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Music

 

Albums

 

Album

Release Date

How to Buy

A Thing Like Any Other

September 26, 2003

At Persians shows for $5; via e-mail for $10; from CD Baby for $9.99; from iTunes for $9.99 or 99’ per song (if you already have & use iTunes, go here)

Banjo Mute (live)

Late 2004

E-mail John & ask for one

Rocking Is Fundamental: Live at the MSU Barnes & Noble

August 30, 2006

E-mail John & ask for one

…And You Will Know Us by Our Trail of Demos

February 15, 2008

E-mail John & ask for one

Allergic to Juggling

No frigging idea

n/a

Get In, Sit Down, Shut Up, Hold On

No frigging idea

n/a

 

 

Song Lyrics

 

Accidental Physics
Are You Wearing Argyle?

Arbor Day
At Five in the Morning

Being a Saint
Beneficial Neglect
Breathing in Vain
Bricks Aspire

Chuck of 8 Chins

Clever Arnold

Daguerreotype

E

Football Blood
The Front Steps in Summer

Goat is Got
Going Dutch Means You're Ugly

Handpockets

A Host in Heresy

I Belong to the Ceiling
I Have Followed You
Innard Yank

J

Krakatoa

Life-Size Stencils
Lifetimes of Bionic Shyness

Mallory-Free
Mashed-Potato Sky
Me and My Kind
Mullet Boy Enumerates

Nobody Said You Couldn't Say...

Orange is for Eyebrows

Pony-Stolen Sickness

Q

R

So Help Me Something
Sometimes a Ghost is All You've Got
Spasmatron
Swimming Herward
Swing on By

That Kind of Funny
The Time to Talk Is Now

To Be an Expatriate
Tomorrow Wants to Extend

U.V.A.

viii
Via the Migration

Welcome
Wheat in Wind
When I Grow Down
Whose Notepad Are You?

X

Y

Z

 

 

Cover Songs We've Been Known to Play (or Are Currently Working On)

 

"Sweet Emotion" – Aerosmith
"I Am the Highway" – Audioslave
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" – The Beatles
"War Pigs" & “NIB” – Black Sabbath
"Register 5" – Bon Jovi (NOTE: this is really "Wanted Dead or Alive" with Yankovian lyrics)
"Ziggy Stardust" – David Bowie
"I Will Survive" – Cake/Gloria Gaynor
"Black Metallic" – Catherine Wheel
"Yellow" – Coldplay
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?" – Elvis Costello
“Badge” – Cream
"The Lung" – Dinosaur Jr.
"Sometimes" – fIREHOSE
"Hey, Johnny Park!" & "Everlong" – Foo Fighters
"Mexican Wine" – Fountains of Wayne
"Whatsername" – Green Day
"Bulldog Skin" – Guided by Voices
"Mountain Song," "Jane Says," & “Stop” – Jane’s Addiction
"Vienna" – Billy Joel
"Father Christmas" – The Kinks
"Cold Gin" – Kiss
"Houses of the Holy" – Led Zeppelin
"Freebird" – Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits" – The Magnetic Fields

“Jack the Ripper” – Morrissey
Nevermind (yes, all of it) – Nirvana
"Don't Look Back in Anger" – Oasis

“Velouria” – The Pixies
"Purple Rain "– Prince
"The Bends" – Radiohead
"Rock You Like a Hurricane" – The Scorpions
"Fell on Black Days" – Soundgarden
"Jessie's Girl" – Rick Springfield
"One" & "Until the End of the World" – U2
"Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" – Van Halen
"No One Else" & "Say It Ain't So" – Weezer
"Careless Whisper" – Wham!
"Offend in Every Way" – The White Stripes