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The Cat Who Said "Hello", the next Wizard's Keys album!

post #1 of 36
5/21/11 at 9:07am
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We're amazing and already on album two!

 

The Cat Who Said "Hello" (we need someone to make album art!)

 

Tracks:

 

1. Concentration of Red

2. Glances on the Firing Line

3. One Big Jar

4. World of Snow

5. House of Ill Repute

6. Fuel Rod Girl

7. Lundgren's Rules
 

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post #2 of 36
5/21/11 at 9:10am
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Concentration of Red (MP3 FILE)

Drums, Backing Vocals, Solo #1 - STEVE

Guitar, Bass, Solo #2, Vocals - NICK

 

WARNING: ROCK AND ROLL IN YOUR PUSS

 

Eyes Thighs Lies

Size Finds Lies

This Dough... RISE!

 

This is the dawning of "You ain't seen yet"

Consolidation, Concentration of Red

Discouraged head of lettuce in my bed

Sans these drawers full of lead

 

(MP3 FILE)

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post #3 of 36
5/21/11 at 9:49am

Listened and liked!

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post #4 of 36
6/8/11 at 10:39am
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Anyone?

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post #5 of 36
6/12/11 at 7:05am
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House of Ill Repute (MP3 FILE)

Guitar, Bass - STEVE

Drums, Vocals - NICK

 

WARNING: ADORABLE

 

I'm your friend

I'm your brother

I'm your king

I'm your father

I'm a reporter and I'm heading to...

The House of Ill Repute

 

I'm your friend

I'm your mother

I'm your queen

I'm your sister

I'm a reporter and I'm heading to...

The House of Ill Repute

 

I'm not friend

I'm not your brother

Hell I ain't your king

But you gotta listen to me...

I'm going to The House of Ill Repute

 

(MP3 FILE)

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post #6 of 36
6/12/11 at 7:10am
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World of Snow (MP3 FILE)

Drums, Backing Vocals, Bass, Solo #2 - STEVE

Guitar, Solo #1, Vocals - NICK

 

WARNING: SENSUAL/SWEET

 

He sold her Caroline

He told her she was blind, but

Faces go blank when she enters the room

 

Her name was Caroline
She smiled and told me "hi", but

Faces go blank when she enters the room

 

We all live in a world of snow

We all can strive to be just as blind

 

He unleashed Caroline

on an unsuspecting world, but

Faces go blank when she enters the room

 

Her name was Caroline
She smiled and told me "hi", but

Faces go blank when she enters the room

 

We all live in a world of snow

 

 

(MP3 FILE)

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post #7 of 36
6/12/11 at 7:15am
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One Big Jar (MP3 FILE)

Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals, Solo #2 - STEVE

Drums, Vocals, Solo #1 - NICK

 

WARNING: BIZARRE ROCK AND ROLL

 

Mystic

Someone punch the planet

Antivenom, get on the list

This fist is better than Entemann's

This food is all I got

 

This is one big jar

People living in cars

Social experiment gone wrong

 

This what I care about

I'm aloof

I'm a fruit

 

Mystic

Someone punch the planet

Antivenom, get on the list

This fist is better than Entemann's

This food is all I got

 

This is one big jar

People living in cars

Social experiment gone wrong

 

(MP3 FILE)

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post #8 of 36
6/12/11 at 7:19am
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Glances on the Firing Line (MP3 FILE)

Drums, Backing Vocals - STEVE

Vocals, Bass, Guitar - NICK

 

WARNING: IN YOUR FACE AND BUTT ROCK

 

A little of the ultraviolence slumped under a shady tree

vanilla on a cone of silence

this is not what his parents thought he'd be

 

They exchange glances on the firing line

it's all underlined when you trade your mind

 

Brutals winters on a Western coast

Sights and sounds that don't belong

storebought reaper on a stolen post

this is not what my parents thought I'd be

 

They exchange glances on the firing line

it's all underlined when you trade your mind

 

(MP3 FILE)

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post #9 of 36
6/12/11 at 8:00pm

All are punchy, but my favorite is "World of Snow". There's an atypical (for Wizard's Keys, at least) sophistication to the main riff and the lyricism. Strong and consistently interesting.

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post #10 of 36
6/13/11 at 7:54pm
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We strive for punchy.

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post #11 of 36
6/15/11 at 6:52am

Get some album art from Brian Eno's 77 million paintings! They don't  have a copyright because it's generative art! Brian Eno said so himself!

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post #12 of 36
6/16/11 at 7:39am
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I was so excited to read new comments and then SAD.

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post #13 of 36
6/16/11 at 12:16pm

These are all home runs. In fact they're all home runs with bases loaded and RBIs. That's what you guys say, right? I don't really understand your crazy foreign sports to be honest, but I'm right at home with these tunes.

Concentration Of Red is magnificent. Big beasts of riffs and that buzzsaw guitar tone and great vocals varying between melodic and roaring. So packed with brawn and sex and the eye of the T Rex. Not the dude, the thunder lizard.

And Glances On The Firing Line is like a pump action shotgun with a grenade launcher. A pump action grenade launcher. It also makes me want to fly an attack helicopter. I really love the forward charge of it, like it can't be stopped. This one is a real gem from start to finish, from top to bottom.

I love the feel and the lyrics on House Of Ill Repute. The whole thing is wonderfully wonky and somehow warm in spite of the air of unhinged menace in the lyrics. Also love the way this one is sung. And the melody. And how it's 90 seconds long so I want to hear it again as soon as it's finished.

That main riff on World Of Snow is so sweet too. The panned left and right rhythm gats are cool as shit in the headphones and the whole way the song hangs and swings on and around the beat in that groove. There's a beautiful feel to the playing in there.

I can listen to these four on repeat for an hour and not get bored with them. There are no flat spots in any of them - no parts where I think the arrangement could be changed to make them flow or rock better - they all work a treat in terms of momentum and groove. I also continue to love the raw and dangerous but focused tone of everything production-wise too. Maybe my favourite set of guitar sounds, both rhythm and lead. Probably my favourite set of vocal performances too.

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post #14 of 36
6/16/11 at 8:21pm
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Originally Posted by Bucho View Post

It makes me want to fly an attack helicopter.


This destroyed me.

 

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post #15 of 36
6/24/11 at 10:59pm

Somehow I completely missed One Big Jar. Gotta admit I'm not as down with the electronic blippy bloops and I feel like the "This is what I care about" breakdowns lose momentum for me. I don't know what I'd change - and of course I don't expect you guys to change a thing - but it'd probably be not having the beat drop out to cymbal taps.

 

But they don't all have to float my boat though and I still like the vocal and general gat/bass/drum sound and the down a dirty riffs as much as the others. Speaking of which, I must have listened to those other four maybe twenty times over the last week and I'm not even close to rotating them out of my playlist. And they're so damn hooky, I'll find the chorus of Firing Line or the main riff from World Of Snow or "... house of ill repyoo-ooo--ooot" rolling through my brains hours after I've listened to them. There's really not a single thing I'd change about any of them.

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post #16 of 36
7/12/11 at 6:21am
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Fuel Rod Girl (MP3 FILE)

Drums, Vocals, Solo #2 - NICK

Guitar, Bass, Solo #1, Backing Vocals - STEVE

 

WARNING: GREASY ASS TRUCK STATION ROCK

 

The sound is brown like a motor
drunk on miles and chewed up pavement
Sounds like gears are grinding on this ride to nowhere

She needs a lift, short skirt could use one too
She needs a lift or two and that's what I aim to do


I feel my gauge filling
Something's empty
Something's full
Mission: Accomplished


She needs a lift, short skirt could use one too
She needs a lift or two and that's what I aim to do

 

(MP3 FILE)

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post #17 of 36
7/12/11 at 1:49pm

Fuel Rod Amazing. Is it basic? Yes, but it's basic great. I love the sound and the greasy vocals from N.

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post #18 of 36
8/4/11 at 5:04am

Hello? Fuel Rod anyone?

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post #19 of 36
8/4/11 at 12:04pm

She needs a lift, short skirt could use one too
She needs a lift or two and that's what I aim to do

 

Yeah, I love the production/sound of the recent stuff. Song-wise this one is odd in that just as it lifts off with "MIssion: Accomplished" each time it cuts off like a big tease. A big, greasy tease. For me the chunky riffs make it a fun ride but it never quite feels like it pays off its promise like many of the other tracks. It feels like there's a potential there which is unearthed. The lyrics are some of my favourites though.

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post #20 of 36
8/4/11 at 4:00pm

As always, thanks B. Your input is a rock and roll blessing.

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post #21 of 36
8/14/11 at 7:15pm
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Lundgren's Rules (MP3 FILE)

Drums, Vocals, Solo #1 - NICK

Guitar, Bass, Solo #2, Backing Vocals - STEVE

 

WARNING: THE BEST THING

 

I can't be the five o'clock shadow on the face of freedom
flew sixteen hours just to get my hair done

got no time for your nuclear bomb


Magic hour's here at last

Now we get to play by Lundgren's Rules

Got my blocking, stunt double's ready

Now we get to play by Lundren's Rules

 

Kung Fu training and Shakespeare's chops
makes me a super smoky man
rock hard abs and hard rock hands
wind me up and face me towards the war

 

Dolph, Dolph, Dolph

 

Magic hour's here at last

Now we get to play by Lundgren's Rules

Got my blocking, stunt double's ready

Now we get to play by Lundren's Rules

 

(MP3 FILE)

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post #22 of 36
8/15/11 at 2:17pm

I cannot get enough of Lundgren's Rules. There's just no way I could love it more.

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post #23 of 36
8/15/11 at 2:23pm

I'm gonna make you send me a CD because I'm spoiled to rock n roll in my mailbox.

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post #24 of 36
8/15/11 at 3:01pm
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I sent you Kickass Hill I believe.

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post #25 of 36
8/15/11 at 3:07pm

Yes you did and it kicked ass.

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post #26 of 36
9/11/11 at 8:27pm
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post #27 of 36
9/11/11 at 11:48pm
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Lundgren's Rules (MP3 FILE)

 


Something's up with this link. I only get 26kB.

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post #28 of 36
9/12/11 at 7:37am
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Fucking hosts jacked us. Will reupload. In the meantime:

 

 

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post #29 of 36
9/16/11 at 11:43pm
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post #30 of 36
9/28/11 at 12:07pm
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Yep.
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post #31 of 36
9/28/11 at 12:18pm
nick

Philly Sweep
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post #32 of 36
9/28/11 at 12:36pm
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Don't do that man. We get such little feedback here, at least post about the tune.
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post #33 of 36
10/17/11 at 7:48am
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Find a Hole.

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post #34 of 36
10/17/11 at 7:48am
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The Walkin' Dude.

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post #35 of 36
10/17/11 at 7:57am
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E6

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post #36 of 36
11/27/11 at 7:34am
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Dead Come Rising (Pissed as Hell)
Nick - Drums/Vocals
Steve - Guitars/Bass/Backing

Energetic Meso-Americans
Back in the day
Did a sensual ritual
Fed a cow to the devil
Slapped a chicken so hard it clucked
It's a livin'
And now it's paying dividends

Dead they come rising
Pissed as Hell
Pissed as Hell
Hitting innocent people with hammers
Watching blood and bone making babies
Civilization's a lunchbox
Dead come rising
Pissed as Hell
Ripping innocent people to ribbons
Dead come rising

Modern Social Frisky Americans
Much earlier today
Watched a horde feeds its maw
sucked blood through a living face
Bit a skeleton so hard it squelched
It's a livin'
And now it's paying dividends
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