XYCHQ - 1988-11-11 - DOUBLE BASS TAPE PART TWO

Jeff, Ian, Michael, the Xychq Twins

Ray, Michael, assorted other mofos in the house

XYCHQ
"DOUBLE BASS TAPE PART TWO"
recorded with Christine The Ghetto Blaster Of Death
November 11, 1988

Ray Lilly - singer
Michael Million - guitar, backing vocals, drums on "Things I Hate"
Jeff Sampson - bass
Ian C Stewart - drums, backing vocals, guitar & lead vocals on "Things I Hate"

1. With the Crusts Cut Off
2. Destruction of the Earth Party
3. Antisocial Behavior
4. Things I Hate
5. Just Apathy
6. Evil Dead
7. Hope Fear Lie
8. A Negative Thought
9. Things I Hate

30 min total
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XYCHQ - Double Bass Tape Part 2

320kb MP3 | 65MB ZIP

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Ian C Stewart "These Chords are like Family to Me" MP3 From the 2003 made-to-be-made-not-made-to-be-heard album I Don't Know Why You Think I Won't Kill You .... this is the last song. This was the beginning of my dabbling with intentional randomness in songwriting. The lyrics for the whole album were compiled from albums by other artists that I enjoyed a lot, such as Adrian Belew's Twang Bar King , The Cure's Pornography , Voivod Nothingface , Mercyful Fate Melissa etc. I wrote out entire lines of their phrases and chopped them together. I think at the time I described it as 'sad psychedelic love songs about satan' overall, which is really being too generous. The music was also randomly chosen from tablature found on t'interwebs for favorite songs of mine. In general I played the chords in reverse order to the original songs but I can still kind of tell in a couple of places what the songs were. The titles were my own, obviously. Although I did cho

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CANCER COFFINS

XYCHQ "Cancer Coffins" MP3 February 1989. Michael and I were in two bands together simultaneously. XYCHQ and (in Parentheses). Both of which played at this particular party. XYCHQ was normally Ray singing, Jeff playing bass, Michael on guitar, me on drums. But there were one or two songs that I played guitar and sang on. "Things I Hate" was one, "Cancer Coffins" was another. Both were "searing" (cough) indictments of the shallow world around my 17-year-old self. Y'know, the social injustice of um people using tanning beds. So yeah, this song "Cancer Coffins" was sort of a funky metal thing at the beginning. Then a thrashy riff for the chorus. And then the breakdown, which will be familiar to anyone who ever heard Devilcake's song "Fribble." or the (in Parentheses) track "Enthalpy." Hey, never let a good riff go to waste. Michael slays the drums on this one. Jeff still on bass. I'm not sure why I was yelli

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