This is the infamous cover of Lithium that I tried to forget about. It’s better without my vocals, so here’s as much as I am willing to release of it. Recorded near the end of 2012.
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Listen/download: Flat Earth Society by Jackass Penguins
A year ago today, I mixed down the tapes to my computer and uploaded the album to BandCamp by midnight 4/1. You can download the album for free for a limited time. Since then, the album has also become available on Google Play and iTunes, or for streaming on Spotify. But why bother when you can have the deluxe version for FREE?
I’m going to let this version stay free for another week. So if you want it, download it now. Thanks to whomever downloaded another copy of Dilutions of Grandeur, which is also free.
3 days left. You can still be one of the elite super cool group of people who own this without spending a dime.
2 days left….you aren’t in the club yet…it is super easy to download this, so go for it!
Last full day! Starting tomorrow you have to pay if you want this! Don’t miss out!
Jackass Penguins – Silver Queen: This was my first video. It’s not pretty to look at, but the music I think is good.
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.
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.
This recording was a demo from the scrapped “Flat Earth Society” album. An acoustic cover of the Bobby Darin classic. Enjoy.
Another outtake from the sessions for Pornucopia. This song started as an instrumental towards the end of the Celestial Medley. I just couldn’t include it because it didn’t flow with the album and there was already a song featuring the flanger effect on the album. Enjoy.
This cover of Tubeway Army/Gary Numan is another outtake from the Pornucopia sessions. Using the same Casio keyboard that was used on the first Diskovepher tape back in 1993, and an acoustic guitar. Of course there are mistakes, but it is a faithful cover of the original.
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