(The) Harvey Danger Database

Works cited

^HDW

Official band website (1999, 2000, 2001, 2005)

^BB

Official message boards (UBB, phpBB, MyBB)

^FLK

Flickr (HD’s, Aaron’s)

^RCT

Washington State Library archives of The Rocket (1993–2000)

^CDR

Unreleased Stuff liner notes by Jeff (2001)

^XMAS

Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas (Sometimes) Enhanced CD (2004)

^JJL

Jeff’s old blog, Rock and Roll McDonald’s (2005)

^SCN

Sean’s old website, seannelson.net (2004–2005)

^SS

Seattle Sound interview w/ Sean (2006)

^10A

10th Anniversary Public Spectacle program booklet (2008)

^TDM

Sean’s old blog, The Designated Mourner (2005–2011)

^DSS

Dead Sea Scrolls CD liner notes (2009)

^P&F

You Be the Pity, I’ll Be the Fear lyric book by Sean Nelson (2009)

^MMV

Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? LP liner notes (2014)

^ALT

Alternative Press interview w/ Sean (2014)

^AD

Interview w/ Sean on Album Divers (2021)

^ASW

American Songwriter interview w/ Sean (2024)

^K25

King James Version 25th anniversary 2×LP liner notes (2025)

^25B

KJV Bonus Material notes (2025)

^WFA

Waveform analysis (original research)

Tools used

• audiowaveform to render waveform images of audio files.
• id3v2 + mp4info to analyze metadata in MP3 and M4A files.
• ripgrep to search large quantities of text.
• waybackpack to download Wayback Machine archives.
• Acorn image editor.
• Fission audio editor.
• Librewolf web browser + Ruffle Flash emulator.
• Middleman static website generator.

Other resources

• Harvey Danger’s artist page at Discogs.
• University of Oregon Libraries archives of the Daily Emerald.
• Back issues of the Portland Mercury.
• Other archived periodicals through newspapers.com.
• Archives of music and radio magazines at WorldRadioHistory.
• The Internet Archive’s collections of media about, and created by, Harvey Danger; and the Wayback Machine’s (haphazard and imperfect) snapshots of the old message boards.

Help wanted

There are notable gaps in this database. Perhaps most tragically, none of the official bulletin boards were ever properly archived, and an inordinate amount of con­tem­po­rar­y material about (and directly from) the band has been permanently lost. Even the Wayback Machine only captured a fraction of what was, for more than a decade, the central nexus for Harvey Danger and their fans to exchange information.

If you were a member of the message board old guard, I humbly ask that you look through your hard drives, emails, backups, old iPods, burned CDs, your parents’ attic, etc. for anything that might be relevant, important, or unique, and—if you are so inclined—please email a copy so I can add it to this collection before it disappears forever.

An easier deficiency to correct is the current lack of details sourced from social media—especially Facebook and Instagram—where the lion’s share of HD fandom activity has taken place in the past decade or so. Unfortunately for this project, I haven’t used any of those sites for a long, long time, and I’d like to keep it that way.

So: anyone with easy access to Harvey Danger–related Facebook groups, Instagram accounts, etc. and some time to donate would be doing the HDDB a tremendous service by scrolling through old posts and sending screenshots of anything interesting to z@​hddb​.xyz.

Finally, some of the information on this site (especially anything flagged with a little question mark) doesn’t have a source more authoritative than “I saw someone say this online once, providing no additional evidence themselves, and I have not been able to verify it one way or another.”

If you have any evidence, especially primary or secondary sources, which can verify (or refute!) anything I’ve printed here, I would be deeply grateful if you’d email z@​hddb​.xyz with as many details as possible.

Likewise, if you have any corrections—things I’ve got wrong, and you’ve got a source that’s right—please contact me at your earliest convenience.

All contributors will be credited according to their preference.