Tag: Jackass Penguins


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This song is an ode to the little group I hung out with around lunchtime in high school. Although it’s largely an instrumental, it kind of sums up what it was like. Mr. Goo was a phallic monument we made out of a banana and two apple cores on a wall. It was created sometime in October and it wasn’t cleaned up until about May, so it was all dried out by then. Towards the end I was eating a Mr. Goodbar and I cut the wrapper and taped Mr. Goo over it. The whole bowl of rice/pan of rice thing is another story.


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This is a 2004 remake of a song written in 1996 after a trip up the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. I’m not too thrilled with how this version turned out, but I figured that I should post it anyway.


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This one is fun to play. Taken from the prolific “Emptiness” album, it brings up memories of high school for me. Hope you enjoy it.


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Another instrumental, this time the title track from 2010’s “Furlough Jam”. Just an off-the-cuff song recorded in the dog days of the Great Recession. Enjoy.


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We come from no guitars on yesterday’s track to just guitar on this one. Taken from the 1997 album “Stolen Shoes”, this particular track was written while messing around in the band room at Arlington High School. It is 100% guitar sounds with no overdubs and about as close as I’ll ever get to emulating Tom Morello. Enjoy.


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Off the 2006 EP “Ain’t Tryin’ 2 Pleez” comes a sort of return to the Diskovepher days of no guitars. There was a riff and a different melody for this song at one point, but no one remembers exactly what that sounded like. This version was mostly a salvaging of the lyrics, but the results didn’t turn out too bad.


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Yet another track from “Mental Holiday”, this time a waltz. I played with different time signatures on this album, the most peculiar was “Seven” which was in 7/4 time. I probably won’t be uploading much more songs from this album as the remainder are very psychedelic, and probably too self-indulgent. I may decide to add more tunes at a later date, but I have dwelled on this album too long. Enjoy this depressing tune and have a great holiday weekend.


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Also from the 2001 album “Mental Holiday”, this track is a tip of the cap to Fu Manchu. It’s a shame the sound is so crappy. It is also one of a long line of JP song titles named after places in the desert; Zzyzx, Trona and Inyokern come to mind. Enjoy.