Monorchid“Oral Fixations Anonymous”
Let Them Eat… [LP]
Simple Machines/Dischord
1997
Help out the economy and your local aging punks and buy it locally.
Here’s a tip for when your neighbor on the other side of the party wall is playing the same s--tty music over and over and over. Especially when this music seems to consist of exactly two major chords and maybe an accordion. Or it sounds like thug music that would be the perfect accompaniment to a gang initiation rite.
Play this song/album. Another favorite of mine on the album is “Dead Signal.”
This track is great to play very loud, almost to the threshold of pain. It has this off-kilter, giddy, see-sawing guitar throughout.
It is awkward to do karaoke to unless you like doing sing-along primal scream therapy.
I sometimes sing the “i.l.l.…l.” chorus as well as the “i was a kid once” part. The middle part has intriguing lyrics but it’s hard to keep up with the rhythm. If you sang along to it at a show back in the nineties, I wonder if Chris Thomson would have cored you with a broken-off bottle neck. (After all, it’s all about some a--h--- who took his innocence.) Okay, so here are the lyrics; just a warning, they’re a little f---ed up.
“anorexic vampires i hear that fashion has failed you
so you smoke cigarettes and drink stale black coffee
oh it’s getting awful lonely for those anorexic vampires
so they f--- their little children ’cause there’s no one left
how could someone smile and look so i.l.l.l.l.l.l.l.l.?
well i saw your young frankenstein ms. anorexic vampire
he was getting the heel fixed on his motorcycle boot
do you hear someone knocking oh ms. anorexic vampire
it’s your little children are coming and they’re
going to stab you in the chest
how could someone smile and look so i.l.l.l.l.l.l.l.l.?
i was a kid once. i had my dreams and schemes.
someone asked me once. i’m going to touch you but you can not tell a soul.”
Now, where did I misplace those controversial trousers?
1 comment:
I was going to ask WTF is an anorexic vampire (better than a bulemic one, I guess) but then I googled the term. Seems it's a whole meme or trope that snuck right past me. I shall have to resign my mantle of reigning cognoscenti of all punk-rockness.
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