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Note- the stuff in Yellow is Evan, the stuff in green in Paige, the stuff in blue is Al, and the stuff in white is Dan. The songs that our underlined have
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Be Righteous - We always called this song Fat Water. Named after a band that
put on on of the most insain up shows I've ever seen. I wrote
this for a Minority Lit class I took in college. The conversations
in that class would make me feel so lame. White males have destroyed
everything for so long. Finally I came to the conclusion that
I hadn't pissed on all these groups, I am just trying to live
a righteous life, if that isn't good enough for you then to hell
with you. We started 100+ shows with this song. I don't know if
we will play it again without Dan though.
Fear And Loathing- One of my favorite books of all time. just paying tribute to
the master of Gonzo!
American Blue- The last scene of American Me where the little kid is huffing
glue and he is about to shoot someone hit me. I know people that
have shot people, and I know people that have been shot. Guns,
pride, and Alpha Males, they are ingredients to the insanity of
the USA.
Shitlands- The thought behind the album version of this song is hedonism
will catch you in the end. The way we play it now is a nod to
going crazy.
Box Car Bertha- Box Car Bertha was a lady communist in the 20's that roamed
from shanty to shanty. The railroad barons hated the shanty people
and were always messing with them. Bertha and her husband got
two other guys and started a gang of train robbers. One of the
guys recruited was black making this gang truly punk in deep south
in the 20's. They were successful for a while at messing with
the trains by both stealing money and general mayhem. When they
finally got caught the barons crucified Berthas husband on the
side of a train, and drove him around to all the shanties to show
what happened to rebels. Bertha is way punker than you will ever
be.
One of These Days- A song we wrote in about five minutes. I was (am) frustrated
with pop punk and the lack of originality in it. So we made a
silly pop song, telling people that we intended to destroy pop
punk. The Director of SLC Punk liked it, put it in his movie,
and now it is one of our most popular songs. Strange how things
work.
Horsepower- I wrote the lyrics to this in traffic on the way to work. I
worked with this girl that had me thinking about her all the time.
I would beat myself up over her every night. We wrote this American
Blue and Be Righteous in two or three days. An explosive time
for us, changing our direction once again.
Self Enemy- The oldest song on the album. I wasn't in the best mental health
when this band started, and I saw a tattoo that said Self Enemy.
That phrase described me to a T at the time. I did Anything and
everything I could do to destroy myself .
You Name It- The working title of this was the Jazz Song. My hatred of hipsters
prompted the writing of this. We closed many a set with this song,
and at the end of it if we were at hipster type show I would just
flip the crowd of for the last 10 measures or so. It's no wonder
why Denver is so hard on us sometimes.
Put It Out- One of my favorite songs on the record. I still don't know what
Dans reason for the helicopter noise at the beginning is. I like
it though. When we did it live we would play it as the second
half to American Blue. Our take on how pathetic our country can
be sometimes.
Random all encompassing notes- We should have gotten this mastered.
It took way to long to record (six months), and I guess we didn't
have the patients to wait. Do'h. This was the most experiment
time for us, Dans guitar was just nuts. Looking at the musical
landscape of punk then we were so out of our element. People wanted
to hear Green Day and Rancid, and we handed them this. We were
mean, didn't take shit, and pissed off a lot of people. To hell
with'em for not getting it. |
