August 27, 2010
How Many Bags
Jason: Guitar, Vocals
Debbie: Chorus Vocals
Virginia: Percussion, End Vocals
Michael: Percussion, Backing Vocals
Jason was on the truck, and he saw this man with a bag of glass in his hands. He looked at him and said: “Why?” He said “Fill this bag with vegetables,” and, after receiving them, proceeded to slice each of his veggies into three pieces with a pair of hedge clippers. “One for the father, one for the son, one for….” How many bags do you want for an eye? How many bags will you have her lug?
July 24, 2010
Paper Planes
Michael, Jason: Vocals
Acapella beatbox version of M.I.A.`s big hit single, with rather unplanned tempo changes during the second half.
June 27, 2010
Horseradish
Steve: Vocals
Virginia: Guitar
Michael: Vocals, Bass
The hazy, muddy moans of horse. Steve is singing gibberish. It`s not horse radish, but jabber rash. Doesn`t jibberish sound like jabber rash? He caught some jabber rash on his arm with some gibberish. You plant a horse and you get a radish. Steve was saddle-sore on his chest and it didn’t hurt. Things were riding his chest all day long. Riding it wrong, all day long.
June 6, 2010
Skyway
Sarah: Vocals
Jason: Ukulele, Harmonica, Backing Vocals
Skippy: Drums
Michael: Bass, Piano & Keyboards
A trippy jam about a pilgrimage to the sky. We end up staying on a G chord for six and half minutes and meander through a few tempo changes, with Sarah`s narrative being the glue that keeps it all together.
May 24, 2010
Bubble Tea
Sarah: Vocals
Michael: Guitar, Vocals
Our simple and spontaneous love song to the Taiwanese tea craze that is sweeping the edges of the country. Prettiness. Inside my cup now. I’m not so happy anymore that I don’t have you. The rest of the food we got from the bubble tea restaurant was not too good though.
May 5, 2010
March of the (Bohemian) Pigs
Sarah, Jason, Jon, Michael, Mike P: Vocals
Michael had it in his mind that an acapella/barbershop quartet version of this Nine Inch Nails tune would sound amazing. And on one fateful night he indeed got his wish, with a little bit of Bohemian Rhapsody unexpectedly tagged on at the end.
April 24, 2010
El President
Jason: Vocals, Guitar
Michael: Backing Track
Jason`s melodramatic Spanish love song to a cancer-ridden Fidel Castro, improvised over a MIDI backing track.
April 15, 2010
Mosquito
Michael: Vocals, Guitar
Jason: Bass
Virginia: Vocals
A very mellow (creepy) acoustic tune, ending up with Michael whispering about mosquitos over only Jason`s awesome basslines and Virginia’s buzzing fly sounds. It’s a bit more serenely disquieting than that description would suggest though. Fun fact: the last five seconds is Michael`s audio interpretation of a fly being caught on a windshield with a wet rag that was in the middle of waxing the car.
April 8, 2010
Appalachian Valley / January Snow
Michael: Guitar, Vocals
Jason: Harmonica, Vocals
Sarah: Vocals
Virginia: Rattles, Intro Vocal
Arthur: Percussion, *Plastic*
Appalachian Valley, 1965. It was a difficult summer. I killed a man there once. There was red red blood all over the white white January snow, which was the cause of death. He knew he would take his clothes off in the whitest snow he had ever seen, amidst the hypothermia and the cocaine that hung out together like two bums on a train, doing January snow.
(This is our murder ballad soaked in heavy reverb. The incredibly apt gunshot sound at 0:16 was unplanned and came out of nowhere!)
March 31, 2010
Oh! Darling
Sarah: Vocals
Jason: Slide Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
Jon: Guitar, Vocals
Michael: Microphone Holding, Distant Vocals
A very quiet version of this Beatles tune that Sarah and Jon liked so much they started playing the song over right after we finished playing it, hence the two endings going on here.