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Tearing Down the Parthenon

by The Monkey Power Trio

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    4-song EP on ugly AND boring black vinyl. Two out of the four songs are unlistenable trash. The other two should have been in the Billboard Top 600 of 2008. We were robbed.

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1.
Buxom Angels 03:20
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We met in chemistry I was a prodigy somehow we got paired I was way too shy looking you in the eye was more than I could bear. You were the lead in the play, the IT Girl they all say You were the inn-est of the in We were given a task I grabbed the wrong flask and that did everybody in. Floatin' on clouds with buxom angels holding me in their arms with evil smiles I'm just a boy mixed up with my dreams Making trouble with dangerous vials. [sax solo] [unintelligible wrap] Floatin' on clouds with buxom angels holding me in their arms with evil smiles I'm just a boy mixed up with my dreams Making trouble with dangerous vials. We met in chemistry I was a prodigy and somehow we got paired I was way too shy looking you in the eye was more than I could bear. You were the lead in the play, the IT Girl they all say You were the inn-est of the in We were given a task I grabbed the wrong flask and that did everybody in. Floatin' on clouds with buxom angels holding me in their arms with evil smiles I'm just a boy mixed up with my dreams Making trouble with dangerous vials.
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Fall in Hate 02:02
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When I fall in love I don't take no for an answer babe When I fall in hate I refuse to see her side when I fall in hate Better get offa my back now when I fall in hate Best give me room to hate you girl when I fall in hate. Wahoo, Wahoo! When I fall in hate When I fall in hate I hate you when I fall in hate I don't take no for an answer (don't take no for an answer) when I fall in hate Better get offa my back now when I fall in hate Best give me room to hate you girl when I fall in hate. Don't take no for an answer (no, no, no) Wahoo, Wahoo, Whooooooooooo, Wahoooohooooooo
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Telephone Hand 01:48
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Born beneath the power lines telephone hands, telephone hands electromagnetic energy oh yeah (telephone hands, telephone hands) Telephone hands (telephone hands, telephone hands) Telephone hands (telephone hands, telephone hands) Telephone hands He's not a man He's a telephone hand Call him up late at night on his hands (telephone hand) Call him up late at night on his cellular foot (telephone hand) Telephone hand (telephone hand) Telephone hands (telephone hands, telephone hands) (telephone hands, telephone hands) He's not a man (telephone hand) Telephone hand (telephone hand) Electromagnetic energy created the Telephone Hand.
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Winifred 03:07
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Hey, hey Winifred I can't get your red knotted hair out of my head. Hey, hey Winifred when I think about you and all the blood that we bled. Bah bah baaaaaaa! Hey hey hey What's that sound? Could it be our love turning around? Hey, what's that sound? Could it be our love turning around? Now hey, let's sleep in Spanish Moss, everything covered in apricot sauce. Hey, let's jump down off that cross, and make love to our albatross. Bah bah baaaaaaaaa! Hey hey hey What's that sound? (hey hey hey) Could it be our love turning around? (Things aren't great) Hey, what's that sound? (hey hey hey) Could it be our love turning around? (resuscitate) Now Hey, hey Winifred I can't get your red knotted hair out of my head. Now hey, hey Winifred when I think about you and all the blood that we bled. Now hey, hey Winifred I can't get around all the things that you said When I think about you all the blood that we bled. Hey, hey Winifred I can't get your red knotted hair out of my head. Now hey, hey Winifred when I think about you and all the blood that we bled. Now hey, hey Winifred I can't forget everything that you said Hey, hey Winifred, when I think about you and all that you said. Now hey, hey Winifred, I love you. Hey, hey Winifred bah bah baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Born beneath power lines heavy with Spanish moss, The Monkey Power Trio's 2008 extended play record spins out of Whitemarsh Island, Georgia. Called by the din, raccoons climb out of the tidal muck, gar jump onto the porch, cockroaches come out from under the rug, and a young woman leaves her place in line at the supermarket to witness the marsh-edge session. This animal energy surrounds and lifts the band above the snails and reeds to a distinctive musical plane where the vigor coalesces into song.


Winifred is a consummate pop tune about consummated love; it will top the charts. Fall in Hate picks up where consummated love leaves off and rocks hard enough to slough the skin of the past right the fuck off. In this reborn state, the band envisions the songdream of an awkward adolescent whose deadly mistake is redeemed only by the open-armed love of Buxom Angels.

Over time, though, the animal energy is dissipated and deformed, mutating the simple desire to communicate into a Frankensteinian Telephone Hand, leaving an evolutionary vacuum for the moss to take advantage of; it drags the power lines down and the session must end. Not, though, before the band has blasted a sonic pulse back through the history of rock, wasting legends and myths, and tearing down the Parthenon.

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released August 8, 2008

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The Monkey Power Trio is both an art project and an oddball DIY band that makes songs by recording for 24 hours once a year. In these 1-day sessions, they create messy songs without the usual constraints of genre or musicianship. The group has convened annually since 1995 and is honor-bound to continue until the last guy alive does a solo album. ... more

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