Tag: Jackass Penguins

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Listen/purchase: Tropico by Jackass Penguins

Our tribute to Fu Manchu.

Lyrics:

On the edge of the sun there’s a sunspot flare
Looking at you in the noontime air
Took a drive today past the county line
Where the stacks of hay have nothing inside
How the flowers bloom in the blackened soil
How the fragile moon shines and water boils

Weep your soul and dry your eyes
Keep your heart from all their lies
Memories of Tropico fade with time
And time is slow

Read a sign above here’s what it said
All you need is love so tell a friend
Your hair shines like angels
Our time is flying
My obscure angles
Tangled tears you’re crying

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Listen/purchase: Mental Holiday by Jackass Penguins

This is definitely one of the most psychedelic songs in our repertoire.

Lyrics:

Think of hills draped with grass
Green threads in woven mats
Songs of peace free your mind
Ancient forms locked in time

Focus on visions now
Act without knowing how
Feel the joys of this place
This mental holiday

Think of waves ebb and flow
Where the blue dolphins go
Feel the sand on your back
Smell the air salty snack

Focus on…
Just think you don’t have to leave

See the clouds straight ahead
Cheap motels lumpy beds
Sounds of sex room next door
Freight trains pass hundreds more

Focus on…
Just think you don’t have to leave

Pick up a copy of our 1998 album Pornucopia for only $2!!!

Released in 1998 amidst headlines of terrorism, salacious sex scandals and cigars, “Pornucopia” was the first album of material by Jackass Penguins that was really thought out and held to a concept. Remastered for the 15-year anniversary of its original release, it still is very lo-fi, but for the most part, you can hear what was played instead of mostly cassette noise.

Pick up a copy of our 1998 album Pornucopia for only $2!!!


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Another demo from the scrapped “Flat Earth Society” album. I only recorded this demo and maybe played this song 2 or 3 times, which is why I stopped in the middle of it. I think it needs a bridge or something, but it has a nice flow to it.


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By 1998, I had a second acoustic guitar and an electric, so I converted my first one to a slide guitar since the frets were shot. It turned out to be a perfect slide guitar as the action is super-high (because the neck is bowed slightly out). I played “In My Time of Dying” a million times before I wrote this song, the first for slide guitar. I realize it’s not the best song now that I listen back, but I had fun playing it back in the day. Another Pornucopia outtake.


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This is another demo from the scrapped “Flat Earth Society” album. This particular song would have been in the same theme as “Honest Engine”. I lost the lyrics sheet, but I can barely decipher the lyrics here. I need to record this one properly, as the melody gets stuck in my head 11 years later.

Washington is really mad, California’s all been had, Oregon is smoking pot, Arizona’s way too hot. I’ve been thru the west, time to pave the rest. Idaho is such a drag, all the guns in Utah sag, in Nevada, lost my cash, Colorado’s smoking hash. I’ve been thru the west, time to pave the rest, I’m sick of the west, time to pave the rest.


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This song was originally recorded in 1997 on “Stolen Shoes” and was remade in 1998 for “Pornucopia” but was dropped because it was too long. This song is nearly six minutes, which is pretty self-indulgent for a pop-punk song. Here are the lyrics, loosely based on the pledge of allegiance and “America”:

We, the people, the united waste, of thee I sing. We are wasted in a nervous daze, let napalm sting. Strife, poverty and the nappiness, pursue these things. Overcrowding our retired place, multiplying. We are the scum of the earth. We do pledge allegiance to the slag heap of our dreams. One dead nation that is overtrod, dead or dying. And to the republic which it stands on our bodies with poverty and injustice all we are dying. We are the scum of the earth.


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This recording was a demo from the scrapped “Flat Earth Society” album. An acoustic cover of the Bobby Darin classic. Enjoy.