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The Singles - Season 5
Episode 7: Bored

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too bored with the freedom to create all day
too bored to pick up an instrument to play
too bored to do the things that you love
too bored to push and pull and shove
too bored with the past, beginning to drown
too bored with what is yet to be found
too bored with others to hear what they say
i'm just too bored to get the fuck out of my own way!
bored, i'm bored
i'm bored with the things that you love
i'm bored, too bored to push n pull n shove
i'm bored

we're so bored with your life
and why you're trying to shove it down our throats
on the telly every night, with your stupid little games
while others are rotting in the fucking gutter
i'm just so goddamn bored with your life and what you think
i'm so fucking bored, i think i need a drink
i'm bored, you're bored
we're all so fucking bored of life

let's do it in, let's grab a hope
let's put the knife next to our throats
i bet you won't
i bet i will
i think i care
i care i think
it's so boring to be bored when you're living
why don't we all die and see if its a new beginning?
but we're so bored
i think i'll get a cigarette
oh shit i'm out!
what next?

i hate it when people take care of me and i got nothing better to do than to be creative all day and and i'm just so bored that i can't because i'm so frustrated with my little penis not getting any it's not getting any it's not getting licked it's not getting sucked it's not even getting kissed i don't even get a hello no not me not me no no no no i'm so fucking bored!
why can't....
why can't i just be happy for once?

Citizens
cover art by Annette Marx
Johnny Awful: awful guitar sample
Biff Blumfumgagnge: violin
Lou Caldarola: drum kit, programming
Tone Deaf: spoken word
Chris Huntington: guitar
Shauna Lisse: vocal sample
Conrad St. Clair: bass, keys, programming

 
The Singles - Season 5
Episode 6: Sex With Meatloaf

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Take two pounds of 96% lean chuck
One tablespoon of cream
Two cups of onion soup
350 degrees
Make a loaf hole
You gotta furrow into the loaf
You put the pickle in there,
You put the pickle in there

I see you watching from the corner, baby
That's right, I know you like what you see
How do you feel about earmuffs, baby?
Would you like to try on my thighs for size?
Say the word, I'm yours

I was sittin' tight and combing my hair
A beautiful spray bottle
is what I'm looking for
Let me try those thighs for size
They're the right size in the night time
Sweet lips slide, honey hips ride

I'm hot and ready for your manhood, baby
I need a tillin', you'd better plow my field
I'm bendy like Mary Lou Retton, baby
Can I take a ride on your pommel horse?

[ with those hungry eyes and jar full o' pee i can tell by your mind you're gonna rape me you're something special that's plain to see but with me balls in me hand i fear i must flee ]

Let your fingers do the walking
Would you like to try on my thighs for size?
I like your trembling manhood
Put it in the oven, baby
You know I'm bendy like Mary Lou Retton, baby
Put it in the oven, baby
Real nice and hard, and glistening
Put it in there
That's right, that's how I like it baby
Lovin' in the oven
in the loaf-hole of love

Citizens
cover art by Biff Blumfumgagnge
Biff Blumfumgagnge: vocals
Lou Caldarola: drum kit
Tone Deaf: spoken word
Chris Huntington: guitar, inspiration
Georgina McKee: vocals
Conrad St. Clair: bass, keys, programming

 
The Singles - Season 5
Episode 5: Shriveled Soul

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naught but scars and pain to show
killing infection from years ago
no veins in arm no 'arm in vain
all the years go down the drain

sitting alone, a mind at play
with too much time to think or pray
look for reasons to carry on
and on and on and on and on

punctured lung, blood too sweet
one crushed hand, two fractured feet
neck full o' rocks, back in knots
ears full o' wax, eyes seeing dots

some pus-filled spots, a runny nose
teeth gone bye, three broke toes
knee with a break, lungs of coal
old broke heart and shriveled soul

Citizens
cover art by Jo Hubert
Lou Caldarola: drum kit
Tone Deaf: spoken word
Andy Ewen: guitar
Conrad St. Clair: bass, keys, percussion, programming
Android Tablet: robot voice

 
New video!

This week we've got a special treat for your eyeballs as well as your earholes! The renowned video artist, Albano Ruela, has done a piece for Shriveled Soul. So, while you're downloading the song, go watch the video: http://youtu.be/qpP8r3XYD8Y (and while you're at it, give Albano a little love and check out his other videos HERE).

 
LIVE @ The Madison Area Music Awards
Capitol Theater, June 23

Yep, you heard right - we're playing at the Madison Area Music Awards! It should be really fun show, and since the MAMA organization's purpose is to help support music programs in local schools, we'll be performing alongside some really talented young musicians. Tickets are available now at the Overture Center box office or online HERE.

So now we just gotta figure out how to get all our crap off the stage in 10 minutes ;-)

Also, you still have till May 17 to cast your vote in said Madison Area Music Awards. We're not going to tell you who to vote for, but...in case you're wondering, we've been nominated in a number of categories: Electronic Performer, World Album (Season 4), Electronic Song (Happy Charlie), and Blues Song (Going Where I've Been).
 
Remember, it's only $5 to join, and like we mentioned above, the money goes to fund school music programs. And no, you don't have to live in Madison....

 
The Singles - Season 5
Episode 4: Life In A Day

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Day in a life, life in a day
too poor to get out of my own way
stuck in this box I call my skull
I text the guy to see what to sell
Coke, dope, and weed
that's what I need
to get me back to where I been
Help me forget reality
because this is one big con
Is this all it's gonna be?
Is there nothing left to see?
Is there no-one left to be?
And then you die, man what a con

Locked in a billet of racists with faces of hatred. Never given space to exist in these places. Everybody looking for the easy way out. Well I can tell you you can scream and you can shout but nobody ever yet got out of here living. Give in to the pressure drop of one day given. Never was told that it would get this bad and I never even knew of all the choice we never had.

Day in a life, life in a day
too poor to get out of my own way
stuck in this box I call my skull
I text the guy to see what to sell
Coke, dope, and weed
that's what I need
to get me back to where I been
Help me forget reality
because this is one big con

We've been stitched up, we've been led on
Then I woke up, it's one big con
We've been stitched up, we've been led on
Man, this is one big con
Is this all it's gonna be?
Is there nothing left to see?
Is there no-one left to be?
Man, this is one big con

With a beer and a bong, worship what's on the telly or streaming pod-cast. Curry and chips flow past your numb lips as the pictures go grinding along. A day in the life is a life in a day, too poor to be living too well. You'll call or you'll text for what you need next, safe in your box where you’ll stay. One day they will come to carry you on to heaven, or hell's brimstone: to hang with the host, or slowly spit-roast, or find it was just a big con.

Citizens
cover art by Robert Varlez
Biff Blumfumgagnge: violin
Geoff Brady: percussion
Lou Caldarola: drum kit
Tone Deaf: spoken word
Jamie England: vocals
Chris Huntington: guitar
Conrad St. Clair: bass, percussion, programming
Pablo Ben Surman: vocals, MIDI wind synth

 
The Singles - Season 5
Episode 3: Hash For Guns

Sorry if you're disappointed, but the title really has nothing to do with this song. It started out as just an instrumental noodle, but you gotta name the project file something, right? In between the noodling, Conrad St. Clair had been telling a story about a certain journalist friend who saw firsthand a certain intelligence agency trading said items with a certain insurgent group. By the time we wrote the lyrics, we had gotten so used to calling it Hash For Guns, the name stuck. Plus, the lyrics are pretty much Edward Gorey-inspired nonsense, so the non-sequitur kinda fits.
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Green dreams
and shiny things
hand in hand
down the garden path

There was a knock upon the door,
I failed to answer it, in case it was there
It thinks it’s being honest
but it’s just a nasty way of being nice

Green dreams
and crystal eyes
lie buried in the sand
from a simpler time

Green dreams
bleeding from my TV
We screamed and screamed
and then we went to bed.

“No offense was meant, it’s what i do,” it would hiss
I mourn the loss of a simpler time
when you could leave your mind unlocked
while you went to the shops

Citizens
cover art by Gorka Samos Ez Dakizue
Biff Blumfumgagnge: violin
Geoff Brady: percussion
Lou Caldarola: drum kit, percussion
Tone Deaf: spoken word
Jamie England: vocals
Chris Huntington: guitar
Shauna Lisse: vocals, keys
Beaker Parpovich: percussion
Conrad St. Clair: bass, keys, percussion, programming
Mike Stehr: percussion

 
The Singles - Season 5
Episode 2: Georgia Scene, 1964

This song is built around a poem written by John Beecher in 1964 about the things he saw firsthand during the Civil Rights protests. Things may have changed in some ways since then, but if anyone thinks this kind of thing doesn't go on every day somewhere, they're either living in a cave or willfully ignorant.
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And so this cat
he was from the GBI
that’s the cracker FBI
kept feeling up the chicks' legs with the electric cattle prod
making them wiggle and holler
He couldn’t get enough of that stuff
poking that hot thing under they dresses
And I be dog
if one of them cracker polices
didn’t break down and cry like a baby
just watching him
but he didn’t try to stop him
No, I guess that would be too much to expect of any cracker

I disremember all the meanness that they did
treating them Yankees like they was us
dragging that 70 year old white lady
down the courthouse steps
with her head going bam on every step

Her heart gave out
and the ambulance came
but when the driver saw she was
one of them agitators
he just took off again and left her laying in the street
Finally one of us took her to the hospital
propped up in the back seat of a car
but wouldn’t no white doctor touch her when they got there
Had to find one of ours
and put her in the Jim Crow section
Sure ain’t like no ofays I ever knowed
coming down here and getting their heads beat for nothing
trying to love these crackers into being Christian
like crackers was human

Citizens
based on John Beecher's poem, Georgia Scene, 1964
cover art: Bob DeGroof
Lou Caldarola: drum kit
Tone Deaf: spoken word
Chris Huntington: guitar
Beaker Parpovich: guitar
Conrad St. Clair: keys, programming
Mike Stehr: bass

 
The Madison Area Music Awards

OK folks - the Madison Area Music Awards voting is open.... We've been nominated in a number of categories: Electronic Performer, World Album (Season 4), Electronic Song (Happy Charlie), and Blues Song (Going Where I've Been).
 
If you're not a member, it's only $5 to join, and the money goes to fund school music programs. And no, you don't have to live in Madison....

So, get thee to The MAMAs website and vote - the kids win, no matter who gets an award....

 
Welcome to The Singles - Season 5
Episode 1: Shidara Stomp

For Season 5, aside from this little preamble, we're not going to waste your time with long-winded liner notes or any of that shite. We're going to get right to the music. If anyone is curious about the song, lyrics, art, etc., please feel free to send us an email or drop a question on our Facebook page. So, let's have at it.....

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Leave me a life on HDTV
Live my life - you can sit on my facebook
Leave me some life while I deal with my fever
Live my life while I drink myself silly

Shirts and hair have left my head
My life is one long golden thread
I want my Bob inside my head
I'm drinking with Bob in an antique bed

Chocolate love sex chicken house
I wait upon the mighty mouse
Gristle missile bone in bone
Wait eviscerate upon the throne

Bob of my dreams, yeti of my life
Sasquatch mozerella, yeti get into my life

Losing chunks of space ‘n time ‘n drinking even more
It’s only matter till the time I wind up on the floor
Bugs will come ‘n vultures soar to pick me very bones
The only thing that will be left: chalk outlines, ash ’n loans
Scrape me up in hefty bag, mix in lye ‘n herb
Marinate for one half day ‘n leave me on the curb

Bob of my dreams, Yeti of my life
Sasquatch mozerella, Bob into Bob

cover art by Terry Flowers
Conrad St. Clair: bass, programming
Biff Blumfumgagnge: vocals, violin
Lou Caldarola: drum kit
Tone Deaf: spoken word
Andy Ewen: dobro
Chris Huntington: guitar
Shidara: taiko drum

 
The Music
 So, yeah.... The Singles - Season 5 starts April 9! Of course, the music is as schizo-phonic as ever.... It's easy to get excited about new stuff just because it's new, but we think Season 5 will be extraordinary, we shit you not .
 
Beyond featuring the usual suspects, we have quite a pile of new faces contributing to the music for Season 5, including amazing musicians like Maggie Weiser and Jamie England.  Also, Albano Ruela (the creator of the video for Introspekt) will be doing a video for one of the new tracks, so keep an eye peeled for that.
 
The Art
With the previous releases, each Season featured a single visual artist. This time around, we couldn't pick just one. Over the last couple of years, we've been lucky to have come into contact with so many incredible artists that we decided to have a different artist for each single. The little banner above is your official sneak preview ;-) We'll talk more about the individual artists as the songs are released, but we've assembled an internationally-renowned cast of characters: from the German painter, Annette Marx, to the agitprop of Belgian artist, Bob DeGroof.

 
Live tracks from The Barrymore Theatre 8/18/2012

Thanks to everyone for making the most recent show at the Barrymore Theatre in Madison so much fun! There are a bunch of  tracks from the show available now HERE or HERE. There are also videos up on our youtube page HERE, and we'll be adding more, so keep checking back for more goodies.

We want to give a special thanks to Steve, Al, Zach, and the rest of the folks at the Barrymore: they absolutely rock, and we really appreciate all the support they've given us.

Stay tuned - more to come!

 
Live tracks & video from The Barrymore Theatre 4/7/2012

The show April 7 at The Barrymore Theatre was fantastic! If you missed it, you can go HERE to download a bunch of tracks from the show.  AND there's a bunch of video on our Youtube page HERE.

But wait - there's more! Lou Caldarola cut together a really cool clip from rehearsals and sound check, and there's a short video of Heather DuBois Bourenane's speech between sets....

Now go! What the hell are you waiting for? ;-)

 
 
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LIVE:

Madison Area Music Awards
7:30pm, JUNE 23
Capitol Theater
Madison, WI
$15 general admission
$10 students/teachers
tickets available at the Overture Center box office or online HERE
for more info visit the MAMAs.

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