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Listen/purchase: Reasons to Live by Jackass Penguins

I am unsatisfied with the tambourine on this track, but the song manages to hold itself together. This was written in the last days of my employment at UCR. I worked in a small room with no windows until they kicked me out to find a real job after graduation. It also alludes to my field camp experience in Montana. It was the longest time that I was away from my home state, ever. I loved being there and want to visit again many more times, but I ultimately belong in California.

Lyrics:
Far away, the surfers wait
for upcoming massive waves
I’ll join them on Saturday
I work the days in Riverside
Too tired to go out at night
Get to bed and shut the light
As I drift off into sleep
I forget my troubled week
and my mind begins to breathe
I dream about the golden sand
Perfect waves and little tanned
surfer girls that hold my hand
Every day I dream about
PCH and In-n-Out
California girls, no doubt
Santa Barbara, Mission Bay
Mendocino, Monterey
Crescent City, Onofre
Sailing out of Inverness
Down the channel Tomales
was the best, but could you guess?
All these things I have to praise
Kept my will to live aflame
Thanks to California days
Thanks to everyone you see
Thanks to all my friends away
Never to be seen again

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Listen/purchase: Nevada Landing by Jackass Penguins

We went from the oldest song on the album yesterday, to the newest one today. This was written and recorded on the same day last month. The song title was inspired from an old casino that I used to go to that is completely demolished. In fact, if you didn’t know it used to be there, you would drive past thinking it’s just another desolate part of the desert.

Lyrics:
It’s been a long, long drive
but we’re here
We found a dream inside of the gears
We kicked some rocks around
found a mirror
Now we’re on the ground
and need a beer

We’re mining this hill
and building this mill
We’re writing our will
in case it falls

Now the mining cars move twice a day
and the golden bars by guarded stage
Let the miners camp along the way
Since we landed here and made a claim

We’re mining this hill
and building this mill
We’re writing our will
in case it falls
It was meant to be
our discovery
From sea to golden sea
It never ends

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Listen/purchase: Corporate Nevada by Jackass Penguins

A condensed, yet rich version of Corporate Nevada. Condensed in that some bars have been dropped from the verses. Rich in that it has never been recorded with drums and bass before. This is the oldest song on the album, written in 1996. B.K.K. and Aerial are only a little younger.

Lyrics:

They want your money
Ain’t it funny
They care less about you
than themselves
See the sunset in the desert in your rear view mirror
See the colors, there are others who would like to be here
You are lucky
Enjoy the yucky
Such a privilege you will miss
In the future
Enjoy the present
That’s all you can, I insist
See the sunset in the desert in your rear view mirror
See the colors, there are others who would like to be here

https://bandcamp.com/stream_redirect?enc=mp3-128&track_id=910372858&ts=1544328963&t=c42a6500b2f8fb9d1a6c7a24fa81d769da0ea8d0?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
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Listen/purchase: Silver Queen by Jackass Penguins

I wasn’t sure if I should bother trying to record this song again, since the original version is the best song I have ever recorded. Of course, this version is not as good as the original, but it is still decent.

Lyrics:
She laughs
flat on her back
intact and her radiance good
6-pack’s not coming back
in fact I think that they all should

Silver queen
it’s not like in dreams
but things are still misunderstood
Fantasy, like your liberty
remains so far from Hollywood

Transfixed
the size of your tits
I sit alone thinking of you
Bad trips
reality clicks
No chicks have been as pretty as you

Silver queen
it’s not like in dreams
but things are still misunderstood
Fantasy, like your liberty
remains so far from Hollywood

The desert lies beyond
with dust instead of fog
The engine’s turning on
2 hours, we’ll be gone

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Listen/purchase: Flat Earth Society by Jackass Penguins

This song is a clumsy mash up of two completely different songs. I didn’t do a good job of combining the two, and probably should have slowed down a little before settling on this as the final version. The original version had a different riff and structure. The music on this version is from an instrumental from around the same time called “Meat Lotto”. I still like this version, complete with a lame drum solo, and I hope you do too.

Lyrics:
I used to live on a grassy hill
Orange trees outside window sill
Now I stare at a prefab tract
Orange blossom days not coming back
Life was so nice before you moved in
Now it looks like it time I gave in
You wouldn’t care if I hit the road
You wouldn’t care if I’m put on hold

Preaching liquor store Christianity
I can’t stand your flat earth society

https://bandcamp.com/stream_redirect?enc=mp3-128&track_id=3261527464&ts=1544328963&t=9740ed24acff9ef061133406fc2ab80196b92ed0?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
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Listen/purchase: Far Away by Jackass Penguins

This takes the riff from “Reasons to Live” into a decent introduction for the album. This song has four tracks, like all the songs on the album, and features toy accordion, banjo, vocals and harmonica on it.

https://bandcamp.com/stream_redirect?enc=mp3-128&track_id=3065538936&ts=1544328963&t=a919885a6f1058b8e00a4303c737191eb2c6941d?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
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Listen/purchase: Honest Engine by Jackass Penguins

New version of this song. Try it, you’ll like it.

https://bandcamp.com/stream_redirect?enc=mp3-128&track_id=3555394649&ts=1544324205&t=89ca12d4542b5233a93015cc93a8a8813e0e2f20?plead=please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio
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Listen/purchase: B.K.K. by Jackass Penguins

New version of B.K.K. Song is named after a landfill that closed in West Covina. They have big plans to build on top of it to make it the pride of the city.