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The Big Listen
01:50
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Process is motion, product is rest
Repetition is a form of change
Honor your intent as a secret mistake
Rest unassured it stumps the best of us
Your situation is hardly unique
But it weakens your stride
All in the same
You try to retrace your steps
Which is to blame
for the big piss-take
Piss-take by the lake?
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Like a child of Eden I let it trace my chin
Sap from the good Tree of Knowledge
We lambs defame slaughter in His name
And tyrants made in His image
O comrade o comrade
Think not of me a knave
'Twas traces resolved
From which we evolved
Found in the Lascaux Caves
No Hellmouth below
No means of control
No reward for earthly kindness
No lambs more sincere
Than we, I fear
With only empathy to guide us
O comrade o comrade
How might I bend your ear
'Twas dun mastodon
And not black demon bones
Found in the pits of La Brea
Alas, alas, our race it won't last
Yoked to your ancient mythos
Depraved, enslaved, we shall not be saved
From thine Apocalypso
O comrade o comrade
Save not for me a prayer
The cosmonaut found naught, no god
In the heavens when he was up there
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Teenage DNA
02:01
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Spike your step
There's a big day coming
No chance to walk
When you're in the running
Steeper cliffs give to awkward slips
You best not lose your traction
Closer to fifty now
Than to twenty
You've not sold out
If you've got no money
The adult crash left you unabashed
To adjust your expectations
Winsome
So goddamn lonesome
I'm gonna drop a truth bomb
This is the bed you made, son
You'd best un-fuck your head some
Motorik clicks out motivation
Harmonic breaks your hibernation
The crash subsides
The big grump hides
And won't come out to play
They’ll assume at once
You’re just being clever
But your stance is on
A chromosomal level
Life's more fun
When you can't outrun
Your teenage DNA
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Let's take a torch
To this torch song of yours
The fire's gone out
Extinguished by self-referred
Text upon text
Shouldn't you know what comes next
A ruin of self
Parody parody parody parody
Let's take a drill
To these telephone teeth
Your bites weren't too sharp
Nonetheless your disease-ridden
Spit upon spit
Though you'd never admit
Has been passed around
This here
Quarantine quarantine quarantine
Quarantine town
Got a job in a hotel
That sits atop an old landfill
Cleaning rooms for minimum wage
I'd do it anyway so I may as well get paid
Former location of an old strip mine
From '78 or 1979
Back before they had laws against it
Like I learned in a class I took about it
Called West Virginia History
Taught by one Mister Tomkowski
Way back when I was in 8th grade
I hope they're nice to me on my first day
Alright
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With lungs of lake-silt on that Bland Traverse Shore
We heap praise on anything we can ignore
And fade it to the background like no much pink noise
Drowned by the chiming cash register's voice
And was this not the mythic monolith
We thought we'd destroyed
That noble, naive notion just won't take
For pity's sake
The mistake by the lake
We celebrate all that is safe and mundane
The fashions may differ, the function's the same
No burning ambition to see past this scene
All keen sets of ears with no thoughts in between
And to our great embarrassment we thought we'd be the change
That noble, naive notion just won't take
For pity's sake
The mistake by the lake
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J. Marinelli Morgantown, West Virginia
J. Marinelli is a one man band like no other. The sound and fury that emotes from his haunting Appalachian echoed yowl falls
somewhere between Guided By Voices, a lost mountain troubadour and a classic 70’s punk outfit from your dreams.
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J. Marinelli recommends:
Lille Lort på ferie
by Lille Lort
Real talk: this is the only concept album that's ever mattered. If avant-garde/shit-fi bossanova is a thing, then Mr. T plays it.
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Brain Time Now
by Blast and the Detergents
A hot mess of fearless noise-rock a-la MISSION OF BURMA and SONIC YOUTH. Florida's best import since ever.
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Lo-fi pop perfection from straight outta Grøa, Norway!
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Razor-edged, scorched-throat songs that take a sledgehammer to rock & roll and reassemble the pieces into jagged, deadly pieces.
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The new album from Italian psych-rock outfit Bee Bee Sea has heavy punk and power pop notes.
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