    • Added lyrics for Fall Apart: chorus preserved from a January 2007 journal entry
    • Documented 8 additional remix and demo variants in the song list from a blisscoforum discography pass
    • Added Track 15: recovered via John Alan Fessel
    • Added I Wish: recovered via John Alan Fessel
    • Archive launched with 53 recovered tracks, 75+ documented titles