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                            IT SUCKS (1994)
                          None Of The Above

                     Original Usenet Liner Notes
                         alt.music.whatever
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My 4th (and last for a while) free album is complete! If you want a
copy, let me know through email. I can't afford to send everyone tapes
anymore, but I'd be glad to make copies for you if you send me a tape to
do it on. This is not a demo tape. I do not want money. If you send me
some I wouldn't even spend it. Really!

It's similar stylewise to the last albums. I'm influenced by Oingo
Boingo, They Might Be Giants, Weird Al and Devo pretty heavily. Mostly
keyboard/synth oriented stuff. If you don't like it, tough! It's all I
know how to play! I attempt harmonies ala the Beatles on a lot of the
stuff. About half the stuff is "Dr. Demento" material.

Lyrically this one is really, really bizarre and my wife thinks I am
losing it. She's wrong, I lost it a long time ago. :)

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                           TITLE EVOLUTION
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"Running with Scissors"
    Boring. No more albums with songs of the same name on it.

"Unearthed Secrets Underneath Colossal Kudzu"
    Very witty.

"4"
    ...wait..Foreigner did this, right?? Damn!

"You suck, but so does this album"
    Getting there..

"This album sucks, but so does your mother"
    Tasteless, yet catchy.

"It sucks"
    Perfect. Sums up my feelings nicely on the whole project.

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                             SONG NOTES
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NINE INCH CLAWS
    Parody of good ol' Trent's little ditty about animals or something.
    I said on the last tape I gave up parodies. I lied. This one was
    too ripe to resist.

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
    Song about running around the house with scissors. Hmm.

MEDLEY
    Beatles "Abbey Road" Medley and TMBG Fingertips thrown into a cement
    mixer for a few hours. This is what's left.

BEAR WITH ME
    Turned into an instrumental because the words were really stupid.

SHE WANTS TO SELL MY SOUL
    It's not about my wife, though it sounds like it.

I MAY ALREADY BE A WINNER
    You know what this is about. Get your entries in today!

I NEVER SAID I LOVED YOU
    Don't know what this one is. Synthy as all hell to the point of
    extremes.

VIDEO GAME ACID TRIP
    This happened after an 8 hour marathon session of "Sonic & Knuckles".
    Ugh.

STOP THAT
    I hate when this stuff happens to me.

BOOGER
    A very bored Tony attempts to write a Green Day song. It's ugly.

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                              EQUIPMENT
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Everything on the tape was recorded with the following setup:

    * Korg M1
    * Ensoniq ESQ-1
    * Roland R8 Drum machine
    * Yamaha mt-100 4-track recorder
    * Cakewalk (DOS!!) for PC

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I have lyrics to everything if you want those too. Some of the songs
you need them on.

And that's it from me for a while. Maybe I'll do a free-form jazz album
next time or something. Wait, Spinal Tap did that already, right??
Damn!!

                                                        - Tony Mason, 1994

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                    Preserved from Usenet, February 2026
                    Lyrics finally transcribed by AI (Whisper)
                    32 years later. Better late than never.
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