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		<title>#036: The Lion Sleeps Tonight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lion Sleeps Tonight Sarah: Vocals Michael: Vocals, Percussion Mike P: Guitar Jason: Bass, Backing Vocals Natasha: Keyboards Virginia: Accordion An attempted reggae-version of this golden oldie that devolves into a swinging accordion groove and a wonderfully-botched ending.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2011/02/036-the-lion-sleeps-tonight/</link>
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		<title>#035: Neruda Out Of Balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neruda Out Of Balance Virginia: Vocals Mike P: Guitar Jason: Bass Michael: Percussion, Vocals An attempt to swing some background music while Virginia reads some Spanish Neruda poetry on top. Out of balance, out of days, out of ways to cope with our three-wheeled feelings&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2011/01/035-neruda-out-of-balance/</link>
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		<title>#034: I Found Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I Found Out Sarah &#038; Michael: Vocals Jon: Bass Jason: Percussion, Harmonica Mike P: Guitar Hey 2011, I found out you were here and I decided to stay away. To not go out and play. I know that I can be a star, so I decided when I woke up I would walk all night. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/12/34-i-found-out/</link>
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		<title>#033: War On The Shorts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[War On The Shorts Sarah: Vocals Michael: Keyboards &#038; Vocals An ode to Sarah`s camouflage shorts.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/11/33-war-on-the-shorts/</link>
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		<title>#032: Common People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Common People Sarah &#038; Jon: Vocals Michael: Piano, Synths, Additional Bass Jason: Bass, Harmonica Mike P: Guitar Pulp&#8217;s working-class anthem stripped of all it&#8217;s bombast, revealing itself as more of a folk song. Recorded at the end of a long night in our standard one-take/warts-and-all style.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/10/032-common-people/</link>
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		<title>#031: Noodles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noodles Virginia, Steve, Michael: Vocals Virginia and Steve started doing this tandem set of &#8220;doodle doodle&#8221; vocals and this almost-rehearsed sounding acapella piece came out spontaneously. We also play up the fact that Steve grew up pronouncing the word &#8220;Guitar&#8221; without the letter U.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/09/031-noodles/</link>
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		<title>#030: Moonshine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moonshine Michael: Piano, Bass, Synth Jason: Vocals, Guitar Steve: Vocals Virginia &#038; Sarah: Percussion One of our favorite styles: the loose acoustic blues jam, where everyone seems to play in different rooms at the same time. Steve has been travelling since he was nine years old. Been wandering down on the bayou, with the waves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/09/030-moonshine/</link>
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		<title>#029: Mideastern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mideastern Virginia: Guitar Jason: Bass Michael: Vocals Virginia has an aptitude for playing something mideastern-sounding on every instrument she touches. Time to drone.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/09/029-mideastern/</link>
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		<title>#028: Love Me Tender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Love Me Tender Mike P: Guitar, Vocals Sarah &#038; Jon: Vocals Jason: Percussion An entertaining car crash of a cover, where it doesn`t seems like we`ll be able to get to the end of the song without incessant laughter or multiple re-starts. (The picture is Elvis&#8217; birthplace.)]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/09/028-love-me-tender/</link>
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		<title>#027: Under The River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under The River Michael: Vocals, Bass, Keyboards, Guitar Bits Sarah: Vocals Jason: Guitar, Vocals Jon: Guitar Mike P: Bass One of our favorite songs, an epic number about the soul of a city resting under the river. Sarah goes on to list the numerous types of city workers and people who frequent this place and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/09/027-under-the-river/</link>
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		<title>#026: Little (In Your Stance)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Little (In Your Stance) Jason: Guitar, Kazoo, Vocals Michael: Vocals Spoken-word acoustic doo wop, from one of our first recording sessions. Sometimes when you are standing up, it makes no sense&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/08/026-little-in-your-stance/</link>
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		<title>#025: How Many Bags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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: &#8220;Why?&#8221; He said &#8220;Fill this bag with vegetables,&#8221; and, after receiving them, proceeded to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/08/025-how-many-bags/</link>
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		<title>#024: Paper Planes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/07/024-paper-planes/</link>
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		<title>#023: Horseradish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/06/023-horseradish/</link>
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		<title>#022: Skyway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Skyway Sarah: Vocals Jason: Ukulele, Harmonica, Backing Vocals Skippy: Drums Michael: Bass, Piano &#038; 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.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/06/022-skyway/</link>
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		<title>#021: Bubble Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;m not so happy anymore that I don&#8217;t have you. The rest of the food we got from the bubble tea restaurant was not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/05/021-bubble-tea/</link>
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		<title>#020: March of the (Bohemian) Pigs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/05/020-march-of-the-bohemian-pigs/</link>
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		<title>#019: El President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/04/019-el-president/</link>
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		<title>#018: Mosquito</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s buzzing fly sounds. It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/04/018-mosquito/</link>
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		<title>#017: Appalachian Valley / January Snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/04/017-appalachian-valley-january-snow/</link>
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		<title>#016: Oh! Darling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/03/016-oh-darling/</link>
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		<title>#015: Antonio&#8217;s Corpse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Antonio`s Corpse Sarah: Vocals Natasha: Piano Jason: Vocals, Ukulele, Harmonica Michael: Vocals, Bass Virginia: Accordion Mike P: Guitar This was a melodramatic Tom Waits-style polka that we did, which not surprisingly turned out to be a lot of fun. Lyrics are all over the place, but basically, Michael is in a restaurant where paintings are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/03/015-antonios-corpse/</link>
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		<title>#014: Milkshake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Milkshake Virginia: Guitar Michael &#038; Steve: Vocals Steve is our resident Canadian, and a big fans of the blues. The microphone wire kept shorting out during this recording, so there are random blasts of static going on while we sang about milkshakes. (image courtesy of NickSS)]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/03/014-milkshake/</link>
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		<title>#013: Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doctor Sarah: Vocals Michael: Keyboard A monologue where Sarah plays a therapist who manipulates their patients into doing violent things&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/03/013-doctor/</link>
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		<title>#012: Absolutely Cuckoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Absolutely Cuckoo Sarah: Vocals Jon: Guitar, Distant Vocals Mike P: Guitar Michael: Percussion, Backing Vocals Natasha: Piano Jason: Ukulele, Harmonica Our cover of the first track from 69 Love Songs, which we did with little forethought to rehearse, hence it sounding endearingly sloppy and loose. That&#8217;s kind of the norm around here, you know.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/02/012-absolutely-cuckoo/</link>
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		<title>#011: Knot In The Middle Of The Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knot In The Middle Of The Room Jason: Guitar, Vocals, Beatbox Sarah: Vocals Michael: Synths, Vocals, Beatbox There was a knot of microphone cables lying on the floor, prompting Sarah to start singing about it. Jason throws in some percussive guitar and gets in a two bar rap in at the end, while Michael beatboxes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/02/011-knot-in-the-middle-of-the-room/</link>
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		<title>#010: You Laid On My Bed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You Laid On My Bed Jason: Lead Vocals, Guitar Michael: Backing Vocals Virginia: Backing Vocals, Percussion It has become a running joke that we can not have a jam session without doing a doo-wop song, or at least a song with the I-vi-IV-V chord progression. This one started with all of us joking around that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/02/010-you-laid-on-my-bed/</link>
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		<title>#009: Neckbone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neckbone Jason: Vocals Virginia: Vocals, Shaker Michael: Keyboards Michael was playing some half-sung/half-spoken Stax records like I&#8217;ll Be The Other Woman by The Soul Children and Woman to Woman by Shirley Brown and asked if Virginia and Jason could reproduce something similar, and what came out was an old married couple arguing about a 10-cent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/02/009-neckbone/</link>
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		<title>#008: Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) Sarah and Briana: Vocals Michael: Guitar Jason: Distant Ukulele Christopher: Microphone Holding, Backing Vocals Arthur: Percussion, Vocals Our sing-along cover of the bubblegum classic by Edison Lighthouse.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/01/008-love-grows-where-my-rosemary-goes/</link>
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		<title>#007: Dry Elixir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dry Elixir Michael: Vocals, Bass, Keyboards Jason: Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica Mike P: Guitar, Percussion A moody upbeat number with some warped vocals in Spanish and English about alchemy, translation, and the elixir of life.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/01/007-dry-elixir/</link>
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		<title>#006: Remember</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember Sarah: Vocals Michael: Vocals, Bass, Synth Mike P: Piano Jason: Harmonica Jon: Guitar, Backing Vocals/Beatbox A minor epic of sorts, with Michael and Sarah improvising some sort of lovers spat over cheating, coffee, wine, and long phone calls. The chord progression is borrowed from the song Ansaphone by Pulp, one of Mike P`s favorite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/01/006-remember/</link>
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		<title>#005: Walking Down Stairs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walking Down Stairs Jason: Guitar, Brief Vocal Virginia: Vocals, Percussion Michael: Vocals, Organ, Percussion Michael does have this habit of walking up and down the stairs during his day job. Apparently, so does lettuce.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/01/005-walking-down-stairs/</link>
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		<title>#004: Crimson and Clover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crimson and Clover Sarah and Briana: Vocals Michael: Guitar, Backing Vocals Arthur: Bass, Backing Vocals Jason: Percussion Cover tunes happen frequently and spontaneously during our jam sessions, and are always a lot of fun. Here is a sparse version of a Tommy James classic.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/01/004-crimson-clover/</link>
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		<title>#003: Peeling An Orange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peeling An Orange Sarah: Vocals Michael: Keyboards, Backing Vocals Not so much about peeling an orange as it is about preventing baby chicks, cows, and tadpoles from growing up&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/01/003-peeling-an-orange/</link>
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		<title>#002: Tamales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tamales Jason: Guitar, Vocals Michael: Percussion, Vocals Debbie: Lead Vocals Virginia: Percussion Food is a reoccurring theme with TLE, and this song happened spontaneously after Virginia mentioned that she had just eaten some really good tamales down in Brighton.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/01/002-tamales/</link>
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		<title>#001: Biscuit World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Biscuit World Virginia: Vocals Michael: Piano, Vocals This is the first song we finished, and was pretty much the impetus for all the songs that followed. Virginia tells us all about one of her favorite places down south&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/01/001-biscuit-world/</link>
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		<title>A New Decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So begins The Laughter Epidemic.]]></description>
		<link>http://bbtp.net/pop/2010/01/a-new-decade/</link>
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