Introduction
I don’t think any of these were really meant to be heard by anyone else.
This was an attempt to get “back to basics” the basics being a bunch of instruments that we really didn’t know how to play in the first place.
I was convinced that using a Beat Happening aesthetic would work for us, just throw a bunch of nonsense down and see how it plays.
Lyrically, it’s a pretty hot mess, basically self-serious faux-childhood ennui bullshit.
Oh, and a really bad Bright Eyes emo-fettering.
Don’t listen. Press back on your browser. Go read about Japan instead.
Tracklist
Sticks and Stones
I was going for “Indian Summer” here and I think we pretty much did the best we could.
We were going for rough. And I think we managed that.
Safety Town
I like Sara’s Sax business here. Everything else gives me the bad-goosebump horrors.
I think this just sounds like some grade-school kids trying to cover Morphine.
Mr. Mister
I don’t even know what we were going for here.
Whatever it is, it is.
Go, Greyhound, Go!
Our first all-electric guitar work. Trying for something like a “real” band. With Sara on drumsticks (no drums).
The amp quality really shows.
But the vocals work pretty well overall.
And I've never ridden a Greyhound bus, and hopefully never will.
What I Want
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She Collects
This isn’t awful for a minute-long pop number. It could have used better guitar and “drum” work, but the idea is at least there.
And that’s what these were. Sketches for ideas for a song.
In any case, we didn’t last in this mode for long.
