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by Amazing Mammals

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1.
Oldies 04:17
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In a monochrome car at the back of the world All I could feel was the blanket's presence Had some idea about the function of the rear-view Had more than an idea about you Ahh At a house in the valley of an unerupted mountain Where I once kissed a cousin of my friend's I sat up all night by a burning gas fire Wonderin' about the effects of CO1 My pulpy brain was married to the ferry of the ages I was sixteen, in a sleeping bag, and drunk Gabbling like a loon underneath the waning moon I think I must have lost my sense for a second We walked the country lanes winding back from the pub Smoked cigarettes in t-shirts in the night I had it bad for her but she had it bad for him In the tents the sea roared like a shell Wasn't always drunk when I woke up scared Some nights I was sober as a judge One night worse for wear and paralysed by fear A cockroach demon made its presence felt I tried to crush it dead but it elected to remain in my brain It wakes me up every day But now my luck has changed Turning like a fish in the clean cool bed Harmonising softly with your spreading hair Twenty-one years and you bite my knuckles Ahh ahh ahh It took until November for the weather to clear up And until then I felt similar to sun I'm not a gambling man but if I was I'd place my bets Cos she's the one
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Dennis Quaid 01:48
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'You remind me of Quaid in his drinking days,' she said 'You had a lot of promise but you had to make them pay' And although you've never been there I can see it in your face You live your life like heaven was San Francisco bay... Better hide inside the nearest passer-by Or I could get involved in an incident I can't meet the eyes of the people on the street Because I know things they don't know just yet So I put away the razor and considered what she said And I've got stacks of VHS tapes in a suitcase by my bed And I'm promised lots of money but I cannot clear a cheque So perhaps it's time to rearrange consider what comes next If she was a tall blonde beech I'm a low deciduous My hair doesn't seem to want to stay in my head If I wanted to I could eat walnuts up on Kilvey Hill But you can never go back until you've run out of blood Better hide inside the nearest passer-by Or I could get involved in an incident I can't meet the eyes of the people on the street Because I know things they don't know just yet Better hide inside the nearest passer-by Or I could get involved in an incident I can't meet the eyes of the people on the street Because I know things they don't know just yet
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A Yfory 02:56
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Nee-ha A high-pitched whine Is a certain sign I don't think I killed her But in certain economies... A flushing shunt Is a persistent humper Stacking valise cases high enough to reach the ozone A glass full of ice, and a midnight crisis If I don't start chewing sticks I might get gingivitis And a lesson for life in a neurotic pocket is, ah fuck Keep the grocer keen and keep the dentist happy One day All our little books say We'll bow our heads And grimace And kick the crumpled base away So - a glass full of ice, and a midnight crisis If I don't start chewing sticks I might get gingivitis And a lesson for life in a neurotic pocket is, ah, is, ah Keep the grocer keen and keep the dentist happy Not up to the elbows in ash and nappies And I haven't even travelled I always fantasized about joining the Aghori sect They eat dead bodies and have 70s hair So the peeps near the Ganges don't have to bother One day Maybe One day, if you're a killer or not That foot is coming swinging And what good's an umbrella Under ten thousand tonnes of laundry I think on reflection It's better to do laundry in a launderette On reflection
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'85 03:03
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Oh as you travel the world Why don't you take my special blanky with you? Inside a greatcoat a monogrammed handkerchief There's a goosedown roundabout to the south And a listing ship is leering over the bodies Leering over the bodies Why do you have to go? Why do you have to go? Why would you want to go to Estonia? I don't know Will you hide In underground cellars Full of jazz Think of me when you're ironing out policy Or greeting people in a fantastic ballroom Paid for by the Russinas I and all the others will be here In a big ship sinking All the Viking genes from the Hebrides Will be giving us a spanking Pillage pillory pain jail That's the way this big ship sails '85 When you hide in the underground cellars Full of jazz and vodka Think of me when you're ironing out policy Or greeting people in a fantastic ballroom Paid for by the Russinas I and all the others will be here Big ship sinking, sinking Big ship sinking, sinking Big ship sinking, sinking Big ship sinking, sinking Big ship sinking, sinking Big ship sinking, sinking Big ship sinking, sinking Big ship sinking, sinking
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Western Hotel 03:21
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Future prophecy Hotel future Holding hands Dinosaur sticker book Hiding in a cupboard Hands so cold In freezing snow Future prophecy
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Always Returning 03:16
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Calling round the same old town Or shaking off the eiderdown Or walking, rolling In the knife Gone without heathered lights You’re croaking and creaking like the red leatherette Hold the spin Sugar softly in my dying hand And God is a man You won’t admit They’re all the same Frozen little rabbit, tiny pillow, diamond pain Mm, always returning And go little tiger de-de-de-de Always returning Closing your face when summer’s over Turning, always returning, Always returning, always returning, Always returning, always returning, Always returning to me It’s very slow and the sun is always wrong Holding on to something slow and the fire is out of bounds It’s raining on the left side Better off than us in the war films Gone and done it Always an Englander now Lay your head back down Always returning to dip a toe And gram smears and fuck him now.

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This is a 2009 mini-album that was initially made in a physical run of 2 copies, 1 of which was solely for Kim and Kelley Deal.

AM actually handed Kim Deal the album in May 2009 at the Breeders-curated All Tomorrow's Parties at Butlins holiday camp in Minehead. She'd just stepped away from playing the arcade game House of the Dead 2.

She was very nice about it. 'It's very pretty,' she said (thanks for helping with the packaging, Amy). She seemed confused, perhaps anxious. AM then left pretty much without any other explanation. There were no contact details of any kind on the CD or its bespoke packaging.

AM regrets the handling of the situation. That copy may well have ended up in a bin, or a lay-by, or a hedgerow.

Even if Kim and Kelley listened to it and really, *really* liked it, and now keep their physical copy on a plush velvet cushion in a glass and gold reliquary hidden in a safe in the basement of a clapboard church in Dayton, OH, it maybe deserves a chance to be out there in the aether with all the other music.

So, it is here reproduced for digital posterity.

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released May 18, 2009

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Amazing Mammals is the solo project of a London-based singer-songwriter and electronic musculus.

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