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Intro: Um, Hey
00:29
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um, hey
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Humans
01:52
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I'm in contact with the other world
But I still can't talk to girls
I commune with aliens it's true
But I still don't know how to talk to you
Humans, I admit that I don't really understand them
I don't know why I never felt the same, waiting for UFOs to take me away
I don't know why I never felt the same, still waiting for UFOs to carry me away.
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Nasty Asterisk
02:17
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Feel the bass rattle like a diamondback
These silent actions speak louder than bombs
So songs will be my means of attack
Though I'm attracted to abstractionist tactics
You know what Watt said 'bout the roar of the masses
So light a match and let the gas ignite
Clock on the wall reads quarter past midnight
Indirect theft from a legendary darkness
References, a refuge for the artless
To start with it's hard to introduce finality
without rapidly succumbing to the fallacy
That everything will happen like you planned it
The planetary orbit just can't sit and wait for you, now can it?
Doubts can trail yr sentences like a nasty asterisk
Fashionable habits to confuse it with distraction
Fighting tooth and nail against silences and risks
Plastics to replace all human interaction
Remove sight organs and genitals
From a hoofed forest dwelling mammal
And there you have my insight on the issue of
Communication cessation in a daydream stag nation
of millions holding back when I'd rather rise above
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4. |
American Hippo Waltz
02:24
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In 1910, New Orleans was in disarray
From water hyacinths clogging up the waterways
Meanwhile, the US was running out of meat
Not enough cows so what else could we eat?
(instrumental)
Senator Bousard had a rather ingenious take
Hippos eat the hyacniths and we dine on hippo stake
So if you feel that yr life is monotonous
Just be an optimist, you could be eating a hippopotamus
(Crappy harmonica solo)
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Motivation Song
01:02
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Sometimes it's hard to gather up motivation
It's easier to scroll thru yr feed
Than to write or do anything that is creative
or even take yr dishes to the sink
this is the only song that I wrote this week
It doesn't rhyme and it ends in the middle of a se-
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6. |
Time Waster
04:43
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I used to be broken
Still am but I used to be too
I thought you could fix me
Now I've got some fixing to do
All I did was waste yr time
Cuz all I do is waste my time
I remember sitting in yr car
Singing "home's where ever I'm with you"
Guess I let myself get evicted
Let the rent get way past due.
All I did was waste yr time
Cuz all I do is waste my time
Time and time and time again
I ripped out my own heart
Like Brock said, "I got this thing that I consider my only art
of fucking people over" and,
that includes myself
The deeper end of shallow is where I'll always dwell.
Cuz all I did was waste yr time
All I do is waste my time
All I am's a waste of time
Cuz all I did was waste yr time
(song falls apart here)
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Quetzalcoatlus Boston, Massachusetts
Mike K has been home-recording since 2000 - First composing ambient pieces under the name Quetzalcoatlus, he's more recently been experimenting with bedroom pop as Mikey Melodica.
Quetzalcoatlus recommends:
The Book was Better
by The Doubleclicks
On the surface they're a nerd-folk comedy duo, but their songs cover everything from frozen pizza to gender to anxiety, all with catchy melodies, poignancy and humor.
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Chow Mein Craft
by Diamond Machine
Groovy, melodic chiptune music.
go to albumIf you like Something Else by Mikey Melodica, you may also like:
A beautifully haunting record from ARIGTO with atmospheric drones that shapeshift constantly.
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Focal Point of a Scattered Mind
by Anders Jakobsen
Rippling electronic music full of pointillist blips and crackling rhythms, alternately rhythmic and melodic.
go to album
Parallax
by João Orecchia & Sicker Man
Modular synth and electric cello combine on these unnervingly expansive songs with low tones that spill out like water from a tipped jar.
go to album
Birds (in my mind anyway)
by DOC SLEEP
The first LP from nightlife cornerstone Melissa Maristuen, aka Doc Sleep, turns away from the dancefloor and toward the personal.
go to album
