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This new collection is a selection of songs based on various themes that seem to appear again and again
in the band's oeuvre. The songs are derived from the heyday of "S" between 1988 - 1991.
The basic idea behind being in the band was to have fun, not take ourselves too seriously, led by
the general principle to "bend the f*ck" out of whatever style of music they playing. Many very twisted
songs came out of this strange agglomeration of talents, includes such favourites as "Merry Xmas for
Godzilla" (a song about everyone's favourite green monster who trashes Tokyo yet again on Christmas Day),
"Cream Soda (Kill Kill Kill)" (which extols the virtues of a certain pink pop drink as sung by a
psychopath) or "Onions" (where the band runs with a musical mishap with the master tape, creating a truly
distinctive audio experience).
In short, these are elevating songs if you are a mental midget.
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Weird Food Songs 1. Onions 2. Killer Bee Picnic 3. Cream Soda (Kill Kill Kill) 4. We Need More Salsa
Social Consciousness
Love And Sex (Not Necessarily In That Order)
20th Century Intellectual History |
Horror/Technology Gone Awry 17. Merry Xmas For Godzilla 18. Vacuum's Possessed 19. I Love Death 20. Spooky, Spooky
Strange Commercialism
Feeding The Slug Within
Paranoia And Despair |
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Pricing and Availability"Miscellaneous "S': (THE ME)s" is available now the price of $10 Cdn. each. To order, please email robertskATwave.home.com (replace the "AT" with "@").
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More Background Info 'n' RamblingsA lot has happened in the past 10 years, and the various band members have gone on to a multitude of professions. One is a lawyer, one a computer programmer, another a comedy writer and actor, then there's the teacher, the Webmaster, the editor and the clinical dosimetrist (no, we have no idea what that is either, and he wouldn't give us specifics). You are unlikely to find a band composed of a more diverse group of members anywhere. The core band members still like to get together and crank out the occasional new tune, which resulted in last year's "Epochal 'S' Now", and a forthcoming collection of new songs due out sometime early next year.The songs have kept academics and other lay-abouts busy trying to analyze the deeper meanings behind the songs, and have categorized the songs into many types: "Weird Food Songs", "Why Our Mothers Hate Us", "Social Consciousness", "Love and Sex (Not Necessarily in that Order)", "20th Century Intellectual History", "Horror/Technology Gone Awry", "Strange Commercialism", "Feeding The Slug Within", and "Paranoia And Despair". Here are some of the more academically inclined commentary on these "S"-ential topics:
On "Weird Food Songs": Bon Appetit, and let your tongue dance playfully around this maypole of music!" Yves Truffault, institut francaise de gastronomie et lavage. On the theme of "Strange Commercialism": The band Miscellaneous "S"(TM) is a fascinating study of the post-music era, where the egalitarianism engendered by the advent of cheap CD-Recorders enabled the fulfillment of demand for "S" output. This resulted in the release of such thoughtful tunes as "New And Improved" (an impossible device enhanced), "Eddie's Drive Through Funerals" (where death is consumed and internalized by Edward). This ends up with ultimate statement in "Big Car" where a multi-wheeled entity of low probability merges with the psyche of the individual/(driver), becoming one/(two). The thrust of a song such as "Z-E-L-L-E-R-S" (note the use of hyphens) should be obvious. Egbar Wundt, Doctor of Philosophy & Dump-Trucks As cathedrals were the ultimate expression of man's yearnings during the age of faith, so commercials are the ultimate expression of man's desires during this present age of materialism. The most creative minds of our generation are engaged in the quest to develop ever more persuasive enticements to consume. Judging by their work, Miscellaneous "S"' obviously play a crucial role in the conjuring of this zeitgeist. F.L.T. Luker, The Journal of Media, Economy and Milk Duds On "Social Consciousness": Consciousness is a concept without a being. Or does being necessarily have to precede consciousness? And, does dancing have to precede consciousness or does the idea of consciousness presuppose a relationship between dancing and being? Dancing takes into account the consciousness or unconsciousness of two or more beings, giving rise to an exponentially rising set of possible social permutations. This is the breakthrough achieved by Misc. "S" in the field of social consciousness, to lead us from a state of onanism towards a more complete union with the other within. As they have said so well in the past, "Join they, won't we?" Dr. A. N. Liszt, Institute for Sartrean Studies. Horror/Technology Gone Awry: To know Misc. "S" is to truly appreciate horror in all its multifarious forms. From the grandiose, apocalyptic musings of acid-spewing demons to the banal depths of instinctual self-loathing, Misc. "S" is a band with its finger on the pulse--nay, in the vein itself--of fear. Their music sparkles like the glittering eyes of metaphysical cockroaches infecting the grimy corners of the modern soul, transforming common household appliances into quasi-cyborgian figures of alien menace, and worshipping at the feet of giant Japanese lizards like Druids gathered at the base of a mighty oak. In fact, not since epic 1982 film Bloodbath on Coed Row has naked horror been laid quite so bare. There can be little doubt that the CD you are holding in your hands is the very epitome of mind-flaying dread. If Misc. "S" doesn't scare you, you have become a prime candidate for studies on the desensitizing effects of television violence. I'm worried about you. Seriously. Nat Anchor-Sturgeon, PhD Miscellaneous "S" and Litigation: No other band in recent memory has titillated litigators as much as Miscellaneous "S". From the famed hostile takeover of Unfiled Records (by an offshore shell corporation operating outside the ambit of UN piracy sanctions) to the interminable interlocutory injunctions which delayed the release of their legendary 1990 album "Party Killer", the "S" have inadvertently set legal precedents throughout the common law world. In fact, several "S" members have been employed as statute drafting consultants to the newly emerging nation states of Central Asia: their assistance with the codification of Uzbekistan's commercial jurisprudence has attracted rave reviews even greater than those provided by Uzbekistan's music critics. With the release of this retrospective, it is hoped that a much-needed bonanza of litigation in the areas of intellectual property and mental competence will result. Rilton J. Ruggles, Q.C., Magistrate of the Rumpole Chancery (ret'd). ?: The following was found written on a greasy Pizza Hut serviette by the McClean Herrn Pissoir in Zoo Station, Berlin: Pseudo-Epicurus, a result of incoherent gamma radiation striking a diffraction grating in an unseemly way who shows considerably philosophical skepticism as to his own existence, rates Miscellaneous S's track "Chairman Mao" as "a paen in the S, a trowel movement of odious lyricism, a freemasonry of busted bricks that just makes you wanna run out and get one of those little red books from the Gideon association right away". In his by-definition ontologically-troubled-from-psuedo-conception autobiographical novel "Saving Ryan's Privates", he goes on to credit the band with providing him the foundations for "a really f*d-up Zeitgeist, y'know?", and claims that he never would have gotten where he is today without the inspiration tracks like "I Love Death" and "Z-E-L-L-E-R-S" brought him. As nobody knows P-E's current whereabouts, the meaning of so moving a laudation can only be ignored. |
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