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37 tracks | 60 minutes
Released Jan 2000
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:46 The Year the Clouds hated the Ground lyrics BUY MP3 00:46 The Year the Clouds hated the Ground lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:46 The Year the Clouds hated the Ground
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:41 Robots and humans lyrics BUY MP3 02:41 Robots and humans lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:41 Robots and humans
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:23 A crazy, madcap day lyrics BUY MP3 01:23 A crazy, madcap day lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:23 A crazy, madcap day
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:48 The day the fish grew brains lyrics BUY MP3 00:48 The day the fish grew brains lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:48 The day the fish grew brains
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:17 The science of rape lyrics BUY MP3 01:17 The science of rape lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:17 The science of rape
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:31 Humans and robots lyrics BUY MP3 00:31 Humans and robots lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:31 Humans and robots
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:16 Baby I'm a star lyrics BUY MP3 01:16 Baby I'm a star lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:16 Baby I'm a star
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:43 Bookend I lyrics BUY MP3 00:43 Bookend I lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:43 Bookend I
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:00 Mashpee Mungquack's sales pitch lyrics BUY MP3 02:00 Mashpee Mungquack's sales pitch lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:00 Mashpee Mungquack's sales pitch
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:36 Enter Captain John Barneveld to Buy the Game lyrics BUY MP3 02:36 Enter Captain John Barneveld to Buy the Game lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:36 Enter Captain John Barneveld to Buy the Game
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:02 Mashpee plots with Capt.John lyrics BUY MP3 03:02 Mashpee plots with Capt.John lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:02 Mashpee plots with Capt.John
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:52 Enter Simon looking for a lover lyrics BUY MP3 01:52 Enter Simon looking for a lover lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:52 Enter Simon looking for a lover
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:12 Mashpee makes his first offer lyrics BUY MP3 02:12 Mashpee makes his first offer lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:12 Mashpee makes his first offer
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:53 Simon refused the whores lyrics BUY MP3 00:53 Simon refused the whores lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:53 Simon refused the whores
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:04 Mashpee Munquack delivers Christmas lyrics BUY MP3 02:04 Mashpee Munquack delivers Christmas lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:04 Mashpee Munquack delivers Christmas
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:52 Simon Accepts the offer lyrics BUY MP3 01:52 Simon Accepts the offer lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:52 Simon Accepts the offer
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:45 Simon Stil is fucked lyrics BUY MP3 00:45 Simon Stil is fucked lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:45 Simon Stil is fucked
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:15 Captain John harasses Simon lyrics BUY MP3 01:15 Captain John harasses Simon lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:15 Captain John harasses Simon
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:53 Simon makes a aboat lyrics BUY MP3 01:53 Simon makes a aboat lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:53 Simon makes a aboat
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:19 Simon starts to understand lyrics BUY MP3 01:19 Simon starts to understand lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:19 Simon starts to understand
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:09 Captain John takes advantage lyrics BUY MP3 02:09 Captain John takes advantage lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:09 Captain John takes advantage
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:40 Captain Johns final argument lyrics BUY MP3 02:40 Captain Johns final argument lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:40 Captain Johns final argument
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:54 Simon and Captain John decide to meet later to Kill Mashpee Mung lyrics BUY MP3 00:54 Simon and Captain John decide to meet later to Kill Mashpee Mung lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:54 Simon and Captain John decide to meet later to Kill Mashpee Mung
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:31 Simon Realized what he must do lyrics BUY MP3 01:31 Simon Realized what he must do lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:31 Simon Realized what he must do
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:56 Simon and Christmas enter the quiet wook lyrics BUY MP3 01:56 Simon and Christmas enter the quiet wook lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:56 Simon and Christmas enter the quiet wook
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:29 Wine runs down her sleeves lyrics BUY MP3 02:29 Wine runs down her sleeves lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:29 Wine runs down her sleeves
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:37 The Confirmation lyrics BUY MP3 00:37 The Confirmation lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:37 The Confirmation
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:20 Beautiful, Naked Love lyrics BUY MP3 02:20 Beautiful, Naked Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:20 Beautiful, Naked Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:12 Journey to the granstand to kill mungquack lyrics BUY MP3 05:12 Journey to the granstand to kill mungquack lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:12 Journey to the granstand to kill mungquack
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:30 enter mungquack, unafraid lyrics BUY MP3 02:30 enter mungquack, unafraid lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:30 enter mungquack, unafraid
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:59 Mashpee reveals Christmas lyrics BUY MP3 01:59 Mashpee reveals Christmas lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:59 Mashpee reveals Christmas
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:12 Simon's first blow lyrics BUY MP3 01:12 Simon's first blow lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:12 Simon's first blow
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:51 The ill-starred headscotch lyrics BUY MP3 00:51 The ill-starred headscotch lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:51 The ill-starred headscotch
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:50 Simons final blow lyrics BUY MP3 00:50 Simons final blow lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:50 Simons final blow
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:59 The death of Mashpee Mungquack lyrics BUY MP3 00:59 The death of Mashpee Mungquack lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:59 The death of Mashpee Mungquack
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:59 The Game is done lyrics BUY MP3 00:59 The Game is done lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:59 The Game is done
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 00:41 Bookend II lyrics BUY MP3 00:41 Bookend II lyrics "GIFT MP3" 00:41 Bookend II
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Manic, cyber-opera with insane, Mr. Bungle-esque instrumentation, four frantic singers, and a story line hinged on science, murder and sex.
Bio / Background
Simon Still is driven to murder the slave master of the woman he loves. The master, known as Mashpee Mungquack, is a household appliance, the woman is for sale, and Simon's only alliance is a deceptive adventerer.
The utopian predictions of a computer networked society is praised by the media, sanctioned by government and passionately embraced by computer weenies. The terror that humans will stop natural and physical communication altogether is what visionaries may one day call Actual Reality. Thing & Nothing's anti-hero, Simon Still, is ruined and dehumanized by the computerized society his parents at the turn of the century had championed.
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WHAT IS THIS?
"Thing and Nothing" is a chaotic, manic, circus of an album about love, sex, technology, and murder.
↓ more ↓Its an opera or a radio play of sorts - it has four + characters who sing their way through a twisted 60 minute plot about virtual reality and finding sex/murder on the future's internet (much like 'The Matrix" , but more like a computerized "The Cell" in themes). The singers sign, talk, scream and howl through the drama. The dialog is feverish and poetic (and sometimes sexual, filthy, and cruel).
THE SONGS run together like an opera - there are no 3 minute songs separated by space, the action flows from one song to another. Although there are 37 tracks on the CD, the music carries about 12 main musical themes, with 50 sub themes. The whole story is broken into five large movements or chapters. The track titles help tell the story.
THE MUSIC is a circusy, orchestral midi-bomb, with a virtual orchestra playing synthetic, sampled violins and timpanies and fugal horns and drums and cellos and tubas and saxophones and harps. No ones' being fooled that this is a real orchestra, but the tone and grandness of huge band is captured to support the singers singing and screaming. There are no beebs and blips, and no disco-beats or electronica to be found here. The music is fast - like punk rock or ska - and its grand like Shastakovich or Holst - and its discordant like Stravinski or Bartok - and its sometimes ethereal and textured like Cocktiel Twins or My Bloody Valentine - and sometimes it is slow and sensual like a sexy Kate Bush number - but most of the time ITS ABSURD like Mr. Bungle or John Zorn.
It sounds a little like...Mr. Bungle, A Danny Elfman movie soundtrack, Oingo-boingo, Nomeansno if they were a twenty piece, the soundtrack from a Warner Brothers's cartoon, Kate Bush when she's crazy or sexy, Stravinski, an updated, industrial strength Jesus Christ Superstar, moments of Faith No More, a touch My Bloody Valentine, parts of Thought Industry, like the Damned's "Phantasmagoria", or like Killing Joke, John Zorn, lots of uppidy ska beats, um, Screwtape y1.993k, The Victim's Family, maybe Portishead sometimes, and even Queen.
Principal performers include Brent Oberlin from Thought Industry, Chris Bryers of Sleet and Twitch, Michelle Graf of Blue Dahlia and Colin Bradford or Screwtape and Undercast. Music and words by Jeff Till himself.
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