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Golden Age Tape

by Enthusiasm Police

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1.
Places to Stay 02:10
lyrics
Hey Let's find a new place to stay inbetween Park Lane and Mayfair drinking water out of champagne glasses children grow moustaches and other facial hair and it's been such a long time since the first time I moved home. I only keep what I can pack or protect in styrofoam and we're like high school kids covertly sucking back cigarettes but trying to look younger only looks dumber the older I get.
2.
On Holy Mountain 03:29
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Minor threats in major keys Pack our bags and head east Reckless for a recluse But it gives us all an excuse Fighting for the bedroom floor Heat comes in under the door Ticket for a missing plane Costs fifty dollars in the rain Tiny tired island town Everything comes crashing down Sleep on holy mountaintop Four hour drive with no stop
3.
Brother Fellow Worker 02:59
lyrics
Go to work but don't disturb your brother as he sleeps upstairs In the centre of the park, enter the arc in nothing more than pairs and we'll head off into the atmosphere. Later on I can't remember, did we ever make it back? Needles and the total threat of getting lost and way off track and upstate there's less chance of dying underground but you're digging in the background and I know that what you've found is something bigger than this city can contain, impossible to bury let alone cover up again.
4.
Golden Age 01:38
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Maybe some piece of uninspired rhyme will give a foothold, help them declare my golden age or if I've overstayed my welcome but I might be so lucky to be the centre of attention and all the negative reviews. What do I care what of myself is in you? I'd be content to focus my overheated weapons on the media. The best words you've ever written have come from when they're eating you alive or crucified, a murderer a martyr: what am I to do? Shelve faith in all but the most objective review? Trade decibels for decimals for dollars in lieu of a job, a career, or anything I'd rather do than get old?

about

For about a year and a half from 2008-2010 I lived on Greenhill Road, right on the fringes of the Adelaide CBD. My housemate was a blonde girl who was frankly far too attractive and socially competent to be dwelling with a revolting cave-dweller like me. It was as exciting and frantic a music-making time as I can remember and inbetween the death throes of Snake Run and the startup of No Action and non-stop energy of BCF and whatever other bands I was asked to contribute to, I wrote and recorded an EP of stuff entirely on a little mp3 dictaphone.

I'd record one instrument or vocal part, room noise and everything, take each track, dump it into Audacity (everyone's first multitracking computer program for a whole generation), record another one while listening back to it in headphones, then dump that. On and on until everything was drowned in this wall of incomprehensible hiss. Nick Godfrey played a bunch of these songs with me on bass, just as he joined the excellent Adelaide band Weightless. Anyway this resulted in these four songs, some very Mountain Goats inspired lo fidelity nonsense that was released on tape on the defunct WONDER IF HE'S FOR SALE? label.

This was the first release I remember putting a lot of myself into and feeling like it came together as a 'whole'. In particular, 'Places To Stay' is something I revisit every once in a while (there are at least three versions on different releases on this very bandcamp) and it's only become more bummed out over the years. Wonder what that means. 'On Holy Mountain' is a reference to thrashing the band Sleep on tour with Snake Run in Tasmania, as we played what would be the last shows of the band. 'Brother Fellow Worker' is just some nice-sounding gibberish, mostly inspired from reading The Tommyknockers. 'Golden Age' is mostly me being pissed off about having to work to support doing what I love, and whether or not one should court successful popular reception. It is clear that I have not done that ROFL.

credits

released June 6, 2009

JD - Vocals, guitar, ukulele, keyboard
NG - Percussion, bass

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ROTTEN DEVICE Adelaide, Australia

jon doe
diy est 2010

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