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My Joke is Ruining Your Joke (2009)

by Moon Mission Death Squad

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Four Track 02:37
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tearing tags out of t-shirts operating machines by hand (how you got) lost in the reverb i can't begin to understand you placed a call to the radio station requesting to hear a badfinger song you ignored the ventura's intonation increased the volume and strummed along crank up the preamp - blow the vu meters out this is lofi bootcamp - this is what i'm all about i was not kidding - when i said let the tape decks roll this is the beginning - this is how we seize control filling sacks full of headphones letting the bass and drums distort we're awash in the echo recording storms inside this port you ignored the manuals suggestion and overtracked too many times but through the hiss and reverberation the tracks below sounded just fine
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Yerba Maté 02:09
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yerba mate -------------- tabulate the topography of the how and when calculate the chronography of the now and then disappointed, disabused by the information given you lines of reasoning retrenched by the simplest of arguments the yerba mate fucked you up with the brutal brunt of it's caffeine cup the stars you saw when you closed your eyes were your brain cells dying in disguise fabricated the economy of your nation-state destabilize the autonomy of the free-marketplace disappointed, disapproved by the private army issued you assassinations, imprisonments - staples of sound government
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Analog Basis 02:45
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analog basis ---------------- it's the analog basis you know that i've been faceless for too long weigh it out and waste it imprisoning economies of song the quakers said "it crushed us, the moment when your parents busted in. they said they wished that they could trust us" persuaded by the minotaurs of sin what a fitting fucking joke enslave yourself with your own yoke revel in your greed and sloth crucified by your own cross you swore you were the chastest but the cryogenic stasis iced you out though i knew the void was weightless my mass and matter riddled me with doubt the gossip was delicious presenting us with superstitious fact you said "the magazines just diss us" appealing for your sense of purpose back what a fitting fucking end execute yourself where you came in frozen by the fallout's frost crucified by your own cross the cancellation's heartless but we know regardless of your debt we'd have never let you start this if we didn't think delivery was set it's the analog basis solder up and case this project board the circuit bend was wasted while your audience continues to ignore
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Pass-word 02:38
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pass-word -------------- disengage yourself from the ashes of the black hotel hostility's your choice debate existence with your inner voice if you're the only one here why don't the rest of us disappear (every)time you turn around (you're dis)integrating cars all over this town you thought you'd summoned all the powers in your head but your exerted force of will landed you somewhere else instead this is why you always did what we said now you're sleeping in an unfamiliar bed apologize in vain (to the) guy whose loss is your ultimate gain your finally got your shirt straight now live together in the world you create now you're out and you're back let's roll together on the bike attack let's play guitars in my room agree that never again is too soon you thought you'd summoned all the powers in your head but your exerted force of will landed you somewhere else instead this is why you've always done what we said we missed you something awful in your exile to an unfamiliar bed
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Shallow Grave 02:41
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shallow grave ---------------- etching lightning on your wrist to predicate intended risks destroying all the ancient songs breaking words that held your bond the powers given you were never meant to be abused the shallow grave of the people's will you dug it then and you dug it still the sword shed sparks along the steel as you boots laid heavy on their heels embrace the abdicated throne enchambered, absently alone dividing walls of sleep from rest as the mail lay heavy on your chest the encampment shivered in the dust surround yourself with those you trust
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Disastulon 03:51
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disastulon ------------- your eyes were lost when we shot you on the chroma key canceled out (when we) overlayed you on the azure screen desperate to correct the inconsistency we cut and pasted irises from all the other scenes disastulon you've been coming on awful strong this marathon i know i'll miss you when your dead and gone disastulon i see you freaking but there's nothing wrong this siren song you've been singing for us way too long you swallowed back pulled the focus on the arriflex synced the sound nailed the phasing on the second guess the death of painted matting the rendering lays blame the production schedule to exhausted to complain
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Philip Glass 01:50
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philip glass --------------- the looping organ lines baroque in 9/8 time the choir's revelry composers must concede replace the rotten wood the ship is good as new disabled aft and flank the hull's got you to thank like gothic arches curves use music to unnerve the audience enthralled the cello's only fault the rudder's rotaries the bow assemblies' worn out rebuilt revised and changed now all that's left is to maintain the kronos masterpiece i heard it in my sleep the terry riley lifts richean tempo drifts phased piano works rephrased from schoenberg pounding quarter notes lloyd rogers overthrow
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Tournament Retreats 03:38
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tournament retreats ----------------------- columns of civil defense arms of murderous intent guardsmen dispossessing land the city's sanctions stand digging up the centuries of ghosts bringing up the lies we hated most cauterize the now infected wound enslaved and shackled, cattle from the womb incendiary coverage from the tanks defenestration peppering our ranks politicize our personal defeats engaged decisions tournaments retreats building up and ironclad defense volunteering reams of common sense sharpening the shards of shattered glass burning crosses, murdering the past pumping patients full of toxic sludge onerous and difficult to judge diastat injected for the seize intubated, heparin for the bleed
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Excesses of Waste 02:15
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excesses of waste ------------------- when you blinked your eyes i knew it wasn't by mistake but it's no surprise i know that you're not good enough to fake the lies behind everything you ever did wrong destroyed and surprised by the lyrics that you heard in my song this was the impetus for finding out your place despised reviled and scorned - the bitterest of hate this is the demitasse the palace of our tastes adorned bejeweled and throned in the excesses of waste blinded by the light that you believed to be true i despise the parts of me i see in you no replies to the questions that you asked yourself denounce and decry the shortcomings of everyone else
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Conan vs. Predator 02:30
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conan vs. predator --------------------- the albuterol prescription both a blessing and a curse it helped me with breathing but it made my breathing worse want to believe that there's a purpose but i've a feeling that there's not though my friends all call me murphy you can call me robocop amoxicillin fought infection bacteria's resistance grows the superbugs that we've created will ultimately overthrow i dispel the common rumors i destroy the modern myths an object's weight is not it's volume no more than volume is it's width in the groves of great sequoias your professorship in check you were the king of california with your lectures on cassette the hyperbaric chamber strengthened the injuries your could not stand the microsurgeon's practiced scalpel repaired your badly shattered hand
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Crystal City 02:42
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crystal city ---------------- the sparkling towers of our crystal city tumbled down shattered by the endless tremors rumbling underground bricks and mortar might have held but we built them much too tall with engineering hubris we stood and watched them fall this is what we get for reaching out too far this is what we get for living beyond the stars this is what we get for playing the conqueror this is what we get for thinning out the heard the massive volumes of our science art and history safe inside their crystal vaults these fifty centuries floated page by burning page two hundred stories down littering the twisted buckling rolling molten ground unraveling the very fabric of our interwoven lives was less important than building monuments up to the sky ostentatious shrines erected to our arrogance brought crashing down by shifting sands and seismic disturbance
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Earth: Final Conflict 02:24
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earth: final conflict ------------------------ am i the instrument of some unspoken voice am i the incidence of some unpleasant choice is this the aftermath of the lingering effects of an ethical dilemma, you choose not to respect you the war between man an nature has been won but aren't you crushed by the weight of the damage that you've done you don't have to chain yourself up to a tree but i can tell you about the ethical way to eat the kilobits and bytes, the lines of ascii text my persistent urgings as to what you should do next the engineers have factored in the routes of our escape digging deeper tunnels, digging harbors in this cape i eat fresh fruits and vegetables, legumes and grains you murderers and cannibals should be ashamed cows and pigs and sheep aren't flowers plants or trees they've got central nervous systems just like you and me forty-thousand light years underneath your shuttered eyes shattered into pieces by the sum of your replies distancing the deficits of responsibility or the moral veritas of the cruelty to the animals you eat

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Daniel is a much better recording engineer than I am. We tracked the drums digitally in the venue where he was running sound, then I took the material back to Dallas and used a Tascam 464 to overtrack everything else. I think it's our best album ever.

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released August 15, 2009

Mason: Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Daniel: Drums

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Two crunchy lo-fi indie rock brothers from oklahoma. We like: Superchunk, The Archers of Loaf, Guided by Voices, not eating animals, film photography, thrift stores, cassette tapes, organic gardening, sweeping social revolution.

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