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Stoned and Jammin' Out
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern California; Eugene, OR; mobile
Posts: 1,602
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Originally Posted by Sparky
Do you really not know who cat power is? I haven't listened to her since I was a wee lad, but Moon Pix is worth checking out for some soft indie ish. Where was she on the album?
The guest spots do nothing for me, I would have preferred trent reznor not be on the album of anything. It sounds gimmicky and he's only there for 20 seconds.
A lot of El-Ps subject matter involves his struggles to fit into routine life, but tracks like Drive and League of Extraordinary Nobodies does a good job of delivering that with a deep sense of paranoia and frustration. It's more self-reflective, I don't know if it's neccessarilly darker though. I think a lot of it is tongue in cheek, the way the crew laughs at the end of habeas corpus
"she was dead, just how i wanted her" or something, and then they burst out into laughter. I think it's genuine, but may be slightly pandering to an emotionally vulnerable adolescent fanbase.
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On a related note, I noticed Cat Power will be at Coachella 2012. Funny how the world works.
Habeas Corpses is dark. The laughter at the end is maniacal. Habeas Corpses is a story of Cage and El-P being corrupt guards on a prison ship and talking about raping one of the cute prisoners, and Cage shoot prisoners for fun, and El-P's questioning his job and how he's living his life
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"I found love on a prison ship..." {X8}
[El-P]
Does this job ever bother you, darkly creep up in your conscious too?
[Cage]
Nope, in fact I'm so enamored with the standard
of being handed a command to (pow), it's almost romantic
The lead giveth, I take it, if I didn't understand it
[El-P]
I'm saying during the tenure of your gig, have you ever herded a pris
Who despite the traitorous label, makes you nervous as a kid?
Maybe beyond a date with the lead, there's something else meant for
A prisoner with the beauty of 247290-Z
[Cage]
Oh God, you gotta be joking, I get it she's smoking
Go get a taste, I'll hold you down for thirty, she must be purty, you're open
Your secret's safe with me, go on a raping spree
I gotta couple numbers of my own, just return the courtesy
[El-P]
No, nah man, that's actually not on my mind
Somehow its different this time. I mean
Should a creature so sublime and young really be in line for the gun
And am I the one to dispense it? She seems almost defenseless
And her eyes have the surprising effect of rendering me restless
"You know, you look really pretty without handcuffs on
Without the dirt on your face..."
Like the piss and stench of the huddled traitors evaporates from the room
And in that moment I can see her truly, and she can see me too
Beneath the body armor and weaponry, my heart quietly thumps and whispers
"Drop the guns and grab her, now's the time to make your run"
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and daydreams of running away with a prisoner girl and living a happy life forever with her,
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Sitting in my transport as we slip through traffic veins
She doesn't ask me where we're going, only holds my hand and gaze
She's my only reason now, and my only hope to live
We pull up to the cabin way above this damn metropolis
Me and prisoner 247290-Z
Somewhere that is Soilent Green, we're living life instead
No more war on traitorism, only me and her
She can clean my gun and I could help her clean the floor
Back to something natural, we'll live off of the land
When Radon levels drop we walk the trails and talk and laugh
I tell her she's innocent, and she'll show me she's not
I kiss the number on her arm and lay her on the cot
I'm the first to touch her without gloves on
She's the first to kiss me without crying
Life before this was just dying
Me and prisoner 247290-Z
Away from all this violence, live inside each other's heads... (repeating X4)
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but he snaps back to reality and he's ordered to shoot her, and he does without hesitation.
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"Number 247290-Zed, step to the line"
"Yes sir"
{*gunshot*}
"I found love on a prison ship..." {X7}
[Soldiers]
"She's dead Lindt, just how we wanted it. Great."
"Just how we wanted it (laughing)"
"You shot the **** out of her Lindt. I'm proud of you. Go home"
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Not very tongue in cheek in my opinion, that's one ****ed up and intricately painted story.
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