King Tammy - "Recession of the Jaw"

Submitted by Jake on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 9:58am
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What’s this song from?  It came up on Shuffle this morning, and I’m guessing I got it from mp3.com back in the day.  It’s great.  Any song that starts out with "How long has it been since my eyes were in my forehead and my brain was shrunk to a third of its size?" and then goes on to mention Orange Julius is pretty fucking great.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

 

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and i dance around the gym floor in my church shoes

Submitted by dingey on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 12:57pm.
This beautiful gem of a song can be found on "Welcome to the County Fair….MOTHERFUCKER!"  which i was listening to recently meself.  My god.  As I lead my tribe from the arcade to Orange Julius……
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Vinyl

Submitted by Jake on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 2:56pm.

God damn it.  I knew I should’ve kept my records…

Any digital versions of that album floating around?

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Both King Tammy albums.

Submitted by giantrobot on Thu, 06/28/2007 - 12:19pm.
Ask and thou shall receive:

http://www.leonstemple.com/kingtammy.html
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kramer sucks.

Submitted by cheetos on Wed, 07/04/2007 - 11:21pm.
I am probably going to piss everyone off, but Think Of What You Are Eating is amazing. the kramer album really is foofy and lame, in my opinion. over produced and full of corny songs. real rock is think of what you are eating. that album is fucking amazing. fuck kramer.
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haw haw!

Submitted by dingey on Thu, 07/05/2007 - 8:49am.
Ahhhh, Cheetos.  Good to have you back.   Yeah, "Welcome" is one of those grody albums that sounds like those dudes enjoy holding hands with GIRLS and sniffin’ flowers or something! Which is probably why I like it.  I like "Think of What You Are Eating," too.   That was produced by the AmRep dudes, wasn[t it? 
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a song for pittsburgh

Submitted by esteban on Fri, 07/06/2007 - 4:22pm.

as one who was there…’recession of the jaw’ was originally titled ‘a song for pittsburgh: glow sweet furnace and blacken the skies with your blessed industry’   it was a racist/environmental/philosophical rant about the industrial revolution and the effects of modernization on first world psyches…

basically people who lived in caves didn’t have to worry about emotional problems, go to therapy, wonder if they were crazy or not…there is no time for such indulgences when you’re a hunter gatherer.  industry and the comforts it has afforded us…like this here message board…has slowly driven us all into madness…the madness is glorious and is defined in the instrumental section that closes the song…beautiful, chaotic, and yet somehow………orderly, much like a rummage sale, much like a sweet lingering, lustful kiss, much like john barneveld’s drum fills.   children of the damned and ill indeed.

it was all kramer…it was all his idea.

those amrep guys and their halo of flies didn’t do much…plus the new guy really sucked.  and minneapolis wasn’t nearly as fun as demerest new jersey.

the best King Tammy stuff is the unreleased ‘Gary’s Trusty Pelican Friend’ ep. 

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...and I believe you, too

Submitted by dingey on Fri, 07/06/2007 - 4:36pm.
…you poetic waxer. Mister Cheeto don’t like it! “Motherfucker”s all chockablock with acoustic guitars and stuff, you sick bastards. It’s almost as if you….gulp….LIKE FOLK MUSIC or something. Horrible, antithetical to the rockingest rocking to be rocked, etc., all strummy and messed up! Ew, FOLK! “Almost fell outta my BIRKENSTOCK, man!” I love “County Fair Motherfucker.” When we finally managed to get a working turntable back into our house last year, that’s one of the first things I pulled out to listen to after a several-year no-vinyl dry spell……. “Recession Of The Jaw” has some of my favorite song lyrics ever. Anywhere. Seriously.

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