Grand Buffet - "The Truth Is A Nightmare (Remix)" (mp3)

In the first few years that I went to see Grand Buffet live a lot, their music was all self-released, and those shows were pretty much the only place to get their records circa the 'trilogy of terror' of their early EPs. And even as they've moved onto nationally distributed full-lengths since Five Years Of Fireworks, it's been kinda nice to see them still keep that old DIY approach alive with some cheap limited edition releases that they sell only at shows. One of those, A Night Of Laughin'! Volume 1 from a couple years ago, was such a waste of time that one of the members of the group seemed to be almost discouraging me at the merch table from spending my money on it, and in retrospect I should've listened to him (the disc is basically them 'heckling' shitty standup comics by overdubbing their voices over comedy records, and isn't even funny enough at first to get old over the course of the short disc).

But the last time I saw Grand Buffet at the Ottobar a few weeks ago, they actually had a pretty worthwhile disc at the merch table, an EP called Escape From Anthony Baboon's Nautical Playhouse: The Sample-Based Remixes. It's a pretty great use of the under-the-radar tour EP format, since all the samples ensure they wouldn't be able to officially release these tracks officially anyway. There's one song that's either new or hasn't appeared on any previous release, "Bears & Bricks," but for the most part it's interesting reworkings of some of their best tracks, including "We're Into This" and "1000%." And in some cases these remixes have actually supplanted the originals in their live sets, like the version of "Millpatty" based on a loop of the Go-Gos' "Head Over Heels," and this version of "The Truth Is A Nightmare." The original "Truth" was one of the weaker tracks on the rarities compilation Dicer: The Unheard Funk Tracks and featured a guest verse by that Anticon guy Sole, and the song always sounded like some kind of parody of conspiracy theory political rap, but the fact that it featured one of the corniest indie rappers ever kinda cancelled that out. This version, though, takes out Sole's verse and adds a sample from metal band Cydonia featuring a dude totally wailing paranoid lyrics like "voices, I hear voices," which totally makes it awesome.

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