Mr. Kesten, Caveboy->In the End, FBI, and Devil's Lair
Monday, January 16, 2006
Well, I'm done ripping all the Stu that exists -- Randy, I'll get you your tapes back soon -- and even though I already knew that we were the best band of all time, and by a large margin, I'm kind of in awe. This week, I've chosen a few things that haven't been up before, either in their current presentation or at all.
Kesten -> In a Jar was how we played Kesten as soon as we entered the part of our career I like to call, 'When We Got Tired of All of Our Songs Individually and Decided to Play Them All As One Big Song Stuck Together With Pieces of Other People's Songs'. This is actually the first half of a progression that ends with Rubber Chicken, but you've heard that, and it's a particularly good version of Kesten, which was one of the first songs we wrote. It's about an actual guy, and this was the beginning of the StuPidwish tradition of only writing songs that were completely 100 % true.
Another dumb thing we did was end Caveboy with 'In the Cave'. Caveboy gradually got worked into this thing called the Gigantic Disgusting Monster which lasted 20 minutes and contained Ms. Gradenko, the better part of Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, and Birthday as well as Weeud Gyrations and Coffee Cake. We were gluttons for punishment. Anyway, this version is before things got that out of hand, but it's pretty good.
Devil's Lair was our satanic song, but with a banjo. It all rhymed, which is a good thing for most bands, but for us it meant that we would see what happened if you switched the ends of the lines around. so even though it sort of made sense at the beginning, by this version, we're singing, 'I don't wanna bring clean underwear / Don't forget to know what goes on down there,' which is pretty great. This also is our first really successful try as far as the bridge, which might have been the best thing Jonas has ever done. I don't know exactly what he's been up to for the last few years, but it would have to have been fucking great to beat this.
Lastly this week, Working for the FBI. We used to drink a lot of malt liquor, so one day, after a particularly inspiring episode of the X-Files, Jonas and I decided to see whether we could be in the FBI. Turns out, no. Anyway, we wrote this song about it, and played it on my birthday.
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