One of the fluffiest songs in the JP catalog, which is appropriate, since it’s about birds. Enjoy.
Tag: music
A furious song that struggles to hold itself together, but one of my favorite to play. Written about stopping to get gas in Cuyama on the way to Santa Maria. Not sure why this evoked such an angst-filled response, but it works for me.
This song was actually included on the amazing “Hourglass” album, at the end of Side A (after Translucent). You can hear the whole album, sans Trona, on our Soundcloud page. Also excluded for copyright reasons were soundclips from an interview with Beck Hansen and other ear candy. This was the worst recording on the whole album, which is why I didn’t include it on Soundcloud, but it is still a good song. Enjoy.
Another one from the “Emptiness” album. Simple and lovely.
This is our halfway decent Pearl Jam cover from the 2006 album “Ain’t Tryin 2 Pleez”. As always, there are some mistakes, but I think it’s an OK version. Why can’t we record the times when we don’t fuck up? Oh well, enjoy.
I remember the first time I heard Beck. I was doing my thing in Jackass Penguins, and then Beck came onto the scene, and it was crazy. It was like what we were doing, only 1000x better. I have the utmost respect for him and his body of work. This is our stab at his breakout song.
I don’t really like this version very much, and I’m puzzled as to why I am posting it. Maybe it’s just the guitar sounds. It’s all over the place. I like the original version better. Scroll down our blog to find it.
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.
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.
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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