Live at Silvers (2000)
definitely the black sheep in the papa ghostface cannon, or one of the two. basically it’s one run-on joke (a mock-live album without any audience) that gets old pretty fast, because there aren’t a lot of ideas. it’s good for a chuckle, though, because nothing is played even remotely straight, and there are some pretty bizarre sexual lyrics (i’m gonna hump you forever contains the stirring line, “i asked you for your sympathy & i licked your vagina gum”, to cite just one example). the papa ghostface medley takes a few of our “hits” (including pacing the cage and sinkless man) and defecates all over them. a few things are truly warped and come close to scraping the heights of our best twisted material, particularly grandpa pickle’s bedtime story, ode to the queen of stds (the closest thing to a proper song on the whole cd), a few lou reed piss-takes and stoner safari, which turns “surfing safari” into a little ditty about drugs. old man having sex has a certain bouncy something about it.
but, on the whole, things don’t quite cohere and most of the songs are just aimless messing around without any ideas being developed too fully. at least gord makes some pleasantly messed up noise on the guitar. i meant to add an introduction where i overdubbed myself repeatedly to sound like an audience and did a bit as an emcee in a seedy strip club announcing the band’s arrival (“ladies and gentlemen! pimps and prostitutes!”), but i couldn’t come up with anything i liked. it probably wasn’t really worth the trouble anyway. strangely enough, this might be more fun to listen to than SONGS FOR DEAD SKIN, the other black sheep—at least if you’re drunk or otherwise intoxicated and in a silly frame of mind. it’s not something i dust off often, though.
TRACKS:
macaroni
old guy having sex
medley (sinkless man/pacing the cage/spandex)
dumpster
neil young medley (danger bird/hey hey, my my/message to the fans)
lick me forever, i’m a hurricane
i’m gonna hump you forever
stoner safari
your stuff is my stuff
ode to the queen of stds
grandpa pickle’s bedtime story
the reindeer stupid show
sweet sex/i don’t know how to love him
message from condom corp.
goodnight
bill clinton supports al gore
STUFF TO LISTEN TO:
Grandpa Pickle’s Bedtime Story
