#damaged bug

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Bug On Yonkers by Damaged Bug

There’s never been another rock guy like Michael Yonkers. He built his own guitars and amps to produce an instantly recognizable, cavernously echoing sound. He started recording in the 1960s, but due to bad luck and a freak accident (he was working in a warehouse and had some shelves fall on him, bad enough, but the doctors gave him a treatment that made him much worse and he’s lived in pain ever since) never got a big commercial break. He’s best known now for the otherworldly freakbeat/alterna-drone masterpiece Microminiature Love reissued in the early aughts by De Stilj and again in 2011 by Sub Pop, but he also dabbled in eccentric acoustic folk music, foreshadowing the New Weird America movement by a couple of decades. Last I caught up with him, for Dusted (old Dusted, unfortunately, the piece has disappeared), he was gracious enough about talking about the past, but really, mostly on fire about his new collaboration with the Blind Shake.  Anyway, lovely guy, singular guy, late life fame could not happen to a better person.

John Dwyer of Coachwhips, the Ohsees and, in this instance, Damaged Bug, is likewise, a singular force. He is one of the best and most demented of all punk front men still working, but also a thoughtful curator of current and older music. Pretty much everything on the label he co-heads, Castle Face, is worth a listen, ditto to the man’s own output, which is prodigious. And, here comes the Reeses Peanut Butter moment that I’ve been winding up to this whole review so far: put them together and it becomes something very special indeed.

Went to Brighton and spent all my money in one store... way to go...

that moment when you realize that a song writer has created awesome songs for your hyperfixtation IVOLGIVHEOHEVEFHBSFHJDFN FVDN

Guys you dont understand how well some of these songs fit them YOU GUYS-

In general? Cough Pills

Outerspace. "Youre not as worthless as you think" is easily him to Anya/Jimmy. In general, this song is Curly and Anya.

Anya (weirdly Curly too)-- Goodby Sunball

It reminds me of her and Curly looking at the moon

Daisuke-- The Frog

Talks about excitement entering space and not wanting to leave

Curly-- Eggs at night + Gloves for Garbage

Him in the cryostasis chamber/sitting in the medical bed, looking back on life and regretting not firing Jimmy when he had the chance while wishing he can hold a partner's (Anaya's) hand.

Swansea-- Eggs At Night + Gloves for Garbage

Swansea looking back on his life and expressing regret (before Jimmy kills him).

Gloves for Garbage is his resurfacing drinking habit.

Jimmy-- Rope Burn

Expresses anger + remorse. Easily him to Curly post-crash when he's putting him in the cryostasis chamber.

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