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MP3 Burgess Shale - It's Never Enough, Is It?

The debut album from a San Francisco based group featuring intelligent music, wide vocal arrangements,thick production, killer guitars and literate lyrics.

17 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Progressive Rock



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Burgess Shale is two things; it''s a 500 million year old fossil site of extinct life forms and it''s a really cool band from the San Francisco Bay area. The band plays music that is dense with wide vocals, lots of tracks and lots of instruments. If you want to get the music, you''ve got to listen to it. The lyrics mean something, and represent a commentary of the current lack of rational thinking in virtually all aspects of American society. For example, the song "No Duh" asks the question: Where does Dick Cheney disappear to when Homeland Stupidity issues a Severe Alert. Likewise, the aptly titled "The Moron Song" is about you know who. "Lucky Punk" looks at the complacent response to our diminishing civil rights with the passing of the Patriot Act. "Shrunken Heads" casts some responsibility of the dumbing down of America''s thinking on a media that cares more about reactions and ratings that providing real information. Finally, "Going Extinct" notes that the real weapon of mass destruction is "the thing between your ears."

The band got started when James Boblak and Brian Fraser met each other through an act of god in the East Bay last year. Up to that point, James had been the house engineer at a well-known recording studio in Los Angeles, but had been relegated to recording primarily hip hop music. One day, after a particularly non-productive day of recording an exceptionally stoned group of artists, James was beaten up by the band because they believed that he had dissed the exceptionally stoned producer. (True Fact). They broke his tooth which you can see on the band''s website at https://www.tradebit.com. James is currently working on non-fiction account of his experience as an LA recording engineer; the book''s current working title is "The Music Made from Blunts & Glocks." Look for it at your local independent book store sometime in the next twenty years.

Fearing for his mental health and physical well-being, James fled to the relative safety of the bay area. Looking for work, James met Brian, who had made the mistake of purchasing a lot of expensive recording gear without a clue as to how to work any of it. At their first meeting at the studio, it was readily apparent that James knew how to work the gear and that Brian was, in fact, clueless with the exception that he knew how to write some pretty cool songs and could play a bunch of instruments reasonably well. They also discovered that they had the same taste in music and lamented the fact that there was no music in commercial music anymore. After drinking a few beers and exchanging stories of living with dysfunctional families and girlfriends, they realized that they were, in fact, soul mates. However, they became immediately concerned that any attempt to form a band would naturally ruin any friendship that they might possess, but they nevertheless went forward with the idea. But given what they had mind with respect to lavish productions, lots of tracks and instruments and harmonies, they needed to find some cute chick singers.

James immediately began reminiscing about the days when he would panhandle and sing with Heather in downtown Iowa City. They were both happy then, between respective boyfriends and girlfriends. But James had not seen Heather in years, and certain questions came up. Was she still cute? Could she still sing? Was she still cute? The answer to all three questions was yes, but they had to track her down as she was singing in a topless all female mariachi band in La Paz, Mexico. For the right amount of beer she said she would join the band, provided that she had complete artistic control over all Mexican ballads that appeared on the album. Brian and James reluctantly agreed to such a concession. But relentless dust and cerveza in Mexico had caused Heather''s vocal range to drop to a low alto, and James and Brian envisioned wide vocal arrangements which required a soprano voice.

Where could they find a cute soprano who could sing? This time Brian remembered the first time he met Tina, sitting on a couch at a party attempting to play guitar, but singing beautifully. Tina later claimed the large amounts of scotch she had consumed had had an adverse affect on her motor skills. Tina''s motor skills will be discussed at a later date. But she met all four criteria for joining the band; she was cute, she could sing, she was cute and she really liked scotch.

So that''s the band''s history. Now listen to the music. You must really listen to it, otherwise you won''t get it.

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