I worked my way through the various tracks I've written and recorded and selected 1 track from each of my shorter EPs and 2 from each album, starting with the earliest recording.  They are probably my favourites from each, but often don't match with the most played songs!  But this would be a starting point for a live setlist for me I think

Marc Freak - 1 from each EP, 2 from each album

The first of the Marc Freak EPs, Wraith combines the lofi pop of Guided by Voices, with a splattering of Bowie, and a dash of Nick Cave to arrive at a package of college style alt rock.  With the theatrics of Iggy Pop thrown in for good measure.

Wraith

Keys are key on this pop tune about a mad lover that shows restraint with excitement but no restraint with anger

Limiter On Your Life

Returning to grungy alt pop with the Big Mouth Small Brain collection songs, including "Talking Cheaply"

Talking Cheaply

Fuzzy guitars and harmonic vocals, served with lashings of (custard pie)

My Occasional Forays Into Slapstick

Don't worry, I'm not the ogre that its said I am
I'm broken from head to toe
Some rumours when written can crush a soul like mine
I was smitten for a year or two

CHORUS
I call in pain no love remains
We fall, blood stains, I can't let this happen again

Fake traction, fake everything in fact
I tried to hold you but I broke my back
What gumption to allege the lies alleged
If I'd guessed it I'd have done much worse

CHORUS

Ogre

*Explicit Lyrics* 

Laying down a rare bit of drum machine and razor like guitars.  Its too fucking cool for its own fucking good.  And so am I.

Too Fucking Cool For My Own Fucking Good

Chirpy little pop song about rough sex.

NEANDERTHAL WOMAN
I can't comprehend you
Believe all that's said
Put the feelings aside
You're nothing but park and ride

Access all areas
Come on join the crowd
Ignore the stagnant stench
Dive in with buttocks clenched

CHORUS
Don't mean to hurt you love, or do destroy your pride
But if I touch/tap your skull its hollow inside
So limited but wonderful, primitive Neanderthal woman, woman
Easy come, easy go, primitive Neanderthal woman, woman, woman

I'm powerless to stop you
You can't change your ways
Some aspects are pleasing, yet
Diseases you can't forget

You carry a burden
You're ridden bare back
Spurt out small words so gruff
Sounds like you like it rough

CHORUS

Neanderthal Woman

What we did for money!

TASTE
The way your hair just dangles
A sticky knot of scandals
Grab hold of my love handles
Grab hold of what you can

A smile or I'm mistaken
Excuse me ma'am but are you taken?
You're very good if you are faking
Faking like your tan

CHORUS
Taste - You told me that you liked the taste
You didn't want to leave a waste
They paid you for a little taste
They paid you just a little

You really are a giver
Excuse my aching liver
I'm flowing like a river
I'm sorry about your eyes

You're gasping like you mean it
I'm gaggling like a half-wit
You know where you want to sit
Those magnetic thighs

CHORUS

I'm really sorry if it really hurts a little
I'm really sorry if they told you I was little
You may look hardened but I know you're really brittle
Push just one more time, thrust just one more time

Was that your backbone that cracked?
I can't believe what you packed
I've had a heart attack
I'm struggling with the pace

It's time to close the curtain
The future is uncertain
Take this to wipe the dirt
That's peppered on your face

CHORUS

Taste

The glow, the sheen
Your body just seems so clean
Its like a light, and a fight
To keep my hands off you through the night

CHORUS
But when I spend another night away from you
Our innocence stretched so far
To spend another night away from you
Would be folly on my behalf
Be folly on my behalf

You feel, so real
But colder than stainless steel
Don't understand, the command
That first must go ring to hand

CHORUS

Folly

I can use any name that I want to
I can drink anything and its fun to
I've got hell of a mess left to undo

All the hypocrites have already spoken
I've no idea what they've been smoking
But its a blazing fire that they're stoking

CHORUS
Look at the camera and say cheese
All the negative eruptions
Dribble sap and then hide in the trees
All the negative eruptions
And the negatives rub off on me
All the fake praise and fake sympathy
Hold your head up high and freeze
All the negative eruptions

So the horse has already bolted
I've a book of my faults that I've noted
Its a nugget of shit that's been coated

I can use any name that I want to
I've got hell of a mess left to undo
I can drink if I want to

CHORUS

Negative Eruptions

It doesn't matter if my reputation shatters
I'm swigging chances in the gutter I made

CHORUS
So what's the time valentine?
Share the news, share the news
I'm thinking that I look damn fine
Share my nudes, share my nudes
Every mistake made is mine
Share the news, share the news
Pornographic Einstein
Share my nudes, share my nudes

If it brings a smile I've sort of achieved purpose
Is it a real smile or a grimace of sorts?
Don't feel the [pressure to return this honest favour
Would you forgive me for the seediest thoughts?

CHORUS

It was not a real lie just blurring of the truth babe
I'm a 100% of the best grade
It doesn't matter if my reputation shatters
I'm swigging chances in this gutter I made

CHORUS

Share My Nudes

Misread eyes, misread signs
Regurgitated happenings from bad to the sublime
Static stare, fools beware
I've finished searching something that was never really there

CHORUS
I don't have time for this commotion
Puppy dogs and fluffy things
Designed to mess with me and my emotions

Clapped out heart, bombs aloud
I think that I'm exploding with my head up in the cloud
Dodge the trash, thoughts are rash
I don't have time for silly games excuse me whilst I dash

CHORUS

"Got" at last, read and weep
Commotion is commodity and violence is just cheap
Claim the prize, take the rise
My ever growing ego is transcending to the skies

CHORUS

Commotion is commodity and violence is just cheap

Puppy Dogs And Fluffy Things

Not all scars are physical scars
But I wear my scars with pride
Though I'm burning up inside
What a surprise

I took a blow and I'm seeing stars
And I'm a star still in my mind
So please don't be so unkind
I still feel raw

CHORUS
However hard you try you'll never fix it
But I have come to terms so try not to jinx it
However hard you try you'll never fix it
But I am passable if only a little bit

You cut sharp but you could have cut more
I guess I felt like a good find
In those days you acted kind
Then lost the plot

Not all scars are physical scars
But I wear my scars with pride
Though my brain still feels a bit fried
You blew my mind

CHORUS

Scars

Rough video - https://youtu.be/5gaYofokLkw 

A grey hair - I turned the other cheek
If I turn away for long enough I won't find what I won't seek
Be I wise or be I clown?
It even hurts a little bit when I am sitting down

CHORUS
Whoever you are I'm older than you think
I'm glad that you think otherwise - I'm truly tickled pink
Whoever you are I'll gladly take the praise
I'm slowly growing older but I hope its just a phase

Won my heart all torn and soiled
It has beaten and then burst more than anyone in this world
Have a laugh - give a smile
I'm an educated mind but mentality of a child

CHORUS

Tickled Pink

CHORUS
I saw a mighty fall - Its such an eyesore
All alone and broken bone
Well that's what I saw

My body awkward
Never too cool for school
I don't have no regrets
I'm a thinker not a fool
I've fallen flat a few times
But just twice right on my face
Though the end is drawing nearer
I still feel in a good place

CHORUS

Need no reunion
Well the thought just makes me sick
I'm not bitter or frustrated
But wonder what makes you tick
The thought of you just blinds my eyes
So I'd rather not think
But I cannot hold my nose too long
And you, you truly stink

CHORUS

So many paths to take in life
I took the wrong one once
Where the woman stays at home
And the huntsman hunts and hunts
And I do not mind the hunting
But I hate the sight of blood
When the blood is all on my hands
And I feel misunderstood

CHORUS

I'm glad I closed the heavy door
And left nothing ajar
But I always feel you watching
Every move I make afar
Whatever time I wasted
Whatever time I've left
I'll cherish every moment
Because each day is a gift

CHORUS
You're such an asshole

Eyesore

I'm clairvoyant knowing where you've been and you're not annoyed
I'm always itchy and I'm under your skin like a haemorrhoid
But I'm overjoyed

CHORUS
However hard I'm trying not to break it
I've had a history of being a half-wit 
If I hold on tight I hope you won't split from me

I read your letters and I read your mind.  Its audible
I'm digging deep to see what I may find and I'm gullible
But I'm still loveable

CHORUS

I’m Clairvoyant

I'm not average in the way I write
I'm not average in my thought
I'm not average in achievements
Though I'm pretty much self taught
Do I sense a bit of jealousy
When others don't have nought
I am not average

I'm not average with rhyming couplets
I'm not average in what I know
I'm not average in my singing voice
And I'm not average down below
Something's swelling more than my head
Which still continues to grow
I am not average

I'm not average as a person
I'm the second coming of Christ
And thinking how I look
I'm not average in my eyes
And I certainly wouldn't be average
If I was betwixt your thighs
I am not average

I'm not average

I'm less than average with muscles
I'd lose each and every fight
I'm less than average at talking
And I have diminishing sight
I'm trying hard not to admit it
But alas I think I might be less than average

I'm average in my lifestyle
And the way I style my hair
And if you did pass by me
It would be like I wasn't there
I need some reassurance
But you probably don't care that I am average

I am average
And I don't want to be average!!

I'm not average at boasting
I can cook the tastiest meal
And if you had my lips upon you
You'd sure like how I feel
But I have a pulsating paranoia
And its making me all ill
I don't want to be average

I don't want to be average!!!

I’m Not Average

Once again, a great pleasure to work with IT! ( https://soundcloud.com/samantha-hubbs ) some more.  She has added such another (sultry) dimension to this (and I love it).  Its like Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin have been embraced by a bondage clad Depeche Mode.  Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it.

DOWN ON MY KNEES
[I know what you want to do
Let me play with you
You can look but you can't touch it
You must obey, you must submit
Bad boy, do as I say
I want you to crawl my way]

I'm lost in these echoing corridors
I'm caught in this maze
Searching out for someone to save me
So I don't rot in this place
Repeat / refresh
I hear the voice again

CHORUS
I'm down on my knees to pray
To give all my life away
I'm aware of my place
A punch in the face
Mistress I will do all that you say

I have no direction or ambition
And that's why I serve
All my life is a contradiction
I've been a slave since birth
Do this / do that
I hear the voice again
And I like it

CHORUS

[Such slender, so divine
Surrender, now you're mine]

CHORUS

Down On My Knees (featuring IT!)

I am the one searching out for relief
I am the one that is embracing technology
I am the one dreaming what's underneath
I am the one setting sexual chronology
I am the one that will take it too far
I am the one that will owe the apology
I am the one talking blah blah blah blah
I am the one setting sexual chronology

CHORUS
Kiss me on the lips
Kiss me on the neck
Kiss me on the chest
On the... 
On the...

Kiss Me

There's this pesky voice and I'm hiding it
I don't do that much, its my mental crutch
I'm all madness and saliva
I confide in her, I'm inside her

It's a sickness and paranoia
It'll destroy her, I'll enjoy her
Hold on tight we're already falling
Can't you tell we burn in hell?

I'm the crazy son and the psycho
Did you see the sign that said "out of his mind"?
I took a photo, wore the T-shirt
You didn't seem to mind we're walking blind

CHORUS
The hat has come off, its truly enough
The heat is intense and so is the silence
Just save it.  Just save it
The fight has been fought, the germs have been caught
Its dragging us down into the ground
Just save it.  Just save it

I don't know what we've both been using
I'm losing her but I still choose her
Be still my piercing headache
I hear something break, there's just so much I can take

There's this pesky voice and I'm hiding it
I don't do that much, its my mental crutch
I'm all madness and saliva
I confide in her when I'm inside her

CHORUS

We've all got someone to save

Save It

Prolific musician, author, photographer and oddity.  With influences ranging from the lofi pop of Guided by Voices, the gothic melodrama of Nick Cave, the glam of Bowie and the nakedness of Iggy Pop - this is Marc Freak.  Former frontman of Freak Circus and Dead Joe.  An experiment in DIY and lofi.  The odd bum note here, the even odder bum note there.  But with art do we care?