Author: jackasspenguins

A musical side project started in 1993 in Riverside, California. Recordings made under the monikers Diskovepher, Dirt Auction, Not A Band, Dumbell Tower, but mainly Jackass Penguins. CEO and founder of Oyitt Records.

(8/365) Your least favorite song from your favorite band: What can I say about this song? It made me wish they went back to the Adore sound, for one. It’s such a disappointment. I could have made a better song than this, it’s so boring. Then you have the played out sentiment of selling records when you’re dead. Got it, I really do understand, you’re only the millionth person to point that out. Shitty solo thrown in there. So many reasons I hate this song. I was also considering Glass and the Ghost Children with the pontification breakdown in the middle, but at least that was original. This is the sound of a band that gave up.

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In 1995 I took a photo of a wooden fence in Joshua Tree. I entered it into a PTA-run Reflections contest at school. I ended up getting second place, but the picture was included in a bound art book published by my school. I was called in to the office from class one day and was told that the Wherehouse had donated some music to them, and since I got second place I could pick out something. There were CDs and cassettes to choose from, but I didn’t have a CD player until Xmas so I looked through the cassettes. I had only five tapes to choose from, mostly crap they play on KIIS, and Wool. I was interested in the song titles, but had never heard of them before. I had no other choices, so what the hell, I picked Wool. I was instantly impressed when I listened to it. The next year Wool would record their last album that was unreleased until a few years ago at the now famous Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree. It probably means nothing, but to me it is poetic how it made a full circle.