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Self​-​Sabotage: the early year

by Wet Dirt

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Bad Choices 05:01
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Hot Pink 06:18
Aroooo arooooo Arooo arooo whooo Arooo aroooo ‘Aroo aroo whooo CHORUS: Hot Pink! (I love you) X 12 Yes I do Gonna climb a mountain for you Gonna climb a mountain for youuu whoo Gonna climb a mountain for you Gonna climb a mountain for youuu whooo CHORUS Gonna climb a mountain for you Gonna climb a mountain for youuu whoo Gonna climb a mountain for you Gonna climb a mountain for youuu whooo And the name of that mountain And the name of that mountain is The name of that mountain The name of that mountain is Himalaya (CHANT: Himalaya, himalaya....) SPOKEN: Gonna climb you Gonna scale you You’re out of reach You’re so far away from me You’re so far away from me But if I close my eyes and I open my mind And think of a little mantra of the little engine that could It goes, “I think I can I think I can I think I can...” I open my eyes and my mind is still open And there I stand at the base of the mountain All packed up and ready to go Suit up! I got supplies, I got supplies There I go, there I go Going to climb the mountain Where ya gonna go, where ya gonna go? To the top of the toppermost To the top of the toppermost Up to where the air is thin It makes my head spin And as I merrily go along I sing a little mountain climbing song It’s a yodel Yodel ayyy hooo “Yodel ayyy hooo” Yodel ayyy hooo “Yodel ayyy hooo” Sure makes the time go faster Oh, look at us Me, I’m horizontal and the mountain it is vertical We’re almost there, we’re almost there Just one more step There! Anti-climax And I unpack my picnic basket and I unfold my picnic blanket And I have a little picnic lunch for two, just me and you, just me and you Maitre d’! Maitre d’! Maitre d’! Maitre d’! Are you ready? Are you this ready? Or are you this ready? S’alrite s’alrite s’alrite C’mon Let’s gooooooo.....! CHORUS ...break it down! Aroo aroo Aroo arooo whooo....
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Hot Beige 03:07
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Invalids 03:51
CHORUS: Invalids shunted aside on this journey of life Are invalids, try to refrain that they feel great pain Invalids, invalids, invalids Invalids, invalids, invalids Just trying to bring you back, just trying to bring you, bring you You might be coming out of this Soon hope coming out, coming on strong CHORUS Didn’t see you blink No, I never saw you, saw you Hair hanging down your bed, gone limp, gone limp CHORUS And if you pull through If you pull through You should be in art films You should be in art films CHORUS repeat
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My Man 02:57
Don’t! Sit there His spirit still resides there In that chair His body lies there We must leave everything exactly as he left it CHORUS: My man, my man, oh how I miss my man X4 The dust! Resides there It has long settled With great care We must leave everything exactly as he left it CHORUS I won’t! Move on I will forever Miss my man How dare you try to pry my legs open CHORUS I have lost the taste I can no longer bake The most amazing cakes In all sizes and shapes Ever since the wake My hands they shake Oh for goodness sake Oh for what should I take? My man, my man.... Oh, my man, I miss you so, oh, my man, why did you go? My man, my man...
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Of Felt 02:25
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Party 06:05
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Redemption 01:53
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Snoopy 07:52

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Coming across like an early seventies, slightly-fried, band of freaks, the rather excellent Wet Dirt sound suitably messed up on their album “Self Sabotage, The Early Years” with the stoned groove of “Bad Choices” setting out their stall with the chorus “Bad choices, made some bad choices, gonna make some more”. Add to this fine guitar playing, a solid rhythm section,and an ear for melody, and you have a perfect opening song and statement. Moving on, “The Chill Out Man” is weird and creepy, nonsensical word play, and a crawling guitar line creating a strange atmosphere, the song sounding like something Zappa could have created. As the album progresses the band get weirder, louder, more interesting by turns with “Hot Pink” managing all three at once. Elsewhere, “Invalids” is post-punk noise, angular guitar and an individual vocal delivery adding to the tension of the lyrics reminding me of Pere Ubu, whilst “Of Felt” is a song about the tactile pleasures of felt, as it should be. If you are searching for something different, energetic, angry and weird then this should hit the spot, a minor classic. (www.inyrdisk.com)
-Terrascope

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released July 31, 2013

Robert Dayton- lyrics and vocals, Tobey Black- drums, Robin Fry- guitars and sounds, Simon McNally-bass
Recorded at 6 Nassau by James Anderson
Released on inyrdisk
inyrdisk #57

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