lyrics are in the project! this is so different from stan ridgway's other music this is from stan ridgway's pre-wall of voodoo band model citizens. taken from the same 30+ yr old site. IDK where to find other model citizens songs though...
stan says: "recorded 1977 on my trusty sony 2 track TC 630 and the trusty Rhythm Ace I got from Daws Butler... before Wall Of Voodoo "the band" really got together. I had another band that played the Masque called Model Citizens. This was for them but before we could put it together we broke up..." "I found this just the other day in a brown paper bag with some other stuff on cassette from the late 70's. Not bad, this. Its a rockin' little tune. The modern poets Samuel Beckett and Allen Ginsberg and the Ramones converged here to help me write this in 1975 as a song to hear something that WAS NOT on the radio at the time. I was playing top 40 gigs in Diamond Bar and trying to get my sh/t together. This was me finding out what I thought about writing songs and getting dead tired of Wings and The Doobie Brothers. Beatniks making a comeback. Me and my art bum friends could feel something musical was gonna blow wide open round '75... gee... guess it finally did! I played this just once in a place called "The Three Little Pigs" in West Covina just one time, and a 300 pound guy with an eye patch threw a beer at me. Pretty scary, but I finished the song. Beatniks never quit."
