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HAUSER, the new Lucky Nightsticks album

post #1 of 48
7/5/10 at 11:36pm
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11 Songs. Weird and spare. This will not be anyone's favorite LN record, but there's some real charming little shit in here, recorded this past weekend. Will start releasing tunes in the next week or so.



TRACK LISTING:

1. Living to Die
2. Night Shadows
3. Ramrod
4. The Art of Dying
5. Jack Saxon
6. The Blue Lizard
7. Vice Squad
8. Death Street USA
9. Watchers III
10. Deadly Force
11. In Between
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post #2 of 48
7/5/10 at 11:58pm
As in Cole?
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post #3 of 48
7/6/10 at 12:03am
Yeah, came in to ask the same thing.
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post #4 of 48
7/6/10 at 12:09am
Wings! Come on, guys. Right there in the pic.
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post #5 of 48
7/6/10 at 1:06am
Steve Murphy would never stand for such a thing.
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post #6 of 48
7/6/10 at 12:28pm
Dying to hear our strange.
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post #7 of 48
7/6/10 at 1:13pm
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IN BETWEEN

IN BETWEEN (2:34)
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(Nunziata/Murphy)

Nick - Percussion/Keys
Steve - Percussion/Guitar

A little mellow instrumental for your listening odd pleasure.
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post #8 of 48
7/6/10 at 10:55pm
How in Hades did something so damn pretty come out of you filthy reprobates?
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post #9 of 48
7/10/10 at 2:51am
I've had this on repeat for days. My favourite tunes from you guys are almost always the harder stuff but this is such a delight I feel like I'll never get tired of it.
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post #10 of 48
7/10/10 at 12:55pm
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VICE SQUAD (1:52)
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(Nunziata/Murphy)

Nick - Percussion/Keys
Steve - Guitar

Not a song as much an exercise. This will pad two charming faster tunes.
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post #11 of 48
7/17/10 at 12:12am
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THE ART OF DYING (1:17)
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(Nunziata/Murphy)

Nick - Percussion/Keys/Vocals
Steve - Guitar

It's all we know
Practice all your life
Canvas stretched old and thin
Palette once damp now dry

The Art of Dying

Matted and forgotten
Sun faded and tucked away
Gallery is closing shop
The master's work is done

The Art of Dying
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post #12 of 48
7/17/10 at 12:15am
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NIGHT SHADOWS (1:53)
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Nick - Percussion/Guitar/Vocals
Steve - Bass/Percussion/Guitar/Backing Vocals

There's no one left to caress my inner child
Constant berating tells me if I'm
Sane or not

I seem to have lost my way
While Night Shadows play

Your laws are fragile when I touch my feet to ground
When I spread my wings
They'll come crashing down

I seem to have lost my way
While Night Shadows play

Forty thousands years have led to this day
The sun still rises, the moon still shines
But Cole has run away

I seem to have lost my way
While Night Shadows play
I seem to have lost my way
While Night Shadows play
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post #13 of 48
7/17/10 at 12:18am
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WATCHERS III (2:57)
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(Makarewicz/Nunziata/Murphy)

John - Drums
Nick - Keys
Steve - Guitar
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post #14 of 48
7/17/10 at 12:21am
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RAMROD (2:28)
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Nick - Bass/Guitar Solo/Vocals
Steve - Drums/Guitar Solo/Backing Vocals
John - Guitar

Cold Love
Frozen Rains in Drains
It's all about to end

When Ramrod Comes Home
He's making his lunch
It's taking too long
He's starting to seethe
Feeling the urge
He's starting to fold
He's feeling his legs
Walk out the door

Cold Love
Frozen Rains in Drains
It's all about to end

When Ramrod Comes Home
He's checking his mail
It's taking too long
He's needing to vent
Feeling the urge
Eyes starting to glaze
He's feeling his heart
Beat down the door

Cold Love
Frozen Rains in Drains
It's all about to end

When Ramrod Comes Home
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post #15 of 48
7/17/10 at 12:33am
You guys have a band that did a concept album about Wings Hauser, the most neglected and underated actor in the history of history, with several songs about Vice Squad, the most neglected masterpiece in the history of history, and this is the first I've heard of it?

Good show, sir. Good show.
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post #16 of 48
7/17/10 at 1:40am
I can't begin to express how much I love how well this whole project is coming together, especially in regards to 'Ramrod' and 'Death Street USA'. I simply love every bit of it.
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post #17 of 48
7/18/10 at 12:46am
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I'm liking it.
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post #18 of 48
7/18/10 at 11:42pm
In Between and Ramrod are my favourites. I like Watchers III a lot too, especially the brassy stabs.
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post #19 of 48
7/19/10 at 5:15pm
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My two faves too. But you haven't heard Death Street USA.
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post #20 of 48
7/19/10 at 8:12pm
I've been the worst fan since this is the first I have heard of this also. Be checking it out as soon as I get home today.
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post #21 of 48
7/19/10 at 8:48pm
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Hope you like!
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post #22 of 48
7/19/10 at 9:20pm
I really like The Art of Dying, and wish it was way longer. The chorus-y acoustic reminds me of old Love and Rockets with modern-ish breaks.

Same for Night Shadows, except it sounds like nothing but you. I miss you guys doing longer stuff like "In Plain Sight".

Faves thus far.
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post #23 of 48
7/20/10 at 8:27am
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Color me surprised that Ramrod wasn't loved by you.

"except it sounds like nothing but you", what does that mean?
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post #24 of 48
7/20/10 at 9:56am
Just what it says. It sounds like LN. It doesn't remind me of anyone else like some of your stuff. That's neither bad or good.
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post #25 of 48
7/20/10 at 10:59am
'Neither bad or good'? Holy shit, that's horrible!
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post #26 of 48
7/20/10 at 12:28pm
Hush, you.
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post #27 of 48
7/20/10 at 12:43pm
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What Steve is saying is that we don't ever set out to sound like other people, yet we constantly get pegged as sounding like X or Y.

Most of the bands you mention I've never even listened to.
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post #28 of 48
7/20/10 at 12:55pm
Knowing your musical tastes to the extent that I do, I'm pretty sure you would never "set out" to sound like early, or even late period, Love and Rockets. That's just what that song reminds me of.

When I say I like a song and that it sounds like nothing but you, I mean it reminds nothing aside from past LN recordings. That's all.

Man alive...if this is the reaction to me talking about the songs that are my faves, I'm frightened to tell you about the ones that aren't.
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post #29 of 48
7/20/10 at 4:37pm
You should like them all, or you're an asshole.
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post #30 of 48
7/23/10 at 3:59pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata View Post
What Steve is saying is that we don't ever set out to sound like other people, yet we constantly get pegged as sounding like X or Y.
That's really weird since, with the exception of a couple of moments, you guys have never reminded me of anyone else. I consider that a very good thing, indeed.
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post #31 of 48
7/28/10 at 11:45pm
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Folks, give Ramrod a chance. He needs you!
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post #32 of 48
7/31/10 at 6:32pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata View Post
Folks, give Ramrod a chance. He needs you!
Spiky little fella, ain't he? I like 'im. This might have my favourite Nightsticks vocals. The flow from verse to chorus is particularly strong (I'm a sucker for soaring last lines.)
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post #33 of 48
8/2/10 at 1:43am
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LIVING TO DIE (2:51)
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(Nunziata/Makarewicz/Murphy)

Nick - Bass/Guitar/Keys/Vocals
Steve - Drums/Backing Vocals
John - Guitar

It's not enough to know that you love me
Not enough to know I'm in control
We bleed, rub the salt, not our fault, we bleed all
Crime doesn't die though I try
It makes me strong

Look me in the eye
You're just living to die
You're living to die
Step aside
I have life to live

Life is lies and homemade fires
Funerals and cries in the night
It makes me weak
It makes me strong

Boom. Jim.

Look me in the eye
You're just living to die
You're living to die
Step aside
I have life to live
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post #34 of 48
8/2/10 at 1:55am
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DEATH STREET USA (2:35)
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Nick - Guitar/Vocals
Steve - Drums/Bass/Backing Vocals

Rein your mind in
spin the ultimate wheel
the sky ain't falling
it's just shrapnel from the war

I have to feed my babies in the middle of night
sometimes it's fresh kills on the side of the road
marauders are hauling ass our way
blazing a trail down DEATH STREET USA

Rein your mind in
spin the ultimate wheel
the sky ain't falling
it's just shrapnel from the war

We live on DEATH STREET USA

We die on DEATH STREET USA

I have hide my babies in the sewer at night
radiation threatens to puncture their heads
when the rain it'll carry the stink
polluting and cleansing DEATH STREET USA

Rein your mind in
spin the ultimate wheel
the sky ain't falling
it's just shrapnel from the war

We live on DEATH STREET USA

We die on DEATH STREET USA
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post #35 of 48
8/2/10 at 8:53pm
"Living To Die" is absolutely what I expected to hear when I understood the concept of this record. It's a well-produced, unique, just plain cool-as-fuck track that may be the strongest one from this set yet.

"Death Street USA" is a little less impactful, but I love, love, love that mini-bridge where you stretch out "...shrapnel from the waaaaaaaaaar".
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post #36 of 48
8/5/10 at 9:21am
I think it's great that you like Living To Die. It's almost another spy song, which I always love doing, but I think the world of Death Street USA.

This album is at the top of my Nightsticks list. This, Laker II and Arbor Day. We are musical brillianteers.
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post #37 of 48
8/17/10 at 1:50am
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THE BLUE LIZARD (5:04)
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(Nunziata/Murphy)

Nick - Bass/Vocals
Steve - Guita/Backing Vocals
John - Drums

Folding into the abyss.
Giving. Living. A Lizard.
Is here to claim his fame.
And now you know his name

There's no time to understand the golden rule
Tail comes off, another day in high school
green with envy
yellow bastard
chroma chameleon
The Blue Lizard

A Lizard like this comes and goes
once in a lifetime

There's no time to understand the golden rule
Tail comes off, another day in high school
green with envy
yellow bastard
chroma chameleon
The Blue Lizard
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post #38 of 48
8/21/10 at 12:45am
My favourite part of The Blue Lizard is the way the line "There's no time to understand the golden rule" lifts off at the end.

I love the choruses of Living To Die and the lead gat stuff that follows them and all the shouted backing vocals and the weird flanged keyboard stabs. Actually, everything from the first chorus onward really floats my boat.

Death Street USA is just aces, especially the bang-bang-bang of the chorus.
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post #39 of 48
8/24/10 at 10:58pm
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JACK SAXON (4:07)
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(Nunziata/Makarewicz/Murphy)

John - Drums
Nick - Keys, Guitar
Steve - Bass
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post #40 of 48
8/24/10 at 11:01pm
This is probably my favorite Nightsticks track yet.
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post #41 of 48
8/24/10 at 11:20pm
I like it all, but especially when that muscular main riff kicks in.
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post #42 of 48
8/25/10 at 11:31am
Wow...I really and truly loved this track. And since you knew a comparison was coming...it reminds me of early-to-mid-period The Cure.

That chorused, echo-y guitar you got going on, Nick, is soooo very evocative of that period, but the punchy, distorted riff and keyboard blips set it apart.
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post #43 of 48
8/25/10 at 5:54pm
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Wow! Awesome!
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post #44 of 48
8/26/10 at 1:01pm
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BTW, there's a new mix of Vice Squad up there now.
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post #45 of 48
8/29/10 at 9:05pm
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DEADLY FORCE (4:30)
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(Nunziata/Murphy/Makarewicz)

Nick - Keys/Vocals/Guitar Solo
Steve - Guitar/Guitar Solo/Backing Vocals
John - Drums

In love
Deadly
Once there was time we were Livinryte
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post #46 of 48
8/29/10 at 9:06pm
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HAUSER IS DONE
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post #47 of 48
8/30/10 at 7:18am
Let me to say that Vice Squad deserves another chance. The new mix fixes the crappy guitar meanderings and allows this song to be what it should have been all along: a keyboard driven 80's action movie main-theme.

This is now a FAVORITE!
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post #48 of 48
9/1/10 at 7:36pm
Great work, Nick. Love all the mixes.
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