Sick Shit EP (1999)
as odds & ends collections go, this one is much more substantial than NOSTRIL SALIVA. there’s a mock-radio interview with naked larry that covers DON’T TALK LIKE A BABY, bowel movements and on-air masturbation, and the best parts are probably the two impromptu a capella songs at the end, one of which features larry repeatedly interjecting his own lyrics to my irritation. naked larry has his own little intro bit where he nods to the original concept behind LIVE AT THE NAKED GIRAFFE THEATER. there are several papa ghostface out-takes, and most of them sound like it, but drunken religion was album material until i realized i had accidentally failed to record gord’s guitar, losing the glue that held the whole thing together. lonesome traveler gradually led into “the hippo song”, and you can sort of hear the seam between the two songs. bits left behind is a good example of an improvisation that never really finds its feet though it begins with potential, and i ended up reusing the main chord progression to much better effect in part of the west/smith track “suicidal sausage”, taking it in a different direction. libby’s sausage is a solo track that didn’t make it onto DON’T TALK LIKE A BABY, mostly because it doesn’t really go anywhere all that interesting. big mulls is a starving artists out-take that falls prey to the same fate, partially because i accidentally neglected to record pete’s guitar (that shit again!), though it does have some redeeming moments in pete’s twisted lyrics, and i let loose with some pretty insane wordless singing in the beginning.
TRACKS:
big mulls
bloody chicago (morning) [inferior mix]
libby’s sausage
lonesome traveller
drunken religion
bits left behind
naked larry’s intro
naked larry interviews johnny west
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