Mixtape Tuesday

About 2-3 years ago I was hanging out a lot with a friend of mine named Chris in York, PA and playing drums in his band (I live a half hour from the MD/PA border so it's not a long drive). Chris strummed really slowly on an acoustic guitar and ran it through a bunch of effects and delay and I just played along and sometimes we had a keyboardist and/or a bassist and/or a violinist. Chris was a cool guy, I liked hanging out with him, although I wasn't really on the same wavelength with him musically at all. I don't think he was at all aware of how indifferent I was about some of his favorite bands (Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, etc.). But in a way I'm more cool with people like him who are kind of naively enthusiastic about their generic indie taste than cynical or really trying to be cool. Anyway, I kind of regarded it as a fun challenge to play slow, pretty shoegazey music, even if that's not really the kind of thing I actually listen to. Actually, come to think of it, all 3 of the bands that I've played in for a significant amount of time and accomplished something with (i.e. play in front of an audience and/or record original material) have all been rock subgenres that I don't really listen to (my last band was a metal band and in high school I played in I guess you could call it a 'screamo' band, although again I know nothing about that stuff). That's kind of the gift and the curse of being a drummer, though; you can have a completely different background than everyone else in the band and it doesn't matter if you can keep a beat. But it also means you rarely get to play what you really want to play. This is pretty much the reason why I'm taking a break from playing drums in other people's bands to make a solo record so I can actually figure out what kind of band I really want to play in by making one up.

Anyway, where was I? The band in York...Nice folks, although everyone I knew up there seemed to be a morbid alcoholic, and to this day my general impression of York is that it's this really depressing little college town where everyone drinks too much, although for all I know that's just the people I hung out with there. But Chris was a nice dude, I haven't seen him in a while and keep meaning to hang out again. At one point while we were doing the band thing he asked me to make him a mixtape, and I kinda tried to go for some of that slow pretty guitar music he likes, but from some indie-ish bands that I like (plus the Built To Spill stuff because he was really into them). I think it came out pretty well.

side 1:
1. The Posies - "Coming Right Along"
2. Ted Leo - "Parallel Or Together?"
3. Shudder To Think - "Red House"
4. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Outside Of Town"
5. Ben Folds Five - "Twin Falls"
6. Built To Spill - "By The Way"
7. Cat Power - "Rockets"
8. Jeff Buckley - "Mojo Pin"
9. Death Cab For Cutie - "Styrofoam Plates"
10. Sonic Youth - "Rain On Tin"

side 2:
1. Lake Trout - "Holding"
2. The Dismemberment Plan - "The Face Of The Earth"
3. The Minutemen - "No Exchange"
4. The Minutemen - "History Lesson - Part II"
5. Ted Leo - "Biomusicology"
6. Ken Stringfellow - "Your Love Won't Be Denied"
7. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Butch"
8. The Posies - "Every Bitter Drop"
9. The Posies - "Fall Song"
10. Chris Lee - "Dixie's Door"
11. Two Dollar Guitar - "Stones Vs. Zep"

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A ÁGUA
Meus senhores eu sou a água
que lava a cara, que lava os olhos
que lava a rata e os entrefolhos
que lava a nabiça e os agriões
que lava a piça e os colhões
que lava as damas e o que está vago
pois lava as mamas e por onde cago.
Meus senhores aqui está a água
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que bebe o homem que bebe o cão
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que lava os olhos e os grelinhos
que lava a cona e os paninhos
que lava o sangue das grandes lutas
que lava sérias e lava putas
apaga o lume e o borralho
e que lava as guelras ao caralho
Meus senhores aqui está a água
que rega as rosas e os manjericos
que lava o bidé, lava penicos
tira mau cheiro das algibeiras
dá de beber às fressureiras
lava a tromba a qualquer fantoche e
lava a boca depois de um broche.

Aproveita a água
 
A ÁGUA
Meus senhores eu sou a água
que lava a cara, que lava os olhos
que lava a rata e os entrefolhos
que lava a nabiça e os agriões
que lava a piça e os colhões
que lava as damas e o que está vago
pois lava as mamas e por onde cago.
Meus senhores aqui está a água
que rega a salsa e o rabanete
que lava a língua a quem faz minete
que lava o chibo mesmo da rasca
tira o cheiro a bacalhau da lasca
que bebe o homem que bebe o cão
que lava a cona e o berbigão
Meus senhores aqui está a água
que lava os olhos e os grelinhos
que lava a cona e os paninhos
que lava o sangue das grandes lutas
que lava sérias e lava putas
apaga o lume e o borralho
e que lava as guelras ao caralho
Meus senhores aqui está a água
que rega as rosas e os manjericos
que lava o bidé, lava penicos
tira mau cheiro das algibeiras
dá de beber às fressureiras
lava a tromba a qualquer fantoche e
lava a boca depois de um broche.

Aproveita a água
 
ok, I'm scared.
 
nice post blanco nino.
 
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