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If We Can Work Together Why Can't we Jerk Together?

by Ess Project

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Aardappel 01:56
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Scotch Tape (free) 00:30
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Cool Cats (free) 00:43
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Dogs fight wars I never understood their plans But if we drink enough of these bottles of beer... We'll turn back to sand You Help me walk And through the crowded bars and streets of sunny ol' Saint John I See your face, and smell your hair You were there but you're gone Gone
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Worms (free) 00:20
Worms
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Bingo! 00:59
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Next Time 02:19
Next time, wake up in time
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Fuzzy memories loom up from the tape. Salted. Some of this is from the night I found out I was to be a dad. April 1, 1999. Some is from a year later in Toronto.
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It Came Out 00:55
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Forget Me 01:23
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Great Solution! (free) 02:30
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Marichild 00:45
The boonies weren't made to support the weight of the head of the Marichild NO WAY! I just wanna drink and smoke on the patio It's so fun to hang with friends (and drink!) If you wanna fight you suck You fucking schmuck! Just leave us alone!
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A fairy, a fairy, passing down the stair My Soul Perspective the only thing that's there
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Stinko Jerko (free) 00:48
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The Lazy Song (free) 01:00
I was a cool guy but now I've been reduced to this It takes me all day just to get up and go piss I just don't know what to do with myself anymore 'Cause bathing and not smoking all day just seems like a chore I was so cool when I had mustard on my shirt I'd scrape it off and I'd put it on my burgher (Oh My God!) I just don't know what to do with myself anymore 'Cause bathing and not smoking all day just seems like a chore My socks don't fit so I can't even go to the store Don't matter now 'cause I can't fit through the fuckin' door That's true
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Vacation 05:57
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Goodbye 00:33

about

This album helped me satisfy the sadistic urges I would be overcome with during a several year bout of painful insomnia. I would feel it necessary to stay awake all night and all day writing and recording terrible noise and silly pop hooks by any means necessary. This usually meant a tape four track, and later a 2-track PC!

A lot of this stuff is barely demo quality, and was recorded in the depths of despair. A lot of coffee and cigarettes and bad choices and alcohol and regret went into this album.

I have sat on it for several years, but the time has finally come to let it go, and release the burden. Or whatever. It's just stupid songs.

Thanks to Doug Belding for the artwork, Jon Wilson for always offering up claps, snaps, and shout-a-longs. Doug Anderson for not shying away from serious drinking, and smashing my apartment floor with hammers and shoes at 5am to get some of these 'special sounds'.

Thanks to the handful of people who have heard this stuff over the years and appreciated it, for what it was, whatever it was.

credits

released June 21, 2011

All songs by Sean Boyer. Some samples used without permission. Some samples used with permission.

Guest appearances are noted on the individual tracks

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