This month is the 20 year anniversary of our self titled album. I have been intending on creating a digital copy to mark this occasion, but it’s hard when you work and have a kid. I still plan on doing it, but it may be a little late for the actual anniversary.

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Listen/purchase: Hourglass by Jackass Penguins

Around this time, I was fascinated by Antonio Carlos Jobim (well I still am). With Beck’s Mutations album, I also got into Os Mutantes and Brazilian music in general. This was my attempt to create a bossa nova song. Really, it could make a great hard rock/metal song, but that wasn’t where I was at when this was recorded.

Lyrics:

Time is flowing like a van
Driving on the riverbed
Oscillating continuity
Life is like a radio
Turn the dial to what you know
Modulating conformity

Hourglass is running low
Time to reap what you have sowed

I was walking by the sea
Past the driftwood and seaweed
Contemplating infinity
How can someone be content
When they’re all alone and yet
Surrounded with humanity?

Hourglass is running low
Time to reap what you have sowed

And I’m sitting here awake
How I long for yesterday

I was counting grains of sand
As they drifted off my hand
Answering the call of gravity
I was watching waves rehearse
How the foam inside dispersed
And the water flowed so pallidly

Hourglass is running low
Time to reap what you have sowed

I think it’s about time to dust this track off. It’s one of the better songs in the last 15 years.

Free Download Mania

I never recorded my songs to get rich, just for the hell of it. Therefore, I have decided to make the entire JP catalog on bandcamp free. I don’t know why I didn’t start it out that way in the first place. Individual tracks may still have a minimum price, but the entire albums are free. You can always delete the crappy songs later (depending on the album, it could mean most of it). Thanks for listening.

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Dos Equis lyrics, track info, liner notes

1.Diskovepher – The Rebel 01:05                                      

2.Diskovepher – Murph 01:57                                      
*From the 1994 Diskovepher album “Crude Hoyle”
3.Corn 02:52                                      
*From the 1994 EP “Sound Check”
4.Information Superhighway 00:16                                      
5.Pandemonia 03:12                                      
*From the 1995 album “Pandemonia”
6.Mint 02:29                                      
*From the 1995 album “Dime”
*Alayne on vocals and keyboards
 
7.Yes I Am Fucking You 03:25                                      
*From the 1995 album “Jackass Penguins”
8.Slob 03:21                                      
9.Dropping Like Flies 02:37                                      
10.You Don’t Have My Number 02:52                                      
11.I Am Stupid And You Are Not 01:27                                      
*From the 1996 album “Songs for a Lost Generation III”
12.With You 03:07                                      
*From the 1997 album “Life in 1997”
13.Time 02:41                                      
*From the 1997 album “Stolen Shoes”
 
14.Birds 02:04                                      
*From the 1997 album “Fashion Victims”
 
15.B.K.K. 03:35                                      
*From the 1997 album “Fashion Victims”
 
16.Go Away 03:51                                      
*From the 1997 album “Fashion Victims”
 
17.Deification of Defecation 04:04                                      
*From the 1998 album “Not An Album”
18.I Love Jesus Bumper Sticker 03:16                                      
*From the 1998 album “Not An Album”
19.Goodbye 01:17                                      
*From the 1998 album “Not An Album”
20.Fuck Up The Middle East 02:10                                      
21.Surfboards For Everyone 02:32                                      
*From the 1998 album “Pornucopia”
*Music by J. Berry and B. Wilson
*Lyrics by M. Watson
 
22.Desperado  04:54                                      
*From the 1998 album “Pornucopia”
 
23.I’ve Never Known This  02:47                                      
*From the 1998 album “Romantic Fatalism”
 
24.Laxative 05:36                                      
*From the 1999 EP “Future Sound of Irwindale”
 
25.Problem 05:57                                      
*From the 1999 EP “Future Sound of Irwindale”
26.Dust 02:29                                      
*From the 1999 album “Oblivion”
27.U.F.O.  03:12                                      
*From the 1999 album “Oblivion”
28.Harsh  04:23                                      
29.She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not 03:47                                      
*From the 2000 album “Hourglass”
30.Southern California 03:33                                    
*From the 2000 album “Hourglass”
31.Dumb Angel 04:06                                      
*From the 2001 album "Mental Holiday”
 
32.Greasy Arms 03:44   
 *From the 2002 album “Strand"    
                              
33.Honest Engine 03:12                                      
*From the 2002 album "Strand”
34.Silver Queen 03:03                                    
*From the 2002 album “Strand”
35.Topic of the Day 04:14   
Bring it up now Shit Anybody says that I’m going to chicken Anybody says that I’m going away Anybody says that I’m going to chicken Anybody says I was on the road and I was going I was on the road and I was away I was on the road and I’m going to chicken
Yeah Anybody says anybody anybody says
Anybody says that I’m going to Vostok Rabbits on the shore and I’m going away Anybody says that I’m going to chicken Anybody says that I’m going to Nome Anybody says that I’m going to liver Anybody in the anybody in the
Wah ding iffa zhanas channing body Sprinkle fucking chunkies and I’m talking bout meatballs Anybody says that I’m banning away And I’m doing it on purpose every single fucking day
Everybody says Everybody says Everybody says Everybody’s on the topic, God even says Topic of the day is everybody says Anybody in the fucking room And I’m talking about you And I’m talking about you
And I’m talking about anybody I’m talking about all the motherfucking people in the fucking room and I’m talking to you and I’m talking to every fucking body in the room and I am away and I am away and I am going all the way on fucking today yeah yeah yeah yeah it’s the topic of the day
eat my shit and you’ll fuckin die
*From the 2002 album “Strand”
36.It Doesn’t Get Any Gooder  03:17                                      
                   in a t-shirt
                   in a limousine
                   in the shower
                   in the motherfucking flower
I just won the lotto I got a brand new bra The cruise control’s on auto I had a vision of Jah Walking to the station Got a ticket to Mars Going on vacation Blasting to the stars I saw you in the cabin Yo, I saw you in the fucking aisle I saw that you were grabbing We’ve been friends for a while If you want, we could get some Velcro shoes We can walk on the ceiling or have some orange juice
I wanna let you know that….outer space can be so dim                                             we just might lose life or limb                                             we might not see Yuma again                                             ginseng, goldenseal, phen phen
It doesn’t get any gooder
*From the 2004 album “The FCC Will Never Ban This”
37.Last Days (W) 01:41 
*From the 2004 album “The FCC Will Never Ban This"         
                            
38.When The Chevy Breaks  05:01    
 *From the 2010 album "Furlough Jam"       
                       
39.Secrets of the Water  04:24                                      
From the 2011 EP "Something New”
 
40.Sorry 03:12                                      
*Recorded for Beck’s Song Reader project in November 2013
*Music and lyrics by B. Hansen
 
Retrospective album with songs from 1993 to 2013. Released to celebrate our 20 year anniversary. This music sounds much better after downing a 12-pack of delicious Dos Equis lager. Try a case today. Please do not drive or operate heavy machinery while listening to this album. Pregnant women and diabetics are cautioned against listening, except under the supervision of a licensed medical professional. Side effects include chronic migraines, episodic seizures, anal leakage, nausea and in some rare cases, death. Do not listen to this album while surrounded by magnetic fields. Jackass Penguins “Dos Equis” is a product of Oyitt Records. Lo-fi combined with low talent. Now that’s entertainment! Try Dos Equis today!

released 15 November 2013                                         

Produced by Derrick Hoyle. All songs written by M. Watson unless otherwise noted. Recorded at various locations in Riverside and Yucaipa over 20 years.

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Listen/purchase: George and the Space People by Jackass Penguins

This song was originally envisioned to have more layers to it. There may still be a version somewhere with multiple clarinet overdubs, but our recording equipment was so crappy that it sounded terrible. This is just the base track, and it was ultimately included on the Mental Holiday album. The song is about the legendary George Van Tassel who claimed to be visited by aliens and rode a flying saucer. He built the Integratron himself, but died before it could be completely finished. More recently, the building was used for the music video for “Honestly” by Zwan.

Lyrics:

Gather ‘round the Integratron
Summon all to Giant Rock
Take a ride inside their ship
George and the Space People trip
Deep in thought George and his team
Find ways to live out their dream
Profound truth, inquiring minds
If it benefits mankind
Religion and science merged
Vibratory auras purged
Under stars and hellish heat
Landers opens, Mammons greet
If indeed our faith is wrong
At least it made a new song