Johnny Optimist

Taken from "Elephant Jokes" 2009

Lyrics Unknown

A modern Robert Pollard classic with a great guitar hook and hop about and kick the air vocals. You cannot help but smile when you hear this track. It has funny lyrics and is just basically a happy song. Great.

Bad Baby Blue

Taken from "Gringo" 2009

"Bad Baby Blue
We'll I've been lachrymose too
Bad baby blues
When it's not up to youse yeah
Bad Baby Blue
Got me talkin' to mountains
Bad Baby Blue

Ram your fists down through your ripped out rotten shirt
Back alive I'm feeling bad enough to kill
Spare the seasons of the winters in your soul
Name the reasons, please
And Bad Baby Blue here's to lookin' at you
Bad Baby Blue so very vile I'm with you
I found it so hard to listen to you
Bad Baby Blue you tell me what you laugh about
Bad Baby Blue you tell me when you cry

I wanna kiss my television when you're on
Count your angels in the suitcase of your heart
Angels sitting in your cafeteria mind
You're a bad baby"

Spooky. This track feels slow and discordant but with a punching Vocal. Circus Devils are there to mess with your ears.

Mag Earwig!

Taken from "Mag Earwig!" 1997

"Blessed is the way to a man's heart
Quite so even out of dreadlock
But the bastard of an ex-warhorse kicks
And I smiled like an electric child"

Bob does an impression of a Baby crying. Reminds me a lot of the classic Bee Thousand/Bushes/Lanes era. A fun 40 seconds.