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July Fourth Toilet Presents: Balls Boogie Featuring: Me And Bobby McGee Plus​!​: Kentucky Whore And Many Others

by July Fourth Toilet

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Bobby 03:03
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Searching through the misty travels Mystery Secrets unraveled He is the sage He is the sage He's all the rage cuz he is the sage And I'm a hard working man And I do what I can to bring the bacon home Heavy duty Blockbuster He's got the keys to life's answers He is the sage...
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I broke a guitar string Down Canada Way Replaced it with dental floss and started to play I love this country and I'm gonna stay until I find out that crime doesn't pay i don't need a nurse I wasn't the first I won't be the last What a fine piece of ass go to the head of the class Kentucky Whooooooore... Love is out of sight Love is the answer Love will overnight find a cure for cancer Love is a cute little kitten Love's a tiger in the jungle Love is easy to figure out Love is mumbo jumbo....
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Oh the booze and the pills And the jug of wine Brings me closer to you My head gets so foggy And I'm feelin' fine All the way through and through But now you're in prison Yeah, you're in prison What more can I do? But get stoned so gosh darned stoned Stoned on the memories of you They locked you up for killing some guy Now isn't that just like you? You and the dope and the jug of wine Makes me feel fine all the way through But now you're in prison Yeah, you're in prison and all I can do Is get stoned so doggone stoned Stoned on the memories of you Roll em smoke em up so doggone stoned Stoned on the memories of you
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Can you feel the tension Skin against skin Pressure is mounting Who's gonna win? I think you know the answer yes, you do Armwrestle John.....(x6) We've got buckets of sweat We've got buckets of sweat We'd like to welcome Shirley to our salon She's got over 133 hair cutting experience We welcome clients old and new And who is her husband? I think you knowwwww.... Armwrestle John ... (x6) We've got buckets of sweat We've got buckets of sweat na na na na na......
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They ask if you sewed your wild oats But it just leads to sewing Sewing some more and some more It just leads to sewing Some more and some more and some more I wrote her name on the door So I wouldn't forget it I can't remember her face They're waiting for someone to get your goat Is this payback for what? What's in store l'amour? Is this payback for what? What's in store, l'amour, l'amour, l'amour? I wrote her name on my door so i wouldn't forget it I can't remember her face There was logic in that A led to B then to C but after that it jumped around directly to J then backwards to G All the rest was distant murk or forgotten excepting for M and U and Y of course. The birds had flown south and it wasn't even Winter.A stumbling---------------------- I wrote her name on my door so I wouldn't forget it I can't remember her face her face her face You all saw you all saw you all saw
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Thanks Drugs 02:57
Been distorting Time and space Again Using drugs Just a taste Like running with the bulls In the streets In the homes Through chinashops It's a recreational thing Wheeee! I found that Special Place Again Thanks drugs For your taste Bitter sweet Never full Glide me Guide free It's a recreational thing It's a recreational thing (sha la la la sha la la la cop and roam cop and roam) Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Cute little baby like a sunny day cute little baby make all my cares Go away Cares go away Cute little baby hope it grows up okay Cute little baby hope it has a better life than me Cute little baby be the best that you can be Cute little baby let's live for today Cute little baby cute little baby I'll plan for the future later Pregnancy can be quite painful As a man I can never quite know At the end though it's more beautiful than imagined More beautiful than imagined All my life I never thought of this Maybe once or twice But I never thought that it'd be like this No, I never thought that it'd be like this Baby fingers baby toes baby nose I'm gonna have to buy you some baby clothes so you don't catch a baby cold no no no no ... I'll plan for the future later...later...later....

about

"What do I say of a reprobate eight man/one woman ensemble (one man/woman, four longhairs, two ska dudes & a Mexican!) that just delivered 13 songs of extreme diversity, ranging from Death C&W to Soviet-powered Detroit Space Rock, via wonderfully excruciating mush-mouthed male-female Vow Renewals and Sober’d Up confessionals. For fans of Destroy All Monsters (all periods, kiddies), Armand Schaubroeuk Steals, the Afrika Corps, BALLS BOOGIE rescues several Long Dead musical genres from the Straights and slams them out eins, zwei, and drei, without so much as a soundcheck..... Search out this hot slab pronto, Tonto, and check out those front men while yooz at it! Ooer, missus!"
- Julian Cope, Head Heritage, 2009

"If one is willing to use the word "Legendary" to mean "band that's been around a long time and even though no one has ever heard of them, if people in Vancouver had any taste or intelligence they would have long-ago embraced and canonized this ambitious, outrageous bizarrely brilliant performance art rock band that surveys pop history's greatest moments and transmutes them into weird gold", then this is the new album by the legendary (italics) July Fourth Toilet. Paying homage to the finest aspects of the 1970s; the weary magic of Kristofferson's voice, hair salon culture (and its cultural brother, the arm wrestling fad), shameless drug use, and ess eee ex (italics)! When I say this record is heavy, I mean some kind of otherwordly heaviness that Jack kirby would write about in one of his doesn't-quite-make-sense, making you question his ability as a writer Fourth World pseudo-science moments! Seriously heavy! The best record recorded by a band with "Toilet" in their name EVER!"
-Roctober Magazine, 2009

"Riding their truck through a cornucopia of styles, the oddly named July Fourth Toilet are a force to be reckoned with on theirs album "Balls Boogie", a disc that has stoned running through its centre, clear as a stick of cannabis flavoured rock. After a ramshackle, but oddly compelling version of "Me and Bobby McGee", the band suddenly shift into hard rock biker boogie mode, as "Hard Working Man" roars out of the speakers, a full on rock guitar solo adding to the wonder, as does a nice change of pace in the middle, bring it on and turn it up. The hard rock then continues with the heavy stomp of "Kentucky Whore", more guitar histrionics included, as the song winds up the energy. Next up, another change of style as the sad country ballad of "Stoned on You" sparks up a fat one, seemingly the story of a man who’s woman has left him, it is a bit of a surprise to find out she is in prison for murdering someone, a nice twist that is complemented by more fine guitar playing and a solid backbeat. Following the tale of "Armwrestle John", more heavy rock with over the top vocals and moody guitar riffs, the first side finished off with the boogie of "Name on the Door", everything turned up nice and loud. So far so good, then you turn the album over to be greeted with "Thanks Drugs" a song that pays homage to recreational drug use, opening with the lines "Been distorting time and space again", the ever versatile guitarist dropping into west coast mode, without missing a beat. After this things get re-wired, the band turning into early Floyd with the psychedelic jam, strange noises, twisted dementia and general sonic weirdness of the next four tracks sounding like nothing on side one, the band proving themselves adept as this side of thing as well. To end, the happiness and joy of "Cute Little Baby" is tempered by a gnawing fear of what the future may hold, ending an album that is schizophrenic, slightly paranoid, happy drunk, stoned and laughing. The makings of a good night perhaps."
-Terrascope

credits

released July 4, 2008

Produced by Robert Dayton, engineered by Mark Gabriel, recorded at Method Studios. Thanks to Kurt Dahle and Pete Mills for their assistance.
Album concept and album cover concept by Robert Dayton. Photo by Clancy Dennehy. Design by Lester Smolenski.
Pro-Am Entainment International
Catalogue number: PA 871

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