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15 tracks | 32 minutes
Released Mar 2006
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 00:34 Appalacian Windowpane BUY MP3 00:34 Appalacian Windowpane "GIFT MP3" 00:34 Appalacian Windowpane
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 00:17 Clone Me BUY MP3 00:17 Clone Me "GIFT MP3" 00:17 Clone Me
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:26 Things Jesus Never Said BUY MP3 02:26 Things Jesus Never Said "GIFT MP3" 02:26 Things Jesus Never Said
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:07 Aaron's Bar BUY MP3 02:07 Aaron's Bar "GIFT MP3" 02:07 Aaron's Bar
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:52 Axles of Evil BUY MP3 02:52 Axles of Evil "GIFT MP3" 02:52 Axles of Evil
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 00:27 A Spoonful of Laudanum BUY MP3 00:27 A Spoonful of Laudanum "GIFT MP3" 00:27 A Spoonful of Laudanum
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 00:44 Never Say NeoCon BUY MP3 00:44 Never Say NeoCon "GIFT MP3" 00:44 Never Say NeoCon
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:56 Bush's Alphabet FREE 01:56 Bush's Alphabet "GIFT MP3" 01:56 Bush's Alphabet
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:50 Mr. American BUY MP3 02:50 Mr. American "GIFT MP3" 02:50 Mr. American
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:32 Jesus Crack BUY MP3 04:32 Jesus Crack "GIFT MP3" 04:32 Jesus Crack
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 02:01 Greetings, Earthlings BUY MP3 02:01 Greetings, Earthlings "GIFT MP3" 02:01 Greetings, Earthlings
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 00:36 Whang Krang BUY MP3 00:36 Whang Krang "GIFT MP3" 00:36 Whang Krang
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:52 Upside Down Dog BUY MP3 01:52 Upside Down Dog "GIFT MP3" 01:52 Upside Down Dog
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 07:18 Vision's of Wazbrood BUY MP3 07:18 Vision's of Wazbrood "GIFT MP3" 07:18 Vision's of Wazbrood
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 01:46 Show Me The Money Sutra BUY MP3 01:46 Show Me The Money Sutra "GIFT MP3" 01:46 Show Me The Money Sutra
Spoken Word, Poetry, With Music, Comedy, Political
Bio / Background
Zounds! What on earth are you listening to? Why, it’s a new collection of satirical and surreal spoken word and music by Lucid Screaming, a motley group of writers and musicians who are mostly based in Los Angeles and who hail from California, Wisconsin, New Zealand, and quite possibly Neptune. Their pieces — laden with outrage, whimsy and obscure references — are intended to amuse and provoke.
The Lucid Ones write about whatever strikes their fancy: UFOs, dictators, hippos, city living, cell phones, clones, and Sunday drivers are among the subjects of their twisted tunes and rants.
This new collection, Spoonful of Laudanum, explores the collective hallucination that is America in the new millennium. We have entered an alternate reality cooked up by Karl Rove, televangelists, and Enron, with guidance from George Orwell. War is peace, greed is holy, and ignorance is bliss.
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Laudanum was a tincture of opium once used to calm nerves and ease pain, and “it helps the medicine go down,” as Cummings sings in the title track. These days, Americans are gulping down bucketfuls of self-righteous and jingoistic laudanum dispensed by George W. Bush, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Pat Robertson, and other emissaries from the Dark Side.
Speaking of evildoers, Paul Wolfowitz and his colleagues live out James Bond fantasies in Never Say NeoCon; Axles of Evil shows us Bush’s inner thoughts before the Iraqi invasion; and Bush’s Alphabet takes us inside our president’s childlike perspective a few months later. Jesus Crack and Things Jesus Never Said send up self-serving interpretations of the Gospels. Mr. American speaks of “looking out for #1,” while Show Me the Money Sutra chants a Jerry Maguire mantra. Does Aaron’s Bar contain a curiously puritanical message or is it a coded allegory?
Some of the pieces on Spoonful are just plain out there. Visions of Wozbrood is a Kerouac-inspired road trip that mixes the music business and UFOs, while Upside Down Dog recalls a whiskey-drinking neighbor tormented by visions of flying canines.
The rest of the tracks speak, wail, and howl for themselves. Time to get Lucid!
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