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My Band Is a Computer

by CHUCK

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1.
When you said those cruel words On the steps of the church You kicked me like the dirt You stole my Pixies shirt Well I’m back in town Yeah I’m back in town This is my town now It’ll hit you like dynamite My bohemian meteorite When I shine under nightclub skies And perfume lights Happy new years babe Happy new years babe Did you see me on Page Six? Did it make you completely sick I can even talk politics With the best of em’ Oh what a gorgeous life I live while you watch the Price is Right And you dream of a paradise I got 10 of em’ Happy new years babe Happy new years babe The trash fills the street And the wolves of wall street howl I’m back on my feet While you’re still on the prowl You’re reign it’s complete It’s my turn to wear the crown So get outta my town This is my town now So get outta my town I don’t care how Happy new years babe Happy new years babe
2.
Oceans 02:01 video
I went to the beach With Alix and Charlie We went swimming And talked about the party You’re in Norway And I’m in my body I use my phone To tell you that I’m sorry It’s just my job Makes me feel so stupid I wanna swap Somebody else into it Spread the sunscreen on And turn the stereo up Drinking warm Tecate From a blue solo cup Read a book and take a look around Pretty young girls Oceans of sound Pretty young girls Oceans of sound It’s so annoying When you’re not around Pretty young girls Oceans of sound It’s so annoying When you’re not around Pretty young girls Oceans of sound It’s so annoying When you’re not around
3.
Mary Anne 05:48
8am It’s Monday morning again A shower cleans off my dirty skin I run to catch the train Spilling coffee in the rain This town just ain’t the same Since I dropped that acid yesterday I wanna be in a band Dating my ex-girlfriend I wanna hold her hand I want her to want me to hold her hand Oh Mary Anne Always said that this would happen to ya Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya Can we start again? Always said that this would happen to ya Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya Can we move to France? Always said that this would happen to ya Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya While we still can Always said that this would happen to ya While we still can Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya While we still can Roll the dice You don’t get to be 20 twice I never follow the right advice High as hell on a date A hangover hangs on my face Some sexual dreams I have Most of the sex I get to have is pretty bad I got a job I hate Everyday from 10 to 8 My soul is in outer space In a text I sent out on the fire escape Oh Mary Anne Always said that this would happen to ya Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya Can we start again? Always said that this would happen to ya Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya Can we move to France? Always said that this would happen to ya Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya While we still can Always said that this would happen to ya While we still can While we still can While we still can What do you mean you can’t? Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya The second the sun hits the ground I’m gonna pound some liquor down The teenager in me drowned When I started hanging out downtown Hey green eyes where are you from? I want the taste of your tongue on my tongue Let’s get naked and have fun And try to feel like we’re 21 When I really felt like I loved someone But when I graduated she was done In the breeze I wonder what her life has become Oh Mary Anne Always said that this would happen to ya Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya Oh Mary Anne Always said that this would happen to ya Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya Can we do it again? Always said that this would happen to ya Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya I don’t wanna be friends Always said that this would happen to ya Now you’re gonna feel like I never knew ya Baby I’m your man
4.
Newspapers in You're older than you've ever been October night Slowly mixing beer and gin Route 22 To the mall To anywhere worth going In Palmer park After dark Fog crawls back in A new shirt and a tie Suns and stars and years go by You never ask why She takes a rest In the rocking chair praying outside Hand on her chest Sucking down another Camel Light You pretend to sleep Wide awake long after saying goodnight Rememberin' The forgotten paintings you've been in A new shirt and a tie Suns and stars and years go by You never ask why We barely scrape by
5.
Bushwick Girl (free) 03:28
On a Saturday I went out looking for a sweetheart Down at the Union Pool Where I met a girl that drew some street art She had Timberlands And a neon orange beanie She wore pajama pants That had a stain from a cheese panini She drank lemonade And her hair smelled like flowers She only bought things fair trade She surfed the internet for hours Reading articles Ask her a question she’s got the answer Tiny particles She’s afraid of getting cancer She’s my Bushwick girl She’s my Bushwick girl A suburban kid Her mom and dad still live there They pay most of her rent She’s got a few more months on their health care She likes dancing To 90’s hip-hop and disco She loves eating She wants to move to San Francisco She’s my Bushwick girl She’s my Bushwick girl She’s my Bushwick girl She’s my Bushwick girl
6.
Joan 03:49
Secretly Joan Whispers on the phone Glued to that thing When she’s home alone And through her strange days Of filling ash trays Her high school friends Were secretly gay And when JFK died America cried But Joanie just lied At the beach She got drunk at the mall With her ex-boyfriend Paul Made out in the changing stall in Macy’s The Vietnam war and her grocery store Couldn’t mean any less on a packed dance floor Joanie wants to kiss a man With a gun in his hand She’s tired of the horses She’s sick of the sand Her friends draped up in lace Couldn’t make it anywhere but this place Neckin’ in a line of Chevrolets Outside a bar It’s a sweet seventeen For a disappearing queen Her youth is vanishing Au revoir Tonight she saw her mom cry Through the windows outside Her childhood fried like tar And then Joanie saw him Come in A black leather jacket He split the lines up And snorted A bright white substance And they began to dance He took off her pants An eternal trance In love in Paris, France She’s not a kid anymore She’s not a kid anymore She threw that shit in a drawer Now she gets the spins And throws up on everything And passes out leanin’ on the front door And she’ll wake up to the sound Of her head hitting the ground And she’ll wake up to the sound Of her head hitting the ground
7.
Lately I have found you sleepin’ on the ground You’re making new sounds When we’re in bed rolling around And you wanna go into town But I don’t wanna go out Livin’ with me You seem happy We climb up trees You wanna get married And you wanna go into town Well I don’t wanna go out anymore When we’re done Blood red suns will set on the T.V. Gazing over Tennessee I think I just saw Emily Lying naked next to me
8.
Mikey can’t get hard Unless he goes too far And says Something really smart That proves he’s smarter than you are He didn’t used to be like this When we were poppin’ zits Punching the stupid wind Back home to Michigan Where we used to live When he was just a kid When it was all so easy One more kiss From Phoebe’s lips On the bathroom graffiti Now Now She was his valentine Her hands across his spine Below the Wal-Mart sign During the summer time At night on the train tracks They fucked like maniacs Babe when we graduate We’re never comin’ back To where we used to live When he was just a kid When it was all so easy One more kiss From Phoebe’s lips On the bathroom graffiti Now Now Now Now Now When Mikey moved away Phoebe had to stay She still sends him e-mails To let him know She’s okay She’s got a new boyfriend Mikey’s got a nicotine addiction But he’s gonna win her back He’s gonna be young again Where we used to live When he was just a kid When it was all so easy One more kiss From Phoebe’s lips On the bathroom graffiti Now Now Now Now
9.
The Internet 03:39
Check the computer For some trace of danger That you can read about In your underwear Send a lewd email To the boys from East Hills And let em‘ know You wanna be there You wish you could be back there Read a term paper Write a short prayer Look up the history Of M.C. Escher’s stairs Porn on call Pink Floyd’s The Wall A picture of your sister At the Franklin Mills mall The internet is a big clear wall The internet connects us all The internet is a black hole Use it for work Spy on a jerk That you live to be more successful than Digital paintings Violin strings Most things wouldn’t happen without its hands Chatting with girls who claim to be X-Men Selling your dad’s wedding ring Videos of rappers with expensive things Bus tickets home from Barton Springs
10.
Pictures 02:37 video
Paint cans and family names Ex-boyfriends, old apartments Photographs you took today Trying to not forget European girls at clubs in Midtown Smoking cigarettes Another birthday Your sister is insane The flashes on her face Old shoes and eyeglass frames The past is a present now Moonlight through windowpanes So come on let's go swimming now At the beach In the dark, hot night Taking a leak by the BQE and The sound of your own name As you speak Your shoes and pants halfway on Drunkenly asleep You think to yourself now Biking home in the rain
11.
Death 04:09 video
It’s a cold day Why’d you wake up? It’s a cocaine binge After the break up Your face smeared with her make up And her high heels dangle on the bed You woke up and wished you were dead It’s a hard life in the city And it’s a harder life in the prettier Parts of the country you live in You hold on to whatever kin That keeps on breathin’ in That keeps you from driftin’ Like paper in the wind Heaven or hell You smell your mother’s smell Oxygen runs out You scream You shout Your time here is done now It’s a hot night in the backyard And air conditioned cars and bars Women catch ya as they pass You can’t stop pissin’ in your grass Cause your grass never fights back Swimmin’ in the pitch black Darkness of the smoke stacks You watch your life in reverse You speak in familiar nouns and verbs You’re waitin’ for this life to end You don’t want Time to mend You wanna start again You want a new best friend Lovers in a dead end Heaven or hell You smell your mother’s smell Oxygen runs out You scream You shout Your time here is done now You came in You’ll go out You believe And you doubt The things you couldn’t live without But the prayers that you pray Continue to breathe now
12.
Wipe Out 04:20
At a gastropub By Baby’s All Right I’m hanging out with a high school friend tonight I wanna catch up and hear What he’s been up to I wanna tell him about the things I do He moved to Oregon During Sophomore year He’s a Christian now And he grew a beard I edit TV shows And write some songs It’s comforting to know We still get along and we Talk about What it’s like to wipe out And how we’re figuring things out It’s how we like to kill the time He dated a girl that he met at his job He broke it off cause he didn’t think it was love I’m scared about the Antarctic ice caps But I stopped having panic attacks And I tell him about this book I read Oh yeah man I think I’ve heard of it We complain about how old we are Then we split the bill Even on two cards and we Talk about What it’s like to wipe out And how we’re figuring things out It’s how we like to kill the time It’s how we like to kill the time It’s how we like to kill the time It’s how we like to kill the time And we talk about What it’s like to wipe out And how we’re figuring things out It’s how we like to kill the time
13.
Can I buy you a beer? Or do you just wanna get outta here? We can leave our friends blacked out at the bar Your place or mine? Whatever you want is fine Can I smoke cigarettes in your car? And in the darkness on your couch With nothing left to talk about Eyes and teeth and tongues in mouths Let's make out Let's make out Put your hands through my hair And strip me down to my underwear I hope I don't feel overweight I forget where I am And for a moment we're in love again And for a moment I can't remember your name And in the darkness on your couch With nothing left to talk about Eyes and teeth and tongues in mouths Let's make out Let's make out Out Out Out Out Out Out Out In the darkness On your couch And with nothing left to talk about Eyes and teeth and tongues in mouths Let's make out Let's make out! Let's order take out! Let's make out! Let's order take out!

about

Eclectic weird kid alt. pop from Brooklyn.

Released by Audio Antihero / Old Money Records (AAH015 / OM001).

"My Band is a Computer is a compilation of some of my songs from 2010 - ­2015. I feel extremely fortunate that Audio Antihero approached me to put this collection together. It’s fun to hear material from all across the years get together in one room. I started out in High School making electronic music on a Dell desktop PC in my family’s living room. It wasn’t great. Then my Mom bought me an acoustic guitar when I was 20 and at the time I was obsessed with the music documentary 'Dig!' so I started writing my own rip­off versions of the songs in that movie. Since then I’ve just used whatever I had around to keep writing and producing tracks. The resulting music has never really left my immediate bubble of friends, coworkers and loved ones. But thanks to the internet, someone like Jamie at Audio Antihero was able to find my Bandcamp and have enough of a reaction that he wanted to help me reach an audience. I feel really lucky to have this opportunity, and I just wanted to say thank you to anyone who gives this a listen." - CHUCK

PREVIOUS PRESS:
“Straddling the line between bedroom pop and high fidelity indie rock....Both gorgeous and joyously rough-around-the-edges.” – DIY MAG

“Encapsulates the feel of travel to amusement parks, train rides, boardwalk bound feelings, the feel of sand between your toes, seasonal loves, and books read to chase away any inkling of boredom.” – IMPOSE MAGAZINE

“It’s the kind of Daniel Johnston vibe if Daniel Johnston was brought up with The Strokes and Notorious BIG. By that we mean it has the integrity, the loneliness, the sad, happy, and melancholic, even the nostalgic and romantic - 8/10.” – THIRD OUTING

“Goofy simplicity...its nostalgia shows most in the balance between a sunny melody and little pokes that could only come from an observer with a bit of distance...” - BEDFORD & BOWERY

credits

released September 9, 2016

All performance and mixing credits to Charles Griffin Gibson - unless stated otherwise.

All mastering & remastering credits to Benjamin Shaw - bnjmnshw.bandcamp.com, unless stated otherwise.

Contributions from: Daniel Bateman & Thomas White (Frog) / Heba Kadry / Marissa Fassano / Trisha Ivy / Brian Cooper / Joe Plourde / Louis Waxman (The Mayberries)

Click on individual tracks for track specific personnel.

Cover Photos: Charlie Rubin / James Talman
Tape Design: Charlie Rubin

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