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| | The NO FUN EP. Minute for minute, our angriest record ever. The fact that it's only 28 minutes long doesn't really take away from its sustained fury. So what were so pissed about? After an insanely ridiculous argument over the unauthorized use of OK in a hip hop documentary Palm was releasing, we are once again without a label. Rather than go through another four years of limbo, we decide to record an EP and put it out with Thick Records. It's a decidedly garage affair, cobbled together from punk covers and songs written during the Here Comes The Zoo demo sessions. An emerging interest in psychedelic techno, sparked by an unhealthy five-year obsession with Primal Scream's XTRMNTR, can be heard not only on the coda of the first track, No Fun but all over the EP's most interesting track Fuck Yeah, That Wide. Lifting its title from a Mr. Show episode, Fuck Yeah would go on to be a fireball of a live song. Nearly every show from this period would close with Scott leading the crowd in an extended chant of motherfucking soul, followed by a crowd-surf back to the merch table! Speaking of chants, it wasn't rare to hear another slogan around this time. Fuck George Bush! President Forever was not originally planned to be on the EP, and wasn't even actually written about Bush. It was conceived as a kind of Home Alone In The White House satirical thing. But with the recent invasion of Iraq, and how the President seeming to be channelling a clueless Kevin McAllister, the song felt eerily prescient and we went back into Million Yen to record the song and rush it onto the EP. This was originally going to force Cooler Heads (a prequel to California Songs) off the release, but Brian dug in his heels. It was his favorite song. It had already been left off Zoo. He was't going to let that happen again. |
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