P.I.T.

People do use the term somewhat pejoratively, but legitimately I think that's because people who haven't seriously fucked with effects pedals don't realize what you can do with them and how much you can transform the instrument.

I know a guy who's a bassist in a (somewhat) normal band but who is also a guitarist in a fairly weird band that I think could comfortably be described as shoegaze (or at least extremely experimental metal). As a bassist he's energetic and talented, he plays fast and hard and projects personality from the stage and interacts with the rest of the band and the audience. As a guitarist in his other band, he spends about a third of his time crouching on the stage and manipulating knobs on pedals, a third of the time holding his guitar like a classical guitarist and shredding absolutely brain-melting solos, and he divides the remaining time between looking at pedals and interacting with the rest of the band. His pedalboard has to weigh like thirty fucking pounds. At that point you're barely playing guitar, you're playing a combination synthesizer/theremin/organ that happens to use a guitar as an interface for the instrument.

So, like, people shit-talk shoegaze but I don't really think that performance has to be, like, performative if you're putting out the sounds you want to and that your audience is responding to.

Loud is good.

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Chorus:

Hey, hey, hey, hey

this ain't no dystopia

Hey, hey, hey hey

We live in utopia

Hey, hey, hey, hey

Behind our great big wall

It's all perfect

It's all perfect, it's all perfect, it's all perfect here

Bridge:

If everyone could please clear the area, move along. Dont ask questions, don't look for answers. There are no questions left to ask, no answers to be had.

Verse:

Why can't you just behave

Bend over, take our hate

Pretend that lies are love

What more do you want

Final Chorus:

Hey, hey, hey, hey

This ain't no dystopia

Hey, hey, hey, hey

We live in utopia

For homophobic, white supremacist, transmisogynist, sick imperialist,

Because the sound on this video is pretty crap I’ll try to remember to say “not a chance, motherfucker” when I’m onstage at the Doll Hut this Thursday and con someone into filming it. It’ll be a better reaction video.

Because the sound on this video is pretty crap I’ll try to remember to say “not a chance, motherfucker” when I’m onstage at the Doll Hut this Thursday and con someone into filming it. It’ll be a better reaction video.

TBC on a ska compilation with a song about the singer’s childhood crush.

I don’t even know if this counts as the 2nd wave ska revival or if it was already into the 3rd wave but either way. NERDS.

It’s the same as evangelicals using a book they’ve never read to justify hating people they’ve never met.

In the shadow of the steeple,

At the relief office,

I see my people,

As they stand there, hungry,

I stand here, wondering,

“Is this land made for you and me?”

All of the 5th grade was US history and we had a folk song unit that taught us the chorus to “eerie canal,” the first verse and chorus of “this land,” and “do your ears hang low.”

That was all I was ever taught of that song, specifically in the context of its place in American folk music WHILE we were learning about the Depression.

Also if you Google the lyrics the site that Google sources its response from (which is itself sourced from the song’s publisher) doesn’t include the verse about the relief office and the bread lines or the verse about the no trespassing sign.

You have to go to the Woody Guthrie site for that.

Here’s Wikipedia on the subject:

As with other folk songs, it was sung with different words at various times although the motives for this particular change of lyrics may involve the possible political interpretations of the verses. Recordings of Guthrie have him singing the verses with different words.

Dani (who is my best friend who I started my punk band with and who is the former bassist and now guitarist and always primary songwriter of that punk band) started a black metal project that they wanted me to scream and play rhythm guitar on.

They have two other metal projects that I’m not at all connected to (a comedy death metal band called Mör Deth and a black metal solo band called Zuk - Dani starts new bands like I start new blogs), but this one is for us to just be a mess together (we are Traumfieber). The bassist from our punk band is also playing with us on this. We may ask the drummer to join in too. This may end up being our punk band playing black metal. NGL I do kind of love the idea of the same people being two completely different bands with two completely different feels. 

I’m also excited to play music that I can actually play while vocalizing because trying to keep time strumming and keep words in a rhythm has thus far proved to be both upsetting and extremely difficult for me but the guitar parts Dani has written for me for the black metal band are really simple and thus far there aren’t lyrics so much as a combination of hyperventilation and sobbing.

I am kind of thinking about writing some lyrics in klingon or orkish because i feel a little too ridiculous recording growling in English.

My punk band is called P.i.T, we’re on tumblr as @pitmusic​ (though we don’t update much) and I’m hoping we’re going to release a postpunk track about killer mermaids this week that I will post if we do.

Who wants a song about killer mermaids?

Hey we made a weird little video for our killer mermaid song.

Who wants a song about killer mermaids?

If you did pay for this song may I offer you some bonus materials? Message us through tumblr and we’ll send you some extras.

So we wrote a song about the pandemic in early May then got too depressed by the pandemic to mix it then more pandemic happened and now this surf rock song about catching the second wave in the summer time is like, severely outdated during the Nth wave in the winter, but fuck it!

It’s here on bandcamp, pay what you want, we don’t care about the money and all payments are being donated to Reclaiming Our Homes but if you want to go directly donate to them we wholly endorse that.

*PLEASE NOTE* this was written BEFORE the George Floyd protests and “everybody in the streets, everybody on the line” was, at the time of writing, a criticism of the “back to normal ASAP” approach the administration was taking. This is NOT a song that is critical of protests.

Lyrics:

Everybody is essential, Everybody back to work, Time to make a sacrifice, Make a mask out of your shirt. Everybody wash your hands, Everybody stand apart, Maybe if you hold your breath The economy will start. Everybody pay your rent, And buy shit off of Amazon, Just pretend that nothing happened, And forget that normal’s gone. Everybody in the streets, Everybody on the line, Let’s all catch the second wave In the summer –

Beaches are empty now Disneyland’s empty now We’re all so empty now We’re all so empty now Beaches are empty now Disneyland’s empty now We’re all so empty now In the summer -

The president cut me a check, Thinks that it should be enough, Never mind the sanitizer, soap and water, And the gloves - Everybody in the streets, Everybody on the line, Let’s all catch the second wave In the – In the – In the summer –

Everybody is essential, Everybody back to work, Time to make a sacrifice, Make a mask out of your shirt. Everybody in the streets, Everybody on the line, Let’s all catch the second wave In the summer –

Beaches are empty now Disneyland’s empty now We’re all so empty now We’re all so empty now Beaches are empty now Disneyland’s empty now We’re all so empty now –

Everybody in the streets, Everybody on the line, Let’s all catch the second wave In the summer time.

Beaches are empty now Disneyland’s empty now We’re all so empty now We’re all so empty now Beaches are empty now Disneyland’s empty now

We’re all so empty now In the summer -

Working in the grocery store, Looking at you through the glass, Tell each other to stay safe, Hoping that this thing will pass. Everybody in the streets, Everybody on the line, Let’s all catch the second wave In the – In the – In the – In the summer –

Working in the hospital, Hope that you can eat applause, We’re all out of PPE, And nobody knows the cost. Everybody in the streets, Everybody on the line, Let’s all catch the second wave In the summer –

Beaches are empty now Disneyland’s empty now Everyone’s empty now We’re all so empty now Beaches are empty now Disneyland’s empty now We’re all so empty now In -

JSYK I’m a fucking badass.

Sometimes.

If you go to our youtube channel you can see videos of us live with our old lineup or check out the song we wrote last summer about coronavirus in the summer (ahahahahahaheverythingisFINE) or watch a goofy music video about our song spiders that, fair warning, has a bunch of fucking spiders in it. There’s even a (very low quality) video from the performance in the photos: