Matt and Andrew's CD a Day project

If you live outside of Oklahoma, and aren't between the ages of 23 and 30, you've never heard of Wakeland, but that's cool. Wakeland was this band from Oklahoma State that got big by playing REM covers at frat parties in the late '80s, then started writing their own music, put out two well-received indie releases, got signed to Warner Brothers, and... flopped miserably. Then they retreated to Oklahoma City, where they became the biggest band in town by far, put out a couple more indie CDs, and faded into that good night. They're also known in Oklahoma music circles for having had more bass players than Spinal Tap had drummers. Seriously, one time 12 Pearls was opening up for them, and their bass player quit in the middle of the set.
This is their album from 1994, the one that got them signed. The old Spy, KSPI in Stillwater, used to play "Misconstrued" and "I'm Just Trying" like six times a day when I was in high school, so I have fond memories of this one. You may be able to find "Misconstrued" on Kazaa, actually; it's mis-labelled as a Toad the Wet Sprocket song. Which was one of Wakeland's problems; they sound like a cross between Toad and the Gin Blossoms, which by the time their major-label album came out in '95, was not very cool.