The Serfville Monad Sing Songs of [tbd]

by The Pomegranate County Irregulars

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Love Crazy 03:08
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Though the sun has just now come on up, Last night a faded tune. I want this day to rush on by. I want to speed the Moon. ‘Cause by last moon night’s shine, Time and spirits out flew. I held tight while moments entwined, I’m into something new! Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Love crazy about you. Why for you want to go on outside? That world’s too cold. Stay in here, just to, please do, you know. Just love me big and bold. Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Love crazy about you. [You know] Tu connais what history should have taught me. What two people can do. [Now I see] Maintenant, je vois, what loving can be. [I’d be crazy] Je serais fou to stay away from you! Don’t you sit me down, I got to be running round. I better not be lazy, it’s hard work being crazy. Love won’t be fleeting till this heart stops beating. Don’t ask me if I love you, it’s more than true. Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Love crazy about you. Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Uh Oh, I’m a love crazy Love crazy about you.
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Cold Pomegranate #16 (Leaf or Tree) 06:03
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Stand in the ground. Float on the breeze. Hold fast or be free in air, No care. Contend with the wind Fallen leaf or tree.
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You Can't Tell Her She's An Angel 03:44
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You can’t tell her she’s an angel. She’ll just laugh and turn away. She’s a girl of a thousand views, In thin lights and gray pall. A thousand views and all illusion. So she waits up the hall. You can’t tell her she’s an angel. She steals your heart every day. She’s a girl of a thousand clues. A thousand clues and no conclusion. So she waits for the fall. You can’t tell her she’s an angel. You can’t make her heaven with white paint. And though it seems so funny and final, Still you draw yourself as her saint. You can’t tell her she’s an angel. Not quite yet she’ll pause to say. Until she’s paid a thousand dues And all her charms enthrall. A thousand beaus and no seclusion. Then she’ll take heaven’s all.
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Cold Pomegranate #17 (Bigger Button) 06:25
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Button, button, where's the bigger button. Button, button, where's the bigger? Hi, pleased to meet you. The feeling is mutual. Mutual destruction. The feeling is Tango Bravo David

about

Four Song EP.

The Serfville Monad was one of those easy-to-dispose band names that came up for a folky band as a parody of The Kingston Trio. Please note, we may have fun with the name but we respect the musicians. We started with some typical nouns instead of "tbd," but every time a noun came up, there was a song that could fulfill the title's vague promise. Hence, to be determined.

This EP was not on the band's road map and began with an early January, 2018, jam on a bass line and the phrase "bigger button." This became "Cold Pomegranate #17 (Bigger Button)" first as a single and, here, extended. This seemed a good time to pick up some other odds and ends that weren't going to quite fit on upcoming releases. One of these was "Cold Pomegranate #16 (Leaf or Tree)" an attempt to write a minor key blues with a lean to jazz. It seems like a good song to have in the pocket should a piano performer be in the room.

Love Crazy is one of the oldest songs in the repertoire. It might have been the first track — done on 4-track cassette by Celebrity City — that was heard on a radio station. In a recent open mike, we pulled it out, had fun, and decided to record it. It's inspired by a all-night walk along a California beach. Very romantic, until one figures in it was Santa Barbara, in June, and the fog was in full damp force. But it was mutual crushes on the way to mutual love that kept us going. Oh, and the silliness of youth. As she was raised in West Covina, I'll use this as an opportunity to say what big fans we are of Crazy Ex-Girl Friend.

You Can't Tell Her She's an Angel is another song from the repertoire that felt ripe for re-recording. If you go to the video channel youtube.com/user/gustavopjones and go back a bunch of years, there's an earlier recording and a video shot at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium. There is also a real-world person who inspired the title, but we don't claim that this is valid reportage. The bridge, in which the narrator, realizes that surface affirmation and the desire to be the knight in shiny armor reads as a bit self-delusional.

In much the same manner as a world leader who feels compelled to describe his many, many national weapons of mass destruction as a bigger button.

No harmonicas were harmed in the production of this EP. As a matter of fact, no harmonicas were used, and so, the herd were left to range freely.

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released February 20, 2018

Guitars, keyboards, and vocals by Daniel Orias
All songs written by Daniel Orias, with publishing assigned to Feretic Music, ASCAP.

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Pomegranate County Irregulars Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles based recording band, featuring the music of Daniel Orias. Dan has been a member of Santa Barbara '80s bands The Stingrays, In the Dark, and Celebrity City. He was a member of 90s Los Angeles bands The Totems, Driftwood Souls, and The Dark. The music has echoes of folk, country, blues, and rock. ... more

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