Name: Business Unusual
Duration: P00H03M43S
Description: The drums were the first thing recorded for this track, before there was even a song to go with them. Drum parts were then edited and moved around as a song formed in the process.

Business Unusual

from Hang On (LP) by King Mixer

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The drums were the first thing recorded for this track, before there was even a song to go with them. Drum parts were then edited and moved around as a song formed in the process.

lyrics

Welcome to the race in a new democracy
The streets are lined with signs
Staring in the face of their own hypocrisy
Suddenly right on time
There's talking and everyone's buying

Offer me up insight so mysterious
Prying them with wine - and high priced whores
You won't see a dime off the deal
Get serious - what do they pay you for?!?
To just stand there and hold the door?
There taking it to the floor
Does anyone know the score?

[Bridge]
You can try all you want to
To forget what we've been through
But the bridge has been blasted
And we can't get past it
You already told me
You're not gonna do it
But you said that the last time
And you know we've been through this
So try all you want to
To deny what we've been through
But the ballad has been cast
In a vote beyond your grasp…
[psychedelic middle eastern interlude]

You're talking and everyone's buying!
Your ship has come in tonight
But it's turning against the tide
Onto an empty shore
Where nobody knows the score
And I don't care what The Man will try to tell you
It's only to sell you more!

And more! And more! And more! And more!

credits

from Hang On (LP), track released June 16, 2016
King Mixer: Lead vocals, backing vocals, electric guitars, piano
Neal Candelora: Bass, backing vocals
Brandon Paleo- Lazzar: Drums, percussion
Mary Hazboun: trad. middle eastern vocal
Recorded at Seven Levels Studios, Chicago, IL
Mixed by King Mixer

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King Mixer Chicago, Illinois

King Mixer is both musical ensemble and performing alias of Chicago singer/songwriterEric Howell. LP studio guests feature members of Smoking Popes, NRBQ, BoDeans and Off Broadway. At a moment when guitars are fighting for a place in modern music King Mixer offers up deliberately schizophrenic rock, which grows more satisfying with each genre-defying turn, written and produced by Howell. ... more

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